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HBO Films Grabs the Rights to Guests of the Ayatollah Novel
4 November 2009 4:28 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Variety reports that HBO Films has picked up the novel "Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," by Mark Bowden (he wrote the book Black Hawk Down).
Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) will be adapting this book.
The property chronicles how 66 Americans were taken hostage on Nov. 4, 1979. Many were not freed until January 1981. The event started as an expression of student outrage over the U.S. decision that allowed the ousted shah of Iran for medical treatment. It then spawned the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and his hardline Islamic supporters.
There was a rescue attempt that ended disastrously, and the crisis hung over the Carter administration. It also bolstered the rise of the conservative Republican Ronald Reagan. He defeated Carter in the election, then "promptly unfroze $8 billion in Iranian assets and took the bows when the hostages were freed."
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Pacino Lands Arthritis Award
4 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Al Pacino is to be honoured by California's leading arthritis charity.
The Southern California Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation will present the Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award to the movie star at the 22nd Commitment To A Cure Awards gala in Los Angeles later this month.
Board chairman Mitchell A. Jacobs says, "It is presented to individuals who exemplify the leadership, commitment and dedication to humanitarian causes that Ms. Wyman herself demonstrated in the fight to find a cure for arthritis.
"Al Pacino has a history of charitable giving. We are very grateful for his support of the 46 million adults and children with arthritis, and are honoured that he will join us at the Commitment to a Cure Awards Gala."
Actress Jane Wyman was the first wife of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. »
Top Ten Movies About U.S. Politics
3 November 2009 9:45 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Life is political. Hollywood is political. And yesterday in the U.S., the state elections were very political in the broad sense of the term, since many pundits kept arguing that they served as a referendum on President Obama and his policies.
We make no such claims. We're not here to talk U.S. politics specifically, but with all this political fever in play, what better time than to reflect back on what we believe are the ten best movies about American politics?
There are some terrific contenders here; not surprisingly some from decades gone by. But in most, the themes of power and corruption going hand-in-hand is front and center. It's material that's inherently rife with conflict, making for some of the best drama to be found anywhere.
So have a look at the following pages and our selections for the best movies about American politics. And when you're finished, »
Jesus, meet Jon McNaughton, then meet 'Shortpacked'
11 October 2009 4:51 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
A little Sunday morning blasphemy for y'all:
First, we have this painting by Jon McNaughton featuring Jesus Christ, creator of the heavens and earth and bearer of the Us Constitution, flanked by, among others, Thomas Jefferson (a deist who actually rewrote his own version of the Bible to take out all the miracles and mysticism and just leave the philosophy), Ronald Reagan, and Christa McAuliffe. At his feet on his right you have the good guys-- the farmer, the Christian minister, the Us Marine, the handicapped child, the mother, the black college student, the schoolteacher who vaguely resembles Sarah Palin.
On the other side-- Jesus' left side, wink wink-- is a professor holding a copy of Darwin's Origin of the Species, a politician, a lawyer counting his money, a liberal news reporter, Mr. Hollywood, and a Supreme Court Justice weeping over Roe v. Wade, and of course, Satan!
And yes, »
- Glenn Hauman
"The Children of Gatlin" - 25 Years Later The Anniversary Interview Series
30 September 2009 7:50 AM, PDT | ChildrenoftheCornMovie.com | See recent ChildrenoftheCornMovie.com news »
It was 1984. Ronald Reagan was president, Van Halen made us "Jump", and we made our way into theaters to witness a small town in Nebraska overrun by a religious leader and his group of community children followers. That movie was, of course, Stephen King's Children of the Corn. And as this year marks the twenty-five year anniversary that this milestone in horror was released, we wondered "What was it like on the set for the Iowa-extras that rounded out the children population of Gatlin?" So after much searching through the cornfields and tracking them down, we were pleased to get in touch recently with Russ Roach who played one of the Gatlin-natives led by Isaac. So Outlanders, here it is. After months of planning we give you, the fans, "The Children of Gatlin" - 25 Years Later.
