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_Rain_ (1932)
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*Marilyn Monroe's junior high school photo up for auction*
USA Today - Oct 14, 2009
*A 1941 junior high school class photo that includes 15-year-old Norma Jean Baker -- who would become film star Marilyn Monroe -- is up for auction.*
The photo shows the teenager among a sea of 800 classmates at Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles.
On the back, she signs her name with the inscription: ?To a super and swell friend (date at that) I mean it Bobby! Norma Jean Baker ?41.?
A consultant for RR Auction says the photo could bring more than $20,000 at the auction, which ends Thursday.
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_Above Suspicion_ (1943)
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*James Earl Jones*
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Roddy McDowell was in: _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_ (1971) directed by Robert Stevenson!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Robert Stevenson!*
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*The William Castle Film Collection: a tribute to the filmmaker and promoter*
*The compilation, which will be available Tuesday, includes eight movies and a documentary about the director and producer.*
Los Angeles Times
By Dennis Lim
October 18, 2009
William Castle the filmmaker was at best a prolific schlockmeister, a B-movie journeyman with a flair for enjoyably cheesy knock-offs. But William Castle the promoter was some kind of genius, a lo-fi forefather of the modern blockbuster who understood that the best way to sell a movie was to turn it into an event.
Even today -- especially today, perhaps, with the nature of marketing evolving more rapidly than ever -- his influence lingers. A sneaky Castle-worthy viral campaign compelling fans to "demand" its presence in their towns has transformed ?Paranormal Activity? from a sleeper indie into a grassroots hit.
And those stories proliferating on blogs and Twitter about medical emergencies at early screenings of Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" -- a viewer reportedly suffered a panic attack at the New York Film Festival, someone vomited in Toronto, a few fainted in Cannes -- call to mind Castle's gimmick for 1958's "Macabre": Viewers were insured against "death by fright" and real-life nurses were stationed in theaters.
Castle made "Macabre" after leaving the studio fold, in an effort to turn himself into a Hitchcock-like brand name. For the follow-up, "House on Haunted Hill" (1959), starring Vincent Price and also independently produced, he went further, introducing a newfangled "process" that he termed Emergo, which would bring the ghouls off the screen and into the theater -- i.e., plastic skeletons would dangle from the ceiling.
Sony's new William Castle Film Collection ($80.95, out Tuesday) brings together eight movies that Castle made after returning to Columbia, along with a 2007 feature-length documentary, "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story."
The '50s were the age of the movie gimmick, with Hollywood rushing to implement such technologies as 3-D, Cinerama and CinemaScope in a frantic bid to reclaim viewers lost to the new wonders of television. But while these sensory enhancements were expensive, complicated innovations, Castle's come-ons, which often amounted to a literal and primitive form of interactive cinema, had a charming bargain-basement quality.
For "The Tingler" (1959), in which Price plays a scientist researching the constricting effects of fear on the spinal column, Castle unveiled his nerviest stunt: a technique called Percepto that administered physical shocks to viewers -- or at least, the lucky ones who found themselves in seats that had been rigged with vibrators. The movie opened with Castle addressing the audience, warning them that "unfortunate sensitive people" would experience "a strange tingling sensation."
"A scream at the right time may save your life!" he advised. "The Tingler" is also notable for an early demonstration of the effects of LSD, courtesy of a gamely over-the-top Price.
Viewers of "13 Ghosts" (1960), a routine haunted-house story, were given supernatural "goggles" made of cardboard and colored cellophane. They were told to look through the red filter if they believed in ghosts, and the blue filter if they didn't. "Homicidal" (1961), a vigorous "Psycho" retread, complete with shock stabbings and kinky cross-dressing, offered the audience a 45-second "fright break" just before the climax.
Gaspar Noe's neo-exploitation art flick "I Stand Alone" used the same trick nearly 40 years later.
"Mr. Sardonicus" (1961), whose protagonist's face is frozen into a ghastly grin after an encounter with a corpse, culminates in a "punishment poll," creating the illusion of a viewers'-choice ending when in fact only one existed.
The best of the non-gimmick films here -- unless you count the casting of Joan Crawford as a gimmick -- "Strait-Jacket" (1964) was Castle's version of a prestige picture, evidently inspired by the earlier aging-diva showdown "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" He hired "Psycho" writer Robert Bloch and got Crawford to play an ax murderess. She obliges brilliantly, keeping a deadly straight face through the messy histrionics.
