Nathan Louis Jackson, a writer-producer on Netflix’s “Luke Cage” and the playwright behind “Broke-ology,” died on Aug. 22 at his home in Lenexa, Ks. He was 44.
Jackson’s wife Megan Mascorro-Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had dealt with heart issues and had undergone an aortic dissection in 2019.
Jackson was born on Dec. 4, 1978 and attended Kansas State University, where he first started writing plays. He later received his Mfa in playwriting from the Juilliard School in New York City.
Jackson’s play “Broke-ology” premiered in 2008 at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts before opening at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in October 2009. The play tells the story of a poor Black family in Kansas City and starred Wendell Pierce of “Suits” and “The Wire.” The Lincoln Center Theater website writes of the play, “Mr. Jackson’s work is reminiscent of Lorraine Hansberry in its true-to-life naturalism,...
Jackson’s wife Megan Mascorro-Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had dealt with heart issues and had undergone an aortic dissection in 2019.
Jackson was born on Dec. 4, 1978 and attended Kansas State University, where he first started writing plays. He later received his Mfa in playwriting from the Juilliard School in New York City.
Jackson’s play “Broke-ology” premiered in 2008 at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts before opening at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in October 2009. The play tells the story of a poor Black family in Kansas City and starred Wendell Pierce of “Suits” and “The Wire.” The Lincoln Center Theater website writes of the play, “Mr. Jackson’s work is reminiscent of Lorraine Hansberry in its true-to-life naturalism,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
Alan Arkin, the versatile actor who finally won an Oscar — for Little Miss Sunshine — after making a career of disappearing into characters with turns that could be comic, chilling or charming, has died. He was 89.
His sons, Adam, Matthew and Anthony, announced the news in a joint statement. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” they said. “A loving husband, father, grand and great-grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”
He had heart trouble and died Thursday at his home in San Marcos, California.
In his first significant role in a feature, Arkin received a rare best actor Oscar nomination for work in a comedy when he played a Russian sailor whose submarine is marooned off the coast of a New England fishing village in Norman Jewison’s The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming (1966).
Two years later,...
His sons, Adam, Matthew and Anthony, announced the news in a joint statement. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” they said. “A loving husband, father, grand and great-grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”
He had heart trouble and died Thursday at his home in San Marcos, California.
In his first significant role in a feature, Arkin received a rare best actor Oscar nomination for work in a comedy when he played a Russian sailor whose submarine is marooned off the coast of a New England fishing village in Norman Jewison’s The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming (1966).
Two years later,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alan Arkin, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” with a body of work that spans seven decades of stage and screen acting, died June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif, Variety has confirmed. He was 89.
Arkin’s sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony said in a joint statement, “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”
Arkin, who was known for projecting a characteristically dry wit but could play tragedy with equal efficacy, won his Oscar for his supporting performance in the indie comedy “Little Miss Sunshine” in 2007; he scored an encore nomination for his punchy and profane turn in Ben Affleck’s best picture winner “Argo.” Arkin picked up two earlier nominations in his film career, for “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming...
Arkin’s sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony said in a joint statement, “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”
Arkin, who was known for projecting a characteristically dry wit but could play tragedy with equal efficacy, won his Oscar for his supporting performance in the indie comedy “Little Miss Sunshine” in 2007; he scored an encore nomination for his punchy and profane turn in Ben Affleck’s best picture winner “Argo.” Arkin picked up two earlier nominations in his film career, for “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming...
- 6/30/2023
- by Carmel Dagan and J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Deep inside every hard-hitting Pearl Jam grunge-a-palooza lurks a bluegrass hoedown dying to do-si-do. Eddie Vedder himself has proven this time and again by switching between the rock group and his own solo ukulele ballads. And now the long-running bluegrass quartet Iron Horse — who have strummed, chicken-picked, and mandolin-ified songs by Metallica, Van Halen, and Kanye West as part of Cmh Records’ Pickin’ On series — have imbued some extra twang into 12 Pearl Jam staples for Pickin’ on Pearl Jam, a new album out now.
The group’s interpretation of “Alive...
The group’s interpretation of “Alive...
- 5/12/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Cohen Film Collection is gearing up for a number of newly restored releases, among them Simon Callow’s 1991 drama “The Ballad of the Sad Café” and a number of Buster Keaton works.
Part of New York-based Cohen Media Group, Cohen Film Collection restores classic films and re-releases them theatrically. It’s vast catalogue includes the Merchant Ivory collection, of which “The Ballad of the Sad Café” is a part.
Based on the 1951 novella by Carson McCullers, the film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine and Rod Steiger.
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is currently finishing the restoration of the film, which Cohen Film Group plans to release next year.
“There’s still a number of features to go, so we’re working our way through those, including some of the films set in India, which I’m personally really interested in,” says Tim Lanza, Cohen Film Collection vice president and archivist.
Part of New York-based Cohen Media Group, Cohen Film Collection restores classic films and re-releases them theatrically. It’s vast catalogue includes the Merchant Ivory collection, of which “The Ballad of the Sad Café” is a part.
Based on the 1951 novella by Carson McCullers, the film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine and Rod Steiger.
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is currently finishing the restoration of the film, which Cohen Film Group plans to release next year.
“There’s still a number of features to go, so we’re working our way through those, including some of the films set in India, which I’m personally really interested in,” says Tim Lanza, Cohen Film Collection vice president and archivist.
- 10/12/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Baby Doll
Blu ray
Warner Archive
1956 / 1.85:1 / 114 min.
Starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Cinematography by Boris Kaufman
Directed by Elia Kazan
Depraved, degenerate, and dreadfully funny, the genre known as Southern Gothic blurred the line between humor and horror and helped define the work of artists like William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams. Depending on who you talked to, the experience was either a bracing walk on the wild side or freak show sensationalism. Poetry or not, books like Sanctuary and Reflections in a Golden Eye were catnip to thrill-hungry Hollywood execs who gobbled up the rights and, true to form, removed the raw carnality that made the original stories so… stimulating. That wasn’t the case with Williams’ screenplay for 1957’s Baby Doll—though its Rabelaisian spirit made it one of the most controversial and widely condemned events in movie history, the driving force behind Elia...
Blu ray
Warner Archive
1956 / 1.85:1 / 114 min.
Starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Cinematography by Boris Kaufman
Directed by Elia Kazan
Depraved, degenerate, and dreadfully funny, the genre known as Southern Gothic blurred the line between humor and horror and helped define the work of artists like William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams. Depending on who you talked to, the experience was either a bracing walk on the wild side or freak show sensationalism. Poetry or not, books like Sanctuary and Reflections in a Golden Eye were catnip to thrill-hungry Hollywood execs who gobbled up the rights and, true to form, removed the raw carnality that made the original stories so… stimulating. That wasn’t the case with Williams’ screenplay for 1957’s Baby Doll—though its Rabelaisian spirit made it one of the most controversial and widely condemned events in movie history, the driving force behind Elia...
- 2/27/2021
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
A gay urbanite travels home to visit a family that does not know about their loved one’s sexual orientation; it’s a situation that’s played for comedy in “Happiest Season,” but in “Uncle Frank,” writer-director Alan Ball mines the situation mostly for drama, although not without his signature wit.
Those moments that land, whether funny or moving, occur when Ball isn’t getting in his own way and instead trusts in the characters he’s written and the actors who are performing them. Overall, the film works, but there are times during this road-trip saga where one wishes Ball would apply the brakes.
It’s the fall of 1972, and Beth Bledsoe is entering NYU as a freshman. Her uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) teaches there; on a trip home four years earlier, he encouraged young Beth not to follow the set paths laid out for her by their small town,...
Those moments that land, whether funny or moving, occur when Ball isn’t getting in his own way and instead trusts in the characters he’s written and the actors who are performing them. Overall, the film works, but there are times during this road-trip saga where one wishes Ball would apply the brakes.
It’s the fall of 1972, and Beth Bledsoe is entering NYU as a freshman. Her uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) teaches there; on a trip home four years earlier, he encouraged young Beth not to follow the set paths laid out for her by their small town,...
- 11/25/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
One of the people who’s made long-form television drama arguably more interesting as a whole than its mainstream big-screen equivalent in recent years, Alan Ball has underlined his superior comfort with that format in the few theatrical features he’s made to date. His screenplay for “American Beauty,” which Sam Mendes directed, was brilliant but glib; as writer-director of 2007’s “Towelhead,” he couldn’t quite make the complicated agenda of Alicia Erian’s novel gel in two-hour form.
His first such enterprise since, the somewhat autobiographically inspired “Uncle Frank,” hits a more successful balance between ensemble seriocomedy, Big Issues and a somewhat pressure-cooked plot. Set in the early ’70s, it casts the reliably deft Paul Bettany as a gay man forced to confront the Southern family to whom he’s stayed closeted — though they’ve managed to communicate tacit disapproval of his being “different” anyhow. Well-cast and gracefully handled,...
His first such enterprise since, the somewhat autobiographically inspired “Uncle Frank,” hits a more successful balance between ensemble seriocomedy, Big Issues and a somewhat pressure-cooked plot. Set in the early ’70s, it casts the reliably deft Paul Bettany as a gay man forced to confront the Southern family to whom he’s stayed closeted — though they’ve managed to communicate tacit disapproval of his being “different” anyhow. Well-cast and gracefully handled,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
“Singin’ in the Rain” director Stanley Donen, Sondra Locke, the Oscar-nominated actress and former partner of Clint Eastwood, Verne Troyer, character actor Dick Miller and Golden Globe nominee R. Lee Ermey were omitted during the Oscars’ In Memoriam tribute on Sunday.
Carol Channing, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1967 film “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and died in January, was also omitted during the tribute to showbiz people who died in the past year.
Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Los Angeles Philarmonic to a track from 1978’s “Superman: The Movie.”
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Donen, whose death was announced Saturday at the age of 94, helped reinvent the big-screen musical, with a series of hits that included “On the Town,” 1954’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” 1957’s “The Pajama Game,” 1958’s “Damn Yankees!” and 1957’s “Funny Face,” with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.
Carol Channing, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1967 film “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and died in January, was also omitted during the tribute to showbiz people who died in the past year.
Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Los Angeles Philarmonic to a track from 1978’s “Superman: The Movie.”
Also Read: Oscars: Watch Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Sing 'Shallow' (Video)
Donen, whose death was announced Saturday at the age of 94, helped reinvent the big-screen musical, with a series of hits that included “On the Town,” 1954’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” 1957’s “The Pajama Game,” 1958’s “Damn Yankees!” and 1957’s “Funny Face,” with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.
- 2/25/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Sondra Locke, the Oscar-nominated actress and director known for her long association with Clint Eastwood, has died at the age of 74.
Locke died of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer at her home in Los Angeles, according to a death certificate obtained by The Associated Press. The actress’ death went unpublicized for nearly six weeks until Radar Online reported on it Thursday.
After making her big-screen debut in 1968’s Carson McCullers adaptation The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – a role she won after a nationwide talent search – Locke...
Locke died of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer at her home in Los Angeles, according to a death certificate obtained by The Associated Press. The actress’ death went unpublicized for nearly six weeks until Radar Online reported on it Thursday.
After making her big-screen debut in 1968’s Carson McCullers adaptation The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – a role she won after a nationwide talent search – Locke...
- 12/14/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Sondra Locke, Oscar-nominated actress and former partner of Clint Eastwood, died last month at the age of 74, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Locke earned her Oscar nomination in 1968 for her supporting role in the adaptation of Carson McCullers’ “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,” starring alongside Alan Arkin. It was Locke’s first acting role, which led to star turns in films like “Willard” and “The Second Coming of Suzanne,” the latter being her first title role.
Her career then took a big turn in 1975 when she starred alongside Clint Eastwood in “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” She played the love interest of Eastwood’s character and began dating him soon after. During their 14 year relationship, Locke and Eastwood made six films together, including the highest grossing installment of the “Dirty Harry” franchise, “Sudden Impact,” in 1983. Their relationship ended with a palimony suit in 1989 after Eastwood...
Locke earned her Oscar nomination in 1968 for her supporting role in the adaptation of Carson McCullers’ “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,” starring alongside Alan Arkin. It was Locke’s first acting role, which led to star turns in films like “Willard” and “The Second Coming of Suzanne,” the latter being her first title role.
Her career then took a big turn in 1975 when she starred alongside Clint Eastwood in “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” She played the love interest of Eastwood’s character and began dating him soon after. During their 14 year relationship, Locke and Eastwood made six films together, including the highest grossing installment of the “Dirty Harry” franchise, “Sudden Impact,” in 1983. Their relationship ended with a palimony suit in 1989 after Eastwood...
