Ruth Gordon

HERE'S NINA

Al Hirschfeld shows character

Pia Zadora and Ruth Gordon In The Same Movie?

How did I miss Voyage of the Rock Aliens when it came out in 1984? In one of her last films, Ruth Gordon plays the sheriff of a town called Speelburgh, seeking out the alien invaders who've wreaked havoc at Heidi High in their quest for the roots of rock and roll.

Flamboyant Young Guy Impersonates Every Best Supporting Actress Winner In History

From Gale Sondergaard to Octavia Spencer. And he does them brilliantly, starting at about 39 seconds in. He does Fay Bainter, Shelley Winters, Shirley Jones, Rita Moreno, Patty Duke, Ruth Gordon, Estelle Parsons, Jennifer Hudson, Melissa Leo, Monique... He does them all.

Where's Poppa?

Hedda Lettuce, Polanski, And I Rocked The Chelsea Clearview

Drag star Hedda Lettuce presented Rosemary's Baby last night at the Chelsea Clearview and was delightfully satanic enough to bring me onstage beforehand to talk about my love for the 1968 horror classic. I advised the audience to look for various sitcom regulars who Polanski purposely cast as witch ... More >>

Malibu Beach, 1965. Identify The Stars

I see at least three Oscar winners in these silent but riveting home movies taken by Roddy McDowall in Malibu in the kicky '60s. There's Jane Fonda, Ruth Gordon, and Julie Andrews, and of course, Tammy Grimes and...

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'Harold and Maude' Has a Thin Conceit, Not Very Funny

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 23, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 51 Creatures nosing for crumbs By Richard McGuinness The best black comedies communicate pangs of conscience about the hopeless lives they create -- George Axelrod's "Lord Love a Duck" was perhaps the m ... More >>

Jerry Lewis Won't Bang Ladies in Chicago!

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

Andrew Sarris Delivers 'Rosemary's Baby'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 25, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 41 Films by Andrew Sarris "ROSEMARY'S BABY" has been blessed with such extraordinary popularity from the printed page to the silver screen that it seems superfluous if not presumptuous for a critic to reco ... More >>

Where's Poppa?

In Praise of Natalie Wood

​"A mixture of orphan and clown" is what the great Natalie Wood played in 1965's musical melodrama Inside Daisy Clover, but that could also describe Natalie herself--a porcelain anti-waif whose radioactive spunk seemed to be a compensation for never quite feeling she was good enough or truly b ... More >>

COUGAR LOVE

If you wanna say yes, say yes to Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude

Rosemary's Baby Turns 40

THE DEVIL INSIDE

One of the scariest movies of all time turns 40

New Shocks From Shaw

For today's playgoers, alternately babied and brutalized, Mrs. Warren brings relief

Don't Drop It

A triple spin here is pushing it because the ceiling was just repainted

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