Glenn Farr, whose work on The Right Stuff won the 1984 Academy Award for editing, died May 25 at Cedars Sinai from complications from a brain tumor, according to several friends’ Facebook posts. He was 77.
Farr brought his touch to Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff. He shared the win with fellow editors Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart.
“This is truly a beautiful, wonderful moment for each one of us,” Farr said in his Oscar acceptance speech. “We are privileged to be a part of it and the experience will long live in our hearts. We must thank our marvelous, beautiful director — we love you Phil Kaufman — for his leadership and dedication and the vision he gave to us.” Farr also offered a thank you to all assistant and contributing editors that worked on the film.
Farr’s editing resume included Garry Marshall’s Nothing in Common,...
Farr brought his touch to Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff. He shared the win with fellow editors Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart.
“This is truly a beautiful, wonderful moment for each one of us,” Farr said in his Oscar acceptance speech. “We are privileged to be a part of it and the experience will long live in our hearts. We must thank our marvelous, beautiful director — we love you Phil Kaufman — for his leadership and dedication and the vision he gave to us.” Farr also offered a thank you to all assistant and contributing editors that worked on the film.
Farr’s editing resume included Garry Marshall’s Nothing in Common,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Glenn Farr, the Oscar-winning editor known for his work on “The Right Stuff” and “Commando,” has died. He was 77.
Farr died on May 25 due to complications from a brain tumor, said his friend and fellow editor Janice Hampton.
In 1984, Farr won the Academy Award for editing with Philip Kaufman’s “The Right Stuff,” a historical drama film based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 novel of the same name. Farr shared the win with fellow editors Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart.
“This is truly a beautiful, wonderful moment for each one of us,” Farr said in his Oscar acceptance speech. “We are privileged to be a part of it and the experience will long live in our hearts. We must thank our marvelous, beautiful director — we love you Phil Kaufman — for his leadership and dedication and the vision he gave to us.” Farr also offered a thank...
Farr died on May 25 due to complications from a brain tumor, said his friend and fellow editor Janice Hampton.
In 1984, Farr won the Academy Award for editing with Philip Kaufman’s “The Right Stuff,” a historical drama film based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 novel of the same name. Farr shared the win with fellow editors Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart.
“This is truly a beautiful, wonderful moment for each one of us,” Farr said in his Oscar acceptance speech. “We are privileged to be a part of it and the experience will long live in our hearts. We must thank our marvelous, beautiful director — we love you Phil Kaufman — for his leadership and dedication and the vision he gave to us.” Farr also offered a thank...
- 6/1/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
The space race has a new frontier in the first trailer for For All Mankind‘s third season (premiering Friday, June 10 on Apple TV+).
Unspooling with one new episode each week, the upcoming run jumps ahead nearly 10 years into the early ’90s. Mars is now “the new front in the Space Race not only for the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but also an unexpected new entrant with a lot to prove and even more at stake,” per the official synopsis. As a result, the characters “find themselves going head-to-head as their ambitions for Mars come into conflict and their loyalties are tested,...
Unspooling with one new episode each week, the upcoming run jumps ahead nearly 10 years into the early ’90s. Mars is now “the new front in the Space Race not only for the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but also an unexpected new entrant with a lot to prove and even more at stake,” per the official synopsis. As a result, the characters “find themselves going head-to-head as their ambitions for Mars come into conflict and their loyalties are tested,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films to produce movies including “Tropic Thunder,” “Dodgeball” and “Zoolander,” has died of cancer.
Several of his friends posted about his death on social media.
At Red Hour, which he founded with Stiller in 1999, he also produced “Duplex” starring Stiller and Drew Barrymore, “Starsky & Hutch,” “Blades of Glory” and “The Ruins.” One of the last films he produced was “The Polka King,” starring Jack Black. Stiller said on Twitter, “Stuart Cornfeld was as funny, smart, talented & cool as a person gets.”
A really great person left the planet today. Stuart Cornfeld was as funny, smart, talented & cool as a person gets. He was my friend, producing partner, and creative confidant. He knew movies, made movies and loved movies. World=less better without him. IMDb him. He was the best. pic.twitter.com/sOx85UvxC4
— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) June 27, 2020
Earlier in his career,...
Several of his friends posted about his death on social media.
At Red Hour, which he founded with Stiller in 1999, he also produced “Duplex” starring Stiller and Drew Barrymore, “Starsky & Hutch,” “Blades of Glory” and “The Ruins.” One of the last films he produced was “The Polka King,” starring Jack Black. Stiller said on Twitter, “Stuart Cornfeld was as funny, smart, talented & cool as a person gets.”
