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11 November 2009 8:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is to be inducted into the U.S. Television Academy's Hall of Fame to mark his work on the sci-fi franchise.
The producer, who died in 1991, was responsible for seven series of the cult show, beginning in 1966. He also took the reins on 10 big-screen versions of the sci-fi classic.
Roddenberry will be posthumously added to the Hall of Fame at a ceremony on 20 January at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.
Other stars to be inducted include Saturday Night Live's Don Pardo, U.S. comedy brothers Tom and Dick Smothers, as well as actress Candice Bergen, who starred in Murphy Brown in the 1990s.
Director Charles Lisanby and The Price Is Right creator Bob Stewart will also join the list. »
11 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
To be honest, I just assumed this was something that had already happened. For someone who created such an enduring TV and film legacy and such a phenomenon, I thought Gene Roddenberry was already in the TV Academy Hall of Fame. Apparently, I was wrong because at a special ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel next year, the “Great Bird of the Galaxy” himself will join the ranks of Academy Hall of Fame inductees.
Other inductees to be honored at the ceremony include Candice Bergen, production and art director Charles Lisanby, announcer Don Pardo, Tom and Dick Smothers and game show producer Bob Stewart. Seriously, and I apologize in advance for the rant I’m about to go on, the guy who created Star Trek and Don Pardo are getting the Hall of Fame treatment at the same time? Come on TV Academy, what the heck are you thinking?
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- Chris Ullrich
10 November 2009 3:38 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
This might sound more overdue than According to Jim's cancellation, but one of TV's greatest creators is getting the Hall of Fame treatment.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry will join the ranks of the Television Academy's Hall of Fame next year at a special induction ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Other inductees include Candice Bergen, production and art director Charles Lisanby, announcer Don Pardo, Tom and Dick Smothers and game show producer Bob Stewart. Is there anyone that they left off the list?
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- Danny Gallagher
10 November 2009 10:22 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Josef Adalian
"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, the Smothers Brothers, actress Candice Bergen and legendary announcer Don Pardo are among the new inductees into the TV Academy's Hall of Fame.
Also joining the elite group: art director Charles Lisanby ("The $64,000 Question") and game show guru Bob Stewart ("The Price Is Right").
The Academy plans to honor its new inductees with a gala Jan. 20 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
“Each year, the Television Academy has the privilege of honoring television greats that have contributed to the development an... »
- Adalian
2 October 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Nora and Delia Ephron. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best selling 1995 memoir by Illene Beckerman. It opened last night at off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre to a standing ovation. The play isn’t about sex, per se; it’s about clothes and accessories and the funny sad mocking memories they conjure up at various turning points in women’s lives. The cast will change every four weeks. For the first month Rosie O’Donnell, Tyne Daly, Katie Finneran, Natasha Lyonne, and Samantha Bee of The Daily Show are performing; I have to say they are all absolutely wonderful. After the show I walked to the party at the Bryant Park Grill with writer-director Ethan Silverman. It was a cool lovely »
25 September 2009 3:45 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
At last Sunday's Emmy Award ceremony, Survivor host (and two-time Emmy winner! ) Jeff Probst told reporters that The Amazing Race should pull itself out of the kudos competition so other reality shows like, well, Survivor, could win for a change. Later, Probst told EW that he was joking ("Everybody always asks me what I think about how Amazing Race dominates. I have no answer. They do dominate.") But he makes an interesting point: After seven consecutive wins, has Race won too darn much? Few would argue it's the gold standard of reality TV; the show pulls off an amazing feat »
- Lynette Rice
13 July 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Mary Ellen Mark has documented some of cinema's most haunted, precocious and celebrated film sets in her 40 years as a stills photographer, including the fraught all-star environments of Apocalypse Now, Marathon Man (with Dustin Hoffman, pictured) and On Golden Pond. Her new book,Seen Behind the Scene recollects the stories behind the shots, a sampling of which are now available over at Vanity Fair. Go for the Fellini, stay for the three-way, mildly Nsfw (or hardly anywhere else, really) Jack Nicholson/Candice Bergen/Art Garfunkel kiss from their Carnal Knowledge days. The Harry Potter kids will be imitating them before you know it. [Vf.com] »
8 June 2009 3:36 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Director Mike Nichols reflected on his first experience watching his film The Graduate at a public movie screening in New York. He was stunned by the reaction of the audience, which was going wild over the events onscreen. Nichols admits that initially he took flack from college kids because the movie deftly avoided any mention of the central issue of the day: the Vietnam War. However, students began to rally to the movie and embraced it in a major way. Nichols also recalls that he rejected both Robert Redford and Candice Bergen for the film. For more click here »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
31 May 2009 9:29 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
May Flowers
I'm not sure that Georgia O'Keeffe would have loved Sex & The City but I'm pretty sure Sex & The City loves Georgia O'Keeffe. Those lady flowers are everywhere.
