Fried Green Tomatoes

Just as we have begun to emerge from our pandemic shelter in place quarters, we have been rewarded by TCM and Fathom Events with the […]

Kathy Bates is ready to leave Hollywood behind – after one last hoorah. Bates, whose decades-long acting career has earned her an Oscar and a […]

The 1991 film “Fried Green Tomatoes” is beloved by Alabamians. The book on which it was based, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café,” […]

Recently while enjoying some fried green tomatoes with a friend, I was reminded of another West Tennessee woman and her connection to this epic summer […]

Fewer than 300 people live in Juliette, Ga., a small community located about 10 miles east of Exit 187 on Interstate 75. Yet, on any […]

There are one-stoplight towns and one-stop sign towns. Juliette, Ga., is more of a one-street town. McCrackin Street, which stops at a railroad track beside […]

After Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) was released and became a box office hit and a critical darling, the film’s main actors took different turns in […]

For more than three decades, “Fried Green Tomatoes” has endured as one of the South’s favorite films thanks to the touching story, larger-than-life characters and […]

Whenever I talk to younger queer people about how little LGBT representation there was in movies and on TV when I was a closeted teenager […]

Jessica Tandy was nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Supporting Actress” at the 64th Academy Awards (1992) for her role as Mrs. Ninny […]