Julian Barry, whose 1971 Broadway play and 1974 movie, both titled Lenny and telling the story of legendary comic Lenny Bruce, died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 92.
His death was reported to The New York Times by his daughter Julia Barry, who said he died in his sleep and had been under medical care for congestive heart failure and late-stage kidney disease.
Although most widely known for his highly influential Bruce projects, which earned considerable acclaim for the writer and his title stars — Cliff Gorman on stage, Dustin Hoffman on screen — Barry’s career extended to other projects that caught the public’s attention in their day. He wrote Rhinoceros, the 1974 film adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s play starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, a movie that has grown somewhat in esteem since its initial critical dismissal, and the 1978 Faye Dunaway vehicle Eyes of Laura Mars, which has not.
His death was reported to The New York Times by his daughter Julia Barry, who said he died in his sleep and had been under medical care for congestive heart failure and late-stage kidney disease.
Although most widely known for his highly influential Bruce projects, which earned considerable acclaim for the writer and his title stars — Cliff Gorman on stage, Dustin Hoffman on screen — Barry’s career extended to other projects that caught the public’s attention in their day. He wrote Rhinoceros, the 1974 film adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s play starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, a movie that has grown somewhat in esteem since its initial critical dismissal, and the 1978 Faye Dunaway vehicle Eyes of Laura Mars, which has not.
- 7/27/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Alvin Sargent, who won Oscars for writing Ordinary People and Julia and was nominated for Paper Moon, has died of natural causes in Seattle. He was 92. Sargent also won WGA Awards for all three of those films and received the guild’s career honor, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in 1991.
Sargent penned more than two dozen feature screenplays from the 1960s into the 2010s, most recently The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). His feature credits also include What About Bob? (1991), Other People’s Money (1991) and Unfaithful (2002).
He began his screenwriting career in television, penning episodes of such 1960s drama series Ben Casey, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Run for Your Life. He also wrote episodes of ABC’s short-lived Paper Moon spinoff series in which Jodie Foster played the role that won Tatum O’Neal a Supporting Actress Oscar.
Born on April 12, 1927, in Philadelphia, Sargent had...
Sargent penned more than two dozen feature screenplays from the 1960s into the 2010s, most recently The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). His feature credits also include What About Bob? (1991), Other People’s Money (1991) and Unfaithful (2002).
He began his screenwriting career in television, penning episodes of such 1960s drama series Ben Casey, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Run for Your Life. He also wrote episodes of ABC’s short-lived Paper Moon spinoff series in which Jodie Foster played the role that won Tatum O’Neal a Supporting Actress Oscar.
Born on April 12, 1927, in Philadelphia, Sargent had...
- 5/11/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Sky Living will be bringing Us TV series Limitless and The Catch to UK viewers.
The latest acquisitions follow the channel's pick-up of Jaimie Alexander's crime drama Blindspot.
Limitless is based on the 2011 movie of the same name and stars Jake McDorman as protagonist Brian Finch.
Finch is forced into solving cases for the FBI using enhanced abilities acquired from taking the mysterious drug Nzt, and works closely with Special Agents Harris (Jennifer Carpenter) and Boyle (Hill Harper).
Bradley Cooper reprises his role from the film in the pilot episode, and will recur as his availability allows.
The Catch, from Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes, follows fraud investigator Alice Martin (Mireille Enos), who discovers that she is about to get conned by her fiancé (Peter Krause).
However, Alice has her own secrets, and the couple's lies to each other lead to a dangerous and complex game of cat and mouse.
The latest acquisitions follow the channel's pick-up of Jaimie Alexander's crime drama Blindspot.
Limitless is based on the 2011 movie of the same name and stars Jake McDorman as protagonist Brian Finch.
Finch is forced into solving cases for the FBI using enhanced abilities acquired from taking the mysterious drug Nzt, and works closely with Special Agents Harris (Jennifer Carpenter) and Boyle (Hill Harper).
Bradley Cooper reprises his role from the film in the pilot episode, and will recur as his availability allows.
The Catch, from Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes, follows fraud investigator Alice Martin (Mireille Enos), who discovers that she is about to get conned by her fiancé (Peter Krause).
However, Alice has her own secrets, and the couple's lies to each other lead to a dangerous and complex game of cat and mouse.
- 10/5/2015
- Digital Spy
This story originally appeared in the April 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. A 1942 Monterey- style traditional home owned since 1997 by the late producer Laura Ziskin is about to come up for sale, her family tells THR. Ziskin, whose credits included everything from Pretty Woman to Spider-Man, died in June at age 61 of breast cancer. After being diagnosed in 2004, she helped raise tens of millions of dollars to fight the disease as co-founder of the nonprofit Stand Up to Cancer. Photos: Lost Homes of Hollywood According to Ziskin's daughter, Julia Barry, a graduate student
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- 4/5/2012
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taymor To Be Feted At Athena Film Festival
Across The Universe director Julie Taymor has been selected for a top award at the Athena Film Festival next month.
Organisers have praised Taymor for her "vision and courage as an exemplary director" while Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody will also be recognised at the event, which celebrates women for their creative accomplishments.
New Girl producer Elizabeth Meriwether and screenwriter Theresa Rebeck will also receive prizes at the second annual award ceremony hosted by the private women's college Barnard in New York.
A new award will be posthumously dedicated to Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, who lost her battle with cancer in June, and accepted by her daughter Julia Barry.
The honour will be handed out to female film trailblazers in future years.
Organisers have praised Taymor for her "vision and courage as an exemplary director" while Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody will also be recognised at the event, which celebrates women for their creative accomplishments.
New Girl producer Elizabeth Meriwether and screenwriter Theresa Rebeck will also receive prizes at the second annual award ceremony hosted by the private women's college Barnard in New York.
A new award will be posthumously dedicated to Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, who lost her battle with cancer in June, and accepted by her daughter Julia Barry.
The honour will be handed out to female film trailblazers in future years.
- 1/11/2012
- WENN
Julie Taymor, Diablo Cody and Rachael Horovitz will receive awards at the 2012 Athena Film Festival, which will run February 9-12 at the Barnard College campus in Manhattan. The festival, now in its second year, has also announced the bulk of its film program, which will include a look at Keith Patterson and Jack Lofton's documentary work in progress, "Ann Richards' Texas." The Athena's awards, which "honor extraordinary women for their leadership and creative accomplishments," will also inaugurate the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award. This will be presented to "a trailblazer in the film industry who sets an exemplary standard for other women to emulate." Created in the memory of the late producer, the first award will be accepted on Ziskin's behalf by her daughter, Julia Barry. Other awards will go to Dee Rees and Nekisa Cooper ("Pariah") Dana Fox ("What Happens in Vegas," "Couples...
- 1/10/2012
- Indiewire
Hollywood producer Laura Ziskin, who worked on such blockbuster films as "Pretty Woman" and "Spider-Man," has died after a public battle with breast cancer. She was 61.
A statement from the Entertainment Industry Foundation said the 35-year Hollywood veteran died in her Santa Monica home on Sunday after a long battle with the disease. Laura was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy, a stem-cell transplant and radiation. The cancer returned in 2009 and...
A statement from the Entertainment Industry Foundation said the 35-year Hollywood veteran died in her Santa Monica home on Sunday after a long battle with the disease. Laura was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy, a stem-cell transplant and radiation. The cancer returned in 2009 and...
- 6/13/2011
- Extra
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