A wave of sadness spreads across the globe, as the beloved anime One Piece announces an unexpected six-month hiatus in the broadcast of its current Egghead Island arc. It’s remarkable that even with 1,100 episodes in, One Piece continues to push boundaries, promising fans an even better and more cinematic experience ahead.
For over 25 years, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been enthralling fans without a single dull moment, and a break is essential for this remarkable anime to preserve its legacy. Sadly, fans will have to wait till April 2025 to see the return of the Straw Hat Pirates.
Luffy’s Gear 5 form in One Piece. [Credit: Toei Animation]
On the positive side, this break could lead to fewer fillers in the anime, allowing it to avoid catching up to the manga too quickly. However, the best aspect is that it will provide the production team with much-needed rest, especially for Luffy’s voice actor,...
For over 25 years, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been enthralling fans without a single dull moment, and a break is essential for this remarkable anime to preserve its legacy. Sadly, fans will have to wait till April 2025 to see the return of the Straw Hat Pirates.
Luffy’s Gear 5 form in One Piece. [Credit: Toei Animation]
On the positive side, this break could lead to fewer fillers in the anime, allowing it to avoid catching up to the manga too quickly. However, the best aspect is that it will provide the production team with much-needed rest, especially for Luffy’s voice actor,...
- 10/16/2024
- by Mehul Rolta
- FandomWire
A wave of disappointment sweeps worldwide as One Piece, the longest-running anime, goes on a six-month hiatus. While fans may have to wait till 2025 to see the return of the Straw Hat Pirates, One Piece delivered an epic episode before the break, packed with stunning cinematic moments and featuring Koby in action.
Koby using Honesty Impact in One Piece | Credits: Toei Animation
The episode featured Koby: Honesty Impact, which left the fans speechless after witnessing his immense destructive powers rivaling Garp. Following Garp’s epic clash with his former student, it was time for Koby to rescue his mentor from Blackbeard’s crew, and he didn’t let anyone down.
While Garp had his fair share of moments, Koby stole the spotlight with a clutch save and his strongest Honesty Impact yet. Koby’s recent power boost has many fans believing he’s been Eiichiro Oda’s favorite character from the very beginning,...
Koby using Honesty Impact in One Piece | Credits: Toei Animation
The episode featured Koby: Honesty Impact, which left the fans speechless after witnessing his immense destructive powers rivaling Garp. Following Garp’s epic clash with his former student, it was time for Koby to rescue his mentor from Blackbeard’s crew, and he didn’t let anyone down.
While Garp had his fair share of moments, Koby stole the spotlight with a clutch save and his strongest Honesty Impact yet. Koby’s recent power boost has many fans believing he’s been Eiichiro Oda’s favorite character from the very beginning,...
- 10/14/2024
- by Mehul Rolta
- FandomWire
Performances by Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are expected to be featured in the closing ceremony Sunday of the Paris Olympics, according to a report.
The artists will be seen from Los Angeles in a mix of pre-taped and live performances. The location where each will perform was not disclosed.
Music was a huge part of the Paris opening cremonies. Lady Gaga and Celine Dion were the highlights, with French Malian singer Aya Nakamura delivering a performance of her songs “Pookie” and “Djadja.” The orchestra of the French Republican Guard also performed Charles Aznavour’s “For Me Formidable” and “La Bohème.”
At the end of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony, Los Angles Mayor Karen Bass will accept the Olympic Torch. The Los Angeles Summer Games are scheduled to run from July 14 to July 30 in 2028.
Variety first reported the music guests.
The artists will be seen from Los Angeles in a mix of pre-taped and live performances. The location where each will perform was not disclosed.
Music was a huge part of the Paris opening cremonies. Lady Gaga and Celine Dion were the highlights, with French Malian singer Aya Nakamura delivering a performance of her songs “Pookie” and “Djadja.” The orchestra of the French Republican Guard also performed Charles Aznavour’s “For Me Formidable” and “La Bohème.”
At the end of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony, Los Angles Mayor Karen Bass will accept the Olympic Torch. The Los Angeles Summer Games are scheduled to run from July 14 to July 30 in 2028.
Variety first reported the music guests.
- 8/9/2024
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
While the Olympics’ opening ceremony showcased two North American superstars, Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, the closing bash will highlight two iconic French bands, Phoenix and Air, the event’s executive director Thierry Reboul confirmed to Variety in an interview.
Reboul, who produced the blockbuster, controversial opening ceremony show along the Seine and recently filed a police complaint after receiving death threats for it, is now in the final stretch of preparing the closing event alongside artistic director Thomas Jolly.
“We’ve tried to champion French talents from the start even if we had international stars (Celine Dion and Lady Gaga); each time it was promoting a French artist nevertheless,” said Reboul. “We always have in mind to turn the spotlight on our country, of course.” Gaga, who had to pre-tape her performance in anticipation of pouring rain, indeed sang in French and paid tribute to Zizi Jeanmaire’s cabaret-inspired “Mon Truc en Plumes,...
Reboul, who produced the blockbuster, controversial opening ceremony show along the Seine and recently filed a police complaint after receiving death threats for it, is now in the final stretch of preparing the closing event alongside artistic director Thomas Jolly.
“We’ve tried to champion French talents from the start even if we had international stars (Celine Dion and Lady Gaga); each time it was promoting a French artist nevertheless,” said Reboul. “We always have in mind to turn the spotlight on our country, of course.” Gaga, who had to pre-tape her performance in anticipation of pouring rain, indeed sang in French and paid tribute to Zizi Jeanmaire’s cabaret-inspired “Mon Truc en Plumes,...
- 8/8/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Paris delivered an Olympics Opening Ceremony worthy of the world’s attention.
The spectacle directed by French actor and artistic director Thomas Jolly celebrated the over 10,000 athletes participating in this year’s games while showing the world French culture on the highest level.
In what felt like a true Tour de France, audiences around the world were able to walk through the Louvre Museum, sit underneath the Eiffel Tower, sail on the Seine and watch Parisian culture on full display.
Rumored performances by Lady Gaga and Céline Dion did not disappoint and surprise returns from fan-favorite athletes made the four-hour special well worth it.
Before President Emmanuel Macron of France announced the official start of the games, Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, thanked France for the “magical welcome” and gave a message of hope to the athletes before him.
“In our Olympic world, there is no global south or global north.
The spectacle directed by French actor and artistic director Thomas Jolly celebrated the over 10,000 athletes participating in this year’s games while showing the world French culture on the highest level.
In what felt like a true Tour de France, audiences around the world were able to walk through the Louvre Museum, sit underneath the Eiffel Tower, sail on the Seine and watch Parisian culture on full display.
Rumored performances by Lady Gaga and Céline Dion did not disappoint and surprise returns from fan-favorite athletes made the four-hour special well worth it.
Before President Emmanuel Macron of France announced the official start of the games, Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, thanked France for the “magical welcome” and gave a message of hope to the athletes before him.
“In our Olympic world, there is no global south or global north.
