San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Television likes to pat itself on the back whenever it films live theater. While there's no doubt that the process captures an ephemeral cultural moment, for the most part, the filmed plays look like filmed plays. We never fully...
House of Eratosthenes (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Hey — if you believe Obama’s position (as expressed by Obama) is the right way to go, it should already be raising an enormous red flag with you that we’re engaging in such an incredible volume of talking about the talks…and saying nothing, zero, zilch, nada, bubkes about what would actually be said in the [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
There's a lot of box-office powerhouses present in How To Lose Friends and Alienate People--Jeff Bridges (Iron Man), Megan Fox (Transformers), Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man), and Danny Huston (in the upcoming Wolverine), all play roles in a film that is sending up the superficiality of Hollywood, and the self-aware movie-makers who ...
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Click Here to download full episode Already established in their separate careers, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau became one of the screen’s great comedy teams — and they were first paired by director Billy Wilder in this 1966 satire, which earned Matthau an Oscar. The actor plays a scheming attorney who convinces his brother-in-law (Lemmon), a [...]
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
You always hear stories of how people know how to beat a lie detector and I would be willing to bet that poor old Drew knows all these ways better than the average person. There was an old Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau movie entitled: "the Snake Pit" and when they were trying to figure out if Jack Lemmon was trying to defraud the insurance, one doctor said throw him in a snake pit and they would get the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Imagine a remake of "The Odd Couple" in which Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau happen to rule the world
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Rare behindthescenes footage of 1959 film sells at Australian auction.
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
In 1959 a young US Naval officer was a guest on the set of the Marilyn Monroe/Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis movie Some Like It Hot after a visit from Monroe to his San Diego Naval base. While on the set he took a short amount of 8mm film footage of the sex symbol, that also included a little bit of Curtis and director [...]
Tom Watson: My Dirty Life & Times (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Over at newcritics, Lance Mannion will continue our New York-oriented Wednesday Night at the Movies film fest with a tribute to The Apartment, my favorite Jack Lemmon flick and that's saying something. Join me, the Sireen (as I like to...
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
It's Wednesday Night at the Movies at newcritics. Tonight the Self-Styled Siren's given me the key to the apartment so I can host a little party. You're all invited. Our movie feature is The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine as the adorable Fran Kubelik. Party starts at 9 PM Eastern. Nobody has to stand outside in the rain catching cold while the rest of us are inside...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Some romantic movies feel so real that they transcend the standard "chick flick" label.
Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
The skeevy Shakespeare Suspect , describing his girlfriend the Cuban nightclub dancer: [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: communism , fruit loop , legs , Castro , The Apartment , movies
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ION Television, the “Positively Entertaining” general entertainment network reaching over 94
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Who's a great dad? That's what the Phoenix Father's Day Council wants to know. Members of the group are accepting nominations for its 2009 Father of the Year Award.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Undresses History of Cross-Dressing in Film ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Acclaimed filmmaker John Landis is joining Emmy Award(R)-winning executive producer Kevin Burns and Prometheus Entertainment to produce the Starz original special Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen, a history of cross-dressing in film. The one-hour documentary is scheduled to premiere on Starz, Tuesday, December 16...
