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Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who also wrote occasionally for the stage and screen, including Mike Nichols’ film “Carnal Knowledge” and Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” died on Jan. 17 at his home in upstate New York. He was 95. Feiffer’s wife confirmed to the Washington Post that he died of congestive heart failure.

Feiffer was a cartoonist with the Village Voice for more than 40 years until 1997.

His first connection with the film business came with the Oscar-winning 1961 animated short “Munro,” based on Feiffer’s story — a parable about the mindless military mentality in which the title character, a 4-year-old, is drafted.

Feiffer adapted his own play “Little Murders,” a dark satire about life in New York that had been briefly staged on Broadway in 1967, for the 1971 film of that name directed by Alan Arkin and starring Elliott Gould. Roger Ebert gave the movie four out of four stars and said,...

Teri Garr was born on December 11, 1944 in Lakewood, Ohio and passed away on October 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The American actress is dead at age 79 following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Garr had over 150 acting credits to her name, including in the beloved films “Young Frankenstein” (1974) as Inga, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) as Ronnie Neary, “Tootsie” (1982) as Sandy Lester, and “Mr. Mom” (1983) as Caroline Butler. May her memory be a blessing.

Garr received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 1983 Oscars for “Tootsie,” losing out to her co-star Jessica Lange. Gold Derby recently named “Tootsie” as the best film in director Sydney Pollack‘s entire career. The plot follows out-of-work actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), who dresses in drag to get a job on a daytime soap, and his alter ego, Dorothy Michaels, becomes a national sensation. Garr plays his girlfriend Sandy, a fellow actress who has...

Plot: Rico fears that werewolves lurk in the nearby forest, but the danger could all be in his head.

Review: After being absent from the screen for over twenty years, Shelley Duvall made her return to acting with director Scott Goldberg’s horror film The Forest Hills – and the movie has gotten a good amount of attention for having Duvall in the cast. She was a Texas college student when she basically just fell into an acting career. She happened to meet director Robert Altman at a party while he was in Texas shooting his 1970 movie Brewster McCloud. Intrigued by her “upbeat presence and unique physical appearance,” the director and crew members talked Duvall into taking a role in the film. Suddenly she was an actress who started racking up credits: Nashville, Annie Hall, The Shining, Popeye, Time Bandits, Roxanne, The Portrait of a Lady, and fifty more, including hosting her own TV show,...

James Earl Jones in ‘Coming 2 America’ (Photo Courtesy of Amazon Studios)

On September 9, 2024, we lost one of the great ones: James Earl Jones. Jones is one of the few people to achieve the Egot, but more important than awards was the passion, commitment, craft, and just sheer scale he brought to every role whether it was as the leading man, a supporting character, or just a voice. And he brought all that to the table whether he was doing Shakespeare or Sesame Street. He was truly a rare talent.

James Earl Jones made his Broadway debut in 1957 but gained acclaim for his work with the New York Shakespeare Festival taking on the Bard’s tragic heroes of Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus, and King Lear. He would win a Tony Award for Best Actor for The Great White Hope (1968), a role that he reprised for the 1970 film adaptation, earning him his...

The In Memoriam segment on Sunday night’s Emmy telecast paid respects to Shannen Doherty, Chance Perdomo, Martin Mull, Richard Lewis and many more TV luminaries lost in the past eight months.

Shelley Duvall and Sctv cast member Joe Flaherty, however, were two notable omissions from the revamped annual fixture of the telecast.

Duvall, though perhaps best known for her film work with major directors including Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, had a long and substantial TV career and was a two-time Emmy nominee. She created and produced a number of enduring shows, including Faerie Tale Theatre and Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories. Duvall died in July at 75.

Flaherty died in April at 82. His absence from the Emmy segment was awkward given that one of his Sctv costars, Eugene Levy, co-hosted the telecast and another, Martin Short, was a nominee and presenter.

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Shelley Duvall will be seen on the screen one last time with her posthumous role in the upcoming horror film The Forest Hills. It was her first role in over two decades after stepping away from acting, and her reasons for accepting the part have been revealed.

