Growing up with Nick at Nite, there was one classic series that I adored above all others: "I Dream of Jeannie." Comparisons to that other '60s rom-com fantasy about a supernatural lady causing mayhem in the suburbs be damned, Sidney Sheldon's sitcom was just the blast of silliness that I craved as a kiddo.
As an adult, I've also come to appreciate that easily-rattled U.S. Air Force pilot Anthony "Tony" Nelson (Larry Hagman), his amiable buddy and co-worker Roger Healey (Bill Daily), and Barbara Eden's trouble-making, wish-granting genie ... Jeannie were clearly in a throuple but had to play coy about it to avoid ruffling their neighbors' feathers. Not that they were all that careful about maintaining their cover, what with Roger constantly strolling into Tony and Jeannie's humble abode uninvited with the casualness of someone who definitely doesn't secretly live there. Y'all ain't as slick as you think you are!
As an adult, I've also come to appreciate that easily-rattled U.S. Air Force pilot Anthony "Tony" Nelson (Larry Hagman), his amiable buddy and co-worker Roger Healey (Bill Daily), and Barbara Eden's trouble-making, wish-granting genie ... Jeannie were clearly in a throuple but had to play coy about it to avoid ruffling their neighbors' feathers. Not that they were all that careful about maintaining their cover, what with Roger constantly strolling into Tony and Jeannie's humble abode uninvited with the casualness of someone who definitely doesn't secretly live there. Y'all ain't as slick as you think you are!
- 3/10/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Before he started filling up the nation's drug store book racks with tawdry tales of romance and suspense, Sidney Sheldon was one of Hollywood and Broadway's most prolific writers. He could write comedies, musicals, musical-comedies, mysteries, dramas, thrillers ... just about everything short of slasher flicks (though he probably would've knocked out one of those had they been a thing during his 1940s - '60s heyday). Clearly, he had an ear for what worked, and he wasn't just knocking out quickie programmers. He won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for the Cary Grant-Myrna Loy-Shirley Temple screwball hit "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," and earned a Best Musical Tony for the Gwen Verdon-led Broadway smash "Redhead."
And when television came calling, rather than turn up his nose as many of his established film and theater colleagues did during the medium's early days, he enthusiastically picked up the phone.
Sheldon...
And when television came calling, rather than turn up his nose as many of his established film and theater colleagues did during the medium's early days, he enthusiastically picked up the phone.
Sheldon...
- 2/16/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Herman Raucher, the best-selling author and screenwriter who earned an Oscar nomination for the coming-of-age classic Summer of ’42 and wrote the script for the thought-provoking Watermelon Man, has died. He was 95.
Raucher died Thursday of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, his daughter Jenny Raucher told The Hollywood Reporter.
Raucher, who started out in live television, penned the screenplays for two Anthony Newley-starring films: Sweet November (1968), directed by Robert Ellis Miller and also featuring Sandy Dennis, and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), featuring Joan Collins.
He also was given inspiration from Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 hit song to write the screenplay to Ode to Billy Joe (1976), a love story that starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor and was helmed by Max Baer Jr.
With the Robert Mulligan-directed Summer of ’42 (1971) in postproduction, someone came up with the idea of Raucher writing a...
Raucher died Thursday of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, his daughter Jenny Raucher told The Hollywood Reporter.
Raucher, who started out in live television, penned the screenplays for two Anthony Newley-starring films: Sweet November (1968), directed by Robert Ellis Miller and also featuring Sandy Dennis, and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), featuring Joan Collins.
He also was given inspiration from Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 hit song to write the screenplay to Ode to Billy Joe (1976), a love story that starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor and was helmed by Max Baer Jr.
With the Robert Mulligan-directed Summer of ’42 (1971) in postproduction, someone came up with the idea of Raucher writing a...
- 1/3/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hulu’s acclaimed “Only Murders in the Building,” currently vying for 11 Emmys, has gone all razzle dazzle in its third season. Make that rattle dazzle! Beleaguered Broadway director Oliver (Martin Short) was hoping for a comeback on the Great White Way with the mystery thriller “Death Rattle.” But when his leading man (Paul Rudd) is murdered, he decides to turn the straight play into a musical, “Death Rattle Dazzle!” And in the third episode, Meryl Streep’s nervous journeyman actress and Ashley Park’s leading lady performed the show-stopping ballad “Look for the Light” co-written by Sara Bareilles. One almost forgot the prime suspects in “Death Rattle Dazzle!” are the infant Pickwick triplets.
The 1959 multiple Tony winner “Redhead” also has a rather strange plot for a musical: a serial killer is stalking women in London in the 1880s during the time Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the city. Sounds like a real toe-tapper.
The 1959 multiple Tony winner “Redhead” also has a rather strange plot for a musical: a serial killer is stalking women in London in the 1880s during the time Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the city. Sounds like a real toe-tapper.
- 8/29/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Betta St. John, who portrayed the lovely island girl Liat in the original Broadway production of South Pacific and starred as a princess alongside Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the MGM romantic comedy Dream Wife, has died. She was 93.
St. John died June 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Brighton, England, her son, TV producer Roger Grant, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The California native played one of the survivors of an airline crash, who is chased by a crocodile in Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) — the first Tarzan film in 15 years and the first one in color — and then returned for Tarzan the Magnificent (1960). Both films starred Gordon Scott as the King of the Jungle.
St. John also starred with Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth and Robert Taylor in All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953); with Victor Mature, Piper Laurie and Vincent Price in the 3-D adventure Dangerous...
St. John died June 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Brighton, England, her son, TV producer Roger Grant, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The California native played one of the survivors of an airline crash, who is chased by a crocodile in Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) — the first Tarzan film in 15 years and the first one in color — and then returned for Tarzan the Magnificent (1960). Both films starred Gordon Scott as the King of the Jungle.
