Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 16, 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: “The Fleet’s...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 15, 2014

If it wasn’t for either of my parents, I wouldn’t like classic films today. As I have said on Comet numerous times, my parents rolled out films such as “Yankee Doodle Dandy” or “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” when my sisters and I were toddlers. It was my dad who...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 9, 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: “Grounds for...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 6, 2014

Seventy years ago today, Allied forces stormed Omaha Beach in the Normandy Invasion, known as D-Day. A few of those soldiers were established actors or later pursued a career in Hollywood. Here are a few of those men that served in D-Day: Lt Col David Niven, Royal Marine Commando, Normandy 1944...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 3, 2014

On the third of June, Billie Joe McAllister committed suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 hit song “Ode to Billie Joe” chronicles a family sitting around the dinner table and casually discussing the death of a local boy-not considering the feelings of the narrator w   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

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 26, 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: “This is...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 25, 2014

Publicity photo of Madeleine Carroll from the 1930s. She went from being one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood at $250,000 a year to working for the Red Cross at $125 a month. After starring in two Alfred Hitchcock films and the star studded “Prisoner of Zenda” (1937), English...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 19, 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: “Everything I...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 16, 2014

A guttural chuckle between bites of popcorn came from behind our movie theater seats. Toes tapped to the film soundtrack. My friends and I giggled with schoolgirl delight and amazement. The 79 time Grammy nominated composer Quincy Jones was sitting behind us in the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles.   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 12, 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: “Happiness Ahead” –Mu   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 11, 2014

My eyes welled with tears behind my 3D glasses. “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard,” Dorothy Gale said at the end of “The Wizard of Oz” (1939). I sat in the theater trying to collect myself...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 5, 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: “Two Sisters...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 29, 2014

James Best in The Cimarron Kid (1952). He said he always died in his movies. Known for his role as Roscoe P. Coltrane on “Dukes of Hazzard,” I interviewed actor James Best last week about his Hollywood career. Best came to Shelby, NC last week to the Don Gibson Theatre...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 28, 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: “Pin-Up Girl”...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 22, 2014

“I love my husband first, and then Robert Osborne second,” said Eva Marie Saint during a surprise guest appearance. Friday afternoon during the second day of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival turned into a sort of surprise party of TCM’s primetime host Robert Osborne. Osborne sat before an au   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 21, 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: “Mr. Dodd...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 18, 2014

“What are you most excited about,” several people asked when I arrived in Hollywood at the Turner Classic Film Festival last Wednesday. I fumbled for words like Ralphie trying to tell Santa what he wants for Christmas as I thought of the best answer. My mind turned to seeing 93-year-old   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 14, 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: “The Cuban...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 11, 2014

Robert Osborne had no idea he would touch so many lives through movies. “People have said TCM has helped them get through divorce, unemployment or illness,” TCM’s primetime host said Friday. “I never thought I would be a nurse.” Osborne, TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and TCM   read more