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Chanel No. 5 ... _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ (1953)
*NEW WORD: Kugel!*
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*Keitel, Harvey*
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Jackie Gleason ... Jackie accepted the role of Sheriff Buford T. Justice, in the 1977 film "Smokey And The Bandit" after hearing about how much Burt Reynolds liked to drink then, thinking that it would be fun to be around him.
*Celebri-links .... Burt Reynolds*
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John Garfield was in: _Humoresque_ (1946) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*They?re Coming To Get You, Barbara: Romero?s Classic Zombie Film Inspires CG Adaptation*
By: Martyn Conterio
Thu, Dec 3 2009
Published in FCG, News
George A. Romero?s Night of the Living Dead is being remade by a brave/foolhardy Hollywood duo. Back in 1968, a low budget film-maker from Pittsburgh got together ten friends and changed cinema history. That it was a film about dead cannibals taking over the world belied the ground-breaking social and political subtext.
Fast-forward to 2009 and two brave souls named Zebediah de Soto and producer Simon West have decided on an inspired take of the original material. It is not going to be another re-hash?well it is and it isn?t. The two filmmakers shall be employing computer animation to realise their zombie dreams.
The Hollywood Reporter?s Heat Vision Blog spoke to de Soto recently and he explained his ?vision? for the piece:
?I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it?s expressionism. It?s going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the Empire Of The Sun of zombie films.?
Night of the Living Dead has already been remade once back in 1990. But the new version is not a strict remake as it employs a new set of characters. On board for vocal duties are Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Danielle Harris and Alona Tai. Fans will know that both Moseley and Pilato have starred in George A. Romero?s films before. Whether this will be as empty-headed as a freshly devoured corpse, or something unique in its own right remains to be seen.
Night of the Living Dead: Origins will be staggering its way to screens (or Blu-ray and DVD) some time in 2010. This will have to do until somebody gets around to making Max Brooks? masterpiece World War Z.
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*Thank G_D!!!*
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*THE BIRDS Remake is Unfortunately Still going to Happen*
GeekTyrant (blog) - Dec 3, 2009
Last year we reported that Alfred Hitchcocks?s classic film, The Birds was going to get remade. Then we heard that it wasn?t, now it looks like it?s happening again. The producer of this film is none other that Michael freakin? Bay.
Namoi Watts was attached to star in the film and Martin Campbell was going to direct it, but now that Martin is directing The Green Lantern, he has no more interest in remaking The Birds. But Universal wants to get this movie made regardless of what producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form said about it earlier this year.
Now that the movie is back up and running let the annihilation proceed. What happens now? A new director is chosen, and one that isn?t as good as Hitchcock or Campbell.
According to pajiba the new director is Dennis Iliades who most recently made the remake to The Last House on the Left. The film has a $60 million dollar budget and the studio is looking to get a PG-13 rating. Illiades of course is more interested in taking it down the rated R road, and as of right now producers are looking to get another re-write of the script done that will be tailored more toward the version Illiades is looking for.
Tthe script has already passed through a lot of hands over the last year, including Scott Derickson?s (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) original take, a studio polish by Billy Ray (State of Play), and Peter Craig, who was hired to do a rewrite specifically for Martin Campbell.
Why are they doing this!? What is their problem!? Hitchcock made a perfectly awesome suspenseful film and it wasn?t rated R, there was no blood, guts and boobs! They are going to turn a masterpiece into a mediocre piece of crap. Alfred Hitchcock would roll over in his grave if he knew what Hollywood was doing to his movie.
I guess these people realized that they are no match for what Affred Hitchcock accomplished so the are going to dumb down the movie with blood gore and sex. Here?s an idea! Don?t remake the film!
Tell Hollywood what you think about this idea. Let the ranting begin!