St. John also starred with Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth and Robert Taylor in All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953); with Victor Mature, Piper Laurie and Vincent Price in the 3-D adventure Dangerous...
- 7/7/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marking 75 years of business tycoon Subrata Roy’s life today – June 10th, a platinum celebration, producers Sandeep Singh and Dr. Jayantilal Gada (pen studios), with director Sudipto Sen announced Saharasri – a biopic on the founder of Sahara India Pariwar. India Today listed Subrata Roy to be one of the most powerful persons in 2012 and his name was even mentioned in the world’s most prestigious magazine, Time, for having created the highest job opportunities for Indians.
Saharasri unfolds an engrossing tale of business magnate Subrata Roy’s days as a relatively unknown entity rising up to be India’s most influential and dynamic individual everyone in the country knew about. Subrata Roy’s life story reads like a Sidney Sheldon novel.
Sandeep Singh said, “Regardless of what the world may think or say about Shri Subrata Roy, their perception is based solely on their lack of personal acquaintance with the man.
Saharasri unfolds an engrossing tale of business magnate Subrata Roy’s days as a relatively unknown entity rising up to be India’s most influential and dynamic individual everyone in the country knew about. Subrata Roy’s life story reads like a Sidney Sheldon novel.
Sandeep Singh said, “Regardless of what the world may think or say about Shri Subrata Roy, their perception is based solely on their lack of personal acquaintance with the man.
- 6/10/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
What The Weeknd wants, The Weeknd gets in “The Idol,” a skintastic, dark-side-of-showbiz fable that perpetuates the myth that pop stars are corporate puppets with no say in their own image-making, even as it allows hit-maker The Weeknd to call the shots.
Picture “Blonde” as Joe Eszterhas might have written it, but with better music.
After making a toe-dip cameo as himself in A24’s “Uncut Gems,” the R&b phenom-turned-tv producer plunges head-first into acting here, teaming with “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson to imagine a shady super-predator just looking to corrupt an unsuspecting young pop singer. The edgy, high-gloss HBO series, which premiered the first two of its five episodes at the Cannes Film Festival, demands a lot of star Lily-Rose Depp. She plays “rags-to-riches, trailers-to-mansions” Jocelyn, a mono-monikered Britney or Miley type who seems empowered one moment, impressionable the next.
Embracing scandal from the outset, “The Idol” opens with Jocelyn mid-photo shoot,...
Picture “Blonde” as Joe Eszterhas might have written it, but with better music.
After making a toe-dip cameo as himself in A24’s “Uncut Gems,” the R&b phenom-turned-tv producer plunges head-first into acting here, teaming with “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson to imagine a shady super-predator just looking to corrupt an unsuspecting young pop singer. The edgy, high-gloss HBO series, which premiered the first two of its five episodes at the Cannes Film Festival, demands a lot of star Lily-Rose Depp. She plays “rags-to-riches, trailers-to-mansions” Jocelyn, a mono-monikered Britney or Miley type who seems empowered one moment, impressionable the next.
Embracing scandal from the outset, “The Idol” opens with Jocelyn mid-photo shoot,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
In the 1970s, no one expected the first "Star Wars" movie to be such a runaway hit, least of all theater exhibitors. Writer-director George Lucas famously shopped around his script to studios like United Artists, Universal Pictures, and even future Lucasfilm owner Disney, according to Vanity Fair, but he couldn't secure financing with any of them. Though Lucas had already earned two Academy Award nominations for his pre-"Star Wars" masterpiece, "American Graffiti," his previous foray into science fiction, "Thx 1138," had fared less successful. It was only 20th Century Fox, led by Alan Ladd Jr. at the time, that was willing to take a chance on Lucas and his space opera.
Getting "Star Wars" made was just the first step for Lucas. Fox had to distribute it next, and as Mental Floss notes, it was afraid the movie would flop if released as part of a packed summer schedule.
Getting "Star Wars" made was just the first step for Lucas. Fox had to distribute it next, and as Mental Floss notes, it was afraid the movie would flop if released as part of a packed summer schedule.
- 5/20/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Morton “Mort” Janklow, a so-called “super agent” whose roster of literary stars included Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Danielle Steele, Judith Krantz, Sidney Sheldon, Ted Turner and Barbara Walters, died Wednesday of heart failure at his home in Water Mill, NY. He died just days before his 92nd birthday.
His death was announced by publicist Paul Bogaards, speaking on behalf of Janklow’s family and his literary agency, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
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“Mort was a beacon of positivity and hope in an uncertain world,” his business partner, Lynn Nesbit, said in a statement. “He radiated optimism and his clients, family, and friends were always leaning on and learning from him as a result. He was a bright light in the publishing world, devoted to his writers and passionate about our business. We will all miss him.” Janklow earned his authors some of the highest advances in publishing history,...
His death was announced by publicist Paul Bogaards, speaking on behalf of Janklow’s family and his literary agency, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
“Mort was a beacon of positivity and hope in an uncertain world,” his business partner, Lynn Nesbit, said in a statement. “He radiated optimism and his clients, family, and friends were always leaning on and learning from him as a result. He was a bright light in the publishing world, devoted to his writers and passionate about our business. We will all miss him.” Janklow earned his authors some of the highest advances in publishing history,...
- 5/26/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Among the 100 top-grossing domestic movie releases, there have been three occasions when two of those films opened on the same weekend.
“Dr. Zhivago” and “Thunderball” shared Christmas 1965; “The Exorcist” and “The Sting” were Christmas 1973. And on Memorial Day Weekend 1977 there was “Smokey and the Bandit”… and “Star Wars.”
George Lucas’ film, of course, is second only to “Gone With the Wind” in tickets sold. But “Smokey” is #79 all-time, grossing $520 million (all figures here adjusted to 2022 values).
