The Beatles’ Ringo Starr covered sentimental songs after the Fab Four’s breakup. On his solo debut record. he recorded a quaint 1950s hit that he liked as a child. Quincy Jones had some negative things to say about Ringo’s cover.
The Beatles’ Ringo Starr revealed his memory of a song by The Four Aces
During a 2015 interview with Goldmine, Ringo was asked if he wore out any of his records as a child. “You know, as a kid, I didn’t really wear out any records,” he recalled. “I did buy The Four Aces’ ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.’ I mean, that’s a memory I have of early days.” Ringo covered “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for his debut solo album, Sentimental Journey. The record features covers of many pre-rock ‘n’ roll musical standards.
However, Ringo wasn’t only interested in the musical stylings of The Four Aces.
The Beatles’ Ringo Starr revealed his memory of a song by The Four Aces
During a 2015 interview with Goldmine, Ringo was asked if he wore out any of his records as a child. “You know, as a kid, I didn’t really wear out any records,” he recalled. “I did buy The Four Aces’ ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.’ I mean, that’s a memory I have of early days.” Ringo covered “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for his debut solo album, Sentimental Journey. The record features covers of many pre-rock ‘n’ roll musical standards.
However, Ringo wasn’t only interested in the musical stylings of The Four Aces.
- 11/17/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Peter White, who portrayed Linc Tyler on the ABC soap opera All My Children over four decades and starred in the original stage production and film adaptation of The Boys in the Band, has died. He was 86.
White died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles of melanoma, his All My Children castmate Kathleen Noone (Ellen Shepherd Dalton on the show) told The Hollywood Reporter.
White also played Arthur Cates, the attorney for Sable Colby (Stephanie Beacham), on the first two seasons of the ABC primetime soap The Colbys in 1985-86, and he recurred as the deceased doctor dad of the characters played by Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember and Julianne Phillips on the 1991-96 NBC drama Sisters.
White first portrayed Lincoln Tyler, son of stern Pine Valley matriarch Phoebe Tyler (Ruth Warrick), from 1974-80 — he was the third actor in the role, starting with James Karen — then returned...
White died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles of melanoma, his All My Children castmate Kathleen Noone (Ellen Shepherd Dalton on the show) told The Hollywood Reporter.
White also played Arthur Cates, the attorney for Sable Colby (Stephanie Beacham), on the first two seasons of the ABC primetime soap The Colbys in 1985-86, and he recurred as the deceased doctor dad of the characters played by Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember and Julianne Phillips on the 1991-96 NBC drama Sisters.
White first portrayed Lincoln Tyler, son of stern Pine Valley matriarch Phoebe Tyler (Ruth Warrick), from 1974-80 — he was the third actor in the role, starting with James Karen — then returned...
- 11/4/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like most genre labels, “art pop” is fluid and ambiguous, encapsulating a vast array of microgenres, from the foundational proto-punk of the Velvet Underground to the futuristic electronica of FKA twigs. Two contemporary acts that fall under the wide umbrella of art pop, Weyes Blood (a.k.a. Natalie Mering) and Perfume Genius (a.k.a. Mike Hadreas), share an interest in the romantic grandeur of acoustic ballads. But their disparate stage presences highlight the breadth and boldness that define pop music, and their performances at Los Angeles’s Greek Theatre last night were at turns electrifying and celebratory.
Much like Mering, Hadreas’s early work was largely piano-based and elegiac. With 2014’s Too Bright, however, he transformed into a strutting rock star, a persona he wholeheartedly embodies on stage. With his longtime boyfriend, Alan Wyffels, on keys, Hadreas kicked off his opening set with the invigorating “Your Body Changes Everything,...
Much like Mering, Hadreas’s early work was largely piano-based and elegiac. With 2014’s Too Bright, however, he transformed into a strutting rock star, a persona he wholeheartedly embodies on stage. With his longtime boyfriend, Alan Wyffels, on keys, Hadreas kicked off his opening set with the invigorating “Your Body Changes Everything,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Eric Mason
- Slant Magazine
Every year, there are some truly exceptional songs featured in motion pictures.
Disney and Bond films are almost always guaranteed nominations from the Academy in the Best Original Song category, often winning (as "No Time To Die" did last year).
However, there are plenty of songs that have stood the test of time that you may not even know were Oscar-nominated -- or even that they were originally from a film!
Plenty of nominated songs have gone on to outlast tthe films they came from.
Here's a list to remind you how random, enduring, and inclusive the Best Original Song category has been over the decades.
"9 to 5" - 9 to 5 (1980)
Dolly Parton's first Academy Award nomination was for her upbeat ode to the working woman from the film of the same name.