Castle, who went on to produce "Rosemary's Baby," is still remembered as a great showman and huckster. But those labels fail to convey the basic generosity and childlike innocence of his outlook. It's true that he was always thinking up a sales pitch, but beyond that, he was a wide-eyed entertainer who believed that movies did not simply begin and end on the screen, and that the filmgoing experience was above all a communal one.
Copyright ? 2009, The Los Angeles Times
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*Stuart Kaminsky, mystery novelist and screenwriter, dies at 75*
Orlando Sentinel
Oct 14, 2009
posted by OtownRog
I had lost track of Stuart Kaminsky after visiting him in Sarasota and profiling him for the paper back in 2003. He was a great example of the working writer doing writer's work. His mysteries were boilerplate fiction but he had an ear for dialog and crafted some memorable characters.
He was a grand success at that. He had some 60 mystery titles to his credit, often in series with such hardened gumshoes as Toby Peters, Abe Lieberman, Lew Fonseca and Porfiry Rostnikov as their heroes.
His New York Times obituary today says he died in St. Louis awaiting a liver transplant. He was 75. Hepatitis. Got it in the Army in the 50s, his widow says.
He was a past president of Mystery Writers of America, a very nice gentleman who wrote, and looked and played the part, as this photo Bobby Coker took of him while I was there interviewing Kaminsky shows.
His film work led me to use him as a second source in several stories, profiles of filmmakers, pieces about movie trends and genres. A great quote and very generous with his time.
*My 2003 profile of him is below the page break.*
SARASOTA -- The killer is still in his shorts. It's Florida. It's hot. He's been playing softball.
"Catcher," he says. "I can still run. As long as my knees will let me."
He dons the mitt in the winter and even in Florida's blistering summers. But only in the mornings. He's not some tourist. He's lived here for years.
Most weekdays, Stuart Kaminsky leaves his modest two-story stone-and-stucco home in one of Sarasota's miles of suburbs to visit the post office, or to pick up his 14-year-old daughter Natasha from school or basketball practice. There's also the Friday afternoon "Liar's Club" poker game at Sarasota's Cafe Baci -- where another killer, Stephen King, has been known to sit in -- book readings, various arts events. Sarasota has a lot of those.
The routine is not out of place in this wealthy, retiree-packed Gulf-side city. Neither is Kaminsky, a graying professorial-looking fellow who is, at 68, a mite young for Sarasota.
But Kaminsky does stand out. He kills people for a living. His victims? He's never bothered to count.
"Somewhere between 100 and 200, I'd say." He laughs at the question. So does his wife, Enid. "I've never thought about it."
A dead cosmonaut, a dead literary agent. And on July 1, a cheating wife dispatched with a crossbow bolt. They add up.
"Fifty books, a couple a book, at the most. Not that many, really."
*PLENTY OF INSPIRATION*
Kaminsky is one of America's most-successful mystery or crime-fiction novelists. He's almost 30 years into a career that came to him after years in Hollywood and academia. That he turns out all this mayhem in sleepy Sarasota is all the more surprising.
"There's a very bad side to this place," he says. "For all the money, all the retirees, the arts and everything, there's also a lot of corporate crime, drugs. Just read the paper."
OK, so the City of Angels has nothing on the City by the Gulf for crime. It is, after all, where Pee Wee Herman's troubles first came to light. Still, it takes a little imagination to people his novels about a detective in 1940s Hollywood, or in post-Soviet Russia or Chicago. Kaminsky has lots of that -- 56 books' worth.
When he's not pounding out his 10 pages a day, five days a week, Kaminsky is probably off collecting honors and awards -- from a Spanish mystery festival, Semana Negra, or the American Culture Association. Or most prominently, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, mystery writing's highest honor, from the Mystery Writers of America.
They're all stacked up in his cluttered home office, piled high to the ceiling with the books, bits of research, gifts and more books.
"It's a mess up here," Enid protests. "It's always like this when he's nearing the end of a book. He doesn't throw anything out."
