Attorney Leon Wildes, who stood next to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in court, in public and on TV during the early 1970s as the famous couple successfully fought unrelenting deportation attempts by the Nixon Administration, died Monday, January 8, at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 90.
His death was announced by his son Michael Wildes, the Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
Wildes himself would share at least a fraction of the Lennons’ massive fame for a while in the early ’70s, appearing with the couple on various high-profile TV talk shows during the three-year litigation.
After Lennon and Ono, both outspoken critics of the war in Vietnam, moved to New York City following the break-up of the Beatles, they soon became targeted by the Nixon Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Lennon had been convicted in London in 1968 on a marijuana possession charge, and a waiver he...
His death was announced by his son Michael Wildes, the Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
Wildes himself would share at least a fraction of the Lennons’ massive fame for a while in the early ’70s, appearing with the couple on various high-profile TV talk shows during the three-year litigation.
After Lennon and Ono, both outspoken critics of the war in Vietnam, moved to New York City following the break-up of the Beatles, they soon became targeted by the Nixon Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Lennon had been convicted in London in 1968 on a marijuana possession charge, and a waiver he...
- 1/15/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
It was the battle of the Stephens at the 27th annual Tony Awards telecast March 25, 1973 on ABC from the Imperial Theatre. In one corner was Stephen Sondheim’s glorious and exquisite romantic musical “A Little Night Music” based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 comedy “Smiles of a Summer Night.” And in the other corner, 25-year-old Stephen Schwartz’s hip, cool, Fosse Fosse Fosse musical “Pippin.”
“A Little Night Music,” which featured song memorable tunes as “Send in the Clowns” and “A Weekend in the Country,” waltzed into the ceremony hosted by Rex Harrison and Celeste Holm and co-hosted by Sandy Duncan and Jerry Orbach with 12 nominations including best musical, best original score, best book for Hugh Wheeler, best direction of a musical for Harold Prince, best performance by a leading actress in a musical for Glynis Johns, leading actor in a musical for Len Cariou, featured actress in a musical for...
“A Little Night Music,” which featured song memorable tunes as “Send in the Clowns” and “A Weekend in the Country,” waltzed into the ceremony hosted by Rex Harrison and Celeste Holm and co-hosted by Sandy Duncan and Jerry Orbach with 12 nominations including best musical, best original score, best book for Hugh Wheeler, best direction of a musical for Harold Prince, best performance by a leading actress in a musical for Glynis Johns, leading actor in a musical for Len Cariou, featured actress in a musical for...
- 4/5/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Joe.Movie-lovers!Welcome back to The Deuce Notebook, a collaboration between Mubi's Notebook and The Deuce Film Series, our monthly event at Nitehawk Williamsburg that excavates the facts and fantasies of cinema's most infamous block in the world: 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. For each screening, my co-hosts and I pick a title that we think embodies the era of 24-hour moviegoing, and present the venue at which it premiered…This month, we welcome yet another guest writer, Jason Bailey. Jason is a film critic, historian, and author. His most recent book, “Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It,” tracks the intersections between New York movies and the city’s history. That is also the subject of his “Fun City Cinema” podcast, and the following essay was adapted from the episode “Keep America Great.” Special thanks to co-host Mike Hull and guests Jefferson Cowie,...
- 11/29/2022
- MUBI
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By Fred Blosser
“Rosebud” (1975), Otto Preminger’s next-to-last film, has been released by Kino Lorber Studio Classics in a 2K Blu-ray restoration. In the political thriller, a terrorist cell kidnaps five teenaged girls from a luxury yacht, the “Rosebud” of the title. The kidnappers are members of Black September, an extremist Palestinian faction -- a reference that would have been better known by audiences then than now. Their reasons for seizing the young women become clearer as they open communications with the girls’ parents, an international power elite of politicians, industrialists, and financiers. Sending along a film of the five young women on the deck of the commandeered yacht, nude and shivering, the terrorists dictate that it be televised as a prelude to a series of demands that will demean Israel and it allies on the global stage. If the demands aren...
