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By Dave Larsen
Staff Writer
DAYTON ? With apologies to "Iron Man" and "Indiana Jones," the biggest movies this summer are playing at the Victoria Theatre.
The 2008 Ultra Cool Film series announced today, April 14, features the sweeping Hollywood epics "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago." The lineup also includes the lavish musicals "The King and I" and "Hello, Dolly!"
Ultra Cool Films, the Victoria Theatre Association's annual summer movie series, present celluloid classics on weekends from June 27 to Aug. 24.
Other highlights include "A Hard Day's Night," "Cool Hand Luke" and a weekend of Audrey Hepburn classics.
Beatles fans who attend "A Hard Day's Night" on Aug. 22 could be among the first to purchase tickets for "RAIN: The Beatles Experience." The opening production of the 2008-2009 Chase Broadway Series, "RAIN: The Beatles Experience" will perform Dec. 10-21 at the Victoria Theatre.
Ultra Cool Films attracts more than 15,000 movie buffs annually to watch vintage films on the Victoria's big screen.
The series began in 1992 as Hot Times, Cool Films before changing its name in 2004.
Films are shown at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays at the Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St.
The films are preceded by a free organ concert on the NCR Mighty Wurlitzer and a classic cartoon. Free popcorn and soda are available in the lobby starting one hour before show time.
Series passbooks with 10 tickets, usable in any combination for the 2008 series, are $24 and will go on sale in May. Passbooks will be available at the Schuster Center box office, 1 W. Second St. Passbooks will be sold by phone at (937) 228-3630 or online at www.ticketcenterstage.com.
Individual tickets are $4.75, available at the Victoria Theatre box office starting two hours before each film.
_*2008 Ultra Cool Film Series*_
*June 27-29: "The King and I"*
*July 4-6: "Lawrence of Arabia"*
*July 11-13: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"*
*July 18-20: "Cool Hand Luke"*
*July 25-27: "Little Women"*
*Aug. 1-3: "Doctor Zhivago"*
*Aug. 8: "Sabrina"*
*Aug. 9: "Charade"*
*Aug. 10: "Roman Holiday"*
*Aug. 15-17: "Hello, Dolly!"*
*Aug. 22-24: "A Hard Day's Night"*
? Learn more about the Ultra Cool Film Series
http://www.activedayton.com/dayton/content/oh/index/entertainment/movies/featured/coolfilms/
The 2008 Ultra Cool Film Series at the Victoria Theatre presents classic films on weekends from: June 27 to Aug. 24, 2008!
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*HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE RUSSELL!!!*
Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota, she was the only daughter of Roy William Russell (January 5, 1890 ? July 18, 1937) and Geraldine Jacobi (January 2, 1891 ? December 26, 1986). Her four younger brothers are Thomas Ferris Russell (born April 16, 1924), Kenneth Steven Russell (born September 2, 1925), James Hyatt Russell (born February 9, 1927) and Wallace Jay Russell (born January 31, 1929).
In 1940, Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by millionaire Howard Hughes and made her motion picture debut in _"The Outlaw"_ (1943).
*THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!!!!*
_*Best Films:*_
Son of Paleface
Macao
The Las Vegas Story
The Outlaw
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The French Line
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Johnny Reno
Underwater!
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
The Tall Men
Paleface (1948)
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell putting their footprints in cement for posterity!
Mitch and Jane!
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I met Celeste Holm when she came to the Denver Jewish Film Fest to do a Q&A about her film "Gentleman's Agreement". We talked for about 10 minutes (Nice lady!) and she even signed my DVD copy.
At the Denver Film Festival in 1999 I got to meet James Coburn when was there to get a Lifetime Achievement Award. Very nice man.
At the Denver Film Festival in 2000 I got to meet Shirley MacLaine when she also was there to get a Lifetime Achievement Award. They did a retrospective of her films, & a Q&AW./the audience.Very nice lady. In the lobby after the Q&A, I bumbed into her, we talked about "The Apartment". She had some very funny stories to tell.