A really great person left the planet today. Stuart Cornfeld was as funny, smart, talented & cool as a person gets. He was my friend, producing partner, and creative confidant. He knew movies, made movies and loved movies. World=less better without him. IMDb him. He was the best. pic.twitter.com/sOx85UvxC4
— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) June 27, 2020
Earlier in his career,...
- 6/27/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
After experiencing the permeating machismo of the Yakuza Papers Pentalogy, the opportunity to watch a film that actually parodied the yakuza ways, and even more, which had a girl for a protagonist, was more than welcome. “Sailor Suit and Machine Gun” is based on the homonymous, 1978 novel by Jiro Akagawa and stars pop idol Hiroko Yakushimaru, with her presence helping immensely in the appeal the film had in Japan, winning popularity awards for both the title and the protagonist from the Japanese Academy. Furthermore, the distribution income it generated was the biggest in the domestic market for 1982, while the theme song of the film, which was also sung by Yakushimaru, stayed at the 1st place of the weekly Oricon Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks.
Izumi Hoshi is a normal high school girl, until one day, and after a number of yakuza appear in the school she attends,...
Izumi Hoshi is a normal high school girl, until one day, and after a number of yakuza appear in the school she attends,...
- 12/8/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Shout! Factory has released a highly impressive Blu-ray boxed set, "The Anne Bancroft Collection" containing key films from the Oscar-winner's career. Here is the official press release:
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Los Angeles, CA – Celebrate the extraordinary film career of actress/writer/director Anne Bancroft in the first-ever collection of her most iconic performances, The Anne Bancroft Collection, on Blu-ray™ December 10th from Shout! Factory. From Annie Sullivan to Mrs. Robinson, and from Helene Hanff to Anna Bronski, this Oscar®-winning and profoundly versatile actress delivered some of the most poignant and sharply comic characters in modern film.
The collection, curated by Bancroft’s husband, the inimitable writer/director/producer Mel Brooks, includes the films Don’t Bother To Knock (1952), The Miracle Worker (1962), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), Fatso (1980), To Be Or Not To Be (1983), and for the first time on Blu-ray™, Agnes Of God (1985), and...
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Los Angeles, CA – Celebrate the extraordinary film career of actress/writer/director Anne Bancroft in the first-ever collection of her most iconic performances, The Anne Bancroft Collection, on Blu-ray™ December 10th from Shout! Factory. From Annie Sullivan to Mrs. Robinson, and from Helene Hanff to Anna Bronski, this Oscar®-winning and profoundly versatile actress delivered some of the most poignant and sharply comic characters in modern film.
The collection, curated by Bancroft’s husband, the inimitable writer/director/producer Mel Brooks, includes the films Don’t Bother To Knock (1952), The Miracle Worker (1962), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), Fatso (1980), To Be Or Not To Be (1983), and for the first time on Blu-ray™, Agnes Of God (1985), and...
- 12/5/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Late actress Anne Bancroft had a stellar career in cinema, and some of her best known films include The Miracle Worker (for which she won an Oscar) and The Graduate. Her work with husband Mel Brooks included the films To Be Or Not To Be (a remake of the Ernst Lubitsch classic) and Silent Movie. [...]
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- 5/29/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
No, it's not a remake of the Dom DeLuise film. It is the story of an extremely sexually frustrated Norwegian slob whose life is turned upside-down by a flirty bird roommate.
Rino lives alone and masturbates and eats junk food. He has one friend, a spazzed-out, frizzy-headed Steve Buscemi-type with real anger management issues. Then a ridiculously hot Swedish girl moves in and. . . ugh. . . .it just gets painful.
Rife with sexual frustration, as well as genuine feelings, Fatso takes a hard look at the cruel hand fate deals to some of us.
Rino is an amateur comic book illustrator, and there are many hilarious, and very "adult," animated sequences. (Singing fleshlights? That's just child's play.) Rino envisions himself as a clumsy, horny Rhinoceros who sometimes mutates with lustful rage into "Captain Cock." it is definitely played for laughs, but there is a brutal honesty to it that you'll never see in an American film.
Rino lives alone and masturbates and eats junk food. He has one friend, a spazzed-out, frizzy-headed Steve Buscemi-type with real anger management issues. Then a ridiculously hot Swedish girl moves in and. . . ugh. . . .it just gets painful.
Rife with sexual frustration, as well as genuine feelings, Fatso takes a hard look at the cruel hand fate deals to some of us.
