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Real & Faux Silent Footage Worth Watching
21 May 2012 11:27 AM, PDT | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
YouTube has unearthed a treasure trove of film footage, aside from videos of cats roller-skating: precious moments of W.C. Fields on Broadway, The Three Stooges fooling around in Atlantic City, and a contemporary comedy short that predates The Artist in its attempt to replicate the silent era. I first encountered that 30-minute short when it was new in 1996 and its creator, Robert Watzke, sent me a copy seeking my reaction. I screened it, enjoyed it, and then, frankly, it receded in my memory until just a few months ago when the filmmaker sent me an e-mail saying he’d posted it on YouTube. Heavenzapoppin'! is a sweet, clever 30-minute short, shot on 35mm film...
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- Leonard Maltin
'Animal Practice': Justin Kirk and Bobby Lee horse around in new NBC comedy
14 May 2012 12:03 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
W.C. Fields famously said, "Never work with animals or children." Well, NBC is bucking at least half of that recommendation with their upcoming series "Animal Practice," and it looks like it could be the right move.
The just picked up comedy stars Justin Kirk as Dr. George Coleman, the top veterinarian in New York. The conflict comes in when the good doctor's new boss is his old flame. The show also features Tyler Labine and Bobby Lee.
Check out the extended trailer. It may feature the best use of a monkey since Marcel on "Friends." Plus, who doesn't like watching turtle racing.
"Animal Practice" will air on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Et. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
NBC picks up 'Guys with Kids' for fall season
9 May 2012 5:42 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Hey, "What to Expect When You're Expecting" fans, NBC on Wednesday (May 9) picked up the Jimmy Fallon-produced "Guys with Kids" -- a comedy about a group of 30-something dads who don't think they're mature enough to raise children, despite the fact that they already have them.
Apparently ignoring W.C. Fields' advice to "never work with animals or children," the cast includes Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford and "Cosby Show" alumna Tempestt Bledsoe. The working title for the show, notes IMDb, was the snappy "DILFs." But maybe NBC is saving the "Ilf" for a real-life "Milf Island." (See "30 Rock").
Unlike the four single-camera comedies already ordered by NBC, "Dads with Kids" will be a multi-camera sitcom -- all the better to capture the awkward baby-inspired hilarity, no doubt. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Alice Cooper talks about his 'Dark Shadows' cameo -- and his many other memorable onscreen adventures
3 May 2012 8:40 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
It doesn’t come as a huge surprise to discover horror movie-lovers Alice Cooper and Tim Burton had plenty to talk about when the rocker turned up to film a cameo in the director’s new, Johnny Depp-starring movie Dark Shadows. “We had dinner one night in London and we both knew every point of reference,” Cooper recalls. “If he would say, ‘Suspiria’ I would say ‘Dario Argento.’ I see the humor in horror as much as Tim or Johnny does, so we really do fit together.”
The “School’s Out” star plays himself in Burton’s big budget adaptation of the bizarre, »
- Clark Collis
100 Facts on Universal Pictures' 100th Birthday
30 April 2012 11:28 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Today marks the 100th birthday of Universal Pictures and to celebrate the studio has released a list of 100 facts based on its first 100 years in existence. I have placed in bold some of the ones I found interesting as well as offered a selection of photo and video accompaniments here and there. 1. Universal Film Manufacturing Company was officially incorporated in New York on April 30, 1912. Company legend says Carl Laemmle was inspired to name his company Universal after seeing "Universal Pipe Fittings" written on a passing delivery wagon. 2. The only physical damage made during the filming of National Lampoon's Animal House was when John Belushi made a hole in the wall with a guitar. The actual Sigma Nu fraternity house (which subbed for the fictitious Delta House) never repaired it, and instead framed the hole in honor of the film. 3. The working title for Et: The Extra Terrestrial was "A Boy's Life. »
- Brad Brevet
The Farrelly Brothers Talk Three Stooges!
4 April 2012 12:35 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Sibling directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly spoke to Deadline about their upcoming 20th Century Fox comedy The Three Stooges with Chris Diamantopoulos as an adult Moe, Will Sasso as Curly and Sean Hayes as Larry, and how their love for the Stooges inspired them to pursue the project despite numerous obstacles. “Physical comedy ages the best of all comedy and it travels well,” Bobby Farrelly told Deadline’s Mike Fleming. “If you look at The Three Stooges or any physical gag stuff from W.C. Fields to Charlie Chaplin, they are still hilarious to watch. Movies based on verbal repartee, good movies by the likes of Preston Sturges, don’t hold up as well because wordplay changes over generations. Of all our movies, the one that has held up best is Dumb and Dumber because of the physicality.” »
The Farrelly Brothers Talk Three Stooges!
