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Dare Sparked Andrews' Book Career
15 December 2009 7:56 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Dame Julie Andrews' career as an author began after she lost a bet with her children.
The Sound of Music star owns a publishing company with her daughter Emma and the duo has written and released more than 25 children's books in the last decade.
But she admits the entire venture was sparked after her second husband Blake Edwards' daughter dared her to write a story.
She explains, "The very first book I wrote - which was about 38 years ago - was the result of losing a game with my kids. It was a dare and I had to pay a forfeit and our eldest daughter said, 'Write me a story!' I honestly thought, 'I'll just write a couple of pages' but I got an idea. It was for a new step-daughter, who I adored, and I thought this might help us bond. I would have never finished it if it hadn't been for my husband Blake's encouragement and he said, 'Just let the pages build.' I just haven't stopped ever since really."
And the veteran actress is taking credit for inspiring her fellow stars to put pen to paper.
She adds, "It's funny because people think I'm this celebrity author but I've been doing it for about 35 or 40 years. I think I started celebrity authorship!" »
A New Conversation with Dee Wallace
10 December 2009 12:55 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
If you've never seen Dee Wallace in a film then you probably don't watch movies, because at this moment she has 179 credits to her name as a professional actress, 18 of those projects yet to be released- which led me to first ask her where in the world she found the time to call me for a phone interview yesterday afternoon. She somehow made time for me to ask her a few questions about her career and life in the entertainment industry, and provided some really cool behind the scenes stories to some of the biggest movies ever made.
Dee Wallace has worked with directors like Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante, Rob Zombie, and Blake Edwards- there's a reason that prestigious directors like these have called on her time and time again, and if you look at films like The Howling, Cujo, E.T., or The Frighteners , that reason will be clearly evident. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jason Anders)
Dutch Singer Laura Fygi Stars in Singapore's Victor/Victoria, 11/9-11/29
29 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
International jazz sensation and Dutch singer Laura Fygi will star in the upcoming Singapore production of Victor/Victoria. The show will play at the Esplanade Theatre in Singapore from November 9th through 29th.
Fygi will play opposite Jake Macapagal, who is currently playing the role of Narrator/El Gallo in Repertory Philippines' production of "The Fantasticks," as the debonair King Marchan in the Asian premiere of the Broadway classic.
Victor/Victoria the 1982 musical comedy film was a remake of "Victor und Viktoria" penned by German screenplay writer Hans Hoemburg and directed by Reinhold Schunzel in 1933. The film starred Julie Andrews as Victor/Victoria, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. It was later adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical, also starring Julie Andrews. Acclaimed composers Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn wrote the music with book by Blake Edwards and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Fygi has »
Dutch Singer Laura Fygi Stars in Singapore's Victor/Victoria, 11/9-11/29
9 November 2009 1:30 AM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
International jazz sensation and Dutch singer Laura Fygi will star in the upcoming Singapore production of Victor/Victoria. The show will play at the Esplanade Theatre in Singapore from November 9th through 29th.
Fygi will play opposite Jake Macapagal, who is currently playing the role of Narrator/El Gallo in Repertory Philippines' production of "The Fantasticks," as the debonair King Marchan in the Asian premiere of the Broadway classic.
Victor/Victoria the 1982 musical comedy film was a remake of "Victor und Viktoria" penned by German screenplay writer Hans Hoemburg and directed by Reinhold Schunzel in 1933. The film starred Julie Andrews as Victor/Victoria, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. It was later adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical, also starring Julie Andrews. Acclaimed composers Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn wrote the music with book by Blake Edwards and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Fygi has »
Dutch Singer Laura Fygi Stars in Singapore's Victor/Victoria, 11/9-11/29
30 October 2009 5:43 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
International jazz sensation and Dutch singer Laura Fygi will star in the upcoming Singapore production of Victor/Victoria. The show will play at the Esplanade Theatre in Singapore from November 9th through 29th.
