Barbara Stanwyck

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

Singer-songwriter Trixie Whitley Hates Singer-songwriters

Trix ain't for kids

Gangster Squad's Cop-Turned-Screenwriter Faces the Thin Blue Line Edit

L.A.'s Finest

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better—Or More Reckless

The way we die now

Barbara Stanwyck Was Better Than Davis And Hepburn!

That's the bold contention of Dan Callahan's well written book Barbara Stanwyck, The Miracle Woman. Says he: "Mighty as they were, Davis and Hepburn were actors who sometimes indicated emotions, or ran roughshod over them. "Stanwyck only did that once, in Sorry, Wrong Number, her last Oscar bid. ... More >>

Jane Fonda Tells Me About Walk On The Wild Side, With Stanwyck As Lesbian Madam

This week's column is a sublime interview with the great Jane Fonda, and I would have hated myself if I'd wrapped it up without asking her about two of my movie club's all-time faves. There's the bizarre racial melodrama Hurry Sundown and the darkly sexy Walk on the Wild Side, set in a New Orleans ... More >>

The Best Catfights In Hollywood History

They're all in John DiLeo's new book Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, and not surprisingly, a bunch of them involve Susan Hayward. In fact, as anyone with any breeding knows, the above scene has Hayward as aging battleax Helen Lawson getting into a tussle with Patty Duke as pill-pop ... More >>

Barbara Stanwyck Kicked Linda Evans In The Ass

And it was for her own good. Let me explain. After shooting the immortal Beach Blanket Bingo, Linda Evans got a breakthrough role in the 1960s TV western The Big Valley, way before she struck gold on Dynasty. Immediately, Valley's star, Hollywood icon Barbara Stanwyck, took Evans under her wisdom ... More >>

The Lady Eve

Baby Face

Night Nurse

Summer Guide: Bellflower's Muscle-Car Mayhem Shifts the Summer Into High Gear

Director Evan Glodell talks breakups and homemade bombs. Plus, summer film picks.

The Lady Eve

Spring Arts Guide: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark--Pulitzer Winner Lynn Nottage Returns With a New Play

Plus Derek Jacobi, the Shaggs, and other spring theater picks

Directors Revisit the Past in Anthology's 'Auto-Remakes' Series

Jerry Lewis Won't Bang Ladies in Chicago!

Liza! The gayest night since Stonewall! Some plays are already dead.

The Furies

Meet John Doe

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​East Meets West Holiday Parade Little Italy and Chinatown Merchants Associations are sponsoring a parade from Mulberry to Mott Street, featuring marching bands, martial artists and acrobats, Italian American singers and Lion and Dragon Dance troupes.

Ball of Fire

'Madcap Manhattan' Series at Film Forum

You know you're a NYer when . . . you recognize locations in these movies. Ba da bum.

Night Nurse

CRIMINAL MINDS

Go behind bars at Film Forum

A Dozen Great Depression Double Bills at Film Forum

The Lady Eve

A Sturges Christmas: Remember the Night

Essential Sturges Fetes the Director, and His Powder-Keg Muse

Remembering Nina Foch: Robert Wise's Executive Suite

SCREWBALL XMAS

A double feature of unsung gems

The Best Bad Movies of All Time

Adrienne Kennedy Talks About Her Life

Lorca, London, and the Beatles: the doyenne playwright's new work

100 Years of Barbara

Plus 007 and oh, Canada

Painting With Light

Deep in the shadows of Film Forum's noir series

What's a Muff?

Drunken holiday shopping with Clarence the angel

Sam Fuller's Passionate Pulp Western Leads With Its Hips

Breezy Living: Sturges's Premature Maturity

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NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Killing Me Softly

Not-Talking Cures

There's Always Yesterday

A Decade Under the Affluence

Somebody's Watching Me

Once Upon a Mattress

Film

Cinema Alfresco

Bigger, Longer & Uncut

The Hours and Times

Dyke Jones? Pussy Galore!

Lip Service

They want to know what love is

Fallen women on the rise

Hopping beds and breaking barriers: Retro show de-codes a raunchy chapter in Hollywood history

Dark Victories

Spotlight on Women in Noir

Ill in the Family