That year, Best Original Song was a tough category, with "Fame" from Fame taking the prize.
Though Parton lost the Oscar,...
Disney and Bond films are almost always guaranteed nominations from the Academy in the Best Original Song category, often winning (as "No Time To Die" did last year).
However, there are plenty of songs that have stood the test of time that you may not even know were Oscar-nominated -- or even that they were originally from a film!
Plenty of nominated songs have gone on to outlast tthe films they came from.
Here's a list to remind you how random, enduring, and inclusive the Best Original Song category has been over the decades.
"9 to 5" - 9 to 5 (1980)
Dolly Parton's first Academy Award nomination was for her upbeat ode to the working woman from the film of the same name.
That year, Best Original Song was a tough category, with "Fame" from Fame taking the prize.
Though Parton lost the Oscar,...
- 2/25/2023
- by Mary Littlejohn
- TVfanatic
David Birney, who starred on the first season of the buzzy medical drama “St. Elsewhere,” as well as the short-lived, controversial sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie” — about a Catholic woman marrying a Jewish man — has died at 83. His life partner Michele Roberge confirmed the news to The New York Times, and said he died due to Alzheimer’s disease at his home in Santa Monica.
Birney’s nearly-40 year television career began with a part in the 1969 series “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” all the way through to a guest appearance in “Without a Trace” in 2007. He also had roles and recurring spots on many classic TV shows, including “Murder, She Wrote,” “The Love Boat” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
Yet his best-know parts were Dr. Ben Samuels on the first season of the 1982 drama “St. Elsewhere,” which he had to leave because of a Broadway commitment, and a lead role on the 1972 sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie.
Birney’s nearly-40 year television career began with a part in the 1969 series “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” all the way through to a guest appearance in “Without a Trace” in 2007. He also had roles and recurring spots on many classic TV shows, including “Murder, She Wrote,” “The Love Boat” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
Yet his best-know parts were Dr. Ben Samuels on the first season of the 1982 drama “St. Elsewhere,” which he had to leave because of a Broadway commitment, and a lead role on the 1972 sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie.
- 5/3/2022
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
This article marks Part 12 of the Gold Derby series analyzing 84 years of Best Original Song at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at the timeless tunes recognized in this category, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the winners.
The 1973 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“(You’re So) Nice to Be Around” from “Cinderella Liberty”
“Live and Let Die” from “Live and Let Die”
“Love,” from “Robin Hood”
“All That Love Went to Waste” from “A Touch of Class”
“The Way We Were” from “The Way We Were”
Won and should’ve won: “The Way We Were” from “The Way We Were”
The title song from “The Way We Were,” composed by the brilliant, Egot-winning Marvin Hamlisch, alongside Alan and Marilyn Bergman, is a dreamy, haunting, immensely moving piece, performed splendidly by the incomparable Barbra Streisand. The film’s leading lady strikes just the right notes here,...
The 1973 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“(You’re So) Nice to Be Around” from “Cinderella Liberty”
“Live and Let Die” from “Live and Let Die”
“Love,” from “Robin Hood”
“All That Love Went to Waste” from “A Touch of Class”
“The Way We Were” from “The Way We Were”
Won and should’ve won: “The Way We Were” from “The Way We Were”
The title song from “The Way We Were,” composed by the brilliant, Egot-winning Marvin Hamlisch, alongside Alan and Marilyn Bergman, is a dreamy, haunting, immensely moving piece, performed splendidly by the incomparable Barbra Streisand. The film’s leading lady strikes just the right notes here,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
This article marks Part 7 of the Gold Derby series analyzing 84 years of Best Original Song at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at the timeless tunes recognized in this category, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the winners.
The 1955 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“Something’s Gotta Give” from “Daddy Long Legs”
“Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” from “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”
“I’ll Never Stop Loving You” from “Love Me or Leave Me”
“(Love Is) The Tender Trap” from “The Tender Trap”
“Unchained Melody” from “Unchained”
Won: “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” from “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”
Should’ve won: “Something’s Gotta Give” from “Daddy Long Legs”
“Unchained Melody,” that timeless Righteous Brothers classic that’s been put to memorable use for decades across film and television, actually originated as an Oscar-nominated song in 1955. It’s briefly featured...
The 1955 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“Something’s Gotta Give” from “Daddy Long Legs”
“Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” from “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”
“I’ll Never Stop Loving You” from “Love Me or Leave Me”
“(Love Is) The Tender Trap” from “The Tender Trap”
“Unchained Melody” from “Unchained”
Won: “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” from “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”
Should’ve won: “Something’s Gotta Give” from “Daddy Long Legs”
“Unchained Melody,” that timeless Righteous Brothers classic that’s been put to memorable use for decades across film and television, actually originated as an Oscar-nominated song in 1955. It’s briefly featured...
