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LaBeouf Sells One Ticket

Shia LaBeouf’s new film MAN DOWN opened in the United Kingdom, and only one ticket sold. Looks like the big-mouth Hollywood liberal has lost what little audience appeal he ever had.

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Meanwhile, LaBeaouf is caught on camera getting drunk at a bowling alley and badmouthing the staff. Seems like he needs a long rest.

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Let’s hear from The Duke

John Wayne takes apart liberals and feminists, as well as the predecessors of Black Lives Matter. Who knew that 2016 problems were 1974 problems as well, huh? Talk about some common sense!

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Unleashing the Tiger

Before she embarked on her film career, Sheree North began dancing. She appeared in a variety of USO shows during WWII when she was only 10 years old. After she got married for the first time at age 17, she continued dancing in clubs under the stage name Shirley Mae Bessire.

Here is North performing her Tiger dance in Hollywood, just before starting a career designed to build her up as the successor of Marilyn Monroe. Her many screen performances included roles in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Gypsy Moths, Charley Varrick and The Shootist.

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Sad Fate of Lou Costello

Born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, Lou Costello made more than 45 films. He traveled to Hollywood after his early career as a comedian on stage in burlesque. The partner of straightman Bud Abbott, Costello usually played a bumbling goofball. His catchphrase: “I’m a baaaad boy!”

His death came unexpectedly — from a heart attack at the age of 53 — shortly after he dissolved his comedy partnership with Abbott and appeared solo in the film THE 30-FOOT BRIDE OF CANDY ROCK. We look back on the life of Lou Costello because he was not only born in the month of March, but also died on March 3, 1959.

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And here are Abbott and Costello in “Who’s On First,” one of the most famous comic bits of all time.

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Taking a Swim with Jane

Here is the famous underwater nude swimming scene from TARZAN, THE APE MAN, banned by the Hayes commission in 1934 for indecency. It was not restored to the film until the 1990s when Turner Classics bought the film rights. Maureen O’Sullivan, aka “Jane”, (Mia Farrow’s mother) was a good swimmer but not THAT good. She had a body double who, along with Weismuller, was an Olympic swimmer in her own right.

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Movies Scenes Lost Forever?

Exploring and investigating five movies with scenes and footage believed to be destroyed or lost, that will most likely never be seen again.

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Celebutards Call for a Strike

Hollywood actors including Rosie O’Donnell and Ed Asner are calling for everyone in Hollywood to go on strike in protest of the Trump administration. Doubtful this call for action will go too far.

The actors behind it seem to be those who aren’t working anyway. And besides, how many in Hollywood threatened to mass exit the United States if Trump won? Notice how not a single one of those loud-mouthed, full-of-baloney whiners has followed up on their pledges? The celebutards are called celebutards for a reason — they are not too bright and they are not at all an honest breed. Americans were wise to disregard these phonies the last election.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This video has disappeared off YouTube. In its absence, we turn to Bitchute for another video in which Dean Cain responds to a anti-Trump volley by Rosie O’Donnell. Cain was appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News.)

 

 

50 Worst Movies Ever Made

Feeling wretched? Well, how about spending a quiet evening at home  — alone — watching one of the 50 worst movies ever made? In case you need some pointers, here’s one critic’s master list — from GLEN OR GLENDA all the way to TROLLS. The question we have:  If TROLLS was bad enough to make the list, why not TROLLS 2?

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London in the Good Old Days

See how quiet London was in the days before the automobile. Here is a video tour of the city drawing upon the oldest known footage available, dating from the 1890s through the early silent era.

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Sneak Peek at Ghost Suit

We go behind the scenes at Weta Workshop to learn how their costume fabricators made the unique silicone “Thermoptic” suit that Scarlett Johansson wears in the upcoming live-action version of the movie GHOST IN THE SHELL. Adam Savage chats with costume technician Flo Foxworthy about the design and challenge of making this skin-toned practical suit.

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