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See Where Hollywood's Golden Age Stars Lived
17 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Think of this as the star map that started it all.
Long before TMZ tours or star map vendors on Sunset Boulevard overran Hollywood, a man named Albert Ragsdale was reproducing hand-drawn maps of local attractions like the Japanese Gardens, Grauman's Chinese theater and, of course, stars' addresses.
The Big Map Blog highlights Ragsdale's 1938 "Movie Guide Map," available for 50 cents (the price would be about eight dollars and change now, adjusted for inflation).
A section of the guide lists "Most Popular Places Where You May See The Movie Stars," which include three locations of the Brown Derby restaurant (none of which are still standing today) and the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, which is now a high school.
The guide also lists addresses for some of the age's most glorious stars: Shirley Temple, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Jimmie Stewart and Henry Fonda.
See a bigger version of Ragsdale's "Movie Guide Map. »
- Anna Almendrala
The 50 greatest matte paintings of all time
27 May 2012 5:35 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
The art of the glass shot or matte painting is one which originated very much in the early ‘teens’ of the silent era. Pioneer film maker, director, cameraman and visual effects inventor Norman Dawn is generally acknowledged as the father of the painted matte composite, with other visionary film makers such as Ferdinand Pinney Earle, Walter Hall and Walter Percy Day being heralded as making vast contributions to the trick process in the early 1920’s.
Boiled down, the matte process is one whereby a limited film set may be extended to whatever, or wherever the director’s imagination dictates with the employment of a matte artist. In it’s most pure form, the artist would set up a large plate of clear glass in front of the motion picture camera upon which he would carefully paint in new scenery an ornate period ceiling, snow capped mountains, a Gothic castle or even an alien world. »
Cool Clicks: Happy 35th Birthday, 'Star Wars'
26 May 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
We scour the interwebs for the coolest movie news and more so you don't have to ...
"Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (back then it was just called plain ol' "Star Wars") opened 35 years ago this weekend. Moviefone celebrates the beginning of a cultural phenomenon with a collection of some classic "Star Wars" photos that you may not have ever seen before.
Actually, the fact that it opened against "E.T." makes "Grease 2" even cooler. Upon "The Chernobyl Diaries" sharing the same release date as "Men in Black III," MTV Clutch takes a look at some other, shall we say, "smaller" films that have opened against big Hollywood blockbusters.
Every male (and some females) on the planet heaved a collective sigh this week upon the news that Keira Knightley is getting hitched to some indie rocker dude. Who is this (very lucky) guy, anyway? Hollywood.com lists six »
- Bryan Enk
Review: ‘Hick’ Is Misery Porn at Its Emptiest
25 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Hick is an ugly piece work. The worst kind of bad. It’s a movie that believes it has something to say, but has nothing – a nothingess that comes after 90 minutes of misery. It’s a vapid mess about a girl who, despite encountering nothing but terrible acts, earns zero sympathy. That girl, Luli (Chloë Moretz), a 13-year-old kid from Nebraska, sets out to Vegas after being abandoned by her loony mother and drunk of a father. Her road trip goes the typical route: violence, rape, drug use, and robbery, everything you’d expect from a 13-year-old’s trip with a wasted Blake Lively. She comes from a world where a gun is a nice birthday gift for a kid, where 13-year-olds awkwardly quote Sunset Boulevard, and where Eddie Redmayne is forced to play a poor man’s take on Kit from Badlands, all these phony details are used to establish we’re in a dark and »
- Jack Giroux
Pop Culture’s Greatest Lanes
25 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
There's Avenue Q, Sunset Boulevard, "The Street Where You Live," "Life is a Highway," Abbey Road, and Jason Street. And those are all great! But none of those thoroughfares can hold a candle to the Lanes. There are characters named Lane, characters who live on lanes, and lanes that represent an era, a romance, or a place for the Muffin Man to live. These are the greatest Lanes in pop culture. »
- Margaret Lyons
Timothy Bottoms: The Hollywood Interview
21 May 2012 6:21 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Timothy Bottoms Gets His Pound Of Flesh
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Timothy Bottoms became an overnight sensation at the height of the so-called “Easy Riders and Raging Bulls” era, after landing the leading role in The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich’s film about the social and sexual rites of small town Texans in the early 1950s. Internationally acclaimed for his portrait of Sonny, a sensitive kid struggling to find his way in the harsh landscape of post-war America, the then-twenty year-old Bottoms suddenly found himself not only in-demand as a rising young star, but a major celebrity, as well, with younger brothers Sam (who co-starred in The Last Picture Show), Joseph and Ben following in their older brother’s footsteps, making names for themselves on stage and screen. Bottoms reprised the role of Sonny for Picture Show's 1990 sequel, Texasville.
