Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eric Thal and Melanie Griffith in the “essential” A Stranger Among Us . Over at Bang it Out, a Jewish website, film critic Jordan Hiller has, for the past few weeks, been compiling a list of The 25 Essential Jewish Movies. His selections are limited to films that are easily available for rental or purchase. Thus, he focuses exclusively on modern and contemporary movies. Naturally, the...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ron Hogan is Tweeting the National Book Awards: GalleyCat Gore Vidal has just name-checked Sidney Lumet, Harry Cohn, & Orson Welles in the space of ten seconds, then segued to Afghanistan. #nba09
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Making 'Into the Wild' gave the actor something he needed -- confidence. Now, he has star billing. It took Hal Holbrook more than 40 years, but he's finally starting to feel comfortable acting in movies -- and he has Sean Penn to thank for that.
Olsen Twins NEWS (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
"megan fox" - Google News Steven Zeitchik: Reporter -- Entertainment Los Angeles Times ... knowledgeably about such divergent topics as the talents of Sidney Lumet, the cult of Megan Fox and the latest cliffhanger in the Weinstein Co. saga. ... Read full article at "megan fox" - Google News Tweet this
Readers' Representative Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Here's the announcement to the staff from Sallie Hofmeister, assistant managing editor; and Craig Turner, arts and entertainment editor: We are pleased to announce that Steven Zeitchik is joining The Times’ entertainment team as a reporter and blogger assigned to...
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
- When you have an animation studio, and you have to keep paying the overhead, you end up taking some pretty unusual jobs. I once had a man who thought his poodle would make a great talk-show host. He wanted us to produce a talking poodle trailer which he would release on YouTube. The Royce [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
TV News: Worked on Frost-Nixon TV interview specials -- Marvin Minoff, a producer who worked with David Frost on the historic Richard Nixon TV interview specials and had a long partnership with Mike Farrell, has died. He was 78.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Obituary: Worked on Frost-Nixon TV interview specials -- Marvin Minoff, a producer who worked with David Frost on the historic Richard Nixon TV interview specials and had a long partnership with Mike Farrell, has died. He was 78.
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Films By Matthew Rovner www.forward.com | October 21, 2009, issue of October 30, 2009 Arch Oboler’s “This Precious Freedom” (1942) is the first film ever made about a Nazi takeover of the United States. It was suppressed by its producer, an automaking company better known today for financial than moral bankruptcy: General Motors Corp. Broadly, Oboler was to radio what Rod Serling...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
OSCARS HOSTS Why Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to host Oscars? Well, it's complicated. Will Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin be winning Oscars hosts? Forum commenters divided over Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin as Oscars hosts Flashback: Oscars hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin on 'SNL' Best performance by Steve Martin as Oscars host Not so complicated: Meryl Streep wasn't asked to join costars as Oscars...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sidney Lumet's The Verdict turns on a bullshit premise-- an attorney can't refuse a reasonable cash settlement if that's what his/her client is looking to get -- but I love it anyway, especially for (a) the Boston-Irish flavorings, (b) Jack Warden, (c) that straight-whiskey, pinball-machine opening, (d) Edward Binns, (e) James Mason's face when he realizes his case has just collapsed in the face of...
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Don’t misunderstand: Hal Holbrook is very happy and deeply grateful to receive the prestigious Excellence in Acting award next week at the Starz Denver Film Festival . But if you push the Emmy- and Tony-winning living legend on the subject, he’ll suggest that maybe, just maybe, the prize is a tad premature, because he considers himself, at 84, still a student of his art. “Even now,”...
Lunch Time For Bears (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sidney Lumet's 1976 film Network and the television show 30 Rock offer very different satirical portrayals of network television and their multi-national parent corporations. The most obvious (and perhaps most important) difference between the two pieces is that while Network exists in a world amongst the NBCs and the ABCs, it depicts a fictional network and parent corporation. Conversely, 30
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Like lots of Quentin Tarantino flicks, "Inglourious Basterds" has so many outrageous, quirky elements that it could easily qualify in the comedy categories at the Golden Globes, but the Weinstein Co. will opt for drama. Ultimate classification will be determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s qualification committee, but it usually defers to what Harvey and Quentin want. Both installments...
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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