Roger Corman's output through the years may not be immediately familiar, but he's been a wide conduit for emerging talent and raw creativity. That's why he's finally been given an Oscar "OK, so, November 14th 2009, Roger Corman receives an Oscar. People … what took you so long?" The words of Jonathan Demme in his speech before handing over the statuette to Corman on that fateful evening....
It's been a long time coming, but Roger Corman has finally received his Oscar. At the annual Governors Awards ceremony, honoring the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients,...
Sultry, intelligent Lauren Bacall is one of my favorite actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She made a number of films, but the best, in my opinion, were the film noir movies in which she co-starred with husband Humphrey Bogart (they first met and fell in love during the filming of To Have [...]
I’ve been feeling a little listless lately, wondering about a lot of things that I won’t go into here. With this in mind I happened to pop Jonathan Demme’s 1986 film SOMETHING WILD into the DVD player for my first full viewing in quite some time. It’s interesting how the opening title sequence consists of views of Manhattan—funkier, more low-level shots of the island than...
He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.
Roger Corman, one of the most prolific movie makers ever, got his honorary Oscar yesterday. He's an award winner that seems unconventional for the Academy, but Corman's connections to mainstream Hollywood go deeper than I realized. You might already...
Eighty-three-year-old Roger Corman, who has produced nearly 400 "B" movies -- none of them regarded as a candidate for an Oscar nomination -- over a career that began 55...
Oscar News: Indie legend's proteges have nabbed many Oscars -- The first job I had in the movie business paid $400 for four weeks' work on location in 1974 in some of the top chicken-fighting spots in Georgia for a movie called "Cockfighter."
Britney Spears bikini pics! (Melbourne, Australia - 11/10) It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. Did you know Britney was actually Jonathan Demme's second choice to play Buffalo Bill in The Silence... ...read full story
After a weekend Indian summer, fall has returned with a vengeance here in Cineville, leaving your dashing narrator all woozy again (I swear, if I get one more &$%$#* cold, I'm going to go all Angelus on this place), and thus unable to blog about the backlog of movies ( Royal Flash , Revolutionary Road ), comics (Spider-Man!) and events (Jonathan Demme at Oberlin!) that have been dancing through...
Jonathan Demme, Pegi Young, Neil Young 48th Annual Grammy Awards - 8 Feb 2006Getty Images Entertainment photo by Stephen ShugermanThis summer it was announced that the Music Academy would honor Neil Young as the MusiCares Person of the Year.From Music News Net: Legendary artist and activist Neil Young will be honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year at a special L.A. event on Friday,
I've become increasingly aware of people who are doing what they want to do with their lives and having a positive impact on others' in the process. I wrote recently about Dallas Clayton , who wrote a beautiful book for his son to inspire a little boy to think big and, when he couldn't find a publisher, published it himself and is now giving copies away. I watched Jonathan Demme's Jimmy Carter: Man...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston, Quentin Tarantino and Kirk Douglas will be among the presenters when Oscar organizers hand out honorary statuettes at a black-tie dinner in Hollywood next month. Actress Lauren Bacall, producer/director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis will receive special Oscars during the ceremony at Hollywood & Highland on November...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston, Quentin Tarantino and Kirk Douglas will be among the presenters when Oscar organizers hand out honorary statuettes at a black-tie dinner in Hollywood next month. Actress Lauren Bacall, producer/director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis will receive special Oscars during the ceremony at Hollywood & Highland on November...
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