CelluloidKid
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falconry .... _Excalibur_ (1981)
*NEW WORD: Ash Wednesday!*
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*_California Split_ (1974)*
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*Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dead at 76*
*Lawmaker inspired film; pushed for U.S. funding of Afghan rebels in 1980s*
The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
*Charlie Wilson, the former U.S. congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," has died. He was 76.*
Wilson died Wednesday at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, she said.
Wilson represented the 2nd district in east Texas in the U.S. House from 1973 to 1996 and was known as "Good Time Charlie" when he was in Washington.
Actor Tom Hanks portrayed Wilson in the 2007 movie about Wilson's efforts to arm Afghani mujahedeen during their war against the Soviet Union. Wilson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, helped secure money for weapons.
In 2007, Wilson had a heart transplant at a Houston hospital. Doctors had told Wilson, who suffered from cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes an enlarged and weakened heart, that he would likely die without a transplant.
Charlie was perfect as a congressman, perfect as a state representative, perfect as a state senator. He was a perfect reflection of the people he represented. If there was anything wrong with Charlie, I never did know what it was," said Charles Schnabel Jr., who served for seven years as Wilson's chief of staff in Washington and worked with Wilson when he served in the Texas Senate.
Schnabel said he had just been with Wilson a few weeks ago for the dedication of the Charlie Wilson chair for Pakistan studies at the University of Texas, Austin, a $1 million endowment. He said Wilson had been doing "very good."
"He had the heart transplant in September 2007 and he recovered and he said quote, 'he was a poster boy for heart transplants.' He was doing very well. He was taken a whole lot of medicine," Schnabel said.
Ogletree said Wilson is survived by his wife and a sister.
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*Joan Crawford TCM Febuary 2010!! All Times Eastern. Check Local Schedules!*
*Fri, Feb 12, 10:30 AM _Our Dancing Daughters_ (1928)*
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*Happy 20th Anniversary: Goodfellas (1990)!!*
_Goodfellas_ (also styled GoodFellas) is a 1990 American semi-fictional crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of three gangsters, spanning three decades.
*_Awards_*
Goodfellas was nominated for six Academy Awards including Joe Pesci for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Lorraine Bracco for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Picture (however famously lost to Dances With Wolves), Scorsese for Best Director, Thelma Schoonmaker for Best Film Editing, and Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi for Best Adapted Screenplay.
When Joe Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the only Academy Award the film won), his entire speech was "This is an honor and a privilege, thank you".It is one of the shortest Oscar-acceptance speech, after William Holden's, who simply said, "Thank you", upon winning for Stalag 17, and Alfred Hitchcock's ("Thank you" and other unintelligible words) when he received an Honorary Oscar. Later, Pesci admitted that he did not say more, because "I really didn't think I was going to win".
Goodfellas was nominated for five Golden Globes including Best Director, Best Motion Pictures, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. It failed to win any of these awards. Scorsese's film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The New York Film Critics Circle voted Goodfellas the Best Film of 1990, Robert De Niro was named Best Actor for his performance in the film and in Awakenings, and Scorsese was voted Best Director.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association also voted Scorsese as Best Director, GoodFellas as Best Film, awards for Pesci and Bracco as Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively, and Best Cinematography to Michael Ballhaus for his work on the film.
The National Board of Review voted Pesci as Best Supporting Actor.
The National Society of Film Critics voted Goodfellas Best Film of 1990 and Scorsese as Best Director.
American Film magazine declared Goodfellas the best film of 1990 according to a poll of 80 movie critics.
*Goodfellas [20th Anniversary Edition] ? Blu-ray Disc Review*
February 6, 2010 ? 12:41 AM --- by: Justin Sluss
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minature oil well .... _Giant_ (1956)
*NEW WORD: Drive-in!*
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Abe Vigoda ws in: _The Godfather: Part II_ (1974) directed by Francis Ford Coppola!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Coppola!*
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*Davis, Bette*
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*_Queens Logic_ (1991)* - Being An Adult: New York City Style!
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Marie Windsor was in: _Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy_ (1955) directed by: Charles Lamont!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Charles Lamont!*
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*Rainbow ..... _The Muppet Movie_ (1979)* - "Rainbow Connection" song!
