CelluloidKid
-
Posts
9,693 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by CelluloidKid
-
-
Richard Basehart was in: _Titanic_ (1953) directed by Jean Negulesco!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Jean Negulesco!*
-
*Co-Scribe of 'Henry & June' Passes Away*
by Monika Bartyzel
Dec 13th 2009
Cinematical
*Screenwriter and actress Rose Kaufman, wife of writer/director Philip Kaufman and co-scribe of Henry & June, passed away on December 7 at the age of 70. As The Hollywood Reporter posts, she battled cancer for four years before succumbing to the disease in her San Francisco home on Monday.*
While husband Philip spent the most time in Hollywood, adapting and directing films like the Oscar-winning Right Stuff, Rose collaborated with her husband on two writing projects. First was the 1979 film The Wanderers, and then, nineteen years ago, the controversial film Henry & June. In 1990, the MPAA had created the NC-17 rating, and Henry & June was the first "honored" with the designation. The feature was an adaptation of Anais Nin's novel, and it detailed her romance with writer Henry Miller and her attraction to his wife, June. The beautiful film earned an Academy nod for cinematography, but the book itself was also skillfully adapted by the husband and wife team.
Rose, your contributions to Hollywood might be small in number, but they were unforgettable. Rest in peace.
-
_Paranormal Activity_ (2007)
-
Michael Caine WAS IN: (Don't kill me ...I just watched this the other-night!) ..LOL!! ... _Jaws: The Revenge_ (1987) with Lorraine Gary!
*NEW STAR: Lorraine Gary!*
-
*?Twilight? Studio to Handle Polanski Film*
December 11, 2009
New York Times
Though it remains undetermined whether Roman Polanski will be coming to the United States, his latest film will be playing in this country.
On Friday, Summit Entertainment, the studio best known for releasing the movies ?Twilight? and ?The Twilight Saga: New Moon,? said it had acquired North American distribution rights for Mr. Polanski?s feature ?The Ghost Writer.? The film, adapted from the Robert Harris novel ?The Ghost,? tells the story of an author (played by Ewan McGregor) who agrees to help write the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) and finds himself drawn into political and sexual intrigues.
The film is directed by Mr. Polanski, who also wrote the screenplay with Mr. Harris. In a statement, Summit said it planned to release the film during the first half of next year. Mr. Polanski fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
-
*Gene Barry, star of 'Bat Masterson' and 'War of the Worlds,' dies at age 90*
By Marcia White
December 11, 2009
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
*He survived a Martian invasion and the roughness of the wild West, and he did it with style. But TV and movie legend Gene Barry died at age 90 Thursday, his son told the Associated Press.*
He played physicist turned hero in the classic sci-fi film ?War of the Worlds,? in 1953. That first film adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic story is what I remember Barry for. It is one of the greatest all-time films of the genre. But, my dad and father-in-law, post-WWII boomers, remember Barry most for his role as dashing TV Western star ?Bat Masterson? from 1958 to 1961. The series is out on DVD if you want to check it out.
After two decades as a TV star, Barry found himself typecast as a television actor and never returned to prominence in films, AP says. Instead, he stayed active with stage appearances and dozens of TV guest appearances. He sang in such musicals as ?Kismet? and ?Destry Rides Again,? and created the Broadway role of Georges, the gay nightclub owner in Jerry Herman?s hit musical ?La Cage aux Folles.? That role brought him a Tony nomination in 1984.
Barry appeared in the last season of Eve Arden?s hit sitcom ?Our Miss Brooks? ? as a P.E. teacher who pines for Miss Brooks ? before landing ?Bat Masterson? in 1958. After the show ended its run on NBC in 1961, Barry moved to ABC to star as an LA detective in ?Burke?s Law,? which lasted until 1966. The show was revived on CBS nearly 30 years later with Barry again in the lead but lasted only one season. ?The Name of the Game? (1968-1972) offered an innovation: three suave actors ? Barry, Robert Stack and Anthony Franciosa ? alternating weekly in their own self-contained adventures. The only connective element: All were part of an investigative magazine of which Barry was the flamboyant owner.