- 9/19/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
Move over James Jones — Leon Uris clobbers the big screen with a sprawling adaptation of his WW2 combat novel, loaded down with roles for promising young actors. This is the one where twice as much time is spent on love affairs than fighting. War may be hell, but if Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, Dorothy Malone and Allyn McLerie are going to be there for comfort, sign me up.
Battle Cry
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 148 min. / Street Date , 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, William Campbell, Fess Parker, Justus E. McQueen (L.Q. Jones), Perry Lopez, Jonas Applegarth, Tommy Cook, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young, Rhys Williams, Allyn Ann McLerie, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Sarah Selby, Willis Bouchey, Victor Milian.
Cinematography: Sidney Hickox
Film Editor: William H. Zeigler
Original Music: Max Steiner...
Battle Cry
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 148 min. / Street Date , 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, William Campbell, Fess Parker, Justus E. McQueen (L.Q. Jones), Perry Lopez, Jonas Applegarth, Tommy Cook, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young, Rhys Williams, Allyn Ann McLerie, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Sarah Selby, Willis Bouchey, Victor Milian.
Cinematography: Sidney Hickox
Film Editor: William H. Zeigler
Original Music: Max Steiner...
- 11/7/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
When Debbie Reynolds died on Wednesday at the age of 84, she had been famous for more than 65 years. A multi-talented star who fixed her place in the Hollywood firmaments when she was just 19 years old (the same age that her daughter, the late Carrie Fisher, was introduced to the world as Princess Leia), Reynolds’ life was the stuff of Tinseltown legend, and she never seemed to grow tired of the spotlight. On the contrary, she was a force of nature until the bitter end, brightening almost every corner of showbiz at one point or another during her decades on stage and screen.
Read More: Debbie Reynolds’ Co-Stars and More Celebrities Mourn Her Passing on Twitter
A hit recording artist, an Oscar (and Tony)-nominated leading lady, a Las Vegas lounge sensation, and a dedicated collector of movie memorabilia (some of her most heroic efforts were dedicated to the preservation of...
Read More: Debbie Reynolds’ Co-Stars and More Celebrities Mourn Her Passing on Twitter
A hit recording artist, an Oscar (and Tony)-nominated leading lady, a Las Vegas lounge sensation, and a dedicated collector of movie memorabilia (some of her most heroic efforts were dedicated to the preservation of...
- 12/29/2016
- by Anne Thompson, David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland, Liz Shannon Miller and William Earl
- Indiewire
‘La La Land’ (Courtesy: Dale Robinette/Lionsgate)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
La La Land is a force to be reckoned with this year — with a potential best picture win being the cherry on top — but just how well it will actually win at the Oscars remains to be seen. Most critics consider the Damien Chazelle-directed film to be leading the pack in numerous categories and, with it being a musical, two of those areas are the best original song and best original score. Is there a chance, according to history, that La La Land can sweep both honors?
The buzzy flick — starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as jazz pianist Sebastian and aspiring actress Mia, two wannabe stars in L.A. who fall in love on their quest for stardom — features music composed by Justin Hurwitz with lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, save for one song,...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
La La Land is a force to be reckoned with this year — with a potential best picture win being the cherry on top — but just how well it will actually win at the Oscars remains to be seen. Most critics consider the Damien Chazelle-directed film to be leading the pack in numerous categories and, with it being a musical, two of those areas are the best original song and best original score. Is there a chance, according to history, that La La Land can sweep both honors?
The buzzy flick — starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as jazz pianist Sebastian and aspiring actress Mia, two wannabe stars in L.A. who fall in love on their quest for stardom — features music composed by Justin Hurwitz with lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, save for one song,...
- 12/16/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Terence Davies’ films deal with repressed desire, longing, and emotional pain that springs from the depths of his characters’ souls, and yet, in person, the great British auteur is undoubtedly the funniest person in the room. He is all smiles and jokes as we sit down to discuss his glorious Sunset Song, entering a limited release this week, and a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Moving Image. It makes sense that he is joyful rather than somber, because it makes one feel a sort of relief knowing that levity was welcomed between takes on haunting dramas such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Deep Blue Sea. In Sunset Song, Davies takes on the first part of a trilogy written by Lewis Grassic Gibbons, in which we meet farm girl Chris Guthrie (a luminous Agyness Deyn) as she is forced to take on the reins of her life in pre-wwi Scotland.
