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Mariah Carey, Other Stars Get Legs Insured

7 June 2009 2:32 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Insuring women's legs against damage and destruction has been a very good policy for Lloyd's of London, which has insured more women's legs than any other body part. "The fad began with Betty Grable, whose legs were insured for one million dollars in the 1940s," Dian Hanson, an editor at Leg Show magazine, writes in "The Big Book of Legs," a coffee-table tome from Taschen. "Though it was simply a publicity stunt arranged by the 20th Century Fox film studio, it was quite an effective one, leading Universal to insure Angie Dickinson

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"Mending Fences" Starring Angie Dickinson To Premier July 18 On Hallmark Channel

18 May 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Acclaimed actresses Angie Dickinson and Laura Leighton are set to headline the world premier of the Hallmark Channel Original movie "Mending Fences". Three-time Emmy nominee and two-time Golden Globe winner Dickinson ("Pay It Forward") and Golden Globe nominee Leighton ("Melrose Place") star as a mother daughter duo living in a rural community rife with big town problems.

Leighton plays Kelly Faraday, a television reporter who moves back to her hometown with her teenage daughter Kamilla (Shanley Caswell, "Zoey 101"). Believing she has escaped from the urban flurry, Kelly returns home to find the town in the middle of a heated land crisis.

Kelly, her mother Ruth Hanson (Dickinson) and her ex-boyfriend Walt (David Lee Smith, "CSI: Miami") work in unison to halt casino developments which pose a threat to the town's water supply. The water rights battle and the ensuing struggle with defiant citizens serve as a backdrop for the

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Convention Report: Chiller Theater 2009, Parsippany, NJ!

9 May 2009 9:36 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

A Truckload of Zombies, and a Return to Form

(or, Burt Reynolds, We Hardly Knew Thee)

It’s nice when people listen. After the last three or four Chiller Theatres, horror fans started to voice their displeasure with the convention; having once boasted a guest list that was about 90% horror, the con had shifted to more of a “mainstream” celebrity show, with the likes of Leslie Nielsen and Angie Dickinson replacing horror stalwarts like George Romero and Betsy Palmer (a sure sign of a turn from horror: Nielsen and Dickinson both have horror movies on their resumes, yet their tables boasted not a single 8x10 from those films). It seems promoter Kevin Clement heard the cries of the fans, and answered them. With a few exceptions, this April’s Chiller Theatre was a return to its blood and guts form, recalling its former glories for horror fans.

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Interview: Angie Dickinson on the Big Break, The Rat Pack, ‘Police Woman’

1 April 2009 1:55 PM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Angie Dickinson has brought her charm and magnetism to a career that has spanned from the Marilyn Monroe era – she was featured in the original “Ocean’s 11” – to grittier movie roles in such cult classics as “Point Blank”, “Dressed to Kill” and Ronald Reagan’s last film,”The Killers”.

But she will always be remembered for her breakthrough TV role as “Pepper” Anderson in 1974’s “Police Woman”. Dickinson was the first lead role female cop character in series television history and laid the foundation for all the women-led action series that followed.

HollywoodChicago.com caught up with still radiant Ms. Dickinson in Chicago at the Hollywood Collector Show. She reminisced about her first big break, her life with the “Rat Pack” and how Pepper was a role model for girls…and boys.

Angie Dickinson talks to director Howard Hawks while John Wayne looks on during the filming of ‘Rio Bravo’

Photo credit: Dr.

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Slideshow: Tony Curtis, Other Stars Shine at the Hollywood Collector Show in Chicago

27 March 2009 10:51 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – Last weekend, March 21-22, the Hollywood Collector Show was presented at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare. Among the various booths of memorabilia and collectible treasures, many notable Hollywood movie and television stars signed autographs and met their fans.

HollywoodChicago.com was there, with photographer Joe Arce and staff writer Patrick McDonald covering the proceedings. Next week, individual interviews will be posted from the show.

Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All images are ©2009 Joe Arce for HollywoodChicago.com

HollywoodCo01: The Legendary Star Tony Curtis

HollywoodCo02: Tony Curtis and Patrick McDonald HollywoodCo03: The Radiant Angie Dickinson HollywoodCo04: Patrick McDonald and Angie Dickinson HollywoodCo05: The Brady Bunch: Mike Lookinland (Bobby), Christopher Knight (Peter), Susan Olsen (Cindy) and Robbie Rist (Cousin Oliver) HollywoodCo06: The Brady Bunch with Patrick McDonald HollywoodCo07:

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Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition

13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These

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[DVD Review] The Warner Brothers Romance Classics Collection

7 February 2009 2:27 PM, PST | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Talk about digging deep, Warner Brothers. The Romance Classics Collection digs up, what I’m classifying as, a bunch of B-Grade romance films aimed at teenagers of old. While I watched them there was a part of me that had to roll my eyes as many of the sentiments are quite dated. Poodle skirts and good ol’ fashioned soda fountains as iconic pieces of youth culture faded long ago – so where does one find modern value in material whose epochal values have vanished? Granted, love stories have and probably will be a staple of film forever – but it’s the ancillary elements of the story that make a given tale a truly entertaining experience. With that said, The Romance Classics Collection must be viewed with a grain of salt and can’t really be considered too seriously.

Parrish (1960)

The titular character played by Troy Donahue represents that age-old archetype of

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Lex Walker

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7 articles from 2009

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