There was a moment in the past year when dozens of media and political reporters found themselves in the same room, sitting patiently for hours, essentially doing nothing but speculating about what was about to happen.
That’s generally a fraught scenario, but in this case, it was a bit fortuitous in that Delaware courtroom, waiting for proceedings to resume. At 4 p.m. that day in April, the judge announced that Fox had reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems just as a landmark defamation trial was about to begin. The revelations from the case — and the network’s $787.5 million payout — made for what was one of the biggest media business stories of the year.
The next year will be vastly different, what with a presidential election race in full swing, but it is also likely to be another 12 months of tumult in the industry. The decline in linear TV,...
That’s generally a fraught scenario, but in this case, it was a bit fortuitous in that Delaware courtroom, waiting for proceedings to resume. At 4 p.m. that day in April, the judge announced that Fox had reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems just as a landmark defamation trial was about to begin. The revelations from the case — and the network’s $787.5 million payout — made for what was one of the biggest media business stories of the year.
The next year will be vastly different, what with a presidential election race in full swing, but it is also likely to be another 12 months of tumult in the industry. The decline in linear TV,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
NBC’s landmark “Your Show of Shows” won its second consecutive best variety program statuette at the primetime Emmy Awards held Feb. 5, 1953 at the old Hotel Statler hosted by Art Linkletter. The 90-minute live program had strong competition- “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends” (CBS); “The Colgate Comedy Hour” (NBC); “The Jackie Gleason Show” (CBS) and “The Toast of the Town” (CBS).
Other winners that evening included another landmark series, CBS’ “I Love Lucy” which was named best situation comedy with NBC’s “Robert Montgomery Presents” receiving best dramatic program honors. CBS’ “What’s My Line? claimed the title of best audience participation, quiz or panel show. NBC’s “Dragnet” was the recipient of the best mystery, action or adventure program. Ktla’s “Time for Beany” won best children’s program, while Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” (CBS) received the Emmy for public affairs program.
On the acting front, Oscar-winners...
Other winners that evening included another landmark series, CBS’ “I Love Lucy” which was named best situation comedy with NBC’s “Robert Montgomery Presents” receiving best dramatic program honors. CBS’ “What’s My Line? claimed the title of best audience participation, quiz or panel show. NBC’s “Dragnet” was the recipient of the best mystery, action or adventure program. Ktla’s “Time for Beany” won best children’s program, while Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” (CBS) received the Emmy for public affairs program.
On the acting front, Oscar-winners...
- 3/21/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Long before Ken Burns captured the nation with such landmark documentaries as “The Civil War” and “Baseball” and the world knew the bizarre world of “The Tiger King,” non-fiction specials and series played an important part on the television landscape. Here’s a look at some of the pioneering specials and series that either won or were nominated for the Emmy Award.
“Crusade in Europe”
Could a documentary lead to the Presidency?
Well, in the case of 1949’s “Crusade in Europe” the Emmy Award-winning 1949 ABC documentary series probably helped Dwight D. Eisenhower’s rise to the White House. The small screen’s first major documentary series was based on Eisenhower’s best-selling 1948 account of his experiences from World War II from his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines to him being named the Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe.
The 26-part series featured terrific...
“Crusade in Europe”
Could a documentary lead to the Presidency?
Well, in the case of 1949’s “Crusade in Europe” the Emmy Award-winning 1949 ABC documentary series probably helped Dwight D. Eisenhower’s rise to the White House. The small screen’s first major documentary series was based on Eisenhower’s best-selling 1948 account of his experiences from World War II from his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines to him being named the Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe.
The 26-part series featured terrific...
- 7/8/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Apologies to Ken Jennings, but we admit we were rooting against him on Tuesday’s Night 4 of Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time… just because this tournament has been so much fun, we don’t want it to end.
To recap, the primetime special brings back the long-running quiz show’s three all-time top earners: Ken Jennings, who still holds the record with his famous 74-day winning streak (total winnings: $3,370,700); Brad Rutter, who amassed the show’s top money total with $4,688,436 — and had never lost a Jeopardy! game to a human opponent, entering this tournament — and James Holzhauer, who set...
