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FORESKIN MAN ENTERS THE CIRCUMCISION FRAY

  Meet Foreskin Man, the blonde, muscular comic book hero who has stirred outrage with his battle against  Jews in a campaign to ban circumcision in San Francisco.   Defenders of the measure,…

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE TURNS 40

  When it was released 40 years ago Stanley Kubrick’s violently sadistic A Clockwork Orange was so controversial that the director had to go into hiding after receiving a stack of death…

TIM BURTON—WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

From Alice in Wonderland   Glad to see the exhibition of Tim Burton’s movie memorabilia—and particularly his drawings and photos—is attracting plenty of attention from critics and would-be buyers.  The exhibition, which…

THE POSTER WORKER

Bill Gold is not impressed by today’s posters advertising the latest movies. “They just show the actors, so every movie looks like the next one,” he says.Bill, 90, should know because he…

FILM SET PHOTOGRAPHY—–SHEER BOREDOM

Die Hard 4 (2007) “The cars are going to be dropped in a semi-computer-controlled manner, timed to appear that they are falling from the freeway.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S HOUSE FOR SALE

 Elizabeth Taylor‘s Bel-Air, Calif., estate, where the actress lived from 1981 until her death in March, is up for sale.

ARNOLD AND HIS WOMEN

     Even before he was famous as a movie star and later as a politician Arnold Schwarzenegger had no trouble attracting women.

HUGH GRANT ‘BANNED’ FROM READING DAILY MIRROR

Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper has printed a ‘not wanted’ poster for actor Hugh Grant, banning him reading the newspaper and branding him a “full-time whinger”.It comes after Grant’s repeated attacks on the…

A SURFEIT OF QUEEN

Queen Remember Queen? Whether you do or you don’t you’ll soon be hearing plenty of them now the band’s 40th anniversary is upon us.

Herb Alpert has often said that one of the greatest satisfactions of his success has been the opportunity to give back and serve others.