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4 December 2009 2:30 AM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
To celebrate the holiday season, Theatre Harrisburg presents Miracle On 34Th Street, a recreation of the famous 1948 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the classic movie favorite of the same name. Just like the original broadcast, this production will be presented in period costumes with live sound effects, seasonal music and even vintage commercials. Complimentary seasonal refreshments will also be provided, and the lobby will be decorated to simulate a 1940s New York City Street scene complete with Macy's holiday windows.
Miracle On 34Th Street is the touching story of a nice old gentleman, Kris Kringle, who claims he is Santa Claus. When he is declared insane, a young attorney decides to defend him in court and prove that he is indeed the real thing. The ensuing trial puts the beliefs of a skeptical mother and her six year-old daughter to the test, but it will take a miracle for Kris to win. »
26 November 2009 12:26 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Natalie Portman is finding it easy to settle into her new home in Los Angeles - because her neighbours are more welcoming than the locals in her native New York.
The Star Wars actress recently bought a new property on the West Coast and admits she's enjoying the warmer climes.
Portman says, "I just got a house. It's fantastic and its pretty nice to have sun every day. It was beautiful and we moved right in. My neighbours are lovely and my dog loves it."
The star celebrated her big purchase by throwing a housewarming party for all her friends.
Portman feared she would have to shut down the gathering and send guests home early when some neighbours came knocking - but she was pleasantly surprised when they asked to join in the fun instead of threatening to call the police.
She explains, "In New York, when I had a party I'd get a note the next day saying, 'Next time we'll call the police.'
"I had my first party (in L.A.) the other day, a housewarming, and had some friends over, had the music going and then someone said, 'Natalie, your neighbours are at the door' and I thought, 'Oh no!'
"And there were these dudes at the front door with booze and they were like, 'We heard the music, can we come hang?' I was like, 'Awesome, I love my neighbourhood!'" »
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
12 November 2009 11:54 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here. Last night after watching Two Lovers (my review here) there was one plea I kept repeating in my mind: please Joaquin Phoenix don't stop acting.
A lot was said earlier during the year about his retirement from acting and foray into rapping (I'm still trying to erase from my mind that unfunny, awkward Ben Stiller stint from the Oscars in February). And while he's been one of the most consistently fine actors in recent years (despite of some of the film choices he's made) and has received two Academy Award nominations this decade, he's truly remained underrated in a way.
People are used to his affecting Method acting and his superb impersonating skills (I still think his Johnny Cash from Walk the Line was robbed of the Best Actor Oscar), but when it comes to the one performance of his I think is pure genius, it's none other »
- Jose
8 November 2009 6:10 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Right at this moment, you're either gearing up for the Season 3 finale of Mad Men, you're seasons behind on DVD, or you've never seen an episode. No matter your situation I hope you got something from this "Mad Men at the Movies" series which looked at the movies referenced on the series. We'll deal with seasons 2&3 later. As you read this I am at a fab Mad Men party.
The last two episodes of the season 1 have no movie love. But in "Nixon vs. Kennedy" the jaded Don Draper we know (Jon Hamm) flashes back to meeting the original Don Draper (Troy Ruptash) who is unimpressed with the then naive young man.
Don Draper to Don Draper: What misconception travelled down the road and made you want to be here... a movie?Deliciously dizzying it is. A television series that loves the movies disses the cinema's great capacity to lie »
- NATHANIEL R
22 October 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The star of the show and the returning Sharona talk about the final season
The USA Network is gearing up for the series finale of its beloved hit series Monk, which will air on Friday, December 4, and they're bringing back some beloved past characters from the series. Bitty Schram will make her return as Sharona Flemming on this week's episode on Friday, October 23 at 9 Pm Et on the USA Network. Both Shalhoub and Schram participated in a conference call to discuss the series, and here's what they had to say.
To prepare for your role as Adrian Monk on the USA series, Monk, it's reported that you did a substantial amount of research with a Los Angeles psychotherapist specializing in obsessive-compulsive disorder. What was that experience like? Did you have to study someone with Ocd?
Tony Shalhoub: Well, the psychologist that I spoke with and had sessions with just »
17 October 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Rarely seen home movies shot by and featuring Hollywood legends such as Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly, Sophia Loren and Natalie Wood will screen during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' presentation of "Hollywood Home Movies II: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive" on Saturday, October 17, at 7 p.m. at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. This event is sold out, but standby tickets may become available. »
16 October 2009 12:24 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Natalie Portman cut herself as a teenager.
The 28-year-old actress has revealed playing a girl who died in 1995 gangster movie 'Heat' had a profound effect on her, resulting in her harming herself after an argument with her mother.
She told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "Just as what you are feeling in your life affects your acting, what you act in definitely affects what you are feeling in your life.
