Helen Mirren young: Hot future British Queen back in the 1960s. Helen Mirren young: Hot future Queen Helen Mirren, the odds-on favorite to take home this year’s Best Actress Academy…
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Gay Slurs: Sharon Stone vs Isaiah Washington name-calling controversy + Dakota Fanning Hounddog child rape furor and Jessica Lange vs George W. Bush.
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Katharine Hepburn Oscars exhibition + crowd-pleasing indie tops Producers Guild of America Awards as veteran Monica Bleibtreu co-wins Best Actress.
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar European slant clear as only 1 exception among contenders + hip-hopping immigration drama tops Guldbagge Awards.
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Jean Arthur was Columbia’s top star of the 1930s and early 1940s. Jean Arthur starred in numerous classics, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and You Can’t Take It with You. Jean Arthur died in 1991.
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Marjoe: Evangelical Christian con men exposed in Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith Oscar-Winning documentary with future Earthquake actor Marjoe Gortner.
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Movie Quotes Oscar Poster: Academy Makes Offer You Can’t Refuse with dozens of dialogue bits from Best Picture winners or nominees + 3 missing classic lines.
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Sherry Lansing: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to former Paramount CEO and cancer research advocate who produced Oscar-nominated Fatal Attraction.
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winners’ posters + W.C. Fields Pettifoggery: Academy exhibitions celebrate artworks and former vaudevillian’s career.
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Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.
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The Talmadge Sisters Norma and Constance: Unfairly neglected silent era superstars return in sophisticated comedies Her Sister from Paris and Kiki.
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Iraq War & censorship among topics of documentaries still in the running for the Academy Awards. Image: Iraq in Fragments. Blind mountain climbers, female African judges, Israel’s withdrawal from the…
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Philippe Noiret. Philippe Noiret: ‘Cinema Paradiso’ & ‘The Postman’ actor dead at 76 Veteran actor Philippe Noiret, whose movie credits include Cinema Paradiso, The Postman, and the controversial Blow-Out, died…
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Bush documentary The World According to Bush. George W. Bush documentary producers’ lawsuit vs. Google: ‘The World According to Bush’ The French movie production company Flach Film has taken legal…
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Editor and documentary filmmaker Helen van Dongen died at age 97 on Sept. 28. As an editor, van Dongen worked with the likes of Joris Ivens and Robert Flaherty, and…
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Jack Palance. Jack Palance: ‘Shane’ bloodthirsty villain and ‘City Slickers’ Oscar winner dead at 87 Jack Palance, a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for City Slickers, died of “natural…
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Anna Magnani in Bellissima. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) began a mini Anna Magnani retrospective, Mamma Roma: The Films of Anna Magnani, on Friday, Nov. 3. Twelve…
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Jane Wyatt: Star Trek, Father Knows Best, and Lost Horizon actress. Jane Wyatt: ‘Star Trek’ & ‘Father Knows Best’ + ‘Lost Horizon’ actress dead at 96 Actress Jane Wyatt, best…
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker…
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Film Forum, the New York City institution that about a year ago presented the Paramount Before the Code film series, will be presenting Pre-Code movies from Fox – Fox Before…
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Early talkies on TCM: Rudy Vallee in The Vagabond Lover + Tanned Legs & Spring Is Here In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies will be showing three early talkies: The…
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‘The Golden Age of Norman Corwin’ Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, which won the 2005 Academy Award® for Documentary Short…
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Malcolm Arnold, reportedly the first British composer to win an Academy Award, died Saturday, Sept. 23, at a hospital in Norfolk county, eastern England, after suffering from a chest infection.…
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Pola Negri in Madame Dubarry / Passion with Emil Jannings. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (website) is currently presenting “Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream,” a week-long retrospective on…
What Are the Golden Globes? Quality-oriented + multinational and multiethnic awards show embracing ‘diversity’ (especially of the British kind)?
Goya Awards Nominations: Mercenary Viggo Mortensen vs. Manchega Penélope Cruz plus 2 anti-Franco movies: darkly violent fairy tale and Salvador biopic.
National Board of Review Winners: First Foreign-Language Best Film in almost 6 decades shows key World War II battle from the Japanese side.
Robert Altman: ‘The Player’ + ‘Nashville’ & ‘MASH’ director dead at 81 Robert Altman, whose movie career alternated between little-seen and at times poorly received offbeat efforts and award-winning film…
John Howard Lawson Remembered “First Writers Guild president. Playwright. Screenwriter. Oscar nominee. Organizer. Teacher. ‘Premature antiracist.’ Blacklistee. ‘Dean of the Hollywood Ten.’ Jailbird. ‘Tinseltown’s cultural commissar.’ Film theorist. ‘Grand Pooh-Bah…
Nuovomondo / Golden Door with Charlotte Gainsbourg. International gay characters + Bosnian War: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar hopefuls Fifty years after the creation of the Best Foreign Language Film…
Mexican wrestler vs. invading Martians: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs la invasión de los marcianos. Mexican Wrestler Santo vs. the Martians + Bhutanese fantasy-adventure & Helen Mirren: Rio Film…