Trial lawyer and entertainment counsel Michael Howard Diamond, who worked closely with powerhouse television producer Brandon Tartikoff and who represented the interests of major industries over his long career died in his Hancock park home Saturday following a battle with cancer. He was 73. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia Law School, Diamond was a litigation partner at Skadden, Arps in New York City and eventually oversaw the building of the firm’s Los Angeles…...
- 1/11/2016
- Deadline TV
Trial lawyer and entertainment counsel Michael Howard Diamond, who worked closely with powerhouse television producer Brandon Tartikoff and who represented the interests of major industries over his long career died in his Hancock park home Saturday following a battle with cancer. He was 73. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia Law School, Diamond was a litigation partner at Skadden, Arps in New York City and eventually oversaw the building of the firm’s Los Angeles…...
- 1/11/2016
- Deadline
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Why The Sixth Sense Ending Has Never Been Matched” — Michael Howard at Esquire makes an honest case for a twist ending that’s remained peerless for 15 years. It’s funny to read something like this while remembering Fight Club came out the same year. Which is really the dominant twist? “The grand epiphany that our beloved child shrink had been dead all along did not come underhanded. The dots were there all along, but nobody, including the audience, wanted to connect them. The Sixth Sense‘s ending was shocking without being cheap, unforeseen without feeling deceptive, oddly comforting without seeming banal, and gave closure without looking lazy. Plus, it came at the end of an era during which audiences still allowed themselves to be surprised by major movies. It...
- 8/7/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Interview Simon Brew 28 Oct 2013 - 06:32
We chat to Christopher Eccleston about sci-fi, Thor, 28 Days Later, Let Him Have It, Star Trek, Blade Runner and more...
"I'm Chris", says Christopher Eccleston as I walk into the room, standing up to shake my hand. It's a warm welcome, and the prelude to an interesting chat where we took in his breakthrough role in Let Him Have It, and went through Blade Runner, Thor: The Dark World, Alan Taylor, cut scenes, Anthony Hopkins and what he's up to next.
Here's how we got on...
Can we start with Let Him Have It? I was in my later teens when I stumbled into a cinema to see the film, which of course was the story of Derek Bentley, who was hung on what's since been desribed as 'highly suspect evidence' for murder. What struck me about the film was that was quite an un-British film at the time.
We chat to Christopher Eccleston about sci-fi, Thor, 28 Days Later, Let Him Have It, Star Trek, Blade Runner and more...
"I'm Chris", says Christopher Eccleston as I walk into the room, standing up to shake my hand. It's a warm welcome, and the prelude to an interesting chat where we took in his breakthrough role in Let Him Have It, and went through Blade Runner, Thor: The Dark World, Alan Taylor, cut scenes, Anthony Hopkins and what he's up to next.
Here's how we got on...
Can we start with Let Him Have It? I was in my later teens when I stumbled into a cinema to see the film, which of course was the story of Derek Bentley, who was hung on what's since been desribed as 'highly suspect evidence' for murder. What struck me about the film was that was quite an un-British film at the time.
- 10/28/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Viewers may know him best as the host of MTV's "Total Request Live" and NBC's "The Voice," but Carson Daly put on yet another hosting hat on Monday when he filled in for Matt Lauer on the "Today" show.
Daly could be found, somewhat incongruously, behind the iconic NBC News desk between "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and weatherman Al Roker. He briefly introduced a few segments here and there, including one story about a major jewelry heist in France.
While some viewers said they liked seeing Daly, others were not so sure. The Wall Street Journal's Michael Howard Saul tweeted, "Carson Daly is the guest host of the Today Show, filling in for Matt Lauer. Is he a journalist? I have already switched to Gma." Another viewer wrote, "I don't know what's sadder. Carson Daly hosting 'Today' or the people excited that Carson Daly is hosting 'Today.'"
What do...
Daly could be found, somewhat incongruously, behind the iconic NBC News desk between "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and weatherman Al Roker. He briefly introduced a few segments here and there, including one story about a major jewelry heist in France.
While some viewers said they liked seeing Daly, others were not so sure. The Wall Street Journal's Michael Howard Saul tweeted, "Carson Daly is the guest host of the Today Show, filling in for Matt Lauer. Is he a journalist? I have already switched to Gma." Another viewer wrote, "I don't know what's sadder. Carson Daly hosting 'Today' or the people excited that Carson Daly is hosting 'Today.'"
What do...
- 7/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
With The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming took an ambitious gamble: abandoning Bond for much of the book in favour of a female narrator. As Skyfall opens, Richard Williams remembers a surprising heroine
Vivienne Michel is perhaps the least well-known of the women for whom Ian Fleming arranged assignations with James Bond, and yet none of her more celebrated sisters, from Vesper Lynd through Tatiana Romanova and Pussy Galore to the Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, succeeded in engaging the author's interest to the same extent. To her alone is accorded the honour of a Bond book written entirely in her voice, with 007 making a late appearance in a supporting role. And although, unlike some of the others, she survived to tell the tale, she was destined to suffer a different kind of literary death.
Few novelists in Fleming's position, riding the public's voracious appetite for the adventures of a fictional hero,...
Vivienne Michel is perhaps the least well-known of the women for whom Ian Fleming arranged assignations with James Bond, and yet none of her more celebrated sisters, from Vesper Lynd through Tatiana Romanova and Pussy Galore to the Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, succeeded in engaging the author's interest to the same extent. To her alone is accorded the honour of a Bond book written entirely in her voice, with 007 making a late appearance in a supporting role. And although, unlike some of the others, she survived to tell the tale, she was destined to suffer a different kind of literary death.