- 12/14/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
From film schools to DVD shelves, movies considered to be classics are largely made by men. Now, with Hollywood in turmoil, we asked women in film to nominate the movies that should be hailed alongside Scorsese and Spielberg
For as long as most of us have been around, the canon – those books, plays, films and TV series anointed as the most important of their kind – has been defined by a singular commonality: most of it was created by white men. When I entered graduate school in theatre management and producing in the 1990s, we were required to read a series of books entitled Famous American Plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc. Everything I was assigned, except for two plays – Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding and Lillian Hellman’s The Autumn Garden – was by men.
Sadly, it hasn’t changed over the last couple of decades. When I...
For as long as most of us have been around, the canon – those books, plays, films and TV series anointed as the most important of their kind – has been defined by a singular commonality: most of it was created by white men. When I entered graduate school in theatre management and producing in the 1990s, we were required to read a series of books entitled Famous American Plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc. Everything I was assigned, except for two plays – Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding and Lillian Hellman’s The Autumn Garden – was by men.
Sadly, it hasn’t changed over the last couple of decades. When I...
- 11/3/2017
- by Introduction by Melissa Silverstein With nominations by Amma Asante Emily V Gordon, Lynne Ramsay, Gurinder Chadha, Sally Potter, Hope Dickson Leach, Nadia Latif, Pamela Hutchinson, Pratibha Parmar, Jingan Young, Penelope Spheeris, Melanie Lynskey andSarah Solemani
- The Guardian - Film News
For decades, the Southern Gothic genre has dominated the depiction of American life. Authors like Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers have depicted the American South as an almost mystical region where the fear of God hovers thickly in the air and madness pricks at everyone’s overheated minds. One of the most disturbing practitioners of this genre is Flannery O’Connor, but the author never accepted it as her own. O’Connor insisted that her stories were simply depictions of Southern life as it really was, grotesqueries and all—her intention was not to unsettle or evoke horror. For someone who did not witness this environment firsthand, it’s hard to accept that this is simply a look at how Southern life is; because her stories are truly so horrifying.
One of her most famous stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” has the dawning-nightmare effect of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.
One of her most famous stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” has the dawning-nightmare effect of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.
- 8/18/2017
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
Robert Ellis Miller, the veteran director of films including 1968’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and 1983’s Reuben, Reuben, died Friday. He was 89.
He had been living at the Motion Picture & Television Country House in Woodland Hills, Calif., since the death of his wife, documentarian Pola Miller (nee Chasman), two years ago.
Miller’s film version of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the 1940 Carson McCullers novel about a deaf man’s relationship with a teenage girl in 1930s Georgia, starred Alan Arkin and introduced an unknown Sondra Locke to the screen. Both received Oscar nominations for their...
He had been living at the Motion Picture & Television Country House in Woodland Hills, Calif., since the death of his wife, documentarian Pola Miller (nee Chasman), two years ago.
Miller’s film version of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the 1940 Carson McCullers novel about a deaf man’s relationship with a teenage girl in 1930s Georgia, starred Alan Arkin and introduced an unknown Sondra Locke to the screen. Both received Oscar nominations for their...
- 1/31/2017
- by Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Do you think there’s ever been another movie like Heathers?” Winona Ryder asks in her tiny, forever-a-kid voice, and then listens quietly. She’s genuinely curious. Your brain races through the obvious choices. Mean Girls, Clueless, Jawbreaker—teen-girl comedies with a drop of caustic in their lip gloss. But in 25 years, no high school movie has ever come close to the bloodthirsty wit and sweet-faced nihilism of Heathers, the 1989 satire about an Ohio high school where suicide becomes a scrunchie-level fad. “I looove this movie—to the point where I talk about it like I’m not even in it,...
- 4/4/2014
- by Adam Markovitz
- EW - Inside Movies
Macho and egotistical John Huston dominates Anjelica's vividly written, fascinating memoir
Anjelica Huston's first starring screen role – directed by her father John – was in 1969's A Walk with Love and Death. The only review she quotes in her memoir is John Simon's: "There is a perfectly blank, supremely inept performance by Huston's daughter Anjelica, who has the face of an exhausted gnu, the voice of an unstrung tennis racket, and a figure of no discernible shape."
No preening luvvie, this one. And pace the crass Mr Simon (reviewing her looks rather than her acting) we know Huston is, or became, a good actor. Her performance in The Witches gave my little sister nightmares not for weeks, but years. It turns out that she can also really write. What's more, she has a story to tell.
Huston grew up in an atmosphere of immense privilege and occasional emotional deprivation. This involving memoir falls,...
Anjelica Huston's first starring screen role – directed by her father John – was in 1969's A Walk with Love and Death. The only review she quotes in her memoir is John Simon's: "There is a perfectly blank, supremely inept performance by Huston's daughter Anjelica, who has the face of an exhausted gnu, the voice of an unstrung tennis racket, and a figure of no discernible shape."
No preening luvvie, this one. And pace the crass Mr Simon (reviewing her looks rather than her acting) we know Huston is, or became, a good actor. Her performance in The Witches gave my little sister nightmares not for weeks, but years. It turns out that she can also really write. What's more, she has a story to tell.
Huston grew up in an atmosphere of immense privilege and occasional emotional deprivation. This involving memoir falls,...
- 1/16/2014
- by Sam Leith
- The Guardian - Film News
“Don’t get all Carson McCullers on me,” snaps Barbara (Julia Roberts) to one of her over-dramatizing sisters, but that’s a stone that really shouldn’t be thrown within the glass house that is “August: Osage County,” a movie that feels like a stew of McCullers and Tennessee Williams and Beth Henley and Robert Harling and countless other writers who have assembled the unhappy members of a dysfunctional family under one roof for subsequent fireworks of recrimination and regret. To get the most enjoyment out of “August,” it’s best to think of it less as an adaptation of a Tony Award– and.
- 11/9/2013
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Award-winning actor renowned for her work on Broadway and roles in classic films such as East of Eden and The Haunting
Unable to make sufficient money from her novels, the great American writer Carson McCullers took advice from Tennessee Williams and allowed one of her masterpieces to be adapted for the theatre. The resultant success of The Member of the Wedding (1950) widened her fame, and made a Broadway star of Julie Harris, who has died aged 87.