Per TMZ, Duvall's role in The Forest Hills was explained by Dan Gilroy, her longtime partner. She filmed her scenes for the movie in 2023 before passing due to complications from diabetes in July at the age of 75. As her health was declining at the time of production, Gilroy said Duvall wanted to act in the movie because it would offer her "unique solace." He explained that doing the film would help Duvall "feel like an actress a final time" and "lift her spirits" amid her ongoing health battle. On agreeing to be in The Forest Hills, Gilroy added of Duvall, "She really rose to the occasion.

Shelley Duvall's legacy shines in Time Bandits, offering physical comedy alongside Michael Palin in standout performances. The film's episodic structure allows for Duvall's dual role to add humor and heart to an enduring love story. Duvall's comedic timing and expressive face elevate her role in the absurd-yet-epic struggle between good and evil.

The late Shelley Duvall, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 75, was known for her sunny and warm onscreen persona, beginning with her early work for director Robert Altman. It helped her Wendy Torrance become a memorable heroine in the classic adaptation of The Shining, and let her steal the show in movies like Roxanne and The Portrait of a Lady. It also grounded the ethos of her classic TV series Faerie Tale Theatre, which she executive produced and hosted, and which reflected her spirit even when she wasn't onscreen. With those credentials, it's...

Shelley Duvall's performance in The Shining is the heart of the film, providing a sympathetic and vital audience connection. Stanley Kubrick's unique vision focused on the Overlook Hotel and challenged haunted house clichs for a fresh approach. Shelley Duvall's portrayal of Wendy as an emotionally battered survivor adds depth and humanity to the horror classic.

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Shelley Duvall, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 75, had an eclectic career with a wide variety of roles. That included her early work with Robert Altman, and her beloved passion project Faerie Tale Theatre, as well as scene-stealing turns in the likes of Roxanne. At the end of the day, however, she's probably still best known for Wendy Torrance, the abused wife of Stanley Kubrick's celebrated adaptation of The Shining. The movie overcame mixed critical reaction and even...

Newsa.I. Artificial Intelligence.Voting is underway to ratify IATSE’s tentative agreement with AMPTP, as union leaders try to assuage the fears of members about new allowances for AI. Results will be announced tomorrow, July 18.Agnieszka Holland, James Gray, Andrew Haigh, and Kleber Mendonça Filho, are among the members of the main competition jury of next month’s Venice Film Festival, led by Isabelle Huppert. An AI company called Flawless is developing technology to dub films and television programs into different languages with “perfectly lip-synced visuals,” playing to the aspirations of non-English-language productions, especially, to reach a subtitle-averse market in the US.In PRODUCTIONTimothée Chalamet will star in and produce Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, apparently inspired by the professional ping pong player Marty Reisman. This is Safdie’s first solo outing as a director since The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008), having shared the credit for his last five films with his brother,...

Shelley Duvall, the iconic actress known for her distinctive voice, striking appearance, and memorable performances, passed away on July 11, 2024. She was 75 years old. Duvall’s contributions to film and television left an indelible mark on the entertainment industry, and her death is a significant loss to the world of cinema. Duvall’s cause of death was due to complications from diabetes, and she was bedridden for several months prior to her passing. Her longtime partner Dan Gilroy says the actress died in her sleep sometime after midnight.

Early Life and Career Beginnings

Shelley Alexis Duvall was born on July 7, 1949, in Fort Worth, Texas. Her early life was far from the limelight, as she initially pursued a degree in nutrition and diet therapy. However, her life took an unexpected turn when she was discovered by director Robert Altman at a party. Altman saw something unique in Duvall, leading to her film...

From the moment she appeared on screen, Shelley Duvall had an inherent, if unconventional, star quality. Recruited by Robert Altman to play a supporting role in his bizarro “M*A*S*H” follow-up “Brewster McCloud,” Duvall had no formal acting training or experience the first time she walked onto a movie set; she was a student at a junior college studying nutrition and diet therapy, who had never even left the state of Texas. But with her effortlessly charming performance in the film, she proved herself a natural.

What made Duvall such a brilliant actor? Part of it is her distinctive appearance: she was beautiful, but not generically so, with high cheekbones and large, expressive eyes that made her face a canvas to project emotions onto, be it terror or longing or despair. She had a knack for playing into the eccentricities and oddities of her characters, adding an offbeat...

Shelley Duvall, one of the most iconic movie stars of the ’70s and ’80s, died on Thursday from complications related to diabetes. She was 75.

