Cinema Smear

Years ago, I read someone marveling over the Indian actor Sabu. He had reportedly been an orphan working as a stable boy when he was discovered at age 13 and cast in The Elephant Boy. His father had been an elephant driver who died when the boy was ...

After all the crap about "free speech", a French Muslim 8-year-old was interrogated by French police in Nice for "supporting terrorism". In this case, he's stands accused of talking during the "moment of silence" for the cartoonists killed at Charlie...

Man. I actually watched The Interview on Netflix.
It was terrible. Seth Rogen was far worse than I could have ever dared imagine. James Franco was awful. There wasn't one funny thing in it. It was just terrible.
There are people chuckling at how upset North Korea was over such a crappy movie. I think it's more humiliating for Sony if they DID get hacked by North Korea and exposed as racist, sexist scum, all because of this garbage. Why would they make this thing...

I'm not sure how many American movies were shown in the USSR in the '60s and '70s. I do know that the big budget western, McKenna's Gold, with Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif, was big hit in the Soviet Union. It was made in '69.
The Soviet action film, White Sun of the Desert was made in 1970. I watched it on DVD and watched the interviews with its two writers....