After another triumphant turn with the lead in James Bridges’ The Paper Chase »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Awesome Ballpoint Pen Art By Jim Rugg
17 May 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Comic book artist Jim Rugg (Street Angel, Afrodisiac) has an art show in Los Angeles on May 25 at iAm8Bit. What makes this showing special is that it features nothing but one-of-a-kind ballpoint drawings on spiral notebook paper. The show is called Notebook Nerd, which features pieces from Drive, Total Recall, Pulp Fiction, Bad Lieutenant, Friday the 13th, Sexy Beast and other pop culture pieces.
Check out a bunch of the art below. The Total Recall piece is Nsfw: Notebook Nerd by Jim Rugg will open from 7-11 p.m. on May 25 at iam8bit, 2147 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. If you live in La, I highly recommend you check it out.
Here’s the description;
The title is pretty self-explanatory, as “Notebook Nerd” almost says it all. Jim Rugg, the Swiss Army Knife of artists (and longtime iam8bit collaborator), gives us an insane perspective inside his brainhole, »
- Tiberius
'Workaholics' Billboard -- Fully Erected in Hollywood
16 May 2012 11:10 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
The new season of "Workaholics" is already facing hard times ... and it hasn't even aired yet.The good people over at Comedy Central just put the above billboard up on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood -- and if it wasn't glaringly obvious ... it features a trio of six-foot boners pressing against some kind of elastic fabric (spandex?).For those who haven't watched yet, "Workaholics" is about three recent college grads desperately trying to adjust to adulthood. »
- TMZ Staff
Set Visit Preview: Rock of Ages!
16 May 2012 10:08 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
To my right, a massive billboard of Hollywood icon Angelyne looms over us all. Behind me, the Rainbow Room's iconic sign lights up the night. To my left, the Bourbon Room's massive facade stands out from the rest of the Sunset Strip, which lies straight ahead of us. While one might assume that I was standing on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, you'd both be right and wrong. I was actually in Miami, Florida, on the set of Warner Bros.' upcoming musical Rock of Ages, which hits theaters June 15. This sprawling set gave us an impressive glimpse into life on the Strip back in 1987.
For one, I am only 35 years old, and I have only lived in Hollywood since 2008, so this massive and incredible stretch of road, reconstructed with 1987-style buildings in downtown Miami, struck me as both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. For instance, the huge Guitar Center on Sunset was present, »
- MovieWeb
6 Filmmaking Tips From Billy Wilder
9 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
There are few directors that had a career like Billy Wilder‘s. There are probably none that reached his level of skill and notability while staying as diverse as a storyteller. The man did drama and comedy with equal acuity, but his dominance of filmmaking almost didn’t happen. Born in what is now present-day Poland, Wilder left for Paris during the initial rise of the Nazi party in Germany and soon left for the States. He got out early, yes, but it’s difficult to think about the magic he’s delivered without being reminded that but for a few years he may have found himself a victim of the fear-mongering and murder that befell European Jews at the height of Hitler. Fortunately, he did get out and did go on to craft some of the best scripts and movies of the era (and, you know, of all time). His breakout was writing the hilarious Best »
- Cole Abaius
Review: Chloe Moretz Is Trapped In The Unclean, Clammy Coming-Of-Age Indie 'Hick'
8 May 2012 12:02 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Later, there will be a brief discussion of how literature is not film, and how some actions and themes do not survive translation from the page to the big screen because our mind can better deal with envisioning them than it can with actually seeing them. Before that though, I feel I have to pause and note that "Hick," adapting Andrea Portes' novel for the screen under the direction of Derick Martini ("Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire," "Lymelife"), is one of the most unclean and clammy films I've ever had to endure at a film festival. Not because it was incompetent and not because it deals with violent and sexual material but, rather, because it is both incompetent in general and even more incompetent specifically when it is concerned with violent and sexual material. We're supposed to be watching the cross-country adventures of 13-year-old Luli (Chloe Moretz, who »
- James Rocchi
Jennifer Aniston: 'Is It Ever Going To Happen?'
