Schmoozing with the Von Trapps

Schmoozing with the Von Trapps

Fifty years ago today, on March 2, 1965, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music had its gala world premiere at the Rivoli Theater in New York. All the stars of the film were there along with Richard Rodgers, Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein (“I know Oscar would...
Born Bad: 50 years of ‘The Haunting’

Born Bad: 50 years of ‘The Haunting’

“Hill House had stood for 90 years, and might stand for 90 more…” British actor Richard Johnson intoned those words 50 years ago in the opening shot of Robert Wise’s 1963 The Haunting, which itself remains standing as the greatest haunted house film ever made and one...