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*I got a brand new bio for the holidays.! I love great Hollywood reads!*
I have always had a place in my heart for Richard Burton. He lived larger than life!
*Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed*
by Robert Sellers
This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set into a pub. It's a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and ****, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.
Hellraisers is the story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and ****, broken marriages, riots, and wanton sexual conquests. Indeed, acts so outrageous that if you or I had perpetrated them we could have ended up in jail. Their mercurial acting talent and love from the press and the public allowed them to get away with the kind of behaviour that today?s film stars could scarcely dream of. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.
This book traces the intertwining lives and careers of Burton, Harris, O'Toole, and Reed, plus an assortment of other movie boozers who crossed their path. It's a celebratory catalogue of their miscreant deeds, a greatest-hits package, as it were, of their most breathtakingly outrageous behavior, told with humor and affection. You can?t help but enjoy it?after all, they bloody well did.
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*Night at the Movies: _The Gigantic World of Epics_ ...... Very interesting documentary!*
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Dec. 20, 2009
*Actress Brittany Murphy has died, according to the Los Angeles coroner's office.*
The 32-year-old actress, who starred in "Clueless" and with Eminem in "8 Mile," was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Selena Barrows, an investigator with the coroner's office.
"We have a preliminary death report of someone with the name of Brittany Murphy," Barrows told TheWrap. The report came from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
The news was first reported by TMZ.com.
TMZ said multiple sources reported that the actress had gone into cardiac arrest and could not be revived on Sunday morning.
Barrows said cardiac arrest could mean any number of things, and was not an indication of the cause of death.
However, Murphy's suspected excessive use of drugs had been the subject of widespread speculation, and was even the subject of a parody sketch on a recent "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department said a 911 call was made at 8 a.m. from the Los Angeles home of Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack. She was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Born in Atlanta, Murphy started acting in regional theater at age 9; by age 13, she had signed with a manager and began appearing in television commercials. Her first roles were on TV series such as "Murphy Brown" and "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," which led to her breakthrough film, 1995's "Clueless."
She had five movies currently in production, including "Poor Things," with Rosario Dawson; "Shrinking Charlotte," with Kathleen Turner; and Sylvester Stallone's "The Expendables," with Stallone, Jet Li and Jason Statham.
In 2005, she signed on as the spokesmodel for Jordache Jeans. She has been named to both FHM's 10 Sexiest Women List, and Maxim's Hot 100.
In 2006, she released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat," which became a club hit on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. She also covered Queen's "Somebody to Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland" for the film "Happy Feet."
She married screenwriter Monjack in 2007; before that, she was engaged to talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz, and production assistant Joe Macaluso. In late 2002, she dated Ashton Kutcher, with who she co-starred in the film "Just Married."
Kutcher late Sunday morning tweeted about Murphy's death: "2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine. My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon."
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Harvest Moon ..... _Children of the Corn_ (1984)
*NEW WORD: Santa Claus!*
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I love foreign films ...Esp. French Cinema (Cinema of France), & I have never seen: _Les Enfants du Paradis_ so this will make for an exciting movie night on Mon. Dec. 21 2009!
My all time favorite French film is: _The Umbrellas of Cherbourg_ (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg)
_Les Enfants du Paradis_ tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat.
A three-hour film divided into two halves, it was described in the original American trailer as the French answer to _Gone with the Wind_. ...Interesting!!!
The film was voted "Best French Film Ever" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in 1995.
*_Children Of Paradise_ - Trailer (1945)*
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*_Children Of Paradise_ - Trailer (1945)*
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*The Coen Brothers Announce Casting Call for True Grit*
December 19th, 2009
Paramount Pictures recently announced a casting call for The Coen Brother's upcoming Western remake True Grit. They are seeking a 12-16 year old girl to play the lead. No experience is necessary, but it should be noted that the young lady would be going up against such acting luminaries as Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin.
The film is based on Charles Portis' novel about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian Territory. While the original film was a showcase for John Wayne, the Coens' version will tell the tale from the girl's point of view.
Paramount is asking for a home self-taping for this open call. The role is described as a fourteen-year-old girl named Mattie, who is a simple, tough as nails, young woman in post-Civil War Arkansas. Her unusually steely nerves and straightforward manner are often surprising to those she meets. She possesses plenty of true grit and determination. Enough so that she insists on going with two marshals to hunt down the killer of her father. Paramount states that they are looking for a girl who is tough, strong, and tells it like it is. The girl must be able to portray Caucasian.