By Fred Blosser
“Rosebud” (1975), Otto Preminger’s next-to-last film, has been released by Kino Lorber Studio Classics in a 2K Blu-ray restoration. In the political thriller, a terrorist cell kidnaps five teenaged girls from a luxury yacht, the “Rosebud” of the title. The kidnappers are members of Black September, an extremist Palestinian faction -- a reference that would have been better known by audiences then than now. Their reasons for seizing the young women become clearer as they open communications with the girls’ parents, an international power elite of politicians, industrialists, and financiers. Sending along a film of the five young women on the deck of the commandeered yacht, nude and shivering, the terrorists dictate that it be televised as a prelude to a series of demands that will demean Israel and it allies on the global stage. If the demands aren...
- 4/21/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Part I.
1971 was an incredibly violent year for movies. That year saw, among others, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack, with its half-Indian hero karate-chopping rednecks; William Friedkin’s The French Connection, its dogged cops stymied by well-heeled drug runners; Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, banned for the copycat crimes it reportedly inspired; and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, featuring the most controversial rape in cinema history. Every bloody shooting, sexual assault and death by penis statue reflected a world gone mad.
It seemed a reaction to America’s skyrocketing crime. Between 1963 and 1975, violent crimes tripled; riots, robberies and assassinations racked major cities. The antiwar and Civil Rights movements generated violent offshoots like the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Citizens blamed politicians like New York Mayor John Lindsay (the original “limousine liberal”), who proclaimed “Peace cannot be imposed on our cities by force of arms,” and Earl Warren’s Supreme Court,...
1971 was an incredibly violent year for movies. That year saw, among others, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack, with its half-Indian hero karate-chopping rednecks; William Friedkin’s The French Connection, its dogged cops stymied by well-heeled drug runners; Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, banned for the copycat crimes it reportedly inspired; and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, featuring the most controversial rape in cinema history. Every bloody shooting, sexual assault and death by penis statue reflected a world gone mad.
It seemed a reaction to America’s skyrocketing crime. Between 1963 and 1975, violent crimes tripled; riots, robberies and assassinations racked major cities. The antiwar and Civil Rights movements generated violent offshoots like the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Citizens blamed politicians like New York Mayor John Lindsay (the original “limousine liberal”), who proclaimed “Peace cannot be imposed on our cities by force of arms,” and Earl Warren’s Supreme Court,...
- 5/28/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
A new film series curated by critic J. Hoberman, “Fun City: New York in the Movies 1967-75,” got off the ground last Saturday afternoon at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. A primarily weekend event running through September 1st, the retrospective seeks to draw attention to the New York films of yesteryear, films featuring on-location shooting gleefully encouraged by then Mayor John V. Lindsay; Lindsay described his rundown NYC as a “Fun City.” The result was some excellent films that leaned on their locales for extra doses of hard-knocks and gritty gravitas. Directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet subsequently made their presence...
- 8/16/2013
- by Erik Luers
- ShadowAndAct
If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die. You simply can't have so many soap suds flying around without folks slipping and hitting their heads on the sharp edges of all the symbols lying about.
Heh.
I wrote this sentence in the second paragraph of "Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?," my piece here on the Huffington Post about the Mad Men season premiere: "I confess to a certain diffidence about it all, all two hours of it."
I have more than a certain diffidence about the latest episode, which takes us into the final third of a great show's uneven fifth season.
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
Heh.
I wrote this sentence in the second paragraph of "Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?," my piece here on the Huffington Post about the Mad Men season premiere: "I confess to a certain diffidence about it all, all two hours of it."
I have more than a certain diffidence about the latest episode, which takes us into the final third of a great show's uneven fifth season.
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
- 5/15/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
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In the summer of 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, a staunch conservationist, was reading an article about the impact of college teach-ins on anti-war activism when he had a flash of inspiration: What if the energy of these student teach-ins could also be harnessed to address environmental concerns?
It took Nelson a month to develop this idea into a practical plan, an in mid-September he issued a call for a national environmental teach-in day to be held sometime in the spring.
In the summer of 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, a staunch conservationist, was reading an article about the impact of college teach-ins on anti-war activism when he had a flash of inspiration: What if the energy of these student teach-ins could also be harnessed to address environmental concerns?
It took Nelson a month to develop this idea into a practical plan, an in mid-September he issued a call for a national environmental teach-in day to be held sometime in the spring.
- 4/21/2012
- by Eric Rutkow
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The Obama campaign is consistently painting Mitt Romney as a man more suited to living in a "Mad Men" world than in today's reality, Politico reports.
The general hope is that by associating him with a retro, passé society, the campaign can make the point that Romney's policy and personal beliefs aren't compatible with modern American culture.
