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When people talk about the Golden Age of Hollywood, it’s hard to extricate that era from the war years that ran through them. During the years of World War II in particular, Hollywood played a significant role in shaping the public’s perception of the conflict, using its magic to galvanize support for an eventual Allied victory. Movies from the war years reflect some of what we should remember about the zeitgeist of those times — the fears; the bravery; the national morale; the wartime ethic of everybody pulling together in a common cause. Many actors portrayed soldiers during and after [...]

With The Green Hornet making its On Demand premiere this month, it got us thinking about the strides the comic book genre has made as of late. Now a fixture on the big screen, with summer blockbusters increasingly ratcheting up the spandex quotient, comic books have also permeated television and just about every other medium of entertainment. Take Green Hornet, for example. The feature film is just the latest incarnation of a character that has been around since the 1930s when it premiered as a popular radio drama. From there, it found success as a comic book, a film serial, [...]

Don’t call her a reality star. If there’s one thing Shania Twain wants people to understand about her new series for OWN, it’s that it’s a true docu-series, and not a scripted reality anything. After a highly traumatic betrayal involving an affair between then husband (as well as producer and professional partner) Mutt Lange and her best friend, and through the subsequent rather public divorce, Twain suffered a disconnect between herself and the voice that has sold millions of records around the world. It’s been years since her public has seen or heard anything new from her, and in an [...]

Everything old is new again in this age of Hollywood “reimagining,” so it was probably only a matter of time before the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other legendary Warner Bros. cartoon characters got their own update. This takes place in The Looney Tunes Show, a new animated series premiering May 3 on Cartoon Network. In the show, Bugs and Daffy are living together in the suburbs, and end up in more wacky adventures with fellow characters such as Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, Marvin the Martian, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny and Daffy’s [...]