- 7/26/2024
- by Tess Patton
- The Wrap
For months before the 2024 Summer Olympics, there had been questions surrounding Paris’ ability to hold such a massive event. The city’s residents had threatened to defecate in the Seine River — the site of the opening ceremony — in protest of its highly polluted waters. As the opening presentation neared, things didn’t exactly get better. Just this morning, France’s high-speed rail trains were a target of arson, and thunderstorms cast clouds over the city. Yet, when the opener finally commenced, audiences were transported through a whimsical and engaging four-hour showcase that presented the best of Paris’ glorious architecture and music while welcoming top athletes from across the globe to the French capital.
The ceremony launched with French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane jogging through the streets, carrying the lighted torch down into the Paris Metro and emerging on the Seine via sailboat in a gorgeous explosion of blue, white and red hovering above the river.
The ceremony launched with French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane jogging through the streets, carrying the lighted torch down into the Paris Metro and emerging on the Seine via sailboat in a gorgeous explosion of blue, white and red hovering above the river.
- 7/26/2024
- by Aramide Tinubu
- Variety Film + TV
Let the games begin. The Paris Olympics kicked off with a bang on Friday, July 26, during the opening ceremony hosted along the River Seine. Athletes from across the world repped their country and artists channeled French pop culture history with ballooning levels of spectacle — from Lady Gaga channeling a French cabaret icon to Les Mis being turned into a rock opera backed by multiple headless Marie Antoinette figures.
Even in the pouring rain, the performers leaned fully into spectacle for a wild ride of an opening event as the torch...
Even in the pouring rain, the performers leaned fully into spectacle for a wild ride of an opening event as the torch...
- 7/26/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
The skies over a soaked Paris remained overcast for Friday’s 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony as the promised trés unique spectacle on the River Seine proved rudderless despite some superstars, a historical mixtape, and a grande balançoire or two.
Despite the theatre on the grandest scale with landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the Louvre as the backdrop, the opening ceremony simply wasn’t great TV.
Even with the rain pouring down, things definitely improved once darkness fell over City of Lights more than two hours into NBC’s live coverage. Night unveiled more of the drama of Paris itself, the river, and the performers who came alive as the barge-propelled parade of nation and their 205 delegations came to an end.
In the end as Celine Dion made her much-hyped and pitch-perfect appearance under the Olympic rings on the sparkling Eiffel Tower and past Gold medalist...
Despite the theatre on the grandest scale with landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the Louvre as the backdrop, the opening ceremony simply wasn’t great TV.
Even with the rain pouring down, things definitely improved once darkness fell over City of Lights more than two hours into NBC’s live coverage. Night unveiled more of the drama of Paris itself, the river, and the performers who came alive as the barge-propelled parade of nation and their 205 delegations came to an end.
In the end as Celine Dion made her much-hyped and pitch-perfect appearance under the Olympic rings on the sparkling Eiffel Tower and past Gold medalist...
- 7/26/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Celine Dion overcame the challenge of stiff person syndrome at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday to give her first live performance in four years.
Dressed in a striking white gown, she belted out Edith Piaf’s classic song Hymne de l’Amour (Hymn To Love) as the final number of the ceremony against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower.
It marked the end of an extravagant, four-hour 2024 Olympics opening ceremony unfolding along a six-kilometer (4.5 mile) stretch of the River Seine under the pouring rain.
There was hardly a dry eye along the river at the end of the Dion’s dramatic return after battling stiff person syndrome for close to five years.
Related: Lady Gaga Pays Tribute To French Culture At Olympics Opening Ceremony With Cabaret Tune ‘Mon Truc En Plumes’
The star, who last performed live in New York in the spring of 2020, has strong connections with the Olympic games.
Dressed in a striking white gown, she belted out Edith Piaf’s classic song Hymne de l’Amour (Hymn To Love) as the final number of the ceremony against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower.
It marked the end of an extravagant, four-hour 2024 Olympics opening ceremony unfolding along a six-kilometer (4.5 mile) stretch of the River Seine under the pouring rain.
There was hardly a dry eye along the river at the end of the Dion’s dramatic return after battling stiff person syndrome for close to five years.
Related: Lady Gaga Pays Tribute To French Culture At Olympics Opening Ceremony With Cabaret Tune ‘Mon Truc En Plumes’
The star, who last performed live in New York in the spring of 2020, has strong connections with the Olympic games.
- 7/26/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
John Nichols, who wrote more than a dozen novels including The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo — both of which were turned into films by top directors — died Wednesday in Taos, Nm. He was 83.
Nichols, whose works often told stories of small-town New Mexico and social injustice, also co-wrote the screenplay for Milagro Beanfield War. Focused on a battle between mostly Latino farmers and local politicians and real estate developers, it became a 1988 film produced and directed by Robert Redford. The pic starring Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford and Sonia Braga won an Oscar for Dave Grusin’s jazzy score. Watch a trailer below.
Nichols’ 1965 debut novel The Sterile Cuckoo was adapted four years later into a film by Alan J. Pakula. It starred Liza Minnelli in her Oscar-nominated role as Pookie, a zany but honest woman who falls for a young man (Wendell Burton) just before he leaves for college.
Nichols, whose works often told stories of small-town New Mexico and social injustice, also co-wrote the screenplay for Milagro Beanfield War. Focused on a battle between mostly Latino farmers and local politicians and real estate developers, it became a 1988 film produced and directed by Robert Redford. The pic starring Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford and Sonia Braga won an Oscar for Dave Grusin’s jazzy score. Watch a trailer below.
Nichols’ 1965 debut novel The Sterile Cuckoo was adapted four years later into a film by Alan J. Pakula. It starred Liza Minnelli in her Oscar-nominated role as Pookie, a zany but honest woman who falls for a young man (Wendell Burton) just before he leaves for college.
- 12/2/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Thank god for Alexander Payne. The filmmaker is, and always has been, a true humanist. A writer-director more interested in human beings, something that has always been the special effect of his movies. A two-time Oscar-winning writer, his latest film, The Holdovers, which had its world premiere on Thursday at the Telluride Film Festival, is one of his rare movies in which he doesn’t have a writing credit. David Hemingson did the screenplay, but the idea, an inspired one, came from Payne, a real film buff who was always intrigued by Marcel Pagnol’s 1935 French film Merlusse about a group of boarding school students stuck over the holidays with a much-despised teacher. The director thought it had the bones for a new story and developed it with Hemingson.
Set in 1970, it is Payne’s first period film after a celebrated career for movies like Sideways, The Descendants and many others.
Set in 1970, it is Payne’s first period film after a celebrated career for movies like Sideways, The Descendants and many others.
- 9/1/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount+ is not just the home of the Taylor Sheridan universe, it has also quietly assembled one of the best film libraries of any of the streaming services. Look no further than the list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March, which includes prestige dramas like “12 Years a Slave” and “Last of the Mohicans,” iconic thrillers like “The Sixth Sense,” “The Rock” and “Crimson Tide,” delightful rom-coms like “Kate & Leopold” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and other classics like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Galaxy Quest.”
And that’s not to mention the new originals premiering in March: Kiefer Sutherland plays a corporate espionage operative framed for murder in “Rabbit Hole,” while “School Spirits” follows a high school teen who suddenly discovers she’s dead and still haunting her school.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March 2023 below.
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And that’s not to mention the new originals premiering in March: Kiefer Sutherland plays a corporate espionage operative framed for murder in “Rabbit Hole,” while “School Spirits” follows a high school teen who suddenly discovers she’s dead and still haunting her school.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March 2023 below.
