Ad exec Nathan Weiss dies at 85
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Film News: Co-author of notorious 'Cleopatra Papers' -- Film advertising exec and author Nathan Weiss died in New York on July 3 after a long illness. He was 85.
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Pennies from Heaven (by Russell Roberts)
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
In this earlier post, I wrote asked why live theater is so much more effective than filmed theater. Some people misinterpreted my remarks to mean that musical films don't have any kick. That's not what I meant. When you visit...
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Today In Theatre History: APRIL 3
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Today In Theatre History: APRIL 3and Ernio Hernandez03 Apr 2008 1911 Minnie Maddern Fiske stars as Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, a woman anxious to conceal her mid-continent past under a veneer of British manners. Harry James Smith's comedy runs at the Lyceum on Broadway.1911 Minnie Maddern Fiske stars as Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, a woman anxious to conceal her mid-continent past under a veneer of British manners....
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The Young Ones
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Sidney J. Furie - 1961 Anchor Bay Region 1 DVD After seeing The Young Ones for the first time, I had thought I had seen the missing link between The Band Wagon and A Hard Day's Night. Then I...
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ROMANCE & CIGARETTES (John Turturro, 2005)
More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Caught against the tides of a conglomerate melee between Sony and MGM for close to two years, John Turturro’s third directorial effort (after 1992’s MAC and 1998’s ILLUMINATA) is a shrill, brassy, bombastic blue-collar musical with an impressive cast lip-syncing and belting it out alongside a hodgepodge of classic AM favorites. James Gandolfini is a bellicose, mustachioed construction worker frustrated...
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TCM Pick O’ The Day — Friday, February 22nd
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
6:45pm PST - Goodbye Girl, The (1977) - A dancer discovers her runaway boyfriend has sublet her apartment to an aspiring actor. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-111 mins, TV-MA In a rare move the Academy gave Richard Dreyfuss the Oscar for a comedy role and it was very well-deserved because [...]
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Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 15, Week 7
Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
I just flew in from Berlin and boy are my...... I had completely forgotten that Wim Wenders co-opted Hopper's Nighthawks at the Diner in A History of Violence, which explains why it was the most popular guess last week. However,...
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"Romance & Cigarettes," an intoxicating musical
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
After watching John Turturro's strange, intoxicating musical "Romance & Cigarettes," you'll be walking around for a few days humming...
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Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 13, Week 9
Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 09/05/2007
"I swear to god George, if you even existed I'd divorce you."I've tried, several times in my life, to play the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf drinking game. That's the one where you watch Mike Nichols' masterpiece and have a...
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"Hairspray" Star Efron Will Be "Footloose" in Film Remake
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
"Hairspray" Star Efron Will Be "Footloose" in Film RemakeZac EfronParamount is planning to remake the 1984 motion picture "Footloose," according to Variety. The company is developing the film for Zac Efron, who will soon be seen on movie screens across the country as Link Larkin in the movie musical "Hairspray." Efron also played Troy Bolton in the mammoth Disney hit "High School Musical."Kenny Ortega,...
