Fifty years ago, Paddy Chayefsky wrote an audacious screenplay, about a fictional network who decides to do something crazy - turn their news division into a cash cow. In 1976, everyone knew that making money from news on television was a ridiculous fantasy, but it was only a movie, right? A half-century later, it looks a lot more like reality. William Holden, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, and Oscar winners Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, and Beatrice Straight star in director Sidney Lumet's examination of the space where journalism meets capitalism, and it looks a lot like our present day.

Oscar winner and Hollywood legend Joan Crawford died in 1977. The next year, Joan's daughter Christina released her infamous memoir, MOMMIE DEAREST. Suddenly, Joan Crawford, once a symbol of grit and glamour, was synonymous with child abuse. It took three years for the book to be adapted for the screen, but in 1981 -- fifty years ago -- the film was released, featuring Oscar winner Faye Dunaway as Joan. Most of the people involved probably believed they were creating a significant film about an important subject. But instead, the movie - with it's over-the-top performances and quotable quotes, instead became a camp classic. If you've never seen it, please watch it with at least three friends with a dark sense of humor, then come back and listen to our latest. And bring the axe.

After a stunning debut in Steven Speilberg's THE COLOR PURPLE, Whoopi Goldberg cemented her status as a bona fide movie star by appearing in a very different film, JUMPIN' JACK FLASH. In it, she plays a computer genius who receives a coded message from a British spy and tries everything she can to bring him back from enemy lines. Directed by Penny Marshall, and co-starring Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, and Jim Belushi, it's a delightful action-mystery-comedy romp. The antiquated computer screens have not aged so well, but the rest of the movie still sings like Mick Jagger.