4 April 2012 12:35 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Sibling directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly spoke to Deadline about their upcoming 20th Century Fox comedy The Three Stooges with Chris Diamantopoulos as an adult Moe, Will Sasso as Curly and Sean Hayes as Larry, and how their love for the Stooges inspired them to pursue the project despite numerous obstacles. “Physical comedy ages the best of all comedy and it travels well,” Bobby Farrelly told Deadline’s Mike Fleming. “If you look at The Three Stooges or any physical gag stuff from W.C. Fields to Charlie Chaplin, they are still hilarious to watch. Movies based on verbal repartee, good movies by the likes of Preston Sturges, don’t hold up as well because wordplay changes over generations. Of all our movies, the one that has held up best is Dumb and Dumber because of the physicality.” »
We Bought A Zoo review [UK theatrical]
11 March 2012 5:10 PM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
When discussing the hazards of show business, comedian and actor W.C. Fields stated: “Never work with children or animals”. This now infamous quote was no doubt a reference to the unpredictable nature of both parties. However, We Bought a Zoo director Cameron Crowe seems to have ignored his advice.
Crowe’s latest effort stars Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee, a widower who is adjusting to life without his other half. While searching for a new home for him and his two children, Mee inexplicably decides to buy a run-down zoo. The film then follows the adventures of the Mee family as they renovate their new surroundings and, in the process, become increasingly attached to the staff and animals that populate its grounds.
We Bought a Zoo is based on true events, having been adapted from British journalist Benjamin Mee’s memoir of the same name. Crowe and his co-writer Aline Brosh McKenna »
Peter Bergman 1939-2012
9 March 2012 8:24 AM, PST | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Comedy has lost one of its great innovators -- Firesign Theatre founding member Peter Bergman died Friday, March 9, 2012 due to complications from leukemia. He and his cohorts reinvented comedy with surreal, multi-layered socio-political critiques and wild wordplay. Phil Austin, Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor debuted as the Firesign Theatre in 1966 and became cult heroes by breaking or ignoring boundaries with their surreal, complexly layered material. Their work forms an ongoing critique of modern society, media saturation, and technological alienation, but they are far from overly intellectual, lacing their routines with crazy puns, twisted pop-culture references, and warped -- or invented -- folk sayings and catchphrases. To appreciate their Dadaist comedy requires a long attention span, willingness to follow free associations, and attention to detail.
The prolific quartet dissolved in the '80s, though a 1985 album reunited three members. Proctor and Bergman also worked as a duo for a while. »
- SteveHoltje
Daily Briefing. New Cineaste and More Fine Reading
24 February 2012 12:15 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The new Spring 2012 issue of Cineaste is out and selections online include James L Neibaur on Kino's Blu-ray releases of Buster Keaton's work (as well as eleven more DVD/Blu-ray reviews), Andrew Horton's remembrance of Theo Angelopolous, Anchalee Chaiwaraporn and Kong Rithdee on the politics of Thai film and the opening paragraphs of Thomas Doherty's review of Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director:
Generally admiring but never intoxicated, Patrick McGilligan's insightful biography is a chronicle not only of the troubled director but also of the Hollywood studio system at dusk, the vagaries of the multilateral skirmishes between French, British, and American film criticism, and the political follies roiling through twentieth-century America. The author of well-regarded biographies of Fritz Lang and Clint Eastwood and the editor of the invaluable Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters (who all prove to be much more than »
George Cukor: Oscar Actors Director
22 February 2012 3:41 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Stewart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story George Cukor: Oscar Actors' Director Pt.1 Additionally, the "gay sensibility" nonsense ignores the fact — and that is a fact — that George Cukor was equally adept at directing male actors. Clark Gable may have gotten Cukor fired from the Gone with the Wind set, but the extensive list of Cukor-directed performers nominated for Academy Awards includes Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway), Basil Rathbone (Romeo and Juliet), Charles Boyer (Gaslight), James Mason (A Star Is Born), Anthony Quinn (Wild Is the Wind), and no less than three male Oscar winners: James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story), Ronald Colman (A Double Life), and Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady). Cukor also guided numerous other male stars, including Spencer Tracy (five times), Cary Grant (three times), John Barrymore (three times), Melvyn Douglas (twice), Robert Taylor (twice), Joel McCrea (twice), William Holden, David Manners, Laurence Olivier, »
- Andre Soares
More Woody Allen
15 February 2012 11:44 AM, PST | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
If you missed Robert B. Weide’s two-part American Masters profile of Woody Allen that aired last November on PBS, it’s just been released on DVD—by Docurama—with bonus material that wasn’t seen on TV. Weide, whose earlier documentaries have dealt with W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Mort Sahl, and Lenny Bruce, sufficiently impressed Allen that the notoriously private writer-director-author-comedian gave him virtual carte blanche to film him at work and interview him at length about his life and career. I doubt that anyone will ever have such access again, or be able to win Woody’s confidence to this degree. Weide also spoke to many colleagues,...