Also Read:...
- 3/4/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Four years after the release of her Grammy-winning album “Mental Illness,” Aimee Mann has shared a new single, the stirring, beautiful waltz “Suicide Is Murder,” from her forthcoming 10th solo album “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” The accompanying music video reunites Mann with actor James Urbaniak, who previously starred in the video for Mann’s “Patient Zero” with Bradley Whitford. Watch the “Suicide Is Murder” music video above.
See 2022 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
Some shots may seem eerily familiar as the video nods to lauded films of the 1960s and 1970s. Rob Hatch-Miller, who co-directed the video with Puloma Basu, took to Twitter to highlight some of their inspirations. The video’s final shot draws on the Oscar-nominated “The Sterile Cuckoo,” which earned bids for Best Actress Liza Minnelli and Best Original Song. The haunting shot of Mann’s female specter walking the halls of a house in...
See 2022 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
Some shots may seem eerily familiar as the video nods to lauded films of the 1960s and 1970s. Rob Hatch-Miller, who co-directed the video with Puloma Basu, took to Twitter to highlight some of their inspirations. The video’s final shot draws on the Oscar-nominated “The Sterile Cuckoo,” which earned bids for Best Actress Liza Minnelli and Best Original Song. The haunting shot of Mann’s female specter walking the halls of a house in...
- 8/14/2021
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Screenwriter Ed Solomon joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss a few of his favorite movies.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s Bill & Ted character power rankings
Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Bill And Ted Face The Music (2020)
Men In Black (1997)
The French Connection (1971) – Dennis Lehane’s trailer commentary, Mark Pellington’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
No Sudden Move (2021)
A Night At The Opera (1935) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Mosaic (2018)
Take The Money And Run (1969)
Bananas (1971) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
Sleeper (1973)
Love And Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
Manhattan (1979)
And Now For Something Completely Different… (1971) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Blazing Saddles (1974) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s Blazing Saddles Thanksgiving
Klute (1971) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
The Parallax View (1974) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary,...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s Bill & Ted character power rankings
Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Bill And Ted Face The Music (2020)
Men In Black (1997)
The French Connection (1971) – Dennis Lehane’s trailer commentary, Mark Pellington’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
No Sudden Move (2021)
A Night At The Opera (1935) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Mosaic (2018)
Take The Money And Run (1969)
Bananas (1971) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
Sleeper (1973)
Love And Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
Manhattan (1979)
And Now For Something Completely Different… (1971) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Blazing Saddles (1974) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s Blazing Saddles Thanksgiving
Klute (1971) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
The Parallax View (1974) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary,...
- 7/6/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Liza Minnelli was born into show business royalty on March 12, 1946, and pressed into service onstage at the tender age of 14 months by her singer mother Judy Garland and director father Vincente Minnelli.
According to a short 1947 mention in Variety titled “In Ma’s Footsteps,” “Liza Minnelli, 14-month-old daughter of Judy Garland, makes her acting bow in Metro’s ‘The Pirate,’ which her father is directing.” It didn’t take long for her to move up to a film credit. Her first credited film role was at 3 years old, appearing briefly in “In the Good Old Summertime” alongside her mother.
And though her biggest wish when she was young was to be a dancer, Minnelli ended up doing back-to-back serious dramatic roles before winning her Oscar for her irrepressible performance as nightclub singer Sally Bowles in “Cabaret.”
“I always wanted to be a dancer. I remember going to dancing school because I asked my dad.
According to a short 1947 mention in Variety titled “In Ma’s Footsteps,” “Liza Minnelli, 14-month-old daughter of Judy Garland, makes her acting bow in Metro’s ‘The Pirate,’ which her father is directing.” It didn’t take long for her to move up to a film credit. Her first credited film role was at 3 years old, appearing briefly in “In the Good Old Summertime” alongside her mother.
And though her biggest wish when she was young was to be a dancer, Minnelli ended up doing back-to-back serious dramatic roles before winning her Oscar for her irrepressible performance as nightclub singer Sally Bowles in “Cabaret.”
“I always wanted to be a dancer. I remember going to dancing school because I asked my dad.
- 3/12/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Robert Miano, Bai Ling, Lance Henriksen, Matthew Moy, Kevin J. O’Connor, Bill Moseley, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Rhine, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney, Kyle Jones, Johnny Williams, Jin N. Tonic, Stephanie Peti, Gina Salvano | Written by Robert Rhine, Daniel Benton | Directed by Chad Ferrin
Produced by genre magazine Girls and Corpses and distributed by Shout! Studios, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet comes from director Chad Ferrin, a filmmaker who has a wealth of experience in horror having worked consistently in genre fare since getting his start as production assistant on the likes of The Prophecy, Halloween 6 and Hellraiser: Bloodline. Team Ferrin’s experience with a cast that includes such genre superstars as Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Adrienne Barbeau, Bai Ling, Kevin J. OConnor and Kelli Maroney and you have the makings of what could be a modern horror must-see. But is it?
In a word. Yes.
To be fair Exorcism at...
Produced by genre magazine Girls and Corpses and distributed by Shout! Studios, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet comes from director Chad Ferrin, a filmmaker who has a wealth of experience in horror having worked consistently in genre fare since getting his start as production assistant on the likes of The Prophecy, Halloween 6 and Hellraiser: Bloodline. Team Ferrin’s experience with a cast that includes such genre superstars as Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Adrienne Barbeau, Bai Ling, Kevin J. OConnor and Kelli Maroney and you have the makings of what could be a modern horror must-see. But is it?
In a word. Yes.
To be fair Exorcism at...
- 5/28/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Facing off against a force of unfathomable evil is hard enough to do on its own, but doing it on an airplane adds a whole other layer of deadly difficulties (especially when that seatbelt light keeps coming on). That's precisely the setting for an unconventional showdown between a demon and Father Romero (Robert Miano) in Chad Ferrin's new horror comedy Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and we've been provided with the film's official trailer ahead of its May 5th release on Blu-ray / DVD, Digital, and VOD from Scream Factory:
Press Release: Fasten your seat belts and get ready to fly the fiendish skies! Winner of numerous awards including Best Horror Comedy at Hollywood Horrorfest, and an official selection at HorrorHound Film Festival, Hollywood Horrorfest and New York City Horror Film Festival, the raucous horror comedy Exorcism at 60,000 Feet lands May 5th, 2020 from Scream Factory.
Starring genre favorites Bai Ling (Dead Ringer), Lance Henriksen,...
Press Release: Fasten your seat belts and get ready to fly the fiendish skies! Winner of numerous awards including Best Horror Comedy at Hollywood Horrorfest, and an official selection at HorrorHound Film Festival, Hollywood Horrorfest and New York City Horror Film Festival, the raucous horror comedy Exorcism at 60,000 Feet lands May 5th, 2020 from Scream Factory.
Starring genre favorites Bai Ling (Dead Ringer), Lance Henriksen,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Liza Minnelli is getting ready to be photographed for the cover of Variety. She’s wearing an off-the-shoulder black beaded shirtdress and perched on a director’s chair. As she adjusts herself, trying to find the right position to extend her bare legs, she screeches, “I’m getting f—ed by a chair!”
