George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Bill Murray: London 2009
Jarvis Cocker, Eric Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, George Clooney, Wally Wolodarsky, Bill Murray attend the World Premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox and the Opening Gala of The Times BFI London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 14, 2009. (Photo: Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
Kevin Spacey, Author Jon Ronson, Producer Paul Lister, Director Grant Heslov and George Clooney at the The Men Who Stare at Goats press conference at the Vue West End on October 15. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
Kevin Spacey, Grant Heslov, George Clooney (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
George Clooney stares at a goat (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
by Joan Lister | October 16, 2009
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Tags: Bill Murray, Film Festivals, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Jason Schwartzman, Jon Ronson, Kevin Spacey, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Photos
Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee, Lana Turner in Imitation of Life
Actress Sandra Dee died today of complications from kidney disease at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. She was 63.
Born Alexandra Zuck on April 23, 1942 (several sources have 1944), in Bayonne, New Jersey, Dee started modeling while in grade school. By the age of 12, she had become a successful Conover model.
After appearing in TV shows and commercials, the pretty, full-faced Dee Dee was discovered by Universal producer Ross Hunter. Hunter had reportedly been looking for a newcomer after balking at paying Warner Bros. $200,000 to borrow Natalie Wood for the role of Lana Turner’s willful daughter in Imitation of Life (1959). [...]
by Andre Soares | February 20, 2005
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Tags: Beyond the Sea, Bobby Darin, Classic Movies, Gidget, Imitation of Life, Kevin Spacey, Lana Turner, Ross Hunter, Sandra Dee
Toronto Film Festival 2004
The 2004 Toronto Film Festival will screen 321 features and short films from 61 countries.
Among the festival’s 100 world premieres are Being Julia, starring Annette Bening and directed by István Szabó; David O. Russell’s comedy i heart huckabees, with Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin as a duo of "existential detectives"; and two biopics: Beyond the Sea, directed by Kevin Spacey, who also stars as 1950s-60s singer and actor Bobby Darin, and Kinsey, which stars Liam Neeson as controversial scientist Alfred Kinsey, who created a furor in the postwar years with his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
Other festival highlights include The Good Woman, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan starring Helen Hunt; Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre musique; [...]
by Andre Soares | September 2, 2004
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Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Film Festivals, Helen Hunt, Hilary Swank, Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Spacey, Kinsey, Liam Neeson, Notre musique, Toronto Film Festival