To recap, the primetime special brings back the long-running quiz show’s three all-time top earners: Ken Jennings, who still holds the record with his famous 74-day winning streak (total winnings: $3,370,700); Brad Rutter, who amassed the show’s top money total with $4,688,436 — and had never lost a Jeopardy! game to a human opponent, entering this tournament — and James Holzhauer, who set...
- 1/15/2020
- TVLine.com
Bruce Dern is celebrating 60 years as an actor, having made his Broadway debut in the 1958 “Shadow of a Gunman” while studying with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan. This year, his film work includes playing two real-life characters: Joseph Kennedy in “Chappaquiddick” and Roman Wershe in Studio 8’s “White Boy Rick.” The latter film, about a 14-year-old who was arrested in 1980s Detroit, opens Sept. 14.
What drew you to “White Boy Rick”?
It’s real. I play the grandfather of the young boy, Rick Wershe Jr. He had to take a package across town and police busted him. He was just released this year after 29 years. He was 14 [when he was imprisoned], so to lighten his sentence, they made him an informer. Wershe was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The movie shows that “It ain’t fair.” My whole life is about trying to be fair. My aunt married Herbert F.
What drew you to “White Boy Rick”?
It’s real. I play the grandfather of the young boy, Rick Wershe Jr. He had to take a package across town and police busted him. He was just released this year after 29 years. He was 14 [when he was imprisoned], so to lighten his sentence, they made him an informer. Wershe was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The movie shows that “It ain’t fair.” My whole life is about trying to be fair. My aunt married Herbert F.
- 9/13/2018
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
It's been nearly four years since Hollywood icon James Garner died at age 86 in July 2014 and, above all, the actor's daughter Gigi Garner fondly remembers her famous dad as "just a good guy." "He made a concentrated effort to stay connected to me, no matter where he was. My dad was just a good guy — the guy with the white hat," Gigi, 60, exclusively told Closer Weekly in the magazine's latest issue, on newsstands now. James and his stepdaughter, Kimberly Garner. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Gigi was born to James and his beloved wife, Lois Clarke, back in January 1958, two years after the Maverick star tied the knot with Lois. "I fell in love for the first and last time on Aug. 1, 1956, at the Adlai Stevenson for President rally — he lost, I won. That’s where I met Lois Clarke. It was love at first sight," James once said of meeting his wife.
- 7/18/2018
- by Julia Birkinbine
- Closer Weekly
Warren Beatty’s days as one of Hollywood’s most infamous playboys are long behind him, but that doesn’t mean he’s lost touch with his old flames.
“The people with whom I had serious involvements I’m still on very good terms with, always have been,” the Rules Don’t Apply director, 79, recently told GQ.
Looking back on those days, Beatty is happy he waited to settle down. “Had I gone ahead earlier and gone through 143 divorces, I would have felt very guilty. I think I would have handled it badly,” he explained.
He also realizes that if...
“The people with whom I had serious involvements I’m still on very good terms with, always have been,” the Rules Don’t Apply director, 79, recently told GQ.
Looking back on those days, Beatty is happy he waited to settle down. “Had I gone ahead earlier and gone through 143 divorces, I would have felt very guilty. I think I would have handled it badly,” he explained.
He also realizes that if...
- 11/16/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
Adlai Stevenson (1952) After losing the race to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Stevenson said, “Someone asked me how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell – Abraham Lincoln. He said he felt like the little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.” Richard Nixon (1960) Richard Nixon’s performance (and sweaty upper lip) in the first televised political debate resulted in his narrow loss to John Kennedy. Nixon said, “My congratulations to Senator Kennedy for.
- 11/9/2016
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the dogfight.
Soon we will slouch towards the voting polls, most of us with the shellshocked semi-catalepsy of lost souls who've been to Hell, seen the screaming rectum of Lucifer yodel "Fat-Bottomed Girls" into the abyss, and returned from the cancerous intestinal soup of what's left of the cadaverous American political process. All the same, it's a mistake to think that we have merely been traumatized by a system gone feral. Strictly speaking, we are not weary, we are not affronted. We are not confronted...