- 5/12/2016
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
This is my film review and it Freaks Me Out! Girlie-art legend Russ Meyer and then- tyro critic Roger Ebert fashion the most garish, vulgar and absurd satire of wild Hollywood that they can think of, a camp vision of joy straight from the dizzy imagination of a breast-obsessed glamour photographer. All your favorites are here -- Erica Gavin, Dolly Read, Marcia McBroom, Cynthia Meyers, Edy Williams. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls + The Seven Minutes Region B Blu-ray + Pal DVD Arrow Video (UK) 1970 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date January 18, 2016 / Available from Amazon UK £17.99 Starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Meyers, Marcia McBroom, Erica Gavin, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Phyllis Davis, Harrison Page, Duncan McLeod, Charles Napier, Haji, Pam Grier, Coleman Francis, The Strawberry Alarm Clock. Cinematography Fred J. Koenecamp Editors Dann Cahn, Dick Wormell Original Music Stu Phillips Written by Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer Produced and...
- 1/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
On Dec. 12, the Academy released a shortlist of 79 songs in contention for best original song at the 87th Academy Awards, but it’s not so easy to predict which songs will be announced as nominees on Jan. 15. You can’t turn to potential best picture nominees — or best animated features, for that matter — to predict which songs make the final cut. Though a number of best picture nominees have also been nominated for best original song, there’s not much correlation between the two.
The original song category was first introduced at the 7th Annual Academy Awards, and the winner was “The Continental” from 1934’s The Gay Divorcee, also nominated for best picture.
Nineteen of the 80 Oscar-winning songs have come from best picture nominees. They are as follows:
“The Continental” — The Gay Divorcee (1934) “Over the Rainbow” — The Wizard of Oz (1939) “Swinging on a Star” — Going My Way...
Managing Editor
On Dec. 12, the Academy released a shortlist of 79 songs in contention for best original song at the 87th Academy Awards, but it’s not so easy to predict which songs will be announced as nominees on Jan. 15. You can’t turn to potential best picture nominees — or best animated features, for that matter — to predict which songs make the final cut. Though a number of best picture nominees have also been nominated for best original song, there’s not much correlation between the two.
The original song category was first introduced at the 7th Annual Academy Awards, and the winner was “The Continental” from 1934’s The Gay Divorcee, also nominated for best picture.
Nineteen of the 80 Oscar-winning songs have come from best picture nominees. They are as follows:
“The Continental” — The Gay Divorcee (1934) “Over the Rainbow” — The Wizard of Oz (1939) “Swinging on a Star” — Going My Way...
- 12/22/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
“Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!” so says Ewan McGregor in Baz Luhrmann’s classic romantic tragedy, Moulin Rouge!
It’s a thought that has persisted in cinema for well over a century. Love is what motivates characters; it’s a dream they want to realize, a reality they have to face, the content of their musings in their nightly diary entries.
Decades of cinema have seen the nature of other genres completely overturned. More and more, horrors are gearing towards high-concept supernatural thrillers over human killers; comedies are willing to get raunchier, with a whole lot more swearing; action movies are only too eager to show off brutal set-pieces; and comic book movies and sci-fi films have the effects capable of making the unreal real.
But romance? How much has that changed? And how much do we really want it to?...
It’s a thought that has persisted in cinema for well over a century. Love is what motivates characters; it’s a dream they want to realize, a reality they have to face, the content of their musings in their nightly diary entries.
Decades of cinema have seen the nature of other genres completely overturned. More and more, horrors are gearing towards high-concept supernatural thrillers over human killers; comedies are willing to get raunchier, with a whole lot more swearing; action movies are only too eager to show off brutal set-pieces; and comic book movies and sci-fi films have the effects capable of making the unreal real.
But romance? How much has that changed? And how much do we really want it to?...
- 7/27/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Mary Anderson dead at 96; also featured in Alfred Hitchcock thriller ‘Lifeboat’ Mary Anderson, an actress featured in both Gone with the Wind and Alfred Hitchcock’s adventure thriller Lifeboat, died following a series of small strokes on Sunday, April 6, 2014, while under hospice care in Toluca Lake/Burbank, northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Anderson, the widow of multiple Oscar-winning cinematographer Leon Shamroy, had turned 96 on April 3. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1918, Mary Anderson was reportedly discovered by director George Cukor, at the time looking for an actress to play Scarlett O’Hara in David O. Selznick’s film version of Margaret Mitchell’s bestseller Gone with the Wind. Instead of Scarlett, eventually played by Vivien Leigh, Anderson was cast in the small role of Maybelle Merriwether — most of which reportedly ended up on the cutting-room floor. Cukor was later fired from the project; his replacement, Victor Fleming,...
