John Travolta clearly remembers the last time he saw "Saturday Night Fever," mainly because it was hardly a typical situation.
"I always catch a part of it here or there on TV," the enduring star tells Zap2it of the disco-crazy 1977 classic that heralded his big-screen career, "but the last time I saw the whole movie was with Oprah Winfrey. For my 50th birthday, she bought a week on a boat for me and my family, and she took another boat.
"And she said, 'I just want to ask you one thing ... that you will sit with me in a theater and watch "Saturday Night Fever."' That was her favorite movie, so we watched it together in a theater on one of the islands in the Caribbean. That was eight or nine years ago."
About to be seen opposite Robert De Niro when the drama "Killing Season" opens in theaters Friday,...
"I always catch a part of it here or there on TV," the enduring star tells Zap2it of the disco-crazy 1977 classic that heralded his big-screen career, "but the last time I saw the whole movie was with Oprah Winfrey. For my 50th birthday, she bought a week on a boat for me and my family, and she took another boat.
"And she said, 'I just want to ask you one thing ... that you will sit with me in a theater and watch "Saturday Night Fever."' That was her favorite movie, so we watched it together in a theater on one of the islands in the Caribbean. That was eight or nine years ago."
About to be seen opposite Robert De Niro when the drama "Killing Season" opens in theaters Friday,...
- 7/3/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
By Rachel Bennett
Television Editor & Columnist
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It’s rare that a television character literally goes out with a bang, but — spoiler alert — that’s precisely what happens to Gustavo “Gus” Fring, restaurant owner by day and drug kingpin by night, on the season four finale of AMC’s masterful Breaking Bad. It is a moment no less shocking than the one in The Wizard of Oz in which the Wicked Witch of the West melts away, but one that elicits quite different emotions once it sinks in. Everyone wanted the Wicked Witch to be eliminated; after all, she had tormented Dorothy and her little dog Toto, among many others, and it was about time. Gus, too, was a character who tormented the lives of those around him, particularly the show’s protagonist Walter and his sidekick Jesse. But when Gus finally gets his comeuppance, the reaction among viewers is not...
Television Editor & Columnist
* * *
It’s rare that a television character literally goes out with a bang, but — spoiler alert — that’s precisely what happens to Gustavo “Gus” Fring, restaurant owner by day and drug kingpin by night, on the season four finale of AMC’s masterful Breaking Bad. It is a moment no less shocking than the one in The Wizard of Oz in which the Wicked Witch of the West melts away, but one that elicits quite different emotions once it sinks in. Everyone wanted the Wicked Witch to be eliminated; after all, she had tormented Dorothy and her little dog Toto, among many others, and it was about time. Gus, too, was a character who tormented the lives of those around him, particularly the show’s protagonist Walter and his sidekick Jesse. But when Gus finally gets his comeuppance, the reaction among viewers is not...
- 8/24/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
Hollywood talent scout Shirley Rich, who cast Sean Penn, Tom Cruise and Judd Hirsch early in their careers, has died. She was 87.
Rich, who worked in casting for Rodgers and Hammerstein and MGM and famed Broadway producer/director Harold Prince, died of natural causes on 28 December.
She also ran her own agency for three decades, Shirley Rich Casting.
Rich placed Hirsch in 1973 film Serpico and cast Penn and Cruise as military cadets in 1981 film Taps. She also cast actors James Spader, Edward Norton, Rod Steiger and Sada Thompson early in their careers.
On Broadway, she cast shows including South Pacific, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Kind and I, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Sly Fox, among others. On film, she scouted talent for Saturday Night Fever, Three Days of the Condor, Kramer vs. Kramer and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
Rich is survived by her husband, Lewis M. Krohn, a son, Steven, and a daughter, Lisa.
Rich, who worked in casting for Rodgers and Hammerstein and MGM and famed Broadway producer/director Harold Prince, died of natural causes on 28 December.
She also ran her own agency for three decades, Shirley Rich Casting.
Rich placed Hirsch in 1973 film Serpico and cast Penn and Cruise as military cadets in 1981 film Taps. She also cast actors James Spader, Edward Norton, Rod Steiger and Sada Thompson early in their careers.
On Broadway, she cast shows including South Pacific, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Kind and I, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Sly Fox, among others. On film, she scouted talent for Saturday Night Fever, Three Days of the Condor, Kramer vs. Kramer and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
Rich is survived by her husband, Lewis M. Krohn, a son, Steven, and a daughter, Lisa.
- 1/13/2010
- WENN
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