Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner, Paul Weitz Photos
The 50th anniversary screening of Douglas Sirk’s classic weepie Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, and Oscar nominees Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner (above), was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, August 21, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The event was hosted by film critic Stephen Faber.
In Imitation of Life, white Susan Kohner plays black Juanita Moore’s daughter (hey, it’s Hollywood). In real life, however, Kohner doesn’t have a black mom. Her mother is Lupita Tovar, 98, known as "Mexico’s Sweetheart" back in the early 1930s and the star of the Spanish-language version of Dracula. Her father was producer Paul Kohner, among whose credits [...]
by Deborah Arthur | August 25, 2009
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Tags: Imitation of Life, Juanita Moore, Paul Weitz, Photos, Stephen Faber, Susan Kohner
IN GOOD COMPANY – Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace
In Good Company (2004)
Direction and screenplay: Paul Weitz
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer, Philip Baker Hall, Clark Gregg, Malcolm McDowell
Better known for his gross-out comedy American Pie and for co-directing (with brother Chris Weitz) the syrupy morality tale About a Boy (which received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay), Paul Weitz is hardly the type of talent one would expect behind a movie about a ruthless corporate takeover. But rest assured, In Good Company, despite its business dog-eats-business dog setting, is anything but heavy drama.
In the film, Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is the head of ad sales for the New York-based magazine Sports America — though not for very much longer. Right [...]
by Andre Soares | December 28, 2004
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Tags: Dennis Quaid, Film Reviews, In Good Company, Malcolm McDowell, Paul Weitz, Scarlett Johansson, Socially Conscious Movies, Three-Star Movies, Topher Grace
ABOUT A BOY – Hugh Grant
About a Boy (2002)
Director: Chris and Paul Weitz
Screenplay: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Peter Hedges; from Nick Hornby’s novel
Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
With the above statement, seventeenth-century English writer John Donne reached beyond the apparent [...]
by Andre Soares | September 16, 2004
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Tags: About a Boy, Chris Weitz, Film Reviews, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Nick Hornby, Oscar 2002, Oscar Movies, Paul Weitz, Rachel Weisz, Toni Collette