Duvall got her start working with Robert Altman, with her first acting role coming in his 1970 film Brewster McCloud. This sparked a longtime collaboration and friendship, with Duvall starring in other Altman films like Nashville, 3 Women and Popeye.

Her work with Altman led to being cast in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining as Wendy Torrance, her most recognizable role. In addition to her film work, Duvall hosted and created the children’s series Faerie Tale Theatre and Bedtime Stories.

In 2002, Duvall decided to retire from acting. Following the attention from The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2021 cover story on her reclusive life in Texas Hill Country post-Hollywood, the actress returned to the screen in the 2023 independent horror film The Forest Hills.

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us.

Shelley Duvall and I crossed paths at the moment I needed her most.

It was late 2020. Covid lockdowns, George Floyd, media layoffs — everything sucked, and it wasn’t getting better. I adopted a French bulldog puppy to help me cope and named him Otto. Otto would scream every night until I brought him into bed with me, then poop in my duvet.

I tried to maintain a sense of normalcy at work. I wrote a piece for The Hollywood Reporter commemorating the 40th anniversary of Robert Altman’s Popeye. I had not seen the film since 1980. Seeing it again, I was utterly bewitched by Duvall. Her Olive Oyl, twirling around a wooden post singing “He Needs Me,” struck me as being one of the great movie musical moments.

That got me thinking about her. Where was Shelley? What was she up to? I recalled the Dr. Phil appearance — who could forget it?...

Shelley Duvall, who passed away on July 11 at 75, was a film icon in the ’70s and ’80s.

As previously reported on Monsters and Critics, Duvall died in her sleep due to complications from diabetes.

She starred alongside Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Robin Williams in Popeye and appeared in several acclaimed films directed by Robert Altman, including 3 Women and Nashville.

Duvall received several accolades during her Hollywood career, including a Cannes Film Festival Award.

She also received a Peabody Award and nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Duvall’s personal life has been subject to speculation after her role in The Shining and her disappearance from Hollywood.

What happened to Stacey Duvall after The Shining?

After her rise to fame and her starring role in The Shining, Duvall continued acting for over two decades, with roles in Time Bandits...

After generations have repeated, "Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall!" in the legendary actress' trademark soft and sweet vocal inflection, fans across the globe must now bid the wide-eyed performer a farewell. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Duvall has passed away at the age of 75. Her death was confirmed by her partner, musician Dan Gilroy, who has been with her since 1989.

"My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she's free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley," Gilroy told THR.

With a career spanning over 50 years, Shelley Duvall was a distinct and unique talent unlike anyone else of her generation. Known by most as Wendy Torrance, the tortured wife of Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining," Duvall was also the shining star of Robert Altman's golden era — starring in seven films directed by the equally legendary filmmaker. It...

A true icon and legend in the world of entertainment, actress Shelley Duvall has passed away at the age of 75, her longtime partner Dan Gilroy tells The Hollywood Reporter this morning.

“Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas.”

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said in a statement shared by the website.

Shelley Duvall is of course known here in the horror world for her all-time-great performance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, playing opposite Jack Nicholson as Wendy Torrance.

Duvall got her start in the 1970s working with director Robert Altman, making her debut in the 1970 film Brewster McCloud. She went on to work with Altman on McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), Nashville (1975) and 3 Women (1977), as well as Woody Allen in...

We have some very sad news to share today, as The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Shelley Duvall, best known for playing Wendy Torrance in the 1980 horror classic The Shining and Olive Oyl in the 1980 live-action version of Popeye, has passed away at the age of 75. According to Dan Gilroy, her life partner since 1989, died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas. Gilroy said, “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley.“

Born in Fort Worth, Texas on July 7, 1949, Duvall was a Texas college student when she basically just fell into an acting career. She happened to meet director Robert Altman at a party while he was in Texas shooting his 1970 movie Brewster McCloud. Intrigued by her “upbeat presence and unique physical appearance”, the director and crew members talked Duvall...

Shelley Duvall, the doe-eyed actor who was both muse and protégé of director Robert Altman but might best be remembered for her co-starring role opposite Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died today, July 11, of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas. She was 75.

Her death was announced by her longtime partner Dan Gilroy.

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us,” Gilroy said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley.”

Duvall rose to fame in the 1970s in a series of Altman’s films, starting with Brewster McCloud and followed by McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, 3 Women,...

