Entries from January 2009

January 18, 2009

Remembering Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban

Tony Figueroa recently joined Frankie and me as we remembered Patrick McGoohan (Danger Man, The Prisoner), Ricardo Montalban (Fantasy Island) and the marks they left on film and television:
http://media.podcastingmanager.com/9/3/5/3/3/142636-133539/Media/012709tvc13_1.mp3
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January 4, 2009

F. Scott Fitzgerald on film

With the recent release of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the Golden Globe-nominated film starring Brad Pitt, which was based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at other notable (and not so notable) movie adaptations of the works of the author of The Great Gatsby:
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/24/DDA814JQ3L.DTL&type=movies
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