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Lillian Ross, longtime reporter for The New Yorker, died Wednesday at the age of 99, according to her editor, Susan Morrison. Ross (pictured above left with Anjelica Huston) joined The New Yorker in 1945, writing short articles on New York’s social scene. Later, she became a staff writer with her own Talk of the Town column, getting her big break in 1950 with a profile piece on Ernest Hemingway. Also Read: Jake Lamotta, Boxing Legend Who Inspired 'Raging Bull,' Dies at 95 Later, Ross took on Hollywood with a series of articles about the making of John Huston’s 1951 adaptation of “The.

A few days before Patty Jenkin’s Wonder Woman was in theaters, I sat down with Danny Huston for an exclusive interview. During our wide-ranging conversation he talked about how he got involved in the project, if he was a fan of the superhero genre, how Jenkins pitched him on playing General Erich Ludendorff, memorable moments from filming, and the way he likes to work on set. In addition, he talked about directing The Last Photograph, what he learned from his father (John Huston) about directing, playing Hal Roach in Stan and Ollie opposite Steve Coogan and John C. …...

It was an honor to meet Danny Huston, son of the iconic filmmaker, John Huston. In .Wonder Woman,. the actor stars as the frightening General Ludendorff who will do anything to win the .war to end all wars. with a little help from his equally crazy doctor sidekick Doctor Maru aka Doctor Poison. In this interview, Danny and I sang the .Wonder Woman. TV theme song, and he explained his character and his relationship to Doctor Maru in great detail. Check it out!

June 7 event features on-stage interview, screening of new film, Trouble.

The Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) will honour Anjelica Huston with the Career Achievement In Acting Award at this year’s 43rd edition.

The event will take place on June 7 at the Siff Cinema Egyptian and begin with an on-stage interview with Huston, followed by be the world premiere of her new film Trouble.

Huston reunites with director Theresa Rebeck after they collaborated on the 2012 NBC series Smash.

Trouble also stars Bill Pullman and tells of a feuding brother and sister whose differences entangle the fate of an old friend, played by David Morse. Julia Stiles, Jim Parrack, Brian d’Arcy James, and Victor Williams also star.

Huston serves as executive producer and Rebeck, Rachel Dengiz, Julie Buck, and Jaclyn Bashoff are producers. Wme Global represents North American rights while Gpm handles international rights.

In addition to the tribute event and screening, Siff will present...

Author: Stefan Pape

Here at HeyUGuys we are fortunate enough to spend time with many of our heroes from the silver screen – but this week presented a quite unforgettable opportunity, as we sat down with two of the greatest living actors, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine.

In London to promote their latest picture, the heist comedy Going in Style, we discussed with the pair the role of the elderly in modern society, and exactly what it is that keeps luring them back to work. They speak about nerves, pensions, hobbies and movie choices – as we just sit down and listen as the pair reminisce on two quite remarkable careers. Plus, Caine reveals who he believes does the very best impression of him – and there’s a been a fair few.

Also be sure to catch our video interview below:

Morgan Freeman & Michael Caine Video Interview

Can you see the correlation between a heist and acting?...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

Two Very Different Movies Look to Divide Up the Weekend Box Office Business

With Disney’s Beauty and the Beast continuing to dominate at the box office with $90 million this past weekend, and Saban’s Power Rangers (Lionsgate) also doing exceedingly well with $40 million in second place, you wouldn’t think anyone would try to release a movie that might get overshadowed by those two blockbusters.

That said, what’s interesting about this weekend is the fact there are two very different movies that are competing very heavily for second place with DreamWorks Animation’s latest animated family film, The Boss Baby (20th Century Fox), taking on the live action English remake of Ghost In The Shell (Paramount), starring Scarlett Johansson. In most cases,...

New York City – Robert Osborne, one of the great film advocates and historians of our era, who hosted on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) with passionate skill from 1994 until recently, has passed away on March 6th, 2017, in New York City. The way that Mr. Osborne inspired film lovers everywhere was deep and influential. He was 84.

