The journey that led Ethan Hawke to make a six-part documentary about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward started about 40 years ago, when a 10-year-old Hawke was on his way to Sunday church with his father.
“I used to have to go to church every Sunday,” Hawke told the audience on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where two parts of his CNN/HBO Max series “The Last Movie Stars” premiered. “I really hated church, but my parents made me go.”
One particular Sunday, he said, his stepmother was sick and decided to skip the service. So Hawke and his father got dressed up in their suits and ties and headed for church. “On the way there, my father turned to me and said, ‘There’s a matinee of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” playing. Would you rather do that?’”
He laughed. “Yes, I would rather do that!”
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“I used to have to go to church every Sunday,” Hawke told the audience on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where two parts of his CNN/HBO Max series “The Last Movie Stars” premiered. “I really hated church, but my parents made me go.”
One particular Sunday, he said, his stepmother was sick and decided to skip the service. So Hawke and his father got dressed up in their suits and ties and headed for church. “On the way there, my father turned to me and said, ‘There’s a matinee of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” playing. Would you rather do that?’”
He laughed. “Yes, I would rather do that!”
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- 5/21/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Bernhardt’s Broadway credits include two Pulitzer winners: Paul Zindel’s 1970 The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, as well as the Henley play, which won the prize in 1981 but lost out on the best play Tony to The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. He died at home in Manhattan on September 12. No cause of death was given, but his husband, Jeff Woodman, told the New York Times that Bernhardt had been in declining health and had stopped taking…...
- 9/16/2015
- Deadline
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Joanne Woodward on TCM: Rachel, Rachel; Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am Count Three And Pray (1955) A Westerner turns preacher to overcome his shady past. Dir: George Sherman. Cast: Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Phil Carey. C-102 mins. 7:45 Am Rally Round The Flag, Boys! (1958) The arrival of an Army missile base shatters the peaceful life of a suburban town. Dir: Leo McCarey. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins. C-107 mins, Letterbox Format. 9:45 Am Paris Blues (1961) Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Dir: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier. C-99 mins, Letterbox Format. 11:30 Am Signpost To Murder (1964) A convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing. Dir: George Englund. Cast: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare. Bw-77 mins, Letterbox Format. 1:00 Pm...
- 8/16/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Joanne Woodward never became a major box-office draw. No matter. Woodward was one of the best film actresses of the 20th century, as can be attested by her work in The Three Faces of Eve; Rachel, Rachel (right); Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams; The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. Woodward's absence from the big screen after a supporting role in Jonathan Demme's 1993 AIDS drama Philadelphia is indeed cinema's loss. On Tuesday, August 16, Turner Classic Movies will be presenting 13 Joanne Woodward movies as part of TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" film series. [Joanne Woodward Movie Schedule.] Four of those are TCM premieres: Leo McCarey's weak comedy Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), with Paul Newman as Woodward's love interest, and Joan Collins sultrily stealing the show; Burt Reynolds' highly successful black comedy The End (1978), about a dying man's attempts at killing himself with the assistance of a...
- 8/16/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Stage and television actress Sada Thompson died in Danbury, Conn., on Wednesday, May 3. Thompson, best known for her portrayal of the matriarch in the 1970s television series Family, was 83. The cause of death was lung disease. [Right: Family cast members Meredith Baxter, Gary Frank, Thompson, James Broderick, Kristy McNichol.] In 1972, Thompson won a Tony for playing four roles — three daughters and their mother — in George Furth’s Twigs. Spending much of her stage career away from Broadway, Thompson became a star in the 1970 Off Broadway production of Paul Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, which two years later Paul Newman made into a movie starring his wife Joanne Woodward. On the big screen, Thompson could be seen only three times: Robert Mulligan's The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), a generation-gap drama toplining Michael Sarrazin (who died a couple of weeks ago) and Barbara Hershey; Desperate [...]...
- 5/6/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Celebrated Broadway press agent Max Eisen has died, aged 91.
Eisen, who worked on more than 1,000 shows during his decades-long career, died of natural causes on 23 November at his home in Manhattan, New York.
From 1954 to 1997 he was the press agent for more than 60 Broadway shows and dozens of Off Broadway productions, including The Matchmaker, The World of Charles Aznavour, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Raisin, a revival of Guys and Dolls, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and a revival of The Wiz.
He is survived by Barbara - his wife of 44 years - a son Glenn, a daughter Lee Kittay, and five grandchildren.
Eisen, who worked on more than 1,000 shows during his decades-long career, died of natural causes on 23 November at his home in Manhattan, New York.
From 1954 to 1997 he was the press agent for more than 60 Broadway shows and dozens of Off Broadway productions, including The Matchmaker, The World of Charles Aznavour, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Raisin, a revival of Guys and Dolls, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and a revival of The Wiz.
He is survived by Barbara - his wife of 44 years - a son Glenn, a daughter Lee Kittay, and five grandchildren.
- 12/1/2009
- WENN
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