Soon we will slouch towards the voting polls, most of us with the shellshocked semi-catalepsy of lost souls who've been to Hell, seen the screaming rectum of Lucifer yodel "Fat-Bottomed Girls" into the abyss, and returned from the cancerous intestinal soup of what's left of the cadaverous American political process. All the same, it's a mistake to think that we have merely been traumatized by a system gone feral. Strictly speaking, we are not weary, we are not affronted. We are not confronted...
- 11/7/2016
- Rollingstone.com
20 October 1952: The Hollywood legend’s performance on stage in The Millionairess does not impress the critics
New York, October 18.
Miss Katharine Hepburn crashed on to Broadway last night and landed where it hurts. Any hope that she would repeat her dazzling London triumph before the home-town critics was shattered to-day, in a pile of notices on The Millionairess hardly less cruel than the first salute to Miss Hepburn’s stage talents written seventeen years ago by Dorothy Parker: “Miss Hepburn ran the gamut of human emotions from A to B.” The almost unanimous complaint last night was that she ran the gamut from Y to Z. Only the New York Post confirmed its affection for lost causes (it is the only metropolitan newspaper from here to St Louis that supports Adlai Stevenson) by finding Miss Hepburn “dynamic… mettlesome and talented.”
The rest register what they gallantly hope will...
New York, October 18.
Miss Katharine Hepburn crashed on to Broadway last night and landed where it hurts. Any hope that she would repeat her dazzling London triumph before the home-town critics was shattered to-day, in a pile of notices on The Millionairess hardly less cruel than the first salute to Miss Hepburn’s stage talents written seventeen years ago by Dorothy Parker: “Miss Hepburn ran the gamut of human emotions from A to B.” The almost unanimous complaint last night was that she ran the gamut from Y to Z. Only the New York Post confirmed its affection for lost causes (it is the only metropolitan newspaper from here to St Louis that supports Adlai Stevenson) by finding Miss Hepburn “dynamic… mettlesome and talented.”
The rest register what they gallantly hope will...
- 10/20/2016
- by From our own correspondent
- The Guardian - Film News
There’s politics, prejudice, romance and a community meeting to discuss broken faucets in this coshing yet charming take on the – remarkably busy – first date of Barack and Michelle Obama
A twentysomething woman living at home prepares for a day out. Her parents tease her as she fixes her hair. Is it a date? No, just a work associate, a Harvard law student with the firm for the summer, taking her to a community meeting to discuss “broken faucets and underfunded schools”. Across town a man in an undershirt chats with his grandmother by telephone in-between cigarettes and says, “yes, her skin is of the darker persuasion.” This is how Barack met Michelle, and Southside With You will detail, in rather exaggerated, one-act-play form, how they fell in love.
He picks her up in his busted down car (forget the scuffs on Adlai Stevenson’s soles, the interior of Barack Obama...
A twentysomething woman living at home prepares for a day out. Her parents tease her as she fixes her hair. Is it a date? No, just a work associate, a Harvard law student with the firm for the summer, taking her to a community meeting to discuss “broken faucets and underfunded schools”. Across town a man in an undershirt chats with his grandmother by telephone in-between cigarettes and says, “yes, her skin is of the darker persuasion.” This is how Barack met Michelle, and Southside With You will detail, in rather exaggerated, one-act-play form, how they fell in love.
He picks her up in his busted down car (forget the scuffs on Adlai Stevenson’s soles, the interior of Barack Obama...
- 1/25/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
There’s politics, prejudice, romance and a community meeting to discuss broken faucets in this coshing yet charming take on the – remarkably busy – first date of Barack and Michelle Obama
A twentysomething woman living at home prepares for a day out. Her parents tease her as she fixes her hair. Is it a date? No, just a work associate, a Harvard law student with the firm for the summer, taking her to a community meeting to discuss “broken faucets and underfunded schools”. Across town a man in an undershirt chats with his grandmother by telephone in-between cigarettes and says, “yes, her skin is of the darker persuasion.” This is how Barack met Michelle, and Southside With You will detail, in rather exaggerated, one-act-play form, how they fell in love.
