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The Walrus Is Batman: A Paired Review
14 December 2009 9:30 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Superheroes die. It’s one of their best tricks – dying, tragically, to stop the Big Bad from doing whatever it is he’s doing. Luckily, another one of their best tricks is to come back from the dead – which they need to do, of course, since someone needs to star in their monthly comics, and you can’t let Jean-Paul Valley or John Henry Irons have the spotlight for all that long. (No one would stand for that.)
Batman died recently, more or less. (It’s always “more or less” when a character like Batman dies. Complication cling to them like barnacles.) And these are two of the books in which he did, or didn’t, die:
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Written by Neil Gaiman; Pencils by Andy Kubert
DC Comics, July 2009, $24.99
Gaiman is a powerful and original writer, but he’s also drawn, again and again, »
- Andrew Wheeler
Fashion fix: Emporio Armani black dress from The Ugly Truth
14 December 2009 3:02 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
There are dresses, there are nice dresses and then there are little black dresses. When dressing to impress, nothing beats the Lbd. It’s the ultimate fashion weapon, capable of fusing sophistication with sexiness, mystery with mischief and more besides. Audrey Hepburn wore hers with pearls and opera gloves in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Anita Ekberg frolicked in a fountain in hers in La Dolce Vita and Grace Kelly tempted the wheelchair-bound James Stewart in hers in Rear Window (one of the late princess’s many adored wardrobe items to go on exhibition next year, see Related Content). And now we have a new contender to add to this list of legendary LBDs – the Emporio Armani one as worn by Katherine Heigl’s Abby Ritchter in rom-com, The Ugly Truth. »
SPhilip French's Screen Legend: Grace Kelly
12 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
No 77: Grace Kelly 1929-82
Born in Philadelphia, the beautiful daughter of a model and a self-made Irish-American multi-millionaire who won gold medals as an Olympic oarsman, Kelly was Hollywood's ice queen of the McCarthy era, a cold war figure of upper-middle-class Catholic rectitude. One uncle was the vaudeville star Walter Kelly, another the Pulitzer-winning playwright, George Kelly, and she determined on an acting career while at college. In the late 40s and early 50s she worked as a model and on live New York TV. She entered the movies playing a minor role in Fourteen Hours in 1951, just after the banishment of Ingrid Bergman, the Hitchcock blonde who preceded her, and she retired in 1956, the year Bergman returned in triumph.
She grew up in a world of cafe society where show people, media folk, the nouveau-riches and other conspicuous consumers mingle, and she didn't leave it when, in a carefully engineered marriage, »
British film rivals in race to tell Maria Callas's love story
12 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Penélope Cruz and Anne Hathaway may be rivals in two biopics
Two British screenplays are competing for the chance to be the first to tell the compelling life story of the opera star Maria Callas on film.
This summer, as guests attending the Cannes film festival gathered for cocktails on the terrace of the exclusive Martinez hotel to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's acclaimed film Medea, with Callas in the non-singing title role, the soprano's close associations with glamour and the cinema were never more evident.
On display at the hotel was a selection of jewellery from Callas's private collection, including her white diamond "La Traviata" necklace, showcased alongside unseen photographs of the singer with stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. But what the guests at the Martinez did not know was that, just along the Croisette, producers were busy with »
- Vanessa Thorpe
Kelly's Wardrobe Set For Display
10 December 2009 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A collection of screen icon Grace Kelly's most famous outfits is set to be exhibited in London in the New Year.
The High Society star's elegant wardrobe will be the subject of Grace Kelly: Style Icon, a new display set to open in the British capital's Victoria & Albert Museum in April.
Visitors will get to see more than 50 outfits, including the black chiffon dress she donned in Rear Window and the evening gown she wore to the 1955 Academy Awards, when she won Best Actress for her role in The Country Girl.
Kelly's belongings and mementoes will also be displayed in three sections, including The Actress, The Bride and The Princess - in reference to her reign as the wife of Prince Rainier of Monaco following her retirement from Hollywood.
Kelly's son, Albert II, the current ruler of Monaco, says, "Throughout her life she exuded effortless elegance, whether she was appearing at the most spectacular public occasion, or a simply family gathering." »
Grace Kelly exhibition coming in the New Year
8 December 2009 7:58 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Today London is busy working its style credentials hosting an auction selling artefacts and wardrobe belonging to elegant icon, Audrey Hepburn (see Related Content, right) and it looks like 2010 could be just as fashion fabulous with a new exhibition exploring the glamour of Grace Kelly. The Oscar-winning actress, known for her cool blonde roles in such classics as To Catch a Thief, Dial M for Murder and High Society, was, like Audrey, a vision of silver screen panache in the 1950s, before she married Prince Rainier of Monaco and retired from Hollywood. And this exhibition, to be held at the Victoria & Albert Museum from April next year, salutes the personal and professional career of Tinseltown’s true life princess. »
Philip French's screen legends
6 December 2009 4:20 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
No 76: Errol Flynn 1909-1959
Flynn was born in Tasmania, the son of an eminent marine biologist, and early on developed a passion for the sea and a reputation as a rebel. Spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout while a young, very minor actor in England, he became an overnight Hollywood star in 1935 as a last-minute replacement for Robert Donat as the swashbuckling hero of Captain Blood. By 1936 he was the leading contender to play Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind.