Cotcm - Before "Field of Dreams", Iowa was chosen to host another feature about »
- Children of the Corn Movie
Andy Williams: Obama Wants The Country To Fail
29 September 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Old pop crooner Andy Williams, whose hits include 'Moon River,' has some choice words for "Marxist" President Obama. Williams, 81, has always been a Republican (Ronald Reagan once declared his voice "an American treasure") but in the past has held more moderate views. He claims good friendship with the Kennedy family and thought that Bobby would have made a great president had he lived. No such goodwill towards the current president, the Telegraph reports: "Don't like him at all," he said, "I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist. "Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail." You can read the entire Telegraph story here. Watch Andy Williams sing 'Moon River': Get HuffPost Entertainment On... »
- Huffington Post
Could Michael Moore Know Why Women Are Unhappy?
25 September 2009 12:26 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story, Ronald Reagan slaps a woman so hard across the face that there were audible gasps in the audience. Granted, this was an old film clip and Reagan was "acting" but Moore was making the point that along with cozying up to Wall Street in a manner heretofore unseen, Reagan also reversed the forty year Republican position on the Equal Rights Amendment, dashing the hopes of women across America. The women's movement had been in full adrenaline overdrive for almost two decades and federally protected equality had been tantalizingly close when, in 1982, the Era fell three states short of ratification. I believe in that moment the country delivered a body blow to both the movement and the collective psyche of the American woman that we are still reeling from. Twenty-seven... »
- Kamala Lopez
Movie Reviews: “Capitalism: A Love Story”
24 September 2009 2:57 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore is receiving --as usual -- props for his skill as a propagandist filmmaker and -- also as usual -- he is being criticized for failing to offer workable solutions to the injustices he exposes. "It's the morning after in America," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, "and Captain Mike is here to explain it all or at least crack jokes, milk tears, recycle the news and fan the flames of liberal indignation." "Capitalism: A Love Story" sounded like my kind of film," Kyle Smith, perhaps the only major-city film critic to wear his conservative politics on his sleeve, writes facetiously in the New York Post. "I had heard Michael Moore found some exciting new historical footage, and I was picturing hot, steamy love scenes featuring Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan writhing atop piles of gold coins. Imagine my disappointment." Many critics say that Moore simply takes on too many issues in his film and that he was more successful dealing with individual ones as he did in Fahrenheit 9/11, his biggest hit, and last year's Sicko. As Kenneth Turan puts it in the Los Angeles Times: "Capitalism misses the narrower focus that gave his earlier films some of their punch." Other critics underline that point. "It's like watching a man wrestle a dozen octopuses," writes Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News. "Moore's reach exceeds his grasp," comments John Anderson in Newsday. But the Associated Press's Christy Lemire concludes: "Moore is all over the place, and he doesn't even make the vaguest attempt at finding balance journalistically. But at least he's equal opportunity, blaming politicians on both sides of the aisle for allowing the influence of Wall Street to lead us into the troubles we're in today." »
First look: Michael Douglas as an aged Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street 2′
23 September 2009 11:46 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
If the pics of Shia Labeouf wearing a plastic jacket while walking with a pajama-wearing Frank Langella on the set of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps didn’t do much for you, this tasty morsel may do the trick:
Here’s your first look at Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko 20-years-later!
Looking a bit grayed, the fresh out of prison Gekko is looking good in his classy suit. It’s like he’s ready to tackle Wall St. again –greed style. He would probably make an obscene amount of money if it weren’t for that wacky President Obama and all his restrictions on the free market. Where’s Ronald Reagan when you need him?
Oh…right.
“It’s an exciting time to make a picture about Wall Street,” Douglas said in an interview last week. Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps opens on April 23, 2010.
Related posts:Michael Douglas »
- Erik Buckman
Obama: 'I Was Black Before the Election'
22 September 2009 6:42 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
President Barack Obama visited "The Late Show" with David Letterman on Monday to talk health care reform -- and to remind constituents that criticism of his efforts isn't necessarily rooted in racism.