I was a Air Force Brat, and my mother always tells the story abot how when we lived in Las Vegas in the late 1970's, we were in the grocery store and I met Barbara Eden.
The television series "The Magician" was filmed in Las Vegas at the time we lived there. My mother was an extra in several of the episodes.
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6/20/2008 AFP
PARIS ? French film-maker Jean Delannoy, prize-winner at the 1946 Cannes film festival for La symphonie pastorale (Pastoral Symphony), has died at age 100, his family said yesterday.
The actor-turned-director gained prominence for his screen adaptations of literary classics such as the 1943 version of L'eternel retour (Love Eternal) produced with Jean Cocteau. He also directed US actor Anthony Quinn and Italian bombshell Gina Lollobrigida in Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in 1956. Delannoy died late Wednesday at his home in the town of Guainville.
A director of more than 30 films, Delannoy was harshly criticised by the younger generation of new wave filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut who dismissed his work as lacklustre "poetic realism." His best-known work, "La symphonie pastorale" was awarded the Grand prize at Cannes in 1946. President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to Delannoy, saying he was "a huge director who successfully devoted his life to his passion for art and contributed to our country's cultural influence."
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The Associated Press - Jun 19, 2008
PARIS (AP) ?
*Classic French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in 1946, has died at age 100, officials said Thursday.*
Delannoy died Wednesday at his home in Guainville, southwest of Paris, the local city hall said, without providing the cause of death.
Many of Delannoy's films, starring actors including Jean Gabin, Jean Marais and Michele Morgan, were French box office successes in the 1940s and 1950s.
But Delannoy's classic style went out of fashion in the 1960s, when he was derided by the more avant-garde New Wave filmmakers, including Francois Truffaut. The New Wave dubbed his movies "le cinema de papa."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Delannoy for "devoting his life, with success, to his passion for art."
"More than just a great artist, he was a man of great intelligence, alert, pertinent and faithful in friendship," Sarkozy said in a statement.
Culture Minister Christine Albanel said Delannoy represented the "pure classic French style: a mix of refinement and depth inherited from his long companionship with literature."
Working with a script by Jean Cocteau, Delannoy revisited the Tristan and Isolde legend in 1943's "L'Eternel Retour" (Eternal Return.)
His 1946 film "La Symphonie Pastorale," adapted from a Gide novel, won Cannes' top prize. The film told the story of a blind orphan who falls in love with a married pastor.
Another of his films was "Notre Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), an adaptation of Hugo's novel starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn.
Information about funeral arrangements was not immediately available.
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Jun 19, 2008
The A&T Real Yellow Summer Movie Magic classic film series kicks off June 22, 2008 at the Tennessee Theatre and there's a special event planned for the first film of the series, "*_Thunder Road_*".
To mark the 50th anniversary of the classic film, The East Tennessee Region Antique Automobile Club of America will display period cars and reenact the film's famous chase scene.
In attendance will be James Mitchum, son of actor Robert Mitchum. James Mitchum also co-starred in the film which is about moonshining and is partly inspired by a deadly accident in Knoxville on Kingston Pike.
The movie times are 3 & 7pm. The celebration will also include originial trailers, vintage local ad and classic film previews.
There will also be a Question and Answer event at 5:30 at the East Tennessee History center, across the street from the Tennessee Theatre. Folks can talk with author Alex Gabbard who wrote the book, Return to Thunder Road.
Single tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for youth ages 12 and under and seniors 60 and over, plus $2 per-ticket service fee for tickets purchased online and by phone.
Series subscriptions are available for $40.50 adults, $30 youth/senior (plus $1 per-ticket service fee). Tickets are available at the Tennessee Theatre box office, by phone at 684-1200 or in the online gift shop!
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*You know I think you're the only girl in the world who can stand on a stage with a spotlight in her eye and still see a diamond inside a man's pocket.*
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"!!