Flynn was tall, slim, graceful, debonair with a neatly trimmed moustache, a winning smile, a hearty, self-mocking laugh. Everything he did, both on screen and off, contributed to his legendary status: the colonial background (he claimed to be a descendant of Fletcher Christian); the celebrated characters he played (General Custer, Robin Hood); his sexual conquests; his prodigious phallic dimensions (according to Truman Capote in Music for Chameleons, »
- Philip French
Carrie Fisher: Cary Grant Helped Me With My Teenage Acid Problem
25 November 2009 6:44 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
When Carrie Fisher's mom got worried about her teenage daughter's Lsd use, she did what any concerned parent might do. "She had Cary Grant call me about my acid problem," Fisher told David Letterman on his show Tuesday night. "While I was shooting it and stuff. I tell my father the story and my father's a little vague having shot speed 13 years. It's a family tradition." Grant's involvement with Fisher's drug problem didn't end there. Fisher's dad ending up seeing him at Grace Kelly's funeral and at a loss for what to say, asked him to call his daughter again. He did. The reason Grant was the family acid expert? He once did it under doctor's supervision. "I just always want to imagine, was he in a backless gown?" said Fisher. "Was the doctor on acid? Did they do »
- Katy Hall
Mika: "I'm private about my private life"
24 November 2009 1:13 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Mika has revealed that he wants his private life to remain mysterious. The 'Grace Kelly' singer, who is currently in a relationship, said that he doesn't have to confirm or deny rumours about his sexuality because it is only his business. Mika told The Independent: "I'm private about my private life and I think that's an important thing. It's not necessarily retaining mystery , it's preserving yourself so you can sit down and (more) »
- By Rebecca Davies
Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, High Society, The Swan
24 November 2009 12:10 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress’ last three films: Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters‘ musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor’s romantic drama The Swan (1956), in which Kelly has to make up her mind between plebeian Louis Jourdan or blue-blooded Alec Guinness. I wouldn’t call any of those three films a masterpiece, but both To Catch a Thief and The Swan have their own particular charms. In the former, Grace Kelly is at her most relaxed as [...] »
- Andre Soares
“I discuss my sexuality in my lyrics” Says Mika
23 November 2009 2:18 PM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The ‘Grace Kelly’ singer is currently in a relationship but doesn’t feel he has to speak about it or confirm or deny the rumours about his sexuality. He said: “I’m private about my private life and I think that’s an important thing. It’s not necessarily retaining mystery , it’s preserving yourself so you can sit down and write a song without feeling like you’ve sterilised yourself to be nice to everybody.” Mika, 26, insists he addresses his sexuality in his songs and is a more honest songwriter than most other musicians. He said in an interview with Britain’s Independent newspaper: “I discuss my sexuality in my lyrics more than anybody in pop music. There’s a way to discuss sexuality without labels. It’s not born out of fear because you don’t make music like mine if you’re operating from a position of fear, »
- cyan
Mysterious Mika
23 November 2009 5:04 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Mika wants his private life to remain mysterious. The 'Grace Kelly' singer is currently in a relationship but doesn't feel he has to speak about it or confirm or deny the rumours about his sexuality. He said: "I'm private about my private life and I think that's an important thing. It's not necessarily retaining mystery , it's preserving yourself so you can sit down and write a song without feeling like you've sterilised yourself to be nice to everybody." Mika, 26, insists he addresses his sexuality in his songs and is a more honest songwriter than most other musicians. He said in an interview with Britain's Independent newspaper: "I discuss my sexuality in my lyrics more than anybody in pop »
Mika Admits “I emotionally killed a man”
21 November 2009 12:46 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The ‘We Are Golden’ singer – who refuses to reveal his sexuality – says he feels like a “murderer” following the encounter with a mystery man. He said: “I emotionally killed a man. It was three weeks ago. It’s complicated. Suffice to say that I am now a murderer.” The ‘Grace Kelly’ hitmaker also revealed his 2007 hit ‘Love Today’ was written after an enjoyable sexual encounter. He said: “It came to me, fully formed, after the first time I had sleepy with someone and actually loved it.” The singer’s latest single, ‘Rain’, was written in the aftermath of a row with his then-partner and he claims the creative process was “empowering”. He explained to Britain’s The Times newspaper: “I was furious with the person I was going out with. What had they done? Nothing. That was the problem. “I wrote this nasty little nursery rhyme, and then I thought, »
- Alice
Grace Kelly: Green Fire, The Rockingham Tea Set
16 November 2009 9:40 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger in Green Fire Grace Kelly is once again the focal point of Turner Classic Movies‘ Thursday evening schedule. And as far as I’m concerned, next Thursday, Nov. 19, is going to be the most interesting of the Grace Kelly evenings this month. The reason for that is simple: TCM will be showing the one Kelly feature I’ve yet to see — the Colombian-set adventure drama Green Fire (1954), co-starring Stewart Granger and Paul Douglas — and two of Kelly’s pre-stardom television vehicles that I’ve also yet to see — "The Rockingham Tea Set" (1950) and "The Kill" (1952), both made for the Studio One anthology series and both directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, best known [...] »
- Andre Soares
Review: Saturday Night Live - January Jones/Black Eyed Peas
15 November 2009 9:32 AM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
(S35E06) There was a strange moment of nodding recognition at the end of the night, as I watched Jason Sudeikis and January Jones in the cloud-gazing sketch. Throughout, the man pauses to consider the woman's weird behavior and then concedes, "Ohh, you're a very pretty, pretty woman." Yup. That's pretty much how I reacted the entire night, especially during really bad sketches like the farting Grace Kelly (take a moment to think about that: Farting. Grace. Kelly.)