And for that first weekend, “Smokey” was actually #1. All-time, it’s a bigger hit than any “Harry Potter” film, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “West Side Story,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” all the “Hunger Games” films, and “Rocky.”
In May 1977, I was in my second year as a film buyer for a local Chicago exhibition chain. At that point, wide releases were not the rule and while Memorial Day was a desirable date, it wasn’t considered summer.
“Dr. Zhivago” and “Thunderball” shared Christmas 1965; “The Exorcist” and “The Sting” were Christmas 1973. And on Memorial Day Weekend 1977 there was “Smokey and the Bandit”… and “Star Wars.”
George Lucas’ film, of course, is second only to “Gone With the Wind” in tickets sold. But “Smokey” is #79 all-time, grossing $520 million (all figures here adjusted to 2022 values).
And for that first weekend, “Smokey” was actually #1. All-time, it’s a bigger hit than any “Harry Potter” film, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “West Side Story,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” all the “Hunger Games” films, and “Rocky.”
In May 1977, I was in my second year as a film buyer for a local Chicago exhibition chain. At that point, wide releases were not the rule and while Memorial Day was a desirable date, it wasn’t considered summer.
- 5/4/2022
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
On top of Rihanna’s myriad other business endeavors — she sings, she’s a cosmetics mogul with her own Fenty Beauty brand, she’s a lingerie tycoon and fashion designer — the “Umbrella” crooner is also a budding real estate mogul, with five multimillion-dollar homes in Los Angeles alone. And if you’ve got an extra $80,000 burning a proverbial hole in your pocket, you could have the honor of calling Rihanna your landlord for a full month.
With five bedrooms and seven bathrooms spread across 7,600 square feet of mansion-sized living space, the Coldwater Canyon mansion is the ideal place for any oligarch to recover from the Covid blues in style. Rihanna purchased the house late last year for $13.8 million, adding to her impressive cache of homes. She also owns the house right next door, picked up in March for $10 million, along with a $6.8 million Hollywood Hills estate, a high-floor condo along the Wilshire Corridor,...
With five bedrooms and seven bathrooms spread across 7,600 square feet of mansion-sized living space, the Coldwater Canyon mansion is the ideal place for any oligarch to recover from the Covid blues in style. Rihanna purchased the house late last year for $13.8 million, adding to her impressive cache of homes. She also owns the house right next door, picked up in March for $10 million, along with a $6.8 million Hollywood Hills estate, a high-floor condo along the Wilshire Corridor,...
- 7/10/2021
- by Wendy Bowman, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Qualifying as one of the most expensive listings in Los Angeles area, the Azria Estate has hit the market for $85 million. At 30,000 square feet, the 60-room house — owned by fashion designer Lubov Azria, wife of the late designer Max Azria, founder of Bcbg Max Azria — sits on three acres and includes 17 bedrooms and 22 baths.
Located at 10250 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, it was originally designed by iconic L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, who in 1923 became the first Black member of the American Institute of Architects and who was known for his grand homes ...
Located at 10250 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, it was originally designed by iconic L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, who in 1923 became the first Black member of the American Institute of Architects and who was known for his grand homes ...
On the surface, Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) is a very successful airline stewardess. The protagonist of HBO Max’s juicy, fun comedy series “The Flight Attendant” lives in New York City and has the primo routes in Europe and in Asia. But she’s also a drunk and quite frankly, a slut. And when she wakes up in bed in her hotel room in Bangkok, she discovers the man she spent the night with who had been her flight is dead with his throat slashed. It’s a delicious eight-season flight with Cuoco and the series earning nominations for the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics Choice honors. And it’s expected to be a shoo-in for multiple Emmy nominations.
Over the decades, flight attendants have been depicted in movies and on TV from a Madonna to a whore and everything in between. Of course, the most...
Over the decades, flight attendants have been depicted in movies and on TV from a Madonna to a whore and everything in between. Of course, the most...
- 6/14/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
MGM’s old-fashioned Irving Berlin musical has superior songs and powerful performances, especially that of Betty Hutton. She gets plenty loud and rambunctious, but it fits the ‘big’ Annie Oakley character. And the talented, under-appreciated Howard Keel really fires up the screen with her in songs like ‘Anything You Can Do.’ The Wac disc contains plenty of George Feltenstein- rescued unused audio material, plus footage … depressing footage … of Judy Garland’s attempt in the leading role. Yep, the show may be PC minefield begging for a Cancel Culture intervention, but if it goes we’ll have to put most of Hollywood film history in a landfill.
Annie Get Your Gun
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 107 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date April 10, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, Mae Clarke, John Mylong, Chief Yowlachie, Evelyn Beresford.
Annie Get Your Gun
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 107 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date April 10, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, Mae Clarke, John Mylong, Chief Yowlachie, Evelyn Beresford.
- 4/20/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Rihanna's beautiful and secluded new mansion presumably makes her feel like she's the only girl in the neighborhood. The 33-year-old Barbados-born pop superstar recently purchased a $13.8 million mansion that rests in an idyllic section of Beverly Hills, according to The Dirt. Sitting behind hedges and gates, along with providing additional privacy due to the sloping nature of the property, the 7,600-square-foot home features a driveway leading to an attached two-car garage. The pad was originally built in 1938 and had been previously owned by novelist Mary Sheldon, daughter of I Dream of Jeanie creator Sidney Sheldon. Mary sold the half-acre property in...
- 3/17/2021
- E! Online
Flix Flashback A film without a hero, but full of manipulative human characters, it is one of the best performances delivered by Mohanlal from his early years.Neelima MenonA movie that achieved cult status, Uyarangalil (1984) directed by IV Sasi and written by Mt Vasudevan Nair delves deep into the twisted psyche of the protagonist — Pk Jayarajan. The movie takes us on a dark journey of crime, guilt and the games people play. A film without a hero, but full of manipulative human characters, it is one of the best performances delivered by Mohanlal from his early years. He is asleep, sprawled next to her, after a night of love-making. The woman wakes up, pulls up her clothes and urges him to get up before their domestic worker arrives. She reminds him of the money he promised which she has to send to her father. He teases her about a former lover.