I was lucky enough to meet the man, naturally at a Chicago movie theater, back in 2005. Five years later, as I became a film reporter myself, I got to interview Ro via phone. He was the type of film man that you could spend a month with and never come to the end of his knowledge, and the way he shared it as the host on TCM was as if the finest uncle was giving us life lessons. Next to Roger Ebert, Robert Osborne is another reporter legend who galvanized my love for film.

King of the Classics: Robert Osborne,...

Love in the Afternoon

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1957 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 130 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude, Lise Bourdin, Louis Jourdan, Betty Schneider.

Cinematography: William C. Mellor

Film Editor: Leonid Azar

Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner

Adapted Music: Franz Waxman

Written by: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond from a novel by Claude Anet

Produced and Directed by Billy Wilder

A favorite of Billy Wilder-philes, Love in the Afternoon is a strong expression of the ‘romantic-Lubitsch’ vein in Wilder’s work. It’s essentially a return to the early ’30s Lubitsch comedies with Maurice Chevalier, but played in a more bittersweet Viennese register. It’s also Wilder’s first collaboration with the comedy screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond. Together they fashion the predominantly verbal comedy machine that will carry them through three or four big hits, and a few losers that have become classics anyway.

Are remakes almost always doomed? Ben-Hur star Jack Huston tends to think so. While Disney had a stellar year at the box office, other studios weren't so lucky. And Paramount suffered one of the biggest casualties when its big budget blockbuster Ben-Hur failed to connect with an audience of any kind, going onto be one of last year's biggest financial disasters. It was an outright bomb. And it broke Huston's heart.

Jack Huston is perhaps best known for his role as Richard Harrow on HBO's hit drama Boardwalk Empire, which ended its run in 2014. Ever since, Huston has been hard at work trying to become one of Hollywood's leading men. He took on the lead role in a remake of The Crow, but the studio behind that movie filed for bankruptcy and he soon departed the fledglinging project. He settled on another remake as his big breakout, with the biblical themedBen-Hur,...

Ben-Hur star Jack Huston and other famous Hollywood family connectionsBen-Hur star Jack Huston and other famous Hollywood family connectionsAmanda Wood8/17/2016 12:21:00 Pm

It’s not uncommon for people to work in the “family business” but when the family business involves Hollywood, it’s an entirely different story.

Certain last names have earned such respect and reverence in the entertainment industry that being born into one of these families practically ensures success should they decide to pursue a career in entertainment. Some families, like the Coppolas, span generations and involve a complex web of well-connected cousins and siblings. Others, like the Smiths, represent the new Hollywood family, with their social-media famous kids appealing to the children of their parents’ fans.

We’ve made a list of some of our favourite famous families to celebrate the release of Ben-Hur, which stars its own member of a famous family. Jack Huston is...

Jack Huston on taking the lead role in Ben-HurJack Huston on taking the lead role in Ben-HurChristian Aust8/15/2016 4:36:00 Pm

Meeting Jack Huston always feels a bit like travelling back in time. He has the looks, and old-fashioned manners, of a classic Hollywood star of the 1950s.

He’s polite, considerate and remembers our last interview, which took place in an old palace in Lisbon before his 2013 movie Night Train to Lisbon came out. “That was nice,” he recalls. “But it also reminds me of how quickly time is flying by.”

A lot of things have happened since then. Huston, who by that time was already known as disfigured former soldier Richard Harrow from TV’s "Boardwalk Empire", subsequently appeared in the movies Kill Your Darlings, American Hustle, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Hail, Caesar!

In April 2013 he and his girlfriend Shannan Click had a baby girl named Saga Lavinia Huston,...

These days, the American movie going public is quite accustomed to seeing major motion picture based on a prior television series, as well as the opposite movement from big to small screen. But back in 1956, this wasn’t quite as common an adaptation, which may explain the lack of enthusiasm surrounding Foreign Intrigue, a beautifully photographed film directed by Sheldon Reynolds based on his successful television series of the same name, which aired 1951 to 1955. As retooled with matinee idol Robert Mitchum, the film’s rather schizophrenic narrative jumps freely between being a colorfully lush romantic European entanglement and espionage tinged noir narrative.

On the way to visit his enigmatic and mysterious employer, press agent Dave Bishop (Mitchum) finds his boss collapsed and barely breathing. The man expires in his arms, and it’s ruled his death was the cause of a heart attack. Or was it? Immediately, Bishop informs his...