And Kaminsky is nearing the end of a book. His latest novel about the grizzled Chicago cop Abe Lieberman is well into its second and final draft. His 23rd Toby Peters mystery, a series about a World War II-era detective in star-studded Hollywood, is due out in July. And Midnight Pass, another Lew Fonesca novel, about a Sarasota-based former Chicago state's attorney researcher-turned-detective, will hit bookstores in December.
And what about Porfiry Rostnikov, the Russian policeman who never quite got over communism?
"I think it's time to set him aside," Kaminsky says. "Just for a bit, though. I have eight books that I want to get to before looking at Porfiry again."
And Rostnikov is not the only character Kaminsky is planning on writing off. He figures that his 24th Peters novel, his next book about the detective who crosses paths with the likes of Errol Flynn, Eleanor Roosevelt and Joan Crawford, will be his last Toby Peters book.
"Maybe I'll finish him up with the end of the war," he says.
It's not that Kaminsky is thinking of slowing down. He has other books on his mind -- a novel set in the world of jazz, a series of conversations with writers titled A Day With, and others. The folks who do The Night Stalker graphic novels want him to script another.
*WAITING FOR THE BIG ONE*
Kaminsky is modest about his writing. "I'm just a mid-list author, never had a hit book," he says. But he's had the good reviews from the likes of The Los Angeles Times and Publisher's Weekly.
"Although he hasn't enjoyed nearly the acclaim of, say, Elmore Leonard or Robert B. Parker or Sara Paretsky, he's probably been more consistently entertaining than any of those other authors," says J. Kingston Pierce, crime-fiction editor of January Magazine. "His plots rarely fail to intrigue, and his protagonists are ceaselessly magnetic."
Kaminsky writes for the mystery trade, one of the most loyal readerships in publishing. He knows his audience. He's just like them.
"A fan sent me an e-mail suggesting that somebody be killed with a crossbow and that the book be called Mildred Pierced," he says. "From that, I got the idea to bring Joan Crawford into the story. I already had a character named Mildred, so I killed her in the first chapter. Perfect!
"I'm not embarrassed by the fact that most mystery readers are older," he says. "I try to hit all age groups with these books, but the Toby Peters books, especially, will appeal to people who lived through that era."
"That era" is the Golden Age of Hollywood, and "Greatest Generation" America. Kaminsky grew up in the Chicago of Michael Shayne detective serials and World War II gas rationing.
"I didn't get into [mystery writing] to kill people off," he says. "I really did it out of nostalgia. Nostalgia for that era, the war, the films of that day."
Though he has juggled four crime-fiction series over the years, the Peters novels are closest to Kaminsky's heart. Peters was the hero of Kaminsky's first work of fiction, Bullet for a Star (1976). He named the detective after his two sons, Toby and Peter. And the Peters books connect Kaminsky to Hollywood, a town he has studied and worked in since his youth.
Kaminsky reads magazines of the era, archived newspapers from the weeks that his latest Toby Peters mystery is set in. He reads biographies of the famous figures he plans to slip into his book -- Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson in Smart Moves (1986), Cary Grant in To Catch a Spy (2002).
"I am less concerned with the reality of their lives than the myth of their lives. But I also spend some time debunking part of their myth, just in the interest of accuracy."
He ignored the infamous and unproven allegation that Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy for Bullet for a Star.
And in Mildred Pierced, Kaminsky touches on Joan Crawford's insecurities, her obsession with neatness. She's on the cusp of a comeback if this script to the movie Mildred Pierce becomes hers. If only Peters can keep her name out of the newspapers in connection with a murder.
*THE HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION*
Before settling in as a novelist,Kaminsky taught at Northwestern University and ran Florida State University's Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television Production. That's what brought him to Sarasota. When the program moved to Tallahassee in the mid-'90s, Kaminsky stayed in Sarasota to write.
Early in his academic career he wrote textbooks and film biographies. He followed Don Siegel around as the action auteur was filming Dirty Harry. That led to biographies of both Siegel and star Clint Eastwood.
It also led to Hollywood writing assignments. He wrote dialogue for _Once Upon a Time in America_ and had other scripts filmed. His most recent writing for the screen was an episode of the cable TV series Nero Wolfe in 2001.
But after a few bad celluloid encounters in the '70s he doesn't hold his breath waiting for that next Hollywood plum to come along.
He was signed to ghost-write a biography for Patricia Neal even though Neal was married to author Roald Dahl.
