Winkler helps launch panto season
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Henry Winkler joined forces with Mickey Rooney, Joanna Page, Kara Tointon, Chris Fountain and Anthea Turner to launch the pantomime season.
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Oxford Word of The Year: Unfriend
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
While the 2009 Time magazine "Person of the Year" has been narrowed down to either Twitter or the economy (neither are people, you see), the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year has been decided. The winner? “Unfriend.” Unfriend: v. To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. “It has both currency and potential longevity,”...
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'New Moon' Star Kristen Stewart 'Fesses Up To Being 'The Luckiest Person In The World'
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
FROM MTV.COM: Dating all the way back to names like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fatty Arbuckle, Shirley Temple and the Little Rascals, it seems like young overnight Hollywood sensations have been around for as long as Edward Cullen has been a vampire. Some have navigated the choppy waters of fame and gone on to [...]
Explore : Actors and Actresses, Cinema, Entertainment, Fatty Arbuckle, Films, Jodie Foster, Judy Garland, New Moon, Shirley Temple
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Mickey, Troops Honored
Fox News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Beverly Hills Courier's George Christy exclusive: long-time veteran's rights spokesman Mickey Rooney honored along with men and women of the armed services
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Best performance by Steve Martin as Oscars host
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Steve Martin has hosted the Oscars twice in the past — 2003 (honoring films released in 2002) and two years earlier. He did a superb job both times. His shining moment came in 2003 when he singled out Mickey Rooney — who was situated far back in the audience — and said during the opening monologue, "I'm sorry we couldn't get you a better seat, but Vin Diesel is here!" RELATED...
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V (With Spoilers!) -- By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I watched it. I liked it, but didn't quite love it. Some random thoughts and asides in no particular order: 1. I think they rushed it a little too much. They could have spent a little more time playing out the drama, political and emotional, of an alien visit. Having most of the main characters figure out this is a sinister alien invasion and discovering the secret identities of the visitors-in-our-midst...
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Spending actual money on this. The Golden Age of...
Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Spending actual money on this. The Golden Age of Television Synopsis The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed,...
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This week in Television History: November 2009 PART 1
CHILD OF TELEVISION (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Listen to me on TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte Broadcast LIVE every other Monday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio . The program will then be repeated Tuesday thru Sunday at the same time (10pm ET, 7pm PT) on Shokus Radio for the next two weeks, and then will be posted on line at our archives page at TVConfidential.net . As always, the further we go back in Hollywood...
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Oct News - Sat Oct 31
MMT in MK (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
It is 2009 Anno Domini. The MGM heyday of Garland and Rooney is seventy years ago. Seventy . And yet the Mickster is COMING TO MK for Panto this year! I am genuinely excited – maybe I’ll even go to the Panto for the first ever time this year! Just to make the missus happy, you understand. That’s the reason. Nothing to do with some kind of psychological connection with Judy G at all....
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Soupy Sales: Anarchic and pioneering children's TV personality
The Independent (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Although Soupy Sales, who has died aged 83, will inevitably be remembered with a pie in his face, as befits a comedian who took an estimated 20,000 of them during his career, his slapstick brilliance should not overshadow his influence on a whole generation of Americans, including many notable comics who, as adolescents, teenagers, or even young adults in the late 1950s and early 1960s, were enthralled...
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More Fernando Arrabal from Cult Epics: DVD Update 24 October
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
While I'm not a huge fan of Fernando Arrabal, I'll likely check out Cult Epics' Arrabal Collection, Volume 2, which includes some lesser-known works from the director, including Car Cemetery with Juliet Berto and The Emperor of Peru with (um) Mickey Rooney. I normally wouldn't list something like the new Nia Vardalos film, but I guess since I've listed everything else IFC has been releasing, it's only...
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RIP Soupy Sales, the Prince of Pieing
The PETA Files (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
"A pie has to hit … and explode into a thousand pieces so you see the person's face and see it take away his dignity." — Soupy Sales Legendary comedian, television host, and film star Soupy Sales has died at age 83 . The funnyman, who claimed he'd been hit by 20,000 pies in his lifetime, was an inspiration to many animal defenders. Big names like Mickey Rooney , Frank Sinatra,...
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RIP Soupy Sales
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Soupy Sales, the comic whose 1950s-60s ostensible children's show developed a cult following among people of all ages, has died at age 83. As the star of "The Soupy Sales Show," he performed live on television for 13 years in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York before the program went into syndication in the United States and abroad. Ostensibly for children, the show had broad appeal among...
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Comedian Soupy Sales Dead At 83
MTV News (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon. By Gil Kaufman Soupy Sales in 2001 Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country's...