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Mirren Awarded Life Achievement @ Wftv

7 December 2009 12:21 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

The 19th annual U.K. Women in Film and TV Awards were held December 4 @ London's Park Lane Hilton Hotel with actress Helen Mirren receiving a lifetime achievement award.

To her credit, Mirren has also won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career.

She was born 'Helen Vasilievna Mironov' in Hammersmith, West London in 1945, her paternal grandfather a Russian nobleman, tsarist colonel and diplomat who was stranded in England during the Russian Revolution.

At age eighteen, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted leading to numerous professional stage performances in the UK and North America.

Mirren has appeared nude in many of her films including earlier work in "Caligula" and "Excalibur" as well as her recent work in "Calendar Girls".

During her film career, she has portrayed three British queens, including 'Elizabeth I' in the »

- Michael Stevens

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Helen Mirren to be honored with Career Achievment Award at Psiff

1 December 2009 1:22 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Helen Mirren with the Career Achievement Award! The Festival runs January 5-18, 2010.

Helen Mirren starred as Morgana le Fay in the dark fantay film Excalibur, appeared in an episode of the 1970's TV series Thriller and the 1980's Twilight Zone, as Caesonia in the cult film Caligula, as Tanya Kirbuk in the sci-fi sequel 2010, and as the star of the Prime Suspect thriller/crime film and its 6 sequels...

She directed a short segment in the comedy/sci-fi anthology On The Edge called "Happy Birthday" in 2001.

She will appear in the 2010 Shakespearean adaptation of The Tempest as Prospera. The film is directed by Julie Taymor (also director of the futuristic 1999 film Titus.) In Taymor's version, the gender of Prospero has been switched to the female Prospera. You'll also see her in the upcoming thriller Brighton Rock.

Festival chairman Harold Matzner commented, »

- Superheidi

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The second outing of John Hurt

20 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again

There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he looks peachy as a schoolboy. You've been on the Botox, haven't you? He roars with how-dare-you laughter. "Nah! Hahahaha! No. Don't say that. That would be awful. Not in a million years would I do that." He's got a point: take away the cracks and creases, and his job prospects would diminish no end. His face is one of the most distinctive in the movies. Almost as distinctive as his voice, dripping with honey and acid, often at the same time. Look, he admits, there might well be a reason for his »

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The second outing of John Hurt

20 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again

There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he looks peachy as a schoolboy. You've been on the Botox, haven't you? He roars with how-dare-you laughter. "Nah! Hahahaha! No. Don't say that. That would be awful. Not in a million years would I do that." He's got a point: take away the cracks and creases, and his job prospects would diminish no end. His face is one of the most distinctive in the movies. Almost as distinctive as his voice, dripping with honey and acid, often at the same time. Look, he admits, there might well be a reason for his »

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Uncle Bob Martin: A Long Thank-You to Frank, Part One

16 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

The first that I heard of Frank Henenlotter was on a perfectly awful cable tv show that aired on Manhattan's Public Access channel in the 1970s.

"The Nikki Haskell Show" was a self-indulgent half-hour cable show hosted by Haskell, a wealthy socialite-divorcee and former stockbroker who now claims that her show marked the invention of "reality television." About a year ago, after her diet pill company got in trouble with the NFL over a "secret ingredient" that should have been labeled, Haskell signed up for an account at YouTube and started posting clips from the 30-year-old program, but she seems to have lost interest after posting just ten of them.

The main reason I'd tune in Haskell's silly show was the programming that followed it, "adults only" programming like Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein's "Midnight Blue," porn performer Robin Bird's "Hot Legs" show featuring New York's leading "dance talent" and, »

- unclebob

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Caligula remake trailer

14 August 2009 4:17 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Last night while scrolling through Milla Jovovich's IMDb page looking for The Fourth Kind, I noticed she was once involved with a remake of Gore Vidal's debauchery-filled 1979 film about the notorious Roman Emperor, Caligula. What was even more surprising than the other people involved (Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler, Courtney Love, original Caligula star Helen Mirren) was that I'd somehow never heard of it. I'm not sure how it slipped by the first time, but maybe it's new to some of you as well. Fair warning: the trailer is loaded with nakedness and drunken revelry. »

- Dave Davis

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Mirren 'learning Hebrew for Mossad role'

27 February 2009 8:26 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Helen Mirren is learning Hebrew and Jewish history ahead of her role in upcoming Nazi-hunting movie The Debt, it has been claimed. The Caligula actress reportedly hopes to absorb the culture of Israel to prepare herself for the part of Mossad spy Rachel Singer. WENN quotes a source as telling the Daily Express: "Helen has spent the past six weeks reading the history of Israel, Mossad and the life and times of Nazi (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

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An update on Robert Sigl's The Spider

18 January 2009 10:39 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

It was reported a few months ago that Robert Sigl would be doing his first feature in 10 years having done a bit of tv (including the scifi show Lexx) and we've got a few more details on what sounds like a Caligula-style horror from the director himself. First off, Malcolm McDowell will be playing one of the principal roles in the film, with John Hubbard doing the casting. Oscar nominated special effects supervisor Ian Wingrove has signed on, and 3 time Oscar winning composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings, Silence of the Lambs) will be composing the soundtrack having been attracted by the quality of the script and the overall concept. A new pre-production start date will be announced soon which is estimated to be sometime this July. They're going for an Autumn shoot in Istanbul.

When his archaeologist sister is possessed by the spirit of a vengeful woman, »

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