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Alec Baldwin talks butt double on 'Letterman'
24 December 2009 8:15 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
With It's Complicated opening on Christmas Day, Alec Baldwin stopped by The Late Show with David Letterman last night and even had Dave cracking up. The conversation about his butt double "dining out all around New York" was just one of many highlights. Here's a clip of Baldwin talking about meeting Burt Lancaster in an elevator: What was your favorite moment from Baldwin on Letterman? Is there any better talk show guest than Alec Baldwin? Who's lining up already for It's Complicated? »
- Wendy Mitchell
Alec Baldwin Gets Star Struck (Video)
24 December 2009 5:48 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Even Alec Baldwin gets starstruck sometimes. On Letterman Wednesday night Baldwin described what happened when he was filming "The Good Shepherd" with director Robert De Niro. Every time De Niro yelled cut the first few days to give notes, Baldwin was lost in his head having "Raging Bull" fantasies. He then told the story of being in an elevator with Burt Lancaster. Baldwin did an impression of the screen legend standing in profile, knowing he was being stared at, and letting Baldwin soak him in. Baldwin is currently doing promotion for "It's Complicated." Watch: »
- Katherine Thomson
Western Wednesdays: ‘Vera Cruz’
23 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Vera Cruz is a film that’s often name-dropped in the discussion of Great and Influential Westerns. Starring genre heavy-weight Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, every synopsis you’re likely to come across promises a film with adventure, a Mexican countess, and bromance. Don’t believe them.
Cruz is set in the midst of the Mexican Revolution of 1866, a time when mercenaries and adventurers crossed the border in search of profitable employment. In fact, it’s the very same setting as Two Mules for Sister Sara, and if fanfiction had existed in the good old days, someone would have written a sexy crossover. Thank goodness it didn’t.
The film wastes no time in setting up Ben Trane (Cooper) and Joe Erin (Lancaster) as that most reliable of Western archetypes — the broken down Confederate, and the daring mercenary. Their characters are rigidly defined within the first ten minutes over the matter of horseflesh. »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Kevin Costner, director Phil Alden Robinson at Field Of Dreams Screening
18 December 2009 1:09 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Phil Alden Robinson’s Field of Dreams, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a screening of the supernatural baseball drama on Wednesday, December 16, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Back in 1989, Field of Dreams, in which a farmer builds (a baseball field) so they’ll come ("they" being the Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven banned Chicago White Sox players), was nominated for three Academy Awards: best picture, best original screenplay, and best original score (James Horner). Based on W.P. Kinsella’s short novel, the film stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, and James Earl Jones. Field of Dreams was also part of a [...] »
- Joan Lister
Gratuitously Sexy Photos Of The Week
13 December 2009 3:09 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Retro-active: The Best From Cinema Retro's Archives
There Had to be a couple of redeeming values to Valley of the Dolls aside from the unintended laughs. Here Barbara Parkins proves that's the case in this provocative (for 1967) publicity photo for the film.
He was born Burton Stephen Lancaster but we just knew him as Burt. Seen here in The Crimson Pirate, we get a stark illustration of how dreary the leading man shortage has become in Hollywood. Can you image Anyone looking like this in a contemporary film? (Well, okay, maybe Adam Sandler...)
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Jonathan Coe on Comfort And Joy
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bill Forsyth, 1984
Whenever I contemplate the career of Bill Forsyth, I realise I'm getting old. It's more than a quarter of a century since he was considered one of the great new hopes of British cinema, but to me, the sudden flowering of his oblique, wilful talent still seems like one of the more recent miracles of film history.
After the cult success of his Glaswegian caper comedy That Sinking Feeling (just issued on DVD in an insulting format – with a dubbed soundtrack for American audiences), Forsyth hit the big time with his second feature, Gregory's Girl. I watch this film whenever it comes on TV – every two or three years, I suppose – and it never disappoints. The bittersweet experience of adolescent love is expertly captured, but more than that there is an unstoppable flow of comic invention: even the smallest characterisations are quirkily memorable, every scene crackles with good lines. »
Anderson Has Faith In 'The Master'...
3 December 2009 7:55 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Writer/director Paul Thomas "There Will Be Blood" Anderson is developing his next feature, a period drama set in the 1950's, to star actor Philip Seymour "Magnolia" Hoffman playing the founder of a new religion.
Producer JoAnne Sellar has budgeted the film at $35 million, currently being set up at Universal, who are waiting to greenlight the project, dependent on Anderson delivering a screenplay that won't get the studio into hot water with religious groups, scientologists and mormons.