- 4/10/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Chinese-born author best known for her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing
Colonial Hong Kong, a doomed love affair and the echoes of revolution in China were the explosive mixture that made the reputation of the author Han Suyin, who has died aged 95. The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
She would shock people many times again as she acted out the philosophy expounded in the film by Jennifer Jones, playing a character based on the author: "To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise." Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.
The ambiguities of her identity, as the daughter of a Chinese engineer and his Belgian wife,...
Colonial Hong Kong, a doomed love affair and the echoes of revolution in China were the explosive mixture that made the reputation of the author Han Suyin, who has died aged 95. The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
She would shock people many times again as she acted out the philosophy expounded in the film by Jennifer Jones, playing a character based on the author: "To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise." Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.
The ambiguities of her identity, as the daughter of a Chinese engineer and his Belgian wife,...
- 11/6/2012
- by John Gittings
- The Guardian - Film News
Benedict Cumberbatch is quickly becoming one of Britain’s most talked about actors thanks to his staring role as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock and his casting as the villain in the upcoming Star Trek sequel and doing the voice of Smaug the Dragon in The Hobbit. Just saying his name makes you sound like a more interesting person – that’s the power of Benedict Cumberbatch. His talent is on another level, which is why he was given two separate roles on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. He has way too much awesome going on for a single part.
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The story of how Cumberbatch came across the parts is a great example of how amazing it would be to live a single day in his life. As reported by Mirror, Cumberbatch was having a meeting at the same place The Simpsons happens to record...
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The story of how Cumberbatch came across the parts is a great example of how amazing it would be to live a single day in his life. As reported by Mirror, Cumberbatch was having a meeting at the same place The Simpsons happens to record...
- 7/11/2012
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
Los Angeles — He was a tubby tough guy with a pug of a mug, as unlikely a big-screen star or a romantic lead as could be imagined.
Yet Ernest Borgnine won a woman's love and an Academy Award in one of the great lonelyhearts roles in "Marty," a highlight in a workhorse career that spanned nearly seven decades and more than 200 film and television parts.
Borgnine, who died Sunday at 95, worked to the end. One of his final roles was a bit part as a CIA records-keeper in 2011's action comedy "Red" – fittingly for his age, a story of retired spies who show that it's never too late to remain in the game when they're pulled back into action.
"I keep telling myself, `Damn it, you gotta go to work,'" Borgnine said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press. "But there aren't many people who want to put Borgnine to work these days.
Yet Ernest Borgnine won a woman's love and an Academy Award in one of the great lonelyhearts roles in "Marty," a highlight in a workhorse career that spanned nearly seven decades and more than 200 film and television parts.
Borgnine, who died Sunday at 95, worked to the end. One of his final roles was a bit part as a CIA records-keeper in 2011's action comedy "Red" – fittingly for his age, a story of retired spies who show that it's never too late to remain in the game when they're pulled back into action.
"I keep telling myself, `Damn it, you gotta go to work,'" Borgnine said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press. "But there aren't many people who want to put Borgnine to work these days.
- 7/9/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
'Everything really happened – but I had to tone down my father's violence'
Terence Davies, director
The film came about from a commission from the BFI production board, though it was only for [the first part], Distant Voices. I asked them to let me make part two [Still Lives], and they held it for two years to release as a feature-length film.
Everything in the screenplay happened. I had to tone down my father's violence because if I'd put the real levels in, nobody would have believed it. I thought it would be a cathartic project, but I suddenly realised all that suffering was quite arbitrary, and my mum was unlucky to have married him. It was strange directing actors imitating my family, because you have to have an aesthetic distance, and they have to find the characters themselves.
When you're the youngest of 10, you don't see events fully, you just feel intense moments. And life...
Terence Davies, director
The film came about from a commission from the BFI production board, though it was only for [the first part], Distant Voices. I asked them to let me make part two [Still Lives], and they held it for two years to release as a feature-length film.
Everything in the screenplay happened. I had to tone down my father's violence because if I'd put the real levels in, nobody would have believed it. I thought it would be a cathartic project, but I suddenly realised all that suffering was quite arbitrary, and my mum was unlucky to have married him. It was strange directing actors imitating my family, because you have to have an aesthetic distance, and they have to find the characters themselves.
When you're the youngest of 10, you don't see events fully, you just feel intense moments. And life...
- 4/17/2012
- by Kate Abbott
- The Guardian - Film News
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to Hunger Games, The Raid, and The Deep Blue Sea.
This week the hotly anticipated tale of Katniss Everdeen hits screens, and its only competition in theaters is an Indonesian action-extravaganza and a star-studded romance. If you want more action and tales of love and heartbreak, we’ve got you covered with some of the best titles Now Streaming.
