Honorary Oscar NON-winner Doris Day inexplicably snubbed by the Academy. Why? Other women include Danielle Darrieux, Liv Ullmann and Mia Farrow.
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Norah Jones. Norah Jones: Grammy winner to sing Ted song at 2013 Oscar ceremony Norah Jones, the Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, will perform Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane’s “Everybody…
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Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Flops (because of his height)? + former box office magnet Barbra Streisand Bombs while Bette Midler comedy surprises.
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Marvin Hamlisch and Barbra Streisand. Best known for the Oscar-winning theme song from the 1973 Barbra Streisand-Robert Redford tearjerker The Way We Were, composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch died Monday,…
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Avatar 2 news: Sequels to be filmed concurrently says Sigourney Weaver Avatar 2, 3, 4 to be filmed concurrently. [Photo: Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.] Audiences are clamoring for original fare,…
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One-time powerhouse agent Sue Mengers died at her home in Beverly Hills on Oct. 15. Mengers, whose reported age varies between 78 and 81, died of pneumonia following a series…
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Anne Francis: Actress starred in Honey West. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” film series, Turner Classic Movies is showing 12 Anne Francis movies today, including three TCM premieres.…
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Tod Maitland, Dennis Maitland, Norman Jewison at the 45th Cinema Audio Society Awards Production Sound Mixer Dennis Maitland, who collaborated with the likes of John Cassavetes, Barbra Streisand, Sydney Pollack,…
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Gypsy 1962 with Rosalind Russell. Barbra Streisand won’t be playing Mama Rose in a film version of the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents Broadway hit Gypsy, Laurents himself told The Hartford…
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Barbra Streisand director and actress in Yentl with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving. “Leonardo DiCaprio, Screenwriter James Cameron for Titanic: Biggest Oscar Snubs #6.” To date, only four women have received…
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Little Fockers box office: Paul Weitz’s critically massacred comedy is a hit with domestic audiences. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson star.
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Funny Girl movie: Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice and Omar Sharif in William Wyler’s 1968 blockbuster. A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand’s film debut, will reignite the Academy…
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Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker‘s Best Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar acceptance speech: “This really is… There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime. First of…
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Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
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Funny Girl Press Release: The 1968 Best Picture nominee Funny Girl will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be…
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What’s the highest grossing comedy ever? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures, how you interpret them + how you define ‘comedy.’
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Meet the Fockers (movie 2004) review: A quartet of award-winning cast members waste their talent and prestige in this idiotized Ben Stiller comedy. Jay Roach directed.
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Diane English has penned and will direct The Women remake, as the 1939 all-female classic comedy is finally getting a 21st-century facelift. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening are slated to star.
‘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…
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…
Steve McQueen, Bullitt: Peter Yates directed. Peter Yates, Oscar nominated for directing and producing Best Film nominees Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983), has died after “a long illness.”…
Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman at 1983 Academy Awards. Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are “The Way We Were” and the song score for Yentl, will be…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.