4 items from 2012
27 November 2012 11:51 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Your mother always used to tell you that if you kept making that face it would stick that way, but she never warned you or Keanu Reeves that the same rule applied to acting like a surfer dude. Apparently he did it so much that he's become frozen in the character he felt most comfortable in: Ted Logan of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (alongside Alex Winter as Bill, oh and George Carlin). He reprised the role in the animated TV series Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, then in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, and then he carried it through to Parenthood, Point Break, The Matrix, Feeling Minnesota, The Matrix Reloaded, A Scanner Darkly, etc. You get the idea. He acted that way for too long, and now he's stuck. That doesn't mean we can't enjoy it though, and to prove that we're giving away a Blu-ray copy of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. »
- Lex Walker
25 October 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
Exclusive: This is a cautionary tale for every Hollywood manager who’s spending a lot of time producing. Such is the case with Erwin Stoff. The 3 Arts Entertainment president has repped Keanu Reeves for something like 32 years (ever since the actor was 16 years old). The Stoff-Reeves relationship has long been considered one of Hollywood’s most enduring. Until recently. I’ve learned it’s now very much on the rocks. ”Keanu Reeves very quietly left 3 Arts. Then he was recently convinced to stay at 3 Arts but with different reps,” says one of my sources. “Handling him now are Tom Lasally, Nick Frenkel, and David Miner. It’s an attempt to save the client.” I’ve confirmed this with several other insiders, too, even though Stoff denied any rift to me. I am told independently that ”there’s no rancor”. Stoff of course has been a producer or executive producer on »
- NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
25 October 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Exclusive: This is a cautionary tale for every Hollywood manager who’s spending a lot of time producing. Such is the case with Erwin Stoff. The 3 Arts Entertainment president has repped Keanu Reeves for something like 32 years (ever since the actor was 16 years old). The Stoff-Reeves relationship has long been considered one of Hollywood’s most enduring. Until recently. I’ve learned it’s now very much on the rocks. ”Keanu Reeves very quietly left 3 Arts. Then he was recently convinced to stay at 3 Arts but with different reps,” says one of my sources. “Handling him now are Tom Lasally, Nick Frenkel, and David Miner. It’s an attempt to save the client.” I’ve confirmed this with several other insiders, too, even though Stoff denied any rift to me. I am told independently that ”there’s no rancor”. Stoff of course has been a producer or executive producer on »
- NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
20 April 2012 7:53 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Drummer with the Band whose career stretched in many other directions
Levon Helm – a life in pictures
A shorthand way of describing Levon Helm, who has died of cancer aged 71, would be as the drummer with the Band, who were Bob Dylan's backing group as he made the leap from folk to rock, and then forged a hugely influential career of their own in the late 1960s and 70s. This would have made Helm eminent enough, but his career stretched in many other directions, as drummer with the rock'n'roller Ronnie Hawkins, solo artist, prolific film actor and, most recently, host of the all-star Midnight Ramble Sessions. He was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, and a fine and distinctive singer.
He was born Mark Lavon Helm in Elaine, Arkansas, the second of Nell and Diamond Helm's four children. His father was a cotton farmer but also a music lover, and the Grand Ole Opry »
- Adam Sweeting
4 items from 2012
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