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Random musings on all things related to movies and television. Follow my blog at: http://hillplace.blogspot.com/
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RIP to one of my best friends over thirty years and a towering presence in this business people.com/jim-avila-fo...
Jim Avila, Former ABC News Correspondent, Dies at 69 After a 'Long Illness'
Jim Avila, a longtime ABC News senior correspondent, dealing with a 'long illness,' anchor Diane Macedo announced on ABC News Live on Nov. 13.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
RIP to one of my best friends over thirty years and a towering presence in this business people.com/jim-avila-fo...
Jim Herlihy @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social
& I talked w/Dickie Arbiter @royaldickie.bsky.social about Andrew, Fergie, Harry & Meghan & even The Crown! He was great & had terrific insights about everything. Thanks for chatting with us, Dickie. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/andrew-mount...
& I talked w/Dickie Arbiter @royaldickie.bsky.social about Andrew, Fergie, Harry & Meghan & even The Crown! He was great & had terrific insights about everything. Thanks for chatting with us, Dickie. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/andrew-mount...
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson. Talking with Dickie Arbiter, Queen Elizabeth's former Press Secretary
The King strips Andrew of all titles and banishes him from the public eye.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Jim Herlihy @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social
& I talked w/Dickie Arbiter @royaldickie.bsky.social about Andrew, Fergie, Harry & Meghan & even The Crown! He was great & had terrific insights about everything. Thanks for chatting with us, Dickie. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/andrew-mount...
& I talked w/Dickie Arbiter @royaldickie.bsky.social about Andrew, Fergie, Harry & Meghan & even The Crown! He was great & had terrific insights about everything. Thanks for chatting with us, Dickie. www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/andrew-mount...
One of my favorite TV movies, Nightmare in Badham County, premiered 49 years ago tonight on the ABC Friday Night Movie.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One of my favorite TV movies, Nightmare in Badham County, premiered 49 years ago tonight on the ABC Friday Night Movie.
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—Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.
Happy birthday to Carole Lombard, whose magnificent swan song TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) is now playing on the Criterion Channel.
Happy birthday to Carole Lombard, whose magnificent swan song TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) is now playing on the Criterion Channel.
October 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
—Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.
Happy birthday to Carole Lombard, whose magnificent swan song TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) is now playing on the Criterion Channel.
Happy birthday to Carole Lombard, whose magnificent swan song TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) is now playing on the Criterion Channel.
This is a podcast I did last week w/ @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social where we interviewed Carla Malden about working with her father Karl Malden on his great 1997 memoir "When Do I Start?" We cover everything from Kazan to Brando to Argento.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/when-do-i-st...
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/when-do-i-st...
When do I start ? The Karl Malden Memoir. Talking to co-author Carla Malden and Shaun Chang.
Street Car Named Desire Streets of San Francisco.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is a podcast I did last week w/ @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social where we interviewed Carla Malden about working with her father Karl Malden on his great 1997 memoir "When Do I Start?" We cover everything from Kazan to Brando to Argento.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/when-do-i-st...
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/when-do-i-st...
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Thanks, everyone! www.thewrap.com/dateline-bea...
‘Dateline’ Finishes Season 33 by Beating ‘20/20’ for the First Time in 6 Years | Exclusive
The NBC newsmagazine will air its 3,000th episode on Friday.
www.thewrap.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thanks, everyone! www.thewrap.com/dateline-bea...
Like Vera Miles, Barbara Rush, Lois Nettleton, Shirley Knight, Janice Rule, Sheree North, Jessica Walter, Marianna Hill, Dina Merrill, Hope Lange & Gena Rowlands,Crowley was an Underrated Oddity (odd in that they didn't always land parts they deserved) & TVGuest Actress Par Excellence for decades.
Patricia Crowley, Star of TV’s ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,’ Dies at 91
She appeared on dozens of shows and was in such films as 'Forever Female,' 'There's Always Tomorrow' and 'Key Witness.'
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Like Vera Miles, Barbara Rush, Lois Nettleton, Shirley Knight, Janice Rule, Sheree North, Jessica Walter, Marianna Hill, Dina Merrill, Hope Lange & Gena Rowlands,Crowley was an Underrated Oddity (odd in that they didn't always land parts they deserved) & TVGuest Actress Par Excellence for decades.
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HBD Jacqueline Bisset!! MCCT5: 5)La Cérémonie (Chabrol) 4)Welcome to NY (Ferrera) 3)Bullitt (Yates) 2)Under the Volcano (Huston) 1)Day For Night (Truffaut)
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September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
HBD Jacqueline Bisset!! MCCT5: 5)La Cérémonie (Chabrol) 4)Welcome to NY (Ferrera) 3)Bullitt (Yates) 2)Under the Volcano (Huston) 1)Day For Night (Truffaut)
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@hillplaceblog.bsky.social "Wishing you a very Happy Birthday today!!!" 🍰🎈🎂🍰🎈🎂🍰🎈🎂
September 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@hillplaceblog.bsky.social "Wishing you a very Happy Birthday today!!!" 🍰🎈🎂🍰🎈🎂🍰🎈🎂
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A triple feature of rarities starring Acquanetta! CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943) screens tonight, Monday August 18th, at 7:30pm on a 35mm triple feature with JUNGLE WOMAN (1944) at 9:00pm and DEAD MAN'S EYES (1944) at 10:20pm.
August 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A triple feature of rarities starring Acquanetta! CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943) screens tonight, Monday August 18th, at 7:30pm on a 35mm triple feature with JUNGLE WOMAN (1944) at 9:00pm and DEAD MAN'S EYES (1944) at 10:20pm.
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By the way, on this podcast I mentioned actress Lar Park Lincoln and I meant to say Kent Masters King, and I apologize for it. I got their names mixed up because their names had three words in them and I sincerely apologize.