He picks her up in his busted down car (forget the scuffs on Adlai Stevenson’s soles, the interior of Barack Obama...
A twentysomething woman living at home prepares for a day out. Her parents tease her as she fixes her hair. Is it a date? No, just a work associate, a Harvard law student with the firm for the summer, taking her to a community meeting to discuss “broken faucets and underfunded schools”. Across town a man in an undershirt chats with his grandmother by telephone in-between cigarettes and says, “yes, her skin is of the darker persuasion.” This is how Barack met Michelle, and Southside With You will detail, in rather exaggerated, one-act-play form, how they fell in love.
He picks her up in his busted down car (forget the scuffs on Adlai Stevenson’s soles, the interior of Barack Obama...
- 1/25/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago (AP) — Roger Ebert's final blog posting last April ended with his hopeful sign-off: "I'll see you at the movies." The award-winning film critic died two days later. Visitors to the central Illinois theater that hosts the annual "Ebertfest" film festival he started now may feel like they saw him at the movies. A life-sized bronze statue of the longtime Chicago Sun-Times critic will be formally unveiled Thursday outside the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, which is next to Urbana where Ebert grew up. His wife, Chaz Ebert, described the statue as "interactive art," because it shows her late husband giving his famous "thumbs up" sign and sitting between two empty theater seats where visitors can sit. "Roger, he would feel honored that someone wanted to do this for him, but he almost would feel embarrassed because he was so modest," Chaz Ebert said. "But he would be very grateful...
- 4/24/2014
- by Caryn Rousseau (AP)
- Hitfix
In this modern age of technology, George Takei definitely knows how to live long and prosper.
The Star Trek actor and social media maven has teamed up with the Aarp for a bi-weekly series on YouTube called Takei’s Take, a smart, funny, irreverent look at what is happening in the world of the Internet and technology and how it infiltrates our lives. EW was on location at YouTube Space La where the series is filmed to talk to George about the show, how Martin Luther King Jr. played a role in getting him to join Twitter, and why human...
The Star Trek actor and social media maven has teamed up with the Aarp for a bi-weekly series on YouTube called Takei’s Take, a smart, funny, irreverent look at what is happening in the world of the Internet and technology and how it infiltrates our lives. EW was on location at YouTube Space La where the series is filmed to talk to George about the show, how Martin Luther King Jr. played a role in getting him to join Twitter, and why human...
- 12/13/2013
- by Jake Perlman
- EW.com - PopWatch
The veteran actor may not be sure where Bristol is, but he does recall racing a shepherd through the Lake District and being Alfred Hitchcock's 'golden calf'
Bruce Dern was the wayward dreamer of American movies, wild and restless, not built to last. He took a fatal bullet in The King of Marvin Gardens, laid down his life in Silent Running and swam into oblivion at the end of Coming Home. Dern played heroes and villains alike. But he was invariably geared towards the bittersweet send-off or the gaudy comeuppance. To all intents and purposes, he never got out of the 70s alive.
Now, incredibly, the man is back with his best role in decades, possibly his best one ever. The Alexander Payne drama Nebraska casts him as another hopeless dreamer, destined for the rocks, but the performance itself marks a redemption of sorts. At the Cannes film festival,...
Bruce Dern was the wayward dreamer of American movies, wild and restless, not built to last. He took a fatal bullet in The King of Marvin Gardens, laid down his life in Silent Running and swam into oblivion at the end of Coming Home. Dern played heroes and villains alike. But he was invariably geared towards the bittersweet send-off or the gaudy comeuppance. To all intents and purposes, he never got out of the 70s alive.
Now, incredibly, the man is back with his best role in decades, possibly his best one ever. The Alexander Payne drama Nebraska casts him as another hopeless dreamer, destined for the rocks, but the performance itself marks a redemption of sorts. At the Cannes film festival,...
