Kirk Douglas is a force. It's hard to like him much now because we know that, at the very least, he violently raped a teenaged Natalie Wood and may have been involved in the unsolved death of Jean Spangler and some (not me!) believe he had something to do with the Black Dahlia. I honestly believe that stems from people confusing those last two cases as if they're the same one. Anyway, he's hard to like. But not onscreen. He's…

Is it though? I'm 60 years old and I'm sure I'm awful in my quiet lonesome way but hopefully not as awfully so as Jack Lemmon's tediously loquacious celebrated architect "Harvey Fairchild" is in this film. He's married to a famed singer, "Gillian Fairchild," played patiently by Julie Andrews. I'm assuming she's famed because she's planning a concert tour and she's played by Julie Andrews. They live in Julie Andrews' real house in Malibu decorated in perfect casual mid-80s beach…

No wonder folks were baffled by this one in 1935. Look at the poster. Miss Hepburn looks like a wanton lady, tearing through the scheming rakes, silky ne'er do wells, nance princes and pock-marked rogues of the kingdom before claiming her fully emancipated dominion. But she doesn't really do that. This is that legendarily weird old movie that you never get around to watching because it seems precious. It is a bit and that's okay. It's fascinating and more importantly,…

The first thing you need to know about the movie is that, save "Saga Of Jenny," they cut all the tunes! Allure magazine editor "Liza Elliott" doesn't even sing "My Ship," which Ginger would've performed beautifully. She definitely would've killed with "One Life To Live." "Saga of Jenny" is great and the whole look of the film is just, well as my friend Rolf would say, shattering. The dream sequences are just deliriously insane things to look at, even from…