I appeared on Jim Herlihy's @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social podcast tonight to discuss the differences between the great Melrose Place podcast "Still the Place" & the Knot-good-at-all (pun intended) Knots Landing podcast "We're Knot Done Yet". www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/podcasting-1...
August 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
By the way, on this podcast I mentioned actress Lar Park Lincoln and I meant to say Kent Masters King, and I apologize for it. I got their names mixed up because their names had three words in them and I sincerely apologize.
I appeared on Jim Herlihy's @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social podcast tonight to discuss the differences between the great Melrose Place podcast "Still the Place" & the Knot-good-at-all (pun intended) Knots Landing podcast "We're Knot Done Yet". www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/podcasting-1...
August 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I appeared on Jim Herlihy's @jimsanfrancisco.bsky.social podcast tonight to discuss the differences between the great Melrose Place podcast "Still the Place" & the Knot-good-at-all (pun intended) Knots Landing podcast "We're Knot Done Yet". www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/podcasting-1...
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In Sept. 2013, I interviewed Dolores Hart while she was in Charlotte, N.C. This was a big "first" for me when it came to film interviews. What a wonderful day that was.
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Leaving Hollywood for a new habit: An interview with Dolores Hart
She gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss. Roles in “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” and “The Ticklish Affair” that later went to Shirley Jones were originally offered to her. Her career began…
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July 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In Sept. 2013, I interviewed Dolores Hart while she was in Charlotte, N.C. This was a big "first" for me when it came to film interviews. What a wonderful day that was.
cometoverhollywood.com/2013/09/14/l...
cometoverhollywood.com/2013/09/14/l...
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Revisiting
Come Fly with Me (1963)
Dolores Hart's final feature film
Come Fly with Me (1963)
Dolores Hart's final feature film
July 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Revisiting
Come Fly with Me (1963)
Dolores Hart's final feature film
Come Fly with Me (1963)
Dolores Hart's final feature film
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I adore Karlheinz Böhm. So dreamy.
Pictured here with Dolores Hart in a publicity photo for COME FLY WITH ME (1963)
Pictured here with Dolores Hart in a publicity photo for COME FLY WITH ME (1963)
July 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I adore Karlheinz Böhm. So dreamy.
Pictured here with Dolores Hart in a publicity photo for COME FLY WITH ME (1963)
Pictured here with Dolores Hart in a publicity photo for COME FLY WITH ME (1963)
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It’s Friday. This pleases me.
July 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It’s Friday. This pleases me.
Remembering Phyllis Davis on her birthday. A sexy bombshell who could act, she did comedy & drama, villains & heroines in a nuanced manner. She had an excellent speaking voice that gave her gravitas & maturity. Her best work was LoveAmericanStyle, Vega$, Sweet Sugar & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
July 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Remembering Phyllis Davis on her birthday. A sexy bombshell who could act, she did comedy & drama, villains & heroines in a nuanced manner. She had an excellent speaking voice that gave her gravitas & maturity. Her best work was LoveAmericanStyle, Vega$, Sweet Sugar & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
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High praise for THE BEST OF EVERYTHING from Mr. Dreyer himself. I think he's right. (There's Bell, Book and Candle too, but the publishing is secondary to the witchcraft.) Look at this with the typewriters and manuscripts, and the rack of Fabian paperbacks in the back. 😭
July 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
High praise for THE BEST OF EVERYTHING from Mr. Dreyer himself. I think he's right. (There's Bell, Book and Candle too, but the publishing is secondary to the witchcraft.) Look at this with the typewriters and manuscripts, and the rack of Fabian paperbacks in the back. 😭
One of the most intelligent and kindest dignitaries you'll ever encounter at the TCM Film Festival.
Happy birthday to American sound designer, film editor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor Ben Burtt, born today in 1948. As a sound designer his credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, WALL-E, and 2009's Star Trek. #BenBurtt
July 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One of the most intelligent and kindest dignitaries you'll ever encounter at the TCM Film Festival.
One of the reasons the 1st two Die Hards were better than the others was because Bonnie Bedelia's Holly gave Bruce Willis' John McClane something worth fighting for. Sure, some of the others had his grown kids, but we didn't see these actors before, and we didn't really care about them.
July 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One of the reasons the 1st two Die Hards were better than the others was because Bonnie Bedelia's Holly gave Bruce Willis' John McClane something worth fighting for. Sure, some of the others had his grown kids, but we didn't see these actors before, and we didn't really care about them.
I appeared on @JimSanFrancisco.bsky.social's podcast this evening to discuss Mariska Hargitay's superb, deeply affecting documentary about her mother Jayne Mansfield on HBO. You can listen to it here.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/my-mom-jayne...
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/my-mom-jayne...
My Mom Jayne. A film by Mariska Hargitay. Talking with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
A documentary and personal memoir about Hargitay’s mother Jayne Mansfield.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I appeared on @JimSanFrancisco.bsky.social's podcast this evening to discuss Mariska Hargitay's superb, deeply affecting documentary about her mother Jayne Mansfield on HBO. You can listen to it here.
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/my-mom-jayne...
www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/my-mom-jayne...
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At #IlCinemaRitrovato I decided to revisit an old friend in a glorious 4K restoration—LIFEBOAT, a movie I've loved since childhood. Damn, it is just gorgeous, and dark and moving, and thematically I'm sorry to say it's more resonant than ever.
July 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At #IlCinemaRitrovato I decided to revisit an old friend in a glorious 4K restoration—LIFEBOAT, a movie I've loved since childhood. Damn, it is just gorgeous, and dark and moving, and thematically I'm sorry to say it's more resonant than ever.