Christie Brinkley is setting the record straight on her split from John Mellencamp.
Though Mellencamp, 64, and Brinkley, 62, exclusively announced their breakup to People on Tuesday, citing "the mileage between their homes and their heavy career demands" as the reasoning for their inability to "maintain the relationship," a report alleged on Thursday that the 64-year-old musician's "hell-bent political opinions and redneck ways" as the reason for the split.
Brinkley took to Instagram on Thursday to deny that she broke it off due to differing political viewpoints.
Brinkley began, "While much has been written over the years about me that I simply...
Though Mellencamp, 64, and Brinkley, 62, exclusively announced their breakup to People on Tuesday, citing "the mileage between their homes and their heavy career demands" as the reasoning for their inability to "maintain the relationship," a report alleged on Thursday that the 64-year-old musician's "hell-bent political opinions and redneck ways" as the reason for the split.
Brinkley took to Instagram on Thursday to deny that she broke it off due to differing political viewpoints.
Brinkley began, "While much has been written over the years about me that I simply...
- 8/11/2016
- by Natalie Stone, @natalie_j_stone
- People.com - TV Watch
Quentin Tarantino can't help himself. In early December, after spending the second half of 2015 supplying the thinkpiece industry with one piping-hot take after another, the filmmaker confessed to The Guardian that sitting down for a bunch of long-form interview features may not have been such a great idea. "If I keep giving them fish," he said, "and they're giving me back chum in 450 different outlets, I don't know why I'm doing it." Then less than two weeks later, Tarantino appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where he accused Disney of...
- 12/23/2015
- Rollingstone.com
A masterful final performance from Richard Johnson crowns this authentic, bleak and unexpectedly funny film
Richard Johnson is mesmerising in his final lead role as the cantankerously debilitated father whose loving but long-suffering wife (Gemma Jones, exceptional) and estranged son (co-writer Daniel Cerqueira) struggle to care for him. Shot in the Cumbrian home of his late parents, co-writer Tom Browne’s directorial feature debut has an unmistakable air of authenticity that brings real pathos and heartache to some of the film’s bleakest moments. But there is a palpable warmth, too, in the dysfunctional family dynamics, while moments of unexpected laughter dispel the darker clouds of the past.
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Richard Johnson is mesmerising in his final lead role as the cantankerously debilitated father whose loving but long-suffering wife (Gemma Jones, exceptional) and estranged son (co-writer Daniel Cerqueira) struggle to care for him. Shot in the Cumbrian home of his late parents, co-writer Tom Browne’s directorial feature debut has an unmistakable air of authenticity that brings real pathos and heartache to some of the film’s bleakest moments. But there is a palpable warmth, too, in the dysfunctional family dynamics, while moments of unexpected laughter dispel the darker clouds of the past.
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- 11/29/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
This intelligent, deeply personal work explores the often overlooked domestic lives of older people, to outstanding effect
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years recently exploited the relatively unnoticed cinematic potential in the domestic lives of older people: the secret existences of a long marriage. Michael Haneke’s Amour, in its more exacting and terrifying way, did too.
Now this excellent debut from British writer-director Tom Browne approaches the same territory: an intimate, micro-budget drama which is absorbing, subtle and outstandingly acted. (Browne was the co-writer of Ben Hopkins’s The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz in 2000, and has had a substantial acting career under the name Tom Fisher.) His co-writer, Daniel Cerqueira, plays Daniel, a lonely middle-aged teacher in London, who receives a desperate telephone call from his elderly mother, Maria (Gemma Jones). His cantankerous and impossible father, Leonard (Richard Johnson), has evidently taken to lying on the downstairs couch, apparently stricken...
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years recently exploited the relatively unnoticed cinematic potential in the domestic lives of older people: the secret existences of a long marriage. Michael Haneke’s Amour, in its more exacting and terrifying way, did too.