Obama's chief campaign adviser, David Axelrod remarked on CBS' "Good Morning" that Romney "must watch 'Mad Men' and think it's the evening news," and that his views on healthcare come from an era when "bosses could dictate on women's health."
The Romney camp immediately tried to play what Politico calls the "Draperization" of Romney to its advantage. One top Romney aide fired a tweet at Axelrod characterizing the "Mad Men" world as a time "when unemployment was lower, and the economy was expanding." Axelrod quickly hit back with a different description of the '60s: "No,...
The general hope is that by associating him with a retro, passé society, the campaign can make the point that Romney's policy and personal beliefs aren't compatible with modern American culture.
Obama's chief campaign adviser, David Axelrod remarked on CBS' "Good Morning" that Romney "must watch 'Mad Men' and think it's the evening news," and that his views on healthcare come from an era when "bosses could dictate on women's health."
The Romney camp immediately tried to play what Politico calls the "Draperization" of Romney to its advantage. One top Romney aide fired a tweet at Axelrod characterizing the "Mad Men" world as a time "when unemployment was lower, and the economy was expanding." Axelrod quickly hit back with a different description of the '60s: "No,...
- 4/13/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The Obama campaign is consistently painting Mitt Romney as a man more suited to living in a "Mad Men" world than in today's reality, Politico reports.
The general hope is that by associating him with a retro, passé society, the campaign can make the point that Romney's policy and personal beliefs aren't compatible with modern American culture.
Obama's chief campaign adviser, David Axelrod remarked on CBS' "Good Morning" that Romney "must watch 'Mad Men' and think it's the evening news," and that his views on healthcare come from an era when "bosses could dictate on women's health."
The Romney camp immediately tried to play what Politico calls the "Draperization" of Romney to its advantage. One top Romney aide fired a tweet at Axelrod characterizing the "Mad Men" world as a time "when unemployment was lower, and the economy was expanding." Axelrod quickly hit back with a different description of the '60s: "No,...
The general hope is that by associating him with a retro, passé society, the campaign can make the point that Romney's policy and personal beliefs aren't compatible with modern American culture.
Obama's chief campaign adviser, David Axelrod remarked on CBS' "Good Morning" that Romney "must watch 'Mad Men' and think it's the evening news," and that his views on healthcare come from an era when "bosses could dictate on women's health."
The Romney camp immediately tried to play what Politico calls the "Draperization" of Romney to its advantage. One top Romney aide fired a tweet at Axelrod characterizing the "Mad Men" world as a time "when unemployment was lower, and the economy was expanding." Axelrod quickly hit back with a different description of the '60s: "No,...
- 4/13/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
Well, that was one of the spookier Mad Men episodes, complete with not one but two dream sequences. As always, there be some spoilers ahead discussing this episode, the aptly titled "Mystery Date."
The horizon of the future, i.e., the later '60s, is getting much darker, and a lot closer. New York City has slid past its peak, at which it glittered as the series began. Things increasingly don't work, we're seeing some people who look rather unkempt. And they're not the hippies, because those folks have yet to arrive.
Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
It's mid-July 1966. The worst things are happening elsewhere, but they're getting closer. Richard Speck raped and murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, and race riots have cropped up in the Windy City as well. Much of the Mad Men crew...
The horizon of the future, i.e., the later '60s, is getting much darker, and a lot closer. New York City has slid past its peak, at which it glittered as the series began. Things increasingly don't work, we're seeing some people who look rather unkempt. And they're not the hippies, because those folks have yet to arrive.
Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
It's mid-July 1966. The worst things are happening elsewhere, but they're getting closer. Richard Speck raped and murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, and race riots have cropped up in the Windy City as well. Much of the Mad Men crew...
- 4/10/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
AMC's Mad Men taking a swipe at Mitt Romney's father, Governor George Romney of Michigan was a historically inaccurate cheap shot. In the series, an advertising executive tells Mayor John Lindsay to avoid meeting with [George] Romney in Michigan.
First elected governor of Michigan in 1966, George Romney bought reform and integrity to Michigan State government. He was a true moderate Republican who had roots in big business. He was clean living, honest, enthusiastic, dogged, stubborn, energetic, principled, and sometimes a little too exuberant.
