Andy Davis, director of "The Fugitive" and a native Chicagoan, picked most of the locations for the shooting here. Among the spots (followed by Davis' comments) were: - South Chicago,...
The ABC-TV series (1963-67) allegedly was based on the case of Sam Sheppard, a prominent osteopath in the Cleveland suburb of Bay Village, who in 1954 was convicted of murdering...
When it comes to women, Charlie Mackenzie has cornered the losers' market. One significant companion turned out to be a kleptomaniac. (Charlie still can't find his cat.) Another, he has...
This is an ecologically correct story about a boy and his whale. Well, not his whale, exactly, but one he discovers is living an unhappy existence and does his darndest...
"Benefit of the Doubt" is another woman-in-jeopardy movie, which Hollywood refer to as "womjep" or "femjep." It is also one of those out-on-parole numbers, filled with the standard red herrings...
Rotten or no, here's a rundown of some of the creatures who over the years have arisen from the various lagoons, swamps, islands, plateaus and all-purpose ponds: The Lost World...
In the 1950s, so the story goes, the boys on Madison Avenue would get a great creative idea for an ad campaign and exhort their colleagues with such cries as,...
Bruce Beresford is sitting in his Near North hotel suite, scarfing down a plate of room-service caviar, which provides a tidy segue to one of the scenes in his latest...
When Cynthia Jubera, an Atlanta food consultant, was assigned to oversee the food scenes in "Fried Green Tomatoes," a film set in a small Alabama town, she said she was...
Through the past decades, subjects that mattered to Americans were often reflected in the movies they saw-or didn't see. Unsurprisingly, social issues were examined in the '30s, with such entries...