While it's true that you can't really make a wedding movie without a floral arrangement, Sex... doesn't just use flowers for the bouquet toss.
Just give me the damn symbolic vaginas
-The Bachelor (1999)Flowers cling to Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw like she's a one woman photosynthesis factory. It'd be a stretch to say that every costume includes them but more often than not costume designer Patricia Field has dipped Carrie in vats of them: green florals (buying an apartment), red (bragging about her boyfriend), purple (single again), huge gigantor white florals just because. She's a photosynthesis factory and a color wheel.
Subtlety has never been Sex and the City's strong suit. The movie is all about the act »
- NATHANIEL R
21 May 2009 8:23 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
By Lee Pfeiffer
It was a very special opening night of The Film Society of Lincoln Center's week-long tribute to the films and career of Steve McQueen. Fox provided a stunning, newly restored 35mm print of director Robert Wise's 1966 epic The Sand Pebbles, which garnered McQueen his only Oscar nomination. Experiencing the film on the big screen with a superb sound system proved to be a wonderful experience - because if you haven't seen The Sand Pebbles in a theater, you haven't seen it at all. The evening kicked off with an introduction by Candice Bergen, who related that she was a rather nervous 19 year-old in the largely all-male company of heavyweights. She recalled how filming on Taiwan for many months was an arduous - and simultaneously boring - experience. In 1965, the island was largely devoid of any modern conveniences and newspapers and telephones were almost impossible to find. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
16 May 2009 2:58 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host a major tribute to Steve McQueen commencing on May 20. Throughout the week, there will be many screenings of McQueen films, some hosted by his family and colleagues. Norman Jewison will introduce The Cincinnati Kid; Candice Bergen will introduce a restored print of The Sand Pebbles, producer David Foster will introduce The Getaway, director Peter Yates will introduce Bullitt, and Robert Vaughn will introduce The Magnificent Seven. Many other McQueen films will be screened including Nevada Smith, The Towering Inferno, The Great Escape, Papillon and a rare big screen showing of An Enemy of the People, McQueen's little-seen adapation of the Ibsen classic. For details click here »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
12 May 2009 3:32 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
All court cases must come to an end. So it goes as the gavel comes down on the popular Boston Legal. The quirky characters get one more go round with the law before the door shuts on Crane, Poole, and Schmidt. Grab your lawyers, I feel like adjudicating. Crane, Poole, and Schmidt is a Boston law firm. The partners include the flamboyant Denny Crane (the flamboyant William Shatner), the senior and founding partner, who has Alzheimer.s disease, which he refers to as Mad Cow. Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen) was more a silent senior partner, but reappeared to take an active role in the firm when Denny.s behavior, which has always been strange, escalated and he began to shoot »
- Jeff Swindoll
11 May 2009 11:22 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—May 2009
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Allen Gardner
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount Studios releases two more classic titles from its library on special edition DVD: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford’s last masterpiece (although he would go on to direct two more very good films) from 1962: about an Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) who travels west only to find primal brutality in the form of sadistic bandit Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, great as always) and pragmatic brutality in local rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), each two sides of a coin that represent a way of life slowly dying out as Stewart’s modern brand of civilization tames the West. A perfect film, period. Howard Hawks’ El Dorado is essentially a remake of his earlier classic Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan as lawmen joining forces against corrupt cattle barons. Great fun. Two disc sets. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
7 May 2009 12:43 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson star in the awful “Bride Wars,” an alleged comedy with a great 3-disc Blu-Ray edition that still can’t hide the awful movie underneath.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0 Liv (Hudson) and Emma (Hathaway) are best friends who have always dreamed of getting married at the Plaza Hotel. When their nuptials are accidentally scheduled for the same date, they begin torture campaigns against each other, trying to see who will flinch first and move their date or cancel their wedding altogether.
Bride Wars was released on Blu-Ray on April 28th, 2009.
