jaxbra: Gene Kelly would have turned 100 this year. In celebration of this, Patricia Ward Kelly, his widow, has been making appearances and presentations speaking about Kelly’s historic contributions to dance and cinematography. One of her appearances was at The Film Society at Lincoln Center’s “Gene Kelly @100” series.  Read More Continue reading Gene Kelly: Changing the Look of Dance on Film

jaxbra: My 13-year-old son is amazed that when I grew up, I only had seven channels on our TV. He has access to hundreds of channels, as well as DVDs, You Tube, websites, and streaming.  The world is so different than when I grew up in the 1970s in my small town in central New Jersey, with my mom (a waitress and later a food … Continue reading My Top Five Classic Television Shows for the Classic Film Fan

Bob is coming coming back! Bob is coming back! Hip Hip Hooray! For those of you who belong to the tight-knit, little community of true classic movie fans and specifically, hard-core TCM followers;you know exactly what this arrival of “Bob” means. I’m speaking of the 5 month agonizingly long wait for the return of TCM’s beloved host, Robert Osborne. I’ve had a obsessive love for … Continue reading #WelcomeBackBob