Inside the Corporate Jungle

Anyone who has ever worked for a large firm will have no trouble recognizing the cutthroat corporate politics or high-powered personalities on display in Patterns (1956), Rod Serling’s insightful drama about big business which is still relevant today.

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Mickey, Mickey, You’re So Fine, You Blow My Mind!

Actor Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)

Forget about Boys Town, Judge Hardy and Son, Babes in Arm, The Human Comedy or National Velvet. This is the less traveled road of Mickey Rooney’s post-MGM career where anything goes like co-starring with a talking mule (Francis in the Haunted House, 1956) or managing a troupe of trained monkeys (Babe: Pig in the City, 1998).

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