As if on cue, the room goes silent. But before anyone can blink, Minnelli’s distinctive throaty cackle bounces off the walls. It’s the permission everyone in the room needs to howl at what they can’t believe they just heard.
At 73, Minnelli is still the consummate entertainer, taking an awkward moment and turning it into a bawdy joke about getting intimate with a piece of furniture.
Minnelli isn’t a Hollywood icon — she’s a show business legend. Over the course of her career, she’s won four Tonys, two Grammys, an Emmy and an Oscar.
As if on cue, the room goes silent. But before anyone can blink, Minnelli’s distinctive throaty cackle bounces off the walls. It’s the permission everyone in the room needs to howl at what they can’t believe they just heard.
At 73, Minnelli is still the consummate entertainer, taking an awkward moment and turning it into a bawdy joke about getting intimate with a piece of furniture.
Minnelli isn’t a Hollywood icon — she’s a show business legend. Over the course of her career, she’s won four Tonys, two Grammys, an Emmy and an Oscar.
- 2/4/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
by Camila Henriques
Pookie Adams is one of a kind. When we first meet her, she’s on her way to college and is the type of quick witted character that could very well be the Adam’s rib to the Amy Sherman-Palladino girls we have loved for the past two decades. With her round glasses and pixie haircut, Liza Minnelli’s Pookie is easy to love in Alan J. Pakula’s The Sterile Cuckoo. As the film turns 50 today (!), it’s magical to witness how Judy and Vincente's offspring always had a sparkle of her own, capable of turning a manic pixie dream girl archetype into a layered character that rightfully earned her that first Oscar nod.
Liza was by no means a newcomer when The Sterile Cuckoo came out. A child of Hollywood, she famously grew up on hotels and movie sets and, at the age of 17, made...
Pookie Adams is one of a kind. When we first meet her, she’s on her way to college and is the type of quick witted character that could very well be the Adam’s rib to the Amy Sherman-Palladino girls we have loved for the past two decades. With her round glasses and pixie haircut, Liza Minnelli’s Pookie is easy to love in Alan J. Pakula’s The Sterile Cuckoo. As the film turns 50 today (!), it’s magical to witness how Judy and Vincente's offspring always had a sparkle of her own, capable of turning a manic pixie dream girl archetype into a layered character that rightfully earned her that first Oscar nod.
Liza was by no means a newcomer when The Sterile Cuckoo came out. A child of Hollywood, she famously grew up on hotels and movie sets and, at the age of 17, made...
- 10/22/2019
- by Camila Henriques
- FilmExperience
The American Film Institute has added “The Two Popes” and “The Aeronauts” as galas during the upcoming AFI Fest along with a tribute to the late director Alan Pakula.
AFI had previously announced that the romantic drama “Queen & Slim” would launch the 33rd annual festival on Nov. 14 and close with the world premiere of Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson’s drama “The Banker” on Nov. 21. All galas will take place at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Inspired by a true story, “The Two Popes” stars Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as the future Pope Francis in a verbal battle of wits over the future direction of the Catholic Church. It will screen at the Chinese on Nov. 18. The film is produced by Netflix, which has scheduled a limited theatrical release on Nov. 27 in the U.S. prior to its release on streaming on Dec.
AFI had previously announced that the romantic drama “Queen & Slim” would launch the 33rd annual festival on Nov. 14 and close with the world premiere of Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson’s drama “The Banker” on Nov. 21. All galas will take place at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Inspired by a true story, “The Two Popes” stars Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as the future Pope Francis in a verbal battle of wits over the future direction of the Catholic Church. It will screen at the Chinese on Nov. 18. The film is produced by Netflix, which has scheduled a limited theatrical release on Nov. 27 in the U.S. prior to its release on streaming on Dec.
- 10/21/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Festival runs from November 14-21.
AFI Fest top brass have rounded out the galas line-up with the addition of Netflix’s The Two Popes and The Aeronauts from Amazon Studios.
The Two Popes will screen on November 18 and stars Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis and Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI. Fernando Meirelles directed the story about a series of conversations that took place between the two men in and around the Vatican in late 2012 and 2013.
Benedict, who would announce his shock resignation from the Papacy in February 2013, summoned Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio – who would later succeed him as...
AFI Fest top brass have rounded out the galas line-up with the addition of Netflix’s The Two Popes and The Aeronauts from Amazon Studios.
The Two Popes will screen on November 18 and stars Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis and Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI. Fernando Meirelles directed the story about a series of conversations that took place between the two men in and around the Vatican in late 2012 and 2013.
Benedict, who would announce his shock resignation from the Papacy in February 2013, summoned Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio – who would later succeed him as...
- 10/21/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Last summer, we offered a special photo gallery of the 50 greatest entertainers still waiting to be selected for the Kennedy Center Honors. Among that group were country music superstar Reba McEntire plus pop star and Oscar-winning actress Cher. Both of them were in the honorees in December, along with composer Philip Glass and jazz musician Wayne Shorter, plus a unique section devoted to “Hamilton!.”
And now we provide our latest list of Kennedy Center Honors top 50 recommendations for 2019. Of course, only five of them can be chosen but certainly all are worthy. Tour our photo gallery above ranked from #1 to #50. Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
See Kennedy Center Honors: 20 Greatest Performances of All Time
This year’s recipients will be announced...
And now we provide our latest list of Kennedy Center Honors top 50 recommendations for 2019. Of course, only five of them can be chosen but certainly all are worthy. Tour our photo gallery above ranked from #1 to #50. Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
See Kennedy Center Honors: 20 Greatest Performances of All Time
This year’s recipients will be announced...
- 6/23/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The current Marvel Cinematic Universe of superhero blockbusters, sequels and spin-offs might not exist if not for screenwriter Alvin Sargent, who is dead from natural causes at age 92 on May 9.
The two-time Oscar winner for his scripts for 1977’s “Julia” and 1980’s “Ordinary People” was involved in the screenplays for the original “Spider-Man” trilogy that began in 2002 starring Tobey Maguire as Spidey the web-slinger that would redefine and elevate the modern superhero genre and set the standard for all the spandex-wearing crusaders who followed. I recall Oscar talk for the possibility that Sargent’s much-praised script for 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” could be nominated — an unheard-of notion back then for a film based on a comic-book.
See Celebrity Deaths 2019: In Memoriam Gallery
Sargent would also contribute to 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the reboot of the series starring Andrew Garfield. It would be his final script, which the scribe completed when...
The two-time Oscar winner for his scripts for 1977’s “Julia” and 1980’s “Ordinary People” was involved in the screenplays for the original “Spider-Man” trilogy that began in 2002 starring Tobey Maguire as Spidey the web-slinger that would redefine and elevate the modern superhero genre and set the standard for all the spandex-wearing crusaders who followed. I recall Oscar talk for the possibility that Sargent’s much-praised script for 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” could be nominated — an unheard-of notion back then for a film based on a comic-book.
See Celebrity Deaths 2019: In Memoriam Gallery
Sargent would also contribute to 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the reboot of the series starring Andrew Garfield. It would be his final script, which the scribe completed when...
