Reviews, news and notes from The Hollywood Reporter's (@THR) decades of archives since 1930. By @Erik_Hayden
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Today in 1955: Warner Bros. releases teenage drama 'Rebel Without a Cause' just a month after star James Dean's death in an automobile accident
"It contains some extraordinarily good acting by the late James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo"
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5 years ago today on @THR's cover: "Will Ferrell Just Wants to Entertain You"
“People come up to me all the time, like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s you! Do something funny!’ and I don’t know what I’m supposed to say.”
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25 years ago today: 'Donnie Darko' hits theaters
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Today in 1984: 'The Terminator' arrives in theaters.
Weeks before, this trade ad was placed in @THR announcing the logline of the feature.
In its review, critic Kirk Ellis wrote, "No doubt about it: Arnold Schwarzenegger was born to play The Terminator."
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Today in 1997: ‘Gattaca’ hits theaters — "Andrew Niccol has concocted a zesty story potion."
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20 years ago on @THR's front page: Christopher Nolan gets a notable box office win with 'The Prestige'
"Christopher Nolan’s movies zero in on men in the throes of obsession, characters who desperately search for that one thing that will make their existence less compromised...."
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Today in 2004: 'Sideways' hits theaters —
"If film critics employed a 0 to 100 rating scale such as some wine critics do, then Sideways would rate about a 98."
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Today in 1964: 'My Fair Lady' holds its premiere at the Criterion Theatre in New York.
@THR's review gave an all-caps headline treatment to its take, calling the feature an "EXTRAORDINARY, EXQUISITE GEM OF FILM-MAKING."
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"Seth MacFarlane secretly wishes Family Guy would end as he expands his multibillion-dollar empire with The Flintstones, a shockingly well-received singing career, talk of a potential Star Trek reboot and an astonishing ambition to not be pigeonholed"
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"The famously private actress opens up about the hard-but-healing process of making the year's most anticipated Marvel sequel — while still mourning Chadwick Boseman — and her ambivalence personifying Black beauty..."
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Today in 1923: Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney ink a deal to make Alice in Wonderland-themed cartoons for distributor M.J. Winkler.
The pact marks the founding of the Disney Brothers Studio.
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Today in 1951: 'I Love Lucy' premieres on CBS —
"Every once in a rare great while, a new TV show comes along that fulfills, in its own particular niche, every promise of the often harassed new medium. Such a show, it is a genuine pleasure to report, is I Love Lucy..."
"The outstanding pertinent fact about I Love Lucy is the emergence, long suspected, of Lucille Ball as America’s No. 1 comedienne in her own right."
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