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*_Female on the Beach_ (1955)*
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Jimmy Durante was in: Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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Judy Garland was in: _Presenting Lily Mars_ directed by Norman Taurog!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Norman Taurog!*
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fir .... _The Bear_, (1989) known as L'Ours
*NEW WORD: Chinese New Year or Spring Festival!*
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*?The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul?*
*jose G. K. Chesterton*
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*RIP Dan O'Bannon .. directed by Dan O'Bannon!!*
O'Bannon's script also differed from the Romero series in that it is markedly more comedy based than Romero's films, employing "splatstick" style morbid humor and eccentric dialogue. The films also boasted significant nudity, in marked contrast to Romero's work. Russo and O'Bannon were only directly involved with the first film in the series, the rest of the films, to varying degrees, stick to their outline and "rules" established in the first film.
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Wikipedia
Also Mark Venturini of _Return of the Living Dead_ as Suicide (1985) well also be missed watching this film!
Mark Venturini (January 10, 1961 - February 14, 1996) was an American actor who starred in movies and appeared on television.
He was perhaps best known for his role in movies like Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) as Victor, and Return of the Living Dead as Suicide (1985). Mark's final movie was in the 1995 movie Out-of-Sync. He made guest appearances on television shows like Knight Rider, Charles in Charge, Murder, She Wrote, Falcon Crest, and Space Rangers. He died from leukemia at the age of 35.
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Tommy Lee Jones made his film debut with a minor role in _Love Story_ (1970) directed by Arthur Hiller!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Arthur Hiller!*
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*Did You Know?*
_It's a Wonderful Life_
After the war Frank Capra set up Liberty Films with George Stevens and William Wyler to make more serious, soul-searching films. This and State of the Union were Liberty's only productions.
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*Jeremy Paul _Kagan_* - An American film and television director, screenwriter and television producer.
Kagan's feature film credits include the box-office hit Heroes (1977), about veterans returning from the Vietnam War, The Big Fix, a political thriller with Richard Dreyfuss, The Chosen from the classic book by Chaim Potok, and The Journey of Natty Gann, the first American movie ever to win the Gold Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival, the underground comedy Big Man On Campus, and the hybrid film Golda's Balcony from the hit play.
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anodyne .... _Night Nurse_ (1931)
*NEW WORD: Happy New Year Party!*
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John Houseman was in: _The Fog_ (1980) directed by John Carpenter!
*NEW DIRECTOR: John Carpenter!*
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December 31, 2009
Los Angeles Times
*LACMA matinees*
And the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Tuesday matinee screening offers up the 1932 best picture winner, _Grand Hotel_, which features some of the biggest MGM stars of the time, including Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone. Incredibly, it was nominated only for best film.
www.lacma.org
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*Egyptian hosts 'Best of James Bond' weekend*
*Also, screwball comedies featured at the Aero, 'Grand Hotel' at LACMA, and more.*
By Susan King
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 2009
*The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre blasts into the new year with "The Best of James Bond: 007," which features four Sean Connery classics and a double bill of the best -- or is that an oxymoron? -- of the Roger Moore Bond flicks.*
The martinis begin to shake Friday with 1962's "Dr. No," which made Connery a superstar. Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord also star. Rounding out the evening is the fifth of the Connery Bonds, 1967's "You Only Live Twice," which is set in Japan and features a script by Roald Dahl. Bond expert Steve Rubin will introduce the film.
Rubin will also hold a Bond trivia contest with Saturday's offerings: 1964's "Goldfinger" and 1965's "Thunderball." Rounding out the Bond weekend Sunday are the two Moore flicks, 1979's "Moonraker" and 1981's "For Your Eyes Only."
Trading in the high-tech gadgetry for a decidedly low-tech era, the Egyptian ushers in its "Kings and Queens, Knights and Jesters" fest on Wednesday, co-presented by the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. The trip to medieval England begins with the 1949 Technicolor musical comedy "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" starring Bing Crosby, and Danny Kaye's funniest film, 1956's "The Court Jester." www.egyptiantheatre.com
*Comedy showcase*
The Cinematheque's Aero Theatre continues its screwball-comedy festival Friday with its Marx Brothers double bill of 1932's "Horse Feathers" and 1933's "Duck Soup." Saturday's offering are two Frank Capra gems from Columbia: the 1934 comedy "It Happened One Night," which swept the Academy Awards, and 1931's "Platinum Blonde," with Jean Harlow and Robert Williams.
On tap for Sunday are two W.C. Fields vehicles: 1941's surreal "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" and 1935's "Man on the Flying Trapeze."
