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Charles Saatchi: My love affair with Orson Welles
29 December 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood's treatment of Citizen Kane's maker is no surprise from an industry that gives Oscars to so many dud films
• Charles Saatchi's 109 movies not nominated for best picture
How do you handle failure? I handle failure very badly. Bitterly. Indignantly. Girly tears. I once saw a three-hour BBC interview with Orson Welles, and if it is possible to fall for a man just from seeing him on the telly, Mr Welles has had me as his love slave since.
Welles had manifold reasons to be bitter about life's setbacks, not the least being that his unquestioned prowess as a film-maker didn't stop Hollywood treating him like a disease. After years of having to panhandle for backing to fund his film projects – all unwanted by the studios, all later to be recognised as exquisite jewels – he eventually had to rely on appearing in TV commercials, endorsing wines or Spanish sherry, »
- Charles Saatchi
Overlooked at the Oscars: 109 movies not nominated for best picture | Charles Saatchi
29 December 2011 10:24 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The films that weren't even given a shot at winning best picture
• Charles Saatchi: my love affair with Orson Welles
Here, in no particular order, is Charles Saatchi's list of the post-1950 films that should have been nominated for a best film Oscar. Tell us your picks below.
Spartacus
Hud
What's Up Doc?
Scarface
Vertigo
Parenthood
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Heat
Seven
The Searchers
Psycho
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lolita
The Shining
Beetlejuice
Advise and Consent
King of Comedy
Manhattan
- Charles Saatchi
Adam Lambert and Tony Curtis: Separated at birth?
22 December 2011 10:50 AM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Adam Lambert is growing up and filling out and, despite Thursday's (Dec. 21) bar brawl arrest, we're sure he's got a bright future ahead of him. But for a while now, we've been struck by the growing resemblance between the "American Idol" alum and Hollywood legend Tony Curtis.
Curtis, who passed away in 2010, starred in scads of classics, including in drag Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" (1959) with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe and again, kind of in drag, in the oft-ridiculed "Spartacus" (1960). He's also the father of actress Jamie Lee Curtis and, we suspect, somehow spiritually related to Lambert.
Draw your own conclusions.
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- editorial@zap2it.com
Kenneth Branagh talks Michelle Williams, Olivier, and “My Week With Marilyn” – Awards Alley
19 December 2011 9:45 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Early in his career, Kenneth Branagh says he drew comparisons to Sir Laurence Olivier.
“Specifically, it all kicked off when I directed a film of ‘Henry V,’ which of course he had done spectacularly,” Branagh tells me. “The comparisons were always tough because, in my view, he’s an unsurpassable master. I never had any mind or intention of trying to compete with him. But I was inspired by him. That’s probably what gave me the courage to even try directing a film as an actor.”
Now, in Simon Curtis’ nostalgic “My Week With Marilyn,” Branagh can be seen playing Olivier during the production of the 1957 comedy “The Prince and the Showgirl,” which Olivier directed and starred in opposite Marilyn Monroe. It was a difficult shoot, one marked by creative compromise. But Olivier (through Branagh’s brilliant portrayal) understands that to capture a star as bright as Marilyn, »
- Sean O'Connell
Monroe items send biddings wild at Hollywood memorabilia sale - Realbollywood.com News
18 December 2011 2:57 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Washington, Dec 18: Marilyn Monroe's memorabilia went under the hammer at an auction in Los Angeles on Friday, where two signed photos set the bidding wild.
The 'Profiles in History Icons of Hollywood' sale took everyone by surprise as items went for much more than their expected price and Monroe's booty was a prize pick-up.
Camera negatives from the film 'Some Like It Hot' fetched 1,500 dollars, five times their expected sales price while the rare shots of Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of 'The Misfits' went under the hammer for 2,000 dollars, which is over three times what they were expected to fetch.
Highlights. »
- Diksha Singh
Monroe's items set auction on fire - Realbollywood.com News
17 December 2011 9:21 PM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Los Angeles, Dec 18: Legendary actress Marilyn Monroe's items turned out to be a rage at an auction here.
