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10 articles from 2009
Interview: Debbie Reynolds Dishes on Her Lucky Star Career
23 November 2009 9:04 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Debbie Reynolds, who began her movie star journey as a teenager during another show biz era, made her big splash in 1952’s “Singin’ in the Rain.” What followed was a long and varied career as a singer, dancer and respected film actress.
Born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, she lucked into her career by winning a beauty contest, which included a contract with Warner Brothers. Making her debut in “June Bride,” she also scored a charted hit with the song “Aba Daba Honeymoon.”
Following her big break in Singin’ in the Rain, she worked steadily for the next several decades in film, stage and Las Vegas revue. Notable films include “Tammy,” The Tender Trap,” “The Catered Affair,” “How the West was Won,” “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” “Charlotte’s Web” and “Mother.”
Besides her long run in the movies, Reynolds is prominent as the mother of “Star Wars »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Comedy Writer Larry Gelbart Dead At Age 81; "M*A*S*H" TV Series Among His Hits
12 September 2009 7:54 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
A valued alumni of TV's Golden Age of Comedy has passed away. Writer Larry Gelbart was part of Sid Caesar's legendary circle of writers in the 1950s. He also wrote the book for the hit play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and co-wrote the blockbuster comedy film Tootsie. His greatest achievement was adapting Robert Altman's 1970 film M*A*S*H into a hit comedy TV series that ran for years. Most attempts to bring hit movies to the small screen fail, but Gelbart found the right blend of sarcasm and poignancy to make the show a hit with both audiences and critics. Upon hearing of his death, Woody Allen called Gelbart "the best comedy writer I ever knew and one of the best guys." For more on his life and career click here. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Writer Gelbart Dead At 81
11 September 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Comedy writer Larry Gelbart, who co-created M*A*S*H and co-wrote Dustin Hoffman movie Tootsie, has died, aged 81.
Gelbart got his big break writing jokes for comedians Sid Caesar and Danny Thomas and became a staff member on The Red Buttons Show in the early 1950s.
He went on to write for variety shows fronted by Judy Garland and Danny Kaye.
He also wrote the book A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, which became a hit play and movie.
Gelbart was diagnosed with cancer in June. He died on Friday. »
The Beatles: Four Fab Performances For Screens Large And Small
9 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I'm not really sure that The Beatles were ever "bigger than Jesus," but they were still kind of a big deal. They made music that will be remembered through the ages and they were the focal point of what we nowadays think of offhandedly as a "pop culture phenomenon," one of the earliest really. Before "Twilight," before Britney Spears, before Michael Jackson... there was Beatlemania.
That said, the Fab Four weren't just musicians. That's what they were known for, sure, but the sort of fame they achieved has a tendency to open doors to other opportunities. Through the years, the four Beatles have all worked in Hollywood to varying degrees. And so, in honor of today's highly anticipated release of "The Beatles: Rock Band" -- not to mention the re-release of their entire catalog, newly remastered -- I give you these four fab screen performances from the Fab Four.
- Adam Rosenberg
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 6-12:
2 September 2009 2:29 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Sept. 6: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 72. Country singer David Allan Coe is 70. Country singer Mel McDaniel is 67. Singer-bassist Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 66. Actress Swoosie Kurtz is 65. Comedian-actress Jane Curtin is 62. Country singer Buddy Miller is 57. Country drummer Joe Smyth of Sawyer Brown is 52. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 51. Actor-comedian Michael Winslow ("Police Academy") is 51. Guitarist Pal Waaktaar of A-ha is 48. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 46. Actress Rosie Perez is 45. Singer Macy Gray is 42. Singer CeCe Peniston is 40. Singer Darryl Anthony (Az Yet) is 40. Singer Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) is 38. Actor Dylan Bruno ("Numb3ers") is 37. Actress Anika Noni Rose ("Dreamgirls") is 37. Actor Justin Whalin ("Lois and Clark") is 35. Singer Nina Persson (The Cardigans) is 35. Actress Naomie Harris ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest") is 33. Rapper Noreaga is 32. Rapper Foxy Brown is 31.Sept. 7: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer »
20 Classic TV Shows Get the Stamp of Approval from the Post Office
12 August 2009 4:55 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
The Post Office unveiled some very special stamps yesterday morning in Southern California; a set devoted to classic television.
