Topic: William Powell

Man faces more charges in car crash

A Marlton man has been charged with assault by auto in connection with a Dec. 18 incident where he slammed his car into a parked Cherry Hill police...
AN ICONIC Welsh mansion is set to reopen as a luxury country hotel this spring, following a multi-million-pound revamp that will create more than ...

TheatreWorks' Anything Goes Gala

0 . It takes a sense of drama, if not humor, to attend a TheatreWorks fundraiser. The Silicon Valley theater company, which premiered the Tony...

Garchik: Black socks

0 . As to the viral spread of clotheslessness - a social phenomenon, not a disease, unless you're not careful where you sit - Paul Tominac notes...

Waiting for the doorbell to ring

0 . An official schedule for the two-day California visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge indicates that they will not be coming to Northern...

The warmth of fresh-based bread

0 . Last week's paid obituary for fallen firefighter Tony Valerio included this reassurance (noticed by Marilyn Alberts): "Station 26 will take...
The keen, fascinating, silk-hat detective Philo Vance, who has lived in a million copies of the S.S. Van Dine stories, now lives on the screen! Yet, in the late 1920s and 1930s, Philo Vance was a phenomenon in being the most ...

Bananadine

Bananadine is a fictitious psychoactive substance which is supposedly extracted from banana peels. An alleged recipe for its "extraction" from banana peel was originally published in the Berkeley Barb in March 1967. Cecil Adams, Straight Dope , April 26, 2002 It became more ...

Movie reviews: My Man Godfrey

William Powell plays the titular Godfrey, a man who has been successful in life but who stumbled through a rough patch and ended up living at the city dump. Fortunately he's got the ice cold Cornelia to keep him on his ...

Movie reviews: The Thin Man

In the 1930s movie series The Thin Man, William Powell and Myrna Loy set a precedent for snappy dialogue and playful exchange between happily married spouses. In the Thin Man, Powell and Loy were the epitome of screwball relationship comedy, with a ...