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Peter Greene, a character actor who made a career out of playing villains, including in “Pulp Fiction,” “The Mask” and dozens of other films and TV shows, has died. He was 60.
Peter Greene, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Mask’ Actor, Dies at 60
Mr. Greene, who built a four-decade career uncannily portraying villains, was found dead in his apartment in Manhattan on Friday, his manager said.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Peter Greene, a character actor who made a career out of playing villains, including in “Pulp Fiction,” “The Mask” and dozens of other films and TV shows, has died. He was 60.
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THE CAT AND THE CANARY, a delightful old dark house mystery, included plenty of thrills. Tully Marshall falls victim to the classic murder mansion blunder-- never ever hesitate to say the name of the probable suspect!
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
THE CAT AND THE CANARY, a delightful old dark house mystery, included plenty of thrills. Tully Marshall falls victim to the classic murder mansion blunder-- never ever hesitate to say the name of the probable suspect!
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The Wiz (1978) Directed by Sidney Lumet. Adapted from the 1974 Broadway musical starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson (in his feature film debut), Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne and Richard Pryor.
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Wiz (1978) Directed by Sidney Lumet. Adapted from the 1974 Broadway musical starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson (in his feature film debut), Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne and Richard Pryor.
Weekend read on the BBC's Campion.
"Margery Allingham’s novels are rather more intricate than Christie’s, she seems to have more of an interest in the minutiae of not just the narrative, but also the characters and writing style. "
Six Damn Fine Degrees #263: Campion
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Weekend read on the BBC's Campion.
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Watching this fabulous trailer is a reminder that casting Peter Davison as the Doctor was not only the best decision JNT ever made, it was also one of the best decisions in the history of the show.
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The Fifth Doctor vs. the Daleks | The Collection: Season 21 Announcement Trailer | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
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December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Watching this fabulous trailer is a reminder that casting Peter Davison as the Doctor was not only the best decision JNT ever made, it was also one of the best decisions in the history of the show.
youtu.be/9WABczTXLGg?...
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“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
-Tom Stoppard
-Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
-Tom Stoppard
-Tom Stoppard
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"The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."
Farewell to the great Tom Stoppard, whose masterpiece ARCADIA gave me a night at the theater I'll never, ever forget.
📷Alistair Morrison, 1988
Farewell to the great Tom Stoppard, whose masterpiece ARCADIA gave me a night at the theater I'll never, ever forget.
📷Alistair Morrison, 1988
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."
Farewell to the great Tom Stoppard, whose masterpiece ARCADIA gave me a night at the theater I'll never, ever forget.
📷Alistair Morrison, 1988
Farewell to the great Tom Stoppard, whose masterpiece ARCADIA gave me a night at the theater I'll never, ever forget.
📷Alistair Morrison, 1988
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Louise by Belgian artist Christiane Vieugels from an original photo by James Abbe, 1929.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Louise by Belgian artist Christiane Vieugels from an original photo by James Abbe, 1929.
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"He is The Villain here, and he’s out to destroy the Doctor for reasons we need to keep watching to discover. The rest of the series features a number of nicely created villains and monsters but none of them carry the danger and menace of The Valeyard."
Six Damn Fine Degrees #262: The Valeyard
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"He is The Villain here, and he’s out to destroy the Doctor for reasons we need to keep watching to discover. The rest of the series features a number of nicely created villains and monsters but none of them carry the danger and menace of The Valeyard."
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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George Hurrell's immortal portrait of Jean Harlow on a bear-skin rug, c. 1934. Its teeth look fine to me ... for now.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
George Hurrell's immortal portrait of Jean Harlow on a bear-skin rug, c. 1934. Its teeth look fine to me ... for now.
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Carole Lombard y Robert Stack en el set de To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942).
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Carole Lombard y Robert Stack en el set de To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942).
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November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Frances McDormand photographed by Annie Leibovitz, 1999.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Frances McDormand photographed by Annie Leibovitz, 1999.
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Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper between takes on the set of Design for Living (1933)
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper between takes on the set of Design for Living (1933)
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It’s Marie’s birthday tomorrow.
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It’s Marie’s birthday tomorrow.