‘Under the Volcano’ screening: John Huston’s ‘quality’ comeback starring daring Albert Finney As part of its John Huston film series, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will be presenting the…
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Larry Hagman: ‘Dallas’ & ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ star + son of Broadway legend Mary Martin has died Larry Hagman, best known by some for playing Major Tony Nelson in…
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Johnny Lewis: Sons of Anarchy actor falls to his death after allegedly killing octagenarian landlady Johnny Lewis, best known for playing Kip ‘Half Sack’ Epps in the FX series Sons…
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Donna Summer dead at 63: Sang Best Original Song Oscar winner ‘Last Dance’ Singer Donna Summer, who died of cancer at age 63 earlier today, was featured in only one…
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Steve McQueen, Bullitt: Peter Yates directed. Peter Yates, Oscar nominated for directing and producing Best Film nominees Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983), has died after “a long illness.”…
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Steve McQueen: Hollywood rebel of the 1960s. Steve McQueen died at a relatively young age – he was 50 when he succumbed to cancer in 1980 – but strangely, especially…
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Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby: Cinematography by William A. Fraker. William A. Fraker, the Academy Award-nominated cinematographer of Richard Brooks’ Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Warren Beatty and…
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Hollywood Rebels: James Dean ca. 1955. Hollywood Rebels’ movies on DVD: James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ & Steve McQueen in ‘Bullitt’ James Dean’s cult status was surely not…
Mia Farrow Twitpic shows far-right US presidential candidate Rick Santorum as he Bores Kids to Sleep. Despite 50+ films, Farrow has no Oscar nomination.
Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…