To audition, girls must either attend an open call or send in a tape themselves. To contact Paramount about this, requests can be sent to truegritcasting@gmail.com. All tapes must be sent to True Grit Casting/The Post Factory at 161 6th Ave, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10013.
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*Jackson, Michael* - An American musician, dancer, and entertainer.
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*O'Connor, Donald*
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_Old Clothes_ MGM silent, 1925.
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Eleanor Powell was in: _Honolulu_ (1939) directed by Edward Buzzell!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Edward Buzzell!*
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*Niiice ..........even a clip of Jennifer Jones!! Good Show TCM!*
*Good to see Farrah Fawcett ..but no Michael Jackson for _The Wiz_ (1978).*
*Also, TCM left out Ann Savage for _Detour_ (1945) a classic film noir. a classic film noir.*
*TCM Remembers 2009: A memorial to the actors and other film industry professionals who died in 2009*
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*_Raintree County_ (1957) ... Ummmmmm TCM how many times can this film be shown in 1 year!??!?*
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*Goulding, Edmund* - Decadent British actor/playwright/director who directed Joan Crawford in _Sally, Irene, and Mary_; _Paris_; and _Grand Hotel_.
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_Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The_ (1937)
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*Kilmer, Val*
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Dana Andrews was in: _Daisy Kenyon_ (1947) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*Encore Presentation!* *Dec 19, 02:00PM* - *All Times Eastern! Check Local Schedule!*
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*I did this thread for myself, and _all_ fans of Epics!!! I'm really excited for this!!!*
*I can't wait to see: _Les Enfants du Paradis_, released as _Children of Paradise_.*
Set among the Parisian theatre scene of the 1830s, it tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat.
A three-hour film divided into two halves, it was described in the original American trailer as the French answer to Gone with the Wind.
The film was voted "Best French Film Ever" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in 1995.
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*Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009: A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE GIGANTIC WORLD OF EPICS!*
*Yes!! I have always loved a good Epic film ...I'm so excited for this!*
*All times are Eastern! Check Local Times Schedules! Thanks!*
_A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE GIGANTIC WORLD OF EPICS_ will look at Hollywood?s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre?s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores.
The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ?70s and ?80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, Dances with Wolves, Braveheart and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Samson & Delilah, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, El Cid and King of Kings.
The special will feature interviews with such figures as TCM host Robert Osborne; filmmakers Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire), Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), Jeffrey Katzenberg (Prince of Egypt), John Milius (The Wind and the Lion), and Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan); author Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth); actors Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia) and Martin Landau (Cleopatra); stuntmen Loren James (The Ten Commandments) and Diamond Farnsworth (Pearl Harbor); production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas (Elizabeth: The Golden Age); assistant director Michael Stevenson (Doctor Zhivago); film historians Gary Allen Smith, Melvyn Stokes and Rudy Behlmer; and biographer Natasha Fraser Cavasoni. Also included are reminiscences from director Fraser Heston, son of Charlton Heston; Cecilia DeMille Presley, granddaughter of epic filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille; William Bronston, son of producer Samuel Bronston; and Nina Mann, daughter of director Anthony Mann.
*_A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE GIGANTIC WORLD OF EPICS will premiere as part of a 24-hour marathon of big-screen spectacles. The following is a complete schedule_:*
*Sunday, Dec. 20*
6 a.m. Raintree County (1957), starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Eva Marie Saint.
9:30 a.m. How the West Was Won (1962), starring Henry Fonda, Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones, Eli Wallach, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, John Wayne and Richard Widmark.
12:30 p.m. Doctor Zhivago (1965), starring Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay and Alec Guinness.
4 p.m. Ben-Hur (1959), starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet and Hugh Griffith.
8 p.m. A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (World Premiere)
9 p.m. King of Kings (1961), starring Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield and Ron Randell.
Midnight King of Kings (1927), starring H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming and Ernest Torrence.
3 a.m. Children of Paradise (1945), starring Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault.
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*_DVD NEWS_:* Warner Archives just released _Hollywood Revue of 1929_ on DVD.!
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*Dench, Judi*
Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie
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Eddie Bracken (Roy Walley!) was in: _National Lampoon's Vacation_ (1983) directed by Harold Ramis!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Harold Ramis!*