He is credited with a cameo appearance as a grandfather in the Steven Spielberg 2005 remake of ?War of the Worlds,? but I can?t picture what scene he?s in. I?ll have to remember to take a closer look next time I see the film.
-
*Filmmaker Tyler Perry's mother, Willie Maxine Perry Dies at 64*
December 9, 2009
Movie mogul Tyler Perry is mourning the death of his mother - who passed away on Tuesday at age 64.
Willie Maxine Perry's death was announced by the Madea Goes to Jail filmmaker on his website, where he posted a picture of himself and his mother, writing simply: "Thank you for all your prayers."
Perry did not mention the cause of death.
The matriarch was a preschool teacher who worked at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center for most of her life. Perry has credited her as the basis for his outlandish Madea movie character.
A spokesperson for Perry had not responded to requests for comment as WENN went to press.
.
*Tyler Perry's mother dies at 64; Willie Maxine inspired Madea character*
December 9, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Movie producer Tyler Perry says his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, has died at age 64.
Tyler posted a brief notice on his official website, thanking fans for their prayers. He did not mention a cause of death or any other details.
Perry, 40, has said his mother was the basis for his most popular character, Madea.
The producer recently commented on plans to "get away from Hollywood for a sec" to clear his head, with a touring production of "Madea's Big Fat Happy Family" that premieres in Denver in January. He's also been very moved by the movie "Precious," he said, on which he is an executive producer.
"If you've never seen a Madea play, then you haven't seen Madea at all," he posted on his site. Click here for a great scene from the stage version of "Madea Goes to Jail."
Maxine was a preschool teacher at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center for most of her life, the Atlanta paper reported.
Perry's publicist did not immediately respond to a phone call from the Associated Press.
? Christie D'Zurilla
-
*WOW! Another film from my childhood film ...a "contemporary classic" destroyed!*
*New Remakes: 'Romancing the Stone' and 'Overboard'*
by Christopher Campbell
Dec 8th 2009
Cinematical
If there's one (living) Hollywood couple I wish was still working together it's Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. If only to make another sequel to Romancing the Stone. Never mind that the first follow-up, The Jewel of the Nile, was a disappointment. There could have been a really great franchise there had its stars not broken up, with subsequent films involving one-off stories set in different, romantic parts of the world. Of course, Danny DeVito would be necessary for each film, too, but really it was the chemistry -- good and bad -- between Turner and Douglas that makes those movies work.
Alas, we'll never get that third installment of the original series. But we are, no surprise, getting a remake, as Monika disappointedly told us a year ago. And Pajiba has an update on the project, which appears to be moving forward with Robert Luketic (The Ugly Truth) directing from a script by Dan McDermott (Eagle Eye). Dustin Rowles at Pajiba believes this will be Luketic's next film after finishing the upcoming Killers, rather than the remake of Barbarella. And it's easy to assume the director will cast Katherine Heigl in Turner's role. As for Douglas' adventurer character, perhaps Luketic can go for an Ugly Truth reunion and go with Gerard Butler.
That may not sound very good, but no pair-up is really going to match the original, so it doesn't really matter. But I will hold out some hope that McDermott went with a slightly different locale than South America and a slightly different plot that could almost make this a new spin-off one-off. There's no reason this couldn't just be a kind of new installment, only with new leads, like a couples version of the James Bond franchise. And then there'd be no reason DeVito couldn't return. Sometimes when I watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I imagine that Frank is actually Ralph, from Romancing and Jewel, retired.
I'm having less luck warming up to Pajiba's other reported remake in the works: Overboard. In spite of its misogyny and immature humor, I have a soft spot for Garry Marshall's amnesia comedy, in which a crude carpenter kidnaps a bitchy socialite when she loses her memory, making her think she's wife to him and mother to his four sons. Yeah, it's basically a big rape joke wrapped inside a plot better suited for a sitcom pilot. But like Turner and Douglas, real-life couple Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are an entertaining pair together. And, as a sort of flip-back on Mr. Mom, it can be an interesting movie to look at from a feminist film theory perspective.
