Michael J. Fox was a heartthrob back in the ’80s and ’90s thanks to his many memorable roles in the Back To The Future series, Teen Wolf, The Hard Way, Life with Mikey, and more. The actor’s memorable performances and down-to-earth personality earned him a huge fan following.
Hence, many hearts across the world were broken when he revealed his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1998. However, the actor had been secretly fighting the progressive degenerative disorder for seven years at that point. Despite his disease, the actor appeared in many hit projects throughout the 2000s and 2010s. He was a regular in the CBS drama series The Good Wife which aired from 2010 to 2016.
However, in 2020, the star announced his retirement from onscreen work. The decision came due to Parkinson’s impacting his ability to memorize and remember lines. Now, four years later, he is willing to return to acting under one sole condition.
Hence, many hearts across the world were broken when he revealed his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1998. However, the actor had been secretly fighting the progressive degenerative disorder for seven years at that point. Despite his disease, the actor appeared in many hit projects throughout the 2000s and 2010s. He was a regular in the CBS drama series The Good Wife which aired from 2010 to 2016.
However, in 2020, the star announced his retirement from onscreen work. The decision came due to Parkinson’s impacting his ability to memorize and remember lines. Now, four years later, he is willing to return to acting under one sole condition.
- 4/5/2024
- by Disha Kandpal
- FandomWire
Some movies are so iconic it’s hard to imagine that they were originally going to be radically different. Elvis Presley‘s movie Jailhouse Rock once had a completely different title. One of Elvis’ regular songwriters revealed why the film’s initial name was abandoned. In addition, he discussed what he thought about Jailhouse Rock.
Elvis Presley’s movie ‘Jailhouse Rock’ could have been called ‘Ghost of a Chance’
Mike Stoller co-wrote several Elvis tunes, including “Hound Dog,” “Bossa Nova Baby,” “Little Egypt,” and “Jailhouse Rock.” During a 2022 interview with Variety, Stoller revealed the first title of the movie Jailhouse Rock was abandoned in favor of the title of his song.
“I think [the original title] was Ghost of a Chance,” he said. “That changed, I think, as soon as they heard the initial recording. Which is not the one in the film, because the one in the film was blown out and had a bigger orchestra.
Elvis Presley’s movie ‘Jailhouse Rock’ could have been called ‘Ghost of a Chance’
Mike Stoller co-wrote several Elvis tunes, including “Hound Dog,” “Bossa Nova Baby,” “Little Egypt,” and “Jailhouse Rock.” During a 2022 interview with Variety, Stoller revealed the first title of the movie Jailhouse Rock was abandoned in favor of the title of his song.
“I think [the original title] was Ghost of a Chance,” he said. “That changed, I think, as soon as they heard the initial recording. Which is not the one in the film, because the one in the film was blown out and had a bigger orchestra.
- 9/14/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.
New Music Friday – July 14th, 2023
Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For? From The Motion Picture “Barbie”)
Rita Ora – “You & I”, plus You & I (Album)
Post Malone – “Overdrive”
Renee Rapp – “Talk Too Much”
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry (Rock Version) feat. Slash”
Troye Sivan – “Rush”
Karol G – “s91”
Lauren Spencer Smith – “Bigger Person”, plus Mirror (Album)
Crash Adams – “Sugar Mommy”
Spencer Sutherland and Meghan Trainor – “Chicken Little”
Other noteworthy releases include Emei – “Cynical”, Sid Sriram – “The Hard Way“, Ryan Castro and Peso Pluma – “Quema”, Haviah Mighty – “Manifest” plus Crying Crystals (Album), Chloe Stroll – “Run”, Little Monarch – “Tears”, Alana Springsteen and Chris Stapleton – “ghost in my guitar”, (GI)I-dle – “I Do“, Olivia O’Brien – “i should’ve fucked your...