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- Leonard Maltin
Super-8 Clint Eastwood Movie Madness Tuesday Night in St. Louis
2 February 2012 6:13 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
We like to celebrate the great Hollywood tough guys at Super-8 Movie Madness and this February’s show is no exception. We’ve had Super-8 Charles Bronson Movie Madness and Super-8 Lee Marvin Movie Madness and on Tuesday February 7th at The Way Out Club we’ll be keeping up the tradition with Super-8 Clint Eastwood Movie Madness !!!
That’s right; we’ll be showing condensed (18 minute) versions of several of Clint Eastwood’s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. Here’s the Clint line-up: Escape From Alcatraz, Where Eagles Dare, The Eiger Sanction, and a 35-minute cut of High Plains Drifter. We’ll also show 8-minute version of two films that Clint made early appearances in: Revenge Of The Creature and Tarantula. Then we’ll haul out our 16mm projector and screen a 16mm print of an episode of the ’60s TV series Rawhide »
- Tom Stockman
SAG Awards 2012: Really with the kids, 'Modern Family'?
29 January 2012 7:22 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Nolan Gould is great as the dim-witted Luke Dunphy on "Modern Family," but the whole "kids say the darndest things" schtick doesn't work as well in real life.
The "Modern Family" cast let three of its kiddie stars take the reins during the acceptance speech for the cast's award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series at the 2012 SAG Awards, which Gould began with an oh-so-precious "I think it was the late, great W.C. Fields who said 'Never work with kids or animals.' Well, he can kiss my--"
Gee whiz, guess we'll never know what he was going to say, since costar Julie Bowen pulled him away before he could go any further.
Gould's costars Rico Rodriguez and Ariel Winter thanked some actual people before Gould interjected again with another "aw, shucks" line, thanking SAG and AFTRA (which have now merged) for "making sure we're properly fed, »
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Top Ten Silent Films Anyone Who Liked 'The Artist' Should See
25 January 2012 10:16 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Ten Silent Films Anyone Who Liked The Artist Should See
This year's Oscar race got serious when the Golden Globes picked their winners for Best Picture. The Globes haven't always been a good barometer for which film will actually take Best Picture but they do help films garner recognition and additional box office at a critical time of the year. This year's two winners, The Artist for Best Musical or Comedy and The Descendants for Best Drama, were already considered front-runners and although neither is considered a lock at this point, the wins at last weekend's Globes ceremony certainly didn't hurt their chances. Which brings me to a question for the audience. Is The Artist getting attention simply because it is a curiosity or is it really that good? I tend to agree with Brad's review when he suggested that "... 80 or so years ago I don't think it would have »
- Bill Cody
The Week in Spandex – The Dark Knight Rises, Beware the Batman, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Ghost Rider and more…
25 January 2012 9:50 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes…
As the comedian W.C. Fields once said, “Never work with children or animals,” and The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan will have found some truth in that this past week as young actress Joey King revealed what probably constitutes a huge spoiler, if it wasn’t for the fact that just about everyone expected it anyway. “I play young Talia al Ghul,” said King in an interview with My Entertainment World, confirming that the character will make an appearance in the hugely-anticipated sequel. “I can’t give too much away because I promised Mr. Nolan I wouldn’t say anything. There are too many secrets about the character and the movie.” Well, there’s one less now, Joey… So, unless Nolan really surprises everyone and we get to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt in drag, »
- flickeringmyth
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