- 6/20/2020
- by Geetika
- The News Minute
Warning: Do not read this story until you have seen the final episode of “Hollywood.”
For its first six episodes, Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” mixed reality and fiction in its portrait of the movie business in the years after World War II. But there’s a good reason why the final episode is titled “A Hollywood Ending” – because it uses the Oscars of March 1948 to paint a picture of Hollywood growing more tolerant, more open to minorities and gays and more embracing of the kind of films that in reality were nearly impossible to make at the time or for decades later.
Like the ending of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” the episode veers into a kind of wish-fulfillment fiction that is the whole point of its existence.
So we’re not really fact-checking when we look at the show’s depiction of the 20th Academy Awards ceremony.
For its first six episodes, Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” mixed reality and fiction in its portrait of the movie business in the years after World War II. But there’s a good reason why the final episode is titled “A Hollywood Ending” – because it uses the Oscars of March 1948 to paint a picture of Hollywood growing more tolerant, more open to minorities and gays and more embracing of the kind of films that in reality were nearly impossible to make at the time or for decades later.
Like the ending of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” the episode veers into a kind of wish-fulfillment fiction that is the whole point of its existence.
So we’re not really fact-checking when we look at the show’s depiction of the 20th Academy Awards ceremony.
- 5/13/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Columbia Pictures continues development on a big screen remake of the classic 1960's TV sitcom "I Dream Of Jeannie":
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master (and eventual lover).
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' lands far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a foreign-speaking female genie, wearing an enticing harem costume, suddenly materializes, kissing Tony on the lips with devoted passion.
Tony expresses his wish that 'Jeannie' could speak English,...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master (and eventual lover).
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' lands far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a foreign-speaking female genie, wearing an enticing harem costume, suddenly materializes, kissing Tony on the lips with devoted passion.
Tony expresses his wish that 'Jeannie' could speak English,...
- 3/6/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Let's face it, the late Bill Daily — who has passed away at the age of 91 — was never a star. Which is not really as rude a statement as it sounds, because Bill had the much tougher job of being the so-called "second banana" or supporting player who would enter a scene and bring with him an extra jolt of laughter. Never was that more true than when he played Nasa's Major Roger Healey on the '60s classic I Dream of Jeannie, or airline pilot Howard Borden in the '70s hit The Bob Newhart Show. He was born William Edward Daily, Jr. on August 30, 1927 in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and had his entertainment start in stand-up comedy, eventually finding himself on stage in some of the country's bigger comedy clubs. In 1964 he made an appearance on the sitcom Bewitched, which caught the attention of writer/producer Sidney Sheldon,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Closer Weekly
There's no escaping the fact that the 1960s were a time of strange and different things, whether you're talking about society as a whole, or pop culture in the form of music, film, and, in this particular case, Classic TV. High concept shows were everywhere in the '60s, one of them being about a 2,000-year-old genie being rescued by and falling in love with an astronaut — I Dream of Jeannie. Barbara Eden, of course, played the genie (who happened to be named Jeannie) and Larry Hagman (later to achieve much greater fame as Dallas' J.R. Ewing) as the astronaut, Tony Nelson. For five seasons, the show would show the comic misadventures of an empowered female who would do anything to make her "master" (we shudder to write the word now) happy, while he is desperate to present an appearance of normalcy to the outside world in order to protect his career.
- 8/1/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Closer Weekly
Norman Rosemont, an Emmy-winning producer who brought such classics as <em>Carousel</em>, <em>Brigadoon</em>, <em>All Quiet on the Western Front </em>and <em>The Red Badge of Courage </em>to television, has died. He was 93.
Rosemont died April 22 at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, his son, TV producer David A. Rosemont, announced.
Norman Rosemont won an Emmy in 1988 for producing the CBS telefilm <em>The Secret Garden</em>, honored as outstanding children's program, then guided a 2001 sequel for Hallmark Entertainment.
In 1984, Rosemont produced the seven-hour CBS miniseries <em>Master of the Game</em>, based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon and starring Dyan ...
Rosemont died April 22 at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, his son, TV producer David A. Rosemont, announced.
Norman Rosemont won an Emmy in 1988 for producing the CBS telefilm <em>The Secret Garden</em>, honored as outstanding children's program, then guided a 2001 sequel for Hallmark Entertainment.
In 1984, Rosemont produced the seven-hour CBS miniseries <em>Master of the Game</em>, based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon and starring Dyan ...
TV producer Norman Rosemont died April 22 at age 93 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Rosemont worked on multiple projects throughout his career, including “The Secret Garden” and “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
At the 1988 Primetime Emmy Awards, Rosemont accepted the Emmy for outstanding children’s program for his work on the TV movie “The Secret Garden,” which first aired in 1987. “All Quiet on the Western Front” won the 1980 Golden Globe for best motion picture made for television. Before receiving those honors, Rosemont previously produced two Emmys ceremonies in 1977 and 1979.
Rosemont worked as an agent and on Broadway before moving his career to the screen, serving as a press agent and public relations counsel for Samuel Goldwyn. He later became executive vice president and general manager of the Lerner-Loewe organization which produced Broadway shows like “My Fair Lady,” “Gigi,” “Camelot,” and “Brigadoon.”
Transferring his stage talents to the little screen in the 1960s,...
At the 1988 Primetime Emmy Awards, Rosemont accepted the Emmy for outstanding children’s program for his work on the TV movie “The Secret Garden,” which first aired in 1987. “All Quiet on the Western Front” won the 1980 Golden Globe for best motion picture made for television. Before receiving those honors, Rosemont previously produced two Emmys ceremonies in 1977 and 1979.