Watch CBS Videos Online "I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election," President Obama joked to Letterman. The Commander-in-Chief continued, saying that the notion of racism -- voiced by former Prez Jimmy Carter -- "tells you a »
My Love-Hate Relationship with River Phoenix (Features)
21 September 2009 11:00 PM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »
From the moment that he appeared on screen in the film -- with a cigarette balanced between his fingers and the close-cropped haircut of a little boy -- media outlets had him pegged as the James Dean of the '80s.
River Phoenix was an actor. People don’t talk much about him anymore. His name mostly pops up when someone young and beautiful dies. These days, he’s mostly famous for dying. River Phoenix, however, was an actor, too. In 1993, he died, but just seven years earlier, at the age of 16, he grabbed the attention of the world. It was the summer of 1986. The Statue of Liberty had just reopened after two years and billions of pennies’ worth of renovations. Ronald Reagan was in his second term as president. The Monkees were back; The Police had just gone; “How… »
- By Kellie M. Walsh
Michael Moore screens 'Capitalism' in Mich. town
19 September 2009 2:44 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Filmmaker Michael Moore gave residents of his adopted Michigan community an early showing of his new documentary on Saturday and urged them to help overthrow an economic system he said was beyond redemption.More than 500 people crowded into a theater in Bellaire to see "Capitalism: A Love Story," a film based on the premise that greed and corruption have subverted U.S. democracy."I know what's in front of me these next weeks and months," Moore told one audience, anticipating withering criticism from conservative politicians and commentators, then added with a laugh: "That's why I wanted to watch this with you guys before I'm thrown to the lions."Moore keeps a lakeside home near Bellaire, a rural village about 240 miles northwest of Detroit in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula, and produced the film in a nearby town. The two showings along with three parties raised »
Values Voter Summit seniors toss out TV reporters from Fox, MSNBC
19 September 2009 10:01 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Gay agenda, "Thugs", abortion and healthcare reform opposition were the high notes of the Washington-based Values Voter Summit, that featured an appearance by ex beauty queen Carrie Prejean, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and numerous heroes of the Right. The object of the vitriol was President Obama as the importance of faith and values, and defeat of the proposed health care reform was top of the list. .This proposal needs to get killed,. Mr. Pawlenty told the crowd, according to Fox news. .It is a bad idea.. Pawlenty referenced the late President Ronald Reagan and the Bible to an Sro standing ovation. The Democratic National Committee quickly responded to Mr. Pawlenty.s speech: .It looks like Tim »
- April MacIntyre
The Empire Strikes Barack: Obama Cancels Europe's Star Wars Defense Shield
18 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
President Obama's just canceled a Bush-backed missile defense shield destined to protect Europe from Iranian ICBMs. It's a whole new ball game compared to the original "Star Wars" Sdi program. Remember that? Let us remind you.
President Reagan's famous Strategic Defense Initiative was conceived during the high tensions of the Cold War, and was designed to prevent incoming nuclear weapons from Russia or China from reaching U.S. soil. With such lofty goals, and an ever-present threat of annihilation by foreign nuclear missiles, the program had billions of dollars tossed at it, both officially and via "black program" undisclosed funding.
It was controversial, and its "Star Wars" pseudonym, invented by a former spokeswoman for Wehrner von Braun himself, was well-deserved. Check out three examples of the crazy technology that was dreamed up.
Nuclear-Bomb X-Ray Lasers
This is perhaps the most famous and most sci-fi Star Wars like component of the original Sdi program. »
- Kit Eaton
Matt Damon: Everybody's Favorite Everyman
17 September 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
We don’t like intellectuals. You, the person reading this right now, and me, the dude writing, might have a fondness for them. But we, the lot of us living in North America, don’t have a whole lot of time for intellectuals. This is by no means a modern development. More of an essential American personality quirk going back a few hundred years. We like smart people, no doubt. Admirers and detractors alike in this country have always celebrated brilliant satirists and social commentators, from Mark Twain all the way up to Jon Stewart.
