Victor J. Kemper, the veteran cinematographer who shot more than 50 features, including Dog Day Afternoon, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Jerk and Slap Shot, has died. He was 96.
Kemper died Monday of natural causes in Sherman Oaks, his son, Steven Kemper, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Kemper earned his inaugural D.P. credit on Husbands (1970), written and directed by John Cassavetes, then shot Elia Kazan’s final feature, The Last Tycoon (1976) and Tim Burton’s first, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985).
Kemper also did six films for director Arthur Hiller — The Tiger Makes Out (1967), The Hospital (1971), Author! Author! (1982), The Lonely Guy (1984), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Married to It (1991) — and three in a row for Carl Reiner: Oh God! (1977), The One and Only (1978) and The Jerk (1979).
The New Jersey native said he had to wear ice skates when he photographed the hockey scenes in George Roy Hill’s Slap Shot (1977) and...
Kemper died Monday of natural causes in Sherman Oaks, his son, Steven Kemper, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Kemper earned his inaugural D.P. credit on Husbands (1970), written and directed by John Cassavetes, then shot Elia Kazan’s final feature, The Last Tycoon (1976) and Tim Burton’s first, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985).
Kemper also did six films for director Arthur Hiller — The Tiger Makes Out (1967), The Hospital (1971), Author! Author! (1982), The Lonely Guy (1984), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Married to It (1991) — and three in a row for Carl Reiner: Oh God! (1977), The One and Only (1978) and The Jerk (1979).
The New Jersey native said he had to wear ice skates when he photographed the hockey scenes in George Roy Hill’s Slap Shot (1977) and...
- 11/29/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first time I saw Alan Arkin onscreen, he scared the hell out of me.
The veteran Academy Award-winning actor, who died Thursday at the age of 89, is best known these days for his wittily avuncular presence in films like Little Miss Sunshine and such television shows as The Kominsky Method, his last great acting role. But my first exposure to him came in middle school, where for some inexplicable reason the powers that be decided that treating the entire student body to a screening of the film Wait Until Dark was a good idea.
In that classic 1967 thriller, Arkin played Harry Roat, the most sadistic member of a trio of villains terrorizing a blind Audrey Hepburn because they think she possesses a doll filled with heroin. In a climactic scene set in almost near-darkness, a seemingly dead Roat suddenly jumps into the frame and grabs Hepburn by the leg.
The veteran Academy Award-winning actor, who died Thursday at the age of 89, is best known these days for his wittily avuncular presence in films like Little Miss Sunshine and such television shows as The Kominsky Method, his last great acting role. But my first exposure to him came in middle school, where for some inexplicable reason the powers that be decided that treating the entire student body to a screening of the film Wait Until Dark was a good idea.
In that classic 1967 thriller, Arkin played Harry Roat, the most sadistic member of a trio of villains terrorizing a blind Audrey Hepburn because they think she possesses a doll filled with heroin. In a climactic scene set in almost near-darkness, a seemingly dead Roat suddenly jumps into the frame and grabs Hepburn by the leg.
- 6/30/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – As a TV and Movie Star, Sally Kellerman may not be a household name, but as an influencer in the “New American Cinema” of the 1970s she was everywhere. In addition, her TV appearances in the 1960s featured a variety of roles in many of the iconic series of the era, including the original “Star Trek.” She’s probably best known for her movie role as Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in ‘Mash’ (1970), for which she scored an Oscar nomination. Kellerman died on February 24th, 2022, at age 84.
Sally Claire Kellerman was born in Long Beach, California, and attended Hollywood High School, where her singing voice got noticed by Verve Records … but at the time she was too shy to take the offer. She took on acting classes from noted instructor Jeff Corey in Los Angeles, with classmates like Jack Nicholson and Dean Stockwell. Her first film role was in...
Sally Claire Kellerman was born in Long Beach, California, and attended Hollywood High School, where her singing voice got noticed by Verve Records … but at the time she was too shy to take the offer. She took on acting classes from noted instructor Jeff Corey in Los Angeles, with classmates like Jack Nicholson and Dean Stockwell. Her first film role was in...
- 3/1/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
For all its inclusion of raunchy dialogue, seriocomic carnality, and oral sex (implied to be happening beneath a strategically placed bedsheet), there is something oddly quaint about “The Unicorn,” director Robert Schwartzman’s lightly amusing trifle about two long-engaged millennials who contemplate a walk on the wild side — specifically, a threesome with another man or woman — before forging marital ties.
