Marilyn Burns. ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ actress Marilyn Burns dead at 64 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre actress Marilyn Burns, the one cast member who manages to survive Leatherface…
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Oscar host Seth MacFarlane: Off-color jokes and dance numbers led to raised eyebrows and complaints. Oscar host debate + producers return Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return next year…
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Gabriel Garko will play Rudolph Valentino (a.k.a. Rodolfo Valentino in places like Italy and Brazil) in a two-part Italian TV movie. To be directed by Alessio Inturri for Mediaset, the…
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Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar: When Margaret Thatcher stares back, need for Women’s Museum and faulty Academy Award history knowledge.
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Honey: Berlin Film Festival. Roman Polanski, in the news since his arrest in Switzerland last September and currently fighting extradition to the United States, received the Silver Bear for Best…
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Somebody Save Me: Gay conversion therapy film Save Me. Save Me is the tale of a couple of troubled gay men (Chad Allen, Robert Gant) who find salvation (of an…
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A mix of romantic sports comedy and sociopolitical drama, George Clooney’s Leatherheads is most effective in its more serious moments.
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Jon McLaughlin ‘So Close.’ Enchanted song. Jon McLaughlin ‘So Close’: Oscar ceremony At the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony, singer Jon McLaughlin performed “So Close,” the Oscar-nominated song from Kevin Lima’s…
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Douglas Kirkland’s Pictures: Brigitte Bardot and The Sound of Music actresses Charmian Carr and Angela Cartwright + check out Judy Garland miniature Oscar.
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The first Hollywood actor to lampoon Hitler? A few years ago, in the San Diego Jewish Journal Lynn Rapaport discussed the first Hollywood comedian to play Adolf Hitler on film.…
Helen Mirren, John Malkovich in Robert Schwentke’s Red. Nov. 1 Kevin Greutert’s gory horror flick Saw 3D topped the North American box office chart this past Halloween weekend (Oct. 29-31),…
Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for directing The English Patient (above, 1996), died today, March 18, at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was 54. “It was a very…
Chicago with Phyllis Haver. Image: A.M.P.A.S. A restored print of the little-seen 1928 silent film Chicago will be screened on August 16 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…