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I really don't know what letter we are at ... sooooo P - _Paris Je T'aime_ (2006) O - _Orange County_ (2001) N - _Nashville_ (1975)

*Paxton, Bill*

*J. Lee _Thompson_* - An English film director, active in England and Hollywood. Thompson made his only film appearance in the Carol Reed-directed Midshipman Easy (1935) and worked as a dialogue coach for Alfred Hitchcock's production of Jamaica Inn (1939).

catapult .... _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (1975) *NEW WORD: February is _Responsible Pet Owners'_ Month!*

*_Understanding Heart, The_ (1927)*

Malcolm McDowell was in: _Caligula_ (1979) with Helen Mirren! *NEW STAR: Helen Mirren!*

Locomotor Ataxia..... _The Cake Eaters_ (2007) *NEW WORD: February is National _Snack_ Food Month ...!!*

Denzel Washington made his film debut in the 1981 film _Carbon Copy_ directed by Michael Schultz! *Celebri-links .......... Director Michael Schultz!*

*Sat, Feb 13, 2010 @ 5:45 AM _The Parent Trap_ (1961)* *All Times Eastern. Check Local Times!* *The Parent Trap was nominated for two Academy Awards, was broadcast on television, saw three television sequels, was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan, and has been released to VHS and DVD. The original film was Mills' second of six films for Disney.* *_Awards and nominations_* The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: one for Sound by Robert O. Cook, and the other for Film Editing by Philip W. Anderson.

Catherine Deneuve, born 22 October 1943) is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski. Deneuve won two C?sar Awards for her performances in _Le Dernier M?tro_ (1980) and Indochine (1992). She has also received BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, _Un conte de No?l_. *_Trivia Catherine Deneuve_* She had a relationship with Fran?ois Truffaut in the 1970s. When the relationship failed, Truffaut had a nervous breakdown. Deneuve attended his funeral in 1984 and later appeared in _8 femmes_ (2002) with Fanny Ardant, who was Truffaut's partner at the time of his death and the mother of his youngest daughter. (imdb.com) Was once fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent`s muse, who dressed her for the films Belle de jour (1967), Chamade, La (1968), Sir?ne du Mississipi, La (1969), Un flic (1972), and The Hunger (1983). Her performance as S?verine S?rizy in _Belle de jour_ (1967) is ranked #59 on Premiere Magazine`s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). Marilyn Monroe is her favorite actress, and The Misfits (1961) is her favorite movie starring Marilyn. She and Marcello Mastroianni made five movies together: Cent et une nuits de Simon Cin?ma, Les (1995), Liza (1972), Touche pas ? la femme blanche (1974), ?a n`arrive qu`aux autres (1971), and ?v?nement le plus important depuis que l`homme a march? sur la lune, L` (1973). She liked _Breaking the Waves_ (1996) by Lars von Trier so much that she wrote a personal letter to him, asking him for a role in a film of his. The result of this is her part in _Dancer in the Dark_ (2000). 1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#38). Has never performed in the theatre due to stage fright. October 1997: Ranked #89 in Empire (UK) magazine`s "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. 1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#38). *_BEST FILMS_:* Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) Repulsion (1965) Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) Belle de jour (1967) Manon 70 (1968) The April Fools (1969) W./Jack Lemmon!. Hustle (1975) W./Burt Reynolds too! Le dernier m?tro (1980) Le choc (1982) The Hunger (1983) Indochine (1992) Est - Ouest (1999) Dancer in the Dark (2000) The Musketeer (2001) Les voleurs (1996) Un conte de No?l (2008)

In 1984, Candy played Tom Hanks' womanizing brother in the hit romantic comedy _Splash_, considered to be his breakout role. *Celebri-links ...... Tom Hanks!*

*Nolan, Christopher* - A British-American filmmaker, writer and producer. The son of an English father and an American mother, Nolan is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. He often collaborates with his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, and recently with actor Christian Bale (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Prestige). Nolan is best known for directing the psychological thriller Memento and for reviving the Batman film franchise, for which he has received considerable acclaim. He is also the founder of the production company Syncopy Films.

