By If you’re a Merry Frankster listener of Frank Santopadre’s Fun For All Ages podcast, you’re used to tales of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. The nightclub duo ripped off Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis’s routines. They even made a low-budget Martin & Lewis-esque movie Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
The 20 Greatest Cop Shows of All Time
Even in these days of endless entertainment options, it’s hard to turn on a TV and not see a cop. Police have been a mainstay of the medium since the now-lost series The Plainclothesman debuted in 1949, and especially when Dragnet made the jump from radio to television two years
15 Times a Character Should Have Just Gone Home
Movies need a reason to happen, and said reason can’t always be an external force leaving a character without a choice. We always prefer to follow characters that decide their fate, even if their decisions lead them to end up worse than how they started. In hindsight, the safest option
15 Actors Who Were Too Old to Star in Action Flicks
Action heroes are supposed to sprint across rooftops, trade punches with trained killers, and survive impossible odds. Yet Hollywood has increasingly asked audiences to believe actors well into their sixties, seventies, and even eighties could still do it all. Granted, many relied on stunt doubles, careful editing, and decades of
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Movie magic works very similar to regular magic, since as long as you don’t see the trick, you can let yourself believe anything. However, we know that actors don’t have superpowers and that alien planets don’t exist, so special effects and camera work need to be used to sell us