They make us laugh though, so they’re disqualified. Comedy often helps us forgive, and sometimes negate, intellectualism. Without it, though, we view dispassionate reason in matters of politics and ethics as weaknesses or haughtiness. This is especially true of liberal-minded entertainers. An actor and filmmaker doesn’t understand the common man’s values, the naysayers contend, »
- John Constantine
100 to Blame: Alan Greenspan, Ernest Hemingway, and More
17 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Bruce Feirstein charts the 100 people, companies, institutions, and vices most responsible for the economic mess. Tune into Vf.com for five new financial villains every day.51. Alan Greenspan. Because in the end, the Oracle had no clothes. In financial circles, Alan Greenspan was nicknamed “The Oracle” for the way his pronouncements could move markets. A positive statement about growth or interest rates from America’s chief banker sent stock markets soaring; a hint of pessimism about employment or the near-term financial outlook had the opposite effect. An ardent believer in free-market economics, and the idea that self-interest and allowing the marketplace to weed out bad actors and bad practices were more efficient than government regulation, Greenspan served five terms as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. He was nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and succeeded by Ben Bernanke in February 2006, just as the real-estate bubble was starting to deflate. »
Toronto: Why Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' is powerful — and frustrating
11 September 2009 2:39 PM, PDT | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
Film festivals often have an uncanny way of channeling the mood of the moment. But I doubt if that dynamic has ever been at work more strikingly than it is at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival, which got underway yesterday. In an age of shrinking specialty divisions and financially battered media outlets, gather a bunch of movie people and a bunch of journalists in the same place, and you can just about taste the currents of anxiety in the air. (The mood is especially noteworthy in clean, orderly, mall-friendly Toronto, one of the most un-anxious cities I've ever been in.) The thing is, the anxiety -- economic, romantic, spiritual - is streaming off the screen as well. The first three movies I've seen here -- Michael Moore's scathing, mad-as-hell Capitalism: A Love Story, Jason Reitman's exquisitely funny and touching Up in the Air (a comedy of love, »
- Owen Gleiberman
President Obama's Back-To-School Speech Emphasizes Hard Work
7 September 2009 11:50 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
President also appears on MTV's 'Get Schooled' special, airing Tuesday at 8 p.m. Et.
By Gil Kaufman
President Barack Obama speaks at Wakefield High School September 8, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia
Photo: Win McNamee/ Getty Images
President Barack Obama welcomed America's schoolchildren back to the classroom on Tuesday (September 8) with a televised speech urging them to work hard and stay in school. While those words of wisdom from the president might seem innocuous, before it was given, the address drew a chorus of vehement protests from conservatives and concerned parents who worried that it would amount to partisan political speech.
Obama, however, avoided the mention of any political topics such as health care or the economic stimulus in the speech, given at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. The text of the president's comments were posted on the White House Web site on Monday, so parents of students from kindergarten to 12th grade could preview it. »
All About Michael Jackson's Final Resting Place
5 September 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Walt Disney. These and others among Hollywood's all-time A-listers are now Michael Jackson's neighbors for eternity. When he was laid to rest Thursday in the Great Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, Calif., the King of Pop finally found company worthy of his fame - and a place grand enough for his notoriously extravagant tastes. The huge mausoleum, once dubbed the "New World's Westminster Abbey" by Time, is modeled on the historical Campo Santo in Genoa, Italy, famed for its gigantic Gothic cloisters. Nearby spots boast a number »
- Michael Y. Park
A History Of The MTV Video Music Awards In New York City
2 September 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
MTV's landmark show has a long and storied history with the city and returns to home turf on September 13.
By Eric Ditzian
Britney Spears performs at the 2001 Video Music Awards in New York City
Photo: Timothy A. Clary/ Getty Images
It all started in New York in 1984. Ronald Reagan was president. Times Square was a neon-shrouded dump. And MTV invaded Radio City Music Hall for the first ever Video Music Awards. Madonna took the stage in a lacy wedding gown to sing about virginity, Michael Jackson nabbed three Moonmen for "Thriller" and, well, pop culture was never the same again.
With the 2009 show returning to Radio City on September 13 at 9 p.m., we had to take a look back at the many, many ways — from Madonna making out with Britney Spears to hundreds of Slim Shady clones helping Eminem out with his live act — that the VMAs have rocked New York. »
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