Christy Carlson Romano is a mom to her own little Beauty!
The Disney Channel alum, famous also for her turn as Belle in Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, has welcomed her first child, she confirms to People exclusively. Isabella Victoria Rooney came into the world on Saturday, Dec. 24, in Los Angeles. Born around 4 p.m., the baby girl measured 21 inches long and weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz.
“Joy doesn’t begin to express how we feel this Christmas!” Romano, 32, tells People. “Isabella is the greatest thing to ever happen to us and we are truly grateful to all those who have...
The Disney Channel alum, famous also for her turn as Belle in Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, has welcomed her first child, she confirms to People exclusively. Isabella Victoria Rooney came into the world on Saturday, Dec. 24, in Los Angeles. Born around 4 p.m., the baby girl measured 21 inches long and weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz.
“Joy doesn’t begin to express how we feel this Christmas!” Romano, 32, tells People. “Isabella is the greatest thing to ever happen to us and we are truly grateful to all those who have...
- 12/26/2016
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
It looks like Travis Barker‘s apples didn’t fall far from the tree!
Alabama Luella Barker — daughter of the Blink-182 drummer — recently released a brand-new music video where she covers “Blue Christmas.” As she showcases her talented pipes through the song made famous by Elvis Presley, brother Landon Asher rocks out on the drums.
“I was going for a snow princess look with silver nails,” Alabama, who turns 11 on Christmas Eve, tells People exclusively about her experience recording one of her favorite Christmas songs and its snowy-themed video accompaniment.
“It was really exciting recording together and watching him play...
Alabama Luella Barker — daughter of the Blink-182 drummer — recently released a brand-new music video where she covers “Blue Christmas.” As she showcases her talented pipes through the song made famous by Elvis Presley, brother Landon Asher rocks out on the drums.
“I was going for a snow princess look with silver nails,” Alabama, who turns 11 on Christmas Eve, tells People exclusively about her experience recording one of her favorite Christmas songs and its snowy-themed video accompaniment.
“It was really exciting recording together and watching him play...
- 12/23/2016
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
Blu-ray and Digital Release Date: Oct. 15, 2013
Price: Blu-ray $49.99
Studio: Warner Home Video
Filmmaker Oliver Stone (Savages) looks at little-known 20th century events that shaped the history of America in the Showtime documentary series The Untold History of the United States.
For the TV show, Stone partnered with co-writers Matt Graham and Peter Kuznick, the American University Associate Professor of History and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute. The team drew on archival findings from around the world and declassified material to look at human events that went under-reported at their time. The Untold History looks at the period from the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War, the fall of Communism and today’s society.
The television series is told in 10 chapters, but the four Blu-ray discs also contain two unaired chapters and a companion documentary featuring Stone and author, philosopher, activist Tariq Ali, who worked with Stone on...
Price: Blu-ray $49.99
Studio: Warner Home Video
Filmmaker Oliver Stone (Savages) looks at little-known 20th century events that shaped the history of America in the Showtime documentary series The Untold History of the United States.
For the TV show, Stone partnered with co-writers Matt Graham and Peter Kuznick, the American University Associate Professor of History and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute. The team drew on archival findings from around the world and declassified material to look at human events that went under-reported at their time. The Untold History looks at the period from the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War, the fall of Communism and today’s society.
The television series is told in 10 chapters, but the four Blu-ray discs also contain two unaired chapters and a companion documentary featuring Stone and author, philosopher, activist Tariq Ali, who worked with Stone on...
- 8/16/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Oliver Stone's alternative history is an easy target for rightwing critics but is solid, thought-provoking and full of terrific archive material
Reactions to film director Oliver Stone's ambitious attempt to reinterpret America's postwar history tended to divide along strictly ideological lines. The left welcomed it – the Guardian's wave-making correspondent Glenn Greenwald tweeted: "You may not agree with all, but the series is provocative and worthwhile." The right despised it – neocon historian Ronald Radosh said it was "mendacious" and a "mindless regurgitation of Stalin's propaganda".
Stone, in his folksy introduction to the series that was shown on CBS's Showtime channel in the Us in autumn 2012 and on Sky Atlantic in the UK in spring 2013, says he made it for his children. They were getting as one-sided a view of American history as he got – "We were the centre of the world, there was a manifest destiny, we were the...
Reactions to film director Oliver Stone's ambitious attempt to reinterpret America's postwar history tended to divide along strictly ideological lines. The left welcomed it – the Guardian's wave-making correspondent Glenn Greenwald tweeted: "You may not agree with all, but the series is provocative and worthwhile." The right despised it – neocon historian Ronald Radosh said it was "mendacious" and a "mindless regurgitation of Stalin's propaganda".
Stone, in his folksy introduction to the series that was shown on CBS's Showtime channel in the Us in autumn 2012 and on Sky Atlantic in the UK in spring 2013, says he made it for his children. They were getting as one-sided a view of American history as he got – "We were the centre of the world, there was a manifest destiny, we were the...
- 7/11/2013
- by Stephen Moss
- The Guardian - Film News
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of Us history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing...
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing...
- 4/15/2013
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Oliver Stone's "Untold History of the United States," premiering Monday, Nov. 12, on Showtime, is bound to antagonize and infuriate.
The exceptionally well-done 10-part documentary series is also bound to enlighten and engage.
Ultimately, the Academy Award-winning director wants it to spur people to think differently, to look at interpretations long taken for granted and consider if they are indeed facts. This tackles subjects we assume we know and looks at them from a completely different perspective, a perspective that is not all about flag waving and chanting "U-s-a."