Fygi will play opposite Jake Macapagal, who is currently playing the role of Narrator/El Gallo in Repertory Philippines' production of "The Fantasticks," as the debonair King Marchan in the Asian premiere of the Broadway classic.
Victor/Victoria the 1982 musical comedy film was a remake of "Victor und Viktoria" penned by German screenplay writer Hans Hoemburg and directed by Reinhold Schunzel in 1933. The film starred Julie Andrews as Victor/Victoria, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. It was later adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical, also starring Julie Andrews. Acclaimed composers Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn wrote the music with book by Blake Edwards and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Fygi has »
Pixar Flick 'Cars 2' Plot Has Been Revealed
10 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
"Cars" is without a doubt my least favorite Pixar movie, and I'm certainly not alone in that statement. Still, I'm willing to give the animation studio the benefit of the doubt with their upcoming sequel, "Cars 2." After all, "Toy Story 2" was an improvement on the already terrific first "Toy Story," so who's to say they can't make a bigger leap here?
Many at Pixar acknowledge that "Cars" is not their best, even if it was one of their more kid-targeted and merchandise-friendly efforts, and it's likely they're looking to redeem themselves with the follow-up.
You can get a slight idea if that redemption will occur thanks to Empire, who share plot details for "Cars 2" by way of a Disney presentation in the UK this morning. John Lasseter told the crowd the sequel will focus more on the tow truck character Mater (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) as he »
- Christopher Campbell
Peter Sellers's mini from Pink Panther classic up for auction
8 July 2009 4:21 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
There’s no better symbol of Britain’s mod culture from the swinging 1960s than the mini car. They did the job for Michael Caine and co. in The Italian Job, The Beatles both offscreen and on in 1967’s TV movie Magical Mystery Tour and that bastion of retro glory, the Austin Powers movies in the third instalment, Austin Powers in Goldmember. And now one of the most famous minis from the era, the mini driven by Peter Sellers’s bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the second (and for many, the best) Pink Panther comedy, 1964’s A Shot in the Dark is going under the hammer.
The car is one of many that will be available to the highest bidder at the Coys motor auction at Blenheim Palace on Saturday 18th July, with a current estimated price of £35,000 to £40,000. Definitely not cheap, but there’s movie magic in this motor. »
Trailer: Emmanuel Mouret's Fais-moi plaisir!
25 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- What I'm seeing in the trailer for Emmanuel Mouret's Fais-moi plaisir! is pure Blake Edwards' The Party. His last two films, Change of Address and Shall We Kiss?, were released to art-house U.S. audiences, and this hybrid of comedy of manners/comedy of errors might also be headed the same way. Working with Frédérique Bel for a third straight project (she is the blonde girlfriend pushing him to cheat), the pic also features Judith Godrèche and Déborah François, who recently starred in Unmade Beds. Cineuropa.org translates the film's title as Please, Please Me!, this centres on Ariane (Bel), who believes that her partner (Mouret) is fantasizing about another woman. Hoping to free him from his obsession, she asks him to have an affair with the woman in question (Godrèche), who turns out to be the daughter of the French President! There follow several twists and »
Rare Movie Alert! "The Carey Treatment" On TCM Friday Morning
18 June 2009 9:43 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Turner Classic Movies (North America) will show Blake Edwards' 1972 thriller The Carey Treatment tomorrow morning at 10:00 Am (Est). The film, which has never been released on DVD, top-lines James Coburn as a brilliant doctor investigating a murder and subsequent cover-up in a major Boston hospital. Jennifer O'Neill co-stars. Any film with Coburn qualifies as "Must-See TV" for Cinema Retro readers. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Chris Lemmon: The Hollywood Interview
9 June 2009 12:28 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Actor and author Chris Lemmon.
Chris Lemmon Sheds Light On Jack Lemmon: The Man Behind The Magic
By
Alex Simon
Contrary to popular belief, not all movie stars’ offspring had dysfunctional lives filled with drug abuse, domestic violence and self-destruction. Some children of stars have even gone on to live “normal” lives outside of La-la land, and hold their famous parents in high esteem. Take the case of Chris Lemmon. Born June 22, 1954 in L.A., Chris is the son of two-time Oscar winning actor Jack Lemmon and actress Cynthia Stone. Although his parents divorced when he was young, Chris remained close to both throughout their lives and penned a tribute to his father, (who passed in 2001) called A Twist of Lemmon in 2006, published by Algonquin Books.