The "Early TV Memories" set of commemorative stamps were launched at a special event at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood. The 20 shows that are honored on the stamps are The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Burns and Allen Show; The Dinah Shore Show; Dragnet; The Ed Sullivan Show; The Honeymooners; Hopalong Cassidy; Howdy Doody; I Love Lucy; Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Lassie; The Lone Ranger; Perry Mason; The Phil Silvers Show; The Red Skelton Show; Texaco Star Theater; The Tonight Show; The Twilight Zone; and You Bet Your Life.
All of the performers pictured on the stamps are no longer with us. Stars like Sid Caesar would likely also have been honored but Post »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
20 Classic TV Shows Get the Stamp of Approval from the Post Office
12 August 2009 4:55 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
The Post Office unveiled some very special stamps yesterday morning in Southern California; a set devoted to classic television.
The "Early TV Memories" set of commemorative stamps were launched at a special event at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood. The 20 shows that are honored on the stamps are The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Burns and Allen Show; The Dinah Shore Show; Dragnet; The Ed Sullivan Show; The Honeymooners; Hopalong Cassidy; Howdy Doody; I Love Lucy; Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Lassie; The Lone Ranger; Perry Mason; The Phil Silvers Show; The Red Skelton Show; Texaco Star Theater; The Tonight Show; The Twilight Zone; and You Bet Your Life.
All of the performers pictured on the stamps are no longer with us. Stars like Sid Caesar would likely also have been honored but Post Office rules stipulate that a living person can't appear on a stamp. »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
A chat with the cast of Woody Allen's Whatever Works
18 June 2009 11:52 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Patricia Clarkson, Woody Allen, Evan Rachel Wood, and Larry David at the premiere of Whatever Works, at The Tribeca Film Festival.
Working On Whatever With Woody:
Larry David, Patricia Clarkson and Evan Rachel Wood on orbiting the universe of Woody Allen
By
Alex Simon
Few, if any, figures in American film have had the career arc of Woody Allen. Born Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Allen cut his teeth on Sid Caesar’s TV landmark Your Show of Shows as a staff writer in 1950, while still in high school, and graduated to standup comedy. One of the nation’s hottest young comics in the early and mid-1960s, Allen wrote his first screenplay, What’s New Pussycat? in 1965, and also co-starred in the film, making his writing/directing debut with Take the Money and Run, in 1969.
Since then, Woody Allen has not only been one of America’s most beloved and unique voices in cinema, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
One less Golden Girl, R.I.P. Bea Arthur
25 April 2009 4:21 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Sad news today for Americans who grew up with "Maude," actress Beatrice Arthur who was cast as Maude Findlay in Norman Lear's sitcom died today. She was 86.. She was also the tough cookie Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running "The Golden Girls" with Estelle Getty (who played Dorothy's mother), Betty White and Rue McClanahan that was based in Miami. Bea Arthur was a successful Broadway theater actor before her work in television. In 1966, Arthur took the Tony award for her performance as Angela Lansbury's sidekick, Vera Charles, in the original production of "Mame" on Broadway. In 1999, Arthur memorably credited three people for influencing her career: "Sid Caesar taught me the outrageous; [method acting guru] Lee Strasberg »
- April MacIntyre
Exclusive Interview: Mitzi Gaynor Recalls "South Pacific"
12 April 2009 8:50 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
. Mitzi Gaynor with Cinema Retro contributor Eddy Friedfeld in New York.
By Eddy Friedfeld
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 “I never worked with a stinker- how great is that?” Mitzi Gaynor said as she recalled working with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein. Probably because the legendary actress, singer, and dancer never worked on any project that she did not make better.
In New York City celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of the film South Pacific on Blu-Ray disc, Ms. Gaynor was radiant, charismatic, and vibrant, still possessing all the energy that could “wash that man right out of her hair,” recalling her iconic character, Nellie Forbush.
Filmed on location on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, the classic and enduring South Pacific is about a young American nurse from Little Rock (Gaynor) who meets the handsome and mysterious »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
2009 | 2008 | 2005 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997
10 articles from 2009
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