Rowles claims that Heigl has actually already been offered Hawn's role in this remake (Butler for Russell's? You know the execs went there). And a script is being written by Bill Collage and Adam Cooper (Accepted). Honestly, after seeing Kate Hudson dolled up like a go-go dancer in Nine, and looking so much like Hawn, I keep picturing her starring in remakes of all her mother's films. That doesn't ease my mind, as I don't think Hudson is nearly as good an actress as Hawn is/was. But I'd still prefer her to Heigl. Anyway, the only real casting issue for an Overboard remake is finding another kid who is so good at doing Pee-Wee Herman voices.
*_See Also_:*
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/The-Ugly-Truth-Director-Luketic-Eyes-Romancing-The-Stone-Remake-1604
-
*Turner Classic Movies' Annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR® To Go Full Circle with Special 360 Degree Edition in February*
*Month-Long Festival Features 360 Nominated and Winning Movies, Scheduled in Format Inspired by Popular "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" Game*
PR Newswire (press release) - Dec 2, 2009
ATLANTA, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will go full circle with its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR? festival in February. The 2010 edition of the month-long event will feature 360 Academy Award?-nominated and winning movies, all presented uncut and commercial-free. The month's schedule is designed so that each movie is linked to the next movie in the lineup through a shared actor or actress.
31 DAYS OF OSCAR will begin Monday, Feb. 1, at 6 a.m. (ET) with Kevin Bacon and James Coco in Only When I Laugh (1981). Coco and Harry Andrews will then be featured in The Man of La Mancha (1972) at 8:15 a.m., followed by Andrews in 55 Days at Peking (1963) at 10:30 a.m. The festivities will continue linking from movie to movie, one star at a time, throughout the month. The final movie in the festival, Diner (1982), starring Bacon, will bring the entire month full circle.
TCM host Robert Osborne, who is also the official biographer of the Academy Awards and the Academy's red carpet greeter, will host 31 DAYS OF OSCAR, which will mark its 16th year on Turner Classic Movies. The 2010 edition will feature 22 films making their debut on TCM, including Gladiator (2000), Titanic (1997), Mrs. Brown (1997), A Room with a View (1985), Trading Places (1983), Frances (1982), Only When I Laugh (1981), Alien (1979), Julia (1977), Serpico (1973), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), An American Dream (1966), Morituri (1965), Summertime (1955), Call Me Madam (1953), The Snake Pit (1948), Moonrise (1948), Kiss of Death (1947), Kitty (1945), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) and One Hour with You (1932). A complete schedule of 31 DAY S OF OSCAR is attached.
The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented live on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center? and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
Turner Classic Movies is a Peabody Award-winning network celebrating 15 years of presenting great films, uncut and commercial-free, from the largest film libraries in the world. Currently seen in more than 80 million homes, TCM features the insights of veteran primetime host Robert Osborne and weekend daytime host Ben Mankiewicz, plus interviews with a wide range of special guests. As the foremost authority in classic films, TCM offers critically acclaimed original documentaries and specials, along with regular programming events that include The Essentials, 31 Days of Oscar and Summer Under the Stars. TCM also stages special events and screenings, such as the upcoming TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood; produces a wide range of media about classic film, including books and DVDs; and hosts a wealth of materials at its Web site, www.tcm.com. TCM is part of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.
Follow TCM on twitter at twitter.com/TCMPR
-
Stanley Kubrick ... More than any of his other films, The Shining (1980) gave rise to the legend of Kubrick as a megalomanic perfectionist. Reportedly, he demanded hundreds of takes of certain scenes (approximately 1.3 million feet of film was shot).
This process was particularly difficult for actress Shelley Duvall, who was used to the faster, improvisational style of director Robert Altman.