Rosemont worked as an agent and on Broadway before moving his career to the screen, serving as a press agent and public relations counsel for Samuel Goldwyn. He later became executive vice president and general manager of the Lerner-Loewe organization which produced Broadway shows like “My Fair Lady,” “Gigi,” “Camelot,” and “Brigadoon.”
Transferring his stage talents to the little screen in the 1960s,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
Every festival offers up the possibility of discovering something new — new stars, new films, new shows, new platforms — and this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is no different. Now in its sixteenth year, the New York City-set festival continues to grow and change, while constantly embracing what’s new and what’s next. The 2017 edition of the festival includes plenty of rising names to get excited about, from writers and directors to actors and actual platforms for hot content delivery. Who’s going to change the industry in the coming years? We’ve got some ideas.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 19 – 30. Check out some of the hottest breakouts to watch out for at the fest.
Read More: Tribeca 2017: 14 Must-See Films From This Year’s Festival
Brian Shoaf, writer and director, “Aardvark”
Not much is known about Brian Shoaf, whose IMDb page is currently topped...
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 19 – 30. Check out some of the hottest breakouts to watch out for at the fest.
Read More: Tribeca 2017: 14 Must-See Films From This Year’s Festival
Brian Shoaf, writer and director, “Aardvark”
Not much is known about Brian Shoaf, whose IMDb page is currently topped...
- 4/19/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Coeur D’Alene, Idaho – She was a lesson in duality. One of her most famous roles was as “identical cousins” on “The Patty Duke Show,” and Anna Marie “Patty” Duke also made public her fight with bipolar disorder. She was also a talented actress, winning an Oscar as teenager for “The Miracle Worker.” Ms. Duke passed away on March 29th, 2016, at the age of 69, at her home in Idaho.
Anna Marie Duke (her friends call her “Anna”) became Patty Duke when she was only eight years old. She went on to fame in the role of Helen Keller in the original 1959-61 Broadway run of “The Miracle Worker,” co-starring Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan. The film version (1962) garnered Duke the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the youngest to ever win at the time at age 16. The next year she starred in “The Patty Duke Show,” with its familiar theme song beginning...
Anna Marie Duke (her friends call her “Anna”) became Patty Duke when she was only eight years old. She went on to fame in the role of Helen Keller in the original 1959-61 Broadway run of “The Miracle Worker,” co-starring Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan. The film version (1962) garnered Duke the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the youngest to ever win at the time at age 16. The next year she starred in “The Patty Duke Show,” with its familiar theme song beginning...
- 3/29/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Patty Duke, born on December 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, Queens, died on Tuesday morning March 29, 2016 at age 69, from sepsis from a ruptured intestine. When she started as a child actress in game shows, soap operas and commercials, her stage manager Ethel Ross told her: "Anna Marie is dead; you're Patty now." Patty Duke broke out on Broadway in 1959 in "The Miracle Worker," and went on to earn an Oscar at age 16 (the youngest ever until Tatum O'Neal) for playing the blind deaf mute Helen Keller opposite Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan. Years later she nabbed an Emmy nomination for playing Sullivan opposite Melissa Gilbert in a 1979 TV feature.The same year she won the Oscar, Duke also starred in her own sitcom "The Patty Duke Show" as two-of-a-kind identical cousins, fun American teen Patricia "Patty" Lane and prim and proper Scottish Catherine "Cathy" Lane. Sidney Sheldon developed the show for her, not.
- 3/29/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
This story first appeared in the Dec. 18 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The Force was definitely not with Star Wars in the months leading up to its release over Memorial Day weekend in 1977. Even executives at 20th Century Fox had their doubts. The Other Side of Midnight, based on Sidney Sheldon's potboiler, was supposed to be the studio's big summer hit, while George Lucas' movie was considered the "B track" for theater owners nationwide. In those days, film buyers had to bid blind for titles (trade screenings happened at the
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- 12/9/2015
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...
- 9/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Yesterday news broke that — because nothing dead can ever die — NBC was developing a new take on the 1980s series "Hart to Hart," but, in what does seem like an interesting twist, this version will center on a gay couple. The synopsis, according to Deadline: Written by Christopher Fife (Revenge, Private Practice), based on the Sidney Sheldon-created original, the new "Hart To Hart" is described as a modern and sexy retelling of the classic series that focuses on “by the book” attorney Jonathan Hart and free-spirited investigator Dan Hartman, who must balance the two sides of their life: action-packed crime-solving in the midst of newly found domesticity. Here's the thing: There's already been a reboot of "Hart to Hart," and I don't know how NBC can possibly surpass it. In 2012, Adam Scott began his legendary attempts to create The Greatest Event in Television History for Adult Swim, the first of which was a shot-for-shot.
- 9/16/2015
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Sony TV and producer Carol Mendelsohn are developing a contemporary remake of classic series "Hart to Hart" but to center it around a gay couple.
Sidney Sheldon's original show ran from 1979-1984 and eight further telefilms were produced in the 1990s. The story followed a wealthy couple (Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers) who often acted as amateur detectives.
The new version is described as a modern and sexy retelling which teams attorney Jonathan Hart and free-spirited investigator Dan Hartman who balance action-packed crime-solving with newly found domesticity.
Christopher Fife will pen the project which Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz will executive produce. The show already has a script commitment plus penalty at NBC.
Source: Variety...
Sidney Sheldon's original show ran from 1979-1984 and eight further telefilms were produced in the 1990s. The story followed a wealthy couple (Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers) who often acted as amateur detectives.
The new version is described as a modern and sexy retelling which teams attorney Jonathan Hart and free-spirited investigator Dan Hartman who balance action-packed crime-solving with newly found domesticity.