Based on Suzanne Collins’s wildly popular Ya novel of a dystopian future, this teen-centered drama stars Jennifer Lawrence as a girl forced into a life or death battle on a nationally televised competition known as The Hunger Games. Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson co-star; Gary Ross directs.
For more tales of fierce heroines:
Winter’s Bone (2010) This gritty indie not only scored Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar nod,...
This week the hotly anticipated tale of Katniss Everdeen hits screens, and its only competition in theaters is an Indonesian action-extravaganza and a star-studded romance. If you want more action and tales of love and heartbreak, we’ve got you covered with some of the best titles Now Streaming.
Based on Suzanne Collins’s wildly popular Ya novel of a dystopian future, this teen-centered drama stars Jennifer Lawrence as a girl forced into a life or death battle on a nationally televised competition known as The Hunger Games. Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson co-star; Gary Ross directs.
For more tales of fierce heroines:
Winter’s Bone (2010) This gritty indie not only scored Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar nod,...
- 3/22/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
They've tried everything. One host. Two hosts. Four hosts. 32 hosts. Comic hosts. Serious-thespian hosts. Hollywood-legend hosts. Young hosts. Old hosts. Hip hosts. Square hosts. Singing-and-dancing hosts. Every year, it seems, the Academy Awards goes back to the drawing board to figure out what sort of emcee will keep the show lively, attract viewers (especially younger viewers) and keep them from flipping channels during the slow parts. It's a thankless gig; no wonder Billy Crystal, who's done it eight times, decided to sit out for eight years before agreeing to return to host this year's Academy Awards on Sunday night. The job requires a difficult and rare set of skills: a host must entertain both the Hollywood big-shots in the auditorium and regular folks at home. They can poke fun at the huge egos in the room, but can't deflate them with too much snark, and they can't be too inside-baseball.
- 2/22/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Mutiny on the Bounty Biggest Oscar Snubs #10b: The Piano's Michael Nyman, Inception's Lee Smith Below is a partial list of directors whose films were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar — but the directors themselves weren't. William A. Wellman, Wings (1927-28) Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel (1931-32) Sam Wood, The Pride of the Yankees (1942) George Cukor, Gaslight (1944) Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce (1945) Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1946) George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes (1948) Mervyn LeRoy, Quo Vadis (1951) Daniel Mann, The Rose Tattoo (1955) Henry King, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Cecil B. DeMille, The Ten Commandments (1956) Otto Preminger, Anatomy of a Murder (1959) John Wayne, The Alamo (1960) Lewis Milestone, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cleopatra (1963) Stanley Kramer, Ship of Fools (1965) Robert Wise, The Sand Pebbles (1966) Richard Fleischer, [...]...
- 1/28/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jennifer Jones, Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones' Auction to Include Duel In The Sun Screenplay Lot No: 7025 Golden Globe award for "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing," 1955 The gold-colored metal globe atop a white marble base with a placard on front engraved "To / Jennifer Jones / For Her / Performance in / Love is a Many-Splendored Thing / 1955 / HFPA" [Hollywood Foreign Press Association]; awarded to Jones in the category of 'Promoting International Understanding.' Included is a receipt for a telegram that David O. Selznick sent to Jones; dated "Feb 22/'56," it reads in part "…you will receive Henrietta Award from Foreign Correspondents stationed Hollywood for actress having contributed most to mutual understanding." 9 x 3 x 3in Estimate: $1,000 – 1,500 Lot No: 7026 A Jennifer Jones owned 'presentation copy' script signed and gifted to her by David O. Selznick from "Duel in the Sun" The Selznick [...]...
- 11/18/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning actress and widow of both Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick and industrialist Norton Simon, will have a number of her belongings auctioned. Jones, who died last year at the age of 90, was best known for her varied roles in old Hollywood blockbusters, chiefly St. Bernadette in Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943); the sultry half-breed Pearl Chavez in King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946); and the Eurasian doctor in love with journalist William Holden in another Henry King effort, the tearjerker Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955). Though less widely known, Jones was also chairwoman of the Norton Simon Foundation Board, a position she held for years following Simon's death in 1993. According to a Los Angeles Times report, Bonhams & Butterfields will be auctioning items from Jones' estate, including art work, furnishings, and porcelain. The Times adds that the Los [...]...
- 11/18/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Graham Hill
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Last Sunday night I had the pleasure of attending The Big Picture- A Celebration of 75 Years of 20th Century Fox at the famed Hollywood Bowl. Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne did the honors, introducing us to various clips from Fox’s great library. The La Philharmonic conductor David Newman, son of the legendary music composer Alfred Newman and a noted composer himself, re-lived the magic of the great Fox film scores, delighting the 15,000 or so fans that attended the two-hour event. There were plenty of screens constructed to allow the audience to enjoy the film segments, though each clip was badly cued with a blank screen and an anxious orchestra was forced to poise for an anxious 30 seconds in between scenes. I thought the opening well-edited montage of some 175 movie clips was by far the best part of the evening.