A successful actor in his own right and a graduate of Cal Arts, Chris Lemmon most recently has collaborated with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies
21 April 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher. Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series. Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night. The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June 2), Fritz Lang (June 8), John Huston (June 11), Jacques Tourneur (June 12), Robert Wise (June 16), Blake Edwards (June 19), Otto Preminger (June 23), David Lean (June 26) and Sidney Lumet (June 29). Weeknight primetime directors include John [...] »
- Andre Soares
Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Comedy Edition
5 April 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Welcome to another edition of Movies That Deserve a Second Life. If you need a refresher on what I’m referring to by “second life,” check out the Action/Adventure Edition. If you’re caught up, read on to see what funny flics I felt were unfairly ignored/disliked upon its release or have been forgotten in the years since its release.
Comedy is almost certainly the most subjective of all genres. What makes one person laugh is guaranteed to make another yawn or wrinkle his/her brow. Some find juvenilia in poor taste while others bust a gut. Everyone claims to have a sense of humor, but almost no one enjoys every type of humor there is, from dry wit and pungent satire to bodily fluid gags and intentionally groan-worthy puns. Therefore, I think it’s safe to say that no one (besides myself) will be satisfied with every choice. »
- Matt Medlock
Interview: Legendary Star Tony Curtis Likes it Hot in His Life, Career
31 March 2009 10:26 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
The name of the new autobiography from Tony Curtis is perfectly descriptive – American Prince. From his hardscrabble early life on the streets of the Bronx to the glamor and glitz of Hollywood stardom, Curtis has had a journey that experienced both the heights and depths of celebrity.
Working with the A-list of movie making icons, Curtis has several classic films to his name including “Some Like it Hot”, “The Defiant Ones”, ‘Spartacus” and “Sweet Smell of Success”.
Tony Curtis (left) and Burt Lancaster in ‘Sweet Smell of Success’
Photo credit: Turner Classic Movies HollywoodChicago.com caught up with the 83 year-old Tony Curtis recently at the Hollywood Collector Show. In an interview, he talked about his personal philosophy, choice of roles and his life-long passion with painting.
HollywoodChicago.com: In your book, American Prince, what impression do you think a reader will come away with about Tony Curtis that they would never expect? »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Party Remake Gets a Director
23 March 2009 11:39 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
A couple of years ago, in the wake of the success of Borat, there was an interesting rumour that popped up about the possibility of Sacha Baron Cohen starring in a remake [1] of Blake Edwards's The Party. Since then we've heard nothing more about the project, making it probably just another wacky rumour dreamed up by a gossip columnist looking for attention. This week, however, The Party has once again resurfaced, this time with writer/director Jonathan Kesselman attempting to set it up as an indepedent production. According to The Hollywood Reporter [2], MGM and Dreamworks failed to follow through on the project, leaving Kesselman to finance it on his own for $20 million. Kesselman previously wrote and directed The Hebrew Hammer, a Jewish-themed blaxploitation spoof that I have not seen, but heard good things about. Still, I have my doubts about whether or not this is a movie that can »
- Sean
Jonathan Kesselman to direct "The Party" remake. As long as Steve Martin's not in, we're happy.