The play's main character is Frankie Addams, a gawky 12-year-old who longs for companionship and the "we of me". Although the second juvenile role, in what is essentially a three-hander, went to a child actor, Brandon de Wilde, the complex part of Frankie fell to Harris, who was then 24. Born in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, and trained at the Yale School of Drama, Harris had made her Broadway debut in It's a Gift in...
Unable to make sufficient money from her novels, the great American writer Carson McCullers took advice from Tennessee Williams and allowed one of her masterpieces to be adapted for the theatre. The resultant success of The Member of the Wedding (1950) widened her fame, and made a Broadway star of Julie Harris, who has died aged 87.
The play's main character is Frankie Addams, a gawky 12-year-old who longs for companionship and the "we of me". Although the second juvenile role, in what is essentially a three-hander, went to a child actor, Brandon de Wilde, the complex part of Frankie fell to Harris, who was then 24. Born in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, and trained at the Yale School of Drama, Harris had made her Broadway debut in It's a Gift in...
- 8/25/2013
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
Julie Harris, one of Broadway's most honored performers, whose roles ranged from the flamboyant Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera to the reclusive Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst died Saturday. She was 87. Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass., home of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James said. The actress won five Tony Awards for best actress in a play, displaying a virtuosity that enabled her to portray an astonishing gallery of women during a theater career that spanned almost 60 years and included such plays as The Member of the Wedding (1950), The Lark (1955), Forty Carats...
- 8/25/2013
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
New York (Associated Press) — Julie Harris, one of Broadway's most honored performers, whose roles ranged from the flamboyant Sally Bowles in "I Am a Camera" to the reclusive Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst," died Saturday. She was 87.
Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass., home of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James said.
Harris won five Tony Awards for best actress in a play, displaying a virtuosity that enabled her to portray an astonishing gallery of women during a theater career that spanned almost 60 years and included such plays as "The Member of the Wedding" (1950), "The Lark" (1955), "Forty Carats" (1968) and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1972).
She was honored again with a sixth Tony, a special lifetime achievement award in 2002. Her record is up against Audra McDonald, with five competitive Tonys, and Angela Lansbury with four Tonys in the best actress-musical category and one for best supporting actress in a play.
Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass., home of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James said.
Harris won five Tony Awards for best actress in a play, displaying a virtuosity that enabled her to portray an astonishing gallery of women during a theater career that spanned almost 60 years and included such plays as "The Member of the Wedding" (1950), "The Lark" (1955), "Forty Carats" (1968) and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1972).
She was honored again with a sixth Tony, a special lifetime achievement award in 2002. Her record is up against Audra McDonald, with five competitive Tonys, and Angela Lansbury with four Tonys in the best actress-musical category and one for best supporting actress in a play.
- 8/25/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Julie Harris: Best Actress Oscar nominee, multiple Tony winner dead at 87 (photo: James Dean and Julie Harris in ‘East of Eden’) Film, stage, and television actress Julie Harris, a Best Actress Academy Award nominee for the psychological drama The Member of the Wedding and James Dean’s leading lady in East of Eden, died of congestive heart failure at her home in West Chatham, Massachusetts, on August 24, 2013. Harris, born in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, on December 2, 1925, was 87. Throughout her career, Julie Harris collected ten Tony Award nominations, more than any other performer. She won five times — a record matched only by that of Angela Lansbury. Harris’ Tony Award wins were for I Am a Camera (1952), The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). Harris’ tenth and final Tony nomination was for The Gin Game (1997). In 2002, she was honored with a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
- 8/25/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Veteran stage, TV and film actress Julie Harris passed away Saturday. She was 87. Harris died of congestive heart failure at home in West Chatham, Massachusetts, per Nyt. The celebrated performer best known for her long and highly decorated Broadway career won five Tony Awards, three Emmys, and one Grammy over five decades in showbiz – narrowly missing the elusive Egot with her 1953 Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, her first screen role. Onstage Harris originated the role of Sally Bowles in 1951′s I Am a Camera and starred in a subsequent 1955 film adaptation, which in turn inspired the musical and Liza Minnelli pic Cabaret. Harris starred opposite James Dean in East of Eden, with Paul Newman in Harper, and in Robert Wise’s The Haunting while acting steadily in theater and television through the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980 she joined the cast of CBS soap Knots Landing as Lilliemae Clements,...
- 8/25/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Cinemax just recruited a Marine sniper. Okay, so Prometheus actor Logan Marshall-Green isn’t really a soldier, but he’ll play one on TV. The network chose him to star in their new drama pilot titled Quarry.
The pilot is based upon a Max Allan Collins’ book, which follows a Marine sniper who returns home from Vietnam in 1973 to become disillusioned by the America he finds. It isn’t the one he left behind and it isn’t kind to him. “Combat-hardened and disillusioned, he’s recruited into a network of contract killers and corruption spanning the length of the Mississippi River,” reported THR. I told you it was a drama, and what a drama, but I see exciting thriller elements here as well.
If you are thinking that the title is weird, don’t. A quarry holds rocks and any member of the military can tell you there are...
The pilot is based upon a Max Allan Collins’ book, which follows a Marine sniper who returns home from Vietnam in 1973 to become disillusioned by the America he finds. It isn’t the one he left behind and it isn’t kind to him. “Combat-hardened and disillusioned, he’s recruited into a network of contract killers and corruption spanning the length of the Mississippi River,” reported THR. I told you it was a drama, and what a drama, but I see exciting thriller elements here as well.
If you are thinking that the title is weird, don’t. A quarry holds rocks and any member of the military can tell you there are...
- 5/23/2013
- by Sasha Nova
- Boomtron
Tags: The Member of the WeddingAnna PaquinAlfre WoodardIMDbBlack History Month
If you ever felt like a misfit, The Member of the Wedding is a story you can identify with. The Carson McCullers novel was adapted into a successful play and then two films, once in 1952 and another in 1997, with Anna Paquin and Alfre Woodard in the staring roles. The queer Southern writer put a little bit of herself into the work, as the story follows 12-year-old tomboy Frankie who wants so badly to fit in somewhere that she wants to leave town on a honeymoon with her older brother who is getting married. The voice of reason, though, is Berenice, the maid and caretaker of Frankie and her younger brother.
The 1997 adaptation starring the bisexual actress Anna Paquin is playing on Starz for Black History Month and it's a great chance to watch the film if you've never seen productions of the work before.