"That was no fun," he remembers. "I got three chapters into this biography, an actress who had had a stroke and couldn't remember anything, and a husband who was a famous writer who absolutely hated having me around."
The project fell through. So did another with Charlton Heston, but Heston paid him off. And that gave Kaminsky the time and the money to do this book about a scruffy detective hired by Warner Brothers to protect Errol Flynn from a blackmailer. Bullet for a Star was his first novel, a Toby Peters novel.
*TAKING CUES FROM TV*
His inspiration often comes from the movies and TV. That most alien of his series, the Russian Rostnikov mysteries, has a most-alien origin.
"People never like my answer when I talk about Rostnikov, where he came from," Kaminsky says with a laugh. "It's not research, or some Russian I once knew. He's Mr. Spock. He's emotionally limited, committed to communism, inscrutable. And in spite of that there's something likable about him, I hope. It's kind of sad that he has these limitations. He has to struggle against himself to achieve what he does. And that's why I admire him."
But a writer has only so many ideas, so many resources and so much time. "And four series, keeping them going, is just a bit much," he says. "I need to wind a couple of them down."
Rostinikov goes first. And then his beloved Toby Peters.
But Kaminsky isn't locking any doors behind him, either.
"I want to leave it open, when I stop doing them," he says of the Toby Peters novels. "I want to acquire the rights to all of them, maybe do a new one and offer them all to a new publisher."
Like many writers, he has dreamed of a running a house that puts out only the books that he loves.
That's why Stuart and Enid Kaminsky run Mystery Vault Inc., a small publishing imprint that specializes in mystery reprints, "mostly novels that I've loved, that are otherwise out of print," he says. There are Donald Westlake reprints and a new work by Max Allan Collins, who wrote Road to Perdition.
"Just because I love these writers doesn't mean they'll sell," Kaminsky says. "We've even got a new Mickey Spillane novel, if he ever turns it in."
Which brings Kaminsky back to his roots, to the back seat of a childhood friend's car where he stumbled across his first Mickey Spillane novel. He loves crime fiction. But he needs to get some other things out of his system.
"I really wanted to build this thing around the jazz world and make a lot of it about jazz. A good friend of mine is the bassist, Charlie Haden. I have a character in it I call `the world's greatest bass player.' But my agent was talking me out of this jazz setting. `Not commercial enough.'"
Kaminsky smiles. A guy who has lived just on the edge of writing fame is inclined to listen to such advice. He still has hopes for that breakout hit, that book that will "let us get this place over in Flagler Beach that my wife wants."
Might the jazz novel push that back? Killing has been such a lucrative profession for him, all these years. And jazz hasn't been "commercial" for decades.
"I'm doing it anyway."
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*OMG!! I haven't seen this since I was a kid ...well about a month ago realy when a friend purchased an old OOP VHS used copy at a "Bookmans Entertainment Exchange" here in Arizona! They rely on our customers for what they sell - books, music, movies, video games and systems, magazines, comics, electronics, tchotchkes, and musical instruments, and more!*
*I reember seeing this schlock in theater in the 80's! LOL!*
*Still a fun film... Very "Cult"! Mary Woronov who stars is one (1) of my favorite "Cult' actresses!*
*_TerrorVision_ (1986) - All Times Eastern - Sat. Oct. 17th, 2009 @ 3:45 AM*
*I hope it's "Letterbox" ..since it was printed film format was 35 mm!*
*Despite the connections to distributor Full Moon Features, TerrorVision has yet to see a DVD release. However, in 2007, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer renewed the copyrights to the film, fueling speculation that a DVD release may be possible in the near future.*
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Richard Allen was in: Niagara (1953) with Marilyn Monroe!
*NEW STAR: Marilyn Monroe!*
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_Queen of the Gypsies_ (1976)
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*Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on December 22nd 2009!*
Source: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
October 14th, 2009
You can bring home the latest film from screen legend Michael Douglas on both DVD and Blu-ray right before the holidays. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 22. The standard DVD will be priced at $29.98 SRP while the BD will cost $34.98 SRP. The film stars Michael Douglas, Jesse Metcalfe and Amber Tamblyn.
In Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, high profile District Attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist, C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney's perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with Hunter, C.J. frames himself as a murder suspect to catch the corrupt D.A. in the act. Romantically involved with C.J. but unaware of his assignment, Assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) becomes caught between her boss's political ambitions and C.J.'s dangerous expos?. As mounting evidence stacks up against both men, Ella's own life becomes threatened when she discovers incriminating proof that puts the fate of both Nicholas's innocence and Hunter's reputation in her hands.
*_Special Features_:*
- Audio commentary with writer/director/cinematographer Peter Hyams and actor Jesse Metcalfe
- The Whole Truth - The Making Of Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
- Criminal Forensics - The Burden Of Proof
- Theatrical trailer
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*YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!*
October 13, 2009
Examiner.com
*The original version of The Stepfather, releases today on DVD for the first time. The movie gets a new hi-def widescreen transfer with several bonus features including the following:*
Audio commentary by director Joseph Ruben, moderated by yours truly
All new ?The Chronicles? retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Ruben, producer Jay Benson, actress Jill Schoelen, writer Brian Garfield and others
U.S. theatrical trailer
Finally, this cult classic starring Terry O'Quinn and Jill Schoelen is getting its own DVD. Who knows why it took so long but it's finally going to happen, no doubt due, in part, by the remake that is having its theatrical release this week.
Stepfather 2 was released on September 29 from Synapse Films. That DVD release includes interviews with the cast and crew, deleted scenes and a trailer.
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*All Times Eastern - Wed. Oct. 21, 2009 @ 2:30 AM TCM - Check Local Schedule!*
*On October 20, 2009, The Old Dark House will be released on DVD for the first time by Sony Pictures.*
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*All Times Eastern - Tue. Oct. 20, 2009 @ 8:00 PM - Check Local Schedule!*
*_Mr. Sardonicus_ (1961)*
*Castle, with his reputation as the "king of gimmicks" to market his films, used the alternate ending as the springboard for his latest gimmick. Audiences were given the opportunity to participate in the "Punishment Poll". Each movie patron was given a card that glowed in the dark. On one side was a glow-in-the-dark thumbs up symbol and on the other side was a thumbs down. The audience for each showing was allowed to vote, by flashing the relevant card side, whether Sardonicus would live or die. Supposedly, no audience ever offered mercy so the alternate ending was never screened.*
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Cesar Romero was in: _Week-End in Havana_ (1941) directed by: Walter Lang!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Walter Lang!*
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*Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.*
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vexatious ... _The Road_ (2009)
*NEW WORD: Imperceptible!*
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*Writer recalls fiery days filming classic 'Chinatown'*
*MOVIES: ON-SET FIGHTS SOMETIMES RIVALED ACTION IN FRONT OF MOVIE CAMERAS*
NewsOK.com
BY GENE TRIPLETT
Published: October 14, 2009
*To hear screenwriter Robert Towne tell it, there was almost as much contentious heat flaring off-camera as on-camera during the filming of the neo-noir classic "Chinatown.?*
*No one was murdered or had his nose slit open, but volatile director Roman Polanski managed to ignite a few behind-the-scenes explosions of temper that matched the movie?s onscreen moments of emotional combustion.*
"It was known at the time that it was contentious,? Towne said in a recent phone interview of his working relationship with the Polish-French filmmaker. "But you know, my memories of it are basically positive. It?s true, we would fight during the day, but then we would go out and have a hell of a good time at night. So then we?d be back in the trenches the next day, fighting over it.?
Polanski even fought with his star and good friend Jack Nicholson.
On the special features disc of the just-released DVD set commemorating the 35th anniversary of "Chinatown,? Nicholson flashes a wide grin as he describes a doozy of a dust-up that erupted when he was eager to retire to his on-set dressing room, thinking filming had wrapped for the day, to watch a basketball game involving his beloved Los Angeles Lakers.
Polanski, who had wanted to film another scene, became furious that his star wanted to interrupt shooting to watch a ballgame. He burst into Nicholson?s trailer with a blunt instrument, attempting to destroy the actor?s TV set.
"And I don?t know why, but I started tearing my wardrobe off, and was left at the end of the argument in my underwear, alone, and left the set,? Nicholson recalls, "not knowing, of course, that I had to come back in because my dressing room was on the set. I had to come back in, kind of silly, feeling a little bit nutty. ... Of course, the poor people who?d witnessed this thought, ?Oh my God, is this the end? Will we ever get these two people back together again?? ... So that was one argument we had.?