Christopher Fife will pen the project which Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz will executive produce. The show already has a script commitment plus penalty at NBC.
Source: Variety...
- 9/16/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: The Harts are back, with a twist. NBC has put in development a new take on the 1979 ABC mystery/adventure drama, which starred Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers. The reboot — which revolves around a gay couple — hails from producer Carol Mendelsohn and Sony TV, whose predecessor Columbia Pictures produced the original series with Spelling-Goldberg Prods. Written by Christopher Fife (Revenge, Private Practice), based on the Sidney Sheldon-created original, the…...
- 9/16/2015
- Deadline TV
By Lee Pfeiffer
When it opened in 1970, director Lewis Gilbert's film version of Harold Robbins' best-seller The Adventurers was reviewed by New York Times, which referred to the production as "a spectacular blast-furnace lulu of human waste". Indeed, Gilbert himself said of the film a few years ago that it was "terrible" and that he regretted having been involved with it. With such a reputation, it's no wonder that even retro movie lovers such as myself have never made the effort to watch the movie. However, the Warner Archive has just re-issued Paramounts original DVD release of the film and, upon receiving the screener, I had enough morbid curiosity to give it a try. How, after all, could a film by a major director and featuring a big all-star cast go so completely wrong? The answer is: it didn't. The Adventurers is not high art, but it doesn't...
When it opened in 1970, director Lewis Gilbert's film version of Harold Robbins' best-seller The Adventurers was reviewed by New York Times, which referred to the production as "a spectacular blast-furnace lulu of human waste". Indeed, Gilbert himself said of the film a few years ago that it was "terrible" and that he regretted having been involved with it. With such a reputation, it's no wonder that even retro movie lovers such as myself have never made the effort to watch the movie. However, the Warner Archive has just re-issued Paramounts original DVD release of the film and, upon receiving the screener, I had enough morbid curiosity to give it a try. How, after all, could a film by a major director and featuring a big all-star cast go so completely wrong? The answer is: it didn't. The Adventurers is not high art, but it doesn't...
- 11/4/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
There is little love from the critics and minimal interest from audiences in the Us for Adoration, the Australian romantic drama starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as best friends who end up bonking each other.s teenage sons.
The first English-language feature from French director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, The Girl From Monaco), the film opened on 57 screens in 23 Us cities last weekend.
Renamed Adore in the Us, it took $US125,000 in three days, for a paltry per-screen average of $2,200.
Judging by those figures and the barrage of bad reviews, eOne Hopscotch faces a marketing challenge when it launches the film in Oz in November.
Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay based on the Doris Lessing novella The Grandmothers. The cast includes James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel as the sons plus Gary Sweet, Ben Mendelsohn and Sophie Lowe.
The buzz on the movie hasn.t been great since it...
The first English-language feature from French director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, The Girl From Monaco), the film opened on 57 screens in 23 Us cities last weekend.
Renamed Adore in the Us, it took $US125,000 in three days, for a paltry per-screen average of $2,200.
Judging by those figures and the barrage of bad reviews, eOne Hopscotch faces a marketing challenge when it launches the film in Oz in November.
Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay based on the Doris Lessing novella The Grandmothers. The cast includes James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel as the sons plus Gary Sweet, Ben Mendelsohn and Sophie Lowe.
The buzz on the movie hasn.t been great since it...
- 9/8/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
What makes a great beach read? Romance, escape, and high odds for a happy ending - plus enough suspense to keep those pages breezily turning. Share your thoughts on the novels we'll be losing ourselves in this Memorial Day - and let us know what you're reading. Julie Dam, Assistant Managing Editor Her Pick: Pastors' Wives by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen I have two little kids so my reading list is usually in the Maisy and Pinkalicious vein. But this holiday weekend I'm digging into Pastors' Wives, a lively, funny novel set at a Southern evangelical megachurch. Even for non-religious readers...
- 5/23/2013
- PEOPLE.com
Bryan Forbes dies at 86: Directed Katharine Hepburn, Leslie Caron, the original The Stepford Wives Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the all-star The Madwoman of Chaillot, and the original The Stepford Wives, has died "after a long illness" at his home in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. Forbes was 86. Born John Theobald Clarke on July 22, 1926, in London, Bryan Forbes began his film career as an actor in supporting roles in British productions of the late 1940s, e.g., Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Small Back Room / Hour of Glory and Thornton Freeland’s Dear Mr. Prohack. Another twenty or so movie roles followed in the ’50s, including those in Ronald Neame’s The Million Pound Note / Man with a Million (1954), supporting Gregory Peck, and Carol Reed’s The Key (1958), supporting Sophia Loren and William Holden. Bryan Forbes director Despite his relatively prolific output in the previous decade,...
- 5/9/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
While Columbia Pictures continues development on a big screen remake of the classic 1960's TV sitcom "I Dream Of Jeannie", Sneak Peek the original TV pilot from the series, titled "The Lady In The Bottle".
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master (and eventual lover), for episodic directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a foreign-speaking female genie,...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master (and eventual lover), for episodic directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a foreign-speaking female genie,...
- 4/6/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Classic TV sitcom "I Dream Of Jeannie" star Barbara Eden remembers co-star Larry Hagman: He was a 'wonderful rascal.' The series ran from 1965-1970. Executive Producer Sidney Sheldon didn't want a blonde actress to play Jeannie (competitor series "Bewitched" featured Samantha, a blonde witch) Barbara Eden, a blonde, impressed Sheldon so much he changed his course. Barbara Eden shares fond memories of her "I Dream of Jeannie" co-star Larry Hagman. Why does she refer to him as a "wonderful rascal"? Plus, she explains why she thinks he was so good in his role on "Dallas."...
