ShopCurious (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I once asked the film director, Oliver Stone, to name his favourite film. Mr Stone has a reputation for being something of a misogynist and probably needed no excuse to look down his nose and sneer at my “stupid question”, telling me in no uncertain terms that he had “hundreds” of favourite films. Well, so do I, but I can say with absolute certainty that Sweet Charity is, without...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) : Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, the first of two children of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Christie's father ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up. ... She first gained notice as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous Billy Liar (1963) played by Tom Courtenay...
LAist (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Photo by chris787flickr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Spike Jonze Signs Heads On & We Shoot: The Making Of Where The Wild Things Are @ Family Fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Spike Jonze will want to head to FAMILY at 5 this evening as the famed director signs copies of his book Heads On & We Shoot: The Making Of Where The Wild Things Are . About the book, via FAMILY's...
Madalina Nicolescu Violist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Halfway through the day we freeze a movie halfway through . What do we see? Doris Mann: Have you known Suzanne long? Jack Faulkner: Ah, lets see. we've known each other about a month. It seems like longer, though. Doris: Oh, I know what you mean. I'm her mother and it seems like longer. Fifty minutes into Postcards From the Edge (1990), Jack ( Dennis Quaid ) has dropped by to pick up Suzanne Vale (...
Ready Set Fashion (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Winona Ryder Andie MacDowell Farrah Fawcett Jennifer Jason Leigh Shirley MacLaine Janet Jackson Isabella Rossellini Kelly Lynch Julia Roberts Meg Ryan Issue: Harper's Bazaar September 1990 Story: America's 10 Most Beautiful Women Photographed by Matthew Rolston and Rico Puhlmann VS. Issue: Elle November 2009 Story: Women In Hollywood Photographed by Various Katie Holmes Renee Zellweger Robin Wright...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
It's not like, after Deadgirl , we needed proof that Trent Haaga had a pair of stones on him. The scribe of one of the more controversial and talked-about films of recent years, Haaga is about to step behind the camera to make his directorial debut with a revenge thriller he also co-wrote and - in his very first time out of the gate - he is openly inviting comparisons to Fargo and Oldboy . and that,...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
As promises go, this is so good you have to say it twice: A revival of "Promises, Promises," starring Kristin Chenoweth (left) and Sean Hayes (right), is planned for a Broadway opening in April 2010. Point Park's Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph the musical, which is based on the Academy Award-winning movie "The Apartment." It's a show with great pedigree: a book by Neil...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Soupy Sales was a big star of children's television when I was a kid: Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83. Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had...
Stubborn Liberal (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The DSCC has revealed the GOP plan ( You Tube ): > > > Did you catch former Vice President Dick Cheney's latest rage against the Obama administration? I never agree with Cheney. His recent speech continued to tout his support of the enhanced techniques he supported for enemy combatants. Cheney appeared ill. He was stooped over a podium and breathing heavily. Despite the fact that he looked...
On Transmigration (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Back in the day everyone from age 8 to 80 loved Soupy Sales. His schtick of slightly off-colour jokes and innuendo was priceless. Here's one last pie in the face: DETROIT – Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83. Sales died Thursday night...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
American comedian SOUPY SALES has died at the age of 83.The funnyman, who famously threw pies at celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MACLaine,...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
while reading some trivia on jack nicholson i came to the same conclusion as the rest of the world. jack is very cool. though shy of t.v. appearances he has offered some interesting thoughts about acting and being a star to the press. for years he shared a driveway with marlon brando and worships the guy: 'So I mean it when I say that if you can't appreciate Brando, I wouldn't know how to talk to you....
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
6 tonight TCM In this 1961 drama based on Lillian Hellman's play, Audrey Hepburn (left) stars as a teacher at a private girls school where a child's vindictive lie could destroy her. With Shirley MacLaine, James Garner (right).
SevenMinutesToMidnight (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
I recorded this afternoon , and watched the rest of this evening the 1961 film The Children's Hour , from a play by Lillian Hellman , and featuring a very committed performance by Shirley Maclaine , and a somewhat half-hearted one by Audrey Hepburn , as two schoolteachers falsely accused of , apparently , the worst sin imaginable : Lesbianism . When a drama , or 'melodrama' is done really well it can...
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