New Music Friday – July 14th, 2023
Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For? From The Motion Picture “Barbie”)
Rita Ora – “You & I”, plus You & I (Album)
Post Malone – “Overdrive”
Renee Rapp – “Talk Too Much”
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry (Rock Version) feat. Slash”
Troye Sivan – “Rush”
Karol G – “s91”
Lauren Spencer Smith – “Bigger Person”, plus Mirror (Album)
Crash Adams – “Sugar Mommy”
Spencer Sutherland and Meghan Trainor – “Chicken Little”
Other noteworthy releases include Emei – “Cynical”, Sid Sriram – “The Hard Way“, Ryan Castro and Peso Pluma – “Quema”, Haviah Mighty – “Manifest” plus Crying Crystals (Album), Chloe Stroll – “Run”, Little Monarch – “Tears”, Alana Springsteen and Chris Stapleton – “ghost in my guitar”, (GI)I-dle – “I Do“, Olivia O’Brien – “i should’ve fucked your...
- 7/14/2023
- by Mikael Melo
- ET Canada
Alan Ritchson finally gave fans a Jack Reacher they recognized when he debuted in Amazon Prime Video's 2022 series "Reacher." At the time, there was no way to know whether the show would be a success. After all, fans had made clear they had very specific expectations when it came to a live-action depiction of their favorite former military police officer. Let's just say there was a reason Tom Cruise wasn't cast in the TV series after portraying Reacher in two movies. Luckily, the Ritchson-led show proved incredibly popular, breaking Prime Video audience records.
Anyone who's read Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels (of which there are 28 alongside multiple short stories) will know that the titular character is a tough guy's tough guy. An unstoppable force of a man who stands at 6 foot 5 and weighs 250 pounds. And having bulked up for Amazon's show, the 6 foot 3 Ritchson was about as close as...
Anyone who's read Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels (of which there are 28 alongside multiple short stories) will know that the titular character is a tough guy's tough guy. An unstoppable force of a man who stands at 6 foot 5 and weighs 250 pounds. And having bulked up for Amazon's show, the 6 foot 3 Ritchson was about as close as...
- 3/12/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.
New Music Friday – March 10th, 2023
Miley Cyrus – “River”, plus Endless Summer Vacation (Album)
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding – “Miracle”
Meghan Trainor – “Mother”, plus Takin’ It Back (Deluxe) (Album)
Nf – “Motto”
Maluma – “La Reina”
Twice – “Set Me Free”, plus Ready To Be (Album)
d4vd – “Worthless”
Other noteworthy artists with releases this week include 6Lack – “Talkback”, Tame Impala – “Wings Of Time”, Christine and the Queens – “To be honest”, Myke Towers – “Aguardiente”, Chrissy Chlapecka – “I’m So Hot”, Pnau & Khalid – “The Hard Way”, Roderick Porter ft Jay Isaiah – “Bittersweet”, joan – “loner”, Akira Galaxy – “Virtual Eyes”, Tiësto – “All Nighter”, Becky G ft Omega – “Arranca”, Sebastian Esquivel and Alex Favela – “Rzr Rojo”, Maris – “Crashland”, Peter Raffoul – “Thought You Should Know, and Griffen Palmer...
New Music Friday – March 10th, 2023
Miley Cyrus – “River”, plus Endless Summer Vacation (Album)
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding – “Miracle”
Meghan Trainor – “Mother”, plus Takin’ It Back (Deluxe) (Album)
Nf – “Motto”
Maluma – “La Reina”
Twice – “Set Me Free”, plus Ready To Be (Album)
d4vd – “Worthless”
Other noteworthy artists with releases this week include 6Lack – “Talkback”, Tame Impala – “Wings Of Time”, Christine and the Queens – “To be honest”, Myke Towers – “Aguardiente”, Chrissy Chlapecka – “I’m So Hot”, Pnau & Khalid – “The Hard Way”, Roderick Porter ft Jay Isaiah – “Bittersweet”, joan – “loner”, Akira Galaxy – “Virtual Eyes”, Tiësto – “All Nighter”, Becky G ft Omega – “Arranca”, Sebastian Esquivel and Alex Favela – “Rzr Rojo”, Maris – “Crashland”, Peter Raffoul – “Thought You Should Know, and Griffen Palmer...
