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“I knew daredevils — and I ain’t got nothing against ‘em — it’s just they’re all dead.”
So says the titular character of “The Stunt Man” to his trainer the first time his desire for mortality is put into question. The theme of death is a constant one in this 1980 film. It’s what propels the main character, Vietnam-Vet Cameron, to go on the run — the state in which we meet him at the beginning of the film. It’s what draws him to a movie set near the beach where dozens of bodies are ripped apart, sporting soldier’s uniforms from World War I, and buried across the sand. It’s what fascinates the film’s director, Eli Cross, whose need to draw reality out of a production that’s drowning in artifice places Cameron in the precarious position of both stuntman and muse. What begins as a...
So says the titular character of “The Stunt Man” to his trainer the first time his desire for mortality is put into question. The theme of death is a constant one in this 1980 film. It’s what propels the main character, Vietnam-Vet Cameron, to go on the run — the state in which we meet him at the beginning of the film. It’s what draws him to a movie set near the beach where dozens of bodies are ripped apart, sporting soldier’s uniforms from World War I, and buried across the sand. It’s what fascinates the film’s director, Eli Cross, whose need to draw reality out of a production that’s drowning in artifice places Cameron in the precarious position of both stuntman and muse. What begins as a...
- 5/3/2024
- by Harrison Richlin
- Indiewire
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By Todd Garbarini
Film director Richard Rush, perhaps best known for his unorthodox and original 1980 film The Stunt Man, passed away in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, April 8, 2021 just one week shy of what would have been his 92nd birthday following years of health issues. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Claude (née Claude Cuveraux); his son, Anthony; and his grandson, Shayne.
Mr. Rush was born on Monday, April 15, 1929 in New York City and broke into the film industry through the UCLA film program and later worked for producer and director Roger Corman as the co-writer and director of Too Soon to Love (1960), alternatively titled High School Honeymoon, about high school sweethearts who go all the way and the girl ends up pregnant. This was heady subject matter for the time and Jack Nicholson has a small role in the film.
By Todd Garbarini
Film director Richard Rush, perhaps best known for his unorthodox and original 1980 film The Stunt Man, passed away in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, April 8, 2021 just one week shy of what would have been his 92nd birthday following years of health issues. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Claude (née Claude Cuveraux); his son, Anthony; and his grandson, Shayne.
Mr. Rush was born on Monday, April 15, 1929 in New York City and broke into the film industry through the UCLA film program and later worked for producer and director Roger Corman as the co-writer and director of Too Soon to Love (1960), alternatively titled High School Honeymoon, about high school sweethearts who go all the way and the girl ends up pregnant. This was heady subject matter for the time and Jack Nicholson has a small role in the film.
- 4/14/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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Subversive film director fascinated by the counterculture, who won critical acclaim for The Stunt Man
With admirers including Stanley Kubrick, François Truffaut and Quentin Tarantino, Richard Rush could with some justification be called the directors’ director. Whether making cheap, hastily-shot exploitation films for Roger Corman’s Aip (American International Pictures) or starry comedies for major studios, Rush, who has died aged 91, had a subversive sensibility, as well as a sympathetic fascination with the counterculture.
His outstanding achievement was The Stunt Man (1980), a devilishly inventive film about film-making. Based on the novel by Paul Brodeur, it concerns a fugitive who stumbles unwittingly on to a movie set, gets hired as a stunt performer, and starts to believe that the flamboyant, maniacal director, who is shooting a first world war picture, is trying to kill him.
With admirers including Stanley Kubrick, François Truffaut and Quentin Tarantino, Richard Rush could with some justification be called the directors’ director. Whether making cheap, hastily-shot exploitation films for Roger Corman’s Aip (American International Pictures) or starry comedies for major studios, Rush, who has died aged 91, had a subversive sensibility, as well as a sympathetic fascination with the counterculture.
His outstanding achievement was The Stunt Man (1980), a devilishly inventive film about film-making. Based on the novel by Paul Brodeur, it concerns a fugitive who stumbles unwittingly on to a movie set, gets hired as a stunt performer, and starts to believe that the flamboyant, maniacal director, who is shooting a first world war picture, is trying to kill him.
- 4/14/2021
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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Richard Rush, who picked up two Oscar nominations, best director and adapted screenplay, for his extraordinary 1980 film “The Stunt Man,” starring Peter O’Toole, died April 8 in Los Angeles. He was 91.
His wife Claude said he had been suffering from longtime health issues but that he died comfortably at home. She said in a statement, “He will be remembered for a string of landmark films in the 1960s and ’70s, culminating with his 1980 multi-Oscar-nominated classic, ‘The Stunt Man,’ which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. To those who were privileged to know and love him, he will be even more warmly remembered, and missed, for his integrity, his loyalty, his endless generosity of spirit and his boundless support and mentorship of other filmmakers, writers or indeed anyone who ever dared to, in the words of his ‘Stunt Man’ hero Eli Cross, ’tilt at a windmill.
His wife Claude said he had been suffering from longtime health issues but that he died comfortably at home. She said in a statement, “He will be remembered for a string of landmark films in the 1960s and ’70s, culminating with his 1980 multi-Oscar-nominated classic, ‘The Stunt Man,’ which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. To those who were privileged to know and love him, he will be even more warmly remembered, and missed, for his integrity, his loyalty, his endless generosity of spirit and his boundless support and mentorship of other filmmakers, writers or indeed anyone who ever dared to, in the words of his ‘Stunt Man’ hero Eli Cross, ’tilt at a windmill.