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*Spielberg Backs Out of 'Harvey'*
by Monika Bartyzel Dec 4th 2009
Cinematical
*Only a few months after we learned the Steven Spielberg was prepping a remake of the classic film Harvey, the famed director is backing out, according to Variety. The piece is strangely vague, and says only that after spending half a year developing the feature, and after 20th Century Fox reserved soundstages for the production, the director announced his withdrawal from the project.*
From there, they go on to mention the challenges of finding a star. There's no mention of Robert Downey Jr., who was rumored to be circling the project, and just says: "Spielberg's first choice was Tom Hanks, but the actor wanted no part of taking over a role played by the iconic star [James Stewart]." First, good. While I like Hanks' work, thinking of him as Elwood P. Dowd breeds flashbacks of Forrest Gump. Second, I might be in the minority, but I liked the idea of a remake, so this is a disappointment. Perhaps this is because I saw it on stage as well, and to me, Dowd is as much Stewart as it is Edward Herrmann. Perhaps it's just because Robert Downey Jr. would be perfect for the role.
Who knows? Maybe it will go on. With Spielberg out, is there anyone else who should take the helm? Me, I'm thinking Wes Anderson for a modern whimsical spin.
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*At least I know how Marilyn Monroe delt with stress from the studios!*
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Xikominos, Costas
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sexy underwear ... _The Seven Year Itch_ (1955)
*NEW WORD: Latke!*
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*Head, Edith* - Famed costume designer Head graduated from Berkeley and Stanford and went on to receive an unprecedented 35 Oscar nominations and 8 Oscars between 1949 and 1978, making her both the most honored costume designer and woman in Academy Award history.
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Joan Blondell was the mother of Norman S. Powell from her marriage to George Barnes. He was adopted by Dick Powell in February, 1938. Mother of Ellen Powell from her marriage to Dick Powell.
*Celebri-links........... Dick Powell*
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_U.S. vs. John Lennon, The_ (2006)
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Rory Calhoun was in: _How to Marry a Millionaire_ (1953) with Marilyn Monroe!
*NEW STAR: Marilyn Monroe!*
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*Thu, Dec 3, 12:45 PM (Eastern - Check Local Schedule!) It's a Great Feeling (1949)*
*Judy Adams, played by a youngccccxdis thrown into this star studded film, that Warners made to simply showcase their stable of stars. Most appear as themselves, with Joan Crawford demonstrating her perfected slapping skills on Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan, going on to explain, "I do that in all my pictures." She steals the show.*
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*Neko Case takes over TCM as guest programmer*
By Mike Frey, Zap2It | December 2, 2009
Exhibit A: When singer-songwriter Neko Case set out to promote her latest album, "Middle Cyclone," she bypassed the usual channels and made a beeline for Turner Classic Movies, where she'll sit down with Robert Osborne to discuss four of her favorite films as the channel's guest programmer for December. Her selections, as well as her conversation with Osborne, will air the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 8 2009.
"Luckily for me, I have really great publicists," Case says, "and when we started to decide what kind of stuff we wanted to do to promote the record, they said, 'Is there anything you really want to do?' And I said, 'All I want is to get on TCM to be a guest programmer. Please!' And luckily they let me do it."
Case's luck wasn't all good the day she arrived to film her appearance. While she did get to meet Osborne, who she says "is probably the cutest person alive," she missed out on an opportunity to mingle with Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, who preceded her as the network's guest programmer for the month of November.
"He was in the day before me, so I missed him. I was, like, 'Ugh!' because I love him so much."
Case's appreciation for Hopkins' work comes as no surprise. She has been a film buff for most of her life -- since even before she fully understood the scenes that were unfolding on the screen in films such as 1945's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," one of her guest programmer selections.
"My grandma was a huge movie fanatic, so we watched movies from all different eras when I would stay with her -- which is also one of the reasons why I didn't realize that those things weren't happening simultaneously with my life," Case says. "I thought people just dressed different in different cities. I thought all those fashions and all those things were contemporary with 1975 or whenever the hell I was watching them, which is pretty funny."
While two of Case's other selections, "The Third Man" (1949) and "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), would seem to suggest an affinity for films of that same era, she insists her criteria for a favorite movie extend well beyond the year it was released. In fact, in the case of "The Third Man," it was its dissimilarity to the films of its time that attracted her.
"I love the acting in that movie," she says. "It seems very out of time, especially the female lead (Alida Valli). She doesn't do that dramatic overacting that was en vogue at the time. She's just very natural. ? Obviously everybody talks about the cinematography in that movie, which is fantastic, and, of course, Vienna, which is super beautiful. And then, I don't know, Joseph Cotten -- foxy Everyman. You just can't go wrong."