In the script, Hoffman will be known as 'The Master' Of Ceremonies, an intellectual who starts a faith-based organization in 1952.
At the heart of the story is the relationship between The Master and 'Freddie', a drifter who becomes the 'lieutenant' of the new religion.
Anderson says the film will follow how a belief system can easily graduate into an organized religion.
The last time a film-maker effectively tackled the subject, was in the »
- SneakPeek.Ca
Honest Injuns - Saluting the Real Deal Native American Stars of the Wild West
27 November 2009 9:01 PM, PST | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
For a long time, a jar of bronze makeup was the crucial component in playing a Native American in the Wild West. Cross-racial turns by Burt Lancaster in Apache, Chuck Connors in Geronimo, and Anthony Quinn in They Died With Their Boots On are the most glaring examples -- not to mention the legions of hooting buckskins felled by the benevolent cinematic gunfire of the U.S. Calvary. In honor »
Honest Injuns - Saluting the Real Deal Native American Stars of the Wild West
27 November 2009 9:01 PM, PST | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »
For a long time, a jar of bronze makeup was the crucial component in playing a Native American in the Wild West. Cross-racial turns by Burt Lancaster in Apache, Chuck Connors in Geronimo, and Anthony Quinn in They Died With Their Boots On are the most glaring examples -- not to mention the legions of hooting buckskins felled by the benevolent cinematic gunfire of the U.S. Calvary. In honor »
Arnold Laven obituary
25 November 2009 10:42 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Producer-director behind a raft of 20th-century TV classics
It is no exaggeration to declare that the name of the film and television producer-director Arnold Laven, who has died aged 87, has been seen by millions of people all over the world, even if it might not have registered. Think of all those viewers of the TV series The Rifleman (1959-63) and The Big Valley (1965-69), made by Laven's company, Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, many episodes of which he directed.
Laven was also credited as director on scores of episodes of such archetypal 1970s series as Marcus Welby MD, Gunsmoke, Mannix, Ironside, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Rockford Files and Fantasy Island. In the 1980s he directed, among others, several episodes of Hill Street Blues and The A-Team. In addition, Laven directed 11 feature films from 1952 to 1969, some for companies other than his own.
In the late 1930s, the Chicago-born Laven moved with his family to Los Angeles, »
- Ronald Bergan
Arnold Laven obituary
25 November 2009 10:42 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Producer-director behind a raft of 20th-century TV classics
It is no exaggeration to declare that the name of the film and television producer-director Arnold Laven, who has died aged 87, has been seen by millions of people all over the world, even if it might not have registered. Think of all those viewers of the TV series The Rifleman (1959-63) and The Big Valley (1965-69), made by Laven's company, Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, many episodes of which he directed.
Laven was also credited as director on scores of episodes of such archetypal 1970s series as Marcus Welby MD, Gunsmoke, Mannix, Ironside, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Rockford Files and Fantasy Island. In the 1980s he directed, among others, several episodes of Hill Street Blues and The A-Team. In addition, Laven directed 11 feature films from 1952 to 1969, some for companies other than his own.
In the late 1930s, the Chicago-born Laven moved with his family to Los Angeles, »
- Ronald Bergan
Ernest Borgnine at From Here To Eternity Screening
23 November 2009 2:35 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ernest Borgnine and Lou Diamond Phillips pose next to a poster of Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity, prior to a screening of the 1953 classic presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Phillips hosted the event. Winner of the 1953 best picture Oscar and one of the biggest blockbusters of the 1950s, From Here to Eternity stars Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, and Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed. Ernest Borgnine has a supporting role in the film as a military officer who makes life hell for both Clift and Sinatra. Two years later, Borgnine would win a [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Michael Winner: 'The only purpose of life is to avoid boredom'
16 November 2009 1:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The notorious film director on cheating death, the awfulness of restaurants – and how he can't stand boring people
It is with a mixture of fear and exhilaration that I approach Michael Winner's large house – he likes to describe it as a mansion – in London's fashionable Holland Park. God knows how much it's worth – £25m maybe. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lives next door, in an even bigger house. An attractive, slightly forbidding young woman answers the door – I later discover she is a resting actress called Ruby – and she shows me into Winner's private cinema, filled with memorabilia from half a lifetime of movie-making and an entire lifetime of trouble-making.
There are seats for 30 people, a bar, a director's chair with Winner's name on it, the Winner puppet from Spitting Image, a signed photograph of Marilyn Monroe, pictures of some scantily clad starlets, and hundreds of photographs of stars »
- Stephen Moss
Next!
