Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Fit him for a Red Sox uniform

Christian Haupt was just two when his mom posted a video of his remarkable baseball skills on youtube last year.  The casting director for a new Adam Sandler film "That's My Boy" saw it and a star was born.  Athletic or acting star, I am not sure, but a star.


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sadly, I must report the passing at the ripe old age of 80 of one of the great movie stars from Hollywood's golden era

File photo shows Johnny Weissmuller, right, as Tarzan, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, and Cheetah the chimpanzee, in a scene from the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man. (AP/ho, File)

That's right, Cheetah the chimp, who co-starred with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in such classics as "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932) and "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934), has left us.  They say one of his favorite pastimes was to watch football.  Yet another reason to mourn his passing.  Rest in peace, Cheetah.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Boston Globe ranked the top 40 Christmas movies of all time

1. 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) No surprises here. Frank Capra's classic, starring Thomas Mitchell (left) and Jimmy Stewart (third from left), is a true holiday heartwarmer about a despondent, suicidal man (Stewart) whose zest for life is rekindled after being shown what life would have been like without him.

And like many other things, the Globe got a lot of the list wrong, in my opinion.  I know we all have our own opinions, but Elf ahead of National Lampoons Christmas Vacation?  Or Rudolph below the Jim Carrey version of The Grinch!?  Seriously?

Friday, December 9, 2011