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3 August 2009 4:45 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Coburn gives a deft comedic turn co-starring with Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas and James Garner in The Americanization of Emily.

Here's a great reason to be a couch potato for the day:  tomorrow, TCM's Summer Under the Stars series features an all-day James Coburn film festival including showings of The Americanization of Emily, The Carey Treatment, The President's Analyst, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Hell is For Heroes, What Did You Do in the War Daddy?, Major Dundee, Harry in Your Pocket and Hard Times (which memorably pairs Coburn with streetfighter Charles Bronson). For full schedule click here »

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14 May 2009 4:29 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(A.C. Lyles, below)

by Jon Zelazny

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at EightMillionStories.com on February 27, 2009

There’s an A.C. Lyles Building at the Paramount Pictures main lot, but you won’t find A.C. Lyles there; his office is on the fourth floor of the William S. Hart Building.

When I arrived for our interview, Mr. Lyles was chatting with some visitors in his outer office. He bid me into his main office, and asked his assistant Pam to put in a video… a short promo reel that opens with a six minute tribute by then-President Ronald Reagan, who warmly recalls his and Nancy’s many years of friendship with A.C. and his wife Martha, and congratulates A.C. on his fifty years at the studio. The President’s intro is followed by taped congratulations from President Carter, President Ford, and Vice President Bush, then assorted clips celebrating Mr. »

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23 January 2009 5:16 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Are you going to do special features on any of the following films ?

1. Dr Phibes and Dr Phibes Rises Again

2. Theatre of Blood

3. The Wicker Man

4. Straw Dogs

Thanks,

Bill Kelly

Retro responds: All good suggestions, Bill - but we're ahead of you. Issue #2 features an article by Caroline Munro on the making of the Dr. Phibes films starring Vincent Price. Issue #3 features an 18 page tribute to Sam Peckinpah (though it primarily focused on The Wild Bunch and Major Dundee). However, issue #10 has an insightful article called The Unseen Peckinpah which covers scenes from Straw Dogs that did not end up in the final cut. We hope to get to Theatre of Blood and The Wicker Man in due course. In fact, our columnist John Exshaw recently met with Christopher Lee in London and conducted what is probably the most in-depth interview about his films and career. As Christopher puts »

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3 articles from 2009