Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, Amanda McBroom at THE ROSE Screening
The 30th anniversary of the 1979 Bette Midler showcase The Rose was celebrated on Friday, September 25, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Pictured above following the event are (left to right): actor Barry Primus, Oscar-nominated sound mixer Theodore Soderberg, actress Doris Roberts, host/film critic Betsy Sharkey, songwriter Amanda McBroom and director Mark Rydell.
Photos: Richard Harbaugh / © AMPAS
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Mark Rydell, Doris Roberts
Martin Landau, Doris Roberts, Mark Rydell
Amanda McBroom
Mark Rydell, Betsy Sharkey
by Joan Lister | September 28, 2009
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Tags: Amanda McBroom, Barry Primus, Betsy Sharkey, Doris Roberts, Mark Rydell, Martin Landau, Photos, The Rose, Theodore Soderberg
Bette Midler Cancels Appearance at THE ROSE Screening
Alan Bates, Bette Midler in The Rose
Actors Barry Primus and Doris Roberts, Oscar-nominated sound mixers Jim Webb and Theodore Soderberg, and director Mark Rydell will participate in an onstage discussion following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ (now sold out) 30th anniversary screening of The Rose on Friday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Los Angeles Times film critic Betsy Sharkey will host the evening.
Bette Midler was originally scheduled to be present at the event, but as per the Academy’s press release "has had to cancel for personal reasons." Instead, Midler will provide "a special video message dedicated to [...]
by Andre Soares | September 18, 2009
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Tags: Alan Bates, Barry Primus, Bette Midler, Classic Movies, Doris Roberts, Los Angeles Screenings, Mark Rydell, The Rose
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS d: Leonard Kastle
The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Direction and Screenplay: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts
From the moment we hear Gustave Mahler’s highly dramatic music in the opening scene of The Honeymoon Killers, Leonard Kastle’s imaginative thriller and its cast of little-known players take off.
Shirley Stoler plays a corpulent hospital nurse who finds love — of a sort — by joining a lonely-hearts correspondence club. Her ad is answered by a Spanish gigolo (Tony Lo Bianco) in the business of marrying lonely women, taking their money, and abandoning them. However, the two miscreant creatures fall in love. Stoler instantly sticks her senile mother in a nursing home so she can accompany her new lover in his [...]
by Danny Fortune | May 29, 2008
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Tags: Classic Movies, Crime Movies, Doris Roberts, Film Reviews, Leonard Kastle, Mary Jane Higby, Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers, Tony Lo Bianco
