Holidays Articles

Do You Know Who I Am? - Posted by JmL.

One dilemma that the super famous face is balancing the needs of privacy and recognition. One time in New York an unnoticed Marilyn Monroe was walking down Madison Avenue accompanied by Eli Wallach. ...

Pretty Women Have Stayed At The Beverly Wilshire - Posted by JmL.

Since it was built in 1929, The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel has attracted rich and famous guests from around the world. To the general public the hotel is most famous for being used in the 1990 mov...

Hungry For Overkill - Posted by JmL.

I don't have much time to watch television. Being the lazy person that I am, I usually let other people in the family do my watching for me. But some events are just so important that I have to wat...

It's A Wonderful Movie - Posted by JmL.

It's A Wonderful Life (1946) began as a short story called "The Greatest Gift". Writer Philip Van Doren Stern was unable to sell it to a publisher, so he sent the tale out as a long Christmas card to...

Who Lives In The Star Wars Galaxy? - Posted by JmL.

It's hard to say where old Hollywood ended and new Hollywood began. People in the industry don't think of themselves as making history, they are just going to work. But the day in 1967 that Jack Warn...

When Stars Collide - Posted by JmL.

During the silent era it was thought a waste of money to make a movie with more than one star. Personalities like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton were considered potent enough box off...

Strange Encounters With Hollywood Legends - Posted by JmL.

Meeting famous people is often a surreal experience for both parties. In 1956 when Elvis Presley arrived in Hollywood he and his entourage stayed at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. One day he got in...

Masters Of Disguise - Posted by JmL.

Gene Hackman once lamented that the worst thing about becoming a famous actor is that you lose the ability to observe people without being noticed yourself. But some performers are so good at disgui...

Amazon Lodges - Posted by JmL.

Amazon Lodges I had always been told that if you wanted to see wildlife do not go to the Amazon. That the jungle was so dense that you could never see the wildlife and that the wildlife was mostly n...

Amazon Expeditions with Time Magazine "Hero of the Planet Year 2000" - Dr. Marc van Roosmalen - Posted by JmL.

The Amazonat Jungle Lodge is offering in addition to her standard programming combined land/water expeditions in which the guests will stay part of the time at the lodge and part of the time in a reg...