3 May 2012 1:12 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Warren Littlefield, NBC's former president of entertainment who's brought us small-screen gems like "Seinfeld," "Friends" and "Frasier," remembers taking a huge gamble on Jennifer Aniston and convincing Debra Messing to do “Will and Grace."
"[It's] 10:30 p.m. at night on Sunset Boulevard," Littlefield tells me on the set of "New York Live." "I’m at the Chevron station gassing up and Jennifer is over at the other island and she comes over and she says, ‘Is it ever going to happen?’ and I say, 'We believe in you, I love you, I so believe in your talent, I’m sure it will.' A few months later, we handed her the 'Friends' script."
But it wasn't quite so simple. Littlefield said that at the time, Aniston was under contract for a CBS series, "Muddling Through." But NBC went ahead with Aniston -- a move that could have "cost us millions of dollars to reshoot. »
- Naughty But Nice Rob
Jennifer Aniston: 'Is It Ever Going To Happen?'
3 May 2012 1:12 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Warren Littlefield, NBC's former president of entertainment who's brought us small-screen gems like "Seinfeld," "Friends" and "Frasier," remembers taking a huge gamble on Jennifer Aniston and convincing Debra Messing to do “Will and Grace."
"[It's] 10:30 p.m. at night on Sunset Boulevard," Littlefield tells me on the set of "New York Live." "I'm at the Chevron station gassing up and Jennifer is over at the other island and she comes over and she says, ‘Is it ever going to happen?' and I say, 'We believe in you, I love you, I so believe in your talent, I'm sure it will.' A few months later, we handed her the 'Friends' script."
But it wasn't quite so simple. Littlefield said that at the time, Aniston was under contract for a CBS series, "Muddling Through." But NBC went ahead with Aniston -- a move that could have "cost us millions of dollars to reshoot. »
- Naughty But Nice Rob
Robin Williams Wows At Tiny Comedy Club
3 May 2012 12:16 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Robin Williams wowed comedy fans in Hollywood on Wednesday night when he stepped up onstage at a tiny, back-room comedy club and asked if he could perform a stand-up routine.
The funnyman, who occasionally hits the road for big-venue comedy shows, tested out new material on 40 lucky comedy fans at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard.
Reports suggest Williams, who was recently named Stand-Up Icon at the Comedy Awards in New York, performed a fast-paced, high-energy routine for almost 45 minutes.
One eyewitness tells WENN, "He didn't seem to be there with anyone or to see anyone. It appeared he simply wanted to try out new stuff on a small audience. He was fantastic. The comedy was very current and topical." »
Robin Williams -- Secret Comedy Show in Hollywood
3 May 2012 8:47 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Cool thing happened in Hollywood last night ... when Robin Williams dropped by a small comedy club on Sunset Blvd. unannounced ... and asked if he could perform. It all went down at a place called Meltdown Comics -- which hosts a small comedy event every Wednesday night. We're told Robin walked in ... grabbed the mic ... and busted out a set for roughly an hour. Sources at the show tell us ... Robin Killed It. It's not unusual »
