Question: With all the best- and worst-of-2005 lists I've seen, I've been wondering about the worst movies of all time. But though I've seen dozens of lists, with the exception of Plan 9 from Outer Space and Glen or Glenda, the movies on the lists all seem to have been made between 1980 and the present. Are there any bad-movie lists that go back to the early days of film, or is it just that movies started getting really bad in the 1980s?
Answer: I'll answer the second part of your question first: It's not that movies have gotten worse but that smarty-pants treasuring of "worst movies of all time" lists is a relatively recent phenomenon, one that I blame on Harry and Michael Medved and their condescending Golden Turkey Awards. I'm not saying that there aren't terrible movies out there, only that squandering energy that could be better used in any of a hundred ways on hunting down and cata
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TV veteran Patty Duke (aka Anna Marie Duke) was America's Sweetheart in the mid-1960s, playing identical cousins Cathy and Patty Lane on The Patty Duke Show. She also made camp-film history as pill-popper Neely "I Need My Dolls!" O'Hara in 1967's Valley of the Dolls. For years, Duke has also reigned as the drama queen of TV tearjerkers, including The Miracle Worker, Please Don't Hit Me, Mom and Call Me Anna, in which she played out her real-life battle with manic depression. Next up, she's a crime-fighting nun (yes, really) in Hallmark Channel's Murder Without Conviction (Sunday at 8 pm/ET). Here, Duke graciously answers our prayers by sitting down for an exclusive Q&A...
TV Guide Online: You recently got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Congrats!Patty Duke: It's great! My son Mackenzie Astin, (Facts of Life) was there with his fiancée — hel-lo! — Samantha Sinclair
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