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Last Sunday night I had the pleasure of attending The Big Picture- A Celebration of 75 Years of 20th Century Fox at the famed Hollywood Bowl. Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne did the honors, introducing us to various clips from Fox’s great library. The La Philharmonic conductor David Newman, son of the legendary music composer Alfred Newman and a noted composer himself, re-lived the magic of the great Fox film scores, delighting the 15,000 or so fans that attended the two-hour event. There were plenty of screens constructed to allow the audience to enjoy the film segments, though each clip was badly cued with a blank screen and an anxious orchestra was forced to poise for an anxious 30 seconds in between scenes. I thought the opening well-edited montage of some 175 movie clips was by far the best part of the evening.
- 9/11/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Some of the most beloved movies of all time will be available with all kinds of new content as a legendary film studio celebrates its semisesquicentennial throughout the year.
As part of its 75th anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox has launched a 12-month marketing campaign commemorating some of its best films made during the last three-quarters of a century. The studio will be re-releasing more than 300 movies into the market on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def in order for all-new audiences to appreciate their library. Additionally, the Web site Fox75th.com will enable movie-lovers to keep up with the year-long promotion and contests, one of which gives customers the chance to win ,000.
Fox Home Entertainment will be releasing its films in increments and in various formats, including multiple features. The "Singles" collection will consist of nine films: "The King and I," "Love Me Tender," "All About Eve," "Gentlemen's Agreement," "All That Jazz,...
As part of its 75th anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox has launched a 12-month marketing campaign commemorating some of its best films made during the last three-quarters of a century. The studio will be re-releasing more than 300 movies into the market on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def in order for all-new audiences to appreciate their library. Additionally, the Web site Fox75th.com will enable movie-lovers to keep up with the year-long promotion and contests, one of which gives customers the chance to win ,000.
Fox Home Entertainment will be releasing its films in increments and in various formats, including multiple features. The "Singles" collection will consist of nine films: "The King and I," "Love Me Tender," "All About Eve," "Gentlemen's Agreement," "All That Jazz,...
- 4/22/2010
- icelebz.com
tues top ten: for the list maker in me and the list lover in you
Your life isn't complete without knowing the answer to the following question:
What Are the Ten Longest Titles of Best Picture Nominees? We've answered it once before but Precious... which is officially titled Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire has shaken up the rankings. Plus, new readers haven't read this. So, it's new to you!
There are several ways to count the titles and they result in different orders. I've opted to do it by character count, not including spaces.
point of contention: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope used to simply be called Star Wars. Now, people add the episode tags because there are so many of them... If you allow for the revised official titling, Star Wars makes the top ten, tying for #9
10 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Just...
Your life isn't complete without knowing the answer to the following question:
What Are the Ten Longest Titles of Best Picture Nominees? We've answered it once before but Precious... which is officially titled Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire has shaken up the rankings. Plus, new readers haven't read this. So, it's new to you!
There are several ways to count the titles and they result in different orders. I've opted to do it by character count, not including spaces.
point of contention: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope used to simply be called Star Wars. Now, people add the episode tags because there are so many of them... If you allow for the revised official titling, Star Wars makes the top ten, tying for #9
10 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Just...
- 2/10/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
"Jennifer Jones, 90, an actress who won an Academy Award for playing a saint in The Song of Bernadette and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including Duel in the Sun and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, died Thursday at her home in Malibu, Calif," reports Adam Bernstein in the Washington Post.
"Jennifer Jones remains one of the more controversial actresses in the Hollywood cinema," writes Richard Lippe in Film Reference. "In general, her professional and personal involvement with David O Selznick has been given a prominence that has colored assessments of Jones's distinctive contribution to 1940s cinema. Interestingly, the central issue is not that Jones lacked talent or screen presence. The longstanding criticism is that Selznick, because of his commitment to Jones, had no critical distance and, with King Vidor's Duel in the Sun, tried to fashion an erotic identity for her, making Jones into a ridiculous creation." Still,...
"Jennifer Jones remains one of the more controversial actresses in the Hollywood cinema," writes Richard Lippe in Film Reference. "In general, her professional and personal involvement with David O Selznick has been given a prominence that has colored assessments of Jones's distinctive contribution to 1940s cinema. Interestingly, the central issue is not that Jones lacked talent or screen presence. The longstanding criticism is that Selznick, because of his commitment to Jones, had no critical distance and, with King Vidor's Duel in the Sun, tried to fashion an erotic identity for her, making Jones into a ridiculous creation." Still,...
