Paul Newman | Paul Newman
Mar.25.2013
Once again, Festival du Cannes is using classic movie stars to promote it’s upcoming European festival. An iconic couple: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman in A New Kind of Love (1963) personify the spirit of cinema on the official 66th edition poster.
Woodward and Newman were married for many...
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Nov.11.2012
It touched me when I read somewhere that NOBODY'S FOOL was Newman's favorite film. Those words mean a lot when you consider the likes of COOL HAND LUKE and the rest.
It's my favorite Newman flick too.
Someone in another blog asked me why I identified so heavily with Sully. Knowing is one thing;...
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Oct.12.2012
Last night I went to the cinema, to see a theatre play on tape (I assume it was on tape) part of the National Theatre Live series coming out the UK.
I dragged my son, who happened by, as his girlfriend wanted to visit her granny in the City.
So I didn't have to drive and that'...
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Sep.01.2012
Kesey's first book, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, is written in a more relaxed traditional style, but he must have been on LSD too long when he wrote SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, because he's everywhere, even in a dog's head. (Tolstoy did that too. It's okay; I've been there too.)
It all happens in...
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Aug.01.2012
Gore Vidal was an accomplished author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and a political activist. His swath of friendship transcended American presidents, Oscar-winning actors, scribes who earned a Pulitzer Prize, and other iconic 20th century figures. He was briefly...
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Jul.24.2012
Frank Pierson was a successful screenwriter and director. His work on television and film was memorable. Because his father was a noted writer, his family and their lives were the subject of the 1945 film Roughly Speaking, starring Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson as his parents.
He began his...
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Jul.13.2012
The son of Darryl F. Zanuck, who was also an award-winning producer of cinema, is dead. Richard D. Zanuck worked for his father at 20th Century Fox, rising to the ranks as chief mogul. He also headed Warner Brothers, and later formed his own production company, with an office at Universal....
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Jun.29.2011
(First in a 12-part monthly series)
WHAT A WAY TO GO - The script parodies the curse of a frustrated widow (by four husbands) searching for a thrifty, humble life. She succeeds in inheriting gobs of money by offering seemingly innocent suggestions which lead to each spouse’s demise. The story is...
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Dec.23.2010
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Will we...
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