Anjelica Huston's autobiography is a beautifully written evocation of time and place, but provides scant personal insight...

Autobiographies are a strange business. I'm never sure whether we, the readers, want to experience exactly what the writer has experienced, or if we're looking for more - a level of extrapolation, of objectivity, hoping that the writer can point out their highs and lows and say, "This is where it all went right, and this is where it didn't." Are we trying to live a little bit of a different person's life, or learn from it?

Or maybe there's a simpler option, and we just like reading about famous people. If that's the case, then Anjelica Huston's memoir, A Story Lately Told, is a very good read. Her father, the film director John Huston, gave her an childhood filled with trips abroad, movie sets, actors and writers and singers that are names we all know,...

This late career John Huston comedy-western seems to have been an attempt to hitch a ride on the " Butch Cassidy" train to box office glory, but it was a critical and financial misfire. Paul Newman is back, this time as a highly unlikely incarnation of frontier hardass Roy Bean, the self-appointed “judge” known as “the only Law west of the Pecos”. Huston seems to be having fun, as does the terrific character-laden supporting cast.

Chicago – The famed Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston comes from a lineage of Hollywood royalty – her father John was a legendary director and her grandfather Walter was a noted actor. She brought all of that history to the Chicago Humanities Festival, where she was featured at the Closing Event on November 14th, 2014, at the First United Methodist Church at The Chicago Temple.

Huston was there to discuss her second memoir, “Watch Me,” her followup to “A Story Told Lately.” Through both books she chronicles her rise from enchanted childhood to model and actress. “Watch Me” focuses on her stardom years, including her relationship with Jack Nicholson and her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Prizzi’s Honor” – directed by her father John Huston. After that honor, Huston made several memorable films, including “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” “The Addams Family,” “The Witches” and “The Darjeeling Limited.” She also recently was a featured cast member in the TV show,...

Needing an anecdote or two for a paper I was due to deliver on the occasion of the director Peter Glenville's birth centenary in 2013, I rang up Ossie Morris (obituary, 20 March) late last year. He recalled, still with astonishing clarity, working with Glenville on Term of Trial (1962), a small black-and-white British film.

Interestingly, he hadn't bothered to give the credit even a mention beyond its title in his riveting 2006 autobiography, despite the fact it co-starred Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Terence Stamp and the newcomer Sarah Miles. Ossie's fabulous memoir, devoting considerable space instead to his long collaboration with the Hollywood film-maker John Huston, was, rather fittingly and wittily, entitled Huston, We Have a Problem.

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Oswald Morris, the acclaimed British cinematographer who earned an Oscar for the 1971 musical Fiddler on the Roof and paired often with John Huston, has died. He was 98. "Ossie" Morris, whose incredible resume includes such wide-ranging films as Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962), Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and Jim Henson's The Great Muppet Caper (1981), died Monday at his home in Dorset, England, the British Society of Cinematographers announced. He was one of the most outstanding directors of photography of the 20th century, perhaps best known for expanding the parameters of color cinematography, especially on

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The actor on his enduring love for Guns N' Roses, the brilliance of The Wire, and the appeal of artist Eric Roux-Fontaine

Jack Huston, 30, is the grandson of the Hollywood film director John Huston and nephew to actors Anjelica and Danny Huston. He is best known for his role as Richard Harrow, a disfigured war veteran turned assassin, in the HBO Prohibition drama Boardwalk Empire. Huston was born in London in 1982, the son of Lady Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley and Walter Anthony (Tony) Huston. He decided he wanted to be an actor at the age of six after playing the lead role in a school production of Peter Pan. He began to get major film roles in his early 20s and has since appeared in 19 films and almost every episode of Boardwalk Empire's four seasons. He can currently be seen in Strangers on a Train by Craig Warner. Directed by...