"I made 'Heat' when I was 14 and played a girl who died. A year later, I got into a fight with my mother and cut myself. I had never done it before and I never did it after that, but I think having my wrists bloody in a movie definitely affected my psyche."
Natalie revealed acting has always scared her as she is constantly worried people won't find her performances believable.
She is planning to focus »
- Paul
15 October 2009 3:36 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
By Tom Lisanti Twenty-eight years ago actress Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of Catalina when purportedly slipping off her yacht Splendour while trying to get into or trying to secure a dinghy after a fight with her husband Robert Wagner. After what the public presumed was a thorough investigation, the police have long closed the case after the La coroner ruled it an accidental drowning. However, in the new book Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour, co-written by the ship's skipper, new allegations are brought to life including shoddy police work leaving many unanswered questions. Natalie's sister Lana Wood (best known to movie fans as "Plenty O'Toole" in the James Bond adventure Diamond Are Forever) has joined the authors in demanding that the case be reopened. Click here for more.Click here to order the book from Amazon Visit Tom Lisanti's web site at www.sixtiescinema.com »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
12 October 2009 8:55 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Firstwivesworld.com, a community for divorced women, has named the world’s best celebrity stepfathers, and none other than Irishman Pierce Brosnan tops the list. Divorce expert Jill Brooke dishes on who she thinks wins in the categories of best and worst stepfathers, and the Irish actor comes out head and shoulders above the rest. Brooke provides a rundown of Brosnan’s impeccable fatherly track record, saying: “He was a loving stepfather to his wife Cassandra’s children, Charlotte and Christopher. They also had a son together. When Cassandra died of ovarian cancer, Brosnan took the children as his own. Subsequently he has remarried and has two more sons, Paris and Dylan.” Also on the “good” stepfather list is Paul McCartney, who adopted his first wife Linda’s daughter Heather, and Robert Wagner, who raised Natalie Wood’s daughter Natasha after Wood died. As for the bad, thankfully no Irishmen made the list. »
7 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Rarely seen home movies shot by and featuring Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly and the late Natalie Wood are to be screened as part of a quirky one-day film festival in Hollywood.
The candid footage will screen during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ presentation of Hollywood Home Movies II: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive on 17 October at the Linwood Dunn Theater.
The event is already sold out.
A spokesperson for the Academy says, "The Academy Film Archive houses a wide variety of such films and will present a selection of excerpts including footage of Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Judy Garland, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Alfred Hitchcock, Harpo Marx, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Stewart, Esther Williams and Loretta Young."
Hollywood Home Movies II is being presented in conjunction with Home Movie Day, an annual international celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. »
3 October 2009 9:48 AM, PDT | EW - Ausiello Files | See recent EW.com - The Ausiello Files news »
NCIS: La is giving Chris O'Donnell's naval stud his first significant crush this November in the form of actress Monet Mazur. The star of 40 Days and 40 Nights and Monster-in-Law will play the potentially recurring role of Natalie Buccola, a bright and confident secret service agent who develops a flirtation with O'Donnell's Callen. Mazur is scheduled to first appear in episode 6. »
- Michael Ausiello
29 September 2009 3:32 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Roman Polanski Arrest Backgrounder No doubt you’ve heard the rumblings and innuendo about acclaimed film director Roman Polanski’s arrest in Zurich Switzerland on Us charges of sex with a 13 year old girl stemming from a incident at Jack Nicholson’s house in the 1970s. It’s a touchy subject to discuss and for those who grew up in more recent times, a bit shocking.
Hollywood in the 1970s As I recall from my youth, the Hollywood of the 1970s were full of what seem like outlandish incidents to our hyper-sensitive reality-tv diluted eyes. Examples include Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane’s 1978 unseemly murder and subsequent uncovering of his sexual predilections, Natalie Wood somewhat mysterious accidental drowning while on a boat with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken in 1981 and the Hollywood connections of the Charles Manson murders including Polanski’s pregnant wife Sharon Tate.
Polanski in France Fast forward »
- Dave
22 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Mad Men at the Movies: We've been talking about the movies and film stars referenced in the two-time Emmy winning (yay!) 1960s set series. Previously name-checked: Gidget,Wizard of Oz, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Marty and Grace Kelly
1.10 "The Long Weekend"
Sterling (John Slattery) proposes a public date with Joanie (Christina Hendricks) since his wife Mona will be out of town for Labor Day weekend. Sterling proposes dinner, naked. Joanie isn't playing this particular conversational foreplay game. Her frustration with their affair is starting to show.Joanie: How about a movie? Have you seen The Apartment?
Sterling: I went last week with Mona and Margaret.
Joanie: I hear Shirley Maclaine is good.
Sterling: Oh please, a white elevator operator? And a girl at that? I want to work at that place!
