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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.)…
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…
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…
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…
Targets (1968) movie review: Boris Karloff is fantastic in this disturbing Peter Bogdanovich thriller that shows life and art as irrevocably intertwined.
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…