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Maurice Sendak obituary
8 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Children's author and illustrator best known for Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, who has died aged 83, was both one of the most individual and one of the most successful illustrators of the 20th century. Since 1951 his 90-odd titles have sold nearly 30m copies in the Us alone. His renowned work Where the Wild Things Are (1963), with worldwide sales of more than 19m, was a turning point not only in his own career but in the history of children's books.
The bulk of his work lay in illustrating other writers, but it was his own, far fewer, books which brought him countless international awards and academic honours, and made him the subject of many a thesis. At first, Where the Wild Things Are and its follow-up, In the Night Kitchen (1970), caused outraged shock at their robust portrayal of children's fears and aggression; Sendak's fantasy was always "rooted 10ft deep »
- Stephanie Nettell
Tom Hardy as... James Bond? - A GeekTyrant Discussion
22 March 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Inception and The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy has been getting a lot of attention in Hollywood. His last film, This Means War, did poorly at the box office, I think mostly because of the bad reputation of director McG. However, Hardy's turn as Bane in Dark Knight Rises makes the film even more eagerly anticipated. Talking to a UK radio station, Hardy revealed he would like to play a spy again, but this time as the most famous one in all of film history - 007 himself. "I'd love to play Bond with Chris Nolan (as a) director or something, it would be awesome."
Indeed it would, Mr. Hardy. Indeed it would. Now, let's be realistic, Hardy is being anything but serious. Skyfall is halfway through production and headed for a November 9th release. Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, has been signed to play the world's greatest secret agent for five more films. »
- Zack Parks
Mad Men is back!
22 March 2012 4:01 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
With the long-awaited fifth season beginning next week, Guardian writers meet the actors who play their favourite characters in the show
Don Draper
A man to project your fantasies on
What's it like to be too handsome? The actor who made his TV debut as "gorgeous guy at bar" in Ally McBeal in 1997 stops fiddling with his bagel and looks at me glassily across the coffee table of a Soho hotel room. "That's ridiculous. What's too good-looking? That's a ridiculous thing to say. There's no such thing as too good-looking."
Isn't there? Maybe there is. There was, reportedly, a moment in 2007 when creator Matthew Weiner and director Alan Taylor hesitated over casting him as the lead in Mad Men. Was this guy, with his lantern jaw, bedroom eyes, covetable hair and other annoyingly scintillating attributes, too damned perfect to play Don Draper? Maybe they should go back to one of »
- Stuart Jeffries, Kira Cochrane, Tim Jonze, Esther Addley, Sarah Phillips
Cinema Retro Covers Jerry Lewis Tribute At New York's 92Nd Street Y
17 March 2012 5:55 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
By Lee Pfeiffer
On March 16, The Friars Club presented an 86th birthday celebration honoring Jerry Lewis. The sold-out event saw hundreds of Lewis fans packed into the fabled 92nd Street Y on Manhattan's upper East Side. The show was hosted by actor/comedian and fellow Friar Richard Belzer (Lewis is the club's "Abbot"). Belzer waxed eloquently about the impact Lewis has continued to have on generations of comedians. He then showed some truly fascinating clips from director Gregg Barson's recent documentary Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis. Then Lewis was introduced to a standing ovation. At 86 years old, there were few signs that age had taken its toll on the comedy legend. He walked a bit more cautiously and his hair was flecked with gray, but he cut a fit figure for a man of any age. Lewis and Belzer indulged in some predictable shtick, with Belzer taking most of Lewis' acid-tongued insults. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Photos: When Hollywood Was Silent
16 February 2012 11:58 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles -- From around 1910 to the late 1920s, the silent film industry dominated Los Angeles. The movies were filmed everywhere, from Hollywood to bustling downtown to what was then a nearly barren valley area, on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. Without permits, unions or worries about sound, filmmakers could just grab a camera and shoot scenes on the spot, transforming various L.A. locales into any place the script called for. Hollywood was truly the Wild West, infinitely more accessible than now.
