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Chazz Palminteri: The Hollywood Interivew
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Chazz Palminteri Goes to Bed Hungry
By Alex Simon
Chazz Palminteri’s life is one of those classic show biz stories that, dare we say it, is the stuff from which movies are made. Born and raised in the Bronx, Palminteri toiled for years as a struggling stage, film and television actor before finally being plucked from obscurity by Robert De Niro, who saw his off-Broadway autobiographical play A Bronx Tale, a one-man show in which Palminteri played a host of colorful characters he grew up and around in his Bronx neighborhood during the 1950s and ‘60s, where his life was shaped by two mentors: his straight-laced working class father and a local mobster named Sonny.
The movie version of A Bronx Tale was a hit with audiences and critics alike upon its premiere in 1993 and Palminteri hasn’t stopped working since. His latest turn, in Debbie Goodstein’s autobiographical film Mighty Fine, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Hilarity: Famous Movie Quotes… in Chart Form
3 hours ago | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
It's pretty widely known that Marlon Brando's "Godfather" can give a guy an offer he can't refuse, but we're still going to need to see some documentation on that.
Enter Nathan Yau, a UCLA PhD candidate in statistics with a focus in data visualization, whose posts on Flowing Data include two sets of famous movie quotes done up in semi-easy-to-follow diagrams.
Some of these literal deconstructions include Leonardo DiCaprio's "I'm King of the World!" declaration from "Titanic," Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry catchphrase "Go ahead, make my day," and that other famous Brando quote from "On the Waterfront": "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am…"
Check out one of the charts below, and also scope out Yau's chart of sequels that do or don't live up to the original.
Finally, math is fun, »
- Max Evry
Gary Oldman Signs on for 'RoboCop' Remake
23 May 2012 5:29 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Gary Oldman has struck a deal to appear in MGM's upcoming remake of the 1987 film "RoboCop." Oldman will play the scientist who creates RoboCop, a role handled by Miguel Ferrer in the original. Joel Kinnaman of "The Killing" will inherit the title role from Peter Weller. Also read: Tom Hardy in Cannes: I Love Marlon Brando, But I Worship Gary Oldman The film is slated for an August 9, 2013 release. Jose Padilha ("Elite Squad") is directing. Related Articles: »
- Tim Kenneally
Martin Sheen And Emilio Estevez Memoir Explores Father-Son Relationship
22 May 2012 12:14 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
-- "Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son" (Free Press), by Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez with Hope Edelman: First see their movie, then read their book.
Their movie is "The Way," a crowd-pleasing indie production starring actor Martin Sheen and written and directed by his son Emilio Estevez. In the film, a father tries to connect with a deceased son by taking up his spiritual pilgrimage to northern Spain.
Their book is "Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son," an equally engaging dual memoir by Sheen and Estevez that explores their lives and their intense relationship. Punctuated with humor and unusual frankness, the emotional highs and lows they share will resonate with fathers and sons.
One of 10 children raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio, young Ramon Estevez found lots of love at home but little support for his ambition to perform for a living. »
- AP
Martin Sheen And Emilio Estevez Memoir Explores Father-Son Relationship
22 May 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
-- "Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son" (Free Press), by Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez with Hope Edelman: First see their movie, then read their book.
Their movie is "The Way," a crowd-pleasing indie production starring actor Martin Sheen and written and directed by his son Emilio Estevez. In the film, a father tries to connect with a deceased son by taking up his spiritual pilgrimage to northern Spain.
Their book is "Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son," an equally engaging dual memoir by Sheen and Estevez that explores their lives and their intense relationship. Punctuated with humor and unusual frankness, the emotional highs and lows they share will resonate with fathers and sons.
One of 10 children raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio, young Ramon Estevez found lots of love at home but little support for his ambition to perform for a living. »
- AP
Twins: Montgomery & Ethel
22 May 2012 11:22 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
While Gemini is ruling, we're celebrating twins: real, fictional, and other. Double the pleasure! If it's your birthday we'll celebrate both of you in the comments.
Did you know that legendary actor Montgomery Clift had a twin sister? That's him with his twin sister Roberta above. She was born first making Monty the youngest of the Clift's three children. Monty and the family called her "Ethel" which was their mother's name though there mother went by "Sunny". Confusing!