- 3/10/2023
- by Mikael Melo
- ET Canada
Joy Oladokun wants her music to be a real portrait of life. On Friday, with the release of her soft single “Changes,” the songstress revealed that she will be releasing her project Proof of Life on April 28.
On the new single, backed by breezy guitars, Oladokun sings candidly about “keeping with the changes” of life and how challenging it can be to do so.
“This album is evidence of how I live,” Oladokun said in a press release of her record. “I hope these are helpful anthems. I started making...
On the new single, backed by breezy guitars, Oladokun sings candidly about “keeping with the changes” of life and how challenging it can be to do so.
“This album is evidence of how I live,” Oladokun said in a press release of her record. “I hope these are helpful anthems. I started making...
- 2/17/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
The Kinks will mark their 60th anniversary as a band with a two-year celebration that kicks off this March with The Journey – Part 1, a two-disc compilation featuring songs handpicked by the surviving members.
Boasting tracks from the Rock Hall-inducted group’s first singles in 1964 to their 1975 concept albums, each side of The Journey – Part 1 — curated by Ray and Dave Davies and Mick Avery — follows a narrative arc, ranging from “Songs about becoming a man, the search for adventure, finding an identity and a girl” to “Days and nights of a lost soul,...
Boasting tracks from the Rock Hall-inducted group’s first singles in 1964 to their 1975 concept albums, each side of The Journey – Part 1 — curated by Ray and Dave Davies and Mick Avery — follows a narrative arc, ranging from “Songs about becoming a man, the search for adventure, finding an identity and a girl” to “Days and nights of a lost soul,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Before we highlight this week’s picks, I want to give a special shout-out to our newly-launched Twitter account for Michael Snydel’s podcast Intermission. He’s sharing daily, well-curated streaming recommendations, so be sure to give it a follow!
Burial (Ben Parker)
From Tarantino to Mann to Marvel, mining Word War II for fictional storytelling purposes is nothing new in cinema. The latest to take the leap is Ben Parker’s Burial, a staid action thriller following Russian soldiers who are transporting the corpse of Hitler back to their homeland, per Stalin’s request. While Parker suggests some interesting ideas about conflicted nationalism at the end of a war, and he gets the table-setting right when it comes to mood, Burial...
Before we highlight this week’s picks, I want to give a special shout-out to our newly-launched Twitter account for Michael Snydel’s podcast Intermission. He’s sharing daily, well-curated streaming recommendations, so be sure to give it a follow!
Burial (Ben Parker)
From Tarantino to Mann to Marvel, mining Word War II for fictional storytelling purposes is nothing new in cinema. The latest to take the leap is Ben Parker’s Burial, a staid action thriller following Russian soldiers who are transporting the corpse of Hitler back to their homeland, per Stalin’s request. While Parker suggests some interesting ideas about conflicted nationalism at the end of a war, and he gets the table-setting right when it comes to mood, Burial...
- 9/2/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Cinematography retrospectives are the way to go—more than a thorough display of talent, it exposes the vast expanse a Dp will travel, like an education in form and business all the same. Accordingly I’m happy to see the Criterion Channel give a 25-film tribute to James Wong Howe, whose career spanned silent cinema to the ’70s, populated with work by Howard Hawks, Michael Curtz, Samuel Fuller, Alexander Mackendrick, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer, and Raoul Walsh.
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
by Cláudio Alves
The Almost There series continues its traverse through the Criterion Channel's May offerings. After Cher in Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and Ida Lupino in Vincent Sherman's The Hard Way, it's time to look at Charade, directed by the incredible Stanley Donen. The rom-com spy thriller was a critical and commercial success upon its original release, and its reputation continued to grow with time. Featured in multiple AFI Top 100 lists, Charade is beloved by many a classic movie aficionado, as well as Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn fans.
The stars are in top form, delivering blinding charisma and irresistible charm. So much so that one has to wonder how close they came to Oscar nominations. Especially Hepburn, who was at the peak of her popularity…...