Shelley Duvall, the big-eyed, waifish performer who won the Cannes actress award for Robert Altman’s “3 Women” and endured Stanley Kubrick’s intense directing techniques to star in “The Shining,” died Thursday in Blanco, Texas, Variety confirmed with her partner Dan Gilroy. She was 75.

Duvall was known for working with director Altman, who cast her in “Brewster McCloud” as her first screen role. She went on to appear in his films “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” and “Thieves Like Us” before starring as part of the ensemble cast of “Nashville” in 1975. After gaining attention in “Nashville,” Altman cast her in “Buffalo Bill and the Indians,” then gave her unusual screen presence a chance to shine in “3 Women,” for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as a BAFTA nomination.

Also in 1977, Duvall played a Rolling Stone journalist in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,...

Above: 1980 Japanese poster for Apocalypse Now. Design by Eiko Ishioka, artwork by Haruo Takino.With Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestated Megalopolis having premiered yesterday at Cannes, it's a good time to look back at the posters from his 60-year-long career. The only problem is that many posters for his films are either too well known or nothing to write home about. Like Coppola’s career itself, there are peaks and valleys—one of my very first posts for Notebook, almost exactly fifteen years ago, was about the gorgeous design for The Rain People (1969)—but a career retrospective of his posters seems like it might result in less than the sum of its parts. Yet of all his posters there are three rare Japanese designs that have always stood out as utterly extraordinary: two for Apocalypse Now (1979) and one for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).I’ve always seen these posters attributed to Eiko Ishioka,...

Every installment of Faerie Tale Theatre, a candy-floss fantasy series from the '80s, comes with a promise: You're always going to see screen presence legend Shelley Duvall, and you're going to see hammy acting. The premise is this: Each episode, Duvall takes on a different fairytale, sometimes even playing a character herself, and guides the viewer through tales of magic and might. Coated with a fuzzy layer of familiarity, the series is a showcase for Duvall and her fittingly elfin features. The show, which ran from 1982 to 1987, makes use of elaborate-yet-inexpensive costumes, over-the-top performances, and painted sets, trapping it in an amber of quasi-theater. But perhaps the most fantastical thing about Faerie Tale Theater is that it's not the only one of its kind. A very similar atmosphere hangs over Jim Henson's own '80s television series The StoryTeller. Hosted by a mysterious, prosthetically-enhanced storyteller, the series presents...

Actor Lance Kerwin, best known to horror fans for playing Mark Petrie in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (1979), has passed away at just 62 years old, Variety reports this afternoon.

“An autopsy to determine the cause of death is being conducted, according to his daughter Savanah,” Variety reports.

Lance Kerwin was born on November 6, 1960 in Newport Beach, California, and he began his career as a prolific child actor in the early-mid 1970s. It was just a few years after his on-screen debut in the TV series “Emergency!” that Kerwin landed the role of young Mark Petrie in Salem’s Lot, the original mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s classic vampire story.

Lance Kerwin’s other credits throughout the 1970s include “Little House on the Prairie,” Reflections of Murder, “Gunsmoke,” Escape to Witch Mountain, and “Wonder Woman.”

Post-Salem’s Lot, Kerwin appeared in The Boy Who Drank Too Much, A Killer in the Family,...

At the outset of “My Animal,”, an entranced Heather (a tremendous Bobbi Salvör Menuez) sits on her knees in her white nightgown as a television’s gray glow, emanating from the visage of a full moon, envelopes her. The bluish rings under their eyes deepen, blood oozes from her nose, her body contorts, her bones crack, and her tendons twist. Growling, she drags herself across the carpet of her dimmed living room, before springing free, out of her house and through the woods for an immersive reimaging of a werewolf transformation.

And yet, it’s not solely a devoutness to the genre — the thrumming electronic ’80s score, the liquidy gray-scaled images of trees, or the aggressive shaky handheld tracking through the snow-covered forest, that awakens Castel’s film. It’s the “Beauty and the Beast” episode of the Shelly Duvall hosted series “Faerie Tale Theatre,” that Heather was watching on her television,...

The idea that monsters are an allegory for the human condition is just about as old as the ideas of monsters themselves. But we keep coming back to it because the human condition is full of monstrousness. And also movies where people bite each other are nifty.

