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Jack Jones, the singer and actor best-known for performing the famed “Love Boat” theme song, has died, his family confirmed. He was 86.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Jones’s stepdaughter Nicole Whitty said that Jones died after fighting Leukemia for the past two years.

Jones was born into a family of performers, the son of actress Irene Harvey and the actor-singer Allan Jones. He won two Grammys in the early Sixties for vocal performance on his songs “Lollipops and Roses” and “Wives and Lovers.” The artist was nominated five times in total,...

Time is relative to everyone but perhaps most heightened for teenagers, beyond the regimented school periods, when the moment when you receive an email from a friend who is ditching you seems to make it stand still and when time outside class can seem to run unfettered by the rules that govern adults. Graham Foy has a feel for these strange currents and eddies, tapping into them for this feature that is so loose initially it almost seems to repel all sense of narrative.

Kyle (Jackson Sluiter) and Colton (Marcel T Jiménez) are having one of those long hazy days of summer that is filled and empty simultaneously. Attacking life at the gallop on their skateboards, we see their day unfold in fragments. They find a dead cat in a half-built house along with an ancient cassette player that plays Roger Miller’s Dear Heart - the hissy sound of which.

Thin Lizzy will pack 74 previous unreleased tracks into a new box set, Rock Legends, set to arrive October 23rd via Umc.

The six-cd/one-dvd collection, which is available to preorder, spans the band’s whole career and comprises a mix of demos, radio sessions, live recordings and rare single edits. The set is based around a collection of newly discovered tapes, and the tracklist was compiled by Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham and band expert Nick Sharp.

The first disc of the Rock Legends set will boast the single edits...

Clark Gable is still sufficiently frisky in this late career western to attract four well-chosen frontier women -- who in this case happen to be a quartet of robbers' wives, sitting on a rumored mountain of ill-gotten gains. Raoul Walsh abets the comedy-drama, as Gable's fox-in-a-henhouse tries to determine which hen can lead him to the promised golden eggs. The King and Four Queens Blu-ray Olive Films 1956 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 86 min. / Street Date May 24, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols, Sara Shane, Roy Roberts, Arthur Shields, Jay C. Flippen. Cinematography Lucien Ballard Production Design Wiard Ihnen Film Editor Howard Bretherton Original Music Alex North Written by Richard Alan Simmons, Margaret Fitts from her story Produced by David Hempstead Directed by Raoul Walsh

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Olive's latest dip into MGM's United Artists holdings brings up the cheerful, not particularly...

If Quantum Leap has always been on your 'to-watch' list but you've never had the time, here are a few suggestions to get you started...

Maps to TV shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you...

With bittersweet anticipation, we look forward to the final seven episodes of Mad Men's final season. Matthew Weiner has selected "ten movies that had an important influence" on the show for a series running at the Museum of the Moving Image—and he's written the descriptions for each himself: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Vertigo, Billy Wilder's The Apartment, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes Femmes, Fielder Cook's Patterns, Delbert Mann's Dear Heart and The Bachelor Party, Jean Negulesco's The Best of Everything and Arthur Hiller's The Americanization of Emily. Today's entry features more goings on in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Venice and beyond. » - David Hudson...

With bittersweet anticipation, we look forward to the final seven episodes of Mad Men's final season. Matthew Weiner has selected "ten movies that had an important influence" on the show for a series running at the Museum of the Moving Image—and he's written the descriptions for each himself: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Vertigo, Billy Wilder's The Apartment, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes Femmes, Fielder Cook's Patterns, Delbert Mann's Dear Heart and The Bachelor Party, Jean Negulesco's The Best of Everything and Arthur Hiller's The Americanization of Emily. Today's entry features more goings on in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Venice and beyond. » - David Hudson...

'Year of the Month' will never have a ring to it. I know this but I love themes. Don't hate me because I'm thematical. This month we're having a 50th anniversary party for 1964... (next month it's 1989's 25th) which is a fancy way of counting down to Monday, June 30th's Supporting Actress Smackdown wherein we'll be looking at performances from Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Chalk Garden, My Fair Lady, The Night of the Iquana and Zorba the Greek. 

