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Public vs. Private Clash: The Constraints of Movie Stardom
5 May 2013 9:28 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Deanna Durbin assesses her own movie stardom: Private individual vs. public persona [See previous post: "Deanna Durbin: Less-Than-Rosy Hollywood Memories."] While researching Deanna Durbin for this article, what impressed me the most — besides her beatific singing voice — was her clear-headed appraisal of her own popularity, and by extension, of fame in general. Much to her credit, she apparently never believed her own publicity. In fact, Durbin’s is probably the most incisive, bluntly honest assessment of the appeal of any celebrity who, like her, at an early age became associated with a public persona — from Betty Bronson and Jackie Coogan in the ’20s, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney in the ’30s, Margaret O’Brien and Jane Powell in the ’40s, and Debbie Reynolds and Sandra Dee in the ’50s to Macauley Culkin, Daniel Radcliffe, Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Lautner in the last two decades. As illustrations of the sort of publicity enveloping Deanna Durbin in her heyday, »
- Andre Soares
Remembering One of the Top Players of the Studio Era: Deanna Durbin
4 May 2013 4:04 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Deanna Durbin dies at 91: One of the top stars of Hollywood’s studio era (photo: Deanna Durbin in I’ll Be Yours) According to Hollywood lore, teen star Deanna Durbin saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy in the mid-’30s, when her movies earned the Great Depression-hit studio some much-needed millions. The story may seem like an exaggeration, but in fact future Universal players such as Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Maria Montez, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and even Jaws‘ Bruce the Shark and the assorted dinosaurs found in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park partly owe their film careers to the pretty, bubbly, full-faced, soprano-voiced Deanna Durbin, the star of immensely successful Universal releases such as Three Smart Girls, One Hundred Men and a Girl, and That Certain Age. Universal should be in mourning this week. Late this past Tuesday, April 30, it was announced that Deanna Durbin had died a »
- Andre Soares
CinemaCon Honorees Flaunt Their Talent
15 April 2013 8:30 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
This year’s CinemaCon Talent honorees represent a veritable overview of the year’s most anticipated films.
Top thesp honors go to Melissa McCarthy (Female Star of the Year) and Chris Pine (Male Star of the Year). While she stars in “The Heat,” he headlines not one but two tentpoles, “Jack Ryan” and “Star Trek: Into Darkness.”
The two franchises couldn’t be more different, and that goes for Ryan and Kirk, too. As Pine says, “Captain Kirk is very impassioned and blood-lusty and goes from his gut and uses his fists and is obviously everything that Spock is not. Ryan, on the other hand, is a bit more like Spock. He’s a man of reason and logic and comfortable spending time in his own head rather than the real world. It’s that disparity that made it fun to jump from the one who’s of the »
- Robert Hofler
CinemaCon Honorees Flaunt Their Talent
15 April 2013 8:30 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
This year’s CinemaCon Talent honorees represent a veritable overview of the year’s most anticipated films.
Top thesp honors go to Melissa McCarthy (Female Star of the Year) and Chris Pine (Male Star of the Year). While she stars in “The Heat,” he headlines not one but two tentpoles, “Jack Ryan” and “Star Trek: Into Darkness.”
The two franchises couldn’t be more different, and that goes for Ryan and Kirk, too. As Pine says, “Captain Kirk is very impassioned and blood-lusty and goes from his gut and uses his fists and is obviously everything that Spock is not. Ryan, on the other hand, is a bit more like Spock. He’s a man of reason and logic and comfortable spending time in his own head rather than the real world. It’s that disparity that made it fun to jump from the one who’s of the »
- Robert Hofler
Happy Birthday, Doris Day
3 April 2013 5:02 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Birthday wishes go out to Doris Day! The iconic actress, singer and activist turns 91 today (April 3) -- or so it's assumed. The actual year of her birthday is rumored to be 1922, although some reports say it's 1923 or 1924.