The auction, Profiles in History Icons of Hollywood, produced many big surprises as items went for much more than their expected price. But Monroe's items were a hit, reports contactmusic.com.
Camera negatives from the film 'Some Like It Hot' sold for $1,500, five times their expected sale price. While rare shots of Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of 'The Misfits' went under the hammer for $2,000, which was over three times of what they were expected to fetch.
Other Monroe memorabilia sold also. »
- Arun Pandit
Monroe Items All The Rage At Hollywood Memorabilia Sale
17 December 2011 6:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A treasure trove of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia went under the hammer at an auction in Los Angeles on Friday, and two signed photos sent the bidding wild.
The Profiles in History Icons of Hollywood sale produced many big surprises as items went for much more than their expected price and Monroe's booty was a prize pick-up.
Camera negatives from the film Some Like It Hot sold for $1,500 (£937) - five times their expected sales price - and rare shots of Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits went under the hammer for $2,000 (£1,250) - over three times what they were expected to fetch.
Highlights of the Monroe lots also included an autographed letter signed by the 18-year-old 'Norma Jeane' ($52,500/£32,800); a personal Monroe photograph signed by Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper ($60,000/£37,500); a portrait of a young Marilyn wearing a sheer lace trim, signed ($37,500/£23,400), and Monroe's invitation to a John F. Kennedy birthday celebration ($40,000/£25,000).
Other big items going under the hammer during Friday afternoon's auction session included the screen-used prop vellum treasure map from 1934 film Treasure Island ($60,000/£37,500); the Mattel hoverboard from Back to the Future II ($22,500/£14,000); Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly Clint Eastwood hat from Back to the Future III ($19,000/£11,900); Anthony Quinn's Auda Abu Tayi costume from Lawrence of Arabia ($22,500/£14,000); Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher’s marriage license from their Las Vegas wedding ($7,000/£4,400), and the Roman costume worn by Christopher Plummer as Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire ($15,000/£9,400). »
Downey, Jr. Laughs Off Some Like It Hot Remake Rumours
15 December 2011 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Robert Downey, Jr. has laughed off rumours he and his Sherlock Holmes co-star Jude Law are set to take on the lead roles in a remake of Hollywood classic Some Like It Hot.
The Hollywood actors have starred together in two films based on the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle's super-sleuth and they were recently linked to the parts made famous by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in a new version of the 1959 hit.
Reports suggest movie studio executives are keen to revamp the movie, which also starred Marilyn Monroe, and Downey, Jr. and Law were favourites to don drag to play a pair of musicians who dress up as women to join an all-female band.
But Downey, Jr. - who wore a transvestite disguise for a scene in the new Sherlock sequel - has brushed off the claims.
During an appearance on U.S. talk show Live! With Kelly on Thursday, he jokes, "I did hear that rumour, it's a very interesting rumour. I've seen him (Law) in drag and I've seen me in drag - I look like my sister on steroids and he looks beautiful, so I don't want to take that risk!" »
Interview: Robert Downey Jr. On Becoming Misses Holmes For Sherlock Holmes Sequel
14 December 2011 11:10 PM, PST | CineMovie | See recent CineMovie news »
Robert Downey Jr. goes undercover as a woman in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, but the star says his turn as a misses was a far cry from something out of Some Like It Hot and more of looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger's dwarf brother or The Cure's Robert Smith.
At a recent press conference with the stars and filmmakers behind Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Robert Downey Jr. joked about his transformation into a woman for his return as Sherlock Holmes in the Guy Ritchie action adventure comedy also returning co-star Jude Law as Dr. Watson. In A Game Of Shadows, Sherlock faces a new adversary with Professor James Moriarity (Jared Harris) who is out to alter the course of history. When Professor Moriarity threatens his friend and newlywed Dr. Watson, Holmes boards a train incognito with his frilly dress, bonnet,
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Downey, Jr. And Law Tipped For Some Like It Hot Remake
11 December 2011 3:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Sherlock Holmes co-stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law have been tipped to take on the lead roles in an upcoming remake of Some Like It Hot.