What the critics thought of The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan, The Letters of John F Kennedy edited by Martin W Sandler, A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston

"The Valley of Amazement doesn't waste any time. The long opening sentence leads us quickly into the only high-class courtesan house in Shanghai run by a white woman, where innumerable complications soon arise. Amy Tan maintains the pace skilfully as we follow the story of three generations of women, spanning the transition from dynastic rule to the early 20th century and travelling from Shanghai to San Francisco and on to a remote village deep in the mountains of China." Krys Lee in the Ft welcomed Tan's sixth novel, and pointed out that although the author has been "accused of exoticising her Asian roots, particularly by Asian readers", and although The Valley of Amazement "can indeed be seen as romanticising cliches...

Anjelica Huston's memoir, A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York, was just released Tuesday. The generally private actress paints a grim scene when describing her affair with celebrity photographer Bob Richardson (Terry Richardson's father) and touches upon her relationship with Jack Nicholson. But aside from the ups and downs of her love life, the 62-year-old also opens up about her unusual childhood and growing up in the shadows of her famous father, John Huston. Here are Huston's top five most surprising stories from her new tell-all. 1. She Attempted Suicide During a Fight With Richardson: During her rollercoaster affair with the 42-year-old...

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Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees, announced today the Board’s decision to honor Jane Fonda with the 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Fonda at a gala tribute on June 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA.

The 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute special will return for its second year on TNT when it airs in June 2014 followed by encores on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

“Jane Fonda is American film royalty,” said Stringer. “A bright light first introduced to the world as the daughter of Henry Fonda, the world watched as she found her own voice and forged her own path as an actor and a cultural icon. Today she stands tall among the giants of American film, and it is AFI’s...

The legendary John Huston directs this much-loved version of the hit Broadway musical, starring Aileen Quinn as the young orphan who changes the life of munitions billionaire Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney). With no expense spared from the sets and costumes to the splashy production numbers, and Carol Burnett at her scene-stealing best as the gin-guzzling orphanage crone Miss Hannigan, it all but guarantees that the sun will come out tomorrow.

“Magic City” actor Danny Huston has been tapped for the upcoming season of “American Horror Story: Coven,” the third season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s creep-fest on FX. Murphy announced the casting via Twitter on Sunday, noting that Huston, son of late director John Huston, will play the love interest of “Ahs” star Jessica Lange’s character. Also read: ‘TCA: Kathy Bates Rips NBC on ‘Harry’s Law’ Cancellation: ‘They Treated Us Like S—’’ “Jessica Lange’s got a sexy (and dangerous) Bf this year: welcome to Coven Mr. Danny Huston!” Murphy wrote. “American Horror Story: Coven” — which premieres Oct.

Martin Scorsese will present Mel Brooks with the American Film Institute’s 41st Life Achievement Award – America’s highest honor for a career in film. The private black tie gala will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6 and will air on TNT Saturday, June 15, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt and as part of an all-night tribute to Brooks on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Sunday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Et. Brooks will be recognized for his range of mastery as a director, producer, writer, actor and composer.

Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time having received the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema, two AFI Awards, an Academy®Award, a Palme d’Or, Grammy® Award, two Emmys®, four Golden Globes®, a BAFTA and three DGA Awards. Scorsese’s body of work includes films such as The Departed,...

Out of the Past

Written by Daniel Mainwaring

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

U.S.A., 1947

Sometimes, there is no eluding one’s past, regardless of how hard one tries. The reasons are numerous. Perhaps the emotional and psychological weight of an event in one’s life are too great to shake off. In other instances the shackles exist because an individual is condemned to spend years actively correcting previous errors in judgement in the hopes of earning long sought after redemption. There exists another set of circumstances, the most deceptively simple of the lot, that being when a person merely walks away from an embarrassing, shameful and deeply regrettable episode, but deliberately creating separation from their history is no guarantee that the old ghosts will acquiesce to letting them be. When one least expects it, a new challenge presents itself from…Out of the Past.

Jeff Baily (Robert Mitchum) has...

The second part of the first Reel Ink round-up of recent books on film includes the biography of a sometime Hollywood rebel, the history of a now forgotten British studio, a look at a film that remains one of the most controversial ever made in the UK, and a hugely compelling history of cinema by the great David Thomson.

Time was against me so I haven’t been able to get through all the reading goodness I’ve acquired in the past eight weeks or so, but I’ll catch up in January. Happy New Year!

