Watching television today offers you near-unlimited choices when it comes to movies, whether that’s through a streaming service or a specific premium channel. But in this era of peak content one unique feature still stands out: the pre-movie host. Whether it’s TCM’s Alicia Malone chatting about the history of Jane Russell or Joe Bob Brigg’s Southern drawl introducing “Halloween” on Shudder, hosts hold on and help to bridge the gap between movies and the history that created them.
Where hosts were once a matter of necessity, introducing a series and then expanding out to fill in for commercial breaks, or, as premium cable and streaming started, the absence of them, they remain a serious branding technique. You could identify a network by its hosts, whether that is the litany of horror hosts that peppered the airwaves of various local networks throughout the country, to AMC’s...
Where hosts were once a matter of necessity, introducing a series and then expanding out to fill in for commercial breaks, or, as premium cable and streaming started, the absence of them, they remain a serious branding technique. You could identify a network by its hosts, whether that is the litany of horror hosts that peppered the airwaves of various local networks throughout the country, to AMC’s...
- 5/11/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
SAG Awards 2020: In Memoriam segment will honor Diahann Carroll, Doris Day, Luke Perry and who else?
Sunday’s telecast of the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards will feature a special In Memoriam segment devoted to many of the actors and actresses who have died since last year’s ceremony in late January. Sure to be among those saluted include Oscar-nominated actresses Diahann Carroll and Doris Day, plus nominated “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” actor Luke Perry. Visit our own Gold Derby memoriam gallery for the year of 2019.
The 26th annual ceremony will be live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 19, at 8:00 p.m. Et; 5:00 p.m. Pt. The SAG life achievement award will be presented to Robert De Niro.
SEE2020 SAG Awards nominations: Full list of Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees
Over 100 people in SAG/AFTRA have passed away in the past 12 months. Which of the following 50+ names will also be featured in the televised tribute?
Julie Adams
Danny Aiello
Jed Allan
Bibi Andersson...
The 26th annual ceremony will be live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 19, at 8:00 p.m. Et; 5:00 p.m. Pt. The SAG life achievement award will be presented to Robert De Niro.
SEE2020 SAG Awards nominations: Full list of Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees
Over 100 people in SAG/AFTRA have passed away in the past 12 months. Which of the following 50+ names will also be featured in the televised tribute?
Julie Adams
Danny Aiello
Jed Allan
Bibi Andersson...
- 1/17/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Bob Dorian, actor, magician (The Amazing Dorian) and the first prime-time host of American Movie Classics, died June 15, his family announced. He was 85.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Dorian performed on the stage, radio, television and film. He appeared in features including Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, and lent his voice to Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead as an archaeologist whose tape-recorded readings from an ancient text resurrect a demon.
He also had a recurring role on one of AMC’s first original series, Remember WENN, which premiered in 1996, but it is as American Movie Classics’ first prime-time host for which he is best known. The network launched in 1984 as a premium channel focused on classic movies. Dorian introduced the films in the comfortable setting of a living room, providing viewers with Hollywood history and behind-the-scenes trivia.
An avowed movie buff,...
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Dorian performed on the stage, radio, television and film. He appeared in features including Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, and lent his voice to Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead as an archaeologist whose tape-recorded readings from an ancient text resurrect a demon.
He also had a recurring role on one of AMC’s first original series, Remember WENN, which premiered in 1996, but it is as American Movie Classics’ first prime-time host for which he is best known. The network launched in 1984 as a premium channel focused on classic movies. Dorian introduced the films in the comfortable setting of a living room, providing viewers with Hollywood history and behind-the-scenes trivia.
An avowed movie buff,...
- 6/25/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Dorian, the amiable TV host who introduced cable viewers to movies of yesteryear back when AMC was known as American Movie Classics, died June 15 in Florida, his family announced. He was 85.
Dorian started out as an actor and a magician (the Amazing Dorian), and his voice was heard on a tape recorder that resurrects a demon in Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981).
He also had a recurring role on one of AMC's first original series, Remember WENN, which premiered in 1996 and was set at a fictional Pittsburgh radio station in the late 1930s, and appeared in ...
Dorian started out as an actor and a magician (the Amazing Dorian), and his voice was heard on a tape recorder that resurrects a demon in Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981).
He also had a recurring role on one of AMC's first original series, Remember WENN, which premiered in 1996 and was set at a fictional Pittsburgh radio station in the late 1930s, and appeared in ...
- 6/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bob Dorian, the amiable TV host who introduced cable viewers to movies of yesteryear back when AMC was known as American Movie Classics, died June 15 in Florida, his family announced. He was 85.
Dorian started out as an actor and a magician (the Amazing Dorian), and his voice was heard on a tape recorder that resurrects a demon in Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981).
He also had a recurring role on one of AMC's first original series, Remember WENN, which premiered in 1996 and was set at a fictional Pittsburgh radio station in the late 1930s, and appeared in ...
Dorian started out as an actor and a magician (the Amazing Dorian), and his voice was heard on a tape recorder that resurrects a demon in Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981).
He also had a recurring role on one of AMC's first original series, Remember WENN, which premiered in 1996 and was set at a fictional Pittsburgh radio station in the late 1930s, and appeared in ...
- 6/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 25 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the highly anticipated new “Evil Dead” vision from Fede Alvarez and the producers of the original cult classic!
“Evil Dead,” which opens on April 5, 2013 and is rated “R,” stars Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Ellen Sandweiss, Bob Dorian, Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, Phoenix Connolly, Jim McLarty, Sian Davis, Randal Wilson and Rupert Degas from writer and director Fede Alvarez.
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“Evil Dead,” which opens on April 5, 2013 and is rated “R,” stars Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Ellen Sandweiss, Bob Dorian, Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, Phoenix Connolly, Jim McLarty, Sian Davis, Randal Wilson and Rupert Degas from writer and director Fede Alvarez.
To win your free “Evil Dead” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! You must be 17+ to win this “R”-rated Hookup.
- 3/30/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
American children are flocking to magic classes so they can be like their hero Harry Potter. The phenomenal success of the four books about the child wizard and the forthcoming movie have children as young as five rushing to sign up for magic classes. Bob Dorian from the Magic Castle in Los Angeles says, "Our children's magic classes have more kids than ever before. "The Harry Potter books have had a definite effect on the number of children becoming interested in magic, the numbers of children in the classes is rising dramatically because of the books. We get lots of calls from parents who want to enrol their kids in classes because they love the books so much. For the first time this year we held a series of classes for really young kids so they can learn the basics. Harry Potter has made the craft cool again, for years it was seen as a very nerdy thing to be interested in." Julio Ramirez, who runs The World Of Magic And Fun in San Antonio, admits, "Children are coming in with their parents buying up all the basic magic toys so they can be like their hero Harry Potter. The children are always buying the magic wands."...
- 8/17/2001
- WENN
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