*NEW WORD: Love!*
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*Elizabeth _Taylor_*
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*Stewart, James*
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W - *_W.C. Fields and Me_ (1976)*
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*_Hawaii_ (1966)*
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_Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ (1953) - The ship model shown is the one used previously in _Titanic_ (1953) and was refurbished to resemble the SS Ile de France, which is clearly named in the film. The model (2009) resides in a Marine Museum in Falls River, Massachusetts. Some of the ocean liner sets used were also left over from "Titanic".
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*Unearthed Marilyn Monroe photos go on sale*
USA Today - Feb 5, 2010
*More new, old, never-before-seen shots of Marilyn Monroe have surfaced. Taken in a New York apartment nine months before she died, the photos were were unveiled today, after being held by photographer Len Steckler for 45 years.*
On a wintry afternoon in December 1961, poet Carl Sandburg and Steckler waited in Steckler's apartment for three hours for Monroe to arrive. She was late, she said, because she had been at the hairdresser's trying to get her hair white to match Sandburg's. The two spent the afternoon bonding over conversation and cocktails, fostering a new friendship while Steckler quietly observed, his Nikon loaded with black and white film. Sandburg was 83. Monroe was 35.
Steckler is now offering the shots for sale as a limited edition series called "Marilyn Monroe: The Visit."
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*Ian Carmichael, bumbling toff of British cinema, dies at 89*
*Ian Carmichael, the comedy actor who has died aged 89, was once asked what he would do if he won ?1 million. He said he would improve his wine cellar with a lot of "absolutely spiffing clarets".*
*LONDON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Ian Carmichael, who starred in classic British comedies like "I'm All Right, Jack" and "School for Scoundrels," has died at 89, his wife said.*
His wife, Kate, said he died Friday at his home in Yorkshire after falling ill at Christmastime, The Daily Telegraph reported.
After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and playing a robot on stage, Carmichael interrupted his career to serve in the army in World War II. He returned to acting in the theater and movies.
Carmichael was best known for playing aristocrats in comedies where he co-starred with actors like Peter Sellers, Dennis Price and Terry Thomas. In "I'm All Right, Jack," he played a young World War II veteran given a job in his uncle's factory.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Carmichael worked more in television. He starred as Bertie Wooster with Price as Jeeves in shows based on the P.G. Wodehouse stories, and as Lord Peter Wimsey in a series based on Dorothy Sayers' mysteries.
Carmichael is survived by two daughters from his first marriage and his second wife, the novelist Kate Fenton.
When an interviewer asked him how he would spend a million pounds, Carmichael said he would buy "absolutely spiffing clarets."
Ian Carmichael, who was born in Hull in 1922, portrayed serious characters in Betrayed (1954), playing alongside Clark Gable and Lana Turner, and in The Colditz Story (1955).
But he made his name in a series of films made by the Boulting Brothers, including Private's Progress (1956), Brothers in Law (1957) and I'm All Right Jack (1959), with Peter Sellers and Terry Thomas, as well as similar films for other producers, including School for Scoundrels (1960).
In School For Scoundrels, he played a chump who tries to better himself by joining up for a course in lifemanship, while in Private's Progress he is called up into the Army, with hilarious results.
Carmichael also appeared in the "Pride" segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971).
During the 1960s and 1970s, he was a successful television actor, particularly as the PG Wodehouse character Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey in several drama series based on the mystery novels by Dorothy L Sayers.
He appeared in the BBC serial Wives and Daughters in 1999 and his most recent roles were the in the ITV drama series Heartbeat and The Royal as recently as last year.
The veteran actor who published an autobiography in 1979 called Will The Real Ian Carmichael..., was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2003.
Carmichael, the son of an optician, was educated at Scarborough College, North Yorkshire, and Bromsgrove school in Worcestershire before training as an actor at RADA.
He made his stage debut as a robot at the People's Palace in Mile End, East London in 1939. But the outbreak of World War II interrupted his acting career and he did military service in Europe with the Royal Armoured Corps, as a commissioned officer in the 22nd Dragoons.
Anne Reid, the actress who starred in the TV programmes Dinnerladies and Ladies of Letters, described Carmichael yesterday as "a delightful man and the most wonderful comedy actor with a great zest for life.
"Things like: I'm All Right Jack would make you weep with laughter," she said. "He had a lot of style. He belonged to an age of elegance."