If you ever felt like a misfit, The Member of the Wedding is a story you can identify with. The Carson McCullers novel was adapted into a successful play and then two films, once in 1952 and another in 1997, with Anna Paquin and Alfre Woodard in the staring roles. The queer Southern writer put a little bit of herself into the work, as the story follows 12-year-old tomboy Frankie who wants so badly to fit in somewhere that she wants to leave town on a honeymoon with her older brother who is getting married. The voice of reason, though, is Berenice, the maid and caretaker of Frankie and her younger brother.
The 1997 adaptation starring the bisexual actress Anna Paquin is playing on Starz for Black History Month and it's a great chance to watch the film if you've never seen productions of the work before.
- 2/6/2013
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” ― Carson McCullers We knew it was going to be a crazy year because for the first time in 65 years...
- 1/10/2013
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Following our looks at actors, actresses, screenwriters and directors to watch in recent months, when the time came to put together a list of cinematographers (as we did two years ago), we went in with an open mind. But what was interesting is realizing, after the fact, that in an era where 35mm film is allegedly being phased out, that all five have done perhaps their most distinctive work on old-fashioned celluloid, rather than digital.
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
- 6/26/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
February House Public Theater, NY
In a theater season dominated by musicals adapted from movies, it is nice to see an original new musical, but originality alone is no guarantee of a fully realized and satisfying entertainment. February House, the new musical opening at the Public Theater, is indeed original. It has its assets, including intelligence and an impressive score, but it is also uneven. While the musical has moments that are close to magical, it ultimately left me wishing it had delivered more than it did.
February House is inspired by real-life events. In 1940, flamboyant editor George Davis took a house in Brooklyn and turned it into a bohemian commune for writers and artists, including such icons as Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, and Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical depicts life at what was called February House -- because so many of those artists had February birthdays --...
In a theater season dominated by musicals adapted from movies, it is nice to see an original new musical, but originality alone is no guarantee of a fully realized and satisfying entertainment. February House, the new musical opening at the Public Theater, is indeed original. It has its assets, including intelligence and an impressive score, but it is also uneven. While the musical has moments that are close to magical, it ultimately left me wishing it had delivered more than it did.
February House is inspired by real-life events. In 1940, flamboyant editor George Davis took a house in Brooklyn and turned it into a bohemian commune for writers and artists, including such icons as Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, and Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical depicts life at what was called February House -- because so many of those artists had February birthdays --...
- 5/26/2012
- by James Miller
- www.culturecatch.com
Child actor turned gorgeous ingénue Emily Browning was poised to have a major breakthrough in 2011 with two envelope-pushing vehicles primed to throw her in the way for more mature roles. However critics sneered at both the Cannes-selected drama Sleeping Beauty and Zack Snyder's stylish but stupid action-adventure Sucker Punch. Since the big budget fantasy thriller tanked at the box office, its cast has been attempting to sneak out of the flick's shadow by taking on meatier roles in more grounded dramas. Jena Malone has signed on to front the Carson McCullers' biopic The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, while Oscar Isaac scored the title role in the Coen Bros upcoming period piece Inside Llewyn Davis. As Babydoll, the face of the failed action flick, Browning has had a tougher time shaking off the stink of Sucker Punch, but may now be out of the worst of it as...
- 5/25/2012
- cinemablend.com
February House (Playing at the Public Theater through June 10) February House is an ambitious artistic experiment about an ambitious artistic experiment: An attempt by Harpers fiction editor George Davis (Julian Fleisher) to found an art commune in Brooklyn Heights in 1940. Davis’s incandescent brood of tinderbox souls included wunderkind novelist Carson McCullers (the adorable Kristen Sieh), composer Benjamin Britten (Stanley Bahorek) and his lover-muse, the tenor Peter Pears (Ken Barnett), anti-fascist firebrand Erika Mann (Stephanie Hayes), “thinking-man’s stripper” Gypsy Rose Lee (Kacie Sheik), and, as elder statesman (at 33), the revered poet W.H. Auden (Erik Lochtefeld, subtly and sustainedly wrong for a disagreeable and miswritten role).To capture the brilliant din, composer-lyricist Gabriel Kahane, a narrative songwriter of great skill and ample wit, has attempted a simultaneous dialogue with the yearning poetry of Auden, the modern musical decouplings of Britten, McCullers’s Southern longings, and Gypsy’s brass. It’s...
- 5/25/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
This Week on Stage: An actor breaks a leg, old Jews tell jokes, and a 'Cock' fight wows Off Broadway
That old actor’s adage “Break a leg” is not supposed to be taken literally. But that message apparently didn’t make it to Michael McKean, the Laverne & Shirley and This is Spinal Tap alum now starring in the hit Broadway revival Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. The actor was hospitalized Tuesday with a broken leg after being struck by a car in New York City; James Lecesne will be playing his role as a presidential campaign manager for the foreseeable future.
Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...
Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...
- 5/25/2012
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Looking good, Miss Malone.
Photographers clamored to get a shot of the leggy brunette in Los Angeles and the actress did the same, snapping pics of paparazzi on her iPhone.
The "Stepmom" actress -- all grown up -- stepped out wearing a micro-miniskirt to chat with "Extra" host Mario Lopez about her forthcoming film, "Lonely Hunter." Malone will put her acting chops to the test for the biopic, in which she will play "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" author Carson McCullers.
"Jena's vulnerability, curiosity, and passion are perfect for Carson," director Deborah Kampmeier told The Hollywood Reporter. "She is extremely gifted and I'm thrilled to be working with Jena in what I'm sure will be a very creative and exciting process."
Check out Jena's leggy look below. How does she stack up in our battle of the celebrity legs?...
Photographers clamored to get a shot of the leggy brunette in Los Angeles and the actress did the same, snapping pics of paparazzi on her iPhone.
The "Stepmom" actress -- all grown up -- stepped out wearing a micro-miniskirt to chat with "Extra" host Mario Lopez about her forthcoming film, "Lonely Hunter." Malone will put her acting chops to the test for the biopic, in which she will play "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" author Carson McCullers.
"Jena's vulnerability, curiosity, and passion are perfect for Carson," director Deborah Kampmeier told The Hollywood Reporter. "She is extremely gifted and I'm thrilled to be working with Jena in what I'm sure will be a very creative and exciting process."
Check out Jena's leggy look below. How does she stack up in our battle of the celebrity legs?...