So get to watching those movies so you can vote in the reader ballot!

But before we get to all that: 1964's vintage in list form (we did this once before for 1983 if you remember) since you always want lists, yes? Let's savor 1964's aged cinematic crop....

Best Movies According To...

Oscar: Becket, Dr Strangelove, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady* and Zorba the Greek were the best picture nominees. They sucked...

Turns out Barbra Streisand won't be the only diva doing a star turn on this year's Oscarcast. On Friday, the academy announced that Dame Shirley Bassey is set to sing "Goldfinger" as part of the golden anniversary tribute to the James Bond film franchise. This marks the first appearance on the Oscars for the Welsh songstress, who rocketed to fame stateside in 1964 with her rendition of this title track to the third Bond film. (Watch her belt out this number in the first video below.) -Insertgroups:8- That song was snubbed by the Oscars as were Bassey's other two Bond theme tunes -- her iconic rendition of "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and the less memorable "Moonraker" (1979).  In 1964, the Best Song Oscar went to "Chim, Chim, Cheer-ee" from "Mary Poppins," the biggest hit of the year. The four also-rans include three title tracks little heard since -- "Dear Heart," "Hush Hus...

"I'd hate to die young and never have made Grapes of Wrath. Life goes by so fast...I just don't want to miss out on anything." Jon-Erik Hexum Jon-Erik Hexum (he was advised to drop the 'C' in favour of a 'K' as it looked much stronger,) and used to go by the name of Jack; was born November 5 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 6' 1", and of Norweigan/Icelandic descent. His parents Gretha and Thorleif Hexum separated when he was 5. He had an older brother, Gunnar. The two were raised by their mother, who held down two jobs. Though they couldn't afford to, his mother also bought him a piano. As a child, Jon-Erik took violin, singing and dancing lessons, also playing the baritone horn and was very eager to play Flight of the Bumble Bee after only one lesson on the piano. His interests included writing, cinema, football,...

By most accounts, Harry Cohn was a royal son of a bitch.

For the uninformed, Harry Cohn was co-founder of Columbia Pictures, and the autocratic ruler of the studio from its founding in 1919 until his death in 1958. He was vulgar, crass, tyrannical, a screaming, foul-mouthed verbal bully i.e. a royal son of a bitch.

He was also a cheap son of a bitch.

Originally considered a “Poverty Row” studio, Cohn’s Columbia – at least at first – refused to build a roster of salaried stars as the other studios did. Cohn didn’t want the overhead or the headaches he saw saddling other studio chiefs with their contract talent. Cheaper and easier was to pay those studios a flat fee for the one-time use of their marquee value stars to give Columbia’s B-budgeted flicks an A-list shine. Columbia was considered such a nickel-and-dime outfit at the time that other...

On the set of Giant, not recognising her, I asked her on a date. She turned me down, but with a grace and humour I never forgot

When people say, "She's got everything", I've got one answer – I haven't had tomorrow.

– Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor may have been "the most beautiful woman in the world" but the great thing is that she didn't always look it. During the filming of Giant, my duty as a Hollywood agent was to hang around Warner Brothers to pick off dissatisfied clients from rival agents and keep an ear open for money-making gossip. In the picture's lunch break for studio workers, who were setting up interiors and closeups, I got my taco and beans from the on-lot catering coach and at a plank table sat opposite a quite ordinarily attractive, freckle-faced woman, her hair in a bandanna, who I assumed was a makeup person...

Beach bums! Relaxing on the sandy shores in Cabo San Lucas on Wednesday, Jessica Alba catches some rays while daughter Honor Marie, 2½ — sporting an adorable pair of shades! — gets playful with a bucket of water. The whole family, including dad Cash Warren, are in town to ring in the new year.

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Later, Honor got into the swing of things — courtesy of Warren! — before the family joined friends and posed for pictures.

“Spending Qt with family and friends in Cabo until the new year. Dance party with the midgets before their bedtime … great times!” he Tweeted on Tuesday.