Monty and Ethel in 1933. They were thirteen years old.The kids had a strange upbringing, moving frequently both abroad and in the States and they were privately tutored and well bred as if they had far far more money than they did. Monty theorized without a ton of conviction that his drive toward acting may have had to do with competition with his sister (and older brother), neither of whom pursued acting. »
- NATHANIEL R
Tom Hardy On Becoming Famous While Acting Under A Mask In The Dark Knight Rises
22 May 2012 7:32 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
We will next see Tom Hardy in John Hillcoat's Lawless - alongside the likes of Guy Pearce, Shia Labeouf and his Tdkr co-star Gary Oldman - and the British actor is currently at Cannes promoting the movie, sporting a very impressive beard for his role in the next Mad Max film (Hardy can't give any definite updates on that one). Vulture caught up with Hardy in a candid interview in which he discusses everything from his drinking days, to his facial fuzz, to being compared to Marlon Brando, and of course his highly anticipated turn as Bane in Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman movie. When asked how he feels about being under a mask in what will be his biggest role to date, Hardy says he hasn't given much thought to it.. To me, it’s about the characters, it’s about the film, it’s about »
Director Steve McQueen compares Michael Fassbender to Marlon Brando (IrishCentral)
22 May 2012 5:10 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Irish actor Michael Fassbender, who stars in Ridley Scott's upcoming 'Prometheus,' has become known as one of the most gifted actors of his generation. Scott has called the 35-year-old star: "One of the best three or four actors out there. He holds the screen." Certainly, Fassbender has played a wide range of roles including Mr Rochester is 'Jane Eyre,' Carl Jung in 'A Dangerous Method,' and Bobby Sands in 'Hunger.' Said 'Hunger' director Steve McQueen, who has worked with the versatile actor several times: "There is no one like Michael out there right now. And there hasn't been, for me, since Marlon Brando. There's a fragility and a femininity to him, but also a masculinity that can translate. You're not in awe of him. You're part of him. He pulls you in. And that's what you want from an actor. You want »
John Landis on Mutiny On The Bounty
21 May 2012 10:16 AM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Filmed previously in 1915, 1933 and 1935, this souped-up version of the Nordhoff & Hall maritime classic was the first movie shot and released in Ultra Panavision 70 (aspect ratio 2.76:1). The problem-plagued production was constantly being rewritten, and went through two directors plus an uncredited reshoot by another. Star Marlon Brando’s erratic behavior on the Tahiti locations caused the already troubled production to go overschedule and overbudget, and the resultant film was roundly derided in its day. But it’s still one of the last truly epic big studio spectacles and its polished craftmanship still entertains.
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- Danny
Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac
21 May 2012 9:04 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Beat writer's masterpiece On the Road has been made into a film. But why has it taken 55 years to get it on to the screen?
Age: Died in 1969, aged 47.
Appearance: Dead Beat.
Who was he? A leading novelist and poet of the Beat Generation.
Oh right. That explains "Dead Beat". Yep.
Very funny. Thanks.
And why are we talking about him now? His novel On the Road has finally made it to the big screen.
The one about all the road trips? The semi-autobiographical one in which Kerouac – under the pseudonym Sal Paradise – drives across America and later Mexico with his new friend Dean Moriarty – a pseudonym for fellow Beat figure Neal Cassady – on a hedonistic quest for identity, freedom and some form of lasting happiness.
Didn't he write it all in just three weeks on a single long roll of paper? He did, in 1951, or so the story goes, »
Tom Hardy Has No Idea When 'Mad Max 4: Fury Road' Will Come Out
21 May 2012 7:20 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Here's some bad -- though not quite apocalyptic -- news for "Mad Max" fans. Tom Hardy seems none too confidant that cameras will start rolling anytime soon on "Mad Max 4: Fury Road," the proposed sequel to the iconic dystopian franchise. "We keep moving that around, you know?” Hardy told Empire Magazine at the Cannes Film Festival. “Who knows when it’ll come out? I’ve been on stand-by for two years… but it’s all part of it." Also read: Tom Hardy in Cannes: I Love Marlon Brando, But I Worship Gary Oldman Hardy nabbed the lead »
- Brent Lang
‘Heart of Darkness’ Heads To Outer Space With ‘Species’ Director Roger Donaldson
21 May 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Anyone who suffered through a high school English class knows Joseph Conrad’s war tome Heart of Darkness. And anyone who has done the same in a Representations of Vietnam class in film school (i.e. me) has thoroughly analyzed Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s modern take on Conrad’s classic work. Both texts conveyed the horrors of war and man’s descent into barbarism, but I always felt as though they were missing something. Then I realized what it was – they weren’t set in outer space.