- 11/29/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Veteran actor Bruce Dern is now up to bat. That is how he describes what is at stake in his role as Woody in director Alexander Payne’s new film, “Nebraska.” But this film icon – with an over 50 year career – also has plenty other stories to offer, regarding Jack Nicholson, his family, his life and performing a “Derns-ser.”
Bruce Dern began his on-screen career in TV beginning in 1960, taking various character parts during that era, with regular cowboy roles in “Wagon Train,” “The Virginian” and “The Big Valley.” He made his film debut in the horror classic “Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte” (1964), and created memorable characters in such diverse films as “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They” (1969), “Drive, He Said” (1971), “The Great Gatsby” (1974), “Smile” (1975) and “Family Plot” (1976). Recent films include roles in “Monster” (2003), “The Astronaut Farmer” (2006) and as Frank Harlow in the HBO series “Big Love” (2006-11). He was nominated...
Bruce Dern began his on-screen career in TV beginning in 1960, taking various character parts during that era, with regular cowboy roles in “Wagon Train,” “The Virginian” and “The Big Valley.” He made his film debut in the horror classic “Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte” (1964), and created memorable characters in such diverse films as “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They” (1969), “Drive, He Said” (1971), “The Great Gatsby” (1974), “Smile” (1975) and “Family Plot” (1976). Recent films include roles in “Monster” (2003), “The Astronaut Farmer” (2006) and as Frank Harlow in the HBO series “Big Love” (2006-11). He was nominated...
- 11/19/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Election Day is just around the corner, and depending on your view of the current state of The Republic, you can look at that day in one of two ways:
It’s a national celebration of history’s greatest, most successful democracy, demonstrating our ability to freely choose our leadership and peacefully see the baton of power passed to the next man;
Or –
It’s a national embarrassment, history’s greatest, most successful democracy squandering it’s hard-won freedoms in a campaign for leadership poisoned by oversimplification, appeals to gut-level fears rather than the intellect, claims and charges plagued by inflation, distortion, and outright falsehood, and warped and distorted by the infusion of tens of millions of dollars from vested interests.
Either way, we still have to get through the day.
So, for those of you who just want to pull the shades and wait for the noise to die down,...
It’s a national celebration of history’s greatest, most successful democracy, demonstrating our ability to freely choose our leadership and peacefully see the baton of power passed to the next man;
Or –
It’s a national embarrassment, history’s greatest, most successful democracy squandering it’s hard-won freedoms in a campaign for leadership poisoned by oversimplification, appeals to gut-level fears rather than the intellect, claims and charges plagued by inflation, distortion, and outright falsehood, and warped and distorted by the infusion of tens of millions of dollars from vested interests.
Either way, we still have to get through the day.
So, for those of you who just want to pull the shades and wait for the noise to die down,...
- 11/2/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Former United States Senator, and Presidential candidate, George McGovern.
In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of Stephen Vittoria's documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," which looked at McGovern's ill-fated 1972 bid for the White House. During our interview, and during a lengthy dinner at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills several months later, (which happened to fall on what would have been the 80th birthday of his close friend, Robert F. Kennedy), McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man. When we raised a glass to toast Bobby Kennedy's memory, Senator McGovern said quietly "Bobby made us all want to be better people." A more fitting valediction of George McGovern couldn't be said. Rest in peace.
George McGovern Shines On
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of Stephen Vittoria's documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," which looked at McGovern's ill-fated 1972 bid for the White House. During our interview, and during a lengthy dinner at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills several months later, (which happened to fall on what would have been the 80th birthday of his close friend, Robert F. Kennedy), McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man. When we raised a glass to toast Bobby Kennedy's memory, Senator McGovern said quietly "Bobby made us all want to be better people." A more fitting valediction of George McGovern couldn't be said. Rest in peace.
George McGovern Shines On
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
- 10/22/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned,...