- 12/4/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Deborah Raffin, who had brief but successful careers both as an actress - 7th Heaven, among other shows - and a book publisher, died of leukemia last Wednesday, a family member told the Los Angeles Times. Raffin was 59 and reportedly had battled the disease for about a year. Starting out, the blonde Californian was often compared to the young Grace Kelly, People noted in a 1979 profile. Her mother, Trudy Marshall, had been a bit player for 20th Century Fox in the '40s, and her father was a wealthy meat broker. When Raffin was a sophomore at Valley College in Van Nuys,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Sneak Peek the entire TV pilot for the classic 1960's TV sitcom, "I Dream Of Jeannie", starring late actor Larry Hagman who previous to starring as 'Jr. Ewing' on "Dallas", memorably played astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson' in the fantasy comedy series.
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" co-starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie'.
In the pilot titled "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson', Us Air Force, is on a space flight when his capsule 'Stardust One' splashes down far from the recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the island, buried in the sand, Nelson discovers a strange bottle with a sexy female genie inside. Nelson befriends 'Jeannie', eventually becoming her 'master' and 'lover'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Lady In The Bottle", the original TV pilot...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" co-starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie'.
In the pilot titled "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson', Us Air Force, is on a space flight when his capsule 'Stardust One' splashes down far from the recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the island, buried in the sand, Nelson discovers a strange bottle with a sexy female genie inside. Nelson befriends 'Jeannie', eventually becoming her 'master' and 'lover'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Lady In The Bottle", the original TV pilot...
- 11/26/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sony's Columbia Pictures continues to develop a big screen adaptation of the classic 1960's TV sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie".
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and lover.
In the pilot"The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his capsule 'Stardust One' lands far from the recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific, where he discovers a bottle with a sexy female genie inside.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the original TV pilot episode of "I Dream Of Jeannie"...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and lover.
In the pilot"The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his capsule 'Stardust One' lands far from the recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific, where he discovers a bottle with a sexy female genie inside.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the original TV pilot episode of "I Dream Of Jeannie"...
- 8/26/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
William Asher, the prolific writer-director of such groundbreaking TV sitcoms as I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Gidget and Our Miss Brooks, died today in Palm Springs, according to local reports. He was 90. Asher’s first gig in the beginning days of TV was adapting his short stories for the anthology series Invitation Playhouse, which he also directed. In the early 1950s, CBS asked him to shoot a pilot starring movie actress Eve Arden that became Our Miss Brooks. (When the network came calling for the gig, according to Asher in a later interview, he asked, “What did a television director do”?) He soon was hired to try his hand on another sitcom that was struggling in its first season, I Love Lucy. He went on to direct more than 100 episodes of the series. He eventually worked with pretty much every TV legend-to-be there was from Danny Thomas to Dinah Shore to Sally Field,...
- 7/17/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Columbia Pictures continues to develop a big screen adaptation of the classic 1960's TV sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie".
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and lover.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a Persian-speaking female genie (wearing an enticing harem costume) materializes, kissing Tony on the lips with passion.
Tony expresses his wish that 'Jeannie' could speak English,...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and lover.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a Persian-speaking female genie (wearing an enticing harem costume) materializes, kissing Tony on the lips with passion.
Tony expresses his wish that 'Jeannie' could speak English,...
- 4/14/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
According to studio reports, Columbia Pictures wants Emmy Award winning actress Katherine Heigl ("Grey's Anatomy") to star in a big screen remake of the classic 1960's TV sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie".
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master (and eventual lover), for directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a Persian-speaking female...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master (and eventual lover), for directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a Persian-speaking female...
- 8/1/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Turner Classic Movies' look at Arabs in Hollywood movies continues this evening with six movies. Why exactly Gabriel Pascal's film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) is one of the six, I don't know. Caesar was a Roman-born emperor; Cleopatra, a descendant of Greek royalty, was an Egyptian queen long before the Arab conquest of Egypt. Now, I may be puzzled about its inclusion, but Caesar and Cleopatra is very much worth watching chiefly thanks to Claude Rains' brilliant performance as the first half of the title role and Vivien Leigh's highly theatrical but enjoyable star turn as the second half of the title role. Kismet (1944) would have been more enjoyable had it been directed by Henry Hathaway, Michael Curtiz, Frank Lloyd, or even Lloyd Bacon. William Dieterle, best known for several ponderous Warner Bros. biopics of the '30s, had a heavy hand...
- 7/20/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
British citizens enjoy a generous 5.6 weeks of legally protected paid vacation every year, but they're no longer using their time to kick back with a stack of sandy best-sellers on the beach. Instead, they're glued to smartphone, tablets, and computers to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, and other social media and news sites, according to a new survey by luxury holidays specialist Cox & Kings. "Getting away from it all" has morphed into "taking it all with you."
Cox & Kings's survey of British vacationers showed that 73% of them use "some sort" of tech while on vacation. Only 6% of those use their devices to perform work-related tasks like office email or checking in with coworkers (perhaps heralding the end of our obsession with the Crackberry). Instead, they're using their devices for leisure: Over 30% of those surveyed used Facebook and Twitter while on vacation. This last bit is gender-skewed too, with more women...
Cox & Kings's survey of British vacationers showed that 73% of them use "some sort" of tech while on vacation. Only 6% of those use their devices to perform work-related tasks like office email or checking in with coworkers (perhaps heralding the end of our obsession with the Crackberry). Instead, they're using their devices for leisure: Over 30% of those surveyed used Facebook and Twitter while on vacation. This last bit is gender-skewed too, with more women...
