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Mario Machado: News Anchor & ‘RoboCop’ Actor Dies At 78
7 May 2013 12:05 PM, PDT | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
So sad. Mario Machado, best known for being La’s first-ever Asian-American newscaster and notable acting roles in films like ‘Robocop’ and ‘Scarface’, passed away at the age of 78 on May 4.
Mario Machado was born in Shanghai, China in April 1935, and immigrated to the United States in 1956. Mario’s television career began in 1967 when he took an on-air reporter job at Khj-tv in Los Angeles, making him the first Asian-American news anchor in La. Throughout his career, Mario earned eight Emmy Awards for his work in television and appeared in many films, often playing a newscaster.
News Anchor & ‘RoboCop’ Actor Mario Machado Dies At 78
Mario’s daughter Michelle told the Los Angeles Times that her father had passed away from complications of pneumonia at a convalescent facility in West Hills, Calif. on May 4. The news anchor also suffered from Parkinson’s Disease.
Mario Machado’s Television Career
After taking his first on-air job at Khj-tv, »
- HL Intern
Mario Machado, Scarface Actor and Veteran Los Angeles News Anchor, Dead at 78
6 May 2013 11:48 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Mario Machado, the veteran Los Angeles TV anchor who parlayed his newsman persona into an erstwhile career playing journalists in films such as Scarface and RoboCop, has died. He was 78. Machado, who reportedly had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, passed away Saturday at a convalescent home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hills due to complications from pneumonia, his daughter Michelle confirmed to The Los Angeles Times. Born in Shanghai, the longtime newsman, who was of Chinese-Portuguese descent, became L.A.'s first Asian-American anchor, and he enjoyed a thriving career in the 1960s and 1970s working for Kcbs-tv and other local stations. He also found Hollywood fame on both the »
'Scarface' actor dies: Mario Machado was 78
6 May 2013 10:55 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Mario Machado, an actor best known for his roles in films like "Scarface," "RoboCop" and "Rocky III," has died at age 78. According to his daughter Michelle, the actor and former Los Angeles news anchor passed away from complications of pneumonia.
After spending several decades working as a TV show host, newsman and producer, Machado transitioned over to starring in Hollywood films. His roles typically consisted of him playing a news anchor or reporter. In addition to the films listed above, he also appeared in projects like "St. Elmo's Fire," "The Brady Bunch" and, most recently, 2009's "The 13th Day."
Machado passed away on May 4. In addition to the pneumonia that took his life, Machado had also been ill from Parkinson's disease. He was the first Chinese-American newscaster in Los Angeles. Machado is survived by his four children. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
'Scarface' Actor Dies At 78
6 May 2013 9:50 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles — A Los Angeles television news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s who also appeared in movies such as "Rocky III" has died. Mario Machado was 78.
His daughter, Michelle, tells the Los Angeles Times ( ) that Machado died Saturday from complications of pneumonia at a Los Angeles convalescent facility. http://lat.ms/13jwSEN
Kcbs-tv ( ) says Machado was of Chinese and Portuguese descent and was La's first Asian-American newscaster. Over a decades-long career, he was a newsman, producer, TV show host and soccer commentator. He worked at Kcbs-tv, its predecessor and at what is now Kcal-tv. http://cbsloc.al/10AM106
He also played a newsman in TV shows and movies, including the "Robocop" films, "Oh, God!" and "Scarface."
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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com »
- AP
R.I.P. Mario Machado
6 May 2013 9:46 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Former LA newsman Mario Machado, known for playing reporters and interviewers in movies like RoboCop and Rocky III, died Saturday in a convalescent home in West Hills, CA. He was 78. The La Times obituary says he had Parkinson’s disease, according to his daughter. Machado worked at La’s CBS-tv among other local stations, starting his career in 1967 at Khj-tv (now Kcal-tv) as an on-air news reporter, a first for a Chinese-American, according to LARadio.com. He also was a soccer commentator. His film and TV credits include Scarface and the 1971 TV movie Brian’s Song. »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Mario Machado Dead: Scarface Actor Dies at 78
6 May 2013 7:46 AM, PDT | Us Weekly | See recent Us Weekly news »
Mario Machado, L.A.'s first-ever Asian-American newscaster and an actor in movies including Scarface and Robocop, died Saturday, May 4. He was 78. His daughter Michelle told the Los Angeles Times that her father had passed away from complications of pneumonia at a convalescent facility in West Hills, Calif. He had also suffered for some time with Parkinson's disease. Born in April 1935 in Shanghai, China, Machado first made his mark as a news anchor at local stations including Knxt and Kcbs-tv in the 1960s. His work as a [...] »
Despicable Me 2 Loses Al Pacino And Adds Benjamin Bratt
4 May 2013 8:15 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Oscar-winning scene-chewer Al Pacino has abruptly vacated his role in Universal Pictures’ upcoming animated sequel Despicable Me 2 only two months before its release. It’s being reported that actor Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality, Traffic) will step in to assume the role left open by Pacino, which is that of the film’s antagonist El Macho.