It’s official: Dennis Hopper was an unrepentant douchebag off screen as well as on. The predominant impression that Peter L. Winkler’s Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of A Hollywood Rebel (The Robson Press) leaves one with is that Hopper was a deluded, misogynistic gasbag, a moderate talent who likely suffered from...

There's always at least one Golden Globe nomination that leaves observers scratching their heads, asking "Who?!" and scrambling to a Google search. And at Thursday morning's 2013 Globe nominations announcement that dubious honor belonged to Danny Huston for "Magic City "in the Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie category.

For the most part, the Best Supporting actor category followed a familiar pattern that saw TV fan favorites nominated from across the spectrum of comedy and drama. Eric Stonestreet was nominated for "Modern Family," Mandy Patinkin for "Homeland," Ed Harris for "Game Change" and Max Greenfield for "New Girl." But then came the Danny Huston for "Magic City" curveball.

You couldn't blame TV viewers for missing Huston's performance as Miami mob boss Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on "Magic City," the Starz network's first scripted original series. The series' debut only attracted 295,000 viewers, although it saw steady growth as the season went on.

After all the debates, controversies, and stereotype accusations have cleared, looking back on Blaxploitation cinema today it’s easy to see healthy portions of the crime and action genres. Using these genres and the struggles of the black community, these films were created for those that wanted to see African American characters on the big screen not taking shit from the man, “getting over”, and–above all else—being the heroes in movies. In the documentary Baad Asssss Cinema, Samuel L. Jackson gives his take on the heroes of Blaxploitation: “We were tired of seeing the righteous black man. And all of a sudden we had guys who were…us. Or guys who did the things we wanted those guys to do.”

The unsung supporting players in these films that backed Fred Williamson and Pam Grier and many other stars were people acting and making a living off of it.

Michael Caine and Christopher Nolan have become each others' good luck charms. The pair have collaborated on five films since 2005 -- "Batman Begins," "The Prestige," "The Dark Knight," "Inception" and "The Dark Knight Rises" -- with another outing apparently on the way in the near future. To think, it all began when Nolan, a neighbor of Caine's, arrived at the actor's house with an offer to play Batman's butler.

"I thought that wasn't a very good part," Caine told HuffPost Entertainment in a recent interview. "I'll be saying, 'Dinner is served' and, 'Would you like a coffee?'"

As it turns out, the character of Alfred was anything but a mere butler: Over the course of three Batman films, he acted as father figure and moral compass for Bruce Wayne. In the "Dark Knight Rises," Alfred is the only person looking out for Wayne's survival.

With the Batman franchise over...

"John Huston Week!" continues at Trailers from Hell, today with director Dan Ireland introducing Huston's rich, languidly paced adaptation of James Joyce's novella, featuring a career-best performance from daughter Angelica. John Huston didn't live to see his final film released, but it's one of his most impressive. James Joyce's 1914 novella is considered one of the greatest stories ever written, yet Huston's meticulous movie does it full justice. Stately, elegant and richly observed, with a poignant climactic punch that sneaks up on you. Among the Abbey Players seen to advantage herein are Hollywood stalwarts Dan O'Herlihy and Sean McClory but It's Angelica Huston's movie to steal, and she does.

Anjelica Huston's father made her feel unattractive. The 61-year-old actress was devastated as a teenager when she heard her actor dad John Huston say he thought she would grow up to be ''plain'' and his remark made her feel very insecure about her appearance. She said: ''I was not at my happiest in my late teens. I went from confident and secure to shy and insecure and back again. ''I wish I could have been more accepting of myself. I had once overheard my father saying, when I was about 15 or 16, that I might turn out to be plain. That...

Anjelica Huston's father made her feel unattractive. The 61-year-old actress was devastated as a teenager when she heard her actor dad John Huston say he thought she would grow up to be 'plain' and his remark made her feel very insecure about her appearance. She said: 'I was not at my happiest in my late teens. I went from confident and secure to shy and insecure and back again. 'I wish I could have been more accepting of myself. I had once overheard my father saying, when I was about 15 or 16, that I might turn out to be plain. That was a particularly unattractive moment for me. 'My nose was growing and my...

