Charles Brackett ca. 1945: Billy Wilder screenwriting partner (1936–1949), producer (1945–1949) and Hollywood diarist. Q&A with ‘Charles Brackett Diaries’ editor Anthony Slide: Billy Wilder’s screenwriter-producer partner in his own words…
Jackie Collins’ sex novel The Bitch became a sex movie starring sexy sister Joan Collins. Author Jackie Collins: Surprisingly few film & TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins,…
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett – and D.M. Marshman Jr. – collaboration: Sunset Blvd., starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden, and directed by Wilder. Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett movies…
Don Mankiewicz co-wrote I Want to Live, starring Susan Hayward, 1958’s Best Actress Oscar winner. ‘I Want to Live!’ screenwriter Don Mankiewicz dead at 93 Veteran television and film screenwriter Don…
Cate Blanchett and Woody Allen on the Blue Jasmine set. WGA Awards nominations: Woody Allen & ‘American Hustle’ in; ’12 Years a Slave’ & ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ ineligible…
Clint Eastwood Western movies: The Good the Bad and the Ugly stars the former U.S. TV actor & B Hollywood flick performer as the silent, strong – and unfeeling, unwashed,…
John Travolta in the Scientology-inspired movie ‘Battlefield Earth.’ From John Travolta to Bob Dylan, from Ed Wood to Orson Welles: ‘The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time’ Phil Hall’s The…
Zero Dark Thirty with Chris Pratt and Joel Edgerton. With ten wins and two nominations to date, Kathryn Bigelow is the top Best Director choice this awards season for the…
D.W. Griffith Father of Film, controversial figure. To say that the movies wouldn’t be what they are today without D.W. Griffith is probably inaccurate. I mean, someone – or “someones”…
Gore Vidal movies: The Best Man, Caligula, Suddenly Last Summer. (Image: A young Gore Vidal.) Author, playwright, screenwriter, acerbic storyteller, and political commentator Gore Vidal died on July 31 at…
Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Sneak Peek: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Foy, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner. July 12 update: Stephenie Meyer Midnight Sun: the unfinished Twilight book to be completed? Stephenie…
Nora Ephron movies: Heartburn 1986: Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson as fictionalized versions of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein. Nora Ephron & Carl Bernstein: ‘Heartburn’ movie Besides her essays, screenplays, and…
Rebecca remake in the works? Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 original – based on a novel by Daphne Du Maurier – starred Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Hollywood has been running out…
On the Road‘s Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac “I’m praying that you’ll buy On the Road and make a movie of it. Don’t worry about structure. I know how to compress…
Norma Shearer in ‘His Secretary’: Women Screenwriters in Old Hollywood Women screenwriters kept busy during silent era Frederica Sagor Maas, who had a handful of screenwriting credits in the 1920s,…
Hal Kanter (see photo at Bette Davis tribute), creator of the groundbreaking TV series Julia, starring Diahann Carroll (photo) as a nurse, died at age 92 on Nov. 6 in…
Joan Blondell biography: A Life Between Takes. Joan Blondell. Those who have heard the name will most likely picture either a blowsy, older woman playing the worldwise but warm-hearted saloon…
Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents died in his sleep on May 5 in New York City. He was 93. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story…
Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic: Oscar orphan. (Previous post: Oscar Nominations Best Documentary: Biggest Snubs.) The absence of Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron’s Titanic screenplay from the list of 1997 Oscar…
Big Bad Mama with Angie Dickinson. The life of screenwriter William W. Norton, who died of a heart aneurysm on Oct. 2 in Santa Barbara at the age of 85,…
Movie magic screenwriter Irving Ravetch seen here on the set of Martin Ritt’s 1967 Western Hombre. Ravetch was co-responsible for some of the most indelible big-screen scenes, including those seen in…
Sean Connery as James Bond. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, best known for his work on the James Bond flicks Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and The Man with the…
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart together in Eclipse meadow scene June 3: Kristen Stewart has opted to issue an apology for her use of the word “rape” as a metaphor for…
Wholesome silent era superstars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks drawn by Vargas (probably best known for his drawings of naked and semi-naked women in Playboy), Motion Picture Long before Robert Pattinson,…
Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw is tonight’s star on Turner Classic Movies. Major Barbara (1941), directed by Gabriel Pascal, and starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller,…
Shirtless Kellan Lutz in The Legend of Hercules, with Gaia Weiss. Kellan Lutz ‘Hercules’ movie: Zero percent Rotten Tomatoes approval rating Starring Kellan Lutz, best known as the hunky and…
Amy Adams in The Master: “Classy” NSFC win. What Batman Awards? WGA snubs latest ‘Dark Knight’ movie The WGA Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier today. Expect the Academy Awards…
‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson has died Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Frank Pierson, among whose screenwriting credits are Dog Day Afternoon, A Star…
The Artist‘s Michel Hazanavicius is the only first-timer among the five nominated directors for the 2012 Directors Guild of America Awards. Hazanavicius’ competition consists of Woody Allen for Midnight in…
Norman Corwin, best remembered for his World War II programs during the Golden Age of Radio, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Oct. 18. He was…
Joseph Stein. Screenwriter and playwright Joseph Stein, best known for his book for the Broadway musicals Fiddler on the Roof (1964) and Zorba (1968), died on Oct. 24. He was…
José Saramago*, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, died at age 87 at his home on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Saramago was the first – and to…