Movies

I promised in yesterday's blog that I would tell you more about The Pondera Players & The Pondera Arts Council's musical comedy "Hot Flash" LIVE-ON STAGE this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at the beautiful Orpheum Theatre/Wiegand Auditorium in Conrad.

I guess we'll find out this afternoon (Tuesday 3/1) when I talk with Jerome Charyn, author of an eloquent new book on Joe DiMaggio. Biographers have painted the private DiMaggio as a cruel, cunning man with little interest in other people, a man obsessed with his own image as the great American hero...

James Franco and Anne Hathaway were certainly outside-the-box picks to host the 83rd annual Academy Awards.  And after a pre-taped opening in which they tried to elicit advice from last year's host Alec Baldwin by channeling his dreams, “Inception” - style, the duo weren’t required to do a whole lot of heavy lifting in their opening monologue. In it, they made reference to how their youth was inte

Who was the real Howard Hughes? We'll find out this afternoon at 4:35 when I talk with television producer and director Douglas Wellman. Wellman 's  the Assistant Dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and he's written a book entitled "Boxes-The Secret Life of Howard Hughes"...

The Internet is freaking out over this angelic yearbook photo of an elementary-school-age Kanye West, so we decided to round up some of our favorite yearbook photos of famous musicians. Click through to see who was awkward and who was...slightly less awkward...

It  seems like Tuesdays are my favorite day of the week because I look forward to visiting the Marias Heritage Center and reading Montana history to the residents. Apparently I didn't read fast enough last week because I wasn't able to finish the last page of Christy Leskovar's "Find The Bad Inn.

The Puffman Show is getting ready to "salute Oscar" this Friday afternoon. I'll be talking with the great-granddaughter of HJ Whitley. She's Gaelyn Whitley Keith and she's written "The Father Of Hollywood". It's her first book and I'll be giving away a copy of the book following Friday's interview.

Like over-the-top outfits and gushing acceptance speeches, shocking nomination snubs are part of the tradition of the Oscars. This year, fans are crowing about the exclusions of Mark Whalbergh for "The Fighter" and "Ryan Gosling" for "Blue Valentine." We've rounded up some of the best performances that never even made it to the big show below.

This YouTube video boasts of the "100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds"  You be the judge...