Joanie: [turning on him] Oh, I bet you do. The way those men treated that poor girl, handing her »
- NATHANIEL R
15 September 2009 5:57 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Mad Men at the Movies: Talking bout movies and movie stars referenced in the '60s set series. Previously: Gidget, The Wizard of Oz, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Natalie Wood and Joan Crawford and Marty.
1.9 "Shoot"
An ad man angles to steal Don Draper from his firm by courting his wife for a modelling gig.
Jim Hobart: Anyone ever tell you you're a dead ringer for Grace Kelly?
Betty Draper: They used to.
Jim Hobart: You know what? Coca-Cola is deep into this international campaign right now. A European face like yours, like Grace Kelly's, might be a road we could go down. We could put a call out for a Grace Kelly 'type' but I don't think we'd come this close... As compliments go, that's quite a doozy. Do you think January Jones heard that before Mad Men or is it all in that 50's princess styling?
That "European »
- NATHANIEL R
12 September 2009 2:41 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Mad Men at the Movies: Talking bout movies and movie stars referenced in the '60s set series. Previously: Gidget, The Wizard of Oz, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Natalie Wood and Joan Crawford in The Best of Everything.
1.8 "The Hobo Code"
Inside ad agency Sterling Cooper, three operators connect calls and listen in. One of them Lois, played by Crista Flanagan (right) has developed a crush on Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt), the firm's closeted art director.
Lois: "Ciao Ciao". [smitten] My stars!
Operator #1: Two weeks in, she's already a goner.
Lois: He talks to his mother a lot.
Operator #2: Because he's not married.
Lois: He's in the art department? Well, what does he look like?
#1: Did you see that movie Marty with Ernest Borgnine? He lived with his mother.
#2: Stop teasing her. Marty, released in 1955, won Borgnine the Oscar for best actor but in this context it's a derogatory remark, »
- NATHANIEL R
10 September 2009 9:49 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
I am speechless. Literally. I can still write but I can’t speak after having just screened the Meteor DVD released by Rhi Entertainment. I almost don’t know whether to just list what went wrong here or to describe it. I will go with the later.
Meteor is not a new concept for a film. There was one made in 1979 with Natalie Wood, Sean Connery and Karl Malden. Of course the back stories were not the same but basically as you can figure out from the title: a meteor is headed for earth. I even remember something about Bruce Willis in one of these common Meteor movies – that is how familiar the whole concept is to me. Having written that, someone tell me why we needed another one? How can this have been a network miniseries? Who in their right mind would green light such a project? And think »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Marla Newborn)
30 August 2009 7:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Mad Men at the Movies: Discussing movies referenced in the '60s set series. Previously: Gidget, The Wizard of Oz, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Natalie Wood.
1.6 "Babylon"
Don Draper relaxes in bed with his wife's book "The Best of Everything". She joins him.
Don Draper: [sarcastically] This is fascinating.
Betty Draper: It's better than the Hollywood version.
Don: Certainly dirtier.
Betty: Joan Crawford is not what she was. And honestly, I found her eyebrows completely unnerving, like a couple of caterpillar's just pasted there. Her standing next to Suzy Parker... as if they were the same species.
Don: Well, some men like eyebrows. And all men like Joan Crawford. Salvatore couldn't stop talking about her.The Best of Everything (1959).
Like the Gidget reference, this last line is another wink to modern audience that Salvatore, Don's co-worker, is gay. These days who loves Joan Crawford more than the gays? Of course back »
- NATHANIEL R
26 August 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert Redford is in the air. He hasn't dissolved into something atmospheric (stop being so literal!) but his name keeps turning up. Last week his two early sexually fluid performances opposite Natalie Wood (This Property is Condemned and Inside Daisy Clover) were playing here in New York and next month in Brooklyn Bam Cinema hosts a retrospective. It culminates on September 13th with four films and the Sundance Kid himself in person. For whatever reason they've narrowed down the final four to Redford as romantic figure, often paired with true giants among actresses.
On the last day they're screening...
Out of Africa (1985) The Best Picture winning bio in which Redford can't be tamed by Meryl Streep's author/heroine but gladly offers up shampoo and stud services.
The Natural (1984) this prestige pic is a mythic baseball drama. Redford and cast are bathed in Caleb Deschanel lensed sunshine and the lovely »
- NATHANIEL R
24 August 2009 11:54 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
This weekend -- ending tonight -- Lincoln Center has sponsored a Nat alie Wood retrospective.
Natalie Wood. Glorious wide-eyed brunette. Movie star married to movie star Robert Wagner. Oscar nominee for "Splendor in the Grass" and "Rebel Without a Cause" co-starring James Dean. At age 43, on Nov. 29, 1981, in sight of her yacht Splendour, she drowned off Santa Catalina Island's Blue Cavern Point. Police ruled it accidental death.
Coming out now is the book "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour." Last year I was told, "Don't mention »
- By CINDY ADAMS
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