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Blog Entries by John Farr from 01/2012

Actor's Actor: A Birthday Salute to Robert Duvall

| Posted 01.04.2012
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Duvall can look back with pride on a rich and colorful life, and his contributions to film should never be underestimated, as the following ten titles demonstrate.

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For His Upcoming Birthday, the Top Ten Cary Grant Movies by Farr

| Posted 01.09.2012
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Have people forgotten Cary Grant? He's been gone a quarter of a century now, and his last movie was made forty-five years ago. Personally, I don't believe so. He was too good, too much of an original to fade away from our collective consciousness.

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For Black History Month, Ten Key Films on the African-American Experience

| Posted 01.19.2012
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With Martin Luther King's birthday just past us, and Black History month coming up, the time seems right to celebrate those invaluable films that shed light on the black community's long struggle for equal rights in this country.

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Clark Gable: King of Hollywood

| Posted 01.31.2012
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As we kick off Oscar month tomorrow, we also honor the birthday of Clark Gable, who picked up a statuette at the seventh Academy Awards ceremony in 1935.

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