*At the Skirball*
The Skirball presents 1961's jazz drama "Paris Blues" Tuesday afternoon, starring Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll. www.skirball.org
*LACMA matinees*
And the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Tuesday matinee screening offers up the 1932 best picture winner, "Grand Hotel," which features some of the biggest MGM stars of the time, including Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone. Incredibly, it was nominated only for best film. www.lacma.org
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*_Winners of the Wilderness_ (1927)*
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*Tashman, Lilyan*
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Rita Hayworth was in: _Susan and God_ (1940) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*Lights out at NYC's Tavern on the Green*
*Once America's highest-grossing restaurant, it's prepping for a final meal*
Tavern on the Green was frequented by prominent actors, musicians, politicians, and writers. Regular patrons have included former New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, actresses Grace Kelly and Fay Wray and many others. Tavern on the Green has hosted the wedding receptions of several prominent Americans, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler and film director Walter Hill. John Lennon was a neighbor to Warner LeRoy and his son, Sean, was a playmate of Warner LeRoy's son, Max LeRoy. As a result, John and Sean celebrated numerous birthdays at Tavern on the Green during the late 1970s.
*NEW YORK - Tavern on the Green, once America's highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song.*
The former sheepfold at the edge of Central Park, now ringed by twinkling lights and fake topiary animals, is preparing for New Year's Eve, when it will serve its last meal. Just three years ago, it was plating more than 700,000 meals annually, bringing in more than $38 million.
But that astronomical sum wasn't enough to keep the landmark restaurant out of bankruptcy court. Its $8 million debt is to be covered at an auction of Baccarat and Waterford chandeliers, Tiffany stained glass, a mural depicting Central Park and other over-the-top decor that has bewitched visitors for decades.
Even the restaurant's name is up for grabs. At stake is whether another restaurateur taking over the 27,000 square feet of space, owned by the city, can reopen as Tavern on the Green.
For 75 years, since it first opened amid the Great Depression, the Tavern has attracted clients from around the world.
"This reminds me so much of Poland!" exclaimed Vermont resident Meg Kearton as she entered for her first time in late December. "It reminds me of a restaurant in Warsaw ? the grandeur and the colors."
She came for lunch a few days after Christmas, whose green and white colors fill the Tavern's year-round wonderland of lights, flowers and ornamental curved bull's-eye mirrors.
Hanging over the main Crystal Room, an all-glass dining area, is a century-old chandelier made of green glass, said to have been owned by an Indian maharajah. Two elk decked with red and green ornaments stand at the entrance, and outside is a huge King Kong topiary.
Former Tavern mogul Warner LeRoy, befitting his heritage as son of a producer of "The Wizard of Oz," searched the globe for the whimsical goods after he took over the Tavern's lease in 1973. He died in 2001, leaving the business to his wife, Kay LeRoy, and daughter Jennifer LeRoy.
As the end of the family's operating license approached, the city sought competing bids.
The LeRoys lost to Dean Poll, who operates the stylish Loeb Boathouse restaurant overlooking the Central Park lake and offered to invest $25 million on Tavern renovations. The city awarded him a 20-year license in August, citing his significant capital investment and vision; the new Tavern will incorporate green building technology while a conservatory-style dining space will complement the original Victorian architecture.
Poll also plans an outdoor cafe, bicycle racks and new public restrooms.
The LeRoys, employing more than 400 unionized workers with full benefits, couldn't match that. As the recession hit, they accrued more than 450 creditors.
A spokeswoman for the company running the auction said the LeRoys couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday, but people close to 31-year-old Jennifer LeRoy said she feels heartbroken over the closure and betrayed by a city that pulled the lease to a business her father turned into a New York icon.
The decisive moment in the intellectual-property dispute over the name comes in January. That's when a Manhattan federal judge will either side with the city and rule that the moneymaking name Tavern on the Green, valued at about $19 million, belongs to whomever operates the space or say the LeRoys own it.
If the city loses, Poll will use the name Tavern in the Park, creating a new menu of American cuisine with fresh seasonal ingredients and reopening by March, said his attorney, Barry LePatner.
"We're going to bring the park into the restaurant," said LePatner, by eliminating the thick shrubbery around the premises to reveal Sheep Meadow, where the animals grazed until 1934, housed in the 19th century Victorian Gothic shed that is part of the restaurant.
Just about everything from the current restaurant will be for sale Jan. 13 through Jan. 15 at a Guernsey's auction held live at the Tavern, with a public preview there from Jan. 6 to Jan. 12.
The city's parks department has asked the bankruptcy court to bar the sale of items that "cannot be removed without irreparably damaging the space they occupy," according to an objection that department lawyers filed in court this week.
Those items include lavish decorative elements on the Crystal Room ceiling, chestnut paneling, brass lettering for The Bar and six banquettes.
A judge has scheduled a hearing on the disputed items for Jan. 11.
The dazzling decor was once a backdrop for private milestone events as well as public celebrations from film productions and political gatherings to the special carb-loading dinner on the eve of the New York M
arathon.
Recently, as many as 1,500 meals could be served a day, with dinner entrees costing $26 to $42 on a menu heavy with meat and potato dishes, plus standard seafood and a few forays into foreign fare such as risotto.
Not everyone drips with praise for this "tourist trap," as one blogger on the Web site Yelp called it.
