Burt Reynolds Articles

The life of screenwriter William W. Norton, who died of a heart aneurysm on Oct. 2 in Santa Barbara at the age of 85, could be the basis for a good screenplay. Norton was born Sept. 24, 1925, in Ogden, Utah, to a family of Mormon pioneers. After getting kicked out of school for fathering a child out of wedlock, dabbling in journalism, and working [...]

Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver in James Cameron's Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) AVATAR: #26 at the Domestic Box Office (Inflation Adjusted) If 3D/IMAX premium surcharges were factored in, Avatar would be way further down Box Office Mojo's inflation-adjusted chart. As I've already explained in the comments section of a previous Avatar post, the 3D/IMAX surcharges can add quite a bit to Avatar's overall [...]

2008 National Film Registry Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner in The Killers National Film Registry 2008 Article Film information from the National Film Registry press release The Asphalt Jungle (1950) John Huston’s brilliant crime drama contains the recipe for a meticulously planned robbery, but the cast of criminal characters features one too many bad apples. Sam Jaffe, as the twisted mastermind, uses cash from corrupt attorney [...]

Below are excerpts from Kathleen Turner's upcoming autobiography Send Yourself Roses, as reported in several online venues. On William Hurt, her co-star in Lawrence Kasdan's atmospheric 1981 neo-noir (in color) Body Heat (right): "In those days, he was pretty wild. He drank a great deal and took a lot of recreational drugs — he loved those magic mushrooms. He loved women, too; I don't know [...]