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Depraved convicts ! Crazy Manhattan gin parties! Society dames poaching other women's husbands! A flimflam artist scamming the uptown sophisticates! All these forbidden attractions are here and more -- including Bette Davis's epochal seduction line about impulsive kissing versus good hair care. It's a 9th collection of racy pre-Code wonders. Forbidden Hollywood Volume 9 Big City Blues, Hell's Highway, The Cabin in the Cotton, When Ladies Meet, I Sell Anything DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1932-1934 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 63, 62, 78, 85, 70 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 40.99 Starring Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Humphrey Bogart; Richard Dix, Tom Brown; Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Berton Churchill; Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan; Pat O' Brien, Ann Dvorak, Claire Dodd, Roscoe Karns. Cinematography James Van Trees; Edward Cronjager; Barney McGill; Ray June Written by Lillie Hayward, Ward Morehouse, from his play; Samuel Ornitz, Robert Tasker, Rowland Brown...

Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock heroine (image: Joseph Cotten about to strangle Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt') (See preceding article: "Teresa Wright Movies: Actress Made Oscar History.") After scoring with The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, and The Pride of the Yankees, Teresa Wright was loaned to Universal – once initial choices Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland became unavailable – to play the small-town heroine in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. (Check out video below: Teresa Wright reminiscing about the making of Shadow of a Doubt.) Co-written by Thornton Wilder, whose Our Town had provided Wright with her first chance on Broadway and who had suggested her to Hitchcock; Meet Me in St. Louis and Junior Miss author Sally Benson; and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, Shadow of a Doubt was based on "Uncle Charlie," a story outline by Gordon McDonell – itself based on actual events.

Two Australian production companies plan to launch an online sex advice channel, distributed via Google TV, Apple TV and Roku TV.

To fund the venture they aim to raise $1 million via a crowd-funding site. Entitled Intelligent Sex, the channel.s first two shows will be Hook Line and Sink Her, a 13-part drama based on Carla Bonner.s 2012 self-published e-book of that name; and Relate Your Way, a weekly open forum hosted by relationships expert Rachel Wilson.

The forums will be "uncensored, unrestricted, open-minded and non-judgmental discussions and entertainment about all things sex, sexuality and relationships of All kinds,". says Wilson.

The channel is the brainchild of Web Video Solutions. Eddie Postma, who is partnering with Horizon Films, the production company headed by David Pulbrook and Paul Green, whose credits include The Cup, Pulbrook.s Last Dance, Brilliant Lies and Hotel Sorrento.

Postma tells If he is deciding which crowd-funding...

83 years later - Paul Green's hit play returns to the NY stage - with its shocking original ending finally intact On the heels of their acclaimed productions of 1931- and Success Story, The ReGroup Theatre Company Inc. turns its attention to the Group Theatre's very first play, Paul Green's The House of Connelly. With special permission and support from the Paul Green Foundation, this poetic tale gets a much overdue NY revival.

83 years later - Paul Green's hit play returns to the NY stage - with its shocking original ending finally intact On the heels of their acclaimed productions of 1931- and Success Story, The ReGroup Theatre Company Inc. turns its attention to the Group Theatre's very first play, Paul Green's The House of Connelly. With special permission and support from the Paul Green Foundation, this poetic tale gets a much overdue NY revival.

"The Glee Project" is back for Season 2, and now we know which 14 lucky kids are competing for a shot at a guest arc on "Glee."

Before we get to the cast members, Oxygen announced a minor change for the second year of the reality competition. Creator Ryan Murphy, casting director Robert Ulrich, choreographer Zach Woodlee and vocal coach Nikki Anders will all be back, but Anders now has a seat on the judging panel.

"I've had the immense pleasure of auditioning so many unique and gifted singers, actors and dancers from all over the country" Ulrich says in a statement. "Ultimately, 14 out of thousands were chosen, and I'm so proud of this group of stellar young men and women."

Lea Michele will be the first "Glee" cast member to mentor the competitors in the "Glee Project" Season 2 premiere.

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Age: 23

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Dani has been performing since...

The Woodstock Film Festival has added Paul Green to their team as the new Music Coordinator. Green is best known for his establishment of School of Rock, originally a performance-based after-school music program for kids, is now also a camp, a festival, a documentary film and an All Star Program, and has now expanded into fifty-seven schools across the country and in Mexico. "His contacts in the music industry will ...

At SXSW this year everyone expected Mel Gibson’s new movie to be pretty poor but it turned out to be one of the best movies I saw at the conference. The Beaver is directed by Jodie Foster who also stars in the movie alongside Gibson, Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the story of a depressed man (Gibson) who finds comfort through a stuffed hand puppet, ‘The Beaver’.

If you missed our review of the film you can check it out here.

Icon have just emailed us to let us know that the movie is set for release on 17th June and I urge you to go and see it as it’s one of the best films you’ll see this year.

The beaver will be released in the UK 17th June.

The Beaver

Directed by Jodie Foster

Two-time Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars...

Obama's enforcer was tossed off the ballot in Chicago's mayor race over a residency issue. Dirk Johnson on the real winners-including an alderman rooting for a weak mayor.

Rahm Emanuel is clearly the big loser in the court decision that bounced him off the Chicago mayoral ballot. But who are the real winners?

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His feisty tenant, Rob Halpin, who refused to allow the former White House powerhouse to break the lease and move-a key to Emanuel's residency problem-will go down in history as a real-estate David who managed to stick it to the landlord Goliath.