23 March 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Now that Steve Martin has effectively killed off one of the most iconic comedy characters ever, let's hope he has nothing to do with this remake. Jonathan Kesselman, helmer of Comedy Central's "The Hebrew Hammer," will now direct a revamp of the Blake Edwards' comedy "The Party." Marco Garibaldi is producing under his Godfather Entertainment company.Apparently, this is a $20 million independently financed film that will be looking for cameos by various of high-profile Hollywood folks.In "The Party," Peter Sellers starred as Hrundi V. Bakshi, an oafish Indian extra on a film who is mistakenly invited to a high profile party and innocently turns the place upside down. The most memorable scene is by far the "Birdy Num Num" via the home's sound system which is hilariously heard by all attending. »
Jonathan Kesselman to direct "The Party" remake. As long as Steve Martin's not in, we're happy.
23 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Now that Steve Martin has effectively killed off one of the most iconic comedy characters ever, let's hope he has nothing to do with this remake. Jonathan Kesselman, helmer of Comedy Central's "The Hebrew Hammer," will now direct a revamp of the Blake Edwards' comedy "The Party." Marco Garibaldi is producing under his Godfather Entertainment company.Apparently, this is a $20 million independently financed film that will be looking for cameos by various of high-profi »
Jonathan Kesselman to direct "The Party" remake. As long as Steve Martin's not in, we're happy.
23 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Now that Steve Martin has effectively killed off one of the most iconic comedy characters ever, let's hope he has nothing to do with this remake. Jonathan Kesselman, helmer of Comedy Central's "The Hebrew Hammer," will now direct a revamp of the Blake Edwards' comedy "The Party." Marco Garibaldi is producing under his Godfather Entertainment company.Apparently, this is a $20 million independently financed film that will be looking for cameos by various of high-profi »
Kesselman Ready To Party
22 March 2009 11:30 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
He's not exactly a household name, having last directed cult hit The Hebrew Hammer waaaay back in 2003, but Jonathan Kesselman has lined up an interesting job for his return to the big screen: a remake of The Party, originally directed by Pink Panther supremo Blake Edwards.The original movie saw bumbling Indian film extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (played by Peter Sellers) accidentally invited to an exclusive party instead of being fired when two memos are confused. This time, to avoid the dodgy racial politics of the 1968 film, the same role will be that of a blond Midwesterner whose appearance has been changed by studio executives anxious for him to fit a part.There's no start date or cast yet, although the film is aiming to enlist lots of high-profile actors in cameo roles. It's early days, but this might be worth keeping an eye on. After all, Kesselman has kept »
The Party Remake Finds Director
22 March 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
Jonathan Kesselman has signed on to will direct the remake of Blake Edwards' The Party that Marco Garibaldi is producing under his Godfather Entertainment banner. The 1968 cult hit starred Peter Sellers. In the original film, Sellers starred as Hrundi V. Bakshi, an Indian extra who inadvertently is invited to a swank Hollywood party. Garibaldi, who has brought on Brandon Gibson and Jim Russo to help him write the script, will tweak the story, focusing on a blond Midwesterner whose appearance is changed by studio executives eager he fit a part. Garibaldi said last the summer that he was jumping back into the Hollywood game by producing an update of the movie after several earlier attempts at MGM and DreamWorks. The project is a $20 million independently financed film that will aim for cameos by a number of high-profile Hollywood personalities. Kesselman is best known for the Jewish blaxploitation spoof The Hebrew Hammer, »
- James Cook
A.M.P.A.S L.A. Screenings To Include "The Great Race"
11 March 2009 10:31 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Cinema Retro has just received this press release from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of special note is that their March screenings include a rare theatrical showing of Blake Edwards' 1965 comedy The Great Race starring Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. The film is being screened as part of a tribute to costume designers. Natalie Wood in The Great Race
Friday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Samuel Goldwyn TheaterTHE Thief Of Bagdad (1924)
Featuring a color-tinted print restored by Kevin Brownlow with
a stereo musical score composed by Carl Davis
Silent film legend Douglas Fairbanks delivers one of his most charismatic performances in “The Thief of Bagdad,” a rollicking adventure tale widely considered to be his masterpiece. Presented in celebration of the Academy’s new Douglas Fairbanks book and exhibition, this rare big-screen presentation also offers a dazzling display of silent film craftsmanship, highlighted by immense, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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