- 5/11/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
How many screenwriters in Hollywood can claim to have written a popular film that connects with a new generation each decade for half a century? Alvin Sargent — who passed away on May 9 at the age of 92 — began writing for television in the mid-1950s; was off to the races from his first produced feature script, 1966’s “Gambit”; and went on to deliver so many movies that have stood and will continue to endure the test of time.
Consider these titles: “Ordinary People” … Actually, to have written “Ordinary People” alone would be enough to land any living writer on a very short list of masters. But in Sargent’s case, that devastating autopsy of the middle-class American dream — an adaptation of Judith Christ’s novel addressing how the façade of domestic perfection masks the difficult work of maintaining a family and marriage — followed such already impressive credits as “The Sterile Cuckoo,...
Consider these titles: “Ordinary People” … Actually, to have written “Ordinary People” alone would be enough to land any living writer on a very short list of masters. But in Sargent’s case, that devastating autopsy of the middle-class American dream — an adaptation of Judith Christ’s novel addressing how the façade of domestic perfection masks the difficult work of maintaining a family and marriage — followed such already impressive credits as “The Sterile Cuckoo,...
- 5/11/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Academy Award winner Alvin Sargent, who penned an extraordinary number of popular and critically successful films, from “Paper Moon” and “Ordinary People” to the “Spider-Man” sequels of the 2000s, died Thursday, his talent agency Gersh confirmed to Variety. He was 92.
Sargent won adapted screenplay Oscars for “Julia” in 1978 and “Ordinary People” in 1981 and was also nominated in the category in 1974 for “Paper Moon.” (He also received Writers Guild awards for all three films.) The writer worked with many of Hollywood’s top directors over the course of his career, including Alan J. Pakula, John Frankenheimer. Paul Newman, Peter Bogdanovich, Sydney Pollack, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Redford, Martin Ritt, Norman Jewison, Stephen Frears and Wayne Wang, though not always when those helmers were doing their best work.
Sargent started as a writer for television but broke into features with his screenplay for 1966’s “Gambit,” a Ronald Neame-directed comedy thriller starring Michael Caine,...
Sargent won adapted screenplay Oscars for “Julia” in 1978 and “Ordinary People” in 1981 and was also nominated in the category in 1974 for “Paper Moon.” (He also received Writers Guild awards for all three films.) The writer worked with many of Hollywood’s top directors over the course of his career, including Alan J. Pakula, John Frankenheimer. Paul Newman, Peter Bogdanovich, Sydney Pollack, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Redford, Martin Ritt, Norman Jewison, Stephen Frears and Wayne Wang, though not always when those helmers were doing their best work.
Sargent started as a writer for television but broke into features with his screenplay for 1966’s “Gambit,” a Ronald Neame-directed comedy thriller starring Michael Caine,...
- 5/11/2019
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
Liza Minnelli celebrates her 73rd birthday on March 12, 2019. The multi-talented performer made only a handful of movies during her long career, but how many of them are classics? In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 10 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
The daughter of actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, it seems almost inevitable that Minnelli would chase the spotlight. Much like her famous mother, she started performing at an early age, singing and dancing her way to a Tony win for John Kander and Fred Ebbs‘s “Flora the Red Menace” in 1965 when she was just 19 years old. She quickly recorded a series of highly-successful albums, including “Liza! Liza!” (1964), “It Amazes Me” (1965) and “There Is Time” (1966).
SEEOscar Best Actress Gallery: Every Winner in Academy Award History
She earned her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula‘s “The Sterile Cuckoo...
The daughter of actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, it seems almost inevitable that Minnelli would chase the spotlight. Much like her famous mother, she started performing at an early age, singing and dancing her way to a Tony win for John Kander and Fred Ebbs‘s “Flora the Red Menace” in 1965 when she was just 19 years old. She quickly recorded a series of highly-successful albums, including “Liza! Liza!” (1964), “It Amazes Me” (1965) and “There Is Time” (1966).
SEEOscar Best Actress Gallery: Every Winner in Academy Award History
She earned her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula‘s “The Sterile Cuckoo...
- 3/12/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Liza Minnelli celebrates her 73rd birthday on March 12, 2019. The multi-talented performer made only a handful of movies during her long career, but how many of them are classics? In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 10 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
The daughter of actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, it seems almost inevitable that Minnelli would chase the spotlight. Much like her famous mother, she started performing at an early age, singing and dancing her way to a Tony win for John Kander and Fred Ebbs‘s “Flora the Red Menace” in 1965 when she was just 19 years old. She quickly recorded a series of highly-successful albums, including “Liza! Liza!” (1964), “It Amazes Me” (1965) and “There Is Time” (1966).
She earned her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula‘s “The Sterile Cuckoo” (1969), playing an eccentric college student romancing an uptight...
The daughter of actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, it seems almost inevitable that Minnelli would chase the spotlight. Much like her famous mother, she started performing at an early age, singing and dancing her way to a Tony win for John Kander and Fred Ebbs‘s “Flora the Red Menace” in 1965 when she was just 19 years old. She quickly recorded a series of highly-successful albums, including “Liza! Liza!” (1964), “It Amazes Me” (1965) and “There Is Time” (1966).
She earned her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula‘s “The Sterile Cuckoo” (1969), playing an eccentric college student romancing an uptight...
- 3/12/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The 1970s was a decade of heavyweight actresses taking home Oscar glory. The decade’s Best Actress winners included multiple performers who would go on to win many awards, including more Oscars. So which Best Actress winner for the 1970s do you consider your favorite? Let’s recap all 10 winners and be sure to vote in our poll below.
Glenda Jackson, “Women in Love” (1970) — Jackson won her first Oscar for playing a demanding sculptress named Gudrun in the film “Women in Love.” This was Jackson’s first nomination and win, though as would become customary over the years, she did not attend the ceremony. She earned a nomination the following year for “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”
SEEMeryl Streep (‘Sophie’s Choice’) is clear choice for top Best Actress Oscar winner of 1980s [Poll Results]
Jane Fonda, “Klute” (1971) — Fonda took home the first of two Oscars for “Klute,” in which she plays Bree Daniels,...
Glenda Jackson, “Women in Love” (1970) — Jackson won her first Oscar for playing a demanding sculptress named Gudrun in the film “Women in Love.” This was Jackson’s first nomination and win, though as would become customary over the years, she did not attend the ceremony. She earned a nomination the following year for “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”
SEEMeryl Streep (‘Sophie’s Choice’) is clear choice for top Best Actress Oscar winner of 1980s [Poll Results]
Jane Fonda, “Klute” (1971) — Fonda took home the first of two Oscars for “Klute,” in which she plays Bree Daniels,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
The next recipients for the Kennedy Center Honors will be announced in the late summer, often around Labor Day. The all-star event is held each year in the nation’s capital during the first weekend in December and then airs on CBS as a two-hour special after Christmas.
Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
The first recipients in 1978 were singer Marian Anderson, actor and dancer Fred Astaire, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Richard Rodgers and conductor Arthur Rubinstein. The most recent honorees in 2017 for the 40th anniversary program were dancer Carmen de Lavallade, singer Gloria Estefan, singer LL Cool J, producer and writer Norman Lear and singer Lionel Richie.
But there are a number of notable performers missing from the honors roll. Our...
Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
The first recipients in 1978 were singer Marian Anderson, actor and dancer Fred Astaire, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Richard Rodgers and conductor Arthur Rubinstein. The most recent honorees in 2017 for the 40th anniversary program were dancer Carmen de Lavallade, singer Gloria Estefan, singer LL Cool J, producer and writer Norman Lear and singer Lionel Richie.
But there are a number of notable performers missing from the honors roll. Our...
- 4/11/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Wendell Burton, who made his screen debut opposite Liza Minnelli in 1969’s The Sterile Cuckoo and appeared in touchstone 1970s fare like Go Ask Alice, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Fortune and Men’s Eyes, died Tuesday at 69 of brain cancer at home in Houston. Burton largely gave up his Hollywood career in the 1980s, becoming a Christian minister and, in 1997, moving to Houston to work with Joel Osteen and the Lakewood Church, first doing business work and later…...
- 6/1/2017
- Deadline
Wendell Burton, who starred with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, a tale about two college kids in love, has died. He was 69.
Burton died Tuesday at his home in Houston after a 3 1/2-year battle with brain cancer, his daughter, actress Haven Burton, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Burton also starred as America's lovable loser in the 1973 NBC/Hallmark Hall of Fame special You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. That was adapted from the stage, and Burton had played Charlie in a San Francisco production while he was a college...
Burton died Tuesday at his home in Houston after a 3 1/2-year battle with brain cancer, his daughter, actress Haven Burton, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Burton also starred as America's lovable loser in the 1973 NBC/Hallmark Hall of Fame special You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. That was adapted from the stage, and Burton had played Charlie in a San Francisco production while he was a college...
- 6/1/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Troubling fact: the great director Otto Preminger's worst film is not Skidoo. Three physical misfits form an alternative family as a defense against the world. It's a good idea for a movie, but the writer and director do just about everything wrong that a writer and director can do. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Blu-ray Olive Films 1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 113 min. / Street Date August 16, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson, Fred Williamson, Anne Revere, Pete Seeger, Pacific Gas & Electric, Ben Piazza, Emily Yancy, Leonard Frey, Clarice Taylor, Julie Bovasso, Barbara Logan, Nancy Marchand, Angelique Pettyjohn. Cinematography Boris Kaufman, Stanley Cortez Production Design Lyle R. Wheeler Charles Schramm Makeup effects Charles Schramm Film Editors Dean Ball, Henry Berman Original Music Philip Springer Written by Marjorie Kellogg from her novel Produced and Directed by Otto Preminger
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- 8/20/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Sterile Cuckoo: Jolie’s Handsome Relationship Drama is Long in Tooth
Moving on from last year’s suffocatingly honorable Pow reenactment drama Unbroken, Angelina Jolie returns with her third and most simplistic narrative to date with By the Sea. A small scale passion project which finds the director acting alongside her real-life husband and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) co-star Brad Pitt, Jolie proves, once again, she has great curatorial tastes as far as who she assembles both in front of and behind the camera.
Though this familiar scenario (Jolie’s first screenplay) is enhanced majestically by the public’s fascination with the celebrity couple, one gets the sense Jolie, inspired by a tradition of late 60s to 70s European influenced cinema examining dark nights of the soul, is a master of dissection and exhibition rather than homage. Sometimes visually stunning to behold, the film more often feels like an animated corpse,...
Moving on from last year’s suffocatingly honorable Pow reenactment drama Unbroken, Angelina Jolie returns with her third and most simplistic narrative to date with By the Sea. A small scale passion project which finds the director acting alongside her real-life husband and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) co-star Brad Pitt, Jolie proves, once again, she has great curatorial tastes as far as who she assembles both in front of and behind the camera.
Though this familiar scenario (Jolie’s first screenplay) is enhanced majestically by the public’s fascination with the celebrity couple, one gets the sense Jolie, inspired by a tradition of late 60s to 70s European influenced cinema examining dark nights of the soul, is a master of dissection and exhibition rather than homage. Sometimes visually stunning to behold, the film more often feels like an animated corpse,...
- 11/11/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
To the Lighthouse: Aloupis Crafts Woefully Sluggish Tale of Truck Stop Tendencies
Serving up a generous helping of outsider character study with teenage romance tinged by a demure, rosy hued examination of prostitution is director Tony Aloupis’ debut, Safelight, a film collecting a surprisingly talented cast considering its rather tepid platitudes. A 1970s era slice of nostalgic beats, the truckstop set film is neither a notable throwback to the era it wishes to recall nor an engaging examination of disparate souls coming together across the aching chasms of abuse and cruelty they’ve suffered through.
Disabled teen Charles (Evan Peters) struggles to get through a rather humdrum existence. His mother abandoned him when he was a child, and he’s now stuck caring for his ailing father (Jason Beghe) while he works at a truckstop counter under the caring eye of Peg (Christine Lahti). He has a passion for photography,...
Serving up a generous helping of outsider character study with teenage romance tinged by a demure, rosy hued examination of prostitution is director Tony Aloupis’ debut, Safelight, a film collecting a surprisingly talented cast considering its rather tepid platitudes. A 1970s era slice of nostalgic beats, the truckstop set film is neither a notable throwback to the era it wishes to recall nor an engaging examination of disparate souls coming together across the aching chasms of abuse and cruelty they’ve suffered through.
Disabled teen Charles (Evan Peters) struggles to get through a rather humdrum existence. His mother abandoned him when he was a child, and he’s now stuck caring for his ailing father (Jason Beghe) while he works at a truckstop counter under the caring eye of Peg (Christine Lahti). He has a passion for photography,...
- 7/18/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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Happy 67th birthday to an entertainer who has spent decades proving that she's not only immensely talented, but resilient, refreshingly weird, and one of a kind. Seriously, who compares to Liza Minnelli? Her career has a hit a couple of bumps, but those are interspersed nicely between her (ahem) four Tony wins, thrillingly strange film choices, bizarre marriages, and eleven album releases. Today, on Liza-with-a-z's 67th birthday, enjoy a smattering of clips featuring her talents, outrageousness, and some of the most definitive chutzpah of our time.
(I've arranged them chronologically for your convenience.)
1. Let her enchant you with that mother of hers.
2. Watch as the What's My Line? panel takes approximately 15 seconds to identify that voice.
3. Her first amazing acting scene: the phone call from her first Oscar-nominated role in 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo
4. My favorite musical sequence (from any movie) ever: Cabaret's "Money." Liza and Joel Work for those Oscars.
Happy 67th birthday to an entertainer who has spent decades proving that she's not only immensely talented, but resilient, refreshingly weird, and one of a kind. Seriously, who compares to Liza Minnelli? Her career has a hit a couple of bumps, but those are interspersed nicely between her (ahem) four Tony wins, thrillingly strange film choices, bizarre marriages, and eleven album releases. Today, on Liza-with-a-z's 67th birthday, enjoy a smattering of clips featuring her talents, outrageousness, and some of the most definitive chutzpah of our time.
(I've arranged them chronologically for your convenience.)
1. Let her enchant you with that mother of hers.
2. Watch as the What's My Line? panel takes approximately 15 seconds to identify that voice.
3. Her first amazing acting scene: the phone call from her first Oscar-nominated role in 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo
4. My favorite musical sequence (from any movie) ever: Cabaret's "Money." Liza and Joel Work for those Oscars.
- 3/12/2013
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Well, today's basically the last day of 2013 to enjoy my favorite activity: toying with Oscar history and making you read about it. Sigh!