By Rachel Hudson

Whether referencing Truman Capote's spine-tingling novel In Cold Blood or Richard Brooks' blood-curdling 1967 film of the same name, the chilling tale of the Clutter family murder is undoubtedly horrifying and incredible. The movie In Cold Blood tells the story magnificently, and there is no better place to see the in-your-face cinematography of Conrad Hall and truly remarkable acting of literally every character, principal or minor, than on the big screen.

The Alamo Drafthouse is home to the Cinema Club series, which screens movies that the programmers have deemed to be essential classic films from cinema history. Each month, two of the programmers and a prominent film historian introduce the film and then lead a discussion afterwards.

For In Cold Blood, the film historian was Kat Candler, an independent filmmaker (Hellion, Love Bug) and film instructor based here in Austin. Candler's enthusiasm and passion for film...

The veteran actor on The Dark Knight Rises, how the right is out to destroy Barack Obama at any cost – and why he hates the phrase African American

If you enjoy hearing, as I do, a spirited denunciation of stubborn Republican resistance to Barack Obama over the past three years, then you could do a whole lot worse than have it declaimed to you by Morgan Freeman in his warm and ever authoritative baritone.

"At the outset of Obama's administration, the political right [meaning Senator Mitch McConnell] literally said, out loud: 'The No1 project of this party is to make sure that this guy – this guy – only serves one term.' How do you make sure of that? You don't allow him to do anything good or worthwhile. Every chance you get, block him, and that's what they've done. Which now allows them to say: 'He's failed, he can't get anything done.' If he loses,...

HollywoodNews.com: Last night, stage and screen legend Shirley MacLaine was lauded with the 40th annual AFI Life Achievement Award – the highest honor for a career in film. Some of Hollywood’s most revered luminaries turned out to pay tribute to one of America’s most beloved artists. The gala, entitled “TV Land Presents: AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine,” was taped at historic Stage 15 at Sony Pictures Studios last evening and will air on TV Land on Sunday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt.

The evening’s festivities kicked off with MacLaine entering the gala of over 1,000 attendees to “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” a song she made famous in the 1969 screen version of “Sweet Charity.” Immediately following dinner, Warren Beatty, MacLaine’s brother, Academy Award®-winning actor and fellow AFI Life Achievement Award recipient (2008), talked about how the AFI Life Achievement Award was established...

These days, after "Lord of the Rings" and "Game Of Thrones," fantasy isn't just big business, but a genre that's spawned critically acclaimed awards favorites, and picked up Oscars and Emmys by the handful. As such, it's easy to forget that prior to the 1980s, the genre barely existed on screen, with animated takes on Tolkein's works the only really significant blip on the radar. But in 1977, "Star Wars," a film that owed as much to high fantasy as to science-fiction, became the biggest hit in history, and that opened the door to all kinds of new fantasy worlds.

The 1980s would see many, many examples of the genre, from "Labyrinth" and "Legend" to "Krull" and "Ladyhawke," but the film that started it all -- and was probably the finest of that decade's wave in the genre, was 1982's "Conan The Barbarian." Written and directed by gonzo, gun-loving genius John Milius...

Today we are continuing BroadwayWorlds extensive coverage of NBCs musical dramedy series Smash by talking to an Oscar-winning actress known for her genre-spanning performances in Crimes amp Misdemeanors, The Witches, The Addams Family, Prizzis Honor and The Grifters - among many other notable performances - the simply divine Anjelica Huston. Sharing stories about her famous family - father, director and actor John Huston grandfather, stage and screen actor Walter Huston - Huston opens up about her experiences preparing for the tailor-made role of Eileen Rand on Smash and drops some hints about the future for her character, in business and romance, as well as what we can expect her to sing in a future episode - the classic Kurt WeillMaxwell Anderson gem originally written for her grandfather in Knickerbocker Holiday, September Song. Additionally, Huston recalls previously musically collaborating onscreen with stupendous Smash songwriter Marc Shaiman on The Addams Family remember...