- 12/21/2009
- MUBI
The late Jennifer Jones experienced the classic Tinseltown story of discovery and stardom, but also endured depression and death. Brittany Murphy was just the latest to follow in her footsteps
Mrs Simon, Mrs Selznick, Mrs Walker, Phylis Isley, Jennifer Jones – all of those names were offered her, like landlines in the storm, and she gazed on all of them with insufficient belief or conviction. There was a time, in the 80s and the 90s, when I did everything I could to get Jennifer Jones to speak to me, or just to see me so that she might decide she could speak to me. And all the time I was asking her, or her lawyers, I had another Mrs Selznick crowing in my ear in her best Pierre Hotel witch act, "She doesn't have anything to say. She won't remember. She doesn't care to remember."
Well, she's dead now, at 90. Gore Vidal...
Mrs Simon, Mrs Selznick, Mrs Walker, Phylis Isley, Jennifer Jones – all of those names were offered her, like landlines in the storm, and she gazed on all of them with insufficient belief or conviction. There was a time, in the 80s and the 90s, when I did everything I could to get Jennifer Jones to speak to me, or just to see me so that she might decide she could speak to me. And all the time I was asking her, or her lawyers, I had another Mrs Selznick crowing in my ear in her best Pierre Hotel witch act, "She doesn't have anything to say. She won't remember. She doesn't care to remember."
Well, she's dead now, at 90. Gore Vidal...
- 12/21/2009
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywood star who won an Oscar for her role as a saintly peasant girl in the 1943 film The Song of Bernardette
On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones,...
On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)
Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones,...
- 12/20/2009
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Acclaimed actress Jennifer Jones has died at age 90. The five-time Oscar nominee sprang to fame in The Song of Bernadette in 1943. She worked sparingly over the years, but several of her films, such as Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and Duel in the Sun were major financial successes. She had at one time been married to the legendary David O. Selznick. After Selznick's death in 1965, she remarried and moved to India where she concentrated on collecting art. She also spent a great deal of time in the struggle to help those afflicted with mental health illness. Jones' last film was the 1974 blockbuster The Towering Inferno. For more click here...
- 12/18/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Jennifer Jones, an actress who won an Academy Award for playing a saint in The Song of Bernadette and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including Duel in the Sun and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing died on Thursday at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 90. Few actresses have launched their careers with more fanfare than Jones, who received a huge publicity buildup for her first major film, The Song of Bernadette (1943). She played a 19th-century French peasant girl who sees visions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes and defies Catholic Church authorities ...
- 12/18/2009
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones has died, aged 90.
A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won gold as Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1943, for her portrayal of a saintly nun in The Song of Bernadette.
She passed away on Thursday at her Malibu, California home.
Jones was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1940s and 1950s, and appeared in other films including 1948 western Duel in the Sun, 1955 drama Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and war movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, in 1956.
In her later years, she was deeply involved in overseeing California's Norton Simon Museum, as the widow of its founder, millionaire industrialist Norton Simon.
Jones is survived by a son, Robert Walker.
A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won gold as Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1943, for her portrayal of a saintly nun in The Song of Bernadette.
She passed away on Thursday at her Malibu, California home.
Jones was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1940s and 1950s, and appeared in other films including 1948 western Duel in the Sun, 1955 drama Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and war movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, in 1956.
In her later years, she was deeply involved in overseeing California's Norton Simon Museum, as the widow of its founder, millionaire industrialist Norton Simon.
Jones is survived by a son, Robert Walker.
- 12/17/2009
- WENN
Actress Jennifer Jones, who won an Academy Award for her performance in The Song of Bernadette, died Thursday at her home in Malibu; she was 90. The recipient of four other Oscar nominations, Jones was known as Phylis Walker early in her career, when she was married to actor Robert Walker, whom she met in acting school. However, it was producer David O. Selznick who "discovered" her, changed her name, groomed her for a big-screen career -- and later married her after she divorced Walker. Under Selznick's guidance, she made her first big film, The Song of Bernadette, the story of a French peasant girl who sees visions of the Virgin Mary near the village of Lourdes. The movie catapulted her to fame and an Oscar, and roles in 40s hits such as Since You Went Away, Love Letters, Portrait of Jennie, and the notorious-for-its-time Duel in the Sun followed. In the 50s she appeared in the cult hit Beat the Devil, the hit drama Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and the massive flop A Farewell to Arms, produced by her husband. After Selznick's death in 1965, she mostly retired from acting, making her last screen appearance in the disaster movie The Towering Inferno. Jones is survived by her son, Robert Walker Jr....
- 12/17/2009
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