The leading man in "A Face in the Crowd" also made an impression on Case, who -- like most people familiar with Andy Griffith's TV work -- was stunned to see his film debut as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in director Elia Kazan's underrated political satire.
"I didn't see (this) movie until I was in my 30s, and I can't believe I had never seen it before," she says. "I had spent my whole life watching Andy Griffith, so it was a great, exciting revelation to go, 'Oh, yeah, Andy Griffith is a great actor.' And he can do everything -- he can sing, he can act, he can dance. He can do it all, man."
Case also attributes her love of the final film in her quartet, the 1987 comedy "Radio Days," to a man -- albeit one a little less fiery than Lonesome Rhodes.
"I love Woody Allen," she says. "I think, in a way, that (this is) one of his most lighthearted movies. I love the idea that he wrote a film based on -- he said that he had made a list of songs that evoked really strong feelings from him. And then his list of songs turned into an idea for a movie, and I just thought that that was so beautiful."
Neko Case (born September 8, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American alternative country singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers.
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*Audrey Hepburn's classic chic wardrobe, including Givenchy gowns, auctioned*
By Jenny Barchfield (CP)
Dec 1, 2009
The Canadian Press
*PARIS ? Audrey Hepburn fans got a sneak peak Tuesday at dozens of garments and personal effects once belonging to the movie star that will hit the auction blocks next week.*
A Givenchy black lace dress that Hepburn wore in "How to Steal a Million" and a demure ivory wedding gown that never made it down the aisle are among the items.
The fans, fashionistas and those looking to score a slice of film history were given the preview of the collection in Paris before the Dec. 8 sale in London.
"For her, what was important was not decoration and lots of embellishment. She liked very simple things - less was always more for Audrey," said auctioneer Kerry Taylor, whose eponymous auction house is handling the sale.
Star lots include an Yves Saint Laurent empire waisted gown in white cotton that she wore to her son Luca's 1970 christening, estimated at 1,500-2,500 pounds, and an abbreviated, long-sleeve Valentino Haute Couture dress in ivory silk and lace that's identical to the one worn by Jacqueline Kennedy at her 1968 wedding to Aristotle Onassis.
Another ivory wedding gown, made for Hepburn by the Rome-based Fontana sisters, is expected to fetch 8,000-12,000 pounds - though Hepburn herself didn't wear it down the aisle. After her marriage to James Hanson, which was scheduled for 1952, was called off, Hepburn asked that the Fontana sisters give it "to someone who could never afford a dress like mine, the most beautiful, poor Italian girl you can find," the auction catalogue quotes Hepburn as saying.
And then there's the Givenchy: pared-down cocktail dresses, buttery silk tops, ladylike coats and dramatic sweeping gowns made by legendary French couturier for Hepburn, his muse.
"She said of Hubert de Givenchy that he was her greatest friend and he said of her that it was a real romance between the two, a real love affair that lasted all their lives," Taylor told The Associated Press at Sotheby's Paris showroom, where the two-day-long preview was held.
A Givenchy cocktail dress and cropped jacket made from black lace - which Hepburn wore in the 1966 romantic comedy "How to Steal a Million," costarring Peter O'Toole - is expected to fetch the sale's highest price of between 15,000-20,000 pounds - though auctioneer Taylor acknowledges the estimates are very approximate.
She said that clothes having once belonged to Hepburn, who died in 1993, rarely come to auction and the last two pieces fetched a whopping US$1 million.
"These are harder times, and I've tried to keep my feet on the ground," she said, adding that lots start at an estimated 250 pounds for a straw hat. Another headpiece, a domed hat by Givenchy in green velvet with dangling beaded and feathered tassels, was featured in a 1964 Vogue shoot, and is estimated at 800-1,200 pounds.
Most of the lots come from the closets of Tanja Star-Busmann, a longtime friend of the actress. The two met in London when Tanja was 15 years old and Hepburn 20 - just before her career took off.
"I was perhaps her first unofficial fan - writing letters to her from boarding school and receiving replies," Star-Busmann, who is now in her 70s, wrote in the auction catalogue. In addition to letters - some of which are to be sold - Hepburn also regularly gave her young confidant her hand-me-downs, which became increasingly fabulous as her star rose.
"Over the years, a cavalcade of boxes filled to the brim . . . arrived at my door," wrote Star-Busmann. "Unpacking them was always like Xmas all over."
