Ben Gazzara, who was featured on Broadway in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in movies by the likes of John Cassavetes, Otto Preminger, and Peter Bogdanovich,…
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Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best…
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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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Ben Johnson isn’t exactly what one would call a movie icon; Johnson isn’t even a Western icon, despite his presence in numerous Old (and not-so-Old) West movies during his 50+-year…
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Eric Stoltz, Cher, and director Peter Bogdanovich on the set of Mask: Biggest Oscar snubs. (See previous post: Biggest Oscar Snubs: Audrey Hepburn vs. Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady.)…
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Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw in Love Story, written by Erich Segal. Erich Segal, whose screenplay and novel Love Story became worldwide hits, has died. Segal, who had been suffering…
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Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Audrey Hepburn movies at LACMA “Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever” is the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) film series that…
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Estelle Getty: The Golden Girls actress & Sylvester Stallone movie mom Estelle Getty, best known for her role as the acid-tongued octogenarian Sophia Petrillo on the 1980s television series The…
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In the unsettling thriller Targets, Peter Bogdanovich points out that life and art are irrevocably intertwined. A superb Boris Karloff stars.
The Exorcist: Linda Blair’s face, Mercedes McCambridge’s voice. Much like Natalie Portman’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy issue had a predecessor – in the Ingrid Bergman-Roberto Rossellini affair back in 1950 – something…
The Art Directors Guild (website) Film Society will be screening George Cukor’s extravagant 1960 Western Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, in tribute to production designer…