CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
No Way Out
Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com Remembers Sidney Poitier
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 10, 2022 - 2:34pm- 94
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- Blackboard Jungle
- Dead
- Dies
- Film News
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- In the Heat of the Night
- Jon Lennon Espino
- Let’s Do it Again
- Lilies of the Field
- Michael Spike Walters
- No Way Out
- Obituary
- Passed Away
- Patrick McDonald
- Sidney Poitier is Dead
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CHICAGO – With the passing of actor Sidney Poitier at the age of 94 on January 6th, 2022, another lion of the cinema – who represented succinctly an era of the movies – has left the mortal coil. HollywoodChicago.com presents the following appreciation through three film essays in retrospect by Patrick McDonald, Spike Walters and Jon Lennon Espino.
Entertainment News: Dean Stockwell of Film ’Blue Velvet' & TV’s ‘Quantum Leap’ Dies at 85
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 9, 2021 - 8:21pmCHICAGO – In my one encounter with Dean Stockwell back in 2013, he was properly off-kilter and amazing, as you expect from Frank in “Blue Velvet.” But Stockwell was so much more, starting as a child actor in Hollywood’s Golden Age, morphing to the hippie era and getting a major comeback with David Lynch and TV’s Quantum Leap.” He died in New York City on November 7th, 2021, at age 85.
Interviews: Movie Stars Sean Young, Dean Stockwell at Chicago Comic Con
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 13, 2013 - 10:14amCHICAGO – Two mercurial and classic film actors appeared last summer at the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, and between them have a wealth of impressive film titles on their resumes. Sean Young (“Bladerunner”) and Dean Stockwell (“Blue Velvet”) also represent different eras of cinema history.