The reason cited for Pacino’s departure is “creative differences,” naturally leaving everybody to question what sort of creative differences could arise while making an animated family film. Pacino has been known to go to the extreme with every character he plays, so it may be related to his technique. If I had to venture a guess, I would predict the directors were hoping for some of his Scarface intensity for the villain which perhaps Pacino was reluctant to provide. Again, your guess is as good as ours.
Despicable Me 2 has been a »
- Damen Norton
6 Really Awesome Things About Scarface
4 May 2013 9:22 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
I watched Scarface for the first time recently. I am of course referring to the 1983 Brian De Palma/Al Pacino version, not the old Howard Hawks flick. When people talk about Scarface, they mostly talk about a few things: say hello to my little friend, huge shootouts, mountains of cocaine, flared collars, constant f-words littered throughout, and Al Pacino’s career-defining performance as iconic character Tony Montana. It’s a film with one of the biggest fanbases of all time, and is followed by an immense reputation.
So going into it fresh was one of those times when your expectations are so high that it’s hard for a movie to possibly reach them. The great thing about a movie like Scarface though is that its credentials are well earned. It deserves the following it has. It’s a tremendously influential movie, and it’s obvious just how much of »
- Darren Ruecker
Photo: Michelle Pfeiffer's 'Scarface' Fashion Left An Indelible Mark
29 April 2013 7:38 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
When Rihanna hit the 2012 Grammys in a slinky Armani gown, she said she was inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer's style in "Scarface." When Emma Stone's makeup artist styled her client for the "Gangster Squad" premiere, she cited Michelle Pfeiffer in "Scarface." And when Jonathan Saunders designed a collection of louche, sexy dresses, he named Michelle Pfeiffer in "Scarface" as his inspiration.
Clearly Pfeiffer's 1983 turn as Elvira Hancock in the classic crime flick has stuck with fashionistas. The actress' movie wardrobe was rife with plunging necklines, languid silhouettes, flimsy straps and silky materials. Offsetting the unabashed sultriness was that iconic blonde haircut, complete with unexpectedly girlish blunt bangs.
But a youthful hairstyle wouldn't make much difference -- with those high slits (and total lack of bras), there was no chance of Elvira Hancock looking like anything but a femme fatale. No wonder Tony Montana fell for her at first sight. »
- Ellie Krupnick
The Ten Best Performances in Michael Bay Movies
28 April 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Michael Bay has a certain reputation. He makes big movies about digital robots and robotlike humans; he flips cars and explodes cars, and sometimes he flips a car and explodes it in mid-air. You might think Bay doesn’t really care about his actors — that he’s too busy focusing on the special effects to care about the talking meatbags who occasionally drive the cars that explode. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, Bay might care a little too much about his actors. While filming his first movie, Bad Boys, Bay gave stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence »
- Darren Franich
UK Cinema-Goers Reveal Their All-Time Favourite Movie Icons!
24 April 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Today, the Film Distributors’ Association (Fda) have announced the results of an interesting and quite substantial poll to determine UK cinema audiences’ favourite movie icons of all time…and there might be one or two surprises in who comes to mind for true big screen icons.
The top twenty spans seven decades of the cinema, from the 1940s to the 2000s. It embraces a ‘who’s who’ of stylish screen heroes – and some villains – who have made an indelible impression on audiences’ hearts and minds in successive generations to earn their places in cinematic folklore.
The survey was conducted online for Fda by ShowFilmFirst in two stages – firstly to seek a long list of public nominations of characters who had come to personify essential qualities of the cinema itself; and then a vote for the top twenty. More than 2,000 people aged 15 and over contributed nominations, while more than 7,000 participated in »
- Dan Bullock
Karlovy Vary Film Fest To Fete Oliver Stone
23 April 2013 4:11 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — The Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival is set to fete helmer-scribe Oliver Stone, who will receive the Crystal Globe for his contribution to world cinema. The event, which is Central and Eastern Europe’s most prestigious film fest, also revealed Tuesday that Polish director Agnieszka Holland will be head of its main jury.
Stone will attend Karlovy Vary, which runs June 28-July 6, to accept the award. The fest will screen Brian De Palma’s “Scarface,” for which Stone penned the screenplay, and a new director’s cut of Stone’s “Alexander.” Stone will also present two episodes from his docu series for Showtime “The Untold History of the United States,” which he co-wrote with Peter Kuznick.
Jiri Bartoska, the fest prexy, said: “Oliver Stone is a filmmaker who defies traditional assessment. He writes, directs and produces films that engage the entire filmmaking spectrum — from traditional stories to highly provocative movies, »
- Leo Barraclough
Don One: Who Makes The Cut For Thn’s Gangster Squad?
