Archive of posts filed under the celebrity category.
DCS: angela lansbury
In a career that spanned an unprecedented nine decades, Angela Lansbury did it all. She sang. She danced. She played dramatic roles. She played comedic roles. She lit up movie screens with her delightful characters in family classics like Bedknobs & Broomsticks and Mary Poppins Returns. She chilled audiences with her sinister turn in The …
inktober52: build
DCS: luana anders
Actors like Luana Anders were the foundation on which Hollywood was built. Unassuming, nondescript and modestly attractive, Luana, like her mentor Jeff Corey, was a versatile, reliable actor — able to handle any type of role that came her way. She became early friends with up-and-coming directors and was only happy to help out their …
inktober 2022: week 6
Inktober 2022 comes to a close with the final week’s entry — the 1943 Oscar winner for “Best Art Direction” and “Best Cinematography” It’s the 1943 remake of Gaston Leroux‘s story of unrequited love, The Phantom of the Opera. in 1943, Hollywood took a shot at remaking Lon Chaney‘s classic silent film. With some pretty …
inktober52: snack
DCS: reggie lisowski
After early interest in football, Reggie Lisowski turned his sights on professional wrestling once he joined the army. He trained in his native South Milwaukee neighborhood and made his ring debut in 1949. His early matches only netted the budding wrestler a mere five dollars a night, so he took menial jobs to supplement his …
inktober 2022: week 5
The penultimate week of Inktober 2022 features 1990’s “Best Actress” award winner — Kathy Bates in Misery. After a run of guest roles on episodic TV and a handful of supporting roles in less-than-stellar film, director Rob Reiner cast the always-reliable Kathy Bates as creepy superfan “Annie Wilkes” in the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s …
inktober52: bluff
DCS: mark sandman
Mark Sandman was an interesting and mysterious guy. He worked a number of blue-collar jobs, including construction, commercial fishing and driving a cab. He was stabbed and robbed as a cab driver, a traumatic incident that had a lasting effect on him for the rest of his life. The untimely deaths of his two brothers …