Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 12, 2017

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Sunny Side...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on March 25, 2016

Now in its glorious second annual presentation, Terence Towles Canote of A Shroud of Thoughts hosts the Favourite Television Episode blogathon running from March 25 to 27. Click HERE for the contributors. In its glorious second season Maverick (1957-1962) received a Primetime Emmy Award for Best   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 2, 2014

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Sunny Side...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 11, 2014

She was, as all the obituaries today have reminded us, famous in a way that in these days of debased notoriety beggars imagination. While her films were rarely, in themselves, first-rate, she almost always was, truly talented and genuinely committed to whatever part (in memory almost always an orp   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 11, 2014

She was, as all the obituaries today have reminded us, famous in a way that in these days of debased notoriety beggars imagination. While her films were rarely, in themselves, first-rate, she almost always was, truly talented and genuinely committed to whatever part (in memory almost always an orp   read more

Creme de la Creme Posted by Inge Gregusch on July 18, 2012

Joan at the Beach: Joan Crawford has gotten a bad rap. Not only was she the quintessential flapper star of the 1920s (if F. Scott Fitzgerald says it--then it be so), but costume designer Adrian's muse and glamour queen of the 1930s. Her time at the beach, circa 1929-32--Malibu and/or...   read more