George Romney was not a particularly skillful politician and was sometimes blunt and too brutally honest. His campaign for president in 1968 was already in trouble when he said he had been "brainwashed" by the Generals in Vietnam and that he was rethinking his support for the war. Impolitic at the time Romney, of course, turned out to be right. His campaign imploded.
Romney went on to serve...
First elected governor of Michigan in 1966, George Romney bought reform and integrity to Michigan State government. He was a true moderate Republican who had roots in big business. He was clean living, honest, enthusiastic, dogged, stubborn, energetic, principled, and sometimes a little too exuberant.
George Romney was not a particularly skillful politician and was sometimes blunt and too brutally honest. His campaign for president in 1968 was already in trouble when he said he had been "brainwashed" by the Generals in Vietnam and that he was rethinking his support for the war. Impolitic at the time Romney, of course, turned out to be right. His campaign imploded.
Romney went on to serve...
- 4/4/2012
- by Roger Stone
- Aol TV.
The roar of generational change got ever louder in this week's Mad Men, so much so that Roger Sterling plaintively wondered when things will go back to normal. That would be "Never," Roger. At least for you. As always, there be spoilers ahead.
Meanwhile ... She's baaack. It's around the 4th of July, 1966, and the character so many love to hate, and whom many thought had slipped away from the storyline, Betty Draper Francis, has returned to the show in a big way. Literally. Well, not that big. But the svelte Grace Kelly lookalike has put on a lot of weight. (This is how creator Matthew Weiner deals with star January Jones's real-life pregnancy, which arrived not long after she wrapped her co-starring role as wintry telepath Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.)
Absent an untimely demise, Betty is forever a key character in the show. She and Don were...
Meanwhile ... She's baaack. It's around the 4th of July, 1966, and the character so many love to hate, and whom many thought had slipped away from the storyline, Betty Draper Francis, has returned to the show in a big way. Literally. Well, not that big. But the svelte Grace Kelly lookalike has put on a lot of weight. (This is how creator Matthew Weiner deals with star January Jones's real-life pregnancy, which arrived not long after she wrapped her co-starring role as wintry telepath Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.)
Absent an untimely demise, Betty is forever a key character in the show. She and Don were...
- 4/3/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
Mad Men's formula for success comes from its careful duality: it revels in pinpoint accurate details from its 1960s setting, while playing with themes that are timeless. Sometimes that means a fortuitous opportunity to use news and names that have reappeared in the cycle of American history. On Sunday night's episode, the second of its fifth season, Mad Men featured a scene in which Henry Francis, a character who is an aide to New York City Mayor John Lindsay, says that he does not want the mayor to appear with Michigan Governor George Romney. Francis calls Romney "a clown,"
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- 4/3/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mitt Romney has racked up some high profile endorsements in the last week, but his dad didn't get one from "Mad Men" character Henry Francis. On Sunday's episode, Betty's new husband received a work call while the couple waited for test results to see if she had cancer. Whoever was calling wanted Henry's boss, New York Mayor John Lindsay, to appear with Michigan Gov. George Romney. (This season, remember, is set in 1966.) Also read: Don Draper Was Right: Rolling Stones Did Do a Cereal Commercial Henry gave his caller the brush off:...
- 4/2/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
In last night's episode, Henry Francis calls Gop presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's father a "clown."
Caution: This article contains plot details of Season 5, Episode 3 of "Mad Men."
Francis is heard telling someone on the phone that he won't let his boss go to Michigan "because Romney is a clown and I don't want him standing next to him."
The Romney in question is the late George Romney, Mitt's father and the governor of Michigan in 1966 (the year in which this season takes place). Henry Francis, Betty's second husband, plays a political staffer. Though Mediaite describes his position as that of a "political advisor to New York City Mayor John Lindsay," he's actually the director of public relations for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, per the show's website.
The quip came at a tense moment in Episode 3, the second week of the season (the first week featured a double episode...
Caution: This article contains plot details of Season 5, Episode 3 of "Mad Men."
Francis is heard telling someone on the phone that he won't let his boss go to Michigan "because Romney is a clown and I don't want him standing next to him."
The Romney in question is the late George Romney, Mitt's father and the governor of Michigan in 1966 (the year in which this season takes place). Henry Francis, Betty's second husband, plays a political staffer. Though Mediaite describes his position as that of a "political advisor to New York City Mayor John Lindsay," he's actually the director of public relations for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, per the show's website.