"The Artist," a Golden Globe winner and Oscar contender that hearkens back to the lost art of telling a story in black and white, without talking, has renewed interest in that early genre. Fortunately, many of the locations where exteriors were filmed during the silent film era still exist today, and you can find them hidden around the city like historic gems.
"Southern California was »
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Reese, Tom, and Chris Team Up to Show This Means War in La
9 February 2012 6:23 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Reese Witherspoon joined her This Means War leading men on the red carpet at their La premiere last night. She was decked out in a strapless dress from Miu Miu to sign autographs for fans and pose for pictures with "Piney" and Tom, who brought along his British actress fiancée Charlotte Riley. Reese, Chris, and Tom were together last weekend for their junket as well. We caught up with the trio there, and Reese joked about the challenges of choosing one of the two guys, Chris or Tom, in the movie. Chelsea Handler, who plays Reese's Bff, didn't pose with her costars. Instead, she made her way solo down the press line, and joked with us about her relationships with Reese, Chris, and Tom. When asked which actor, Chris or Tom, she would pick if given the choice, Chelsea went with Mr. Hardy since she's a big fan of muscles. »
- Allie Merriam
Reese, Tom, and Chris Team Up to Show This Means War in La
9 February 2012 6:23 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Reese Witherspoon joined her This Means War leading men on the red carpet at their La premiere last night. She was decked out in a strapess dress from Miu Miu to sign autographs for fans and pose for pictures with "Piney" and Tom, who brought along his British actress fiancée Charlotte Riley. Reese, Chris, and Tom were together last weekend for their junket as well. We caught up with the trio there, and Reese joked about the challenges of choosing one of the two guys, Chris or Tom, in the movie. Chelsea Handler, who plays Reese's Bff, didn't pose with her costars. Instead, she made her way solo down the press line, and joked with us about her relationships with Reese, Chris, and Tom. When asked which actor, Chris or Tom, she would pick if given the choice, Chelsea went with Mr. Hardy since she's a big fan of muscles. »
- Allie Merriam
Classic Comedy Toppers
17 January 2012 10:00 PM, PST | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
A movie collectible doesn’t have to be old to appeal to me: it simply has to evoke happy thoughts of a film I care about. I never dreamed anyone would reproduce the fezzes worn by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in their classic 1933 comedy Sons of the Desert…but that’s just what Fez-o-Rama has done, along with a model that bears the symbol of Freedonia, the mythical kingdom depicted in the Marx Brothers comedy gem Duck Soup, also from 1933. (I don’t think anyone actually wears such a hat in the film, to the best of my recollection, but let’s not split hairs—pun intended. The fez looks great and so does the Freedonia emblem.) Apparently, the folks at...
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New Images from The Dark Knight Rises Appear
12 January 2012 7:12 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
As much as I’m looking forward to the 20th of July (it’s my birthday) I fully expect every cinema in the land to be packed to the veritable rafters with eager Batfans taking their final dance with the Nolanesque caped crusader.
The slow drip of info and images continues today as three new pictures from The Dark Knight Rises have come to light. Taken from EW.com, the standout image is of Gary Oldman’s Commissioner Gordon in the Batcave (?) but there’s Bane enough in the other two pics for fans of Mr. Hardy.
Dave posted another new image from the film earlier today, of Christian Bale’s Batman breaking down in huge peals of laughter. See that one here.
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- Jon Lyus
Tom Hardy Talks Possible Al Capone Trilogy
11 January 2012 4:25 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Tom Hardy's career is certainly on the rise. Sure he's be acting for over a decade, beginning with a pair of credits in the war genre (Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down), but with Inception, Warrior and Tinker Tailor Solider Spy already in his back pocket and This Means War (opposite Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon), Wettest County (opposite Guy Pearce and Shia Labeouf) and that little Christopher Nolan Batman movie hitting theaters this year, what's next for Mr. Hardy? We know he'll play infamous gangster, Al Capone, once he's finished filming Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth movie in the Mad Max franchise that co-stars Charlize Theron. Harry Potter director David Yates will direct Hardy in Cicero, n Capone biopic of sorts. Not much has been revealed about the movie until now,...
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