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Week 111 (11/30/23): Take a Bite of the Rotten Apple - NYC cop/crime films of the 70s

Tonight, we’ll be talking a set of films that almost form a genre of their own.   These films...

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Week 110 (11/16/23): Cary Grant

Archibald Alec Leach was born in Bristol, England at the turn of the century, January 18, 1904 to...

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Week 109 (11/2/23): Crimenaux ala Francais - Crime The French Way

The French crime film is different from those of other countries for several reasons.  While...

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Week 108 (10/19/23): Hide in Plain Sight: the Life and Career of Rock Hudson

Roy Harold Scherer Jr. was born smack dab in the middle of both the Roaring 20’s and the country...

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Week 107 (10/5/23): Still a Bit of a Lad: The Bumpy Career of Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant was born at the start of September, 1960, Live at Hammersmith, London to a...

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Week 106 (9/21/23): Who’s Afraid of Liz and Dick?  The Tempestuous Career of Richard Burton

Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. was born in November of 1925 in Wales to an hard drinking coal miner...

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Week 105 (9/7/23): Ride the rollercoaster - the life and career of Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born in the Bronx's Castle Hill, in July 1969 to an Army guy turned...

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Week 104 (8/24/23): Hail to the Queen: the rise, fall and resurrection of America’s Sweetheart Sandra Bullock

Sandra Annette Bullock was born on July 26, 1964, in our nations capitol, Washington, D.C. to a...

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Weird Scenes Week 103 (8/10/23): Sex Italian Style: The Life and Films of Sophia Loren

Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone was born in the heyday of Mussolini, Rome 1934 to an...

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Weird Scenes Week 102 (7/27/23): A Man of Unusual Talent: The Life and Career of Tony Perkins

Born to the trade right here in Manhattan, April of 1932, Tony Perkins was the son of theatrical...

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Weird Scenes Week 101 (7/13/23): Brian DePalma

Born in Newark, NJ in September of 1940, Brian DePalma went from physics student to student...

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Weird Scenes Week 100 (6/29/23): Jamie Lee Curtis

Santa Monica, Thanksgiving of 1958, Jamie Lee Curtis was born to screen idols Tony Curtis and...

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Weird Scenes Week 99 (6/15/23): Richard Benjamin, Class(y) Clown

Born in NYC way back in 1938 to a garment district worker, Richard Benjamin met his wife to this...

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Weird Scenes Week 98 (6/1/23): High Voltage and Wired: The Life and Career of John Belushi

John Adam Belushi was born in Chicago, 1949...and like so many bright lights of the...

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Weird Scenes Week 97 (5/18/23): In The Court of Chaos: Up (and Down) with Wesley Snipes

Born in 1962 in Disneyworld territory, Orlando, Florida, Wesley Trent Snipes grew up on the mean...

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Weird Scenes Week 96 (5/4/23): Sometimes You’ve Just Got To Let One Go: The Atypical Career of Whoopi Goldberg

Caryn Elaine Johnson, was born in Manhattan in 1955. A Trekkie since childhood, she would...

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Weird Scenes Week 94 (4/6/23): Class and Style: The Unusual Career of Jacqueline Bissett

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset came into this world in the latter days of WWII, in the Fall of...

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Weird Scenes Week 93 (3/23/23): Come Fly With The Chairman of the Bored - The Films of Frank Sinatra

Born Francis Albert Sinatra in lovely downtown Hoboken, NJ, Frank so idolized 1930s swing...

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Weird Scenes Week 92 (3/9/23): George Segal

Manhattan’s own George Segal Jr. was an interesting actor, moving deftly between solid and quite...

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Weird Scenes Week 91 (2/23/23): Clint Eastwood Makes Your Day

Clint Eastwood, Jr. was born into wealth in San Francisco, complete with in-ground pool and...

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