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Kim Cattrall's 3 Rules for Visiting London
12 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Kim Cattrall knows her way around London. Not only was the Sex and the City star born there and spent a fair chunk of her childhood living in the area, but she's currently scooping up rave reviews for her starring role in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at the city's Old Vic theater. We caught up with Cattrall in-between performances to get her three rules on what you should do when visiting the U.K.'s capital city. 1. Visit a National Trust Property: "Go to their website and see what's happening in one of their many incredibly cared for estate homes with beautiful gardens to relax in," Cattrall says. Some fine examples include the 74-year-old but very modern »
Watch the New Trailer For Elysium
14 June 2013 12:49 PM, PDT | BuzzSugar | See recent BuzzSugar news »
See Matt Damon in the new trailer for Elysium - Moviefone Relive TV's toughest farewells of the year - Vulture Mumford & Sons skip Bonnaroo - HuffPost Entertainment The most misunderstood celebrities - Cracked Was this week the creepiest episode of Hannibal yet? - BuddyTV Was Save Me doomed from the start? - Splitsider See Chris Hemsworth looking hot in Thor: The Dark World - Rotten Tomatoes The most hilarious entertainment Google searches - NextMovie Superman's biggest fan? - The Daily Beast Joe Manganiello takes on Tennessee Williams - The Hollywood Reporter Give your kids a Superman primer - Popsugar Moms »
- Maggie Pehanick
'True Blood's' Joe Manganiello Has a New Theater 'Desire'
14 June 2013 11:26 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Does Stanley Kowalski remove his shirt in "A Streetcar Named Desire?" He might this time around with "True Blood" and "Magic Mike" star Joe Manganiello taking on the iconic character. Mark Rucker will stage the production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning piece at the Yale Repertory Theatre in Connecticut. The play will mark Rucker's ninth show at the venue, including 2008's production of Tom Stoppard's "Rough Crossing," the theater's website says. See video: 'True Blood' Season 6 Previews: Friends, Frenemies and Faeries Here's description of the classic play from the Yale Repertory Theatre: »
- Tony Maglio
Joe Manganiello Takes 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
14 June 2013 8:08 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
New York -- Stellaaagggrrrrr!!! Joe Manganiello, the actor best known as hunky werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO's True Blood, will tackle the plum role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 drama about shattered illusions, A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production will open the 2013-14 season at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Conn., running Sept. 20 through Oct. 12. Playing Blanche DuBois, the faded Southern belle whose facade of delicate refinement doesn't wash with her brutish brother-in-law Stanley, is Rene Augesen. The actress previously appeared at Yale Rep in The Beaux' Stratagem and A
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- David Rooney
'Mad Men' Veteran On His New Musical Show And Living 'Happy' And 'Open'
14 June 2013 7:25 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Bryan Batt has nine Broadway shows and countless regional musicals on his theatrical resume, so he still laughs when fans say they're surprised he can sing.
"It's funny ... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time," said Batt, who played Sterling Cooper's deeply closeted art director Sal Romano on the first three seasons of "Mad Men." "But when you're an actor, people really want to put you in a category."
Audiences will get a chance to experience Batt's well-seasoned musical chops for themselves June 15 and 16, when the 50-year-old actor takes the stage of New York's 54 Below for "Batt on a Hot Tin Roof," his new solo cabaret show. With a set list that includes pop hits by Billy Joel along with showtunes by Jerry Herman, Cole Porter and Maury Yeston, Batt promises "a mixed bag of nuts" that includes "songs I love and stories that I love. »
- Curtis M. Wong
What's the worst wig you've ever seen on stage or screen? – open thread
14 June 2013 6:28 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Kim Cattrall has been coming in for some criticism for her 'Garfield'-like hairpiece on stage in London. Is this really the worst wig of all time?
Critic Mark Shenton suggested she looks "like a cross between Lucille Ball and Marj Proops"; Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail asked, a little ungallantly, "is that Garfield, sat on her head?". The reviews for the London Old Vic's new production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth have been good, on the whole – but the same can't be said of Kim Cattrall's hairpiece, which Shenton went on to dub "the worst wig".
Which got us thinking: is that (reproduced above in all its Garfield glory) really the most awful wig of all time? Worse than Tommy Lee Jones's roiling, terminally unstable black coils in Lincoln?
