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Watch: Dick Clark's First Movie Role
18 April 2012 2:31 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Dick Clark died on Wednesday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack. While Clark will always be known for his television contributions on "American Bandstand," "Pyramid" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve," the showbiz veteran also dabbled in some dramatic acting.
In 1960's "Because They're Young," Clark played a young high school teacher (with a tragic past) trying to improve the lives of his students in a small town. It marked Clark's first dramatic role, but not his first onscreen appearance: that came in the 1957 film "Jamboree," where Clark played himself.
"Because They're Young" also starred Tuesday Weld and and featured a cameo appearance from musician Duane Eddy, who wrote the film's theme song. It became the biggest hit of Eddy's career.
Clark, meanwhile, would continue to dabble in acting. In 1961 he appeared in "The Young Doctors," opposite Fredric March and Ben Gazzara. His most outrageous role came seven years later in "Killers Three. »
- The Huffington Post
Watch: Dick Clark's First Movie Role
18 April 2012 1:49 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Dick Clark died on Wednesday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack. While Clark will always be known for his television contributions on "American Bandstand," "Pyramid" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve," the showbiz veteran also dabbled in some dramatic acting.
In 1960's "Because They're Young," Clark played a young high school teacher (with a tragic past) trying to improve the lives of his students in a small town. It marked Clark's first dramatic role, but not his first onscreen appearance: that came in the 1957 film "Jamboree," where Clark played himself.
"Because They're Young" also starred Tuesday Weld and and featured a cameo appearance from musician Duane Eddy, who wrote the film's theme song. It became the biggest hit of Eddy's career.
Clark, meanwhile, would continue to dabble in acting. In 1961 he appeared in "The Young Doctors," opposite Fredric March and Ben Gazzara. His most outrageous role came seven years later in "Killers Three. »
- The Huffington Post
DVD Playhouse--April 2012
13 April 2012 3:07 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—April 2012
By Allen Gardner
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Warner Bros.) An eleven year-old boy (newcomer Thomas Horn, in an incredible debut) discovers a mysterious key amongst the possessions of his late father (Tom Hanks) who perished in 9/11. Determined to find the lock it matches, the boy embarks on a Picaresque odyssey across New York City. Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Eric Roth have fashioned a film both grand and intimate, beautifully-adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, thought by most who read it to be unfilmable. Fine support from Jeffrey Wright, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis and the great Max von Sydow. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection (Anchor Bay) Adapted from Koushun Takami’s polarizing novel (compared by champions and detractors alike as a 21st century version of A Clockwork Orange) and set in a futuristic Japan, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Ben Gazzara: 1930-2012 and Remembering Cassavetes
26 March 2012 6:11 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
We're sad to report that actor Ben Gazzara has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at age 81. Over Gazzara's nearly-sixty year career, his greatest screen moments occurred in collaboration with close friend John Cassavetes, along with actors Peter Falk, Seymour Cassel, and Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands. With Falk's passing last year and now with Gazzara's, it seems an opportune time to revisit a 2004 chat I had for Venice Magazine with the surviving members of the Cassavetes "company" that coincided with Criterion's release of their "John Cassavetes: Five Films" collection. Cassel was the only member not present during the conversations, which took place in the home that John and Gena shared from 1962 until his death, and which served as a location for many of their films together.
Remembering Cassavetes:
The Legacy of America’s Most Important Indie Film Pioneer Is Preserved in the Criterion Collection’s New Release John Cassavetes: Five Films
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DVD Playhouse--March 2012
6 March 2012 9:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Edition of James Stewart’s ‘Anatomy of a Murder’
5 March 2012 11:06 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Otto Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder” is a film that certainly still entertains modern audiences but should best be considered in light of when it came out in theaters. In 1959, courtroom dramas weren’t nearly as prevalent as they are in the era of “Law & Order” and discussions of rape and murder were not yet common in film. It may be hard for young audiences to believe but this spectacular film truly pushed the envelope of what could be done in a film like it and creatively succeeded in every way.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Instead of going with the censorship that faced the movie (it was even banned in Chicago for some time), the country and the industry embraced “Anatomy of a Murder” and the movie was nominated for seven Oscars, including Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for James Stewart and Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott (losing »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Coroners Announce Davy Jones’s Cause Of Death
1 March 2012 2:44 PM, PST | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
Monkee's singer Davy Jones died of a heart attack, according to autopsy reports. Thursday morning, the Martin County Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on the late Monkees' singer Davy Jones. TMZ reported the doctors determined that Jone's died of a severe heart attack. The doctors have not yet received the results of the toxicology report, but say the obvious cause of death was an "abnormal heart beat caused by coronary artery atherosclerosis." The 66-year-old Monkees' singer died on Wednesday, Feb. 29, he was taken to a hospital in Florida after complaining about shortness of breath. Nicole Fukuoka Recent Celebrity Passings Jan Berenstain, Co-Author Of ‘Berenstain Bears’ Dies At 88 Whitney Houston: Dead At 48 Actor Ben Gazzara Dead At 81 »
- HL Staff
Blu-ray Review: 13
29 February 2012 9:13 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: 13 Directed by: Gela Babluani Starring: . Sam Riley, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Michael Shannon, Jason Statham, Ray Winstone, Mickey Rourke, Alexander Skarsgård and Ben Gazzara Running time: 90 minutes, Rated R, Available on DVD Vince is struggling to help his family pay for his father’s multiple operations while working as an electrician. While on the job, he overhears his client talking about a quick job with a large payout, but the client dies of an overdose before taking on the job. Vince finds the contact info, and decides to travel to New York to take the place of the dead guy. To his surprise, the job is an »
- juliana
Oscars: Billy Crystal Was Far From His Best
27 February 2012 10:48 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: The Academy Awards was a lot better than last year’s offering and generally moved along pretty well. However, Billy Crystal’s performance was mixed. Sometimes he was spot on and in other instances resorted to forced humor that missed its mark.
