A blog that covers everything vintage Hollywood - from Movies, TV, personalities, restaurants, events, comebacks. Vintage is '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Warner Archive Instant - Older Film and TV Titles Now Available
Warner Archive Instant is a new subscription streaming service that allows users to access a small lineup of older film and TV titles from the Warner Bros. library, according to Engadget. The service also offers titles from some other studios, including Allied Artists, MGM, and RKO. Priced at $9.99/month, there is a two-week free trial for those interested. As of right now, it's only available online and on Roku devices
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Valerie Harper, actress on ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and 'Rhoda,' diagnosed with terminal brain cancer
The 73-year-old actress, who played the iconic Rhoda Morgenstern on TV, says she may have as little as three months to live.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/valerie-harper-diagnosed-'terminal-brain-cancer-article-1.1280675#ixzz2Mon46slq
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
CAROL BURNETT GETS BEAUTIFUL ON CBS SET
CAROL BURNETT VISITS "The Bold & the Beautiful"
CBS Set
My good friend Eva Bassler posted this on facebook, she is a fabulous publicist for the CBS soap, "The Bold & The Beautiful". The legendary Carol Burnett was visiting her old stomping grounds at CBS Television City where her show, "The Carol Burnett Show" was taped, It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards. Carol stopped by the set to say hello to her good friend John McCook. She was gracious and kind and had that definitive 'twinkle' in her eye.
REMEMBERING PATSY CLINE 50 Years Later
Sweet Dreams Patsy Cline
March 5, 1963 - March 5, 2013
by Steven Todd Kerley for Country Music Weekly
In a modest headstone in Shenandoah Memorial Park located in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains in Winchester, Va., are the words, “Death cannot kill what never dies.” For late country music legend Patsy Cline, those words certainly ring true. Having just passed the 80th anniversary of her birth on Sept. 8 and nearing the 50th anniversary of her death next March, Patsy Cline is more alive than ever.
In August, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened a yearlong exhibit highlighting the legacy and influence of the country star. While many of Patsy’s contemporaries have seen their stars fade long ago, her star burns as brightly as ever.
Two 2010 releases, Icon and Icon 2, may not contain any new material, but the interest in Patsy’s music is still there. “I think it was the quality of the songs that keeps the interest alive,” says her widower, Charlie Dick. “She was a damn good judge of material.”
Charlie also credits her producer, Owen Bradley, with arranging slick, sophisticated productions that allowed country music to be accepted by a wider audience than more traditional country music of the time. The wider audience proved critical in the longevity of Patsy’s career. During the late 1950s and early 1960s she began headlining her own tours, something that had not been done by a female artist. In November 1961, Patsy was part of the first country music show at Carnegie Hall in New York City and later that month she became part of the first country music show at the Hollywood Bowl.
The last time Charlie saw Patsy was on March 2, 1963, at Cornelia Field Airpark outside of Nashville. She was traveling with her manager to Kansas City to sing at a benefit concert. She never returned. On March 5, 1963, the plane carrying Patsy and fellow Grand Ole Opry stars Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins crashed into a remote wooded area near Camden, Tenn. The superstar country music singer was dead at 30 years old. “They called and said that they never landed at the airport and I never heard anything. I guess it was about 6 in the morning. [WSM announcer] Grant Turner announced on the radio that the plane had crashed and there were no survivors,” says Charlie.
Since Cline’s untimely death, her popularity has continued to grow and her music has been passed from generation to generation by her fans. Charlie Dick admits that he doesn’t have an answer about the reason for her longevity. “In this business, you’re here today and gone tomorrow. There were artists with a lot of potential who were great singers, but you don’t hear anymore about them,” he says.
Given Cline’s enormous popularity today, chances are that she will not be forgotten anytime soon. To Patsy Cline fans, death could not kill what never dies.
MUSIC CELEBRITY
WHITNEY HOUSTON
Whitney Houston has won more awards and accolades than nearly every other recording artist of her time. Aside from winning six Grammy Awards, there have been Billboard awards, Rolling Stone awards, Emmy awards, American Music Awards, honors from MTV, Soul Train, Essence magazine, the NAACP and much more. Rather than keep her numerous awards on display throughout her home, Whitney modestly gathered them together in one room at her New Jersey house. Some of them are now on display at the Grammy Museum to celebrate her musical legacy.
CELEBRITY
Richard Burton’s Posthumous
Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Next to Elizabeth Taylor’s
The honorary star coincides with the 50th anniversary of Burton’s epic collaboration with wife Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. The 1963 film is one of the most expensive Hollywood has ever produced and brought the power couple together, sparking a public affair that became a tabloid frenzy. Burton’s is the 2,491st star on Hollywood Boulevard. [via BBC]
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