In terms of structure, predictability, and ultimate payoff, the film resembles nothing so much as the formulaic risqué farces that once provided gainful employment for faded TV and movie stars in dinner theaters decades ago. On the plus side, however, lead players Lauren Lapkus and co-scripter Nick Rutherford are amply engaging and sympathetic, even when the behavior of their characters is cringe-worthy embarrassing. No, never mind: Make that especially when those characters are humiliating themselves for our enjoyment.
Malory (Lapkus) and Caleb (Rutherford) — or, as they call each other, Mal...
In terms of structure, predictability, and ultimate payoff, the film resembles nothing so much as the formulaic risqué farces that once provided gainful employment for faded TV and movie stars in dinner theaters decades ago. On the plus side, however, lead players Lauren Lapkus and co-scripter Nick Rutherford are amply engaging and sympathetic, even when the behavior of their characters is cringe-worthy embarrassing. No, never mind: Make that especially when those characters are humiliating themselves for our enjoyment.
Malory (Lapkus) and Caleb (Rutherford) — or, as they call each other, Mal...
- 1/31/2019
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
The one and only new girl in town, Tony Award winner Linda Lavin, joins Rob and Kevin for a phone chat that discusses not only her appearances in A Family Affair, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman, Broadway Bound, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers, but what inspires her as an artist, what it was like making the rounds during her formative years, and how she like to collaborate with directors and writers.
- 1/28/2019
- by Behind the Curtain
- BroadwayWorld.com
I have a curious habit, maybe you have it too, if you are a real movie geek, film fan, cinema addict, what have you.
A certain number of movies that I have seen and loved with all my heart were losers at the box office or were mercilessly slammed by critics, usually both. This doesn’t happen all the time, mind you. I know a bad movie when I see one. But several times I have seen a movie on opening day and loved it so much I was sure it would be a big hit and be loved by critics and film goers, nope, not all the time.
Here then is my own personal and highly eccentric top ten list, with some honorable mentions, of movies that lost out, yet I love them still, many of them desperately, hysterically, madly do I love these films, well anyway… let me tell you about it.
A certain number of movies that I have seen and loved with all my heart were losers at the box office or were mercilessly slammed by critics, usually both. This doesn’t happen all the time, mind you. I know a bad movie when I see one. But several times I have seen a movie on opening day and loved it so much I was sure it would be a big hit and be loved by critics and film goers, nope, not all the time.
Here then is my own personal and highly eccentric top ten list, with some honorable mentions, of movies that lost out, yet I love them still, many of them desperately, hysterically, madly do I love these films, well anyway… let me tell you about it.
- 6/10/2014
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Emmy-winning comedy legend Sid Caesar, best known for his weekly live TV broadcast Your Show of Shows in the '50s and such films as Grease and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, has died. He was 91.
Emmy-winning comedy legend Sid Caesar, best known for his weekly live TV broadcast Your Show of Shows in the '50s and such films as Grease and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, has died. He was 91.
Pics: Actors Who Almost Got the Part
Born September 8, 1922 in Yonkers, NY, Caesar pioneered sketch comedy with partner Imogene Coca on the 90-minute Your Show of Shows (with the help of comedy writers that eventually made names for themselves, including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen), later renamed Caesar's Hour, and then with his own special, The Sid Caesar Show. The next 20 years of his career were unfortunately marred by alcoholism and pills, a "20-year...
Emmy-winning comedy legend Sid Caesar, best known for his weekly live TV broadcast Your Show of Shows in the '50s and such films as Grease and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, has died. He was 91.
Pics: Actors Who Almost Got the Part
Born September 8, 1922 in Yonkers, NY, Caesar pioneered sketch comedy with partner Imogene Coca on the 90-minute Your Show of Shows (with the help of comedy writers that eventually made names for themselves, including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen), later renamed Caesar's Hour, and then with his own special, The Sid Caesar Show. The next 20 years of his career were unfortunately marred by alcoholism and pills, a "20-year...
- 2/12/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Hangar Theatre kicks off its 2013 season on June 13th with Neil Simon's irresistible comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers, which runs through June 29. Featuring a stellar cast including three Broadway favorites, this seminal work will be directed by Hangar Associate Artistic Director Jesse Bush. Last of the Red Hot Lovers had its original Broadway run from 1969-1971 and received four Tony nominations, including for Best Play. The Hangar production features the talents of Jordan Gelber Broadway's Avenue Q, All My Sons, Elf as Barney Cashman, Jennifer Cody Shrek, Urinetown as Elaine Navazio, Leenya Rideout Company, War Horse, Cabaret as Jeannette Fisher, and Natalie Walker as Bobbi Michele.