A fellow Yelp blogger didn't mince words: "Besides my risotto being just eh, and besides finding a small bug on my plate, I had a fiasco getting my jacket from the coat check."
That didn't deter a smiling Diane Allen-Smith from coming for a lunch with her husband in December, three years after their Tavern wedding, on a visit from Boca Raton, Fla.
"Our wedding food was wonderful," she said. "And we didn't have to do anything for the rest."
A New York magazine reviewer once asked, "So what if the Eisenhower-era menu is strictly an afterthought?"
But the things that annoy some about Tavern on the Green are exactly what made it irresistible to fans, including three generations of a family from New York's northern suburbs.
"My parents brought us here," said Lisa Holz, who brought along her daughters, 4-year-old Kayla and 7-year-old Erika, and her husband and parents.
It would be her last time at the old Tavern on the Green, and she got sentimental.
"When I was little," she said. "I remember getting tears in my eyes when I looked at all the lights and colors."
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*National Film Registry Adds Thriller, Muppets*
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By Krystal Clark
*The National Film Registry is an organization that actively seeks out and preserves projects that have a historical significance in the mediums of film, television, and sound recording. The Library of Congress will induct 25 new titles into its catalog including the 1983 music video by John Landis and Michael Jackson, ?Thriller.? It has been considered for years, but following Jackson?s death there was no question of how important the video?s significance is to our culture.*
There will be plenty of other important titles joining ?Thriller? including a well known children?s film, and one of Al Pacino?s greatest works. Dog Day Afternoon was one of the most interesting bank heist films to ever be produced and it showed Pacino in a different light as compared to his Godfather character Michael Corleone. It highlighted homosexuality when it was uncomfortable for most people to talk about, and used one of the most masculine actors of the day to do so.
The inclusion of The Muppets Movie was also an interesting choice considering the fact that it mixed puppetry, and legendary actors to create a franchise of films that could be entertaining for both children and adults. There?s also the classic film Jezebel that starred Bette Davis, in one of her most memorable roles. This year the registry got it right with the majority of their picks. We can all sleep a little better knowing that these favorites will be taken care of for the foreseeable future.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Exiles (1961)
Heroes All (1920)
Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jezebel (1938)
The Jungle (1967)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
Little Nemo (1911)
Mabel?s Blunder (1914)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Precious Images (1986)
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
The Red Book (1994)
The Revenge of the Pancho Villa (1930-36)
Scratch and Crow (1995)
Stark Love (1927)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
A Study in Reds (1932)
Thriller (1983)
Under Western Stars (1938)
What do you think of this year?s National Film Registry Selection? Who should have been included on the list?
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*_Miracle on 34th Street_ (1994)* - Who would want to remake a classic!?!?! I still wish Hollywood would invest the monies, clean up the "Original" film print, & just re-release it. I have somewhere that in the 60th anniversary DVD of the original, Maureen O?Hara giggles at the fact that every remake of this film has bombed.
*_Jingle All the Way_ (1996)* - I may be a "Film Geek" but this is 1 film I didn';t see in theater!
.. I have tried to see this film over the years ..but I get to a point where I don't know if I should laugh or scream at the acting, script, etc.!?. ... Brian Levant was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for this film BTW!.
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*Zelda Rubenstein of Poltergeist taken off life support*
*According to RadarOnline, 76-year-old Zelda Rubinstein has only a short time left to live after being taken off life support at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. It seems she has been in the hospital for over a month, and has now been taken off life support after the failure of two major organs. Their source, said to be a friend of the actress, says: "Her lungs and kidneys have failed and she's in and out of consciousness. It's only a matter of time now -- she doesn't have long to live."*
While she's had a number of roles over the years -- Dr. Katarina Kuntzler in Southland Tales, the Organist in Sixteen Candles -- Rubinstein is best known for her role as psychic medium Tangina Barrons in Poltergeist and its subsequent sequels. (Standing only four-feet tall -the result of a pituitary deficiency-, Rubinstein most often played the psychic, eclectic older woman.) When the Freeling's house spirits continue to torment them, they bring in Tangina, who sorts out the other-worldly inhabitants of the house and helps coax them away (watch a clip after the jump).
*Our thoughts are with you, Zelda.*
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Cinematical
by Monika Bartyzel Dec 29th 2009
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*_Rain_ (1932)*
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*Haley Joel _Osment_*
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Warren Beatty was nominated for an many Oscars throughout his career.
He was nominated for example, two times for Best Original Screenplay: in 1975 for _Shampoo_ and in 1998 for _Bulworth_.
_Shampoo_ is a 1975 satire that is directed by Hal Ashby!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Hal Ashby!!*
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*_Caretakers, The_ (1963)*
The First Film That Comes to Mind...
in Games and Trivia
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Asthmatic _......The Hand That Rocks the Cradle_ (1992)
*NEW WORD: Oatmeal (January IS National Oatmeal Month!)*