Three decades after Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando had it out in the jungle, a new reimagining on the story is in the works. Peter Cornwell (The Haunting in Connecticut) was originally slated to helm a science fiction version of the story as adapted by screenwriters Tony Gilgio and Branden R.Morgan, but Moviehole reported that Species director Roger Donaldson has potentially stepped in replace him. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Michael Fassbender
20 May 2012 7:36 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor is noted for his huge range of work, from Shame to Jane Eyre and his new role as a robot in the prequel to Alien is likely to add to his plaudits
When Michael Fassbender was a teenager growing up in Killarney, Co Kerry, he wanted more than anything to be a heavy metal rock star. He grew his hair long, wore cut-off combat shorts and 10-hole Doc Martens and spent much of his spare time listening to thrash metal bands Metallica and Slayer at ear-splitting volume.
As it was, he performed a single concert in a pub with his friend Mike. It was the middle of the day and the regulars kept asking them to turn the volume down. "Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime," Fassbender recalled in a recent interview with GQ magazine.
But heavy metal's loss turned out to be acting's gain. At the »
- Elizabeth Day
Marlon Brando's Secret Phone Tapes Revealed
18 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Movie great Marlon Brando spent years flouting California's strict phone laws by recording conversations he had with the famous and powerful, according to a new report.
The late actor secretly and illegally taped private recordings with friends and associates and left behind a treasure trove of bugged chats.
Movie mogul Mike Medavoy, who is one of the executors of Brando's estate, tells the Globe, "Brando was famous for making late-night phone calls, and I think he recorded almost every conversation he had."
Now, attorney Jeffrey Abrams, the manager of Brando Enterprises - the company that protects the film icon's legacy - is working with the late star's family in an effort to collect the candid chats, together with personal letters and photographs fans have never seen.
Abrams says, "He (Brando) was a lover of technology. There are reel-to-reel tapes from the 1950s. He'd put a giant tape recorder in the middle of the table as he had conversations with people. There's so much he collected about himself and so many more sides to Marlon Brando than the world has seen so far."
The Globe tabloid suggests many Hollywood superstars will be quaking at the thought of the phone chats being released as part of a retrospective exhibition and book project - because there are secrets that will be exposed.
One insider tells the publication, "He knew almost every major celebrity in town and it's no secret he loved to gossip with them on the phone... There are a lot of people in Hollywood who'll be holding their breath."
California law forbids civilians from recording phone chats without the permission of the other party or parties on the line. »
5 Things You Might Not Know About David Lean's 'Lawrence Of Arabia'
18 May 2012 12:12 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Is there a greater film than "Lawrence of Arabia?" Perhaps. There are certainly few longer ones, or few that are more epic and sweeping in their scope (thanks to the timeless Panavision 70 photography by Freddie Young). But even if the film isn't your absolute favorite, it is the number one of many, including Steven Spielberg, who credits the picture with making him want to be a filmmaker.
David Lean's tale of T.E. Lawrence's adventures in Arabia in World War I is fifty years old this year, and ahead of a brand-spanking-new Blu-ray release next month, a glorious new 4K restoration of the film is screening at Cannes tomorrow night. To mark the occasion, as well as the anniversary of the death of Lawrence himself, who died 77 years ago tomorrow, we've assembled five things you might not know about Lean's unassailable classic.