Before anyone challenges Stone's patriotism, remember he is a decorated Vietnam War veteran who enlisted in the Army. He won Oscars for his searing movies about war.
His colleague in the documentary and book of the same title is Peter Kuznick, a professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University.
Both men meet with Zap2it...
The exceptionally well-done 10-part documentary series is also bound to enlighten and engage.
Ultimately, the Academy Award-winning director wants it to spur people to think differently, to look at interpretations long taken for granted and consider if they are indeed facts. This tackles subjects we assume we know and looks at them from a completely different perspective, a perspective that is not all about flag waving and chanting "U-s-a."
Before anyone challenges Stone's patriotism, remember he is a decorated Vietnam War veteran who enlisted in the Army. He won Oscars for his searing movies about war.
His colleague in the documentary and book of the same title is Peter Kuznick, a professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University.
Both men meet with Zap2it...
- 11/12/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
With his latest film Savages, the acclaimed Us director turns his vision to the murderous narcotics-fuelled conflict in Mexico
A man steps across the floor of what seems to be a basement or dungeon, on a film shot by a wobbly, handheld camera. Blood, sticky underfoot, runs beneath his boots – and the camera catches what seems to be a severed head. The scene is being played on a computer screen, watched by an intense young man, transfixed. A beautiful girl looks also, over his shoulder. "Is that Iraq?", she asks, squirming at the degenerate and apparently gratuitous cruelty. "Mexico," replies the man with a grunt, clearly terrified himself. Welcome to the latest film by Hollywood's – even America's – heretic-in-chief, Oliver Stone. Unsurprisingly, this brief exchange is charged with greater meaning than it appears at first sight, and the film's director has come to elaborate.
The physical presence of Oliver Stone is...
A man steps across the floor of what seems to be a basement or dungeon, on a film shot by a wobbly, handheld camera. Blood, sticky underfoot, runs beneath his boots – and the camera catches what seems to be a severed head. The scene is being played on a computer screen, watched by an intense young man, transfixed. A beautiful girl looks also, over his shoulder. "Is that Iraq?", she asks, squirming at the degenerate and apparently gratuitous cruelty. "Mexico," replies the man with a grunt, clearly terrified himself. Welcome to the latest film by Hollywood's – even America's – heretic-in-chief, Oliver Stone. Unsurprisingly, this brief exchange is charged with greater meaning than it appears at first sight, and the film's director has come to elaborate.
The physical presence of Oliver Stone is...
- 9/24/2012
- by Ed Vulliamy
- The Guardian - Film News
The New York Film Festival will screen the first three chapters of Oliver Stone's 10-part documentary project, The Untold History of the United States, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which presents the festival, announced Monday. The episodes to be presented from the mini-series, which will air on Showtime in 2012, focus on events leading up to World War II, the war itself and former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace. Photos: THR's Todd McCarthy Ranks Oliver Stone's Movies The festival, which runs from Sept. 28-Oct. 14, also will present special Masterworks anniversary screenings of Disney's Snow
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- 8/20/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 49th New York Film Festival has announced their Masterworks and Special Anniversary screenings that will show between the festival’s seventeen days, September 30th – October 16th. The Masterworks program and the festival’s additional programming will provide audiences with exciting opportunities to explore new film-making styles and storytelling events. To learn more about the Masterworks and Anniversary films, please check out below for full synopsis and details.
Masterworks And Special Anniversary Screenings
Masterworks: The Gold Rush
Chaplin’s personal favorite among his own films, The Gold Rush (1925), is a beautifully constructed comic fable of fate and perseverance, set in the icy wastes of the Alaskan gold fields. Re-released by Chaplin in 1942 in a recut version missing some scenes, and with added narration and musical score, The Gold Rush will be presented in a new restoration of the original, silent 1925 version. In this frequently terrifying and always unpredictable universe of...
Masterworks And Special Anniversary Screenings
Masterworks: The Gold Rush
Chaplin’s personal favorite among his own films, The Gold Rush (1925), is a beautifully constructed comic fable of fate and perseverance, set in the icy wastes of the Alaskan gold fields. Re-released by Chaplin in 1942 in a recut version missing some scenes, and with added narration and musical score, The Gold Rush will be presented in a new restoration of the original, silent 1925 version. In this frequently terrifying and always unpredictable universe of...
- 8/28/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Lincoln trounced his erstwhile Civil War general, George McClellan; Truman dispatched his former commerce secretary, Henry Wallace; and now Obama is looking to do the same in 2012 against his outgoing China ambassador. Jill Lawrence on why Jon Huntsman thinks he can beat the odds-and his boss.
Running against the boss has been rare in presidential history, and it hasn't ended well. Think George McClellan against Abraham Lincoln, or Henry Wallace against Harry Truman. Now Jon Huntsman is preparing to give it a try.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
Huntsman, 51, is about to make a lightning-fast transformation from President Obama's employee to his potential rival. His resignation as U.S. ambassador to China takes effect Saturday. On Monday he will plunge into meetings with the advisers who, without his input, have been laying groundwork for a race for the Republican nomination. His travel schedule...
Running against the boss has been rare in presidential history, and it hasn't ended well. Think George McClellan against Abraham Lincoln, or Henry Wallace against Harry Truman. Now Jon Huntsman is preparing to give it a try.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
Huntsman, 51, is about to make a lightning-fast transformation from President Obama's employee to his potential rival. His resignation as U.S. ambassador to China takes effect Saturday. On Monday he will plunge into meetings with the advisers who, without his input, have been laying groundwork for a race for the Republican nomination. His travel schedule...
- 4/30/2011
- by Jill Lawrence
- The Daily Beast
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