We here at the Monkey sadly note the passing of a great American author, Elmore Leonard. If you haven't read his novels (and you should...

ClassicFlix.com, the Monkey's other gig, is in Beta testing. Click here for a link to my latest post, about D.W. Griffith (you can ...

The Monkey's older brother is celebrating a birthday today. That's him on the left. Good times. In his honor, here's a video...

It's Julie Newmar's birthday. We won't mention her age except to say it's one of those milestone birthdays that ends in a z...

I've written at length about director/producer Cecil B. DeMille ( here , for example), one of the best and most influential of the silen...

A few facts about silent film star Ramon Novarro: ● He was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego in Durango, Mexico, in 1899. At age fourteen,...

You probably saw it already, but the decision to put Jane Austen on the ten pound note in England has inspired a vicious backlash that has ...

I've missed a lot of blogathons recently, for which I humbly apologize, but here's one I simply can't miss. Carole & Co., ...

The Monkey has spent most of the summer reading the collected works of Alexandre Dumas—or, more accurately, The Three Musketeers which i...

Upon reflection, the next time someone launches another of those internet memes asking who from Hollywood history, living or dead, you'd...