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10 articles from 2009
Karl Malden Passes Away at the Age of 97
1 July 2009 5:34 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
It has been a rough two weeks for the entertainment business when it comes to the passing of major celebrity names as Karl Malden has passed away at the age of 97. Malden died in his sleep about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, his manager Bud Ross tells CNN. Malden won an Oscar for his performance alongside Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and was also nominated for another one of his performances opposite Brando in On the Waterfront in 1955. Only five years ago at the 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards he was recognized with a Life Achievement Award and has long been recognized as a Hollywood icon. My personal experience with his movies has been relatively limited considering the overal breadth of his career but I have seen him in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, How the West Was Won, The Cincinnati Kid, Patton
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Brad Brevet
Ken Annakin: 1914-2009 -- An Appreciation
30 April 2009 10:22 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
Director Ken Annakin.
I knew there was something familiar about the name when I read it: "Deborah Annakin-Peters." I had been corresponding with Debby via email for nearly a year after she had started working for Home Video Publicity at Paramount, and handled all my DVD requests. Then one day it struck me. I wrote her a quick email: "Are you, by chance, related to the director Ken Annakin?" I got a quick reply "Sure am. He's my dad!" It just happened that Annakin's most famous film, "The Longest Day," was getting a special edition DVD release from 20th Century Fox in a few weeks. I asked Debby if her father, then in his early 90s, was up to doing an interview. The answer to that question lies in the conversation below.
I was lucky enough to get to know Ken Annakin quite well over the next year or so when my producing partner,
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The Hollywood Interview.com
News: Movie Legend In 2009 Specials?
29 April 2009 3:10 PM, PDT | From Kasterborous.com | See recent Kasterborous news
According to press reports today, actress Claire Bloom - best known for appearing in Laurence Olivier's film version of Richard III (1955), as well as being married to actor Rod Steiger - has been cast in either or both of the final Tenth Doctor 2009 Specials The 78 year old star - who most recently appeared in BBC One's New Tricks in 2008 and on stage in London stage in Arthur Allan Seidelman's production of Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks alongside Billy Zane also appeared...
Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
The Pawnbroker Movie Review
22 April 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news
"The Pawnbroker" has to be undoubtedly one (if not) the best Rod Steiger movies I've ever seen (I've seen quite a few); espeicially since this was his first major dramatic role from 1965 and it's a winner. Steiger plays Mr. Nazemager, a Jewish Pawnbroker, making a living in New York City over twenty years after the end of the second world war. It's about his life and the daily goings on between him and his customers in his pawn shop. At the same time, he must deal with his painful past, having lived in a German concentration camp as was evident with the "number on his arm" that a customer ke...
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Rod Steiger's Strangler Thriller "No Way To Treat A Lady" Now A Musical Comedy!
21 April 2009 3:23 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
In 1968, Rod Steiger starred as a strangler in a the film adaptation of William Goldman's novel No Way to Treat a Lady. Well, it took over 40 years, but someone has decided this would make a perfect musical and it's now premiered in Los Angeles. We're already working on a musical adaptation of The Dirty Dozen. For the review from Variety, click here
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The Pawnbroker Movie Review
19 April 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news
"The Pawnbroker" has to be undoubtedly one (if not) the best Rod Steiger movies I've ever seen (I've seen quite a few); espeicially since this was his first major dramatic role from 1965 and it's a winner. Steiger plays Mr. Nazemager, a Jewish Pawnbroker, making a living in New York City over twenty years after the end of the second world war. It's about his life and the daily goings on between him and his customers in his pawn shop. At the same time, he must deal with his painful past, having lived in a German concentration camp as was evident with the "number on his arm" that a customer ke...
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Excerpt From Gail Gerber's "Trippin' With Terry Southern"
30 March 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
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Cinema Retro columnist Tom Lisanti has paired with actress Gail Gerber to write her fascinating autobiography that details her experiences in Hollywood as a young starlet in the 1960s as well as her career as a writer and Terry Southern's longtime companion. The book, Trippin' With Terry Southern, is due out in June. Here is an excerpt:
Hollywood, summer of 1964. I had been living in California for almost a year now and still felt like a fish out of water. Growing up in Canada where I studied ballet from the time I was a small child, Los Angeles was mystifying to me with its palm trees, bright sunlight forever contrasting with the deep shade, and its superficial inhabitants. But I readily admit I was sort of a snob myself and didn’t know
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[DVD Review] Suspense: The Lost Episodes Collection 3
20 March 2009 8:06 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
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Subtitled the "outstanding theater of thrills" this CBS anthology was originally, like so much old time drama, born from the radio. Running from 1942-1962 Suspense was a recurring weekly broadcast that for half an hour sought to hook the viewer into a murky world of mystery.
The original audition show (radio equivalent of a pilot) was interestingly enough directed by Alfred Hitchcock and taken from a short story he had filmed some years earlier. Save for a couple of forays into science fiction and other fantasy, such as an adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, episodes were stand alone and were grounded in the real world.
The television series, which began in 1949, coincided with the arrival of Elliot Lewis who took over as producer (he can be seen accepting an award during the intermission for the episode titled "Pier 17") and
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Neil Pedley
Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition
13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These
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Matt Medlock
John Exshaw Reviews A New Book About John Phillip Law
16 January 2009 6:40 PM, PST | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
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John Philip Law: Diabolik Angel
By Carlos Aguilar & Anita Hass
Foreword by Ray Harryhausen
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Review by John Exshaw
Towards the end of John Phillip Law: Diabolik Angel, authors Carlos Aguilar and Anita Haas describe their book as “an unfinished work”, anticipating, as they did, further films in the strange career of an actor best remembered for playing the black-clad super-criminal in Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik (1968), the blind angel, Pygar, in Roger Vadim’s Barbarella (1968), and the turbaned hero of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973). Sadly, as it turned out, Diabolik Angel will stand instead as the last word on Law, who died of cancer at the age of 70 in May of last year, during the final stages of the book’s preparation.
Due,
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