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Christina Hendricks: The Hollywood Interview

15 October 2009 2:43 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actress Christina Hendricks.

Christina Hendricks Drives ‘Em Mad

By

Alex Simon

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho and Fairfax, Virginia, actress Christina Hendricks made her debut in the TV movie Sorority in 1999, following a successful modeling career in London and New York. After appearing in dozens of television productions, including recurring roles on hits like ER and Firefly, Christina landed the plum role of seductress secretary Joan Holloway on American Movie Classics’ lauded original series Mad Men. Created by former Sopranos scribe Matthew Weiner, Mm takes place in 1960, and follows the denizens of fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency Sterling-Cooper, led by eponymous characters played by John Slattery and Robert Morse, respectively, with the main focal point being rising hot-shot Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a dynamo whose checkered personal life and shady past come to light in each new episode. The show is a delicious blend of drama, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Rob Pattinson: 10 Reasons Kristen's His Lover

27 September 2009 3:58 PM, PDT | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »

Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have fueled a tabloid frenzy over the nature of their relationship. Are the lovers, or just very close friends? If the two were involved in a romance, it would be the biggest Hollywood hookup in recent memory. Over the years certain Tinsletown romances have captured the attention of the nation. There was Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner; Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds and later Elizabeth Taylor; and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, again. Will Rob and Kristen join that storied group? »

- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)

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'Project Runway' and film noir: What are your favorite femme-fatale fashions?

25 September 2009 1:24 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Last night, Project Runway went Hollywood: the designers had to create a look based on classic Hollywood genres, one of which was film noir. Althea, Louise, and Irina all picked this über cool category, and I had high hopes that the ladies would crank out some fierce femme fatale frocks. Wrong! Louise failed miserably (a 1940s actress going to a party dressed as a flapper...huh?), while Irina merely squeaked by with a too-revealing gown paired with an out-of-place poufy cape. Only Althea (whose design is pictured, left) came close to capturing the sexy, dangerous allure of screen goddesses like Barbara Stanwyck (far left) and Rita Hayworth. She even got the hair right. The challenge got me thinking about the rich history of film noir heroines and the drop-dead duds that made them so thrillingly naughty. It's hard to top Stanwyck's shoulder-padded blouses and pencil skirts — not to mention that ankle bracelet! »

- Missy Schwartz

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The Way He Lived Then

26 August 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Dominick Dunne at the 2004 Vanity Fair Oscar party. By Eric Charbonneau/Berliner Studio/BEImages. To be a young man growing up in America before the halfway mark of the last century was to be almost genetically infatuated with one of the country’s two national pastimes. For some, it was baseball, where heroes like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx reigned. But, for others, it was the movies and their mythic provenance, Hollywood, where the real stars—Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant—constituted the occidental firmament. It seems safe to say that Dominick Dunne, who was born a few months after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published, fell into the latter category. I bring up Fitzgerald not because my dear friend and late colleague Nick Dunne resembled that other Nick—Carraway, that is—but because he so thoroughly defied the great novelist’s most famous axiom. »

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Into the Time Machine of a Black-and-White TV

27 May 2009 4:06 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Turning back the hands of time, our friend and comrade in the cause of truth, justice, and beauty, Margo Jefferson, publishes a fond momento in the latest Bookforum irresistibly titled "TV Time in Negroland," wherein she recounts sitting down with her family in the fifties to watch the greatest black entertainers of the era do guest spots on the top variety shows. Idle diversion this wasn't. Under the microscope each performer went. It’s weekend-television time. Sammy Davis Jr. is going to be on The Milton Berle Show. Dorothy Dandridge is going to be on The Jerry Lewis Colgate Comedy Hour. Lena Horne is going to be on The Frank Sinatra Timex Show. These are seminal moments in the viewing mores of the whole nation. After dinner, the four of us gather in the TV room. Our parents are on the couch; Denise and I push the hassocks as near »

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Poll: Who Should Play Frank Sinatra?