The Almost There series continues its traverse through the Criterion Channel's May offerings. After Cher in Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and Ida Lupino in Vincent Sherman's The Hard Way, it's time to look at Charade, directed by the incredible Stanley Donen. The rom-com spy thriller was a critical and commercial success upon its original release, and its reputation continued to grow with time. Featured in multiple AFI Top 100 lists, Charade is beloved by many a classic movie aficionado, as well as Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn fans.
The stars are in top form, delivering blinding charisma and irresistible charm. So much so that one has to wonder how close they came to Oscar nominations. Especially Hepburn, who was at the peak of her popularity…...
- 5/18/2022
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
May on the Criterion Channel will be good to the auteurs. In fact they’re giving Richard Linklater better treatment than the distributor of his last film, with a 13-title retrospective mixing usual suspects—the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Slacker—with some truly off the beaten track. There’s a few shorts I haven’t seen but most intriguing is Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, the only available description of which calls it a four-hour (!) piece “edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas from 1987 to 1990. It is Linklater’s tribute to the film countdown, used by many projectionists over the years to cue one reel of film after another when switching to another reel on another projector during projection.” Pair that with 2008’s Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach and your completionism will be on-track.
- 4/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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Of all the actors to emerge in the 1970s, there are few, if any, as captivating, unpredictable and exciting as James Woods. He began the decade, and his on screen career for that matter, for legendary director Elia Kazan in The Visitors (1972), and in the next few years established himself as one of American film's most promising young performers. He turned up as villains in such classic TV shows as Kojak and Streets of San Francisco, but he also appeared in some major 70s movies too, such as 1973's The Way We Were, Arthur Penn's Night Movies (1975) and The Gambler (1975). But it was his performance in The Onion Field (1979) which really signalled his arrival, as the sociopathic cop killer Greg Powell. The film, based on Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling non-fiction book, was a critical smash and earned Woods his first wave of acclaim.
By Chris Wade
Of all the actors to emerge in the 1970s, there are few, if any, as captivating, unpredictable and exciting as James Woods. He began the decade, and his on screen career for that matter, for legendary director Elia Kazan in The Visitors (1972), and in the next few years established himself as one of American film's most promising young performers. He turned up as villains in such classic TV shows as Kojak and Streets of San Francisco, but he also appeared in some major 70s movies too, such as 1973's The Way We Were, Arthur Penn's Night Movies (1975) and The Gambler (1975). But it was his performance in The Onion Field (1979) which really signalled his arrival, as the sociopathic cop killer Greg Powell. The film, based on Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling non-fiction book, was a critical smash and earned Woods his first wave of acclaim.
- 3/23/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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‘Directors have needed a book like this since D.W. Griffith invented the close-up’, wrote legendary director John Frankenheimer about John Badham’s first book, ‘I’ll Be in My Trailer’. ‘We directors have to pass along to other directors our hard-learned lessons about actors. Maybe then they won’t have to start from total ignorance like I did, like you did, like we all did.’
Along with Frankenheimer, there were names like Oliver Stone, Michael Mann, Richard Donner and Steven Soderbergh weighing in from the directors’s corner. Giving the actors’s side of events, such luminaries as Mel Gibson, Frank Langella, Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Dennis Haysbert and Martin Sheen.
Badham had gathered some of the most celebrated creatives in Hollywood to give us the benefit of their on-set experiences, and to offer advice about how these two very different artistic types...
‘Directors have needed a book like this since D.W. Griffith invented the close-up’, wrote legendary director John Frankenheimer about John Badham’s first book, ‘I’ll Be in My Trailer’. ‘We directors have to pass along to other directors our hard-learned lessons about actors. Maybe then they won’t have to start from total ignorance like I did, like you did, like we all did.’
Along with Frankenheimer, there were names like Oliver Stone, Michael Mann, Richard Donner and Steven Soderbergh weighing in from the directors’s corner. Giving the actors’s side of events, such luminaries as Mel Gibson, Frank Langella, Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Dennis Haysbert and Martin Sheen.
Badham had gathered some of the most celebrated creatives in Hollywood to give us the benefit of their on-set experiences, and to offer advice about how these two very different artistic types...