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Hollywood will enshrine an eclectic bunch in its famous curbside Walk of Fame next year, including Hugh Jackman, Ben Kingsley, The Village People and fictional Tinker Bell.
Recipients of the sidewalk stars also include Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Cameron Diaz, Robert Downey Jr., Tim Burton, Leslie Caron, Charles Durning, Ralph Fiennes, William Petersen, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, Mark Burnett, Chuck Lorre, Kenny "Baby Face" Edmonds, Dave Koz, The Miracles, Doug Morris, Rush, Shakira, KFI radio personality Bill Handel and KCRW host Harry Shearer, who also provides voices for characters on "The Simpsons."
Cheeta isn't on the list. The animal actor, whose credits include the 1967 comedy "Doctor Dolittle" and the "Tarzan" movies, was trying for the seventh time to get a sidewalk star.
His handlers had launched an online petition to get supporters to urge the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to give him a star in 2009.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GoCheeta/
Go Cheeta - Petition
Guinness World Records has called the 76-year-old chimp the oldest living, non-human primate. Cheeta is retired and lives in Palm Springs.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's Walk of Fame Committee chose the recipients, who were ratified by the board of directors Thursday.
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*Some of these names I agree W./..(Congrats to Robert Downey Jr.!).*
*Others I don't think deserve a "Star" on the walk of fame!*
*Hmmm...Hugh Jackman..Why? Crappy actor! John Stamos.....LOL!!! ROFL!!*
*Some of these names are ...well desperate!*
*Do you agree ..or disagree!?!??!.*
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June 19, 2008
Last time around, the Oscar songs category was three times "Enchanted" ? a trick that may never be repeated.
The number of original songs that can be nominated from a single movie will now be limited to two, according to a rule change by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The academy's governors approved the change late Tuesday.
Last year, Disney's "Enchanted" had three titles in contention: "Happy Working Song," "So Close" and "That's How You Know."
The winner of best original song: "Falling Slowly," from "Once."
The new rule would also have applied in 2007, when three songs from "Dreamgirls" were nominated. That year, the Oscar went to "I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth."
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*In tribute to Cyd Charisse, one of the great MGM musical stars, TCM is changing the schedule on the evening of Friday, June 27th, 2008 to feature three of her finest films:*
5:00pm Singin? in the Rain
7:00pm The Band Wagon
9:00pm Silk Stockings
All Times are Arizona Time (PT) ...So Please Check your area!
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*In tribute to *Cyd Charisse*, one of the great MGM musical stars, TCM is changing the schedule on the evening of *Friday, June 27th, 2008* to feature three of her finest films:*
5:00pm Singin? in the Rain
7:00pm The Band Wagon
9:00pm Silk Stockings
All Times are Arizona Time (PT) ...So Please Check your area!
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*Jayne Mansfield!!*
*Others Would Be:*
*Tom Ewell*
*Mae West*
*Helen Twelvetrees*
*Fred MacMurray*
*Elsa Lanchester*
*Ray Milland*
*Richard Burton*
*Gregory Peck*
*Montgomery Clift*
*Mercedes McCambridge*
*Celeste Holm*
*Grace Kelly*
*Tallulah Bankhead*
*Kim Hunter*
*Jennifer Jones*
*Spring Byington*
*Deborah Kerr*
*Sharon Tate*
*Anthony Perkins*
*Rock Hudson*
*Spring Byington*
*But ...Marilyn Monroe.....more than anybody!!*
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High Voltage (1929)
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Starring: William Boyd, *Carole Lombard*, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Billy Bevan.
Honey West (1965)
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Starring: Anne Francis, John Ericson, Irene Hervey, Don Gazzaniga, Ken Lynch
BONUS FEATURES:
Vintage Commercials
Anne Francis Photo Gallery
Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery
Second Chance (1950)
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Starring: Hugh Beaumont, Ruth Warrick, John Hubbard, David Holt, Pat Combs, Ellye Marshall.