Fantastical creatures like werewolves hold up a mirror to our own inner natures, revealing uncomfortable truths about our lusts, our shames, our hidden strengths, our hidden weaknesses. And when the makeup department has a decent budget, they look pretty cool, too.

And so it goes that Jacqueline Castel’s debut feature “My Animal” utilizes the werewolf mythology as our entryway for a queer coming-of-age tale. Bobbi Salvör Menuez (“Under My Skin”) stars as Heather, a young woman still living with her parents and two younger, twin brothers in a snowy town in Canada. She spends her days practicing hockey, even though the local...

Lennie Niehaus, who went from Stan Kenton sideman to Clint Eastwood’s movie composer during a nearly 60-year career in music, died Thursday at his daughter’s home in Redlands, Calif. He was 90.

Niehaus’s two dozen films for Eastwood include original scores for the best picture-winning Western “Unforgiven,” the Charlie Parker biopic “Bird” and the popular romantic drama “The Bridges of Madison County.”

The two met in 1953 at California’s Fort Ord, when the two were in the Army during the Korean Conflict. “I used to play jazz jobs at one of the beer clubs on the base, and Clint was tending bar,” Niehaus wrote in an essay about the actor-director for his 1996 American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. “I used to go off post and play in a little jazz club in nearby Santa Cruz on Sunday afternoons, and he would be there.”

Niehaus’s Army service interrupted...

Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave who directed films including “Cutter’s Way,” died Thursday of pulmonary complications in Reno, Nevada, an associate of the family confirmed. He was 86.

Passer was a close friend and collaborator of the late Czech filmmaker Milos Forman. Passer met Forman at a boarding school for delinquents or children who had lost their parents during the war (other students included Vaclav Havel and Jerzy Skolimowski). They reunited at film school in Prague, where he began collaborating on Forman’s films including “Loves of a Blonde” and “The Firemen’s Ball.” Passer’s first feature was the 1965 film “Intimate Lighting.”

Passer and Forman escaped Prague in 1969 as Russian tanks were advancing, when they pretended to be visiting Austria for the weekend. Though they lacked exit visas, a border guard who was a fan of Forman’s let them cross to safety, Passer told Variety...

Tony Sokol Jul 25, 2019

Art heist film The Burnt Orange Heresy features Donald Sutherland catching rye and a Rolling Stone gathering moss.

Mick Jagger is making his movie comeback.

The lead singer of the Rolling Stones hasn't acted since 2001's The Man from Elysian Fields. He turned down the booty from a part in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise but couldn't turn away from an erotic neo-noir art heist thriller. The Burnt Orange Heresy, which also stars Donald Sutherland as a reclusive artist in the Jd Salinger mold, will have its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, according to Variety. The film will close out the festival in with an out-of-competition screening in the Sala Grande after the awards ceremony.

Based on Charles Willeford's 1971 novel The Burnt Orange Heresy, the film was directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. When the movie was first announced, Christopher Walken was...

Audible and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video announced in February a deal for the “Saturday Night Live” creator’s company to produce original series for the Amazon-owned audio platform. The first show to come out of the deal is “Heads Will Roll,” a fantasy-comedy created by and starring “Saturday Night Live” mainstay Kate McKinnon and her sister, stand-up comic Emily Lynne. The series debuts on Audible May 2.

Had you and Emily worked together on anything like this before?

We’ve been making videos and stuff together our whole lives. In terms of doing a project as adults, we definitely did a web series for Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’ company, a few years ago called “Notary Publix,” about notaries. A hard-hitting drama. But this was definitely the first audio show that we have attempted.

How did you come up with the idea for “Heads Will Roll”?

Broadway Video was partnering with Audible,...

Shelley Duvall’s blood-curdling screams of terror in the climax of The Shining are an indelible part of film history, and the leading lady of the 1980 horror classic went on to work in everything from comedies to children’s television shows in the decades that followed.

The actress, now 67, has stepped away from the spotlight in recent years, but that hasn’t diminished the imprint she’s left — those curious wide eyes, that high-pitched voice, her signature slender frame — in films like Popeye and Annie Hall, and in her collaborations with auteur Robert Altman (Nashville, McCabe & Ms. Miller, 3 Women).

Duvall,...

Shelley Duvall, the actress best known for her roles in The Shining, has revealed she’s suffering from mental illness.

The 67-year-old describes her life away from the spotlight during a sit-down interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that is scheduled to air on his daytime talk show Friday.