15 May 2009 6:35 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

The race is on in Hollywood to play Ol' Blue Eyes. Oscar winner Martin Scorsese will be directing and producing a biopic about legendary singer Frank Sinatra, who died in 1998 at age 82. The hot-tempered Sinatra led a famously colorful life: He wed four times (including to movie stars Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow), had early ties to organized crime, and starred in 50-plus movies, including the original Rat Pack extravaganza, Ocean’s Eleven, as well as From Here to Eternity, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The role of Sinatra has yet to be cast, but »

- Leah Rozen

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Scorsese to make sweet music with Sinatra biopic

14 May 2009 3:51 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures are teaming on "Sinatra" and have brought on Martin Scorsese to direct and produce.According to Variety, Universal and Mandalay.s Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman have been developing the project for two years while they worked to secure the life and music rights from Frank Sinatra Enterprises . a joint venture of the Sinatra Estate and Warner Music Group.Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay. No actor is attached to star in the film. The project will be the first theatrical film to be made about the Hoboken, N.J., native, whose life provided endless news for the gossip columnists because of his tumultuous love affairs with actresses such as Ava Gardner, notorious friendships with the likes »

- Adnan Tezer

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Martin Scorsese To Direct Frank Sinatra Biopic

14 May 2009 11:47 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct Sinatra, the story story of the acclaimed singer/actor Frank Sinatra. Field of Dreams writer, Phil Alden Robinson is set to draft the script in what will be an "unconventional" biopic, covering the span of Sinatra's life. With so much life to cover including childhood in NJ, Hollywood singing and acting, Mafia ties, the Rat Pack, marriages to Ava Gardner & Mia Farrow (among others), hanging with Kennedy, and so on...we're talking a pretty long film here. Getting an agreement from the Sinatra estate has been the final thing slowing up this project. It's been a long time coming and they hold the rights for Sinatra's music. Since they will be using actual recordings of Sinatra and not going the path of Walk The Line, $50 bucks says he'll cast his golden boy Leonardo DiCaprio as Ol' Blue Eyes himself. »

- Dave Campbell

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Scorsese Searching for His Sinatra, Lindsay Lands a Gig

14 May 2009 6:45 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Ol' Blue Eyes and young red hair are returning to the big screen—separately, that is. Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct and produce a biopic of none other than Frank Siantra. Sinatra, the first big-screen film on the entertainment legend, will touch on his love affairs and marriages (two of his four wives were Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner), his friendships with John F. Kennedy and the rest of the Rat Pack, his singing and acting career and, of course, his possible Mafia ties. No actor is attached to the film, though Scorsese's go-to guy, Leonardo DiCaprio, is already being touted as a possible frontrunner. Universal has secured the rights to Sinatra's back catalog, so the lead... »

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Scorsese To Direct Sinatra Biopic

14 May 2009 5:02 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Jazz Legend Frank Sinatra is finally going to get a big screen biopic - directed by no less than the Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese!

Universal Pictures bought "Sinatra", a script by screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) after years of negotiations with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, a joint venture of the star's estate and Warner Music Group.

Mandalay Pictures' Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman are producing along with Scorsese and his Sikelia Prods.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, who broke the story, delays were caused by the internal politics involved in signing off on the biopic. Family members found it difficult coming to a consensus on how to tell the story, and how much of the story should be told at all:

"The obstacles were ones of comfort and trust," Schulman said. "Everybody that was in control of the rights had to unanimously agree to do this. And having »

- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)

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Scorsese To Direct Sinatra

14 May 2009 12:46 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Martin Scorsese's always got a kick out of Frank Sinatra - he's been circling a biopic project for years - but he is now signed up to direct Sinatra, the story of the acclaimed singer and actor's life. And they can't take that away from him.The film's set to be written by Field of Dreams' Phil Alden Robinson, and we're told that it will be an "unconventional biopic" that will cover all phases of the singer's life. And there's a lot there to cover: the boy from Hoboken, New Jersey, famously romanced half of Hollywood while finding love and marriage with Ava Gardner and later Mia Farrow (among others), hung with Kennedy, allegedly had ties to the mafia - oh, and was one of the most talented singers in history (with a not-to-be-sniffed-at acting ability too). You might say he did it his way, but we wouldn't because »

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Martin Scorsese Helming Frank Sinatra Biopic