- 7/18/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Marie-France Pisier, the stunning actress who launched her career as go-to gal for the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var, France on Sunday, April 24. She was 66 years old.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Mme Pisier appeared in seminal films of the Nouvelle Vague by Francois Truffaut (Love on the Run, Stolen Kisses), Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Andrew Techine (1969’s Pauline is Leaving, Techine’s first film). She became a staple in French cinema and television over the years, appearing in dozens of TV and film productions, including the international cross-over comedy Cousin Cousine. She even did a little slumming in Hollywood, popping up in such silly fare as French Postcards and the high-trashy TV miniseries Scruples.
A hardworking career actor, Mme. Pisier was seen most recently in the 2009 French TV legal drama Les Chasseur.
Much of Marie-France Pisier’s movie canon...
Beginning in the early 1960s, Mme Pisier appeared in seminal films of the Nouvelle Vague by Francois Truffaut (Love on the Run, Stolen Kisses), Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Andrew Techine (1969’s Pauline is Leaving, Techine’s first film). She became a staple in French cinema and television over the years, appearing in dozens of TV and film productions, including the international cross-over comedy Cousin Cousine. She even did a little slumming in Hollywood, popping up in such silly fare as French Postcards and the high-trashy TV miniseries Scruples.
A hardworking career actor, Mme. Pisier was seen most recently in the 2009 French TV legal drama Les Chasseur.
Much of Marie-France Pisier’s movie canon...
- 4/28/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Le Point and L'Express are among the French news outlets reporting that Marie-France Pisier has died at her home in Saint Cyr sur Mer at the age of 66. First mention is generally going to her work with François Truffaut; her debut, after all, was in his Antoine and Colette, a short film that was part of the 1962 anthology Love at Twenty and she would reprise the role in Stolen Kisses (1968) and Love on the Run (1979). The film many will be thinking of today, though, is Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974). In 1981, Julia Lesage described her role in the film's development: "Script credit is given to Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, and Jacques Rivette…. According to Berto, she and Labourier imagined creating a combination of Persona and What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? in a film with two female protagonists. Berto said, 'Each...
- 4/26/2011
- MUBI
British-born director known for Anne of the Thousand Days and Mary, Queen of Scots
The film and television director Charles Jarrott, who has died of cancer aged 83, began his career during a golden period of British TV drama, working on Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play in the 1960s alongside writers and directors such as Ken Loach, Dennis Potter and David Mercer. Both series were presided over by the Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who encouraged original work – what he called "agitational contemporaneity" – and had an astonishing impact. But in 1969 Jarrott's career took a different turn when he left for Hollywood, thereby increasing his income a hundredfold, while having to contend with far less adventurous material. His best films were his first, two Elizabethan costume dramas, Anne of the Thousand Days and Mary, Queen of Scots, enlivened by the Oscar-nominated performances of Richard Burton (Henry VIII), Geneviève Bujold (Anne Boleyn) and...
The film and television director Charles Jarrott, who has died of cancer aged 83, began his career during a golden period of British TV drama, working on Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play in the 1960s alongside writers and directors such as Ken Loach, Dennis Potter and David Mercer. Both series were presided over by the Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who encouraged original work – what he called "agitational contemporaneity" – and had an astonishing impact. But in 1969 Jarrott's career took a different turn when he left for Hollywood, thereby increasing his income a hundredfold, while having to contend with far less adventurous material. His best films were his first, two Elizabethan costume dramas, Anne of the Thousand Days and Mary, Queen of Scots, enlivened by the Oscar-nominated performances of Richard Burton (Henry VIII), Geneviève Bujold (Anne Boleyn) and...
- 3/7/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – In one of the most famous TV openings in the medium’s history, “identical cousins,” Patty and Cathy Lane, were introduced. Those two ends of one person were played by Patty Duke, a previous Oscar winner for “The Miracle Worker” and subsequent stellar acting career. Ironically, she also fought bipolar disorder.
Anna Marie Duke (her friends call her “Anna”) became Patty Duke after two unscrupulous show business managers took over her affairs and life when she was only eight years old. She went on to fame in the role of Helen Keller in the original 1959-61 Broadway run of “The Miracle Worker,” co-starring Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan. The film version (1962) garnered Duke the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the youngest to ever win at the time at age 16.
Anna Marie: Patty Duke Before She Introduced ‘Valley of the Dolls’ at the Music Box Theater, Chicago, November 20th, 2010
Photo credit: Joe Arce,...
Anna Marie Duke (her friends call her “Anna”) became Patty Duke after two unscrupulous show business managers took over her affairs and life when she was only eight years old. She went on to fame in the role of Helen Keller in the original 1959-61 Broadway run of “The Miracle Worker,” co-starring Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan. The film version (1962) garnered Duke the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the youngest to ever win at the time at age 16.
Anna Marie: Patty Duke Before She Introduced ‘Valley of the Dolls’ at the Music Box Theater, Chicago, November 20th, 2010
Photo credit: Joe Arce,...
- 12/15/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Is there really such a thing as writers' block? For some like John Updike, John Grisham, Stephen King, Sidney Sheldon, and Harold Robbins, there is probably no such thing given their ability to churn out books and magazine articles annually. Others, perhaps even those who write more serious novels, are not so lucky and must depend on inspiration. One way to gain inspiration is to hang out at a writers' retreat in Vermont or Chesapeake Bay, Virginia as examples, where you get together with others in your profession in the peace and quiet of a bucolic environment. This is exactly what a number of authors and would-be writers do in "Tamara Drewe," directed by Stephen Frears ("The Queen") and adapted from Posy Simmonds's graphic novel by Moira Buffini. What they find there, given the numbers of affairs that take place amid fights and others surprises that interrupt the silence of the landscape,...
- 9/8/2010
- Arizona Reporter
According to reports, Columbia Pictures has hired writer Sheila Callaghan ("United States of Tara") to write a new screenplay for the upcoming fantasy feature "I Dream of Jeannie", based on the 1960's sitcom.
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and eventual lover, for episodic directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a...
Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and eventual lover, for episodic directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.
In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.
On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a...
- 4/22/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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