- 5/22/2012
- by Kiki Von Glinow
- Huffington Post
Playing real people in a straight play is daunting enough. Imagine if it's a musical. That is precisely the challenge facing the actors in "February House," a new tuner about poet W.H. Auden, stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, composer Benjamin Britten, and novelist Carson McCullers who all lived together in a Brooklyn Heights commune, on the cusp of World War II. With a book by Seth Bockley and music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane, "February House" is now running at The Public Theater and undoubtedly giving its actors some big challenges.Back Stage: What are the challenges in playing real people?Stanley Bahorek (Benjamin Britten): One challenge is getting mired in historical research and losing sight of the playwright's chosen story. So with great reverence for the legacy of Britten, and equal respect for the man, I focused on embodying the character as sketched.Erik Lochtefeld (W.H. Auden): The sheer amount of information can.
- 5/18/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Zap2it: You grew up around so many legends, who stands out for you?
Anjelica Huston: I grew up with a lot of interesting people like Carson McCullers and Arthur Miller and a lot of very interesting people who weren't necessarily Hollywood. There was a Japanese samurai who came over to Ireland (where her father lived in a castle in Ireland), and who, according to my father, was only allowed to cry three times in his life. It was extremely diverse. I met John Steinbeck. He was so kind and funny and sweet and affable and dear. I was 7 or 8 when he played Santa Claus for us. He used to write lovely letters. John Steinbeck used to sign his letters with a pigasus -- a pig with wings.
Zap2it: Who influenced you?
Anjelica Huston: Marlon Brando. I was maybe 10 or 11 or 9. My father was about to make "Reflections in a Golden Eye.
Anjelica Huston: I grew up with a lot of interesting people like Carson McCullers and Arthur Miller and a lot of very interesting people who weren't necessarily Hollywood. There was a Japanese samurai who came over to Ireland (where her father lived in a castle in Ireland), and who, according to my father, was only allowed to cry three times in his life. It was extremely diverse. I met John Steinbeck. He was so kind and funny and sweet and affable and dear. I was 7 or 8 when he played Santa Claus for us. He used to write lovely letters. John Steinbeck used to sign his letters with a pigasus -- a pig with wings.
Zap2it: Who influenced you?
Anjelica Huston: Marlon Brando. I was maybe 10 or 11 or 9. My father was about to make "Reflections in a Golden Eye.
- 5/14/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Mississippi-born American playwright Tennessee Williams won acclaim for crafting such heartbreaking dramas as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His tales of lust, family conflict and Southern discomfort reflected his own life experiences, and now some of these will get the movie adaptation treatment in Lonely Hunter, a biopic about Williams' best friend, author Carson McCullers. Sucker Punch's Jena Malone will lead the production, playing the Southern author behind The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. And Variety reports Prometheus's Logan Marshall-Green has signed on to portray her confidante and long-time friend, Tennessee Williams. The indie drama represents a grand opportunity for each. For Malone, a former child star whose been stuck in thankless supporting roles of late, the role of McCullers could prove her breakout as a leading lady of note. As for Marshall-Green, this is a distinct chance to...
- 5/10/2012
- cinemablend.com
Actor Logan Marshall-Green is hardly a household name, but after paying his bills working in theater and various TV shows — most recently in TNT's canceled "Dark Blue" — he transitioned to movies. After a supporting role in "Brooklyn's Finest" and being one of the few bright spots in 2010's predictably banal "Devil," it's Marshall-Green's upcoming role in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" that quickly earned him a spot on our list of 10 actors we're tipping for stardom. The actor's next turn will see him skip on genre fare and rely more on his theatrical acumen, as he is set to portray playwright Tennessee Williams in a new biopic.
Full Moon Flims have announced that Marshall-Green will play Williams in "Lonely Hunter," a biopic about Southern novelist Carson McCullers, who wrote "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter" at the ripe age of 23 and eventually lived for a few years in Paris where she...
Full Moon Flims have announced that Marshall-Green will play Williams in "Lonely Hunter," a biopic about Southern novelist Carson McCullers, who wrote "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter" at the ripe age of 23 and eventually lived for a few years in Paris where she...
- 5/10/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- The Playlist
Writer/Director/Producer Deborah Kampmeier and Producer Troy Johanson of Full Moon Films announced today that Logan Marshall Green will portray Tennessee Williams in Lonely Hunter the feature film based on the life story of Southern gothic writer Carson McCullers. Williams was McCuller’s best friend and longtime confidant and described Carson’s major theme in her writing as “the [...]
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- 5/10/2012
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Lonely Hunter
Logan Marshall Green ("Prometheus," "Across the Universe") is set to play playwright Tennessee Williams in Deborah Kampmeier's "Lonely Hunter" at Full Moon Films.
The biopic follows the life of Southern gothic novelist Carson McCullers (Jena Malone) with whom Williams was a longtime confidante. Shooting will kick off later this year. [Source: Deadline]
The Scribbler
Katie Cassidy ("Taken," "Supernatural") will star in John Suits' currently shooting indie thriller "The Scribbler" which is based on the graphic novel by Daniel Schaffer.
The story revolves around a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Gina Gershon, Michael Imperioli, Billy Campbell and Sasha Grey also star. [Source: Variety]
Million Dollar Arm
"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm is attached to the true story drama "Million Dollar Arm" about sports agent J.B. Bernstein.
Bernstein discovered professional baseball pitchers Rinku Singh...
Logan Marshall Green ("Prometheus," "Across the Universe") is set to play playwright Tennessee Williams in Deborah Kampmeier's "Lonely Hunter" at Full Moon Films.
The biopic follows the life of Southern gothic novelist Carson McCullers (Jena Malone) with whom Williams was a longtime confidante. Shooting will kick off later this year. [Source: Deadline]
The Scribbler
Katie Cassidy ("Taken," "Supernatural") will star in John Suits' currently shooting indie thriller "The Scribbler" which is based on the graphic novel by Daniel Schaffer.
The story revolves around a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Gina Gershon, Michael Imperioli, Billy Campbell and Sasha Grey also star. [Source: Variety]
Million Dollar Arm
"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm is attached to the true story drama "Million Dollar Arm" about sports agent J.B. Bernstein.
Bernstein discovered professional baseball pitchers Rinku Singh...