_Harlem Nights_ (1989)

George Hamilton made two memorable bio-pics: _Your Cheatin' Heart_ (1964), in which he portrayed the country-western music legend Hank Williams, followed by _Evel Knievel_ (1971), the life story of the motorcycle daredevil.,,,,,, _Your Cheatin' Heart_ (1964) directed by by Gene Nelson! *NEW DIRECTOR: Gene Nelson!*

*_Paris Je T'aime_ (2006)*

*_Fargo_ (1995)*

*Keitel, Harvey*

George C. Scott was in: _The Changeling_ (1980) directed by Peter Medak! *NEW DIRECTOR: Peter Medak!*

*Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 10:30 AM _Our Dancing Daughters_ (1928)* *All Times Eastern!* _Our Dancing Daughters_. MGM silent film, 1928. Directed by Harry Beaumont, 86 minutes. Joan Crawford plays "Dangerous Diana," a free-spirited, partying, pure-of-heart socialite in love with an heir (Johnny Mack Brown) who's pursued and caught by the wily Anita Page. Dorothy Sebastian plays the nice, "slightly soiled" friend. This is the movie that made Joan a star, as well as the post-Clara Bow role model for flaming youth. *On a side note, this film is also noted for being the first to feature the art deco style. From the book _Art Deco Chrome_ by Jim Linz (Schiffer, 1999):* Co-starring with Crawford were stunning art moderne sets by Cedric Gibbons. Public reaction to Gibbons' sets was so favorable that other studios immediately began to put art deco sets into their films. The movie palace, itself, was also transformed into an art deco showplace where the public could experience the latest in art deco design. Movie magazines promoted the lavish art deco lifestyles of the Hollywood stars. Many stars attempted to recreate the lavish art deco movie sets in their homes.

Joan Crawford's only film with Gary Cooper was 1933's _Today We Live_; Cooper played an American pilot to Joan's English heiress. *Celebri-links ..... Joan Crawford!*

*_I Live My Life_ (1935)*

*Damita, Lili*

*_Dallas_ (1950)*

Hume Cronyn was in: _*batteries not included_ (1987) directed by Matthew Robbins! *NEW DIRECTOR: Matthew Robbins!*

*Blacklisted screenwriter Anne Froelick Taylor dies at 96* Tuesday, Feb. 02, 2010 By DENNIS MCLELLAN - Los Angeles Times *LOS ANGELES -- Anne Froelick Taylor, a Hollywood screenwriter who co-wrote the 1950 Joan Crawford drama "Harriet Craig" but whose career was cut short when she was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, has died. She was 96.* Taylor, who received screen credit as Anne Froelick, died of natural causes Jan. 26 in a nursing home in Los Angeles, said her daughter, Priscilla Taylor Stephens. Koch "soon began giving me dialogue to write and some of the scenes, and he encouraged me to be creative," Taylor said in an interview for the 1997 book "Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist," an oral history by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle. Taylor also assisted Koch on his adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" for "The Mercury Theatre on the Air," which made radio history when it was broadcast in 1938. When Koch went to work as a writer at Warner Bros., he wanted the studio to hire Taylor as a writer. But, she recalled, Warner Bros. said she would have to start as Koch's secretary and would be promoted to writer after six months. It took 18 months. After helping Koch on the psychological themes and rewriting some of the scenes for his screenplay for the 1940 Bette Davis crime drama "The Letter," Warner Bros. signed Taylor to a writing contract. "So many of the women who were writing at that time didn't get credit on things they worked on," said her daughter. "It was really a big push by women in those days to get credit for the work they did." Taylor's first screen credit was the 1941 drama "Shining Victory," which she co-wrote with Koch. Four other Froelick writing credits followed: "The Master Race" (1944), "Miss Susie Slagle's" (1946), "Easy Come, Easy Go" (1947) and "Harriet Craig."Taylor's involvement in left-wing causes, such as fighting against fascism and promoting unions and desegregation, had led her to join the Communist Party, her daughter said. In 1951, Taylor's party membership caused her husband, Philip Taylor, to lose his job as a manufacturing planner at Lockheed. "He was escorted out of the plant by two guards," Taylor's daughter said. "I think it was to make a public display, which is what they were doing all over to frighten people. Interestingly, my mother hadn't gotten work (as a writer) from 1950 to '53, so she feared she was sort of covertly blacklisted, not blatantly blacklisted." On the last day of the House Un-American Activities Committee's last visit to Hollywood in 1953, two fellow screenwriters named Taylor as a Communist. "Then," her daughter said of the blacklist, "it was official." Taylor continued to try to make a living as a writer using her married name. She wrote four plays that were produced locally, including "Storm in the Sun." And she co-wrote a comic novel, "Press on Regardless," with Fern Mosk, which was published by Simon and Schuster in 1956. She also did some anonymous editing and writing for a friend who wrote soap operas, Laura Olsher. "But she never was able to fully recover and make a living at it," Taylor's daughter said. In an interview Monday, Buhle said the blacklisted Taylor "symbolized an era of lost opportunities." "She was one of those people whose career barely started when it ended," he said. Born Dec. 8, 1913, in Hinsdale, Mass., she grew up in Princeton, N.J., and briefly attended Smith College before moving to New York City at 19 to try to start an acting career. Besides her daughter, Priscilla, Taylor is survived by another daughter, Frolic Taylor, and two grandchildren.