But as in Towne?s case, friendships were mended by evening, and Nicholson and Polanski were laughing about it.
And somehow, out of a stormy collaboration, this Raymond Chandler-style mystery about city government corruption, unspeakable family secrets, betrayal and murder in 1930s Los Angeles still stands as one of the finest films ever made, ranking in the American Film Institute?s Top 25. The screenplay, which won Towne an Oscar, is based on the true story of the criminal shenanigans surrounding the water rights that were crucial to developing L.A.
"I think the story itself is kind of timeless, whether it?s a conspiracy on the part of an entire city led by a few city fathers and corrupt individuals, or a savings and loan scandal or Watergate,? Towne said. "Through the years, we have seen public corruption led by private individuals in the public sector. And so, there?s, I suppose, an uncomfortable familiarity with it that does make it seem contemporary.
"And then there?s the quality of the film itself. The restoration has kept the picture looking pretty pristine, like it was just made.?
The film, which also stars Faye Dunaway and John Huston, is presented in a two-disc set with an eight-page booklet and new special features, including commentary from Towne and director David Fincher ("Zodiak?) and a three-part documentary on the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, plus previously released interviews with Polanski and producer Robert Evans, among others.
"Chinatown? was to have been the first installment in an L.A. trilogy, but creative differences reared an ugly head again during the making of the sequel, "The Two Jakes,? which Nicholson directed. Towne took his leave from the project, a situation he won?t discuss nearly 20 years later.
But he?s still friends with Nicholson, having known him since they roomed together as struggling young actors years ago, and having written another of the actor?s best vehicles, "The Last Detail? (1973). They have even discussed working together again.
"But so far nothing has materialized,? Towne said. "It?s difficult when you go over a period of time, unless you?re working together constantly. We certainly talked about it, but nothing has happened yet.?
*But, if anyone?s expecting that long overdue third chapter, forget it, Jake. No "Chinatown III.?*
*The package?s second DVD includes a History Channel-worthy documentary on the early-20th-century LA water-acquisition wars that supplied the background for Towne?s script.*
*The disc is filled out by production retrospectives previously included on a 2007 reissue. (Paramount, $16.99; available now)*
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I'm confused! I read it twice!
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LOL! ROFL!! WHY!?! This is "Classic Film" ...Not "Retro Tv" or "Tv Land"!!!
Peyton Place is an American prime time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969.
Maybe the "Soap" channel!!?
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*What still boggles my mind is the films starts off in "Widescreen" with the opening credits, then goes into "Pan and scan" after the opening credits ends!!!*
*_SKY WEST AND CROOKED_ - 1966 (Hayley Mills, Ian McShane!)*
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*Captain Lou Albano dies at 76*
Oct. 14, 2009
Zap2it.com
American wrestler and entertainer Captain Lou Albano, known for his outrageous declarations and unruly hair, has died. He was 76.
The pro wrestler, who was part of the 1980s World Wrestling Federation sensation Wrestlemania, was at home under hospice care in New York before his death on Wednesday morning, reports MTV.
Albano made his wrestling debut in 1953. In the '80s he was part of a tag team with Tony Altimore and then later changed his image to that of manager, when he added the "Captain" part of his appellation. The tag teams he managed included the Masked Executioners, the Mongols, the Yukon Lumberjacks, the Moondogs and the Wild Samoans.
During this decade, he also teamed up with artist Cyndi Lauper. While she appeared on WWF programming, Albano played her dad in a few music videos.
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*TCM did the same thing the other night with _Sky West and Crooked_ (1966) (AKA _Gypsy Girl_ (USA)).! Sad it was shown all blown up and distorted! You could tell the film was ment for "Letterbox" "NOT" full screen!*
*Film negative format (mm/video inches)*
35 mm
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*_The Man Who Understood Women_ (1959)*
*Hmmmm according to "movie database" .....* *I guess the Fox channel is evil!!*
*Film negative format (mm/video inches)*
35 mm
*Cinematographic process*
CinemaScope
*Printed film format*
35 mm
*Aspect ratio*
2.35 : 1
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Henry Fonda was in: _Daisy Kenyon_ (1947) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*