- TMZ Staff
Image Conscious: A conversation with visual effects supervisor Nick Davis
2 May 2012 11:40 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor Nick Davis...
“It was more by accident that I fell into that side of the industry,” states British Visual Effects Supervisor Nick Davis when discussing his career choice which he made two decades ago. “It was a great place where you can learn all aspects of filmmaking and it was cutting edge. We were changing the way the films were being made and thought about; I still think that’s true today.” The son of a doctor, who had youthful dreams of becoming a professional soccer player, headed to America during the late 1980s. “When I started working very few companies were doing anything digitally; it was all done on optical printers, models and miniatures.” Then along came the digital revolution. “Hollywood went from having four to five companies to hundreds of companies around the world. We’ve seen the whole »
- Trevor
Troy Aikman -- Check Out My Hot Dinner Date
2 May 2012 12:40 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
It's been just over a year since Troy Aikman got divorced ... but it seems the NFL legend is back in the game ... with a smokin' hot mystery blonde. Troy and his P.Y.T. hit up Boa on Sunset Blvd. Monday night ... where Troy and his special friend were confronted by the dreaded Rose Lady!!! Of course, Aikman handled the situation like a pro. So far, no word on how they met, who she is, »
- TMZ Staff
'Deadliest Catch': Josh Harris becomes a Time Bandit and Jake Anderson pops the question
1 May 2012 4:35 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
In a normal year, by the time Discovery's crab-fishing reality show/soap-opera-for-dudes "Deadliest Catch" hits the airwaves on Tuesday nights, the fleet is safely back in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and the crews and captains are taking a well-earned break.
Not so this year. With halved king-crab quotas last fall and crushing ice during opilio-crab season this past winter, many boats continue to be out on the Bering Sea long into the new year.
It's mid-April, and on the morning of the Discovery Channel upfront presentation to advertisers at UCLA on the Westside of Los Angeles, three of the crab captains have gathered for breakfast at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Bel Air -- Scott "Junior" Campbell of the F/V Seabrooke, Keith Colburn of the F/V Wizard and Johnathan Hillstrand of the F/V Time Bandit (from left to right in picture at bottom).
Johnathan captained his boat during king-crab season, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Sons of Anarchy Giveaway: Ride with the Cast!
1 May 2012 9:41 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Rev up your engines, Sons of Anarchy fans. TV Fanatic is teaming with the good folks at The Boot Campaign to offer one lucky reader a chance to burn pavement alongside Theo Rossi, Kim Coates and company.
While helping a great cause in the process.
On August 26, this organization - which donates proceeds from the sale of Army boots to U.S. military-based charities - will sponsor the second annual Boot Ride, a motorcycle jaunt down the Sunset Strip that begins at Route 66 Classic Grill in Canyon Country and concludes with a Rally at The Happy Ending Bar & Restaurant on Sunset Boulevard.
How can you saddle up alongside Sons of Anarchy cast members, eight of whom took part in this event last year, and then party with the stars afterward? Follow the simple steps below.
Fill out the form above, which will place you on The Boot Campaign mailing list. »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
Daily Briefing. Marilyn, DVD/Blu-ray, Mark Dery
29 April 2012 5:20 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
James Wolcott's right on this one: "Even if, like me, you thought you never needed or wanted to read another votive offering to Marilyn Monroe, lay aside thy doubts and reservations and attend to Jacqueline Rose's essay in the London Review of Books, 'A Rumbling of Things Unknown,' a full-course meal of a meditation." He quotes a couple of passages, but the gist is this: "It is something of a truism for psychoanalysis that one member of a family can carry the unconscious secrets of a whole family, can fall sick, as it were, on their behalf. My question is: for whom or what in 1950s and early 1960s America was Marilyn Monroe carrying the can?"
More reading. Sean O'Hagan interviews William Klein for the Guardian.
DVD/Blu-ray. Dave Kehr reviews three releases for the New York Times this week, the first from Olive Films: "Often overlooked »
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