Our final task is a particularly fun one. Let's take the acting winners from Sunday's ceremony, compare each of them to an Oscar winner of yore based on similar roles, similar Oscar speeches, and similar presences. I've got four Oscar-winning ancestors lined up with the four Oscar winners actors from last night. Can you come up with better matches? I dare you.
1. Jennifer Lawrence is the new... Barbra Streisand
Both won Oscars for playing quirky loudmouths (Funny Girl, Silver Linings Playbook). Both won Best Actress at or before the age of 26. Both tripped on their way to the stage. Both enjoyed award-nominated breakthroughs at age 19 (The Tony-nominated I Can Get It For You Wholesale for Streisand, the Oscar-nominated Winter's Bone for Lawrence).
2. Daniel Day-Lewis is the new...
Our final task is a particularly fun one. Let's take the acting winners from Sunday's ceremony, compare each of them to an Oscar winner of yore based on similar roles, similar Oscar speeches, and similar presences. I've got four Oscar-winning ancestors lined up with the four Oscar winners actors from last night. Can you come up with better matches? I dare you.
1. Jennifer Lawrence is the new... Barbra Streisand
Both won Oscars for playing quirky loudmouths (Funny Girl, Silver Linings Playbook). Both won Best Actress at or before the age of 26. Both tripped on their way to the stage. Both enjoyed award-nominated breakthroughs at age 19 (The Tony-nominated I Can Get It For You Wholesale for Streisand, the Oscar-nominated Winter's Bone for Lawrence).
2. Daniel Day-Lewis is the new...
- 2/25/2013
- by virtel
- The Backlot
There are plenty of musicals that stand out as among the upper tier of the genre, but few are as easily recognized as both defining and reinventing it at the same time. Cabaret, winner of 8 Oscars, and only missing Best Picture on the technicality of releasing in 1972, pushed the boundaries of the possible abilities and sensibilities available to a musical feature film, and the effects of the new stage it built can be felt all the way to last year’s Les Miserables, which brings forward the surprising power inherent in a showcase of song that is not only not happy, but delivers a variety of emotion based on a solid exposition of the singer’s circumstance. The following of Jean Valjean’s musical efforts closely resembles the now iconic shift in the performance of Cabaret‘s theme song as we work our way to the end of the film.
- 2/13/2013
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Oh, praise be and wilkommen!
Comic Christine Pedi is back with her newest medley of Liza Minnelli impersonations, this one entitled "Even More Sh*t Liza Minnelli Says.' If you thought Kristen Wiig's version of the Cabaret star was a riot, you'll surely cherish the specificity of Pedi's work here. Yep, she namedrops Michael Jackson like a champ. Yes, she misses Ray Bolger. Just watch.
And for the hell of it, here's Pedi's first installment from last January, the original "Sh*t Liza Minnelli Says." Just one complaint: Can we get a reference to The Sterile Cuckoo in here? Please?
Tags: Liza MinnelliJudy GarlandCabaretBob FosseIMDbLady GagaTeaser Photo: ...
Comic Christine Pedi is back with her newest medley of Liza Minnelli impersonations, this one entitled "Even More Sh*t Liza Minnelli Says.' If you thought Kristen Wiig's version of the Cabaret star was a riot, you'll surely cherish the specificity of Pedi's work here. Yep, she namedrops Michael Jackson like a champ. Yes, she misses Ray Bolger. Just watch.
And for the hell of it, here's Pedi's first installment from last January, the original "Sh*t Liza Minnelli Says." Just one complaint: Can we get a reference to The Sterile Cuckoo in here? Please?
Tags: Liza MinnelliJudy GarlandCabaretBob FosseIMDbLady GagaTeaser Photo: ...
- 12/14/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Jennifer Hudson, Jesse L. Martin, and Sean Hayes are all booked to appear on the next season of NBC's Smash, but the show's newest choice of guest-star is a tad more eye-popping: Liza Minnelli will appear as herself and sing an original song by composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. I say we use this news to explore our own absinthe fantasies about what Liza really could achieve on Smash. Here's what I've come up with.
Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) and Liza glumly duet on the Pet Shop Boys/Liza classic, "Losing My Mind." Throughout the song, Eileen and Liza repeatedly throw slow-motion martini splashes at each other, and by the end of the song, they've disappeared in a sea of vermouth and olives. Too conceptual? I think it's just enough to frazzle Debra Messing for five-to-eight minutes, before she goes on being frazzled about something else. I would also...
Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) and Liza glumly duet on the Pet Shop Boys/Liza classic, "Losing My Mind." Throughout the song, Eileen and Liza repeatedly throw slow-motion martini splashes at each other, and by the end of the song, they've disappeared in a sea of vermouth and olives. Too conceptual? I think it's just enough to frazzle Debra Messing for five-to-eight minutes, before she goes on being frazzled about something else. I would also...
- 11/13/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 16, 2012
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
The 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, an amalgam of comedy, drama and romance, marks the directorial debut of the late filmmaker Alan J. Pakula (All The President’s Men)
Liza Minnelli and Wendell Burton fall for each other in The Sterile Cuckoo.
Liza Minnelli (Lucky Lady) stars as Pookie Adams, a kooky coed who falls in love with a reserved young college student, Jerry Payne (Wendell Burton, Fortune and Men’s Eyes). The eccentric Pookie actively pursues the shy boyish-man and helps him through the tough first months in school. They both benefit from the relationship, with Jerry gaining self-confidence and Pookie finally coming to grips with her unhappy home life. But it’s through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of “weirdos” she doesn’t fit in with.
Based on the novelby John Nichols and written by Alvin Sargent,...
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
The 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, an amalgam of comedy, drama and romance, marks the directorial debut of the late filmmaker Alan J. Pakula (All The President’s Men)
Liza Minnelli and Wendell Burton fall for each other in The Sterile Cuckoo.
Liza Minnelli (Lucky Lady) stars as Pookie Adams, a kooky coed who falls in love with a reserved young college student, Jerry Payne (Wendell Burton, Fortune and Men’s Eyes). The eccentric Pookie actively pursues the shy boyish-man and helps him through the tough first months in school. They both benefit from the relationship, with Jerry gaining self-confidence and Pookie finally coming to grips with her unhappy home life. But it’s through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of “weirdos” she doesn’t fit in with.
Based on the novelby John Nichols and written by Alvin Sargent,...
- 7/30/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Los Angeles — It took a stray bit of dirt to scratch the perfection of "Cabaret," and painstaking effort to return it to cinematic glory.
The restored "Cabaret," minus damage that had prevented a high-definition version, earned the opening spot at the four-day TCM Classic Film Festival. Stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey were scheduled to attend Thursday's ceremony marking the musical's 40th anniversary.
Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making "Cabaret" was a joyful "secret," filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses.
Director Bob Fosse "got away with murder. We all did," Minnelli said in a recent phone call from New York. She's on a concert tour, "Confessions," based on her album of the same title.
"We'd take chances, and the studio would send notes like, `Too cloudy. It will break...
