One of my favorite films is The Witches Of Eastwick. It was on TV tonight and it wasn't until I was watching it did I realise why I like it so much. The Character played by Jack Nicholson, Daryl Van Horne, reminds me so much of someone I know and I could very easily be one of the witches http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping into your blog's configuration.
'The closest I've come to death? Dreaming of drowning' Charles Dance , 64, was born in Worcestershire. He attended art college but, having taken acting lessons, went on to join the RSC. In 1984 he appeared in the television drama The Jewel In The Crown . His role in the television adaptation of Bleak House gained him an International Emmy nomination and the Press Guild award for best actor. His major...
The Oscars ceremony is changing its rules to stop the television audience from shrinking, but shunting the honorary awards to an earlier date only serves to make it less relevant, says David Thomson In awarding the Oscars for 2010, the Academy has chosen to give the Irving Thalberg award (its highest individual distinction) to John Calley. Now, you may not know who Calley is, and that is a mark of...
Tom was married to Nicole Kidman from December 1990 to August 2001. They have two adopted children together, Isabella and Connor. He was also married to actress Mimi Rogers from May 1987 to February 1990. view image> > > Tom Cruise: Acting Career In 1981, Tom Cruise gained his first film role: a small part in Endless Love, which starred Brooke Shields. He also had a larger part alongside Sean...
Have you been buying the minor huzz (hype+buzz) ' Robert De Niro 's 7th Oscar nomination' for the holiday film Everybody's Fine ? My friend txt critic saw it last night and sent the following note by phone... it's, well, fine. most definitely a drama ( despite the trailer ) and conceptually a cross between About Schmidt and Four Christmases . nice, sweet and somewhat forgettable. might, MIGHT be a...
The good folks over at Warner Brothers have picked up a new spec comedy script by writers Josh Cagan and Greg Coolidge, titled Dirty Old Men. The script centers around two old "players", one of which has finally met the love of his life, and the other, his best friend and wingman for the past 40 years, who is determined to break the relationship up at any cost. So, just another comedy script,...
Get bought by someone. Get filled with water and placed on top of a partially opened door so that when the next person opens it the water will spill all over their new haircut. Mold wet sand into a sandcastle. Have the Kings of Leon name a song after me. Get thrown up into by the hot girl who drank too much at the party. Serve as a makeshift drum for a down and out street performer. Get stacked inside...
While Sony's Rita Hayworth set got a new release date (23 February) for its delay, no date has been listed for the now-delayed New Hollywood box set , which most notably contains the US DVD premiere of Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said . Sony's Film Noir Classics, Volume 1 released today, but it looks as though Volume 2 has also been postponed indefinitely. Hen's Tooth Video, however, announced the first...
A beloved friend of mine was brutally raped several years ago by an organized crime figure in her city. A serial predator, he used his business front, a restaurant, to lure young women with prospects of working there. Eventually he would get them alone, then viciously assault them, and rape them, like he did my friend. What's more, in addition to the horrific crime itself, he went even further in...
The great maverick filmmaker Alexander Payne has worked with some great ones -- launching Reese Witherspoon with Election, bouncing Giamatti, Sandra Oh (the then Mrs. Payne) and Thomas Haden Church with Sideways, making Jack Nicholson do a lot more than...
Ok, I know that the witching hour is over, and we are now down to slowly working our way through two metric tons of left over candy. Evan though it is a few days late, I thought I would finish up the Homes Near Halloween Movies countdown. So, without further ado... #3 - The Birds This movie not only being one of the best Hitchcock movies, this is one of the best movies of all time. What is more freakier...
Morgan Freeman is ready to be in a new movie tentatively titled Dirty Old Men, with hopes of Jack Nicholson joining in. Warner Bros. is pre-emptively picking up an untitled comedy spec by Josh Cagan and Greg Coolidge to which Morgan Freeman is attached to star and Peter Segal is eyeing to direct. Lori McCreary, Freeman’s producing [...]
While Morgan Freeman has dabbled in comedy in his long and illustrious career, I don't think he's ever really gotten a chance to really cut loose. He certainly hasn't gotten to play in the raunchy end of the pool, but it sounds as though he's taking the leap in Dirty Old Men . The Hollywood Reporte r says that he's attached to star as an aging playboy in the tentatively titled project, and we'll either...
Warner Bros. has picked up the spec comedy script DIRTY OLD MEN with hopes of reuniting the BUCKET LIST team of Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson to star. As of now, only Freeman is attached to the film with Nicholson not yet committing (he is reportedly "aware" of the film). The script, written by Josh Cagan and Greg Coolidge, is described as a WEDDING CRASHERS type comedy about aging playboys,...