21 April 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To complement the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of Ruben Fleischer’s all-star period crime-thriller, Gangster Squad, Thn have picked our own top team of organised crime figures from the world of cinema; both fictional and factual. The genre is well defined thanks to early Cagney classics, Coppola’s legendary Corleone trilogy and Scorcese’s blood-soaked biopics. We’ve assembled quite an eclectic collection of memorable members, from low-level hoods, to fierce footsoldiers, unpredictable capo’s and of course, one don to rule them all!
One quick rule before we begin: a film or actor can feature no more than twice.
So, let’s take a look and see who sleeps with the fishes and who’s king of the hill in our dream team!
Luca Brasi (The Godfather) 1971
Make him an offer he can’t refuse and this hulking, simple-minded, yet faithful hatchet man will follow orders, even if it costs him his life. »
- Craig Hunter
10 Actors You Didn’t Realise Were In The Sopranos
21 April 2013 4:18 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The Sopranos will forever be instilled in the fabric of culture. Its success and game-changing format was intrinsic to the success of HBO and revitalised televisual drama forever. Without The Sopranos HBO would not have experienced the success it enjoys today and we would not have shows like Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood. This successful model was adopted by other networks like AMC, FX and Showtime who have given us Dexter, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. The Sopranos was the game changer and revolutionalised television forever. Televisual drama is now considered a valued art form akin to film thanks to the success of The Sopranos.
The series’ rich and compelling storylines captivated audiences for 8 years and won a host of Emmys over its six seasons. Tony Soprano is still one of the most fascinating characters in television history but he was helped by a phenomenal supporting cast »
- Gearoid Gillett
The James Clayton Column: Rethinking remakes as original premakes
18 April 2013 2:02 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature James Clayton 19 Apr 2013 - 06:08
What if time were running backwards, and the remake of The Evil Dead actually came first? We'll let James explain this one...
Evil Dead is, according to one of its advertising posters, "The most terrifying film you will ever experience". That may be true, but perhaps not because it has brutal psychological and physical horror in a cabin in the dark woods and various other types of harrowing trauma. What might make it the most terrifying film experience is the actual experience of watching a remake of The Evil Dead - not the content we're swallowing, but the concept itself.
The poster also features the words, "A new vision from the producers of the original classic" and there are a couple of key points in that sentence if you break it down. The credibility of the 'new vision' claim can be contested, but I »
- ryanlambie
Oliver Stone: 'America always wins'
15 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of Us history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing »
- Stuart Jeffries
Oliver Stone: 'America always wins'
15 April 2013 10:51 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of Us history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing »
- Stuart Jeffries
Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez Get Hands Of Stone in Roberto Duran Biopic
8 April 2013 6:50 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When last we reported on writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz's boxing biopic Hands of Stone, Gael Garcia Bernal (Letters to Juliet) and Al Pacino (Scarface) were in talks to play the leads. Now, it looks like Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Edgar Ramirez (Zero Dark Thirty) are set as trainer Ray Arcel and the focus of the biopic, Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran. Winning 103 of 119 contests against such top-tier talent as Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler, Hector Camacho and Vinny Pazienza, Duran might be most remembered for the infamous fight against Leonard in which Duran called out, "No mas!" in order to quit the fight prematurely. Hit the jump for more. De Niro recently wrapped on another fighting pic - Peter Segal's Grudge Match with Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone - but will head to Panama in September to start production on Hands of Stone. Per Deadline, here's »
- Dave Trumbore
Al Pacino 'An Evening with Pacino' London show sells out
8 April 2013 3:59 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Al Pacino has confirmed the European premiere of his 'An Evening with Pacino' event in London.
The Hollywood icon appears at the London Palladium on Sunday, June 2 at 7.30pm.
Pacino said: "I am really looking forward to coming to London. I have always felt at home there.
"I consider it an honour to be appearing at the Palladium and I will be glad to be back on the boards in your great city."
Tickets were priced from £55 to £250 but are now sold out.
Promoter Rocco Buonvino said: "I've had the pleasure to work with many major artists around the world, many of whom are dear friends, but Pacino is quite special and I endeavour to serve him with flying colours. This historic night at the Palladium will be electrifying."
The event will include an on-stage interview projected onto a big screen and a question-and-answer session between the audience and Pacino. »
Want To Spend ‘An Evening With Al Pacino?’
5 April 2013 12:09 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Have you ever fancied spending an evening with a living Hollywood legend? How about Al Pacino? If that’s your ultimate then you may want to head over to this webpage without even reading the rest of this article to purchase tickets to the one-off London theatre event ‘An Evening With Al Pacino‘ which is set to hit the West End on Sunday 2nd June. In a one-off performance, Pacino will take to the stage to take part in a truly ‘unique event, a once in a lifetime opportunity to get up close and personal, sharing private moments with one of the greatest actors of his generation.’
Pacino will be answering questions from the audience on stage at the London Palladium with a live crew filming the event which will be projected on a huge screen on stage bringing the actor even closer to his audience. Wow. I have posted »
- Paul Heath
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