Films Directed by Melville Shavelson The Seven Little Foys (1955) Beau James (1957) Houseboat (1958) The Five Pennies (1959) It Started in Naples (1960) On the Double (1961) The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) A New Kind of Love (1963) Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) The War Between Men and […]
Boys State: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s Docu
Each year the American Legion hosts a “civics camp” for high school students (separated by gender) in states across the country. BOYS STATE closely follows a group of teenage boys as they attend one such program in Austin, Texas. The attendees are tasked with creating a mock government and spend the week campaigning for leadership […]
George Floyd Impact: N.Y. Times Editor Resigns Amidst Protest
James Bennet, who was considered a top candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of The New York Times, has resigned from his position as editorial page editor amid an intense backlash to a column his section published on Wednesday.
Sternberg-Dietrich Collaborations
Sternberg-Dietrich Hollywood Collaborations: 1930–1935 Sternberg and Dietrich would joined forces to make six brilliant and controversial films for Paramount: Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), and The Devil is a Woman (1935). The stories are typically set in exotic locales, including Saharan Africa, World War I Austria, […]
Oscar Actors: Cruz, Penelope–Background, Career, Awards, Cumulative Advantage
Penélope Cruz Career Summary Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is an award-winning Spanish actress and model. Feature Debut: Signed by an agent at the age of 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on TV, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles in the […]





