Retro Thing (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
DC Hiller and Daniel LeBlanc recently let us know about their site dedicated to the beautiful Clairtone Project G series. Clairtone was founded in 1958 by serial entrepreneur Peter Munk and designer David Gilmour. The elegant Project G stereos cemented...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Golden Girls star Estelle Getty died in her Los Angeles home at 5:35 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to a report from TMZ.com.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Anne Bancroft in 1955 (unconfirmed on the date but close at least). She was 24 years old. The beach is a studio backdrop. Those Hollywood tricksters! Normally when I see old photographs of movie stars I just think 'oh, look at the movie star when they were younger!' But in this case I had a total psychic disconnect... I was like "Anne Bancroft was alive in the 50s!???" as if this had never occurred...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Month-Long Celebration of Hollywood Stars Includes a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly Dance-Off, Back-to-Back Days Celebrating Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, And 13 Stars Getting their First SUMMER UNDER THE STARS Days ATLANTA, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- For the sixth consecutive year, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is dedicating all of August to its SUMMER UNDER THE STARS movie festival, in which each of...
Jeff the Baptist (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Max Brooks, of Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z fame, is the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. He's also done voice work on Batman Beyond and the Justice League TV shows. If I get home and this is written on the author blurb on the back of those books, I'll be annoyed.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
NEW YORK - Hardly anybody saw Edward Albee's Occupant at Signature Theatre in 2002; its star, Anne Bancroft, fell ill during previews and the show never officially opened. So this reprise/premiere is a major event in a season filled with Albee events: an 80th birthday, two new plays - Homelife (the prequel to Zoo Story) and Me, Myself and I - in addition to revivals of Sandbox and American Dream.
Balls and Walnuts (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
She died on this day in 2005. Beautiful . . . . . . and funny. This is brilliant: and equally brilliant (with Lee J. Cobb playing a terrific straight man to Anne’s monologue): Enjoy. D.
The Real Estate (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
MONDAY, JUNE 2 Monday evening begins promisingly enough with a tribute to recently departed cinema god Sydney Pollack; Turner Classic Movies is spooling four of his films tonight. The Slender Thread airs at 8 p.m., starring Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier and a suicide hotline--for real! Then every two hours another one: Three Days of the Condor, Tootsie, and Jeremiah Johnston . If you only tune...
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
As all of the famous events of May 1968 go on, the new #1 song in America is: The Graduate has been canonized as an important cultural marker of the 60s (in ways never imagined back in the day ......
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
TCM salutes the great Sydney Pollack tomorrow evening with four of his very best films. All times Pacific: 5pm - Slender Thread, The (1965) - A crisis line volunteer tries to save a woman from suicide. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas. Dir: Sydney Pollack BW-98 mins, TV-PG 7pm - Three Days of the Condor (1975) - A [...]
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
When news broke Monday that Sydney Pollack had died of cancer at age 73, the tributes poured out. Many critics praised his work ethic, of directing high-class, star-driven, commercially viable movies for 40 years, from "The Slender Thread" (starring Sidney Poitier and Anne
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
RubyTooth.com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
The ending of The Graduate is justly famous. Directed by Mike Nichols in 1967. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and others.
The Mayor of Television (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
On Monday, June 2, Turner Classic Movies will present four films by Sydney Pollack, the almost unfairly talented director/producer who died Monday and who later in his career turned in some nicely wicked little performances in other people's films (his...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Hollywood film director, producer and actor