“I’m very sick, I need help,” she tells Dr. Phil.

Duvall, who has been living in Blanco, Texas since retiring from acting, last starred in the 2002 independent film Manna From Heaven.

Her first big break was in 1970’s Brewster McCloud, and she then went on to star in Nashville (1975) and played...

What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old.

This is a cheat, but not too long ago, I had to review the newish French version of Beauty And The Beast, which made me think of a very weird adaptation of the story that Roger Vadim directed for Faerie Tale Theatre, the offbeat children’s series that actress Shelley Duvall created and hosted for Showtime in the 1980s. Vadim was a playboy and failed novelist of White Russian parentage (born Vadim Plemiannikov) who prided himself on having lost his virginity on D-Day, seemed to have known just about everyone, and is now best remembered for directing …And God Created Woman and Barbarella and for marrying or impregnating a succession of beautiful movie stars. His “Beauty And The Beast” is...

A complicated curiosity about a reclusive actress.

Two of the most intriguing characters in Robert Altman’s Nashville are Tricycle Man and L.A. Joan. When considered together, it’s a wonder Shelley Duvall didn’t wind up becoming the female equivalent of Jeff Goldblum. She should have had a long career playing eccentric but charismatic women, just as he has done (in male roles). But that kind of thing works out better for actors than actresses. So instead, he wound up starring in movies where he fought fictional aliens, and she wound up a recluse gossiped to be living in fear of aliens that are in her body.

It’s been a while since I thought a lot about Duvall, outside of regularly enjoying her in many of Altman’s films, including 3 Women and Popeye, plus Annie Hall, Roxanne, and of course The Shining. I hadn’t seen her in anything new in forever, but...

This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of November 10th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.

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Marco Zappia, award-winning TV editor of Hee-Haw, All In The Family, Home Improvement and dozens of additional TV series and specials, died December 22 in Ventura, CA. He was 76. Los Angeles-born Zappia went from owning a TV repair shop to an award-winning career in editing that spanned four decades when he joined CBS in 1968 as an engineer in the videotape department, where he helped install the network’s first electronic editing system. His first editing gig on CBS’s variety show Hee Haw nabbed him his first Emmy and also marked the network’s first-ever win for editing. Zappia went on to edit numerous TV specials and series including Maude, The Jeffersons, The Sonny & Cher Show, All in The Family, Archie Bunker’s Place, Roseanne, and Faerie Tale Theatre. His prolific ’90s sitcom credits include My Two Dads, Dinosaurs, Who’s The Boss?, The Torkelsons and spin-off Almost Home, Where I Live,...

It’s a good thing Veep has already been renewed for a third season because it’s going to take Amy (Anna Chlumsky), Chief of Staff for VP Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a while to figure out how to balance her professional and personal lives. “This season is about her questioning how important the D.C. life is to her,” Chlumsky says. “It’s been assumed for her for so long that this is the game, she likes to win the game, and this is what it’s all about for her. This is her first time really entertaining the...

Amazon's Black Friday Deals Week begins this morning at 8:20 Am and the schedule for the day is listed below and I will be doing the same thing every morning all week long and if you want to check the full schedule you can click right here. Today the scheduled deals include Taken, The Lorax, Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and "The Vampire Diaries" Third Season along with a few additional deals such as... amazon asin="B005FHWWXQ" text="Planet of the Apes: 5 Film Collection" ($22.99) Blu-ray amazon asin="B005LAJ16I" text="Homeland: The Complete First Season" ($19.99) amazon asin="B005LAJ17M" text="Homeland: The Complete First Season" ($24.99) Blu-ray amazon asin="B005LAJ212" text="Revenge: The Complete First Season" ($19.99) amazon asin="B0058YPL66" text="Once Upon a Time: The Complete First Season" ($19.99) amazon asin="B0058YPLA2" text="Once Upon a Time: The Complete First Season" ($24.99) Blu-ray amazon...

Amazon has released their early Black Friday Deals Week schedule beginning Monday, November 19 and running through Monday, November 26 and I have added the entire list in its state below and will be updating as more and more titles are added it to it and considering the limited number of Blu-ray titles included I have to assume this thing is going to get beefed up. There are some notable titles beginning with the Gold Box Deal on Saturday, November 24 where the Blu-ray edition of the recently released amazon asin="B006U1J5ZY" text="Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection" will be on sale. The price has not yet been announced, but as of right now it sits at $149.99 and I wouldn't be surprised if it drops under $100 on that day so stay tuned. Additional titles on sale throughout the eight day sale include X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: The Last Stand,...