- 11/17/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
To mark the releases of Back to the Future and The Hard Way as part of HMV’s Japanese Steelbook range, we’ve been given a bundle of both steelbooks to give away.
Japanese Steelbook Range: Exclusive to HMV, these Japanese Steelbook’s showcase original Japanese theatrical artwork. Showcasing original Japanese theatrical artwork, this essential collection perfectly blends the exuberant style of the Far East with the iconic art of Hollywood. Each release comes with a replica ‘chirashi’ mini-poster as would have been used to promote the film in Japanese cinemas. There will be 8 Steelbooks within the range, today being Back to the Future and The Hard Way.
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Japanese Steelbook Range: Exclusive to HMV, these Japanese Steelbook’s showcase original Japanese theatrical artwork. Showcasing original Japanese theatrical artwork, this essential collection perfectly blends the exuberant style of the Far East with the iconic art of Hollywood. Each release comes with a replica ‘chirashi’ mini-poster as would have been used to promote the film in Japanese cinemas. There will be 8 Steelbooks within the range, today being Back to the Future and The Hard Way.
Buy Back to the Future and The Hard Way here
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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- 11/16/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We’ve seen the celebrities competing in Group A on season 4 of “The Masked Singer” only three times but now more than half of them are gone. Of the four celebrities who sang on the November 11 episode, one of the biggest crowd pleasers was the pair of performers hidden inside the Snow Owls costume.
We’ve been wondering who are the famous face behind that elaborate set of masks ever since they performed on the season 4 premiere. Back then, the wowed, this talented twosome wowed the crowd with “Say Something” by A Great Big World. In week 3 they did the same with their cover of the Meghan Trainor and John Legend duet “Like I’m Gonna Lose You.”
We’ve done some digging and rewatched those two performances as well as their clues videos. We are certain that the judges are wrong that the Snow Owls are Donny and Marie Osmond...
We’ve been wondering who are the famous face behind that elaborate set of masks ever since they performed on the season 4 premiere. Back then, the wowed, this talented twosome wowed the crowd with “Say Something” by A Great Big World. In week 3 they did the same with their cover of the Meghan Trainor and John Legend duet “Like I’m Gonna Lose You.”
We’ve done some digging and rewatched those two performances as well as their clues videos. We are certain that the judges are wrong that the Snow Owls are Donny and Marie Osmond...
- 11/11/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
By Cai Ross
“Directing is so much more than staging scenes or moving the camera,” explains John Badham in the new edition of his last book. “It is how to make the impossible possible. It is storytelling, imagination, people managing, resource skills, physical stamina, so many things a director is called upon to be good at. Including accepting the blame for everything: the script, the performances, the camerawork etc., etc., etc. And yet, in spite of all those limitations, obstacles, and endless politics, we charge forward trying to make the very best of what we have to work with. Who else would do such a crazy thing? But how can we not?”
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, John Badham enjoyed something of the Midas Touch. A former actor - and brother of To Kill a Mockingbird actress Mary Badham - he had graduated at the same movie...
“Directing is so much more than staging scenes or moving the camera,” explains John Badham in the new edition of his last book. “It is how to make the impossible possible. It is storytelling, imagination, people managing, resource skills, physical stamina, so many things a director is called upon to be good at. Including accepting the blame for everything: the script, the performances, the camerawork etc., etc., etc. And yet, in spite of all those limitations, obstacles, and endless politics, we charge forward trying to make the very best of what we have to work with. Who else would do such a crazy thing? But how can we not?”
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, John Badham enjoyed something of the Midas Touch. A former actor - and brother of To Kill a Mockingbird actress Mary Badham - he had graduated at the same movie...
- 10/23/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
On October 7, the third episode of “The Masked Singer” showcased the four acts from Group A who had won enough votes to stay in the competition after the premiere. They again took to the stage covered completely in cumbersome costumes that disguised them as the Giraffe, Popcorn, Snow Owls and Sun.