Best known for her roles in movies like "Love Me or Leave Me," "Pillow Talk" and "That Touch of Mink," Day broke into Hollywood in the 1950s. But being a beloved singer -- her hit "Sentimental Journey" with Les Brown was an anthem during World War II -- Day also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 suspense thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and sang two songs in the film, including "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)," which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Day ended her film career in 1968 and focused on television, starring in "The Doris Day Show" until 1973. In 1975 she announced her retirement, but continued to sing, »
- The Huffington Post
Fay Kanin obituary
1 April 2013 2:22 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Blacklisted screenwriter and president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The screenwriter Fay Kanin, who has died aged 95, was the only female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in its 86-year history (apart from Bette Davis, who resigned after two months in 1941). She served as president from 1979 to 1983, for the maximum of four consecutive one-year terms. Kanin, who committed herself to the preservation of early Hollywood movies, was first elected president by a board consisting of 34 men and one woman.
"I'm a big feminist," she declared at the time that her play Goodbye, My Fancy opened on Broadway in 1948. "I've put into my play my feeling that women should never back away from life." The serious comedy, with Madeleine Carroll as a powerful congresswoman revisiting her alma mater to receive an honorary degree, ran for more than a year and was made into a 1951 film starring Joan Crawford. »
- Ronald Bergan
Fay Kanin obituary
1 April 2013 2:22 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Blacklisted screenwriter and president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The screenwriter Fay Kanin, who has died aged 95, was the only female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in its 86-year history (apart from Bette Davis, who resigned after two months in 1941). She served as president from 1979 to 1983, for the maximum of four consecutive one-year terms. Kanin, who committed herself to the preservation of early Hollywood movies, was first elected president by a board consisting of 34 men and one woman.
"I'm a big feminist," she declared at the time that her play Goodbye, My Fancy opened on Broadway in 1948. "I've put into my play my feeling that women should never back away from life." The serious comedy, with Madeleine Carroll as a powerful congresswoman revisiting her alma mater to receive an honorary degree, ran for more than a year and was made into a 1951 film starring Joan Crawford. »
- Ronald Bergan
Award-Winning Screenwriter Dies At 95
28 March 2013 11:52 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles — Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Fay Kanin has died. She was 95.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed Kanin's death Wednesday. She served as president of the film academy from 1979 to 1983.
Kanin was nominated for an Academy Award for 1958's "Teacher's Pet" alongside her husband and writing partner, Michael Kanin. The film starred Clark Gable and Doris Day.
Fay Kanin was also recognized for her television contributions, winning two screenwriting Emmys in 1974 and another for producing the TV special "Friendly Fire" in 1979.
Details on Kanin's survivors and cause of death were not immediately available. »
- AP
Former Academy president and Oscar nominee Fay Kanin dies at 95
28 March 2013 11:38 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
While two-time Oscar champ Bette Davis could lay claim to being the first female president of the motion picture academy, her tenure was short-lived, lasting just two months in 1941. -Insertgroups:12- Fay Kanin, who died Thursday at age 95, was the second woman to head up the organization, serving with distinction from 1979 to 1983. She understood what it meant to contend for an Oscar, having been nominated alongside her husband Michael Kanin for their original script to the Doris Day-Clark Gable comedy "Teacher's Pet" in 1958; they lost to the "The Defiant Ones." Michael had won this award in 1942 for co-writing with Ring Lardner, Jr. "Woman of the Year," which was the first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Kanin, who had penned the play "Goodbye, My Fancy" which won Shirley Booth the first of her three Tonys in 1949, tried her hand at solo writing teleplays in the 1970s. After »
Former Academy prez Fay Kanin dies
28 March 2013 6:03 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Fay Kanin has died. She was 95.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed Kanin’s death Wednesday. She served as president of the film academy from 1979 to 1983.
Kanin was nominated for an Academy Award for 1958′s Teacher’s Pet alongside her husband and writing partner, Michael Kanin. The film starred Clark Gable and Doris Day.
Fay Kanin was also recognized for her television contributions, winning two screenwriting Emmys in 1974 and another for producing the TV special Friendly Fire in 1979.
Details on Kanin’s survivors and cause of death were not immediately available. »
- Associated Press
Fay Kanin dies: Screenwriter and former Academy president was 95
27 March 2013 10:03 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Fay Kanin passed away Wednesday, at age 95, the Associated Press reports. Kanin's death was confirmed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Kanin and her husband, Michael Kanin, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 1958's "Teacher's Pet." The film starred Clark Gable, Doris Day, and Gig Young, who was also nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor).
