Lights. Cameras. Birthday Action (for this, the 30th of November). Only one month left to go and it's 2010. How crazy is that? Ridley, Terrence (in the 70s) and Marc 1835 Mark Twain 's books have been adapted into movies ever since the movies began. Most notably The Prince and the Pauper and any tale of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer 1920 Virginia Mayo 40s and 50s star, frequent Danny Kaye foil 1926 Richard...
We are nearing the end of another decade. Just one month to go before we are transported into 2010.There were a lot of huge movies that came out in the past 10 years such as The Dark Knight, The Lord...
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November 2, 2009 Polanski/Goldberg/rape posts Source: (10-26) The Atlantic JOHN MERONEY This is disgusting. Not only that Vidal would think and say such a thing but that the Atlantic would print it. His words speak for themselves. The 13 y/o Polanski raped was a hooker and Polanksi was wrongly accused because of anti-Semitism. JOHN MERONEY: In September, director Roman [...]
There is a story in the new print edition of Paris Match in which "The French Elvis", Johnny Hallyday seeks to dispel recent rumours about his ill health and ease the French public's concerns over one of their living national treasures. As well as promising we've far from seen the last of him yet, Hallyday goes on to tease some potential big screen appearances for the future. Hallyday, if...
Bonnie and Clyde, those iconic, felonious sweethearts, whose Depression-era crime spree tantalized the dark side of America’s imagination, have returned from the great tabloid beyond to prove their mythical appeal still has juice. And the occasion provides an opportunity to...
By FRANK RICH NYT AT last the American right and left have one issue they unequivocally agree on: You don’t actually have to read Sarah Palin’s book to have an opinion about it. Last Sunday Liz Cheney praised “Going Rogue” as “well-written” on Fox News even though, by her own account, she had sampled only “parts” of it. On Tuesday, Ana Marie Cox, a correspondent...
Today is the 109th anniversary of one Chester Gould the creator of Dick Tracy. Every time Dick Tracy (1990) comes up, I think "you should watch that movie again!" but I never do. I think I'm still mad that Warren Beatty kept cutting away from Madonna's "More" performance... which should've easily been one of the best movie musical numbers of the 90s (sigh). Otherwise I quite like...
In 2008, honorary Oscar winner Robert Boyle, an art director responsible for many Hitchcock films including North by Northwest and The Birds, gave a fabulous over three minute acceptance speech thanking countless people. The guy was 98 years old at the time, so he deserved some time to say his peace. (I checked and [...]
• The inaugural edition of the Governors Awards took place Saturday night in a ballroom not far from the Kodak Theatre where the academy holds the Oscars every year. Showcasing the honorary awards in a separate ceremony allowed the recipients -- absentee Thalberg winner John Calley and honorary Oscar winners Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis (at right) -- to be feted in style rather...
Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences broke with tradition and presented its honorary Oscars off-camera Saturday night, months ahead of the televised ceremony in March.
Let me begin by telling you what this book is not. It is not an LDS mystery or romance; it is not an LDS conversion story; and it is not an exposé of unsavory secret Mormon practices. Elna Baker is a single, Mormon comedian living in New York City and this is her story of how she tries to reconcile her belief system with the social practices of the Big Apple. Throughout the memoir, Baker shares...
Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.
Movie mogul JOHN CALLEY missed out on one of the biggest evenings of his life on Saturday (14Nov09) - because he was too ill to attend the Governors Awards gala in...