They've tried everything. One host. Two hosts. Four hosts. 32 hosts. Comic hosts. Serious-thespian hosts. Hollywood-legend hosts. Young hosts. Old hosts. Hip hosts. Square hosts. Singing-and-dancing hosts. Every year, it seems, the Academy Awards goes back to the drawing board to figure out what sort of emcee will keep the show lively, attract viewers (especially younger viewers) and keep them from flipping channels during the slow parts. It's a thankless gig; no wonder Billy Crystal, who's done it eight times, decided to sit out for eight years before agreeing to return to host this year's Academy Awards on Sunday night. The job requires a difficult and rare set of skills: a host must entertain both the Hollywood big-shots in the auditorium and regular folks at home. They can poke fun at the huge egos in the room, but can't deflate them with too much snark, and they can't be too inside-baseball.

Photos - Irish-American Oscar winners slideshow Here we pay tribute to the Americans of Irish blood who joined the ranks of the acting elite by winning what many consider the ultimate award in the field – the Oscar. 10. Grace Kelly 1954 – Best Actress in a Leading Role, "The Country Girl" The Irish American screen legend’s Oscar win was controversial; many believed Kelly didn’t deserve it, and thought the Oscar should have gone to Judy Garland for "A Star is Born." The Princess of Monaco may be a bit overdramatic as Georgie Elgin, singer Frank Elgin’s (Bing Crosby) long-suffering wife, but we feel the need to pay homage to the unforgettable film star, whose Irish roots are traced to Louisburgh, County Mayo. Read more - More movie news from IrishCentral 9. Thomas Mitchell 1939 – Best Actor in a Supporting Role, "Stagecoach" This great American character actor and first generation Irish American can...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual fundraising gala began in 1972. It first honoree was Charles Chaplin, returning to the United States after two decades in exile. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin. That same year, Chaplin was saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with his second Honorary Oscar. The first such award for Chaplin had taken place 43 years earlier, at the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. Chaplin, who won the award for directing, writing, and acting in The Circus, didn't show up to get his booty the first time around. However, he was in attendance in 1972, when he was greeted with a long standing ovation. As quoted in Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar, while looking for the places he used to know in Los Angeles, a dismayed Chaplin remarked: "It's all banks, banks, banks!" Considering that right-wingers were reportedly...

BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej Wajda 1983 Richard Attenborough 1984 Hugh Greene, Sam Spiegel 1985 Jeremy Isaacs 1986 Steven Spielberg 1987 Federico Fellini 1988 Ingmar Bergman 1989 Alec Guinness 1990 Paul Fox 1991 Louis Malle 1992 John Gielgud, David Plowright 1993 Sydney Samuelson, Colin Young 1994 Michael Grade 1995 Billy Wilder 1996 Jeanne Moreau, Ronald Neame, John Schlesinger, Maggie Smith 1997 Woody Allen, Steven Bochco, Julie Christie, Oswald Morris, Harold Pinter, David Rose 1998 Sean Connery, Bill Cotton 1999 Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise, Elizabeth Taylor 2000 Michael Caine, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Bazalgette 2001 Albert Finney, John Thaw, Judi Dench 2002 Warren Beatty, Merchant Ivory Productions (James Ivory, Ismail Merchant) 2002 Andrew Davies, John Mills 2003 Saul Zaentz, David Jason 2004 John Boorman, Roger Graef 2005 John Barry, David Frost 2006 David Puttnam,...

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This year's Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca) Career Achievement Award recipient Doris Day is only the fourth woman to be so honored, following Barbara Stanwyck (1981), Myrna Loy (right, 1983), and Dede Allen (1999). [Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award Winners.] The selection of Doris Day for the 2011 Career Achievement Award is unusual for a couple of reasons. First of all, Day is a woman. Whether in Los Angeles or elsewhere, whether we're talking about film critics' groups, film academies, or film festivals, men are the ones who almost invariably have their contributions to motion pictures recognized. The issue here is not political correctness on my part; anyone who has read my posts on this website knows I despise and fear political correctness the way I despise and fear any sort of illness that corrodes the mind. It's just that I'm not going to argue with the facts. As for the other reason that makes Day's selection unusual, a...