From 1979-1983, Kanin served as president of the Academy. She was the second female president, after actress Bette Davis. Kanin was also an accomplished television writer, winning two Emmy Awards in the 1970's. Her last writing credit was for a 1986 episode of the TV show of "Fame." »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Real Black Cowboys Live On Screen In They Die By Dawn
20 March 2013 9:45 AM, PDT | TheFabLife - Movies | See recent TheFabLife - Movies news »
Four real-life outlaws meet up in the town of Langston, Oklahoma to play a risky game. The winner of their shootout gets to collect their collected bounty: $80,000. The losers? Well, the losers will “die by dawn.” Such is the plot of director Jeymes Samuel‘s new short film, They Die By Dawn, which stars Michael K. Williams as Nat Love and Erykah Badu as Stagecoach Mary. The twist? Every character in the film is a historical figure who actually lived in the Old West. Oh, and all but three characters are African-American.
The film premiered last night in New York at the TriBeCa Film Center in an event co-sponsored by Bulleit Bourbon. We got a chance to talk to Samuel last night about his love of Westerns and his desire to reclaim black history. According to Samuel, it was important that all of the characters were real so that if kids today watch his films, »
- Meghan O'Keefe
Now and Then: Hitchcock's Bad-Ass '40s Brunettes Were the Lead-Up to Those '50s Icy Blondes
19 March 2013 11:54 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
My favorite words in the movies come from the dusky, sultry opening minutes of "Rear Window" (1954), as Grace Kelly's New York socialite glides through L.B. Jefferies' (James Stewart) dim apartment, switching on the lights. "From top to bottom," she announces herself. "Lisa." Flick. "Carol." Flick. "Fremont." Flick. Kelly's fluid, graceful steps; the structured elegance of her Edith Head-designed dress (see below); the way the scene conjures up that late-summer swelter: here is Hitchcock turning on the lights of his own most productive decade. Between 1954, which saw the release of "Dial M for Murder" and "Rear Window," and 1964, with the underrated "Marnie," Hitchcock directed eight films, five of which I'd count among his, or any director's, best (the remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Vertigo," "North by Northwest," "Psycho," and "The Birds"). Hitchcock's blondes (Kelly, Doris Day, Eva Marie Saint, Tippi Hedren) have come in for »
- Matt Brennan
Once the Musical: how I fell for its honesty
17 March 2013 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Once was a surprise cinema hit – a micro-budget romance about an Irish busker and a Czech flower seller. Who better to adapt it for stage than self-confessed misanthrope Enda Walsh? The playwright recalls his journey from cynic to proud, emotional wreck
We don't do musicals in Ireland. Well, not much. We like to keep our actors and musicians separate at all times. In separate counties, even. There is possibly a musical theatre company hidden on Sherkin Island doing a production of Wicked right now, but they haven't been found yet. And when they do find them, it will be a heavy dose of Samuel Beckett for those grinning fools. Why break into song and dance to exorcise your inner emotions when you can talk yourself through it? Over the years, I've added my own fair share of words to Irish theatre. You can't help it as an Irish person. We talk. »
Burt Wonderstone Becomes WB's Fifth 2013 Disaster
16 March 2013 11:19 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Warner Bros's Burt Wonderstone is the studio's latest disaster Although the Halle Berry thriller The Call was good news this March 15-17 weekend, Steve Carell and Jim Carrey and their comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone were real bad news for Warner Bros. After all, the comedy budgeted at a relatively modest $30 million will actually have trouble reaching a measly $12 million at the North American box office this weekend. On Friday, Tibw took in $3.72 million at 3,160 sites. In fact, Don Scardino's Wonderstone, which also features Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, and Alan Arkin (coincidentally, a Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for the 2006 family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, mentioned in the previous article) will quite likely be unable to match its budget domestically. Overseas prospects aren't exactly promising, either, as Hollywood comedies tend to perform better in the United States, while neither Carell nor Carrey is a major draw overseas. As for Warner Bros. »
- Zac Gille
Oscar voters being old and out of touch
16 February 2013 9:44 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