After Morgan Freeman’s opening we saw Billy in an uninspiring repeat of what he’d done so well many times before, inserting himself into reproductions of well-known clips from the top films. Maybe it’s because he’s done it so many times. It’s true that he hasn’t been host since 2004, and we often enjoy an entertainer repeating his or her best work, but like an aging singer whose voice doesn’t hold up when the muscles sag, what was downright hysterical in past years, like when he came out as Hannibal Lecter in 1992, this go-around didn’t work too »
- HollywoodNews.com
As they happened
27 February 2012 12:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Didn't get an invite to this year's Oscars? Neither did Xan Brooks, but he stoically blogged the red carpet and then the ceremony anyway
10.57pm: And so it begins ....
11.25pm: Roll carpet, roll cameras: it's the 84th annual Academy Awards, live and lurid from Hollywood. The Guardian film team will be covering the event throughout the night, weeping with the winners and wailing with the losers as this season's awards circus clatters exhaustedly towards the finish line. This is where it ends, inside the Hollywood and Highland Centre (reputedly the winner of the 2007 "Ugliest Building in La" award). Inside, the victors shall be encased in gold, the vanquished shown the door and all manner of movies laid tenderly to rest.
But wait, kick back, and keep the war horses tethered: the actual ceremony does not officially commence until 5pm (Pacific time). Time enough to cast an eye back over some late-breaking Oscar news. »
- Xan Brooks
'The Artist' Finds its Voice at The Oscars
26 February 2012 9:17 PM, PST | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
The Artist was named Best Picture of the Year at The 84th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood Sunday night, with top acting honors going to Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady and Jean Dujardin for The Artist, and supporting actor honors going to Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Octavia Spencer (The Help).
Click Here for the complete list of winners.
It was a neck-and-neck race to the finish between The Artist and Martin Scorsese's Hugo for the most awards of the night, and both whimsical period pieces crossed the finish line with a total of five wins each. The Artist also beat out Best Picture contenders The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and War Horse.
In a bit of an upset, Streep won her third Oscar for her spot-on portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, besting front-runner Viola Davis (The Help), Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), [link »
The Artist & Streep Nab Top Oscar Honors
26 February 2012 9:08 PM, PST | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
The Artist was named Best Picture of the Year at The 84th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood Sunday night, with top acting honors going to Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady and Jean Dujardin for The Artist, and supporting actor honors going to Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Octavia Spencer (The Help).
Click Here for the complete list of winners.
It was a neck-and-neck race to the finish between The Artist and Martin Scorsese's Hugo for most awards of the night, and both whimsical period pieces crossed the finish line with a total of five wins each. The Artist also beat out Best Picture contenders The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and War Horse.
In a bit of an upset, Streep won her third Oscar for her spot-on portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, besting front-runner Viola Davis (The Help), Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Rooney Mara ([link »
Knuckle Up For 'Every Face Punch in Road House!'
21 February 2012 7:27 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
"Mystery Science Theater 3000" guru Mike Nelson referred to "Road House" as "the single finest American film," but what really gives the saga of Patrick Swayze's super-bouncer James Dalton that extra punch?
Probably all the punching, as evidenced by a new video that properly catalogs, indexes and files "Every Face Punch in Road House!"
Is that listed under "F" for "Face" or "P" for punch? Try "X" for "X-cellence in violence."
Dalton is the Tai Chi-practicing peacenik who takes occasional detours from pacifism to rip a dude's throat out or knock some sense into every redneck in the world. With his two fists of iron, this 1980s relic tough guy and his mentor Wade Garrett (Sam Elliot) manage to clean up Missouri bar the Double Deuce but good, and make "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" look like a dance recital in the process.
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- Max Evry
Cool Clicks: 'Kick-Ass 2' Films This Summer?
21 February 2012 4:00 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
We scour the interwebs for the coolest movie news and more so you don't have to ...
Are we going to get the further adventures of Hit-Girl after all? According to Heat Vision, comic creator Mark Millar says he and director Matthew Vaughn will be shooting the sequel to "Kick-Ass" sometime this summer.
Yeah, come to think of it, 2004 was a pretty weak Oscar year. The Playlist lists the five worst Best Picture line-ups of all time, including the year where all we had to choose from was "Million Dollar Baby," "The Aviator," "Ray," "Sideways" and "Finding Neverland."