Worse than Rory Kinnear's Matted Old-Testament Hermit Hair in The Revenger's Tragedy?
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Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” Trailer: Is Cate Blanchett A Richer Blanche DuBois?
7 June 2013 1:43 PM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Is this Woody Allen‘s version of A Streetcar Named Desire?
Let me get this straight: Blue Jasmine is about an off-kilter, self-absorbed woman who comes to live with her working class sister, who has a hotheaded brother. He has suspicions about who she really is, but the working class sister pleads with him to understand. Ok. I get it now.
This is Woody Allen‘s upper-crust version of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cate Blanchett is the new Vivien Leigh. Sounds like justice to me.
The trailer, however, is a spotty affair with few laughs, dramatic moments, or clear through-line. Here’s what I’m gathering: Bobby Cannavale is looking good; I’m happy for Sally Hawkins‘ resurgence; Alec Baldwin is one of the few people who I’d argue is flawless in anything; Omg, that’s Andrew Dice Clay; Cate Blanchett is throwing down Notes on a Scandal »
- Louis Virtel
New Woody Allen Movie Takes On Madoff Scandal
7 June 2013 10:24 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The plot of Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine" has been kept under pretty heavy wraps ... until now.
The first "Blue Jasmine" trailer debuted on Friday, offering Allen fans a pretty clear look at his latest film. Previously described as "the story of the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife," "Blue Jasmine" actually looks like Allen's take on the Bernie Madoff scandal that rocked the financial world in 2008. Cate Blanchett stars in the film as the title blue Jasmine, a Ruth Madoff stand-in who moves from New York to San Francisco to live with her sister (played by Sally Hawkins) after Jasmine's husband (Alec Baldwin) is arrested for fraud. The result is a culture clash for Jasmine, as Hawkins' character runs with working class stiffs played by Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Bobby Cannavale and Max Casella.
Watch the excellent first trailer for "Blue Jasmine" above. »
- Christopher Rosen
Ranking the Films of Director Elia Kazan (part 2): The Essentials
31 May 2013 10:25 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
10: Gentleman’s Agreement
Perhaps a bit tame by today’s standards, but Kazan’s message drama was an extremely important film in 1947, marking one of the first times that the word Jew was explicity used in a Hollywood picture. Kazan was known throughout his career as a champion of social causes, and Gentleman’s Agreement earned him the first of two Best Director wins (out of five such nominations). Agreement follows a respected gentile journalist (Gregory Peck) hired by a magazine publisher (Albert Dekker) to write a gutsy expose about anti-Semitism. In order to deliver a true, honest and powerful story, he decides to present himself as Jewish everywhere he goes. Gregory Peck gives unquestionably the second best performance of his career. His strong, steady portrayal earned him a Best Actor nomination (although not a win).
- Ricky D
9: Wild River
Set during the early 1930s when American »
- Ricky
Win: Classic 7 DVD Movie Bundle
29 May 2013 3:26 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Fans of Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, John Wayne and Jason Robards rejoice! Altitude Films are releasing Seven classic films between May 27th and June 10th and to celebrate we are offering you the chance to win them all.
Two lucky winners will each receive a bundle of classic movies including a copy of The Fugitive Kind, The Hot Rock, Arabian Nights, Desiree, The Story of GI Joe, The St Valentines Massacre and McLintock!
Here’s the rundown on the films included in this fantastic classic bundle…
Arabian Nights (1942)
Filmed in glorious Technicolor and nominated for four Academy Awards®, Arabian Nights is an action-packed adventure classic.
Starring Jon Hall and Maria Montez, Arabian Nights is a grand tale of intrigue and romance. Haroun-Al-Raschid, the Caliph of Bagdad and his half-brother Kamar are in an epic battle, competing for the throne and for the affections of a beautiful dancer, Scheherazade.
Pre-order your copy now here. »
- Simon Gallagher
Win The Fugitive Kind Starring Marlon Brando on DVD
15 May 2013 6:25 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
To celebrate the release of the Marlon Brando classic The Fugitive Kind on May 27th, we are offering you the chance to win one of three copies of the DVD.
Oscar® Winners Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront), Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo), Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) and Maureen Stapleton (Reds) lead the stellar cast of this Southern gothic “sizzler” (Los Angeles Times) based on the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending.