- 5/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Michele Ragusa, John Bolton, Jordan Gelber, Jennifer Cody and More Join Hangar Theatre's 2013 Season
The 39th season of the Hangar Theatre includes a thrilling line-up of plays and musicals including a favorite farce, a Tony-winning musical, and two regional premieres and features an array of exciting Broadway talent. The season takes off with Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers June 13-29 followed by the premiere of a strikingly innovative concept of the Tony-winning best musical Gypsy July 4-20. The regional premiere of Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed play 4000 Miles July 25-August 3 is next, followed by the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris August 8-17.
- 5/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
As previously announced, the complete 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival season closes this weekend, August 19, 2012. This season included Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest, a Preview Production of the new musical Far From Heaven, and a new translation of Ivan Turgenevs A Month in the Country on the Main Stage, with Lucy Boyles The Blue Deep, Neil Simons Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Bernard Pomerances The Elephant Man, and Katori Halls Whaddabloodclot on the Nikos Stage. The season also included a special workshop production of David Byrnes Here Lies Love, which played at nearby Mass MoCA.In the video below, the whole Wtf team bids farewell to the 2012 season with a special lip dub featuring over 200 participants. Click below to check it out...
- 8/17/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten announced today the full cast and creative teams for Last of the Red Hot Lovers, which will be presented on the Nikos Stage from July 11 through July 22 opening July 12, and the Preview Production of Far From Heaven, which will play the Main Stage from July 19 through July 29 opening July 21. Both shows begin rehearsals today in preparation for their runs at the Festival.
- 6/21/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Comedy is social commentary. In a totalitarian regime, what’s the first thing to go? Comedy. Because comedy is, by its nature, subversive.
Susie Essman
Many comedians and fans alike, consider the comedy stage a sacred place, where the dark, offensive, sacrilegious and even stupid can and should remain uncensored.
But in the age of smart phones and YouTube, where something said on stage in front of a few hundred people can suddenly become national news, how do comedians continue taking the risks (and making the mistakes) that make live comedy so thrilling?
Moreover, is apologizing for your material, however dark or upsetting, the antithesis of being a comedian? Is it the comedian's job to go too far?
These are some of the ideas we're exploring in HuffPost Comedy's series, "Crossing the Line".
Through interviews with top comedians and writers, we're looking at how these bastions of free speech are necessary parts of our culture,...
Susie Essman
Many comedians and fans alike, consider the comedy stage a sacred place, where the dark, offensive, sacrilegious and even stupid can and should remain uncensored.
But in the age of smart phones and YouTube, where something said on stage in front of a few hundred people can suddenly become national news, how do comedians continue taking the risks (and making the mistakes) that make live comedy so thrilling?
Moreover, is apologizing for your material, however dark or upsetting, the antithesis of being a comedian? Is it the comedian's job to go too far?
These are some of the ideas we're exploring in HuffPost Comedy's series, "Crossing the Line".
Through interviews with top comedians and writers, we're looking at how these bastions of free speech are necessary parts of our culture,...
- 6/12/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Artistic Director Jenny Gersten announced in Williamstown today the roster of Main Stage and Nikos Stage productions for the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival Wtf Season, the Festivals 58th season and second under Ms. Gerstens leadership. The Main Stage Season will kick off with a production of Oscar Wildes classic The Importance of Being Earnest as youve never seen it before, directed by Tony Award-winner David Hyde Pierce an alum of the Festivals training programs, making his Wtf directorial debut, playing from June 26 July 14, 2012. A new translation of Ivan Turgenevs A Month in the Country, directed by Tony Award-winner Richard Nelson James Joyces The Dead has also been added to the Main Stage line-up, from August 1 August 19, 2012. On the Nikos Stage, Wtf veteran Jessica Stone A Funny Thing...Forum directs Neil Simons comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers, playing from July 11 July 22, 2012, and the World Premiere of Olivier Award-winner Katori Halls The Mountaintop Whaddabloodclot,...
- 2/28/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
By Greg Hernandez
hollywoodnews.com: Rita Moreno dazzle as Anita in the film adaptation of West Side Story. So much so that she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress.
