TCM presents the life story of (a not gay) John Nash, starring Russell Crowe: In the phony ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman wash the gay…
Dean Jones: Actor in Walt Disney and Christian movies. Dean Jones: Actor who went from ‘The Love Bug’ and ‘That Darn Cat!’ to Christian movies dead at 84 Dean Jones,…
Neil Patrick Harris. Neil Patrick Harris to host Oscar 2015 ceremony Stage, film, and television actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the 2015 Oscars, a.k.a. the 87th Academy Awards ceremony,…
Audrey Long: Actress in films noirs and Westerns, and the widow of The Saint creator Leslie Charteris. Audrey Long dead at 92: Actress in B movies and author Leslie Charteris widow Actress…
Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968…
The Other Woman cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann. ‘The Other Woman’ 2014 box office: Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann comedy to top North American box office chart…
Hal Needham: Stuntman & Burt Reynolds director was last year’s Honorary Oscar recipient Veteran stuntman and stunt coordinator Hal Needham, whose stunt-work movie credits ranged from John Ford Westerns to…
Honorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. George Stevens Jr. is the founding director of the American Film Institute. During his tenure, the AFI established the Center for Advanced Film Studies and…
Best Supporting Actress Nominees pre-1950 still alive, Oscar nonagenarians / centenarian. (Image: Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce, with Joan Crawford.) Following Celeste Holm’s death today and Ernest Borgnine’s death last Sunday,…
Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar winner: The Golden Lady and her golden little man. Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar: Dressed to Win Best Actress Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, whose…
Trent Reznor and wife Mariqueen Maandig. Trent Reznor and wife Mariqueen Maandig at the Oscars Sporting an ultra-cool look, Trent Reznor and wife Mariqueen Maandig, both members of the hip,…
Julie Christie, easily one of the most compelling performers of the last half-century and an ardent political activist for liberal causes, has her day on Monday, Aug. 2, as part…
“… Far and away the biggest-grossing movie with a female as its sole main player, which is certainly a challenge to conventional Hollywood assumptions (men can star alone, while women…
Peter Sellers in Lolita. Image: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies. Peter Sellers will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Saturday, Aug. 29. Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen…
Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie and Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom). Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell…
Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg, Anjelica Huston, Penélope Cruz, Tilda Swinton, and Eva Marie Saint. “This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now,” said best…
‘Fiasco’ & Hollywood flops: Q&A with author James Robert Parish
Isabella Rossellini as her mother, Ingrid Bergman, in ‘My Dad Is 100 Years Old’ Guy Maddin’s 2005 16-minute short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old, in which Isabella Rossellini pays “a unique…
Marc Lawrence. Prolific actor was usually cast as gangster and other assorted scuzzy characters, making life difficult for just about everybody, from Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake to Humphrey Bogart…
Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & long-running Honorary Oscar “snub.” Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux among Honorary Oscar non-recipients (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars Bypass Women:…
Grace of Monaco Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly. Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in ‘Grace of Monaco’: Best Actress Oscar nominee? Nicole Kidman Best Actress Academy Award nominee (possibly winner)…
Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Take This Waltz With four nominations, Michel Hazanavicius’ silent comedy-drama The Artist is the top nominee in the international categories of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle’s…
Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts in Stepmom. Susan Sarandon will be the recipient of the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 to be presented at the 20th Stockholm International Film Festival…
Butterflies Are Free with Edward Albert Jr. and Goldie Hawn. Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn’s leading man in the 1972 romantic comedy Butterflies Are Free, died of lung cancer at his…
Eddie Albert: Green Acres + Roman Holiday Actor has died at age 99 Eddie Albert, a two-time Academy Award nominee and the star of the long-running television series Green Acres,…