British Cinema vs. Hollywood: Q&A with author Anthony Slide about ties between US and UK talent, from Alfred Hitchcock to Harry Potter.
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Rod Taylor Movies: The Time Machine and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, comeback for Tarantino and was he the First Australian Hollywood Star?
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Robin Williams. Robin Williams dead at 63: Oscar winner for Good Will Hunting Robin Williams, Best Supporting Academy Award winner for Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting, was found dead…
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Ken Loach turns down Turin Film Festival career award in solidarity with laid-off workers Ken Loach, well-known for his sympathies for the underdog, has turned down the Turin Film Festival’s…
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Joyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from…
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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. The Harry Potter box office chart on the next page was culled from figures found at Box Office Mojo. I’ve also used BOM’s inflation-ratio chart…
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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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Peter Sellers in Lolita. Image: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies. Peter Sellers will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Saturday, Aug. 29. Peter Sellers movies on TCM Turner…
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Counterfeit Going My Way 1944 Oscar Says Academy Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has examined the Oscar® statuette that was scheduled…
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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…
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Harold Pinter Nobel Prize in Literature Winner: Fiery Anti-US and Anti-Iraq War Acceptance Speech called for the arrest of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Director James Ivory’s producing partner Ismail Merchant has died Ismail Merchant, longtime movie producer and sometime director, died today in London. The cause of death was not immediately made available.…
A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his…
British-born actress Jean Simmons, who died on Jan. 22 at age 80, will have next Friday evening dedicated to her on Turner Classic Movies. Beginning at 5 p.m. PT, TCM…
Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, based on a novel by Muriel Spark. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ author Muriel Spark dead at 88 Scottish-born writer…