As much fun as it is to watch these celebrities sing, we derive even more enjoyment from figuring out who they are. Keep reading for “The Masked Singer” spoilers, including the real name of the pair of celebrities inside the Snow Owls costume. They wowed the crowd and the four judges on September 23 with their cover of “Say Something” by A Great Big World.
See Everything you need to know about season 4 of ‘The Masked Singer’
We aren’t buying the judges guess that the Snow Owls are Donny and Marie Osmond. Yes, Donny did strut his stuff in...
As much fun as it is to watch these celebrities sing, we derive even more enjoyment from figuring out who they are. Keep reading for “The Masked Singer” spoilers, including the real name of the pair of celebrities inside the Snow Owls costume. They wowed the crowd and the four judges on September 23 with their cover of “Say Something” by A Great Big World.
See Everything you need to know about season 4 of ‘The Masked Singer’
We aren’t buying the judges guess that the Snow Owls are Donny and Marie Osmond. Yes, Donny did strut his stuff in...
- 10/7/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Sonia Darrin, the actress and dancer who as the gangster girlfriend Agnes sparred with Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe in the convoluted Warner Bros. classic The Big Sleep, has died. She was 96.
Darrin died July 19 of natural causes at a hospital in New York City, her son, onetime child actor Mason Reese, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had been slow to recover from a broken hip suffered in a fall, he said.
After appearing in small, uncredited roles in such films as The Corsican Brothers (1941), The Hard Way (1943) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Darrin auditioned ...
Darrin died July 19 of natural causes at a hospital in New York City, her son, onetime child actor Mason Reese, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had been slow to recover from a broken hip suffered in a fall, he said.
After appearing in small, uncredited roles in such films as The Corsican Brothers (1941), The Hard Way (1943) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Darrin auditioned ...
- 7/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sonia Darrin, the actress and dancer who as the gangster girlfriend Agnes sparred with Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe in the convoluted Warner Bros. classic The Big Sleep, has died. She was 96.
Darrin died July 19 of natural causes at a hospital in New York City, her son, onetime child actor Mason Reese, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had been slow to recover from a broken hip suffered in a fall, he said.
After appearing in small, uncredited roles in such films as The Corsican Brothers (1941), The Hard Way (1943) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Darrin auditioned ...
Darrin died July 19 of natural causes at a hospital in New York City, her son, onetime child actor Mason Reese, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had been slow to recover from a broken hip suffered in a fall, he said.
After appearing in small, uncredited roles in such films as The Corsican Brothers (1941), The Hard Way (1943) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Darrin auditioned ...
- 7/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Above: The Light that FailedShe had the beauty and talent of the most captivating star, the unwavering determination of the most ambitious producer, and the fervent creative vision of the most gifted director. Ida Lupino could fall into any number of categories, yet with a significance that remains almost immeasurable, perhaps the one word best describing this groundbreaking artist is simply this: she was a pioneer. Born February 4, 1918, in South London, Lupino belonged to a revered family of entertainers. Her mother, actress Connie O’Shea (also known as Connie Emerald), and her father, music hall comedian Stanley Lupino, were part of an ancestral dynasty of performers, and young Ida was accordingly encouraged to take the stage during her earliest years. In addition to writing her first play at the age of seven,...
- 7/27/2020
- MUBI
Bucky Baxter — an ace pedal steel guitarist who played in Bob Dylan’s band for much of the Nineties on Dylan’s Never Ending Tour — died Monday in Sanibel Island, Florida. He was 65. Baxter’s son, singer-songwriter Rayland Baxter, confirmed his father’s death via Instagram on Tuesday.
Born William Baxter in Melbourne, Florida, in 1955, Baxter began studying pedal steel guitar in the Seventies. In the Eighties, he met the country songwriter Steve Earle and played on Earle’s influential 1986 debut, Guitar Town, along with other classic Earle LPs like...
Born William Baxter in Melbourne, Florida, in 1955, Baxter began studying pedal steel guitar in the Seventies. In the Eighties, he met the country songwriter Steve Earle and played on Earle’s influential 1986 debut, Guitar Town, along with other classic Earle LPs like...
- 5/26/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
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