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3 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
The thread is about 1968 not 1967. Not sure why you felt a need to compare years..?
Sorry we hurt your field, Mister.
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1967 may have been better -- and more significant. Plus, it featured three (count 'em) major box-office hits for Sidney Poitier!
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The Canadian actor, writer and producer Peter Aykroyd, who often collaborated with his older brother Dan, died Saturday, the day after his 66th birthday. No immediate information was provided about the cause of death.
Both brothers were alumni of Toronto's Second City comedy troupe.
Aykroyd's passing was revealed with a tribute card on "Saturday Night Live," where he served as a writer and featured player during Season 5 of the late-night sketch show (1979-1980). The card also appeared at the end of a posted tweet of his starring performance in the short film "Java Junkie," written and directed by Tom Schiller,
The Aykroyds conceived the idea for the 1991 horror comedy "Nothing but Trouble," the bizarre tale of a Yuppie couple (Chevy Chase, Demi Moore) arrested for speeding in the small New Jersey town of Valkenvania. The centenarian local judge, Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser (Dan Aykroyd), resembled a cross between Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life" and Frankenstein's monster. The film, which also starred John Candy, was a critical and commercial disappointment -- and earned writer-director Dan a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor.
The younger Aykroyd was a co-creator and co-producer of the Canadian television drama series "Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal," which was syndicated in the United States during the success of FOX's "The X-Files." "Psi Factor" was about the purportedly true cases of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.), a team assigned to look into alleged paranormal occurrences.
Dan Aykroyd served as the host of "Psi Factor," which ran for four seasons (1996-2000).
So sad to hear that Peter Aykroyd passed away. Gilda Radner took me to see him at Second city in Toronto and I was dazzled. What a brilliant improviser.-
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#KingRichard
is headed for a muted debut of $5.95 million, far below original projections that hemmed closer to $10 million. That underperformance likely marks another victim of WB's strategy to simultaneously release its theatrical slate on HBO Max. https://bit.ly/3FyEmuT
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The 2021 #AmericanMusicAwards
will take place on Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, led by five-time AMA winner Cardi B in her hosting debut.
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The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) announced craft winners in nine categories Friday -- a little more than two weeks before the remaining awards are presented at a ceremony in London.
Three awards -- Best Casting, Best Cinematography and Best Sound -- went to Philip Barantini's "Boiling Point," the story of a London restaurant and its workers during a single night.
Also earning three awards was "The Souvenir Part II," the sequel to British filmmaker Joanna Hogg's 2019 autobiographical tale of a star-crossed relationship in the 1980s. The first drama marked the major screen debut of Tilda Swinton's daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, who returns for the second chapter. The film won BIFAs for Best Costume Design, Best Editing and Best Production Design.
The BIFA Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, December 5, 2021.
The complete list of craft winners is as follows:
Best Casting
Shaheen Baig, After Love
Shaheen Baig, Ali & Ava
Shaheen Baig, Pirates
Lucy Bevan, Emily Brockmann, Belfast
Carolyn Mcleod, Boiling Point
Best Cinematography
Mátyás Erdély, The Nest
Magdalena Kowalczyk, Cow
Matthew Lewis, Boiling Point
Annika Summerson, Censor
Haris Zambarloukos, BelfastBest Costume Design
Michael O’Connor, The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Grace Snell, The Souvenir Part II
Guy Speranza, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Annie Symons, Benediction
Charlotte Walter, BelfastBest Music
Iain Cooke, Pirates
Connie Farr, Harry Escott, Ali & Ava
Jed Kurzel, Encounter
Clint Mansell, In The Earth
Van Morrison, BelfastBest Effects
Steven Bray, Mike Knights, Dashcam
Gary Brown, István Molnár, Dan Martin, Censor
Rupert Davies, The Electrical Life Of Louis WainBest Editing
Helle Le Fevre, The Souvenir Part II
Rebecca Lloyd, Jacob Schulsinger, Nicolas Chaudeurge, Cow
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Belfast
Mark Towns, Censor
Ben Wheatley, In The EarthBest Make-Up & Hair
Siobhan Harper-Ryan, The Souvenir Part II
Vickie Lang, Kristyan Mallett, Donald Mcinnes, The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Ruth Pease, Censor
Nadia Stacey, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Wakana Yoshihara, Belfast
Best Production Design
Jim Clay, Belfast
Stéphane Collonge, The Souvenir Part II
Suzie Davies, The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Aimee Meek, Boiling Point
Paulina Rzeszowska, CensorBest Sound
Nicolas Becker, Cyril Holtz, Linda Forsen, Cow
James Drake, Boiling Point
Tim Harrison, Jamie Roden, Adele Fletcher, Censor
Martin Pavey, In The Earth
Andrew Stirk, Paul Davies, Morgan Muse, Bernard O’reilly, Julian Howarth, Encounter-
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Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s Oscar Standings in Mid-November
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HPA Awards: ‘Sound of Metal,’ ‘Black Widow’ Among 2021 Winners
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Everything about black&white surrogate parent drama #CmonCmon seems specific and to have earned its sometimes hard-won appeal. Good to see #JoaquinPhoenix can still play a benign fellow. #WoodyNorman is a real child actor. Too NPRy, but all of #MikeMills' films are.![C'mon C'mon Review: Mike Mills' Film Is Profound, Moving & Beautifully Made [MFF]](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/A24-Cmon-Cmon-Triptych-090321-Large-01-1.jpg)
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#KingRichard has a powerful performance by #AunjanueEllis & an entertainingly irritating one from #WillSmith. The kids who play #Venus & #Serena are topnotch, if overshadowed. Tennis sequences are quite well shot, all the uplift isn't too egregious. Still feels like hagiography.