- 5/10/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Cameron Diaz is close to boarding director Ridley Scott’s dramatic thriller The Counselor, as a supporting character named Malkina. Michael Fassbender stars as a lawyer who gets pulled deep into the dangerous world of illegal drugs. Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, and Penelope Cruz will costar in the film, the first screenplay by famed novelist Cormac McCarthy, who penned the book No Country For Old Men. Expect to hear a lot more about this one… [Deadline]
• …and this one too: Matthew McConaughey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard are all eyeing roles in writer-director Lee Daniels’ history-based film The Butler, about...
• …and this one too: Matthew McConaughey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard are all eyeing roles in writer-director Lee Daniels’ history-based film The Butler, about...
- 5/10/2012
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside Movies
There’s been little chatter about Deborah Kampmeier‘s (Hounddog) biopic of classic American writer Carson McCullers, Lonely Hunter, since the filmmaker picked Jena Malone for the lead role last October, but a fresh press release now reports that a rising star has been selected to play Tennessee Williams in the film. Logan Marshall Green will play the writer, one of America’s most celebrated (if not the most celebrated) playwrights, in Lonely Hunter. Williams was McCullers’ best friend and her “longtime confidant,” so the role is a crucial one when it comes to sketching out McCullers on screen. Green was last seen in Brooklyn’s Finest and Devil, but he’s already poised to break out this year – he’s got a co-starring role in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Kampmeier herself said, “Logan is amazing for Tennessee Williams. People think of him as a leading man but I think he’s also a character actor in...
- 5/9/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Birthday shoutouts go to out singer/songwriter Matt Morris (above), who is 32, Glenda Jackson is 76, Albert Finney is 76, and Billy Joel is 63. What are your fave Billy songs? Here are mine: 5. "Say Goodbye To Hollywood," 4. My Life," 3. "Pressure," 2. "An Innocent Man," 1. "Allentown." Okay, I admit, the reason it's #1 is because it was the first time I ever saw a butt shot on tv.Big congrats to Chandler Massey, who received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Younger Actor. Speaking of, please join me next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for Days Of Our Lives liveblogs ... rumor has it that Will is going to have "The Talk" with his parents ... and it doesn't go well. Soapy Goodness! Congratulations, as well, to Ellen and Anderson, who were both nominated for Talk Show and Talk Show Host.Our thoughts go to hairdressing icon Vidal Sassoon, who passed away today at the age of 83.Just in time for Mother's Day!
- 5/9/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
He’ll be seen next month exploring a distant planet on the hunt for alien life in Prometheus, but Logan Marshall Green will be keeping his feet strictly on the ground for one of his next films. He’s now locked in the role of Tennessee Williams in Lonely Hunter.Deborah Kampmeier is directing the movie, which charts the life and storied friendships of Southern gothic novelist Carson McCullers (Jena Malone). The people she knew included iconic people such as Williams, Truman Capote and Gypsy Rose Lee.Williams, who found fame with such plays as Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Rose Tattoo, was McCullers’ best friend and confidante. Kampmeier has co-written the script with Sarah Schulman and is busy tracking down actors to play the other writing/performing legends. She’s looking to get the cameras cranking this year.Green was last seen...
- 5/9/2012
- EmpireOnline
Logan Marshall Green's making all the right moves to nudge his way into the spotlight.
The "Across the Universe" and "Devil" alum will be getting a real shot at the big-time this summer when Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" finally drops in June, and he's already lining up for what comes next after a sure-to-be-successful blockbuster debut.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Green has signed onto to star in Deborah Kampmeier's "Lonely Hunter" as the iconic American playwright Tennessee Williams.
He will star opposite Jena Malone, who will play the central Carson McCullers, the celebrated writer whose life and works are explored in the story.
Kampmeier - who serves as writer, producer and director on the project - said in the announcement of Green's casting, "Logan is amazing for Tennessee Williams. People think of him as a leading man but I think he’s also a character actor in a leading man's body.
The "Across the Universe" and "Devil" alum will be getting a real shot at the big-time this summer when Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" finally drops in June, and he's already lining up for what comes next after a sure-to-be-successful blockbuster debut.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Green has signed onto to star in Deborah Kampmeier's "Lonely Hunter" as the iconic American playwright Tennessee Williams.
He will star opposite Jena Malone, who will play the central Carson McCullers, the celebrated writer whose life and works are explored in the story.
Kampmeier - who serves as writer, producer and director on the project - said in the announcement of Green's casting, "Logan is amazing for Tennessee Williams. People think of him as a leading man but I think he’s also a character actor in a leading man's body.
- 5/9/2012
- by Amanda Bell
- NextMovie
Logan Marshall Green is joining the cast of Lonely Hunter, a film exploring the life of Southern writer Carson McCullers. Marshall Green is set to play Tennessee Williams opposite Jena Malone’s McCullers. Photos: 28 of Summer's Most Anticipated Movies: 'Avengers,' 'Dark Knight,' 'Prometheus' Writer-director-producer Deborah Kampmeier and producer Troy Johanson of Full Moon Films made the casting announcement Tuesday. Described as “McCullers’ best friend and longtime confidant,” Williams is one of the important figures in the author’s life along with her protégé Truman Capote and roommate Gypsy Rose Lee. Since making appearances in Across the
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- 5/9/2012
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer/director/producer Deborah Kampmeier and producer Troy Johanson of Full Moon Films announced today that Logan Marshall Green will portray Tennessee Williams in Lonely Hunter , the feature film based on the life story of Southern gothic writer Carson McCullers. Williams was McCuller's best friend and longtime confidant and described Carson's major theme in her writing as .the huge importance and nearly insoluble problems of human love,. a theme he too well understood. Jena Malone was previously announced to portray McCullers. McCullers is the author of the classic novels "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" and "The Member of the Wedding." Deborah Kampmeier and Sarah Schulman wrote the screenplay. Kampmeier will direct. Johanson and Blair Breard will produce....
- 5/9/2012
- Comingsoon.net
On the eve of new musical "February House" beginning previews at The Public Theater, critics and artists gathered there May 7 for a panel discussion that asked the question, "Is New York City still a home for artists?"The evening began with an introduction to "February House," the musical recreation of a proto-artists' commune in pre-wwii Brooklyn that found Gypsy Rose Lee, Carson McCullers, and W.H. Auden, among others, sharing living quarters. Bookwriter Seth Bockley and composer Gabriel Kahane took the unusual living arrangement (memorably recreated in Sherill Tippins' 2005 non-fiction "February House") as a jumping off point to exploring the themes of coming of age as an artist in the city, finding one's artistic family in the city, and living in the city as a retreat from other places.Afterward, Damian Woetzel, director of Arts Programs for the Aspen Institute, led a panel of New York Magazine critics in a discussion.