HBO’s Boardwalk Empire revolves around mob feuds, illegal bootlegging, and the corruption and venality that accompanied Prohibition. But beneath the surface, the show is about grasping at the American dream. That quest for happiness has never been more vivid—nor more painfully realized—than in Boardwalk Empire’s Richard Harrow, a Great War sniper who now kills for profit, wearing a tin half-mask. Jack Huston, the grandson of legendary director John Huston (and nephew to Anjelica and Danny Huston), is stealing nearly every scene of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, where he plays disfigured sniper turned hitman Richard Harrow. At The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, "Boardwalk Empire's Scene-Stealer," in which I talk to Huston about this week’s episode, wearing the mask, and whether Richard still has a soul.

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Paramount Pictures has recently optioned a book by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger called Furious Love, which tells the story of the famous romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The studio is going to develop the film as a directing vehicle for Martin Scorcese.

Deadline reports that this film won’t be a biopic. “It focuses on a torrid and tempestuous romance that is the stuff of Hollywood legend” To be honest, I don’t know much about the romance between these two other than it happened. It was obviously before my time, and I don’t really follow this kind of stuff.

I have never been a big fan of Scorcese’s work outside of his recent films Aviator and The Departed. I think this is an awesome love story that needs to be told and makes for a great real life drama as these two surpass “Bradjelina...

Paramount Pictures has recently optioned a book by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger called Furious Love, which tells the story of the famous romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The studio is going to develop the film as a directing vehicle for Martin Scorsese.

According to Deadline this film won’t be a biopic. “It focuses on a torrid and tempestuous romance that is the stuff of Hollywood legend” To be honest I don’t know much about the romance between these two other than it happened. It was obviously before my time, and I don’t really follow this kind of stuff.

I do love Scorsese’s work though, and judging from the description of the book, this could end up being a great and interesting romantic drama. What do you all think?

Here’s a full description of the book from which the film will be based:...

Paramount Pictures will develop and adapt the romance story between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The story is based off author Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s novel called “Furious Love.” According to Deadline, the adapted film is acquired as a directing vehicle for Martin Scorsese. The film will be produced by Julie Yorn, Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff of Krasnoff Foster Productions and Scorsese with Paramount Pictures’ Sikelia production company. The producers already established a rights agreement with Burton’s estate and a pledge of cooperation from his widow, Sally Hay Burton. The filmmakers are reaching out to Taylor’s estate for the same cooperation. Burton and Taylor were married from 1964 to 1974 and remarried after a divorce from 1975 to 1976. The two actors met on the set of “Cleopatra,” in which Burton replaced actor Stephen Boyd as Marc Anthony. Their on-and-off screen relationships became a worldwide scandal to the point...

A long-cherished project of director John Huston, this memorable Rudyard Kipling adaptation finally came together with Sean Connery and Michael Caine on location in Morocco and Marrakech. Christopher Plummer, playing Kipling, immersed himself in every recording and picture of the novelist he could find. In the end Connery and Caine had to sue the overextended major-studio-wannabe Allied Artists for their percentages. A long-awaited Blu-ray is on its way from Warner Home Video.

Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek

(May 2011)

Directed by: Craig McCall

Featuring: Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and John Mills

An official selection of the Cannes Classics component of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, “Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff” begins with footage from an Academy Awards tribute by Dustin Hoffman, elucidating the impact of the legendary cinematographer. In “Cameraman,” director Craig McCall cleverly gives Cardiff carte blanche to share his tales from a variety of locations, including his home, where the cameraman scouts the room and the legacies of those stars who’ve died around him. In this way, McCall deftly and compellingly captures the cinematographer who made his mark on cinema’s landscape for 70 years.

Kid actor, runner, clapper boy and camera operator, Cardiff shares the secrets behind stars who knew their lighting, Marlene Dietrich first and most of all.

Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek

(May 2011)

Directed by: Craig McCall

Featuring: Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and John Mills

An official selection of the Cannes Classics component of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, “Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff” begins with footage from an Academy Awards tribute by Dustin Hoffman, elucidating the impact of the legendary cinematographer. In “Cameraman,” director Craig McCall cleverly gives Cardiff carte blanche to share his tales from a variety of locations, including his home, where the cameraman scouts the room and the legacies of those stars who’ve died around him. In this way, McCall deftly and compellingly captures the cinematographer who made his mark on cinema’s landscape for 70 years.

Kid actor, runner, clapper boy and camera operator, Cardiff shares the secrets behind stars who knew their lighting, Marlene Dietrich first and most of all.