I’m really appalled by a stupid article in today’s New York Post about Oscar voters being old and out of touch. It’s quite the contrary. The Post writer–surprise–had an agenda and went for it. But she obviously knows nothing about the Motion Picture Academy. This is not the Hollywood Foreign Press. This past December I made two trips to Los Angeles. Each time I went to small receptions, cocktail parties, and screenings for various Oscar-buzzed movies. It is the time of the year when older Academy members whom you don’t ordinarily get to meet– they’re retired, or not going to nightclubs with Lindsay Lohan–get to come and learn what’s happening this year with the Oscars. These people invariably surprise me. They are sharp, bright, with it. They know all the movies, who’s in what, what every actor and director has done in the past. »
- roger@hollywoodnews.com (Roger Friedman)
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" Reveals the Beginnings of Hitchock's Brilliance
11 February 2013 12:07 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
What does it say about the original 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much, by the famed Alfred Hitchcock, that it was the only film of his own he ever remade later in his career (22 years later with James Stewart and Doris Day) and that he personally preferred the remake more himself? At the very least it suggests the original take is a harder film to love, and for Hitchcock that might have something to do with its significantly rougher appearance and editing that leaves the story lurching and lagging from moments of sluggish exposition to over-the-top action scenes (like the chair fight). The Man Who Knew Too Much could never be considered a perfect film, but it does have Peter Lorre’s first, infamous turn as a villain in English-speaking cinema.
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- Lex Walker
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. – The DVD Review
11 February 2013 8:33 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Review by Sam Moffitt
Some movies stay with you. People are constantly amazed that I can remember so much about movies but also what theatre I saw them in and under what circumstances. Movies can be like songs in the memory, where you were physically and mentally and emotionally the first time you heard a song and how it takes on much more meaning than the musicians ever intended. The same with books, I recall at what point in my life I read certain books and where I was at the time. And so, it’s the same with movies, for me anyway.
In 1966 my Father entered John Cochran Veteran’s Hospital in St. Louis, on North Grand, for brain surgery. He never walked out of there. We were visiting Dad before the surgery, at eleven years old I was already a die hard Movie Geek. I used to beg my parents, »
- Tom Stockman
Patty Andrews obituary
31 January 2013 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Last surviving member of the wartime swing trio the Andrews Sisters, whose hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Patty Andrews, who has died aged 94, was the lead singer and soloist with the Andrews Sisters. The swinging American trio, comprising Patty and her older siblings, Laverne and Maxene, achieved their greatest success in the 1940s, contributing to the war effort with catchy songs including Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) and, with Bing Crosby, Don't Fence Me In.
The Andrews Sisters performed at military bases and raised money for war bonds; their hits were sung by the troops and by women working in factories. Patty, Laverne and Maxene accompanied the most popular singers and big bands of the day; enjoyed success not just on radio but also in musical comedy films; and spawned a host of other sister acts – not all of whom were real siblings. »
- Michael Freedland
January. It's a Wrap
31 January 2013 10:45 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I always lose January in a rush of movie and work demands and previous year spillover. It's over already? Here were 10 highlights from the month that was:
Biggest Celebrity Crushes Of the Moment: Marius & Cosette Eddie & Amanda... weirdly Les Miz isn't really involved in this crushing.
Best of the Year Nathaniel's 22 Favorites of 2012
Jodie Foster is Single Thoughts on Jodie's brand of "coming out"
The Hours 10th Anniversary. Nick & Joe discuss the actressy film in depth
Blue Jasmine Tea Leaves Should we be excited for the new Woody Allen?
César Nominations - Julien takes us through the French Oscars. This year half the big titles were also hits abroad: Rust & Bone, Amour and more.
100 Oldest Living Oscar Nominees - Emmanuelle Riva, Carol Channing, Doris Day and 97 more
Celebrity Globe Tweeting - from Cazwell through Zachary Levi to Adele
10 Big Surprises of Oscar Morning - from Silver Linings dominance to Affleck's »
- NATHANIEL R
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