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Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) 20 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
We here at the Monkey sadly note the passing of a great American author, Elmore Leonard. If you haven't read his novels (and you should have), you've probably at least heard of some of the movies base...
ClassicFlix Gig (Beta Testing) 20 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
ClassicFlix.com, the Monkey's other gig, is in Beta testing. Click here for a link to my latest post, about D.W. Griffith (you can also click here to read a post about Georges Méliès, among others, ad...
Happy Birthday, Brudder 18 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
The Monkey's older brother is celebrating a birthday today. That's him on the left. Good times. In his honor, here's a video his children made for Kraft. Dave worked on such movies as We Are Marshall...
Happy Birthday, Julie Newmar 16 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
It's Julie Newmar's birthday. We won't mention her age except to say it's one of those milestone birthdays that ends in a zero. We don't care. We here at the Monkey dig Julie Newmar.
Cecil B. DeMille's Birthday: If He Were Alive Today, He'd Be Very, Very Old 12 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
I've written at length about director/producer Cecil B. DeMille (here, for example), one of the best and most influential of the silent era directors. If you know him only from his bloated Bible epic...
Ramon Novarro In A Nutshell 9 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
A few facts about silent film star Ramon Novarro: ● He was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego in Durango, Mexico, in 1899. At age fourteen, he moved with his family to Los Angeles to escape the Mexican Re...
More Support For Radical Causes 7 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
You probably saw it already, but the decision to put Jane Austen on the ten pound note in England has inspired a vicious backlash that has included tweeted rape threats aimed at those women who campai...
The Great Silent Recasting Blogathon, November 1-4, 2013 4 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
I've missed a lot of blogathons recently, for which I humbly apologize, but here's one I simply can't miss. Carole & Co., the great site devoted to all things Carole Lombard, is hosting The Great Sil...
The Three Musketeers (1921): Douglas Fairbanks And His Mighty Sword 1 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am
The Monkey has spent most of the summer reading the collected works of Alexandre Dumas—or, more accurately, The Three Musketeers which is long enough to feel like the collected works of Alexandre Duma...
Book Review: My Lunches With Orson—Highly Recommended 27 Jul 2013 | 08:21 am
Upon reflection, the next time someone launches another of those internet memes asking who from Hollywood history, living or dead, you'd like to have lunch with, I'm going to answer "Orson Welles." Be...
