Cecil B. DeMille

A Biblical Sky....

Havering On (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008

Tonight, a couple of minutes before my Cecil B. Demille moment with the owl...

Rumer Willis is going to be Miss Golden Globe after all

In Case You Didn't Know (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008

ET confirms that paparazzi favorite and up-and-coming actress Rumer Willis will be heading to the upcoming Golden Globe Awards as Miss Golden Globe...

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Let Harper play Olympic party hooky if he wants to

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008

I'm kind of glad Prime Minister Stephen Harper isn't going to Beijing for the Summer Olympics gargantuan opening ceremonies, which are likely to make Cecil B. DeMille look like a piker. Since when were national leaders expected to put in a command appearance at another country's Olympics? All of sudden, for some reason, it's considered a snub to China if Steve doesn't show.

'PACIFIC' HEIGHTS

New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008

In 2000, when Broadway stars Danny Burstein and Rebecca Luker bought their Morningside Heights apartment, they added to the building's show-business legacy. They were following in the footsteps of famed director Cecil B. DeMille, who was one of...

Rosenbaum on DeMille's Commandments

FilmChat (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008

Jonathan Rosenbaum has just posted a review of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) that he wrote for the Chicago Reader when the film was re-issued way back in 1990. Very interesting stuff. I would quibble with a few of his statements of fact and at least one of his more minor interpretations -- I do think, in fact, that the film inclines us to believe that Joshua and Lilia get together...

Rumer Willis Hired As Miss Golden Globe

Truemors (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008

Rumer Willis has a new role and it’s surprisingly not as Mr. Potato Head’s love interest. No no, the spawn of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis will take the stage at this year’s Golden Globes as Miss Golden Globe, basically Vanna White without the letter spinning or botox injections. In other Golden Globe news, Steven [...]

Just In: Rumer Willis is Miss Golden Globe!

The Insider (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008

"The Insider" confirms that paparazzi favorite and up-and-coming actress Rumer Willis will be heading to the upcoming Golden Globe Awards as Miss Golden Globe. "The Insider" also confirms that Steven Spielberg will be the recipient of the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award. The 66th Annual Golden Globes takes place on January 11, 2009 [Read full story on The Insider]

Rumer Willis: Golden Girl

Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008

"The Insider" confirms that paparazzi favorite and up-and-coming actress Rumer Willis will be heading to the upcoming Golden Globe Awards as Miss Golden Globe. "The Insider" also confirms that Steven Spielberg will be the recipient of the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award. The 66th Annual Golden Globes takes place on January 11, 2009

Our best theatres are crumbling to dust

The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008

We don't seem to be able to produce such wonderful buildings for theatre any more

Today in NY: 'The Apartment,' gospel night, Les Paul

NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008

It is Monday, July 28 and here are a few events on today’s calendar: “The Apartment” screens for free on the lawn at HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival at dusk - lawn opens at 5 p.m. Annual Gospel Night...

Tarantino’s Mind

Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008

Tarantino’s Mind - a tall tale, or the key to the oeuvre of the new Cecil B DeMille?1 [Via Daring Fireball] Or, if you prefer, just a send-up of fanwankery.

China as Italy's inspiration

Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008

Too bad Cecil B. DeMille isn't around to film Gavin Menzies' "1434," a swashbuckling, overly detailed account — including copious speculation — of Chinese influence on the Renaissance.

Summer show and tell

Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

DB here: I came back from a month in Europe to find a stack of magazines, books, and DVDs waiting. There was Before the Rain, much Cecil B. DeMille, and a mass of Anthony Manns (some discussed on Jonathan Rosenbaum’s blog). How will I ever catch up? I was reconciled to the idea that I’d die [...]

Catching Karadzic

New Statesman (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

How did one of Europe's most wanted men give the security forces the slip for so long? Because the Serbs didn't need to seize him until now Looking a little like God in a Cecil B DeMille film, Radovan Karadzic was genuinely unrecognisable when he was arrested on a Belgrade bus last Monday evening. Yet even more astonishing was the news that he had been working as a crystal-rubbing therapist promoting...

Silent Sunday: Don't Change Your Husband (1919)

goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

In the first film Gloria Swanson made with Cecil B. DeMille, a pairing that would produce six films and make Swanson one of the biggest stars of the silent screen, she goes around dressed like a peacock, swathed in Oriental...