Articles by Marshall Fine Page 2

Are they vermin or pets? Read more

Every so often, Hollywood spins out the kind of dueling duals that seem like more than coincidence: twin asteroid movies one year, a pair of Wyatt Earp pictures another, a matched set of Christopher Columbus films before that. Read more

There are almost as many hypotheses in movies about what the afterlife looks like as there are religious interpretations on the subject. Read more

Actress Allison Janney sits at a swellegant Art Deco bar, her hair a dark curtain of Louise Brooks bangs above her eyes. Read more

Some movies tell you stories. Read more

Amazing, isn’t it, just how quickly the pantheon of male movie idols changes its pecking order? Read more

Who’s afraid of the big bad blond? Read more

Here’s a quick look at some recent movies in which blond ambition served both as the source of villainy and as a comic foil: “The Parent Trap”: Meredith (Elaine Hendrix), a publicist with a heart of liquid nitrogen, tries to lure an eligible divorced millionaire into marriage. Read more

If Shakespeare were alive and writing for Hollywood today, he might paraphrase one of his most famous lines thus: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the managed-care professionals.” Read more