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Cool Hand Luke

[1967, Movie]

Cool Hand Luke: Review

Too cool for words, then switches past midstream into a work of poignancy and power. Not much has changed since Warner Bros in the 1930s, and it's interesting to realize, looking over Newman's career, how many overrated male-bonding, macho-buddy movies he has made. COOL HAND LUKE starts out that way with Newman as irreverent loner put on a chain gang for destroying parking meters. Kennedy won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the bastardly convict boss who tries to crack Ne... read more

Cool Hand Luke: TV Guide News

Short Cuts: Chappelle's Show, Jackass and More | Today's News: Our Take | 5/23/2007
The Best of Chappelle's Show: Uncensored, offering the Comedy Central series' 25 most memorable moments, arrives on DVD June 5.... MTV's Jackass on Sept. 24 will incarnate itself as a next-gen video game, allowing players to interact with likenesses of Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, et al.... Blade Runner, Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, Magnum Force and Sudden Impact have been selected for hi-def restoration, with Blade Runner set for a DVD re-release later this year, in time for its 25th anniversary. read more
Short Cuts: Passions, Best Baseball Film and More | Today's News: Our Take | 3/20/2007
Might the NBC sudser Passions find new life on a new channel? Check out Daniel's Soaps News for the breaking news.... What's the greatest baseball movie of all time? Cast your vote now in a poll conducted by the Tribeca Film Festival and ESPN. Finalists will be bracketed against each other March Madness-style, with the winner being shown May 5 at the ESPN Sports Festival.... Law & Order: SVU has been sold into syndication in more than 97 percent of the U.S., to begin airing in the fall.... Director Stuart Rosenberg (Cool Hand Luke, The Amityville Horror) died last Thursday of a heart attack. He was 79. read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/28/2005
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cool Hand Luke and The Frenc read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/12/2004
Frank Pierson has been reelected president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (aka the Oscars people). read more
Soaps News | 10/21/2003
The Young and the Restless has tapped legendary screen actor George Kennedy to play Albert, Victor's long-lost father, i read more