Few novelists in Fleming's position, riding the public's voracious appetite for the adventures of a fictional hero,...
- 10/26/2012
- by Richard Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
From a grumpy Ariel Sharon to a splenetic Tracey Emin, some of the most entertaining, controversial – and cringe-making – encounters from the Guardian's daily features section, G2
Thora Hird
Simon Hattenstone
12 April 1999
She introduces me to Scotty by way of a photograph on her sideboard. "That is the best picture of my husband and my grandson. He was a good man." The picture is taken in Beverly Hills where her daughter, the former child movie star Janette Scott, used to live. "We had 54 years together. It was a wonderful life. And you see, Simon, I was ashamed that I didn't know it was a stroke he'd had. I was getting ready to go to work in the back, and we've got two bedrooms, and I was in one and he was in the other, not because we didn't speak to each other, because my arthritis, well, with all this you wouldn't...
Thora Hird
Simon Hattenstone
12 April 1999
She introduces me to Scotty by way of a photograph on her sideboard. "That is the best picture of my husband and my grandson. He was a good man." The picture is taken in Beverly Hills where her daughter, the former child movie star Janette Scott, used to live. "We had 54 years together. It was a wonderful life. And you see, Simon, I was ashamed that I didn't know it was a stroke he'd had. I was getting ready to go to work in the back, and we've got two bedrooms, and I was in one and he was in the other, not because we didn't speak to each other, because my arthritis, well, with all this you wouldn't...
- 10/17/2012
- by Simon Hattenstone, Emma Brockes, Decca Aitkenhead
- The Guardian - Film News
Having already booked Kristen Chenoweth for a recurring role on The Good Wife next year, the show has now added Nathan Lane in an unspecified recurring role as well.
The "missing" episode of Happy Endings, with Max playing the Walter Matthau character in a Bad News Bears themed episode will see the light of day at Outfest in Los Angeles. No word on when those of us elsewhere in the world will get to see it.
In sad news, Nora Ephron has passed away at the age of 71. It wasn't until later in adulthood I connected Ephron to some of the most iconic films of my youth, but the world is a poorer place with her no longer in it.
Buzzfeed had a list of famous people who have done amazing things in real life, and one of those is Sir Ian McKellen, who in 1988 was asked by Michael Howard,...
The "missing" episode of Happy Endings, with Max playing the Walter Matthau character in a Bad News Bears themed episode will see the light of day at Outfest in Los Angeles. No word on when those of us elsewhere in the world will get to see it.
In sad news, Nora Ephron has passed away at the age of 71. It wasn't until later in adulthood I connected Ephron to some of the most iconic films of my youth, but the world is a poorer place with her no longer in it.
Buzzfeed had a list of famous people who have done amazing things in real life, and one of those is Sir Ian McKellen, who in 1988 was asked by Michael Howard,...
- 6/27/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Barney McKenna has died, aged 72. The banjo player was the last original member of Irish folk band The Dubliners. The musician is said to have passed away on Thursday (April 5) "while having a morning cup of tea" at his Howth home, reports AP. The band's current singer Eamonn Campbell said: "What a lovely way to go." Irish classical guitarist Michael Howard - who was with McKenna when he died - explained: "All of a sudden Barney's head dropped down to his chest. It looked as if he'd nodded off. "The comfort that I take from it is, he passed away very peacefully sitting at his own breakfast table having a quiet cup of tea and (more)...
- 4/6/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Dublin -- "Banjo" Barney McKenna, the last original member of the Irish folk band The Dubliners, died Thursday while having a morning cup of tea with a friend. He was 72 and had just marked his 50th year with the troupe.
Irish classical guitarist Michael Howard, who was with McKenna when he died, said he was talking with his longtime friend at his kitchen table, when "all of a sudden Barney's head dropped down to his chest. It looked as if he'd nodded off." Howard said paramedics over the phone talked him through emergency revival procedures, but McKenna "was pretty much gone."
"The comfort that I take from it is, he passed away very peacefully sitting at his own breakfast table having a quiet cup of tea and a chat," Howard said.
"What a lovely way to go," said McKenna's Dubliners bandmate for a quarter-century, guitarist and singer Eamonn Campbell.
McKenna...
Irish classical guitarist Michael Howard, who was with McKenna when he died, said he was talking with his longtime friend at his kitchen table, when "all of a sudden Barney's head dropped down to his chest. It looked as if he'd nodded off." Howard said paramedics over the phone talked him through emergency revival procedures, but McKenna "was pretty much gone."
"The comfort that I take from it is, he passed away very peacefully sitting at his own breakfast table having a quiet cup of tea and a chat," Howard said.
"What a lovely way to go," said McKenna's Dubliners bandmate for a quarter-century, guitarist and singer Eamonn Campbell.
McKenna...
- 4/5/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The following is a list of accredited, degree-granting acting programs at colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. It includes schools that grant either a degree in acting or a degree in another major that has an acting component or concentration. It does not include programs in directing, playwriting, design, or other specialized fields. In general, B.A. and M.A. programs are more academic in nature (though they may offer a performance component or concentration), while Bfa and Mfa programs focus on training professional performers. An A.A. is a two-year junior-college degree. The list also includes nondegree acting programs that have a structured curriculum. Editorial note: Due to a file issue, names that should be uppercase are lowercase. Correct listings can be found online at www.backstage.com.Undergraduate Theatre ALABAMAAuburn UniversityDepartment of Theatre, 211 Telfair B. Peet Theatre, Auburn, Al, 36849-5422. theatre@auburn.edu.
- 3/11/2009
- backstage.com
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