- 5/8/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Penny Gray)
- backstage.com
So many actors say they knew from an early age that they belonged onstage. But Amanda Peet actually hurled herself onto one -- while a production was in progress -- when she was 3.
"Luckily it was a children's play," says Peet, who stars in NBC's "Bent," premiering Wednesday, March 21.
In the sitcom, Peet plays Alex, a recently divorced mom whose ex is imprisoned for securities fraud. She's renovating a house and hires Pete (David Walton) as her contractor. He's a surfer dude who likes recreational drugs and casual flings. Women find him irresistible.
Peet understands why.
"He should be a movie star," Peet says. "That he is not is astounding to me. I don't think there is anyone like him. He is George Clooney mixed with Matt Dillon. He is stone-y, quick-witted. He's weird, he's not like anyone else."
She also relates to Alex as a mom, as she reassures a child on her cellphone.
"Luckily it was a children's play," says Peet, who stars in NBC's "Bent," premiering Wednesday, March 21.
In the sitcom, Peet plays Alex, a recently divorced mom whose ex is imprisoned for securities fraud. She's renovating a house and hires Pete (David Walton) as her contractor. He's a surfer dude who likes recreational drugs and casual flings. Women find him irresistible.
Peet understands why.
"He should be a movie star," Peet says. "That he is not is astounding to me. I don't think there is anyone like him. He is George Clooney mixed with Matt Dillon. He is stone-y, quick-witted. He's weird, he's not like anyone else."
She also relates to Alex as a mom, as she reassures a child on her cellphone.
- 3/21/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Audible.com has introduced the A-List Collection, a new line of audio books narrated by Hollywood stars. The first four books will be available March 8, with another ten planned for later in 2012. The initial batch includes Samuel L. Jackson performing Chester Himes’ A Rage in Harlem, Anne Hathaway doing the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Kate Winslet’s rendition of Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin and Susan Sarandon performing The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. The actors helped chose their own projects. Jackson said he chose the story of a man who falls in love with a
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- 3/6/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 15 of ABC Family's "Pretty Little Liars," entitled, "A Hot Piece Of 'A.'"
It's been one TV month (four real ones) since Hanna, Emily, Aria and Spencer sat dirtied in party dresses at the Rosewood Police Dept, suspected of homicide.
Now, they're picking up trash while donning far less fashionable, but equally filthy orange jumpsuits as a group of grammar school children play jump rope and chant a rhyme about liars that sounds exactly like last season's finale. Subtle.
The other girls picking up trash aren't fans of the "Pretty Little Liars." They gossip within earshot of the foursome about how, thanks to Spencer's lawyer mom, they got community service "for tampering with evidence" even though "the cops think they killed someone."
Soon enough, it's clear Emily and Spencer are not on good terms. They start...
It's been one TV month (four real ones) since Hanna, Emily, Aria and Spencer sat dirtied in party dresses at the Rosewood Police Dept, suspected of homicide.
Now, they're picking up trash while donning far less fashionable, but equally filthy orange jumpsuits as a group of grammar school children play jump rope and chant a rhyme about liars that sounds exactly like last season's finale. Subtle.
The other girls picking up trash aren't fans of the "Pretty Little Liars." They gossip within earshot of the foursome about how, thanks to Spencer's lawyer mom, they got community service "for tampering with evidence" even though "the cops think they killed someone."
Soon enough, it's clear Emily and Spencer are not on good terms. They start...
- 1/3/2012
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Aol TV.
With a starring role alongside Tom Cruise in next year’s Rock of Ages, things are looking good for newcomer Diego Boneta. To make matters even better, Variety tells us that, after being rumored about a week ago, he’s “in final negotiations” for the part of Adam in Paradise Lost. The Alex Proyas-directed adaptation of John Milton‘s poem has pulled together an eclectic and strong ensemble, featuring Bradley Cooper, Casey Affleck, Djimon Hounsou, Ben Walker, Camilla Belle Callan McAuliffe, and Dominic Purcell.
Anyone who isn’t up on their Bible studies would be well-off knowing that Adam, a.k.a. the first man, was exiled from the Garden of Eden after Eve ate that darn forbidden fruit; I’m willing to guess that you already knew this, however. This is the basic gist of their tale, but Milton‘s poem presents them as complex individuals who commit...
Anyone who isn’t up on their Bible studies would be well-off knowing that Adam, a.k.a. the first man, was exiled from the Garden of Eden after Eve ate that darn forbidden fruit; I’m willing to guess that you already knew this, however. This is the basic gist of their tale, but Milton‘s poem presents them as complex individuals who commit...
- 10/10/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
AfterElton Briefs: T.R. Knight Returns To TV, Johnny Depp is Dr. Seuss, Darren Criss News, and More!
Here's last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner (because anyone who brings up the insane hot mess that is Walter Mercado deserves recognition) is ...
"Channeling Walter Mercado,Elton starts giving astrological reports in Spanish."
Thanks to Rich for this week's winning caption.
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 32, Dan Savage is 47, Joy Behar is 68, Matt Damon is 41 and John Lennon would have been 71. Time to name your top five Lennon solo songs.Here are mine: 5. "Watching The Wheels," 4. "Nobody Told Me," 3. "(Just Like) Starting Over," 2. "Woman," 1. "Imagine."
It's going to be a race to see what fall show is canceled next. Will it be Charlie's Angels or something called How To Be A Gentleman?...
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner (because anyone who brings up the insane hot mess that is Walter Mercado deserves recognition) is ...
"Channeling Walter Mercado,Elton starts giving astrological reports in Spanish."
Thanks to Rich for this week's winning caption.
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are 32, Dan Savage is 47, Joy Behar is 68, Matt Damon is 41 and John Lennon would have been 71. Time to name your top five Lennon solo songs.Here are mine: 5. "Watching The Wheels," 4. "Nobody Told Me," 3. "(Just Like) Starting Over," 2. "Woman," 1. "Imagine."
It's going to be a race to see what fall show is canceled next. Will it be Charlie's Angels or something called How To Be A Gentleman?...
- 10/7/2011
- by snicks
- The Backlot
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