Stanley Kubrick definitely had his share of obsessions, and the price of orange juice was apparently one of them. Moviefone illustrates how nothing revealed the "2001: A Space Odyssey" director's singular intelligence -- nor his endearing humor and humanity -- more than budgetary decisions.
In "honor" of the Underwear Bomber, the man who »
- Bryan Enk
Whitney Houston Dead — Drugs Allegedly Found: She Possibly Drowned In Bathtub
12 February 2012 7:08 AM, PST | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
A new report says Whitney died quietly by drowning in a hotel bathroom, and she was surrounded by pill bottles -- how sad. Whitney Houston's sudden death has shocked the world, and now new details are emerging about her tragic final hours. Whitney, who was 48, allegedly died by drowning in her bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel, TMZ reports. Additionally, there were prescription drugs present in the room, although nothing illegal has been found as of yet. Whitney famously battled drug addiction, along with her famous ex Bobby Brown. Further details will soon emerge, as she's taken for an autopsy at the morgue. We wish her family the best during this difficult time. More Hollywood Passings: Actor Ben Gazzara Dead At 81 Nick & Aaron Carter’s Sister Leslie Carter Dead At 25 ‘Soul Train’ Creator Don Cornelius Dead From Apparent Suicide »
- William Earl
Movie News in 60 Seconds: 'Rango' Takes Top Annie Award, Documentary Filmmakers Die in Helicopter Crash
6 February 2012 8:00 AM, PST | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Tom Cruise is Still Box Office Gold: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol already proved that Tom Cruise still has box office staying power, but now it's given him a new personal record for highest grossing film. The Brad Bird-directed film has now pulled in $603.5 million worldwide, which beats Cruise' previous personal best for War of the Worlds. Rango Takes Top Honors at the Annies: The Annie Awards were held over the weekend and the Gore Verbinski-directed Rango beat out the competition to take home Best Animated Feature, as well as individual accolades for character design, writing, and editing. Are the Oscars next? Ben Gazzara, Rip: Character actor Ben Gazzara (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Lebowski, The Thomas Crown Affair and many, many more) passed away this...
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Ben Gazzara obituary
5 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Forceful actor who built a 60-year career in the Us and Europe
Few screen debuts have equalled the searing malevolence of Ben Gazzara's Iago-inspired Jocko De Paris in The Strange One (1957). The role, which he had created on stage, became forever associated with this intense graduate of New York's method school of acting.
Gazzara, who has died aged 81 of pancreatic cancer, continued his stage career in modern classics including Epitaph for George Dillon and as the humiliated and vengeful George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He also achieved popular acclaim through television series – notably Run for Your Life (1965-68) – and in movies for his friend John Cassavetes and other directors including Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, David Mamet, Todd Solondz and the Coen brothers.
Gazzara was born to Sicilian immigrants and grew up on Manhattan's lower east side. He began acting at the Madison Square Boys Club and »
- Brian Baxter
Actor Ben Gazzara Dead at 81
5 February 2012 8:23 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
A very serious and respected actor leaves behind a stellar body of work. Ben Gazzara worked with John Cassavetes five times and appeared in Road House and The Big Lebowski. I especially liked his take on Al Capone in the Corman-produced Capone in 1975 and his murderous stripclub owner Cosmo Vitelli in Cassavetes’s edgy thriller The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie in 1976. He had pancreatic cancer.
From The New York Times:
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his lawyer, Jay Julien, said. Mr. Gazzara lived in Manhattan.
Mr. Gazzara studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in Manhattan, where the careers of stars like Marlon Brando »
- Tom Stockman
Ben Gazzara, 1930 - 2012
5 February 2012 5:57 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"A New York native of Sicilian heritage, Ben Gazzara was a strongly masculine, subtly menacing screen presence with a gravelly voice that one writer described as 'saloon-cured' and another said could strip paint at 50 paces," writes Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times. "The veteran actor, who died Friday in New York City, found fame on Broadway in the 1950s, starred in the TV series Run for Your Life in the 1960s and was closely identified on the big screen with independent filmmaker John Cassavetes."
In Cassavetes's Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1976), "he plays varieties of himself, as Cassavetes saw him: the moderate man who loses his head and takes immoderate action," blogs the New Yorker's Richard Brody. "Husbands, in particular, finds Gazzara accomplishing one of the most astonishing, and moving, feats ever filmed: he steals a movie from Cassavetes and Peter Falk…. The movies »
Actor Ben Gazzara dies in Us - Realbollywood.com News
4 February 2012 9:44 PM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
New York, Feb 5 (Ians/Efe) Versatile Us actor Ben Gazzara died in a New York hospital of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times said. He was 81.
A student at New York's legendary Actor's Studio where other Hollywood stars like Marlon Brando and Al Pacino learned their profession, Gazzara, who died Friday, took his first steps as an actor in the world of theater.
Gazzara won applause on the Broadway stage playing the part of Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", directed by Elia Kazan, though in the later movie version the role was taken by Paul Newman.
After debuting in Hollywood with "The Strange One" in 1957, he interpreted one of his most memorable roles two years later in "Anatomy of a Murder" by Otto Preminger, a. »
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