The irony was there, if anyone bothered to make the connection. Just when the Brenda Starr comic strip was wrapping its 70-year run, so too did Joan E. Vadeboncouer pack it in. Known to friends and colleagues as “Joan E.

It’s an espionage spoof that doesn’t take itself remotely seriously, as the stars meet cute in the opening sequence at a Wichita airport, with handsome Roy Miller (Cruise) constantly colliding with pert eyeful June Havens, (Diaz) before embarkation.

Midnight mirthmaking hasn’t quite been the same since gabfest kingpin Johnny Carson left the airwaves in 1992 after a 30-year run, triggering a conga line of supposed successors and would-be heirs that has often resulted in more headlines than one-liners.

Nobody makes action movies with jaw-dropping body counts like they used to, so you’ve got to go back to the 1980s to resavor the experience. The next 35mm triple bill from the “Brew & View” crew offers corpses aplenty on Friday, Dec. 10, at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre,.

Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley is back for off-screen narration duties, but he also pops up in front of the camera.

The world was a different place in 1976 when Carl Jensen, a professor of communications at Sonoma State University, founded Project Censored to highlight important national news stories that were underreported or outright ignored by the mainstream press.