‘Easy Rider’ turns 50: Secrets of the counterculture classic
“A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere.” That was the tagline to “Easy Rider,” the beloved buddy pic that starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as a Harley-riding hippie duo who...
View ArticleHow Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ used music to terrify audiences
As horror flicks go, this one starts slowly: Woman steals money, checks into motel, steps into shower. Cue violins — and let the slashing begin! It’s hard to imagine Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” without...
View ArticleThe average age Americans see their first scary movie
Americans are getting spooked at an early age -- the average person first remembers watching a horror movie at 10 years old.
View ArticleMan hacks Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ for epic marriage proposal
What a real-life prince.
View ArticleSteve McQueen’s 1968 ‘Bullitt’ Mustang could set auction record
This is the holy grail of muscle cars.
View Article‘Jaws’ stage musical set for Paper Mill Playhouse in summer 2021
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater.
View ArticleThe ‘Bull Durham’ questions we still have about near-perfect sports movie
During the coronavirus shutdown, each day we will bring you a recommendation from The Post’s Peter Botte for a sports movie, TV show or book that perhaps was before your time or somehow slipped between...
View ArticleConnecticut’s opulent Marion Castle hits market for $4.5M
The palatial French chateau-style property, at 1 Rogers Road in Stamford, was built in 1912 by Hollywood production pioneer Frank Marion.
View Article‘Back to the Future’ fan recreates classic hoverboard scene
Fans of “Back to the Future II” yearned for the day they could ride a futuristic hoverboard. Thirty-one years later, inventor Sam Rogers achieved that dream. Watch as the 24-year-old real-life Marty...
View ArticleThis guy spent $200K to recreate the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ disco
“Saturday Night Fever” is staying alive — thanks to an eccentric Italian millionaire. For the movie’s 40th anniversary on Wednesday, self-professed “Fever” freak Gianluca Mech is flying in from Rome to...
View ArticleThe kooky Pigeon Sisters look back on ‘The Odd Couple’
The question remains: Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? Of course not — which is why “The Odd Couple” still makes us laugh, more than 50 years after Neil Simon...
View ArticleHow ‘Overlord’ stacks up against other funky movie mashups
It’s the surest way to increase box office this side of a 3-D up-charge. Take two film genres and smash them together, hopefully drawing twice the audience. “Overlord” looks to attract fans of WWII...
View ArticleHow ‘You’ve Got Mail’ made NYC a rom-com star
Twenty years ago, the Internet was an unexplored, foreign land, not an addiction or a matchmaking service. And the Big Apple was still filled with mom-and-pop shops — a landscape threatened by...
View Article1947 best-picture Oscar sells for nearly $500K at auction
LOS ANGELES — One Academy Award trophy sold for nearly $500,000 and the second for well over $200,000 in a rare auction of Oscars that ended Friday in Los Angeles. A best-picture Oscar for “Gentleman’s...
View Article30 years later, ‘Beaches’ stars reflect on tears, terror, triumph
At the moment Hillary dies at the end of “Beaches,” the chorus swells. Even now, 30 years after the film’s Dec. 21, 1988, release, it’s hard not to tear up over the story of two yin-and-yang women and...
View ArticleWhich classic ‘A Star Is Born’ is better? TCM weighs in
31 Days of Oscar | Daily, Turner Classic Movies For its annual “31 Days of Oscar” festival, Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz is introducing “Double Features.” Two films connected by theme,...
View ArticleThe curse that plagued the family who inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’
Helen Hope Montgomery was perfectly suited to a life of excess. She regularly made the best-dressed lists beside Babe Paley and once sang a naughty song to the Duke of Windsor. She won a Charleston...
View Article‘Midnight Cowboy’ turns 50: Inside the making of a film classic
Decades from now, when people wonder what New York City was like in the late ’60s, all they’ll have to do is watch “Midnight Cowboy.” Released 50 years ago, on May 25, 1969, it shows the city in its...
View Article‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 years later: Why this classic doesn’t hold up
This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the beloved Tom Hanks/Robert Zemeckis movie “Forrest Gump,” about a dim-witted but lovable everyman and his unintentional journey through the center of pivotal...
View ArticleKatz’s Deli hosting ‘orgasm’ contest for ‘When Harry Met Sally’ anniversary
Lunch-goers may hear more pleasurable moaning than usual Friday at Katz’s Delicatessen. The 131-year-old Lower East Side meat mainstay is hosting a fake orgasm contest in honor of Meg Ryan’s legendary...
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