Thanks to “brilliant” (The Film Daily) performances, The Fugitive Kind “sets one’s senses to throbbing” (The New York Times).
Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier (Brando) is a handsome drifter with a guitar…and a past. Taking a job as a stored clerk in Two Rivers, Mississippi, his strong and silent demeanor attracts not only the local party girl (Woodward), but also the shopkeeper’s exotic wife (Magnani).
Soon, this explosive love triangle will ignite a powder keg of »
- Competitions
The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view
14 May 2013 8:16 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Baz Luhrmann's new version is the latest attempt to adapt a book notoriously hard to bring to the screen
I'm writing this a few days before the UK premiere of Baz Luhrmann's new film of The Great Gatsby – at which stage the broad consensus seems to be that the novel can't be filmed. Aside from a few midway-convincing theories about the impossibility of matching the beauty of Fitzgerald's line-by-line writing, most of this agreement is based on the fact that all previous attempts to bring the book to life have emerged stillborn.
Sadly, the very first effort, a 1926 silent movie directed by Herbert Brenon, is almost entirely lost. Or perhaps, not so sadly. When F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald went to see the film in Los Angeles, they walked out. Zelda wrote to her son Scottie: "We saw 'The Great Gatsby' in the movies. It's Rotten and awful and terrible and we left. »
- Sam Jordison
‘Baby Doll’ – one of the sexiest films ever made
10 May 2013 12:10 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Elia Kazan
Written by Tennessee Williams
1956, USA
Two of Tennessee Williams’ one-act plays – Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short – are the basis for Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll. The film stars Karl Malden as a sexually frustrated, dimwitted, middle-aged owner of a Southern cotton gin, and Carroll Baker (in her debut) as his luscious teenage-trophy wife, who desperately holds on to her virginity until she reaches the age of 20. Her nickname is “Baby Doll” – appropriate, since she sleeps alone in a baby crib, sucking her thumb and wearing only a short nightie, as her husband Archie spies on her through a hole in the wall. Eli Wallach (also making his first big screen appearance) shows up as a a shady Sicilian businessman named Silva Vacarro, who takes advantage of Archie’s troubles and tries to claim Baby Doll as “compensation” for »
- Ricky da Conceição
Frederic Franklin dies aged 98: charismatic ballet dancer
7 May 2013 9:23 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A major star of the post-Diaghilev Ballets Russes, he was celebrated for his romantic roles
Frederic Franklin, who has died aged 98, was one of the best loved figures in the dance world. Always genial, always helpful, he possessed a razor-sharp memory of all the ballets he had appeared in. Franklin played an important part in the preservation of many early ballets by George Balanchine, and in 2002 was able to reconstruct episodes from Devil's Holiday, a ballet created by Frederick Ashton in 1939, never revived since and never seen on stage by Ashton.
Franklin, known as Freddie, was a major star of the post-Diaghilev Ballets Russes, forming a memorable and long-lasting partnership with the ballerina Alexandra Danilova; her champagne personality and his good looks and charisma combined to stunning effect. This was especially true in such ballets as Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube and especially Gâité Parisienne. But Franklin also danced »
- Judith Cruickshank
Gwyneth Paltrow: loved, loathed, but never ignored | profile
5 May 2013 3:27 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The star of the Iron Man movies, health guru and red-carpet provocateur, provokes wildly differing reactions. Who is she really, this American in London?
Last week, the entertainment website Vulture posted a handy six-step guide on how not to hate Gwyneth Paltrow.
Paltrow, the 40-year-old, peachy-skinned actress who, in recent years, has attracted more column inches for munching quinoa than for actually appearing in films, is gracing the big screen again in Iron Man 3, reprising her role as the hero's love interest, Pepper Potts. Reviews suggest her performance – in what is admittedly a limited part – is extremely good. Hence the Vulture guide.
