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Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...

Take a gander at the trailer for director Lewis Farinella’s original web series “Transmission”, a zombie movie set during a bank robbery, forcing bad guys and good guys to team up to survive. Yeah, the premise isn’t exactly novel, but then again, what’s new in the zombie genre nowadays? Everything has been done, sometimes dozens of times before. So your best bet is really to go for the throat, and Farinella looks like he’s done just that with “Transmission”, a web series set to debut August 30th. 4 armed gunmen rob a high security bank, killing 1 security guard and taking 2 hostages. Meanwhile, a parasitic outbreak occurs on the other side of town. They now must survive the epidemic…and each other. Starring Eric Main, Jason Kane, Justin Agustin, Keith Main, Courtney Cameron, and Jessica Crawford. You can catch the first episode (and subsequent episodes) at the film...