The restored "Cabaret," minus damage that had prevented a high-definition version, earned the opening spot at the four-day TCM Classic Film Festival. Stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey were scheduled to attend Thursday's ceremony marking the musical's 40th anniversary.
Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making "Cabaret" was a joyful "secret," filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses.
Director Bob Fosse "got away with murder. We all did," Minnelli said in a recent phone call from New York. She's on a concert tour, "Confessions," based on her album of the same title.
"We'd take chances, and the studio would send notes like, `Too cloudy. It will break...
- 4/12/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Liza Minnelli emerged on this Earth only 66 years ago today. What's your favorite Liza moment? Mine will shock you. Also on this date in history: Barbra Streisand becomes a Grammy-winning superstar, Meryl Streep's first true love dies, and Bernie Madoff pleads so so guilty.
March 12 is a pretty fascinating date, ladies and gents. Liza Minnelli descended to Earth, Barbra Streisand ascended to wherever it is Barbra Streisand exists now, and Fdr invented a chic mode of speechifying. Happy Monday, all! Deposit your favorite Liza moments below.
1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt engages the nation in his first fireside chat. He opens the talk with the curious greeting, “Hey, America. Sorry Herbert Hoover was the worst. Sadface for your savings. Forevz.”
1946: Liza Minnelli, the Oscar-Tony-Emmy prize winner (with a “z”!) is born. You can keep your Cabaretand The Sterile Cuckoo because I know the definitive Liza Minnelli movie is Rent-a-Cop,...
March 12 is a pretty fascinating date, ladies and gents. Liza Minnelli descended to Earth, Barbra Streisand ascended to wherever it is Barbra Streisand exists now, and Fdr invented a chic mode of speechifying. Happy Monday, all! Deposit your favorite Liza moments below.
1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt engages the nation in his first fireside chat. He opens the talk with the curious greeting, “Hey, America. Sorry Herbert Hoover was the worst. Sadface for your savings. Forevz.”
1946: Liza Minnelli, the Oscar-Tony-Emmy prize winner (with a “z”!) is born. You can keep your Cabaretand The Sterile Cuckoo because I know the definitive Liza Minnelli movie is Rent-a-Cop,...
- 3/12/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
HollywoodNews.com: When you already have an Oscar, a special Grammy and several Emmys and Tonys, what other honors are there for an iconic entertainer like Liza Minnelli?
How about being made an officer in France’s prestigious Legion of Honour!
On Monday, a visibly moved Liza received the red-ribboned medal from the French Culture Minister, Frederic Mitterrand, at a ceremony in Paris.
“We love you because you make our lives better,” Mitterrand told the great star.”A glance in your eyes is enough to make one imagine Broadway in golden letters sparkling in your eyes, your beautiful eyes.”
Liza, the star of such films as Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo and New York, New York, said: “What I am really, really so honoured about, is to be a part of France, to be a part of the city and the country of my dreams. Thank you for watching me, thank you for caring about me.
How about being made an officer in France’s prestigious Legion of Honour!
On Monday, a visibly moved Liza received the red-ribboned medal from the French Culture Minister, Frederic Mitterrand, at a ceremony in Paris.
“We love you because you make our lives better,” Mitterrand told the great star.”A glance in your eyes is enough to make one imagine Broadway in golden letters sparkling in your eyes, your beautiful eyes.”
Liza, the star of such films as Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo and New York, New York, said: “What I am really, really so honoured about, is to be a part of France, to be a part of the city and the country of my dreams. Thank you for watching me, thank you for caring about me.
- 7/13/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
Another Oscar Trivia Explosion. This time it's the Actresses.
Jennifer Lawrence made quite a film-carrying impression in Winter's Bone this past summer. It was one of the leggiest arthouse hits in some time, playing for months, and wracking up $6+ million without a huge advertising budget or bankable stars and with grim subject matter. Well done. At Christmas Hailee Steinfeld will lead us on a revenge journey in True Grit. While we suspect she's the lead actress as well, people her age are almost always demoted to "Supporting" if they're sharing the screen with a big star as co-lead and she is. Hi, Jeff Bridges! But we're pretending she's an Oscar lead today so as to have double the excuse to make this list. Humour us, won'cha?
Imaginary Movie: Steinfeld. Lawrence. Winter's True Bone.
36 Youngest Best Actress NomineesAnd where Jennifer or Hailee would fit in, were they to be nominated. (Winning performances are in red.
Jennifer Lawrence made quite a film-carrying impression in Winter's Bone this past summer. It was one of the leggiest arthouse hits in some time, playing for months, and wracking up $6+ million without a huge advertising budget or bankable stars and with grim subject matter. Well done. At Christmas Hailee Steinfeld will lead us on a revenge journey in True Grit. While we suspect she's the lead actress as well, people her age are almost always demoted to "Supporting" if they're sharing the screen with a big star as co-lead and she is. Hi, Jeff Bridges! But we're pretending she's an Oscar lead today so as to have double the excuse to make this list. Humour us, won'cha?
Imaginary Movie: Steinfeld. Lawrence. Winter's True Bone.
36 Youngest Best Actress NomineesAnd where Jennifer or Hailee would fit in, were they to be nominated. (Winning performances are in red.
- 10/28/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: When I think about why I love Liza Minnelli, it’s because of her strength as a performer in her live stage shows and in films including Cabaret, New York, New York, and The Sterile Cuckoo.
But when I watched Liza being interviewed on Larry King Live last week, I was struck by her ability to say nothing.
I wondered if Larry was off his game at first but soon realized that Liza is a far better performer than she is an interesting or introspective interview.
This new cover story in the new issue of “The Advocate” is further proof, in my opinion.
Some examples include when she was asked about the affinity she and her mother, Judy Garland, had for gay men. Both married at least one gay man. Liza at first said she had to go to the john. Then she said, “I...
HollywoodNews.com: When I think about why I love Liza Minnelli, it’s because of her strength as a performer in her live stage shows and in films including Cabaret, New York, New York, and The Sterile Cuckoo.
But when I watched Liza being interviewed on Larry King Live last week, I was struck by her ability to say nothing.
I wondered if Larry was off his game at first but soon realized that Liza is a far better performer than she is an interesting or introspective interview.
This new cover story in the new issue of “The Advocate” is further proof, in my opinion.
Some examples include when she was asked about the affinity she and her mother, Judy Garland, had for gay men. Both married at least one gay man. Liza at first said she had to go to the john. Then she said, “I...
- 10/11/2010
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
Liza Minnelli was born in Los Angeles and made her screen debut as a toddler in the musical In the Good Old Summertime in 1949. One of the world's best-loved entertainers, she won Tony awards for Flora, the Red Menace in 1965 and The Act in 1978, along with a third for Best Personal Achievement, resulting from her 1974 engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre. Nominated for an Academy Award? for The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), she won the best actress prize for her best-known film, Cabaret (1972), which also won her a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA. She won an Emmy for Liza with a 'Z' (1972) and was also the recipient of a Grammy Legend Award in 1989, making her one of the few artists who have won entertainment's top six awards. Liza has also been the recipient of three David di Donatello Awards - for The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), Cabaret (1972) and Lifetime Achievement (2002). Film credits include...
- 1/25/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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