To anyone who doubts that every vote matters, we offer the following proof: Journey are in the Library of Congress.
Today, the Library of Congress announces its list of 25 recordings chosen for the National Recording Registry. The genres represented by albums include girl group pop (the Shirelles’ Tonight’s the Night), mature boomer pop (Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time), world music produced or performed by classic rockers (Linda Ronstadt’s Canciones De Mi Padre set of Mexican music and the Ry Cooder-produced Buena Vista Social Club), jazz (Duke Ellington...
Today, the Library of Congress announces its list of 25 recordings chosen for the National Recording Registry. The genres represented by albums include girl group pop (the Shirelles’ Tonight’s the Night), mature boomer pop (Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time), world music produced or performed by classic rockers (Linda Ronstadt’s Canciones De Mi Padre set of Mexican music and the Ry Cooder-produced Buena Vista Social Club), jazz (Duke Ellington...
- 4/13/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Will Ferrell assumes his alter ego behind the anchors' desk of a local newscast, as part of press tour for Anchorman 2
Television viewers in Bismarck, North Dakota, were treated to a class act this weekend when the great Ron Burgundy read them the news.
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell reprised his Anchorman role for Kxmb's Saturday night news broadcast. The former Saturday Night Live star is promoting Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, a sequel to the 2004 film about a fictional news team's sexist reaction to the arrival of an ambitious female reporter.
Dressed in his signature rust-colored, three-piece suit and a striped tie, Ferrell read stories off the teleprompter, punctuated his delivery with exaggerated eye blinks and engaged in witty banter with weekend anchor Amber Schatz and the rest of the Bismarck news team.
Schatz said she has watched the original Anchorman about 30 times, and the hardest part of...
Television viewers in Bismarck, North Dakota, were treated to a class act this weekend when the great Ron Burgundy read them the news.
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell reprised his Anchorman role for Kxmb's Saturday night news broadcast. The former Saturday Night Live star is promoting Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, a sequel to the 2004 film about a fictional news team's sexist reaction to the arrival of an ambitious female reporter.
Dressed in his signature rust-colored, three-piece suit and a striped tie, Ferrell read stories off the teleprompter, punctuated his delivery with exaggerated eye blinks and engaged in witty banter with weekend anchor Amber Schatz and the rest of the Bismarck news team.
Schatz said she has watched the original Anchorman about 30 times, and the hardest part of...
- 12/1/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Bette Davis outdoes Joan Crawford in the slapping department in the 1956 drama Storm Center, in which Davis plays a librarian concerned about civil liberties Following the lead of Time Warner, Sony Pictures has started the distribution of on-demand DVDs of rare (or somewhat rare) classics and not-so-classics found in its library. Columbia Classics has yet to offer Bette Davis in The Menace, Jean Arthur in The Most Precious Thing in Life, or Melvyn Douglas in The Lone Wolf Returns, but among their dozens of releases are a number of goodies. For instance: 10 Rillington Place (1970), Richard Fleischer's psychological study of a serial killer played by Richard Attenborough. Address Unknown (1944), directed by (mostly) art director William Cameron Menzies (Oscar winner for Gone with the Wind), and starring Paul Lukas (Best Actor Oscar winner for Warners' Watch on the Rhine). Jack Clayton's British drama The Pumpkin Eater (1964), starring Peter Finch, [...]...
- 10/26/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Us actor known for his memorable lines in Marty and Chinatown
The career of actor Joe Mantell, who has died aged 94, could be said to have existed between two memorable lines of dialogue in two movies almost 20 years apart. Neither are great lines in themselves, but the way Mantell delivers them, and their importance as part of the ethos of the two contrasting films, allowed them entry into the lexicon of popular culture. In Marty (1955), Mantell, as Angie, keeps asking his best friend, Marty (Oscar-winning Ernest Borgnine) in a broad Brooklyn accent: "Well, what do you feel like doin' tonight?" only to get the reply: "I don't know, what do you feel like doin' tonight?" and so on. This riff was picked up by a generation.
In Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Mantell as Larry Walsh utters the film's final enigmatic line as he leads his associate, devastated private eye Jj...
The career of actor Joe Mantell, who has died aged 94, could be said to have existed between two memorable lines of dialogue in two movies almost 20 years apart. Neither are great lines in themselves, but the way Mantell delivers them, and their importance as part of the ethos of the two contrasting films, allowed them entry into the lexicon of popular culture. In Marty (1955), Mantell, as Angie, keeps asking his best friend, Marty (Oscar-winning Ernest Borgnine) in a broad Brooklyn accent: "Well, what do you feel like doin' tonight?" only to get the reply: "I don't know, what do you feel like doin' tonight?" and so on. This riff was picked up by a generation.
In Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Mantell as Larry Walsh utters the film's final enigmatic line as he leads his associate, devastated private eye Jj...
- 10/12/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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