"It is normal to dislike Gwyneth Paltrow these days, it's a consensus viewpoint, basically," the writers state. "In the interest of a positive Iron Man 3 experience, Vulture has devised a six-point plan to help you put aside your Gwyneth Paltrow distaste for the length [130 minutes] of the film. »
- Elizabeth Day
Zachary Quinto: 'Playing Spock was about cultivating an inner life'
4 May 2013 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
It is no small matter to take on a role as iconic to a world of fans as Spock in the new Star Trek movies. But Zachary Quinto – one of Hollywood's few openly gay film stars – is a forceful presence, with clear ideas of where he'd like his work to lead
Zachary Quinto's eyebrows are a thing of wonder. They sit on his forehead like cat's tails, arching and twitching as he speaks, lending everything he says a subtle emphasis. After a few minutes in their company, you become quite mesmerised by their expressive movements. It's not inconceivable that Zachary Quinto's eyebrows could have a successful Hollywood career all of their own.
So it seems a pity that the role for which Quinto is best known, the role that catapulted him to major box-office success, required these follicular features to be partly removed, covered by heavy make-up and painstakingly reapplied, »
- Elizabeth Day
To boldly go where other actors fear
4 May 2013 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It is no small matter to take on a role as iconic to a world of fans as Spock in the new Star Trek movies. But Zachary Quinto – one of Hollywood's few openly gay film stars – is a forceful presence, with clear ideas of where he'd like his work to lead
Zachary Quinto's eyebrows are a thing of wonder. They sit on his forehead like cat's tails, arching and twitching as he speaks, lending everything he says a subtle emphasis. After a few minutes in their company, you become quite mesmerised by their expressive movements. It's not inconceivable that Zachary Quinto's eyebrows could have a successful Hollywood career all of their own.
So it seems a pity that the role for which Quinto is best known, the role that catapulted him to major box-office success, required these follicular features to be partly removed, covered by heavy make-up and painstakingly reapplied, »
- Elizabeth Day
Potential Tony Contenders Include Weaver, Hanks, Midler, Rudd
29 April 2013 7:25 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Tony Award 2013 nominations: Broadway-Hollywood connections include Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hanks, Paul Rudd, Bette Midler (photo: Sigourney Weaver in Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike) The 2013 Tony Award nominations will be announced tomorrow, April 30. Among this year’s potential Tony nominees are a number of film-related performers, ranging from Academy Award nominees and winners such as Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hanks, and Jessica Chastain to The Avengers‘ Scarlett Johansson, Our Idiot Brother and Dinner for Schmucks‘ Paul Rudd, and Tom Cruise’s ex-wife Katie Holmes. Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump) may be up for a Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy. Ephron, who died last year, directed Hanks in two of his biggest box-office hits: Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998), both co-starring Meg Ryan. Another potential Best Actor nominee is David Hyde Pierce (Nixon, Down with Love) for »
- Andre Soares
McConaughey and Witherspoon Star in 'No Ordinary Movie': Mud Commentary
28 April 2013 12:43 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jeff Nichols’ ‘Mud’ is ‘no ordinary movie’ (photo: Matthew McConaughey in ‘Mud’) Ostensibly, writer-director Jeff Nichols’ Mud is about the titular character, played by Matthew McConaughey, who’s on the run from the law and the family of a man he killed for love of a woman, Juniper, played by a bedraggled Reese Witherspoon. That’s a fine, if ordinary, foundation for a thriller — though this is no ordinary movie by any stretch. In fact, Mud isn’t even about the character Mud; instead, it’s a coming-of-age story that’s part mystery, fable, and thriller. Beneath it all lies a love story — indeed, several love stories, all tied together through the heart of a young boy called Ellis (The Tree of Life‘s Tye Sheridan in an accomplished performance): a witness to the death of love in his family, Ellis feels it in his heart and is willing to do anything, »
- Tim Cogshell
News Nuggets: Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck will host 'SNL' in May
26 April 2013 3:10 PM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Kristen Wiig will return to "Saturday Night Live" as a guest host on May 11. The rest of its May lineup includes Zach Galifianakis (May 4) and Ben Affleck, who will host the May 18 season finale. It will be Affleck's fifth time as "SNL" host. Associated Press George Clooney reteams with journalist Joshuah Bearman, whose Wired article inspired the film "Argo," for a new project titled "Coronado High." Clooney is producing along with Grant Heslov. Clooney may direct. The Wrap Revival of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" -- starring Cherry Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Zachary Quinto -- will run on Broadway this fall for a limited 17-week run. Playbill Producer Brian Grazer will receive the 2013 lifetime achievement award from PromaxBDA: "PromaxBDA, the association for marketing, promotion and design professionals working in the entertainment industry, holds its conference annually to e »
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