The quip came at a tense moment in Episode 3, the second week of the season (the first week featured a double episode...
- 4/2/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
In last night's episode, Henry Francis calls Gop presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's father a "clown."
Caution: This article contains plot details of Season 5, Episode 3 of "Mad Men."
Francis is heard telling someone on the phone that he won't let his boss go to Michigan "because Romney is a clown and I don't want him standing next to him."
The Romney in question is the late George Romney, Mitt's father and the governor of Michigan in 1966 (the year in which this season takes place). Henry Francis, Betty's second husband, plays a political staffer. Though Mediaite describes his position as that of a "political advisor to New York City Mayor John Lindsay," he's actually the director of public relations for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, per the show's website.
The quip came at a tense moment in Episode 3, the second week of the season (the first week featured a double episode...
Caution: This article contains plot details of Season 5, Episode 3 of "Mad Men."
Francis is heard telling someone on the phone that he won't let his boss go to Michigan "because Romney is a clown and I don't want him standing next to him."
The Romney in question is the late George Romney, Mitt's father and the governor of Michigan in 1966 (the year in which this season takes place). Henry Francis, Betty's second husband, plays a political staffer. Though Mediaite describes his position as that of a "political advisor to New York City Mayor John Lindsay," he's actually the director of public relations for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, per the show's website.
The quip came at a tense moment in Episode 3, the second week of the season (the first week featured a double episode...
- 4/2/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
Fu Manchu for Mayor! Joe Dante explains.
Just look at this:
Click to make huuuuuuge.
Classic FemJep stuff, huh? (That’s females-in-jeopardy for you non-industry types.)
Karin Dor grapples with one of Fu Manchu’s dacoit assassins in the first and best of the sixties Fu Manchu series starring Christopher Lee, The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the Oriental arch-villain character created by Sax Rohmer in 1913 and continued in a series of novels through 1959.
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, … one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present … Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” – Rohmer in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
For obvious reasons, this yellow peril stuff has gone out of fashion, to say the least, although Rohmer...
Just look at this:
Click to make huuuuuuge.
Classic FemJep stuff, huh? (That’s females-in-jeopardy for you non-industry types.)
Karin Dor grapples with one of Fu Manchu’s dacoit assassins in the first and best of the sixties Fu Manchu series starring Christopher Lee, The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the Oriental arch-villain character created by Sax Rohmer in 1913 and continued in a series of novels through 1959.
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, … one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present … Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” – Rohmer in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
For obvious reasons, this yellow peril stuff has gone out of fashion, to say the least, although Rohmer...
- 9/13/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
One of these headlines ran in yesterday’s edition of the New York Daily News; the other four we made up. See if you can spot the fact. A. Happy Days Mom Marion Ross Admits Vietnam War Architect Robert McNamara Gave Her Athlete’s Foot at Ymca B. Brady Bunch Mom Florence Henderson Admits Ex-Mayor John Lindsay Gave Her Crabs in One-Night-Stand C. Miami Vice Detective Olivia Brown Admits Richard Nixon Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman Gave Her the Measles at the Watergate Hotel D. Suddenly Susan Grandmother Barbara Barrie Admits Former N.Y.P.D. Commissioner Bernie Kerik Gave Her Nongonococcal Urethritis Backstage at the Tony’s E. Matlock Daughter Linda Purl Admits Ex-Governor David Paterson Gave Her Scabies on Cross-Country Train Trip...
- 6/27/2011
- Vanity Fair
In her oft-cited review of The French Connection, Pauline Kael noted the irony that then-nyc Mayor John Lindsay increased film production in the Big Apple only to expose the world to a "horror city" version of New York through consistently dark portrayals in films made there during the late '60s and early '70s (and beyond, after the review was published). Of course, they weren't always exaggerations of how bad the city was at the time, but you'd think the Mayor's Office would have been concerned with how such negative depictions affect tourism (some very popular '80s NYC films, such as Splash and Crocodile Dundee would later seem to be the answer, with their pro-tourism and immigration themes).
A humorous post on the New York Times City Room blog re-imagines some NYC-set films, not just those from "horror city" era, had they been forced to "show the shiny side of the Big Apple.
A humorous post on the New York Times City Room blog re-imagines some NYC-set films, not just those from "horror city" era, had they been forced to "show the shiny side of the Big Apple.
- 6/16/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
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