Now this excellent debut from British writer-director Tom Browne approaches the same territory: an intimate, micro-budget drama which is absorbing, subtle and outstandingly acted. (Browne was the co-writer of Ben Hopkins’s The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz in 2000, and has had a substantial acting career under the name Tom Fisher.) His co-writer, Daniel Cerqueira, plays Daniel, a lonely middle-aged teacher in London, who receives a desperate telephone call from his elderly mother, Maria (Gemma Jones). His cantankerous and impossible father, Leonard (Richard Johnson), has evidently taken to lying on the downstairs couch, apparently stricken...
- 11/26/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
21-Year-Old Single Dad Pens Touching Post About Raising Baby Daughter: "I Was So Nervous and Scared"
Keep the tissues handy! Richard Johnson, a 21-year-old single dad, wrote a touching Facebook post on Tuesday, Nov. 10, about his experience raising his baby daughter, and his story has since gone viral. “My name is Richard Johnson, and I’m a single father to a beautiful little girl named Persephone,” he shared in a Facebook group called Life of Dad. “Her mother left about a month after she was born. We still don’t know exactly why, but we suspect postpartum depression played a part.” Johnson, who also shared [...]...
- 11/13/2015
- Us Weekly
A clip from 80,000 Suspects, a tense 1963 thriller about an epidemic sweeping south-west England, directed by British thriller maestro Val Guest (also known for The Quatermass Xperiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire). Set mostly in Bath, 80,000 Suspects stars Richard Johnson as a doctor attempting to control an outbreak of smallpox, and Claire Bloom as his wife who becomes a victim of the virus. 80,000 Suspects is available on DVD and Blu-Ray
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- 10/19/2015
- by Guardian film
- The Guardian - Film News
Moody as Fagin with Mark Lester as Oliver Twist and Jack Wild as The Artful Dodger.
By Lee Pfeiffer
There is an old adage that says bad things happen in "threes". That seemed to be the case when it came to distinguished British actors in the past week. On the heels of news that both Richard Johnson and Sir Christopher Lee had passed away comes notice that Ron Moody has also died. He was 91 years old. Moody was undoubtedly the least famous of these three gentlemen but he was no less talented. He originated the role of Fagin in Lionel Bart's classic stage musical, "Oliver!", based on the Dickens classic "Oliver Twist". Moody won kudos for his role as the charismatic con man and head of a London gang that employed young boys as pickpockets. He was astonished when he was chosen to play the lead in the 1968 film version,...
By Lee Pfeiffer
There is an old adage that says bad things happen in "threes". That seemed to be the case when it came to distinguished British actors in the past week. On the heels of news that both Richard Johnson and Sir Christopher Lee had passed away comes notice that Ron Moody has also died. He was 91 years old. Moody was undoubtedly the least famous of these three gentlemen but he was no less talented. He originated the role of Fagin in Lionel Bart's classic stage musical, "Oliver!", based on the Dickens classic "Oliver Twist". Moody won kudos for his role as the charismatic con man and head of a London gang that employed young boys as pickpockets. He was astonished when he was chosen to play the lead in the 1968 film version,...
- 6/12/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Richard Johnson, the British actor who appeared in such films as The Haunting and The Pumpkin Eater but turned down an offer to play James Bond in the first 007 film, has died. He was 87. Johnson, who was married to actress Kim Novak for a brief time in the 1960s, died after a short illness at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea, London, the BBC reported. A stage veteran and founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Johnson signed with MGM and appeared in the war drama Never So Few (1959), starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida and
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- 6/7/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
R.I.P Dr. Markway. I recently watched British actor Richard Johnson as Bulldog Drummond in Deadlier Than The Male, a tough and stylish Bond pastiche from 1967 with an odd Avengers twist. His Drummond was suave and sophisticated and I wasn’t surprised to read that Johnson was (one of many to be) considered for 007. And I was thinking just last night when I was watching Insidious 3 that I wished I was instead watching a better-crafted, genuinely creepy horror story like The Haunting (1963), which starred also Johnson. The actor had a varied career, starring in diverse roles ranging from Caius Cassius opposite Charlton Heston in Julius Caesar (1970) to Dr. Menard in Lucio Fulci’s unforgettable Zombie in 1979. Richard Johnson died in London yesterday at age 87.