In the years since, she has rarely slowed down keeping busy on Broadway (Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Odd Couple, The Ritz), on television (Oz, Electric Company, Cane) and film (Carnal Knowledge, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Pinero).
She added a Tony, a Grammy and two Emmys to her awards haul – the first performer ever to win all four. Now 79, she remains busy with her one-woman show between acting jobs.
“Aren’t we great?” she says of herself and other icons like Mitzi Gaynor, Florence Henderson and Shirley Jones who are still doing one-woman shows. “All I can say is that there’s the difference between us and people who don’t do anything at our age.
hollywoodnews.com: Rita Moreno dazzle as Anita in the film adaptation of West Side Story. So much so that she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress.
In the years since, she has rarely slowed down keeping busy on Broadway (Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Odd Couple, The Ritz), on television (Oz, Electric Company, Cane) and film (Carnal Knowledge, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Pinero).
She added a Tony, a Grammy and two Emmys to her awards haul – the first performer ever to win all four. Now 79, she remains busy with her one-woman show between acting jobs.
“Aren’t we great?” she says of herself and other icons like Mitzi Gaynor, Florence Henderson and Shirley Jones who are still doing one-woman shows. “All I can say is that there’s the difference between us and people who don’t do anything at our age.
- 1/16/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
The release of M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender has reminded me that, with few notable exceptions, most movies with 'last' in the title are really bad
M Night Shyamalan's latest release is always aggressively advertised as "An M Night Shyamalan Film" – perhaps to preclude the public's confusing it with "An F Night Shyamalan Film" or "A Film by Tilda Night Shyamalan". This is a generous, conscientious act on the part of the producers, but it is also a cunning ploy from the consumer protection standpoint, because it means that moviegoers who have voluntarily paid to see daft offal such as The Village or The Happening or Unbreakable or Lady in the Water can't turn around and say: "Hey! Why didn't someone warn me that The Last Airbender was an M Night Shyamalan film?" The minatory phrase "An M Night Shyamalan Film" is like a brightly lit road sign reading: "Serious Accident Ahead.
M Night Shyamalan's latest release is always aggressively advertised as "An M Night Shyamalan Film" – perhaps to preclude the public's confusing it with "An F Night Shyamalan Film" or "A Film by Tilda Night Shyamalan". This is a generous, conscientious act on the part of the producers, but it is also a cunning ploy from the consumer protection standpoint, because it means that moviegoers who have voluntarily paid to see daft offal such as The Village or The Happening or Unbreakable or Lady in the Water can't turn around and say: "Hey! Why didn't someone warn me that The Last Airbender was an M Night Shyamalan film?" The minatory phrase "An M Night Shyamalan Film" is like a brightly lit road sign reading: "Serious Accident Ahead.
- 8/16/2010
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
By Scott Mendelson
hollywoodnews.com: Yes, yes, 2010 is the worst year for movies Ever, screams Joe Queenan of “The Wall Street Journal” . There have been plenty of years where I felt ‘this is the worst year/summer ever’, especially as, yes, I’ve gotten older. Part of it is nostalgia, as I remember the years past through rose-colored glasses. I remember the great moviegoing experiences (my dad taking me to a jampacked advance-night screening of “Jurassic Park”… best moviegoing experience of my life) more than the bad ones (my dad taking me to see an afternoon matinee of “Airheads” that had me feeling guilty that it turned out to be such a stinker). But looking back at years that I didn’t care for, there are still more than a few movies that are so good that they all-but redeem the year. We forget about the bad movies and only remember the good ones.
hollywoodnews.com: Yes, yes, 2010 is the worst year for movies Ever, screams Joe Queenan of “The Wall Street Journal” . There have been plenty of years where I felt ‘this is the worst year/summer ever’, especially as, yes, I’ve gotten older. Part of it is nostalgia, as I remember the years past through rose-colored glasses. I remember the great moviegoing experiences (my dad taking me to a jampacked advance-night screening of “Jurassic Park”… best moviegoing experience of my life) more than the bad ones (my dad taking me to see an afternoon matinee of “Airheads” that had me feeling guilty that it turned out to be such a stinker). But looking back at years that I didn’t care for, there are still more than a few movies that are so good that they all-but redeem the year. We forget about the bad movies and only remember the good ones.
- 7/31/2010
- by Scott Mendelson
- Hollywoodnews.com
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