Neil Durden-Smith, 76, the former broadcaster, who worked with Carmichael for the Lord's Taverners charity, said: "He had a twinkle in his eye, a wonderful sense of humour, he was marvellously foppish in a theatrical way. You used to wonder what he would say next!
"He gathered people around him like other people gather butterflies or postage stamps."
Keith Richardson, executive producer of The Royal, said Carmichael had filmed a couple of episodes last year which will be seen when the programme returns to the screen, possibly in the spring.
"He was a terrific professional to work with, always there first thing in the morning," he said. "I did a TV film with him 23 years ago called A Day In Summer, and I remember thinking 'will this be Ian Carmichael's last film'?
"It says something about him that he went on for another 23 years."
Carmichael is survived by his wife, two daughters, Lee and Sally, from his first marriage to Pym McLean, who died in 1983, and five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7176094/Ian-Carmichael-actor-with-a-zest-for-life.html
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*Actors vie to be Marshal Dillon in upcoming 'Gunsmoke' film*
*Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds are among the contenders for the juicy western role.*
Los Angeles Times - Steven Zeitchik
February 6, 2010
*The job of Dodge City peacekeeper is proving to be one of the most desirable assignments around.*
*Several top-flight actors are in the running to play Marshal Matt Dillon, the lead lawman in CBS Films' big-screen adaptation of the classic western television show "Gunsmoke," which starred James Arness.*
Brad Pitt has emerged as a top contender for the role, with Ryan Reynolds also a candidate for the juicy, gunslinging part.
As incarnated first on the midcentury radio serial and later in the CBS prime-time hit, Dillon is the western hero charged with maintaining law and order in a period Kansas town filled with colorful vagrants, misfits and desperadoes. He carries on in these adventures with the help of town physician Doc Adams and tavern owner Miss Kitty Russell.
The studio is high on Pitt, who, with his turn in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," is one of the few boldface names to star in a western. Reynolds, who is believed to like the Dillon role, is also on the studio's list. After recent lighter turns, Reynolds has remade himself as an action lead, preparing to shoot the titular role in "The Green Lantern," about the magic-ringed superhero who attempts to keep global peace.
Several other actors are said to be in the mix for the Dillon part, which offers the dual appeal of playing an action hero who also has depth and period cachet. But complicating the situation is the fact that a director has not signed on yet, with CBS Films talking to filmmakers concurrent with its casting discussions. (Typically, a director is attached before an actor comes onboard, except for the rare instance in which a star drives a project forward.)
Arness played the role of Dillon for 20 years on the small screen. It's worth noting that he got the role after a bake-off of sorts too, besting William Conrad, who played the character in the radio version and who was said to be disappointed for many years after losing out to Arness on the part.
Gregory Poirier, who wrote "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," has written a draft of the "Gunsmoke" feature script, which the studio is said to like.
The fledgling CBS Films is keen to develop a big action movie that also has built-in name recognition and sees "Gunsmoke," which it owns as part of its television library, as fitting the bill. Studios in general have a growing penchant for taking classic tales and giving them a modern action sensibility -- as Warner Bros. did, to strong box-office effect, with "Sherlock Holmes."
CBS Films wants to contemporize the look and feel of "Gunsmoke" while maintaining the period setting, though some observers have asked whether modern theatrical audiences will have an appetite for westerns.
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Burt Reynolds claims he was offered the role of James Bond by producer Albert R. Broccoli, after Sean Connery left the franchise. Reynolds turned the role down, saying "An American can't play James Bond. It just can't be done."
*Celebri-links ....... producer Albert R. Broccoli!*
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I really don't know what letter we are at ... sooooo
P - _Paris Je T'aime_ (2006)
O - _Orange County_ (2001)
N - _Nashville_ (1975)
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*Paxton, Bill*
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*J. Lee _Thompson_* - An English film director, active in England and Hollywood. Thompson made his only film appearance in the Carol Reed-directed Midshipman Easy (1935) and worked as a dialogue coach for Alfred Hitchcock's production of Jamaica Inn (1939).
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catapult .... _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (1975)
*NEW WORD: February is _Responsible Pet Owners'_ Month!*
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Gene Tierney received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress in a Leading Role for: _Leave Her to Heaven_ directed by John M. Stahl!
*NEW DIRECTOR: John M. Stahl!*