- 4/12/2021
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Brodeur, a science writer who claims he was defamed by something Jennifer Lawrence said in David O. Russell's 2013 film American Hustle, has survived an attempt to knock out his $1 million lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. In the movie, Lawrence plays a character named Rosalyn who tells her husband, played by Christian Bale, that microwaves take the nutrition out of food. After Bale's character responds, "That's bullshit," Rosalyn shows him a magazine and says, "It's not bullshit. I read it in an article. Look, by Paul Brodeur." Brodeur says that during the late 1970s, when the
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- 4/2/2015
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Next Wednesday, producers of David O. Russell's 2013 film American Hustle will attempt to nuke a lawsuit brought by Paul Brodeur, an expert in the biological effects of electromagnetic fields. The legal action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court has prompted what the plaintiff has termed the "Ditzy Defense." Brodeur made his $1 million libel claim last October against Columbia Pictures, Atlas Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures over a comment from Jennifer Lawrence's character Rosalyn in the film. In a scene, Rosalyn tells her husband, played by Christian Bale, that microwaves take the nutrition out of food. After Bale's character
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- 3/27/2015
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul Brodeur, a real-life science journalist who has written for The New Yorker, is suing the team behind American Hustle for a reference made to him in the film. The complaint, which Entertainment Weekly has obtained, was filed Thursday in the Los Angeles Superior Court against Atlas Entertainment, Annapurna Pictures, and Columbia Pictures. In the film, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her husband, Irving (Christian Bale), that microwaves take "all of the nutrition out of our food." When Irving calls the claim bullshit, Rosalyn responds, "It's not bullshit. I read it in an article. Look, by Paul Brodeur." Brodeur's complaint states,...
- 10/31/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
It.s not unusual for Hollywood producers to face claims of libel, copyright infringement or defamation over their movies. Remember when the makers of Frozen were accused of ripping off a woman.s life story? Yeah, nice try. Now in the land of Hollywood litigation, the white collars behind American Hustle are being sued by a well-known science writer over a contentious line uttered by Jennifer Lawrence's Jersey housewife character, Rosalyn, involving the "science oven." In a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Paul Brodeur petitions that by attributing him to a "scientifically unsupportable statement," the filmmakers have scorched his reputation in the scientific community like oh-so-many of Rosalyn.s flame grilled easy dinners. "The scene from the movie American Hustle where the defamatory statement was made is highly offensive to a reasonable person," he states as the complaint seeks damages for libel, defamation, slander and false light.
- 10/31/2014
- cinemablend.com
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It's a very brief exchange in American Hustle: Jennifer Lawrence's character Roslyn tells her husband, Irving, played by Christian Bale, that microwaves take the nutrition out of food. "That's bullshit," Irving replies, and his wife shows him a magazine and says, "It's not bullshit. I read it in an article. Look, by Paul Brodeur." The real Brodeur is a science journalist who was a staff writer at The New Yorker for nearly 40 years. He's even written books (such as The Zapping of America) about the dangers of microwave radiation. But he's never said that they take the nutrition
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- 10/31/2014
- by Austin Siegemund-Broka
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"American Hustle" producers took a well-known science author who once wrote about microwaves and cooked his goose in less than 30 seconds ... and now he's suing for defamation.Paul Brodeur writes about environmental stuff. He is incensed at a scene in the Oscar-nominated flick in which Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) tells Irving (Christian Bale) that microwaves take all the nutrition out of food, and she proves it's true by holding up a magazine article written by Brodeur.
- 10/30/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
You probably know that the Academy Award-nominated comedy American Hustle was loosely inspired by the Abscam scandal of the 1970s that had FBI agents hiring conmen to weed out corruption in the Us government. Two of the films stars, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale, have both admitted that the make-under look of their characters was inspired by real people involved with the case. Funny enough, one person who is stepping forward to cry foul on this reality-based feature wasn't a conman, congressman or a CIA agent. He's a journalist who feels the movie hurts his reputation with one throwaway line. Paul Brodeur is a respected science journalist and author who spent much of the '60s and '70s writing about the health hazards of things like asbestos, the depletion of the ozone layer, household detergents and microwave radiation. And because of this last one, his name was dropped in...
- 1/17/2014
- cinemablend.com
Investigative science writer and author Paul Brodeur got quickly heated when he saw the scene in “American Hustle” where Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) tells Irving (Christian Bale) that his “science oven,” her own words for the newfangled microwave, takes the nutrition out of food — then quotes a magazine article “by Paul Brodeur.” “I have never written an article — either in the New Yorker where I was a staff writer for nearly forty years, or anywhere else for that matter, or ever declared in any way that a microwave oven ‘takes all the nutrition out of food,’” Brodeur wrote in...
- 1/11/2014
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Richard Rush’s The Stunt Man was released in 1980, the same year as Heaven’s Gate, the famed Michael Cimino debacle that nearly destroyed United Artists and marked an unofficial end to a libertine decade when directors were kings. Yet in Peter O’Toole’s performance as the half-mad egomaniac behind The Stunt Man’s movie-within-a-movie (within-a-movie-within-a-movie), Rush— adapting Paul Brodeur’s novel—offers a sly commentary on the state of the ’70s auteur. It’s just as pointed as the lessons of Cimino’s excesses, and in this case, it’s intentional. O’Toole’s efforts to orchestrate ...
- 6/8/2011
- avclub.com
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