The Drunkablog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
WWIIinHD on the History Channel? Wow. And told, amazingly, in a pro-American style. And IN COLOR! (Mostly.) Actually I hate the History Channel, but this is something else. My first dose of color WWII footage--the theatrical release of famed H-wood director George Stevens' footage, " D-Day to Berlin "--was back in the late 80s. This is much better.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto,...
io9 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We spoke with the new Number Six, and let him take us inside the Gitmo Disneyland that is AMC's Prisoner remake. And he explains how he and Ian McKellen pretty much improved a large chunk of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 8 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies STEADY: Ariel's boyfriend (Matt Prokop, left) is suspected of a murder investigated by Scanlon and Allison (David Cubitt, Patricia...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
“I say, you’re a very attractive woman!”—Ralph Richardson, star of Long Day’s Journey Into Night , after dancing with co-star Katharine Hepburn at the film’s wrap party, quoted in A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered (2003) Richardson made his comment in 1962, but you can get an idea what he was talking about 20 years before, in this iconic image from Woman of the Year...
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Astaire and Rogers, poetry in motion. Swing Time , 1936 might be the best of the nine RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals. The plot is paper thin—Astaire plays a gambler and dancer who must earn $25,000 in order to win a bride—but the dance numbers, choreographed by Astaire and Hermes Pan, are luminous. “Waltz in Swing Time” is an incredibly complicated routine a “syncopated...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
WASHINGTON — The White House is enlisting "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama's arts initiatives.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
U.S. President BARACK OBAMA is sexing up his administration - he has named SEX AND THE CITY star SARAH JESSICA PARKER as a member of his new Arts...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Movie ballyhoo is in good shape this Halloween season. The made-for-$10,000 Paranormal Activity has become a runaway hit, thanks to clever Internet marketing. “Chaos reigns” T-shirts are being hawked (or foxed) outside theaters showing Antichrist. The timing of The William Castle Film Collection on DVD couldn’t be better, though Castle, the master of promotional [...]
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Another more recognized than well known character actor has departed the planet with the passing of the apparently born-middle-aged Lou Jacobi at the age of 95. In a town full of Jewish actors and behind-the-camera talent, Jacobi and the late Ned Glass, who was as skinny as Jacobi was chubby and who made a recent [...]
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
In the nineteen-fifties, Fred Zinnemann (“High Noon”) and George Stevens (“Shane”) tried to freeze the Western genre into a single archetypal film, while directors like Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann were taking it in bitter new directions. “Ride the High Country,” Sam Peckinpah . . .
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Lloyd Grove attended Gore Vidal’s talk here last night, and re-capped the night at The Daily Beast . Comedian Richard Belzer was there as to lend his support to Vidal. Grove reports Belzer told him: “I’m here as a Jew who knows he’s not an anti-Semite,” Belzer told me about his friend. And if anyone says different? “I’m going to kick their ass,” he vowed....
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
by James Scott Bell I love a good Western. This uniquely American genre sums up our collective spirit better than any other. In fact, the decline in the popularity of Westerns seems to track right along with the fragmentation of our society. So a look back at the classics (I'm not into post-modern revisionist oaters) is also a look back at ourselves, as we were, silhouetted against the horizon. Maybe...
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
MARFA, Texas – Actor Randy Quaid and his wife have been arrested in West Texas for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 California hotel bill. Quaid and his wife, Evi, were taken into custody Thursday afternoon, according to Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials, who said authorities in West Texas informed them of the arrest. A statement [...]
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
A prominent movie and television producer, a New York theater producer and a high-ranking university arts scholar are headed to Washington to join the president's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. President Obama today said that he made the...
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