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Graham Daseler
- The Moving Arts Journal
William Powell, Myrna Loy Myrna Loy Q&A Pt.1: Typecasting, Favorite Movies Myrna Loy claims that before Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland took Warner Bros. to court, she fought her own studio — in Loy's case MGM. What was that about? And did Loy's stance impact her film career in any way? Loy went on strike against MGM in 1935, partly because she had been miscast in a film called Escapade [Loy was replaced by newcomer Luise Rainer], and partly because she wanted more vacation time and more money after hitting pay dirt as Nora Charles. She did win more money and more time off, but MGM continued to under-utilize her talents and to stick with safe bets in casting her. Myrna Loy the Activist. How was she an activist? How did she become involved in social/political activism? And how did that affect her film career? World War II was a turning point for her. She...
- 3/12/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
For me the best news produced by the Florida primary was Newt Gingrich's vow to take his fight all the way to the floor of this year's Republican convention. It has been way too long since a national political convention was more than a coronation stage-managed by public relations experts. It seems likely that Mitt Romney will be this year's Gop nominee, although with the party's revolving-door Surges of the Week we can never be sure. It is unlikely to be any of the other remaining candidates, although Ron Paul may use his pledged delegates to win a speaking slot. I'll enjoy that. He has the rare quality of talking turkey, and is funnier than his rivals. He is, in fact, the only candidate in either party who is likely to say something unexpected (on purpose) every time he speaks.
Newt is a seasoned politician and surely doesn't believe...
Newt is a seasoned politician and surely doesn't believe...
- 2/3/2012
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Chicago – The wonderful bonus of the Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is the opportunity to meet the real stars of past film eras. Ernest Borgnine and Bruce Dern were there during the show in March of this year.
Both actors carved out character careers during the period of the 1950s to the present. They have often explored the cowboy genre, and each starred opposite some legendary movie gunslingers. Ernest Borgnine appeared in one of the greatest westerns of all time, “The Wild Bunch” (1969). Bruce Dern starred opposite John Wayne in “The Cowboys” (1972).
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Hosts Ray and Sharon Court announced at the March show that the upcoming October show would be their last, as they are retiring.
HollywoodChicago.com got the chance to interview Borgnine and Dern, and Joe Arce...
Both actors carved out character careers during the period of the 1950s to the present. They have often explored the cowboy genre, and each starred opposite some legendary movie gunslingers. Ernest Borgnine appeared in one of the greatest westerns of all time, “The Wild Bunch” (1969). Bruce Dern starred opposite John Wayne in “The Cowboys” (1972).
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Hosts Ray and Sharon Court announced at the March show that the upcoming October show would be their last, as they are retiring.
HollywoodChicago.com got the chance to interview Borgnine and Dern, and Joe Arce...
- 7/5/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Last week, screenwriter and “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof signed a seven-figure deal with Disney to write “an original large-scale science fiction feature film.” Deadline reported the movie is planned “to play to a family audience,” but was unable to glean any other information from their inside sources, other than a curious working title of 1952.
This is the first film produced from the beginning by Lindelof, who is familiar with secrecy after working under paranoid producer J.J. Abrams. He recently rewrote Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel into an original sci-fi film titled Prometheus and contributed to this summer’s genre mash-up Cowboys & Aliens. Lindelof is currently holed up with Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to complete Star Trek 2 for Abrams, in hopes of meeting its previously-announced summer 2012 release, then he will begin work on Disney’s large-scale science fiction flick (between jags of defending the “Lost” finale on Twitter, of...
This is the first film produced from the beginning by Lindelof, who is familiar with secrecy after working under paranoid producer J.J. Abrams. He recently rewrote Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel into an original sci-fi film titled Prometheus and contributed to this summer’s genre mash-up Cowboys & Aliens. Lindelof is currently holed up with Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to complete Star Trek 2 for Abrams, in hopes of meeting its previously-announced summer 2012 release, then he will begin work on Disney’s large-scale science fiction flick (between jags of defending the “Lost” finale on Twitter, of...
- 6/22/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
The latest jobs report shows unemployment numbers are still terribly high, setting up a tough reelection campaign for the president. But Michael Tomasky says the Gop candidates-and Nixon's example-are giving Obama cause for hope.