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#RaduJude's #BadLuckBangingorLoonyPorn is an acid assault on all that's awful about our pandemic, internet and minformation-shattered world. Using a cyclone of techniques and references, Jude eviscerates Romanian society and, by extension, all of modern, unevolved humanity.
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Welsh horror movie #TheFeast pits nature and a weird girl against corrupt bourgie Modernism. Takes awhile to find its bloody footing, but when it does director #LeeHavenJones out #BenWheatleys Wheatley at his own, creepy Celtic game.
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#Pleasure is an outstanding feature debut for #Swedish director #NinjaThyberg and actress #SofiaKappel. A female gaze look at what it takes to make it in L.A.'s porn industry, it plays more matter-of-factly than #BoogieNights and character-coherently than #Starlet.
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#Sundown stars #TimRoth as an English heir gone mysteriously rogue on a family vacation in Acapulco. Mexican provocateur #MichelFranco brings a bit of his #NewOrder social violence to what is otherwise an agreeably hazy, if unsatisfyingly concluded, idyll.
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#PanahPanahi's directing debut #HittheRoad is hardly as accomplished as the work of his father, great auteur #JafarPanahi. But this tale of a bickering family driving to some mysterious rendezvous in the Iranian hinterlands has its moments & certainly shows promise.
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Helen Mirren to Receive SAG Life Achievement Award
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#ThePoweroftheDog's Jane Campion has been selected to receive a Director of the Year prize during the Palm Springs International Film Awards
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‘No Time to Die’ Wins at 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Awards: Full List of Film Music Winners
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NATAS Unveils New Emmys Ceremony Focusing on Children’s and Family Programming
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True Stories of Trials, Triumph and Trailblazers Lead the Best Documentary Feature Race
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LAFCA is very pleased to announce that Mel Brooks will be the recipient of our annual Career Achievement award. We will be voting for the best films and performances of 2021 on Sunday, December 12.-
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Singer-guitarist Billy Hinsche (1951-2021)
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Billy Hinsche, a touring member of The Beach Boys and a former teen idol thanks to his early days in a well-connected band with two second-generation celebrities, died of lung cancer Saturday at the age of 70.
His friend actor Jon Provost, who starred in CBS' "Lassie" series, said Hinsche died on the same day as his 96-year-old mother, Celia.
From 1964 to 1969, the Manila-born Hinsche teamed with longtime Beverly Hills schoolmates Dean Paul Martin (son of Dean and Jeanne Martin) and Desi Arnaz, Jr. (son of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball) in the band Dino, Desi and Billy, which was signed by Frank Sinatra's Reprise record label.
On September 19, 1965, the band appeared on CBS' "The Ed Sullivan Show" to perform "I'm a Fool," which also was the title of their debut album from Reprise. "I'm a Fool," written by Red West -- Elvis' pal --and - "Shindig" TV regular Joey Cooper, peaked at No. 17 on Billboard's pop chart.
Also on "The Ed Sullivan Show," the band performed "Not the Lovin' Kind," which was written by singer-producer Lee Hazlewood, who frequently collaborated with Nancy Sinatra. The song peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard pop chart.
In 1966, the band appeared in "Murderer's Row," the second of four movies starring Dean Martin as espionage agent Matt Helm. In the film, which also featured Ann-Margret, Karl Malden and Camilla Sparv, Dino, Desi and Billy performed the Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart song "If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'."
After Dino, Desi and Billy disbanded in 1969, Hinsche earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television. He also began a productive relationship with The Beach Boys and even performed with individual members of the group. His sister Annie was married to Carl Wilson for a time.
Dean Paul Martin was killed in a military plane crash in 1987, which ended any hopes of a true Dino, Desi and Billy reunion. But Arnaz and Hinsche eventually joined forces with Martin's younger brother Ricci as the trio Ricci, Desi and Billy. Martin died in 2016.