Charles Durning. Charles Durning: Oscar-nominated & Tony-winning actor has died Charles Durning, who romanced Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee for The Best Little Whorehouse…
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Best Cast goes to Female-Centered movies and homages to early cinema are top choices at start of awards season + major differences elsewhere.
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Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson in Francis Lawrence’s Water for Elephants. May 16: Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, and Tom Hiddleston, was the…
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Worst Oscar Host Ever? Anne Hathaway and James Franco widely panned but what about Academy Awards produced by the flamboyant Allan Carr?
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Paul Mazursky career highlight: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. Paul Mazursky: Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award…
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Ronald Neame disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure with Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on June 16 at a hospital…
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Ryan Murphy’s Running with Scissors movie version of Augusten Burroughs’ memoirs is a dramatic mess. Annette Bening is its sole redeeming feature.
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Richard Pryor: Stand-up comedian starred in box office hits Silver Streak and Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder and developed serious drug abuse issues.
Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman. In my very personal view, the worst thing about 1980s American moviemaking isn’t the enormous success of adolescent trash like Return of the Jedi,…
Screenwriter and playwright Jay Presson Allen died of a stroke yesterday morning at her home in Manhattan. She was 84. The Ft. Worth native (born on March 3, 1922) wrote…