15 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy². Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer and Bogie. 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way of Sacheen Littlefeather. Jack Lemmon, Art Carney, Jack Nicholson and (posthumously) Peter Finch. Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Henry Fonda. Ben Kingsley, Robert Duvall, F Murray Abraham, »
- NATHANIEL R
Michael Madsen is our nominee for Hardest-Working Man in Show Business
11 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Michael Madsen calls movies "pictures" and makes a new one every couple weeks. I happened to check his IMDb page recently, and I noticed something incredible: the man acted in 25 movies released this year. 25*! Sure, they all have dubious titles like You Might As Well Live, Lost in the Woods, and Road of No Return. Sure, Madsen mostly plays characters with names like "The Reverend," "The Associate," and "Clinton Manitoba." But the sheer quantity of Madsen-imprinted cinema in 2009 deserves a special kind of acclaim. Madsen is philosophical about his workaholic output. "I'm only good when I'm busy. When I've got nothing to do, »
- Darren Franich
Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: From Here To Eternity Screening
9 November 2009 4:24 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom) Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film. Adapted by Daniel Taradash from James Jones‘ bestselling [...] »
- Andre Soares
Joseph Wiseman: A tribute to the late Dr. No
21 October 2009 1:15 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Joseph Wiseman, the Canadian-born actor best known for his deliciously evil portrayal of the James Bond villain, Dr. No, passed away yesterday at age 91. Wiseman appeared in a slew of Broadway productions, television shows, and movies such as Viva Zapata! with Marlon Brando and The Unforgiven with Burt Lancaster. But he will always be remembered for locking horns with Sean Connery's agent 007 in 1962's Dr. No. Wiseman's character, a mad scientist with an arsenal of fiendishly wry quips, a charter membership in Spectre, and a nasty atomic-powered radio-beam weapon, became the prototypical Bond villain. Later in his life, the »
- Chris Nashawaty
A Conversation with the Wizard of Gore: H.G. Lewis!
11 October 2009 3:42 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
In another unpublished interview from the archives, Australian contributor Lee Gambin sits down for a little one-on-one with Herschell Gordon Lewis - a Fango fav, and always a source of great conversation. This interview has been abridged for posting here.
Lee Gambin/Fangoria: What initially got you stated in the movie making business?
H.G. Lewis: I owned a commercial film studio in Chicago, including 35mm movie equipment. The big advertising agencies were sending all the important and profitable jobs to California. One day I was complaining about this, and a friend asked, "How do you make any money in your business?" I answered sardonically without thinking: "The only way to make money in the movie business is to make features." That, like a virus, took hold in my brain.
What attracted you to gore and the 'splatter' picture?
As an independent with limited financial and distributional resources, the challenge »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Lee Gambin)
Where My Heart Lies: My Favorite Actors. And Yours?
29 August 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
instead of a tues top 10, a 25.
I did this once for the actresses but I'm always giving the ladies their due. So, here's to the silver screen men that have enriched my movie-life. I admit up front that I haven't investigated Classic Hollywood actors to the extent I've investigated their leading ladies, so this list is highly subject to change the more old movies I see in my life.
Nathaniel's 25 all time favorite leading men
In no particular order and extremely subject to change
Gene Kelly | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai |
Montgomery Clift | Jeff Bridges | Paul Newman
Jude Law | James Dean | William Holden | Gene Hackman | Rock Hudson
Jack Lemmon | Gael García Bernal | Ewan McGregor | James Stewart | Gregory Peck
Steve Martin | Marlon Brando | Jack Nicholson | Burt Lancaster | Richard Burton
Brad Pitt | Johnny Depp | Cary Grant | Warren Beatty | William Hurt
Because sometimes you just want to name names
The list is not comprehensive, not set in stone, »
- NATHANIEL R
Tarantino and the original 'Bastards'
18 August 2009 10:52 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Take your seats, class: Senior writer Chris Nashawaty is kicking off his in-depth weeklong tutorial on all things Quentin Tarantino for the latest installment of EW University. Check out our gallery of 20 Tarantino movie and movie poster faves and our Quentin Tarantino trivia quiz. The Original Bastards: ‘Guys on a mission’ Italian-style If you’re reading this, then you’re probably already hip to the fact that Quentin Tarantino has a new (and badly spelled) new film coming out on August 21 called Inglourious Basterds. And depending on your level of interest in the Pulp Fiction auteur and his well-chronicled movie-geek obsessions, you may also already know that the Brad Pitt WWII epic is loosely based on a fairly obscure (and better spelled) Italian-produced action flick from 1978 called Inglorious Bastards. I’ve seen Tarantino’s Basterds already and I think it’s absolutely fantastic -- the best thing he’s done »
- Chris Nashawaty
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