BONUS FEATURE:
"Second Chance at Second Chance" with film historian Dion Conflict
Isle Of Destiny (1940)
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Starring: William Gargan, Wallace Ford, June Lang, Gilbert Roland, Etienne Girardot, Katherine DeMille, Grant Richards
Missing Girls (1936)
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Starring: Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Ann Doran, George Cooper
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*L.A. Confidential Gets a Blu-Ray Upgrade on September 23rd, 2008!*
Special Features
- Commentary by Andrew Sarris
- Music Only Track
- Trailers and TV Spots
- Showest
- Nite Owl Action
- Hollywood
- Theatrical Trailer
- Soundtrack Promo
- Whatever You Desire: Making L.A.Confidential
- Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of L.A.Confidential
- A True Ensemble: The Cast of L.A.Confidential
- L.A.Confidential: From Book to Screen
- Off the Record
- Photo Pitch
- The L.A.of L.A.Confidential Hollywood Center Motel
- Formosa Cafe
- Sid Hudgen's Office
- Victory Motel
- Bidwell's Office
- Nick's Liquor
- Lynn Bracken's House
- Frolic's Room
- Pierce Patchett's House
- Movie Premiere Pot Bust
- Mrs. Leffert's House
- Nite Owl Cafe
- Navarette's Hole-up
- Fitch House
- City Hall
- L.A.Confidential [2000 TV Pilot]
Thought You would like this info!?.
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*Six Classic James Bond Films Come to Blu-Ray on October 21st, 2008!*
You can enjoy six 007 classics on Blu-Ray before the new Bond adventure hits the theaters. The James Bond films: _Dr. No, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love and Thunderball_ will all be released on Blu-Ray on October 21, 2008!
No cover art, pricing or special features details have been listed as of yet.
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Not surprisingly, Alfred Hitchcock dominated the mystery category. Besides "Vertigo," he landed three others on that top-10 list: "Rear Window" at number 3, "North By Northwest" at number 7 and "Dial M for Murder" at number 9.
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Other I would like to see:
Sterling Hayden
George Raft
Yul Brynner
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_*"The Border"*_ W./ Jack Nicholson will be shown on Encore Mystery
Thursday, June 19th @ 12:10am Arizona (PT) Time!
"The Border" (1982)
Directed by Tony Richardson
Stars: Jack Nicholson as Charlie Smith, Warren Oates as Red (in one of his final film roles) and Harvey Keitel as Cat.
Smith takes a job as a US Border Patrol agent, Red & Cat are veteran agents at already assigned to the station. While attempting to enforce the law, Charlie Smith (Nicholson's character) discovers corruption and a black market system within the force. While trying to support a free-spending wife (Valerie Perrine), he succumbs to the fringe benefits revealed to him by his fellow agent Cat. When Nicholson discovers the depth of what he has become involved in, he is forced to make a deadly decision.
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*!!!Rock Hudson!!* I'm tired of TCM only playing the Doris Day & Rock Hudson films...I would like to see more of his films!
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New Word.....Ponderosa
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drizzle ....Rain W./Joan Crawford!
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*E. G. Marshall was a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor who co-starred in the 1957 movie: "12 Angry Men". Two of his better known TV roles are those of lawyer, Lawrence Preston on: "The Defenders" in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon, Dr. David Craig on : "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" in the 1970s.*
*Thanks for the memories!*
*Best Films:*
Call Northside 777
The Caine Mutiny
12 Angry Men
The Silver Chalice
The Buccaneer
Town Without Pity
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Creepshow
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
My Chauffeur
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New Word............Argentina!
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Criteria ....Gilda
Who Would You Like to See Featured as Star of the Month?
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*Vivian Blaine*......(At 20th Century Fox, she was known as the cherry blonde because of her extraordinary hair color as shown in Technicolor.)!