One of the pieces, a white point d'esprit bustier dress Hepburn wore in the 1956 movie "Love in the Afternoon," came shortly after Star-Busmann gave birth to a daughter. Enclosed with the frothy tulle was a note reading "just so you know what it's like to have a waist again," the catalogue said.
After she recovered her figure, Star-Busman passed the dress on to her nanny, who - not having Hepburn's wasp-thin figure - had it enlarged using two panels down the back.
"Mr. Givenchy saw it yesterday and was really upset at the condition," said Taylor. "I understand him. I went ahead and put it into the auction because I thought that with lots of love and care, it could be restored."
A better-preserved version of the same dress in black - Hepburn was in the habit of acquiring her favourite dresses in both shades - is also to be auctioned.
Highlights are on display at Sotheby's in Paris through Wednesday. Half the proceeds from the sale are to go to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and UNICEF.
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*TCM host Robert Osborne is calling the December tribute ?the most complete Bogart film retrospective that?s been done anywhere.?*
*I Can't wait to see the documentary: _Bogart: The Untold Story_ (1996)!!!*
*_Per TCM_:*
Stephen Bogart, the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, narrates _Bogart: The Untold Story_, a 1996 documentary that tells the story of his father's life. Stephen was just eight years old when Humphrey Bogart died in 1957. And since he was so young, Stephen has only vague memories of him. As Stephen explains, his father was a distant figure and his only physical memories of him are on screen. Bogart: The Untold Story is an attempt by Stephen to get to know the man behind the star, to learn who his father really was and to answer those questions every child has about their parents.
*Sounds good!!*
*Also, what looks good is the three documentaries, _Bacall on Bogart_ (1988), _Bogart: The Untold Story_ (1996) with his son, Stephen Bogart, and TCM?s 1996 _Becoming Attractions: Humphrey Bogart_, which tells the story of Bogart?s rise through the Warner Bros. ranks through trailers for his films.*
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*Film Clip Shows Marilyn Monroe Smoking Marijuana*
ABC News - Daniel Trotta
December 1, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A home movie showing a relaxed Marilyn Monroe apparently smoking marijuana has surfaced, retrieved from an attic some 50 years after it was filmed.
The reel-to-reel silent, color film taken at a private home in New Jersey was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for $275,000 from the person who took the film, who has asked to remain anonymous.
Morgan and the person who shot the film gave Reuters permission to use it in digital form. The copyright of the image will be put up for sale on eBay later this week, Morgan said.
Morgan, a collector of historical photos, manuscripts, autographs and documents, is also working on a documentary on the death of Monroe in August 1962.
He learned of the film during his research and tracked down the owner, who kept it as part of an archive that was moved between various homes over the years. The Monroe film had been stored in an attic for three years before Morgan tracked it down.
The actress appears happy and relaxed at a small gathering of friends that Morgan dates to 1958 or 1959, based on her appearance.
"This is the late '50s so she is already very famous, but this is a personal side of her we've never seen before. People have never seen her in such a relaxed pose," Morgan said.
At one point she is passed a cigarette and takes a puff but does not appear to inhale deeply. Later she appears to take a sniff of her own armpit and laughs about it.
The person who made the film confirmed that the cigarette contained marijuana, saying: "I got it (the pot). It was mine. It was just passed around."
"It was not a party. It was just a get-together. You know, come over and hang out."
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by David Storey)
Copyright 2009 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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*TRON: LEGACY Creative Team to Remake Disney's THE BLACK HOLE*
December 1, 09
GeekTyrant (blog)
Disney is looking to remake another one of there classic live-action films, The Black Hole, and they have brought in the creative team from Tron: Legacy to make it happen. Director Joseph Kosinski, Producer Sean Bailey, and writer Travis Beacham will once again work together on this next big Disney film project. The Black Hole film project is being labeled as a reinvention of the 1979 sci-fi film, which at the time was the most expensive movie Disney had ever produced. It cost them $26 million dollars, and was the first PG-rated Disney film that helped put the company on the special effects map.
There are no major details on what the new Black Hole project will entail but it will involve grounding the story in the science of a black hole, much more so than in the original. Maximilian (the big red scary robot) also would return.