13 May 2009 10:03 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct and produce Sinatra, a biopic of the legendary performer that Universal and Mandalay Pictures are developing. Phil Alden Robinson (Sneakers, Field of Dreams) is writing the screenplay. Universal and Mandalay’s Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman have been quietly developing the project for two years while they worked feverishly to secure the life and music rights from Frank Sinatra Enterprises — a joint venture of the Sinatra Estate and Warner Music Group. Sinatra was born in Hoboken, N.J., and raised during the Depression; he built a singing career that weathered many changes in popular culture, all the while racking up 31 gold records and countless other honors. He also had a successful career as an actor, earning an Oscar for 1953's From Here to Eternity. His personal life was just as eventful. He suffered from depression, was alleged to have connections to organized crime »

- James Cook

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Holy Terror!: 11 Creepy Catholic Horror Films

14 March 2009 6:25 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

Holy Terror: The Catholic Church in Modern Horror Cinema

The Roman Catholic Church has been an inspiration for the macabre and terrifying for, well, centuries. Most recently there was a revival in interest in the religious, supernatural horror film in the early to mid 2000's in a cycle that ran from Stigmata to The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Horror rose to prominence and box office success in the 1970's with a long running series of films peppered with deeply religious themes. The church was under scrutiny in The Omen. a willing participant in the phenomenon that was The Exorcist. Beyond the obvious possession, Antichrist, and exorcism themed ripoffs there was the unique and internationally successful Blind Dead series with this undead crusading Templar Knights. The sleazy child murders of Fulci's Don't Torture A Ducking and the American giallo Alice, Sweet, Alice both featured heavy Catholic overtones. Further back we »

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Hollywood Producer Haggiag Dies

4 March 2009 8:10 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Movie producer Robert Haggiag has died at the age of 95.

Haggiag passed away on 1 March in Rome, Italy.

The prolific moviemaker, born in Libya, entered the film industry in the 1940s and co-founded Dear Films, which later became an Italian distributor for films made by 20th Century Fox and United Artists.

He went on to produce such films as 1954's Beat the Devil, starring Humphrey Bogart and 1957's Legend Of The Lost, which paired up John Wayne and Sophia Loren on-screen.

He also produced 1954's The Barefoot Contessa, starring Bogart and Ava Gardner, which went on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Edmond O'Brien in 1955.

In 1965, he received the best producer David di Donatello award, Italy's top industry honour.

Haggiag is survived by his wife Mirella and their three sons, Michael and Simone, who are both producers, and Jacopo. »

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Rip Robert Quarry (1925-2009)

21 February 2009 7:31 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

It is with great sadness that I write of the passing of actor Robert Quarry.

To most who read Fangoria, he was Count Yorga, Vampire (Aip 1970) who Returned (1971) before he found that Dr Phibes Rises Again that same year, became a Deathmaster in 1972, met Sugar Hill and went to the Madhouse in 1974.

He was more than that, though.  Born Robert Walter Quarry on November 3, 1925, the highly intelligent Quarry (who it was said had an I.Q. of 168) graduated High School at age 14, and started his acting career soon after on radio. Living in Santa Rose, Quarry won an acting scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse. When Alfred Hitchcock came to Santa Rosa, Quarry auditioned and won the role of Theresa Wright’s boyfriend in the 1943 classic Shadow Of A Doubt. His role, however, was all but cut out (he swore he appeared a nanosecond mooning over the actress), but it led to his Hollywood career, »

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Tammy Grimes & Marian Seldes Join Author David Sheward to Discuss George C. Scott Feb. 3

31 January 2009 3:01 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

George C. Scott created some of the 20th century's most memorable performances on stage and screen-the cunning prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, the manipulative gambler in The Hustler, the buffoonishly warmongering chief of staff in Dr. Strangelove, and, of course, the brilliant and rebellious Patton. He also played Willy Loman, Richard III, Mussolini, Scrooge, Fagin, and countless others. But his offstage life was as filled with drama and controversy as any of the lives he portrayed with such intensity. He refused the Oscar for Patton, battled with TV networks to include realistic elements in his series "East Side/West Side," invested (and lost) his own money on Broadway and in the scandalous film The Savage Is Loose, married five times (twice to Colleen Dewhurst) and had a tempestuous affair with Ava Gardner, traveled to Vietnam at the height of the war to write an article for Esquire, and weathered a damaging sexual harassment suit. »

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