brightlightsfilm.com - 11/4/2008
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home | current issue | archives | search | about us | contact | donate | blog | links Norma Shearer Norma Shearer The Primrose Path to MGM Stock "She hovered somewhere between the realest of realities and the most blatant of impersonations." F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Crazy Sunday," 1932 By Dan ...
variety.com - 11/4/2008
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variety.com —
MGM to release comedy Nov. 20, 2009 MGM
has revived the long-gestating Peter and Bobby Farrelly Three...
Stooges project. The siblings will renew their quest to channel the comic mayhem of the Three Stooges into a contemporary comedy for the studio. ...
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Farrellys to direct 'Three Stooges' - Entertainment ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 11/3/2008
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hollywoodreporter.com —
It looks like the Three Stooges have finally
found their way back home. MGM, which showcased the...
comedy trio in shorts and features as early as 1933, is in the process of acquiring the film rights to the Stooges from Warner Bros., which has been ...
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Stooges go back to roots with MGM
variety.com - 11/10/2008
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variety.com —
Select films to be available online The Lion
has gotten into bed with YouTube. The venerable studio,...
eager to monetize its library however possible, will allow YouTube to stream certain MGM pics and TV skeins in their entirety in exchange for ad coin. ...
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MGM, YouTube pact for pics - Entertainment News, Film ...
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... Norma Shearer: The Primrose Path to MGM Stock — "She hovered somewhere between the realest of realities and the most blatant of impersonations." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Crazy Sunday," 1932 ...
Norma Shearer: The Primrose Path to MGM Stock
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... accurate dismissal, for I've been secretly fond of Shearer for years. Perhaps the writer David Noh put it best when he called her his "guilty pleasure goddess." To start to put such persistent derision into perspective, I thought it was time to go point by point through Shearer's available filmography and find out just what all the fuss is about. _____________________________________________________ To read the rest of the article at Bright Lights Film Journal, click here.
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