Emanuel's opponents in the Chicago mayor's race can call it a good day, too. Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun and longtime City Hall insider Gery Chico have suddenly been transformed from serious underdogs to serious contenders for the post being vacated by Richard M. Daley.

Here's more "Beaver" info from Yahoo:

Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track... until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.

Genres: Comedy and Drama

Release Date: Spring 2011

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, some disturbing content, sexuality and language including a drug reference.

Distributors: Summit Entertainment

Cast and Credits

Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence

Directed by: Jodie Foster

Produced by: Paul Green, Steve Golin, Ann Ruark...

In 2005, filmmaker Don Argott took a look at the inner workings of Paul Green's School of Rock, a documentary that was so fun and entertaining it got adapted into the Jack Black comedy vehicle School of Rock . In his new documentary The Art of the Steal , which received raves and multiple sell-outs when it played at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals last year, Argott delves into a little known controversy that rocked the art world in the city of Philadelphia. In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes established Barnes Foundation , one of the greatest collection of arts by masters like Renoir and Cézanne and Matisse, in the suburb of Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of teaching and allowing the common man to view the beauty in a natural setting. After Barnes' sudden death,...

The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns by Paul Green (McFarland, tpb, 265 pp, $39.95) If any genre seems a mismatch with the supernatural or science fiction, it has to be the Western. Sure, there was the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire, where that cowboy hero journeyed beneath the Earth to the lost city of Murania, and the strange double-bill of Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’S Daughter and Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula. But Green, a former Marvel Comics artist, has come up with The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns, an international compendium of books, movies, comics, TV shows and games that deals with the extensive and bizarre cross-pollination. This unique volume covers ground that has generally eluded researchers.

Green’s introduction is a brief history of the various art forms covered in the pages that follow. He stretches it a bit, though, when he starts talking about the Sumerians and Homer—who predated the West itself.

The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns by Paul Green (McFarland, tpb, 265 pp, $39.95) If any genre seems a mismatch with the supernatural or science fiction, it has to be the Western. Sure, there was the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire, where that cowboy hero journeyed beneath the Earth to the lost city of Murania, and the strange double-bill of Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’S Daughter and Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula. But Green, a former Marvel Comics artist, has come up with The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns, an international compendium of books, movies, comics, TV shows and games that deals with the extensive and bizarre cross-pollination. This unique volume covers ground that has generally eluded researchers.

Green’s introduction is a brief history of the various art forms covered in the pages that follow. He stretches it a bit, though, when he starts talking about the Sumerians and Homer—who predated the West itself.

A run of Cole Porter & Herbert Field's never before seen 'The New Yorkers' has just been completed at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. The next show in this season is Kurt Weill's first ever American show 'Johnny Johnson' written by Paul Green and Weill (originally starred John Garfied, Elia Kazan etc) their production will be led by American Lauren Ward of Roundabout' Follies' and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'Pericles' and Lauren is Mrs Matthew Warchus.

Sure, we all know that Dethklok is the most brutal, not-quite-fictional metal band this side of Cannibal Corpse, but their mastery of the dark arts of shredding won't just magically be passed on to the next generation. Someone has to train the youth in finger tapping, proper care of long hair, and the do's and don't's of spiked leather (one wonders if there's a minimum age on the pain waivers.) And who better than Metalocalypse creator/songwriter Brendon Small, who just announced a tour with the Paul Green Rock Academy?...

CBS added two more drama pilots to its development slate Wednesday.

The network picked up medical drama "The Eastmans" and the Shawn Ryan-produced "Confessions of a Contractor."

"Eastmans," from writer-executive producer Margaret Nagle and Warner Bros. TV, is a medical show centered around a complicated family of doctors.

It marks the third medical drama pilot for CBS this pilot season. The network, which has been focused on finding a new medical franchise for fall, also ordered "Three Rivers," about organ transplants, and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced "Miami Trauma," about trauma surgeons.

"Contractor," from 20th TV, is based on Richard Murphy's book of the same name and centers on a successful L.A. contractor.

Murphy wrote the pilot and serves as co-exec producer with Jeff Okin and Paul Green. Ryan will exec produce.

A new exhibition of paintings by singer Bob Dylan has opened in Woking. The selection of work at The Lightbox comprises observational drawings first published in 1994 book Drawn Blank, from which the exhibition takes its name. "When I was asked if we wanted to do an exhibition of Dylan’s work I wasn't interested in the celebrity of the artist, I wanted to see the calibre and quality of the art first. It says everything about Dylan and brings him to life," said Paul Green, president of (more)...

Brendan Deenan, Senior v-p, Objective Entertainment, announced this morning that the delay behind Flash Gordon #1 had to do with a bad printer. In fact, the 13,000 print run has been pulped a new printer secured. As a result, the first issue, due out August 20, will now hit comic shops on September 24. The second issue will come out on schedule, one week later.

Ardden Entertainment's adaptation of Alex Raymond’s classic comic strip hero was previewed amidst much fanfare this spring with a zero issue. Deenan wrote the comic with artist Paul Green working under the guidance of Ardden editor-in-chief J.M. DeMatteis.

Their contemporary take on the character does not resemble the abortive Sci-Fi Channel series from 2007 or previous comic strip incarnations.

According to a release from Ardden, “Copies of the first ‘faulty’ issue have arrived at a location in the USA and Ardden is requesting that if any retailer or comic...