Photo credit: Fox
What were they thinking? Kate Hudson has made some bad choices in recent years, but would the young actress who shined so brightly in “Almost Famous” please come back? And Anne Hathaway should simply know better. It’s not hard to believe that “Bride Wars” hurt her Oscar campaign for “Rachel Getting Married”. It »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
5 May 2009 10:06 AM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
After five seasons on ABC, court adjourned for Boston Legal last December. An often controversial and outlandish legal drama, the series revolves around Alan Shore (James Spader), Denny Crane (William Shatner), Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen), and other legal eagles from Boston's Crane Poole and Schmidt.
Other prominent castmembers have included Rene Auberjonois, Mark Valley, Julie Bowen, Christian Clemenson, Gary Anthony Williams, John Larroquette, Tara Summers, Henry Gibson, Constance Zimmer, Monica Potter, Rhona Mitra, Saffron Burrows, Meredith Eaton, Taraji P. Henson, Justin Mentell, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Craig Bierko, Lake Bell, Jill Brennan, Marisa Coughlan, Shelley Berman, Michael Ensign, and Roma Maffia.
Creator David E. Kelley knew that this would be the final season so he decided to end the show with 13 of the craziest and emotionally charged episodes in the series' history. In a nice tip of the hat to previous seasons, characters played by Auberjonois, Bowen, Larry Miller and Betty White »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
4 May 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
The “Bride Wars” 3-Disc Blu-ray reviewby Peter Dimako Something Old, Something New, I need something to throw, pass me that high-heeled shoe! “Bride Wars” proves to be a major slip for the talented Anne Hathaway. Anne Hathaway is an immensely capable actress; much-beloved by fans of various genres with earlier work in the teen romance “Ella Enchanted” and the recent, critically acclaimed “Rachel Getting Married.” What possessed her to paste her name on this concoction borders on perplexing. Kate Hudson’s career has been on the rocks lately, hitting a down spiral at the box office for the most part with her best, latest work to date being the entertaining “Fool’s Gold” and the underrated comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl.” Thankfully enough for her, she can be seen next in Rob Marshall’s “Nine” with Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard and Penélope Cruz on boad. Together, these two high »
4 April 2009 10:35 AM, PDT | India.com | See recent India.com news »
Midway through Bride Wars there is a scene where a lone tear falls down Kate Hudson's cheek. That one tear tells a much larger story than all of Bride Wars.
In that one tear is Kate Hudson's career and it goes all the way back to Almost Famous, when William Miller told Penny Lane she had been sold to "Humble Pie for fifty bucks and a case of beer." A tear rolled down Hudson's cheek at that moment as well, and outside of Almost Famous and my moderate liking of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days I imagine Kate Hudson looks back at a series of missteps and wonders how she went from an Oscar nominated actress in a Cameron Crowe film to a B-list actress performing alongside Dane Cook and following that up with what is likely to be Anne Hathaway's last career misstep »
- mihirkula
2 March 2009 12:05 AM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
So Candice Bergen called. So what's she doing now that it's not "Boston Legal" anymore?
"I was just offered another series, a half-hour comedy, but it'll film out of La, and though I have a house there, my husband works in New York, and our home's New York. For 4½ years, I commuted to California to film 'Boston Legal.' Those were very long days. Once in a while they'd write me out of a segment so I could get some rest. But what can I say? I'm used to working. It's what I know, »
- By CINDY ADAMS
24 February 2009 11:57 PM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
So what becomes a leg end most? Endurance. Even before rave re views of his Oscar-night hosting came in, Hugh Jackman was already outta there. Back to New York. While most of Hollywood stayed partying and BSing, Hugh was already on Delta's first flight Eastward Ho! The Return to Civilization.
Oscar's winning docu mentary short, "Smile Pinki," is about the work of the world's largest cleft charity, Smile Train. For the awards, Pinki, age 8, was imported from her thatched-roof mud home in India's now-famous slums. The Slumdog Millionaires all knew her. For Oscar night, »
- By CINDY ADAMS
20 January 2009 10:00 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
It had to be done: all in one place, the very best bad dialogue of the year 2009. No ranking -- newer quotes are posted at the top. [Warning: May contain spoilers.] “Don’t worry, I’ll edit out the sweaty parts.” --Mom Blart (Shirley Knight), about a video of her son, Paul Blart: Mall Cop “We’ve got him trapped in Rainforest Cafe.” --bad guy, Paul Blart: Mall Cop “It has fallen upon you to end what began in Auschwitz.” --Sofi Kozma (Jane Alexander), The Unborn “You have been dead until now.” --wedding planner (Candice Bergen), on life prior to one’s wedding, Bride Wars “Your wedding better watch it!” --Liv (Kate Hudson), to her best friend on the occasion of her nuptials, Bride Wars »
- MaryAnn Johanson
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