Rino is an amateur comic book illustrator, and there are many hilarious, and very "adult," animated sequences. (Singing fleshlights? That's just child's play.) Rino envisions himself as a clumsy, horny Rhinoceros who sometimes mutates with lustful rage into "Captain Cock." it is definitely played for laughs, but there is a brutal honesty to it that you'll never see in an American film.
- 9/24/2010
- UGO Movies
Comic actor Dom DeLuise has passed away at the age of 75, CNN reports. DeLuise, best known for his work with Mel Brooks through the 1970s and 80s and for his appearances in the Cannonball Run movies, had been battling cancer in the past year.
Though DeLuise was not in the spotlight much in the past 20 years, beginning in the early 1960s, DeLuise was constantly working in television, theater, and film for a long stretch, primarily as comedic relief, but throwing in th occasional dramatic turn, as well, like his 1980 film, Fatso.
He appeared on Dean Martin's variety show in the 1960s, which turned into an opportunity to star in a 1973 sitcom called Lotsa Luck. His work with Brooks included Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World Part I, The Twelve Chairs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and as the voice of Pizza the Hutt in Spaceballs.
Though DeLuise was not in the spotlight much in the past 20 years, beginning in the early 1960s, DeLuise was constantly working in television, theater, and film for a long stretch, primarily as comedic relief, but throwing in th occasional dramatic turn, as well, like his 1980 film, Fatso.
He appeared on Dean Martin's variety show in the 1960s, which turned into an opportunity to star in a 1973 sitcom called Lotsa Luck. His work with Brooks included Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World Part I, The Twelve Chairs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and as the voice of Pizza the Hutt in Spaceballs.
- 5/5/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
By Lee Pfeiffer
Dom DeLuise, the beloved comic actor of TV and feature films, has died at age 75. No details about cause of death have yet been released. DeLuise was a familiar face to moviegoers, generally playing second banana in many classic comedies. He was a favorite of Mel Brooks, who gave him prominent roles in Blazing Saddles, The Twelve Chairs, The History of the World: Part 1and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. DeLuise was also a close friend and co-star of Burt Reynolds. The two made both Cannonball Run films together and memorably starred in the dark comedy about death, The End in which DeLuise gave a hilarious performance as an escaped mental patient. In a rare starring role, DeLuise got to display both his comedic and dramatic skills in Fatso, a touching film directed by Anne Bancroft that centered on a man's lifelong battle with obesity. He also...
Dom DeLuise, the beloved comic actor of TV and feature films, has died at age 75. No details about cause of death have yet been released. DeLuise was a familiar face to moviegoers, generally playing second banana in many classic comedies. He was a favorite of Mel Brooks, who gave him prominent roles in Blazing Saddles, The Twelve Chairs, The History of the World: Part 1and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. DeLuise was also a close friend and co-star of Burt Reynolds. The two made both Cannonball Run films together and memorably starred in the dark comedy about death, The End in which DeLuise gave a hilarious performance as an escaped mental patient. In a rare starring role, DeLuise got to display both his comedic and dramatic skills in Fatso, a touching film directed by Anne Bancroft that centered on a man's lifelong battle with obesity. He also...
- 5/5/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Dom DeLuise, the comic actor who starred with friend Burt Reynolds in "Smokey and the Bandit II" and was in Mel Brooks' films "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie," and voiced Pizza the Hut in "Spaceballs," has died. Monsters and Critics embedded a great DeLuise clip from Brooks' "History of the World, part I" below. Dom is paired with comic legend Shecky Greene in the scene where "Ceasar" receives his war plunder gifts. The wonderful Madeline Kahn is in the clip too. DeLuise died Monday in a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 75 according to Entertainment Tonight. The man who starred in "Fatso" and the "Cannonball Run" films was also a fixture on American television, guest starring on...
- 5/5/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Estelle Reiner, wife of comedy legend Carl Reiner and mother of director Rob Reiner, passed away last Saturday at the age of 94. Reiner was perhaps best known for her cameo in the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally..., in which she uttered the line "I'll have what she's having," after Meg Ryan's infamous orgasm-faking scene.
Reiner enjoyed cameos in several other films, including The Man with Two Brains and Fatso. She also dabbled in music and painting.
Reiner is survived by her husband and three children.
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Reiner enjoyed cameos in several other films, including The Man with Two Brains and Fatso. She also dabbled in music and painting.
Reiner is survived by her husband and three children.
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- 10/30/2008
- by Thomas Leupp
- Reelzchannel.com
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