The original 1979 film followed a group of space explorers aboard the USS Palomino who come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a black hole. Inside the Cygnus, the explorers meet a scientist, commanding an army of faceless robots, who explains his crew deserted him as he planned to go through the black hole. The explorers soon discover that the robots are the remnants of the former crew and that the scientist has no intention of letting them leave.
It?s been awhile since I?ve seen the original Black Hole, but from what I remember from my childhood I enjoyed it. I should probably watch it again, even if it ruins how awesome I remember it being.
Do you think Disney?s The Black Hole could use a reboot?
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*TCM to Celebrate 75th Anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle With Marathon of Five Honored Classics Jan. 5*
*Collection of Top Choices Includes The Informer (1935), In Which We Serve (1942), Darling (1965), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)*
PR Newswire (press release)
*ATLANTA, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is set to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle with a special marathon of five honored classics on Tuesday, Jan. 5, beginning at 8 p.m. (ET).*
Each of the five films in TCM's marathon earned the group's top prize, Best Picture. But they are also among the Circle's choices that did not go on to receive Best Picture Oscars?. The night includes John Ford's potent tale The Informer (1935); Noel Coward and David Lean's World War II drama In Which We Serve (1942); John Schlesinger's Darling (1965); Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential (1997); and Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936).
The New York Film Critics Circle is an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema. Founded in 1935, the Circle includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines and qualifying online general-interest publications. Each year in December, the organization meets in New York to vote on awards for the previous calendar year's films. The Circle's awards are often viewed as harbingers of the Oscars? nominations. They are also viewed by many as a principled alternative to the Oscars?, honoring aesthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures. The Circle will choose its honorees for 2009 in early December.
*The following is a complete lineup of TCM's Jan. 5 celebration of the 75th anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle:*
8 p.m.: The Informant (1935) - The Circle's first-ever Best Picture honoree is a passionate tale of betrayal set during the Irish Rebellion of 1922 and based on a novel by Liam O'Flaherty. Victor McLaglen stars as a hard-drinking informer who turns a buddy into authorities for a reward, only to find his life ruined as a result. Director John Ford was also honored by the Circle.
9:45 p.m.: In Which We Serve (1942) - Noel Coward and David Lean fashioned this powerful saga about men serving on a British fighting vessel during World War II. Coward also stars in the film, co-wrote the script and composed the score. He is joined by John Mills, Bernard Miles, Kay Walsh and, making their film debuts, Celia Johnson, Richard Attenborough, Daniel Massey and a very young Julie Mills.
Midnight: Darling (1965) - This innovatively filmed drama was chosen as Best Picture of 1965 by the Circle, which also named Julie Christie as Best Actress and John Schlesinger as Best Director. Christie plays a common girl who nabs an Italian as her husband, while also engaging in numerous unsatisfactory affairs with other men. Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey co-star.
2:15 a.m.: L.A. Confidential (1997) - This atmospheric adaptation of James Ellroy's novel earned the Circle's top prize, along with Best Director for Curtis Hanson and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hanson and co-writer Brian Hegeland. The story follows a web of corruption within the Los Angeles police department during the 1950s, with Guy Pearce playing a straight-arrow cop working with a thuggish officer, played by Russell Crowe, and a slick self-promoting detective, played by Kevin Spacey, to bring down a prostitution ring. Kim Bassinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Ron Rifkin and Simon Baker co-star.
4:45 a.m.: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Frank Capra's poignant, crowd-pleasing comedy-drama stars Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds, a small-town man who inherits $20 million, then shocks everyone by deciding to give it away to people in need. Jean Arthur is pitch-perfect as a tough reporter determined to figure out what makes Deeds tick. This was only the second film to be named Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Picture.
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 Oscars? 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.
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*Eddy, Nelson*
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In 1966, Gardner briefly sought the role of Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967). She reportedly called Nichols and said, "I want to see you! I want to talk about this Graduate thing!" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that "she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star clich?. She said, 'All right, let's talk about your movie. First of all, I strip for nobody.'"
*Celebri-links ..... director Mike Nichols!*
Robert Mitchum FAN TRIBUTE!!!
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*Sat, Dec 5, 1:45 PM _&_ Thu, Dec 17, 10:00 PM: _Holiday Affair_ (1949)!!!*
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*All Times Eastern!*
*The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed.*