Yet another twist on the Brothers Grimm fairytale Snow White will try to put a spell on theater audiences this weekend with Mirror Mirror, a lighthearted comedy-fantasy starring Julia Roberts as the wicked queen, Lily Collins as Snow White and Armie Hammer as the handsome prince. In the movie, Snow White is banned to the forest by Queen Clementianna and is rescued by a band of highway robbers (i.e. the seven dwarfs) as Ms. White bides her time and becomes determined to reclaim her realm from the evil enchantress. Back in 1984, Shelley Duvall's fantastical television series Faerie Tale Theatre did a version of Snow White featuring Vanessa Redgrave as the Queen, Elizabeth McGovern as Snow White and, most memorably, Vincent Price as Magic Mirror. Duvall herself made an appearance...

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We already know that the Evil Queen, played by Lana Parrilla, in "Once Upon a Time" has a bad father. But what about her mother? Looks like we're soon to find out as the popular ABC series has cast Barbara Hershey as the Evil Queen's mom. Hershey, the Emmy award-winning actress, is set to appear in one episode this season, and has already agreed to appear in two episodes of Season 2. That is, if ABC picks up the show for a second season, according to Entertainment Weekly. Hershey has a lot of great films and television shows to her credit, but few genre ones. She appeared in an episode of the Roy Thinnes alien drama "The Invasion" in 1968. She also played a maid in a 1983 episode of "Faerie Tale Theatre" called "The Nightingale." Although this might not count as too much of a connection, ...

Frances Bay, the veteran character actress who worked with everyone from Jerry Seinfeld to David Lynch, died on Thursday, Sept. 15, according to the Los Angeles Times. She was 92.

Bay, born in Mannville, Canada on Jan. 23, 1919, started off as a stage actress in Toronto but put her acting career on hold to become a homemaker after her husband's business career took them to the United States. Bay caught the acting bug again in the 1970s and started auditioning for film and television.

Bay went on to become Hollywood's go-to character actress for grandmotherly characters, appearing as Fonzie's Grandma Nussbaum on "Happy Days," Aunt Hortense on "The Dukes of Hazzard," Granny on Faerie Tale Theatre's rendition of "Little Red Riding Hood" and, of course, Grandma in "Happy Gilmore." She also proved herself as a gifted comedian with her turn as Mabel Choate, who clashed with Jerry over the last loaf of marble rye bread on "Seinfeld.

There's a lot of things to think about this morning. I think the biggest thing that is wracking my brain right now is that no one else in this office has ever seen Faerie Tale Theatre. Seriously guys, when I was a kid I dominated my local library's VHS collection. I just remember how freakishly terrofying some of them were- no surprise because now that I do research on it it came from the minds of Francis Ford Coppola and Tim Burton. 

Anyway, this is a supercut of the very beginning of Faerie Tale Theatre in which Shelly Duvall introduces herself. Try not to have your brain explode from the video and all the nostalgia knowledge I just dropped on you.

 

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Much of the world became acquainted with Matthew Broderick through his iconic role as Ferris Bueller. Robin Williams was, of course, the alien Mork. And America recognized Jean Stapleton as All In The Family‘s Edith Bunker. But I was a child of the ’80s. I’d been born too late to watch Mork and Edith on primetime TV, and Ferris Bueller was definitely taboo for a preschooler. Instead, I was introduced to Broderick, Williams, Stapleton and a slew of other Hollywood A-Listers through a different outlet: Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre....

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

I wasn't even aware that there was already a Fawlty Towers complete set out. Or maybe I knew it and forgot and didn't get reminded of it until I heard about the new remastered set that comes out tomorrow. I'm gonna get that.

I'm also tempted to get Vegas, just because I liked that show and haven't seen it in years. I hate these "Volume" sets though. Just give us the whole season!

Black Adder - Black Adder 1, II, III, IV, and V (All remastered) and Ultimate Edition Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Complete Series (New package) Eleventh Hour - Complete Series Faerie Tale Theatre - Bedtime Tales and Magical Tales

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