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British actor Richard Johnson, whose career spanned film, theatre and TV, has died aged 87, his family has said. Johnson made...
From The BBC News:
British actor Richard Johnson, whose career spanned film, theatre and TV, has died aged 87, his family has said. Johnson made...
- 6/7/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
British star was known for performances in The Haunting and Tomb Raider among others.
Veteran British star Richard Johnson has died at the age of 87, his family has said.
Johnson was a distinguished stage and television actor whose screen career stretched over six decades.
He was under contract to MGM in the late 1950s, co-starring with Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen in Never So Few (1959).
Major roles followed in The Haunting (1963), The Amorous Adventures Of Moll Flanders (1965), opposite his second wife Kim Novak, Khartoum (1966) and Oedipus The King (1967).
Johnson was also active as a writer and producer and was a founding member of United British Artists, producing Turtle Diary (1985) and The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne (1987).
More recent film work included Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2008) and his final role in Radiator (2014), winner of the first Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival in March this year, which was attended...
Veteran British star Richard Johnson has died at the age of 87, his family has said.
Johnson was a distinguished stage and television actor whose screen career stretched over six decades.
He was under contract to MGM in the late 1950s, co-starring with Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen in Never So Few (1959).
Major roles followed in The Haunting (1963), The Amorous Adventures Of Moll Flanders (1965), opposite his second wife Kim Novak, Khartoum (1966) and Oedipus The King (1967).
Johnson was also active as a writer and producer and was a founding member of United British Artists, producing Turtle Diary (1985) and The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne (1987).
More recent film work included Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2008) and his final role in Radiator (2014), winner of the first Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival in March this year, which was attended...
- 6/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
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Highlights Of Issue #32 Include:
Ray Morton looks at the revivals of King Kong beginning in the 1960s, with special emphasis on his two-part report on the making of the 1976 big budget remake. Howard Hughes takes an in-depth look at the making of 100 Rifles starring Raquel Welch, Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds. Matthew Field interviews iconic producer Anthony Waye about his work on the Star Wars and James Bond series.
Ernie Magnotta goes overboard and analyzes the merits of Orca, The Killer Whale Tim Greaves goes undercover to examine the Charles Vine spy films of the 1960s and talks with star Tom Adams. Adrian Smith interviews screen sex siren Caron Gardner and reviews Our Man in Marrakesh (aka Bang! Bang! You're Dead!) Raymond Benson's Top Ten...
Highlights Of Issue #32 Include:
Ray Morton looks at the revivals of King Kong beginning in the 1960s, with special emphasis on his two-part report on the making of the 1976 big budget remake. Howard Hughes takes an in-depth look at the making of 100 Rifles starring Raquel Welch, Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds. Matthew Field interviews iconic producer Anthony Waye about his work on the Star Wars and James Bond series.
Ernie Magnotta goes overboard and analyzes the merits of Orca, The Killer Whale Tim Greaves goes undercover to examine the Charles Vine spy films of the 1960s and talks with star Tom Adams. Adrian Smith interviews screen sex siren Caron Gardner and reviews Our Man in Marrakesh (aka Bang! Bang! You're Dead!) Raymond Benson's Top Ten...
- 5/25/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The always unreliable gossip columnist Richard Johnson, who last published a purported photo of me that wasn’t me among other inaccuracies, is publicly embarrassing himself yet again. Apparently he is the last person to get a clue that I am on vacation and using up the 19 weeks which I’ve banked since selling Deadline Hollywood in June 2009. I’m very grateful to The Deadline Team for carrying on so well without me, and to Hollywood for not bothering me too much during my…...
- 10/19/2013
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
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