The actors have starred together in two films based on the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle's super-sleuth and they have now been linked to the roles made famous by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in a new version of the 1959 classic.
Hollywood bosses are reportedly set to remake the movie, which also starred Marilyn Monroe, and the actors are favourites to don drag to play a pair of musicians who dress up as women to join an all-female band, according to Britain's Sunday Express.
Lemmon was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Jerry/Geraldine in the original film, which was nominated for a total of six Academy Awards. The film won just one for Best Costume. »
Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law to cross-dress for 'Some Like It Hot' remake - Realbollywood.com News
11 December 2011 1:59 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Dec 11: Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, who acted together in 'Sherlock Holmes', could become the most famous drag act in Hollywood with a remake of the comedy classic 'Some like it Hot'.
'A Game Of Shadows', which opens to Us audiences next week, will see the two actors cross-dressing and disguising themselves as women in various scenes.
They are due to pull on more frocks, stockings and high heels for a new version of the 1959 hit about two musicians who pose as members of a female band.
According to Us reports, Downey Jr and Law will take the roles played in the original by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
However,. »
- Diksha Singh
Previously Unseen Monroe Images Up For Auction
2 December 2011 4:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Previously unseen photos of late screen icon Marilyn Monroe enjoying a celebrity party at the start of her career are to go under the hammer at auction.
The 10 images depict the Some Like It Hot beauty at legendary bandleader Ray Anthony's launch for the hit song Marilyn in San Diego, California in 1952.
The pictures, which were taken by sound engineer and amateur photographer Lani Carlson, show Monroe in a pink cocktail dress posing in front of guests and also exiting a helicopter.
The collection is expected to fetch $96,000 (£60,000) when it is sold at Bonhams' Entertainment Memorabilia auction in Los Angeles on 14 December. »
‘My Week with Marilyn’ interview with director Simon Curtis
1 December 2011 10:55 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Working with Marilyn Monroe must have been quite a special experience for third assistant director Colin Clark, whose brief time with the star has turned into two memoirs, and now a film, titled My Week with Marilyn. Similarly, the experience of working with Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams portraying Monroe must have been something magical for first-time director Simon Curtis.
I sat down with Curtis in a roundtable interview to discuss working with Williams on her inevitably Oscar-nominated performance, his feelings about Monroe, and what film set he wishes he could witness just as Colin Clark did back in 1956.
My Week with Marilyn is now playing in select theaters.
What fascinates you most about the movie star and production system of the 1950s, and which you wanted to communicate that in the film?
My way into this film was reading Colin Clark’s diaries, and Clark seeing the details as to »
- Nick Allen
Robert Downey Jr. Planning Some Like It Hot Remake With Jude Law?
1 December 2011 10:15 AM, PST | GossipCop | See recent GossipCop news »
"After cross-dressing for his latest 'Sherlock Holmes' movie, Robert Downey Jr. plans to film a remake of the classic gender-bending comedy 'Some Like It Hot'!" exclaims the National Enquirer. But that's not all. According to the tabloid, "Downey has even recruited British heartthrob Jude Law, his co-star in the upcoming sequel 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadow,' to join him in the drag extravaganza." Really? »
- Michael Lewittes
In praise of ... Marilyn Monroe | Editorial
28 November 2011 4:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The fascination that inspired Warhol's postage-stamp portraiture and Elton John's outpourings retains its grip
A quarter of a century after Marilyn's death, Madonna was perfecting her Monroe look. Now it's half a century, and Britney Spears is recreating the skirt-blowing scene. The fascination that inspired Warhol's postage-stamp portraiture and Elton John's outpourings retains its grip. There's a flood of books – 600 plus, many of them weighty academic tomes dedicated to the original dumb blonde. The obsession of the cerebral with the celebrity reaches back to her own life, as is affirmed by a new film, My Week With Marilyn: it recounts the condescension of Laurence Olivier and her husband Arthur Miller. So why the fascination with a life that, for all the diversions through tinsel town, stretched from miserable foster homes to barbiturate overdose? There were the looks, of course, and a few performances you can't argue with »
My Week With Marilyn – review
24 November 2011 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The stand-off between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier while making The Prince and the Showgirl is recreated wonderfully in this entertaining film
In 1956, Marilyn Monroe came to Britain to make a movie at Pinewood Studios with Laurence Olivier. This was the tense and ill-fated light comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, scripted by Terence Rattigan, a film that became a legend for the lack of chemistry between its insecure and incompatible stars. One was a sexy, feminine, sensual and mercurial diva. The other would go on to make Some Like It Hot.