1. David Lean nearly directed a biopic of »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Sacha Baron Cohen Built His 'Dictator' From 'The Ground Up'
15 May 2012 10:16 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'He's been to comedy what Marlon Brando was to acting,' director Larry Charles tells MTV News.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Dictator"
Photo: Paramount Pictures
For each of Sacha Baron Cohen's onscreen conquests, one man has been there every step of the way. Larry Charles made a name for himself as supervising producer and occasional writer for "Seinfeld," but his work directing Baron Cohen's films brought him a new kind of recognition.
Baron Cohen asked Charles once again to helm his film with "The Dictator," and MTV News spoke with the director in the lead-up to the film's release.
One of the biggest challenges posed by their new film was the creation of an entirely new character. Unlike Baron Cohen's previous films, which came out of his work on "Da Ali G Show," the writers of "The Dictator" created the concept for General Aladeen with the comedian in mind. »
'Smash's' Anjelica Huston on John Steinbeck playing Santa Claus and Marlon Brando's influence
14 May 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Zap2it: You grew up around so many legends, who stands out for you?
Anjelica Huston: I grew up with a lot of interesting people like Carson McCullers and Arthur Miller and a lot of very interesting people who weren't necessarily Hollywood. There was a Japanese samurai who came over to Ireland (where her father lived in a castle in Ireland), and who, according to my father, was only allowed to cry three times in his life. It was extremely diverse. I met John Steinbeck. He was so kind and funny and sweet and affable and dear. I was 7 or 8 when he played Santa Claus for us. He used to write lovely letters. John Steinbeck used to sign his letters with a pigasus -- a pig with wings.
Zap2it: Who influenced you?
Anjelica Huston: Marlon Brando. I was maybe 10 or 11 or 9. My father was about to make "Reflections in a Golden Eye. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Why are there so many movies about guys who won't grow up?
10 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The plight of modern-day masculinity is easily solved, according to pretty much every recent Hollywood comedy: don't grow up. Who – or what – is to blame?
Growing up sucks. Being young sucks too. Especially if you're a white American male. You need only look at the four heroes of American Pie: Reunion. Back in 1999, they were teenagers burdened by hormonal urges, peer-group humiliation and a lack of obliging sexual partners. Fast forward 13 years, and they've merely inherited a new set of burdens: careers, babies, young rivals and a lack of obliging sexual partners. These dudes got it so wrong.
To get it right, they should have watched just about every other Hollywood comedy of the past decade. There they'd have found the solution to the plight of American masculinity: don't grow up. Just stretch out that period between adolescence and parenthood to the extent it becomes a prolonged state of infantile bliss. »
- Steve Rose
A Streetcar Named Desire - Blu-ray Review
10 May 2012 8:28 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
.Stella!. Elia Kazan takes Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar named Desire from the stage to the screen with spectacular results. The original would feature some editing that has now been restored since it was controversial to 1950s ears but now seems quaint. Whatever the case it features powerful performances, especially Brando. Blanche DuBois (Vivian Leigh) is running away from reality by living in a genteel Southern past that has faded away. She runs to her sister Stella Kowalski.s (Kim Hunter) New Orleans. apartment. This does not set well with Stella.s animalistic husband Stanley (Marlon Brando). Blanche does catch the eye of Stanley.s friend Mitch (Karl Malden) but when Stanley discovers that Blanche.s reasons for coming to New Orleans »
- Jeff Swindoll
'Birds' Actress Tippi Hedren Says Hitchcock Cost Her an Oscar Nomination
9 May 2012 1:41 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
A screening of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was held at New York's Cinema Village last night after which star Tippi Hedren told interviewer Robert Milazzo, "Apparently I was up for a nomination for Marnie, and Hitchcock killed it." Hedren made only two films with Hitchcock -- The Birds and Marnie -- and according to the Village Voice's Michael Musto, writing about Hedren's Cinema Village appearance, the reason it was only two films is because she tired of Hitch's increasingly obsessive possessiveness and wanted out of any dealings with him. As Hedren tells it, he then threatened to destroy her career, which included kibboshing the nomination and keeping her under contract for two more years so she couldn't work. Hedren said she would later learn that during that time Francois Truffaut wanted her for Fahrenheit 451. As far as The Birds is concerned, Hedren said she'd been promised she'd work with mechanical birds. »
- Brad Brevet
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