May's job numbers were pretty dismal-just 54,000 private-sector jobs gained, and the unemployment rate up a tick to 9.1 percent. All signs point toward a very slow recovery on the jobs front, and so the conventional wisdom arbiters in Washington right now are asking: Can Barack Obama be reelected if the unemployment rate is still 9 percent? Winning under those circumstances would defy history and logic. Obama has to hope that today's Republican Party is so ahistorical and illogical that at the national level it's on the verge of making itself unelectable.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
Nate Silver had an interesting and lengthy post up at Five Thirty Eight on Thursday slicing the matter,...
May's job numbers were pretty dismal-just 54,000 private-sector jobs gained, and the unemployment rate up a tick to 9.1 percent. All signs point toward a very slow recovery on the jobs front, and so the conventional wisdom arbiters in Washington right now are asking: Can Barack Obama be reelected if the unemployment rate is still 9 percent? Winning under those circumstances would defy history and logic. Obama has to hope that today's Republican Party is so ahistorical and illogical that at the national level it's on the verge of making itself unelectable.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
Nate Silver had an interesting and lengthy post up at Five Thirty Eight on Thursday slicing the matter,...
- 6/4/2011
- by Michael Tomasky
- The Daily Beast
I’m guessing the last thing Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had in mind when they created the X-Men was that a new reader would need to consult multiple online encyclopedias to follow a 30 page comic book. While multiple story arcs have led to teams-within-teams and alternate realities, Matthew Vaughn’s new inspired-by-canon film takes L’essence du X and seals it in a petri dish with cells from 1960s adventure pictures. The resultant mold focuses on what has always intrigued about the X-Men: outsiders with powers and conflicting schools of thought on how to deal with them.
James McAvoy is downright dashing as the young (and walking) Charles Xavier. Much of the early part of the film is devoted to what 99% of us would do if we had superpowers: use them to get women into bed.
In sharp contrast to Xavier’s swingin’ Oxford scholar is Michael Fassbender's Erik Lensherr,...
James McAvoy is downright dashing as the young (and walking) Charles Xavier. Much of the early part of the film is devoted to what 99% of us would do if we had superpowers: use them to get women into bed.
In sharp contrast to Xavier’s swingin’ Oxford scholar is Michael Fassbender's Erik Lensherr,...
- 6/1/2011
- UGO Movies
Until the day he died, I always called him "Daddy." He was Walter Harry Ebert, born in Urbana in 1902 of parents who had emmigrated from Germany. His father, Joseph, was a machinist working for the Peoria & Eastern Railway, known as the Big Four. Daddy would take me out to the Roundhouse on the north side of town to watch the big turntables turning steam engines around. In our kitchen, he always used a knife "your grandfather made from a single piece of steel."
I never met my grandparents, and that knife is the only thing of theirs I own. Once when I was visiting my parents' graves, I wandered over to my grandparents' graves, where we'd often left flowers on Memorial Day. I realized consciously for the first time, although I must have been told, that my grandfather was named Joseph. My middle name.
What have I inherited from those...
I never met my grandparents, and that knife is the only thing of theirs I own. Once when I was visiting my parents' graves, I wandered over to my grandparents' graves, where we'd often left flowers on Memorial Day. I realized consciously for the first time, although I must have been told, that my grandfather was named Joseph. My middle name.
What have I inherited from those...
- 3/24/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
A couple of weeks ago, we exclusively broke the news that Dustin Lance Black was set to pen a script based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover. Movie blogs picked it up, birds sang, and rainbows formed in the honor of the Hollywood Cog. Then, strangely, people began to go on with their lives.
It was very disconcerting.
And now that everyone knows that such a movie is being developed, and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk is penning it, someone else goes and breaks the story that there's a director circling the project.
That someone was The Hollywood Reporter, and they say Clint Eastwood is circling the project. And hey! I'm not so excited about it anymore. Why? Well, what we didn't include in our original write-up of the movie -- because I was so intent on leaving out Black's sexuality, because I didn't want anyone to think of...
It was very disconcerting.
And now that everyone knows that such a movie is being developed, and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk is penning it, someone else goes and breaks the story that there's a director circling the project.