The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody. The whole thing is seen from the standpoint of the film's star-struck third assistant director, Colin Clark, son of the great art historian Kenneth, »
- Peter Bradshaw
/Film Speaks To ‘My Week With Marilyn’ Director Simon Curtis
23 November 2011 2:30 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Fans of movies, celebrity and Hollywood gossip are all going to find a lot to like [1] in My Week With Marilyn. The film, which opens November 23, tells the amazing true story of a young go-getter named Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) who developed a unique and magical relationship with Marilyn Monroe when the legendary blond bombshell [2] traveled to England to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Sir Laurence Oliver. Michelle Williams is Oscar-worthy as Monroe [3], Kenneth Branagh is fantastic as Oliver, but no one would have seen this story on screen if it wasn't for director Simon Curtis. My Week With Marilyn is technically Curtis' feature film debut but he's no rookie. He's been directing some of the most talented actors in the world for 20 years. However, it was Clark's two revealing books that finally drew Curtis to the big screen. He first found them well over a decade ago »
- Germain Lussier
Marilyn's Last Sessions by Michel Schneider – review
23 November 2011 12:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A novel based on the records of Monroe's analysis is grimly fascinating
It is hard to know by what standards the author of this book can claim it to be a novel. Certainly it does not have the shape, tone or atmosphere of a crafted piece of fiction. What it most resembles is one of those immensely long Vanity Fair articles which start off with screaming headlines and lurid cross-heads, but which after a short distance one has to pursue into the ad-less wastes of the magazine's back pages. One keeps reading in the hope of finding shocking revelations, scurrilous imputations or at least good low-grade gossip, all the while suspecting that one is wasting one's time, which would probably be better spent watching Some Like It Hot on DVD.
This is not to say that Marilyn's Last Sessions is a bad book, but it is such a strange hybrid »
- John Banville
Sugar Shout Out: See Marilyn Monroe's Leading Men
22 November 2011 11:55 PM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Some like it hot: the men of Marilyn Monroe's movies Video: Angelina Jolie talks candidly about "darker times" in a new TV interview Spice up your salads with homemade dijon vinaigrette See Fall's top 5 coolest hair trends Tres chic: extravagant gifts for tots Classic watches, just in time for the holidays Find your perfect holiday wreath on Etsy Ashley Greene falls for Kellan Lutz in A Warrior's Heart Celebrate your Bff with thrifty gifts Leg work: try a clam series that tones your outer thighs PopSugar Sf: find out where to consign your treasures Cyber Monday safety tips you should know Robert and a bruised Kristen sneak out for a London dinner date She kneads you and 4 other ways cats show they care »
- Katie Henry
Sugar Shout Out: See Marilyn Monroe's Leading Men
22 November 2011 11:55 PM, PST | BuzzSugar | See recent BuzzSugar news »
Some like it hot: the men of Marilyn Monroe's movies Video: Angelina Jolie talks candidly about "darker times" in a new TV interview Spice up your salads with homemade dijon vinaigrette See Fall's top 5 coolest hair trends Tres chic: extravagant gifts for tots Classic watches, just in time for the holidays Find your perfect holiday wreath on Etsy Ashley Greene falls for Kellan Lutz in A Warrior's Heart Celebrate your Bff with thrifty gifts Leg work: try a clam series that tones your outer thighs PopSugar Sf: find out where to consign your treasures Cyber Monday safety tips you should know Robert and a bruised Kristen sneak out for a London dinner date She kneads you and 4 other ways cats show they care »
- Katie Henry
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