*Celebri-links ... Shelley Duvall*
-
*Cain, James M* - Author of the 1941 novel Mildred Pierce, upon which the 1945 Joan Crawford-film of the same name was based.
He also wrote such noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.
-
*Underwood, Jay* - _The Boy Who Could Fly_
-
white gloves ..... _Rear Window_ (1954)
*NEW WORD: Maccabees!*
-
Sterling Hayden was in: _Johnny Guitar_ (1954) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!!*
-
The National Board of Review .... Ummm where was:
_Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire_ (2009)
_The Lovely Bones_ (2009)
And as the Academy Awards will have 10 Best Picture nominees, the NBOR's provides a glimpse of what might happen in March.
_The Top Ten Film List of 2009_:
An Education, 500 Days Of Summer, The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, Invicus, The Messenger, A Serious Man, Star Trek, Up, Where The Wild Things Are.
I agree with:
500 Days Of Summer, The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds!
I haven't seen Invicus ... The Messenger doesn't appeal to me.. I love Woody Harrelson ...but this film is 1 I don't want to see....
An Education is another film playing here in Phoenix...but again doesn't appeal to me..I have seen the trailer etc..but still no interest!.
A Serious Man just opened here in Phoenix, Az, I will see this for Ethan Coen & Joel Coen!!
I didn't like Where The Wild Things Are ...very looooooooooong & slow ... and well disappointing!
*The surprise here is that Precious did not make the Top Ten list, but Star Trek (2009) did.*
Com on NBOR ....Star Trek (2009) was a "REBOOT" ..."REMAKE" or whatever you may want to call it...but I still can't figure out or even understand why this is considered the "Best Film of 2009"!
-
*Also what is sad... the upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock's _The Birds_ is not only moving forward; it might just even be in 3D!*
LOL!!!
-
In 2007, Variety reported that Naomi Watts would star in Universal's remake of the film. The remake would also star George Clooney and would be directed by Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. The production would be a joint venture by Platinum Dunes and Mandalay Pictures.
*Later in 2007, original star Tippi Hedren publicly stated her opposition to the remake, saying "Why would you do that? Why? I mean, can?t we find new stories, new things to do?"* - Gotta Love it!!
-
*Unkefer, Linn* - Publicist for _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_?
-
*Norton, Edward*
-
In 1987, Ritt again utilized extensive flashback and nonlinear storytelling techniques in the film Nuts, a film about a strong-willed, high-class call girl (Barbra Streisand) who kills a customer in self-defense.
*Celebri-links .... Barbra Streisand!*
-
_Paid_ MGM, 1930.
-
cafeteria ... _That Touch of Mink_ (1962)
*NEW WORD: Kislev!*
-
Lyle Talbot's last movie role was in the Franklin D. Roosevelt biography, _Sunrise at Campobello_, in 1960 directed by Vincent J. Donehue!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Vincent J. Donehue!*
-
*Tue, Dec 15, 4:30 PM _The Red Pony_ (1949)* *- All Times Eastern!*
In the coast range mountains on the western edge of the Salinas Valley is a ranch where Tom, a lad of about ten, longs for a pony. He lives with his mom, who was born there, her dad, a talkative pioneer who misses the old West, Tom's dad Fred Tiflin, who comes from the city and after years on the ranch doesn't feel at home there, and Billy, their trusted hand, a real cowboy. While Fred has to sort out whether he wants to stay a rancher and come to terms with his son being closer to Billy than to himself, Tom gets a pony and learns directly about responsibility and loss. What lessons can each learn, and are tragedy and hard choices all that life offers? Are laughter and joy anywhere?
*Trivia for: _The Red Pony_ (1949)*
The 81-day shooting schedule was at the time the longest and costliest for Republic Pictures.
The novel is actually made up of four short stories: "The Gift," "The Great Mountain," "The Leader of the People" and "The Promise." Each was published separately in magazines between 1933 and 1937.
*A to Z of Movies*
in Games and Trivia
Posted
_Across to Singapore_ MGM silent, 1928