Jones was kind of a stiff host with not particularly daring material, but, goodness gracious, her real-life 50s Barbie prettiness was mesmerizing. Her performances in the mid-century instructional video and the aforementioned cloud-gazing sketch were the best of the evening, but that's not saying much since the rest of her appearances were strange and wooden. Even her good night felt like it had been programmed in and auto-tuned for maximum polite insincerity. »
- Annie Wu
Birthday Suits: Ryan and Anne. Get 'Em While They're Hot
12 November 2009 5:31 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Nov. 12th: Celebrating the birthdays of the filmic and famous
1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor... still waiting on a biopic though Gerard Depardieu did play him in Camille Claudel (1988). In his honor today, get naked and strike a memorable pose.
1922 Kim Hunter, "Stellaaa!"
1929 Grace Kelly, princess
1942 Wallace Shawn, "inconceivable!"
1945 Neil Young, musician
1947 Patrice Leconte, director (Ridicule, The Widow of St. Pierre, Monsieur Hire, etcetera)
1958 Megan Mullally, Karen no more
1963 Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
1973 Radha Mitchell, actress. Melinda²
1978 Alexandra Maria Lara, international schauspielerin
Finally, let's hear it for one-time Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling, turning 29 today, and Anne Hathaway, turning 27. Will it be tricky for them to find worthy follow ups to Half Nelson and Rachel Getting Married? Being in demand, which they both unquestionably are, is different than finding challenging three-dimensional parts. Hathaway has 10 projects somewhere on that long and volatile road to the screen the most exciting of which, from an acting standpoint, »
- NATHANIEL R
Grace Kelly on TCM: Rear Window, The Country Girl
10 November 2009 10:46 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with three of Kelly’s biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12. Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock effort. Personally, I find it more enjoyable than Hitchcock’s revered Rear Window. Part of the reason is a pair of deadly scissors found in the former but not in the latter; yet, I’d say that the chief reason is that neither one of Kelly’s leading men in Dial M for Murder is James Stewart. Instead, [...] »
- Andre Soares
Mm@M Season 1 Wrap Up
8 November 2009 6:10 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Right at this moment, you're either gearing up for the Season 3 finale of Mad Men, you're seasons behind on DVD, or you've never seen an episode. No matter your situation I hope you got something from this "Mad Men at the Movies" series which looked at the movies referenced on the series. We'll deal with seasons 2&3 later. As you read this I am at a fab Mad Men party.
The last two episodes of the season 1 have no movie love. But in "Nixon vs. Kennedy" the jaded Don Draper we know (Jon Hamm) flashes back to meeting the original Don Draper (Troy Ruptash) who is unimpressed with the then naive young man.
Don Draper to Don Draper: What misconception travelled down the road and made you want to be here... a movie?Deliciously dizzying it is. A television series that loves the movies disses the cinema's great capacity to lie »
- NATHANIEL R
Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, The Swan
5 November 2009 4:03 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby’s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly’s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn’t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself received Academy Award nominations. Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...] »
- Andre Soares
Grace Kelly on TCM
5 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols — which is why idols are idols. Whether we’re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars, the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts, the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some extreme cases — assorted gods, Elvis — the idol in question doesn’t die, period.) Grace Kelly, Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month, is one of the lofty ones now dwelling in the aforementioned Pantheon. True, the flesh-and-bood Philadelphia-born (Nov. 12, 1929) woman (nee Grace Patricia Kelly) may have been quite different [...] »
- Andre Soares
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