A high-end condominium site, called Sir George Simpson, in Montreal reportedly attempted to evict Jennifer Lawrence last year. The legal team for the posh condos is hoping for an appeal of the Quebec Superior Court’s decision from 2016 to not kick-out the star. Related: Nicole Kidman, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence And More Take ‘I Will Not […]...
- 12/14/2017
- by Aynslee Darmon
- ET Canada
Dr. Harriet Fields
By Robert E. Tevis
Recently, the American Theater of Actors, in conjunction with Dr. Harriet Fields, presented a theatrical reenactment of the 1928 trial of W.C. Fields for the murder of a Canary. Entitled “The Real Transcript of W.C. Fields Murder Trial (Of A Canary),” the thirty minute production is based upon a true story of the night that Fields was arrested for the inhumane treatment of a canary in his act at the Earl Carrol Theater by two New York City policemen attached to the Humane Society.
Fields had been appearing in Earl Carroll’s Vanities and was performing a routine that is immortalized in his 1932 film “The Dentist.” In the routine, a man with a huge brisling beard comes to see Fields, the dentist. As Fields pokes around the man’s beard in an attempt to locate the man’s mouth, birds fly out, at which...
By Robert E. Tevis
Recently, the American Theater of Actors, in conjunction with Dr. Harriet Fields, presented a theatrical reenactment of the 1928 trial of W.C. Fields for the murder of a Canary. Entitled “The Real Transcript of W.C. Fields Murder Trial (Of A Canary),” the thirty minute production is based upon a true story of the night that Fields was arrested for the inhumane treatment of a canary in his act at the Earl Carrol Theater by two New York City policemen attached to the Humane Society.
Fields had been appearing in Earl Carroll’s Vanities and was performing a routine that is immortalized in his 1932 film “The Dentist.” In the routine, a man with a huge brisling beard comes to see Fields, the dentist. As Fields pokes around the man’s beard in an attempt to locate the man’s mouth, birds fly out, at which...
- 1/19/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Actor who cheerfully exploited Hollywood's conception of French glamour
In the 1950s, Denise Darcel, who has died aged 87, profited from Hollywood's "ooh-la-la" conception of young, shapely French womanhood, generally inviting the adjective "sultry" and playing characters called Fifi, Gigi and Lola. In fact, her entire acting career was spent in America, cheerfully exploiting that image.
She was born Denise Billecard in Paris, one of five daughters of a baker and his wife. After studying at the University of Dijon, she returned to Paris, where she won the title of "most beautiful girl in France". Making the most of the publicity, she built up a nightclub act as a dancer and singer.
In 1947, in Paris, she met and married an American army captain, who returned to the Us with her. The marriage lasted for less than a year. With her name changed to the easier-to-pronounce Darcel, she landed an uncredited spot...
In the 1950s, Denise Darcel, who has died aged 87, profited from Hollywood's "ooh-la-la" conception of young, shapely French womanhood, generally inviting the adjective "sultry" and playing characters called Fifi, Gigi and Lola. In fact, her entire acting career was spent in America, cheerfully exploiting that image.
She was born Denise Billecard in Paris, one of five daughters of a baker and his wife. After studying at the University of Dijon, she returned to Paris, where she won the title of "most beautiful girl in France". Making the most of the publicity, she built up a nightclub act as a dancer and singer.
In 1947, in Paris, she met and married an American army captain, who returned to the Us with her. The marriage lasted for less than a year. With her name changed to the easier-to-pronounce Darcel, she landed an uncredited spot...
- 1/13/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the bits of trivia surrounding Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death Wednesday (Oct. 5) is his connection to the novel "Anywhere But Here" by Mona Simpson. So what's the deal?
Simpson is Jobs' biological sister, though they didn't know each other until they were adults. His biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, were unmarried when he was born in 1955 and gave him up for adoption. They married 10 months later and had Mona (who later took stepfather George Simpson's name) in 1957.
Jobs tracked down his biological mother and sister in the 1980s, and he and Simpson became close. She dedicated "Anywhere But Here," her first novel, to "Joanne, our mother, and my brother Steve."
"Anywhere But Here," published in 1987, (and adapted for a 1999 movie starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman) is the story of Adele August, who leaves her second husband and takes her daughter Ann from Wisconsin...
Simpson is Jobs' biological sister, though they didn't know each other until they were adults. His biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, were unmarried when he was born in 1955 and gave him up for adoption. They married 10 months later and had Mona (who later took stepfather George Simpson's name) in 1957.
Jobs tracked down his biological mother and sister in the 1980s, and he and Simpson became close. She dedicated "Anywhere But Here," her first novel, to "Joanne, our mother, and my brother Steve."
"Anywhere But Here," published in 1987, (and adapted for a 1999 movie starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman) is the story of Adele August, who leaves her second husband and takes her daughter Ann from Wisconsin...
- 10/6/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Teenagers take to the streets and Britain erupts in moral panic – why does Franc Roddam's 1979 cult classic feel so familiar?
Director: Franc Roddam
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Between 1964 and 1966, teenagers rioted in British seaside towns. Violence flared between mods and rockers, two youth movements that were connected in the press with drug-taking, vandalism and delinquency.
Youth culture
Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a fictional mod, hangs out in a London dive. Everyone looks about 12; pass round a few splurge guns and you'd be in Bugsy Malone. But this lot are less the adorable moppet sort of gangster and more the sort that takes pills, nicks stuff and smashes other people's faces in. Among the newspaper clippings and pornography on Jimmy's bedroom wall is an article about the 'Battle of Hastings' – not the 1066 one with the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, but the 1964 one with the mods and the rockers. The...
Director: Franc Roddam
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Between 1964 and 1966, teenagers rioted in British seaside towns. Violence flared between mods and rockers, two youth movements that were connected in the press with drug-taking, vandalism and delinquency.
Youth culture
Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a fictional mod, hangs out in a London dive. Everyone looks about 12; pass round a few splurge guns and you'd be in Bugsy Malone. But this lot are less the adorable moppet sort of gangster and more the sort that takes pills, nicks stuff and smashes other people's faces in. Among the newspaper clippings and pornography on Jimmy's bedroom wall is an article about the 'Battle of Hastings' – not the 1066 one with the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, but the 1964 one with the mods and the rockers. The...
- 8/18/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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