That someone was The Hollywood Reporter, and they say Clint Eastwood is circling the project. And hey! I'm not so excited about it anymore. Why? Well, what we didn't include in our original write-up of the movie -- because I was so intent on leaving out Black's sexuality, because I didn't want anyone to think of...
- 3/12/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
New Age beliefs are the Creationism of the Progressives. I move in circles where most people would find it absurd to believe that humans didn't evolve from prehistoric ancestors, yet many of these same people quite happily believe in astrology, psychics, reincarnation, the Tarot deck, the i Ching, and sooth-saying. Palmistry and phrenology have pretty much blown over.
If you were attending a dinner party of community leaders in Dallas, Atlanta, Omaha or Colorado Springs and the conversation turned to religion, a chill might fall on the room if you confessed yourself an atheist. Yet at a dinner party of the nicest and brightest in New York, Chicago, San
Francisco and (especially) Los Angeles, if the hostess began to confide about past lives, her Sign and yours, and her healing crystals, it might not go over so well if you confessed you thought she was full of it.
New Age...
If you were attending a dinner party of community leaders in Dallas, Atlanta, Omaha or Colorado Springs and the conversation turned to religion, a chill might fall on the room if you confessed yourself an atheist. Yet at a dinner party of the nicest and brightest in New York, Chicago, San
Francisco and (especially) Los Angeles, if the hostess began to confide about past lives, her Sign and yours, and her healing crystals, it might not go over so well if you confessed you thought she was full of it.
New Age...
- 12/9/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
This partisan politico-drama focuses on the Cuban missile crisis, with only a cursory glance in the direction of Havana and Moscow. With Kevin Costner in the starring role, we wouldn't expect anything else
Director: Roger Donaldson
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A–
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a nuclear stand-off between the United States and Ussr. The Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, so the Americans blockaded the island. For two weeks, there was a serious danger that the confrontation might result in a third – and potentially devastating – world war.
People
The film focuses on John F Kennedy's appointments secretary, Kenny O'Donnell (Kevin Costner). O'Donnell begins by establishing that he is an all-American hero, breakfasting with his 400 or so apple-cheeked children and flirting manfully with Jackie Kennedy. Though he was a member of Ex-Comm, the committee which advised Kennedy during the crisis, O'Donnell was a minor figure. It's conspicuously...
Director: Roger Donaldson
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A–
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a nuclear stand-off between the United States and Ussr. The Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, so the Americans blockaded the island. For two weeks, there was a serious danger that the confrontation might result in a third – and potentially devastating – world war.
People
The film focuses on John F Kennedy's appointments secretary, Kenny O'Donnell (Kevin Costner). O'Donnell begins by establishing that he is an all-American hero, breakfasting with his 400 or so apple-cheeked children and flirting manfully with Jackie Kennedy. Though he was a member of Ex-Comm, the committee which advised Kennedy during the crisis, O'Donnell was a minor figure. It's conspicuously...
- 11/26/2009
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Life is political. Hollywood is political. And yesterday in the U.S., the state elections were very political in the broad sense of the term, since many pundits kept arguing that they served as a referendum on President Obama and his policies.
We make no such claims. We're not here to talk U.S. politics specifically, but with all this political fever in play, what better time than to reflect back on what we believe are the ten best movies about American politics?
There are some terrific contenders here; not surprisingly some from decades gone by. But in most, the themes of power and corruption going hand-in-hand is front and center. It's material that's inherently rife with conflict, making for some of the best drama to be found anywhere.
So have a look at the following pages and our selections for the best movies about American politics. And when you're finished,...
We make no such claims. We're not here to talk U.S. politics specifically, but with all this political fever in play, what better time than to reflect back on what we believe are the ten best movies about American politics?
There are some terrific contenders here; not surprisingly some from decades gone by. But in most, the themes of power and corruption going hand-in-hand is front and center. It's material that's inherently rife with conflict, making for some of the best drama to be found anywhere.
So have a look at the following pages and our selections for the best movies about American politics. And when you're finished,...
- 11/4/2009
- CinemaSpy
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