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DGA Board Member Kim Kurumada Dies
22 November 2009 1:49 PM, PST
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By the Hollywood Reporter
Kim Kurumada, a longtime DGA board member who received the guild's Frank Capra Achievement Award in January, died Thursday of esophageal cancer in Northridge, Calif. He was 64.
Kurumada worked as an assistant director on such films as "All the President's Men" (1976), "The China Syndrome" (1979) and "Urban Cowboy" (1980) and as a unit production manager on "Perfect" (1985), "Life Stinks" (1991), the telefilm "Weapons of
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Movie Maverick Melnick Dead At 77
15 October 2009 12:16 PM, PDT
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Emmy Award-winning movie maverick Daniel Melnick has died after battling lung cancer. He was 77.
The former head of production at MGM and Columbia studios made his name by signing off on bold and often controversial films like Straw Dogs, Network and Making Love.
Paying tribute to the mogul, his protege Sherry Lansing tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "He was an extraordinary producer and an extraordinary executive. He always thought out of the box and was never afraid to take a risk."
Melnick was also the brains behind cult TV show Get Smart.
He won Emmys in the mid 1960s for John Gielgud's Shakespearean TV special Ages of Man and Death of a Salesman.
Sam Peckinpah’s violent and controversial Straw Dogs was the first film Melnick produced.
He also helped to develop classic movies like Midnight Express, Kramer Vs. Kramer, All That Jazz and The China Syndrome at Columbia.
Melnick also produced 1984’s Footloose and Steve Martin's revamp of the Cyrano De Bergerac tale, Roxanne.
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Kritzerland releases Franz Waxman classic
23 September 2009 8:37 AM, PDT
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Franz Waxman’s score for the J. Lee Thompson 1962 adventure Taras Bulba, which features one of the composer’s best known compositions (”The Ride to Dubno”), is being released on a limited CD edition of 1,000 copies by Kritzerland. Just like Intrada’s similarly sized edition of the rejected score from The China Syndrome by Michael Small, Taras Bulba has already sold out despited the fact that it won’t ship until the
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Intrada CD of rejected score sells out instantly
23 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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Intrada Records recently announced their limited CD edition of the unused score for The China Syndrome by Michael Small. The whole edition of 1,000 copies sold out in less than six hours. Intrada’s Roger Feigelson commented on the label’s message board: “This boggles my mind. We do a stereo release of Small’s vastly superior Comes a Horseman at 1,500 units… a western score we got asked for all the time,
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Chris Lemmon: The Hollywood Interview
9 June 2009 12:28 PM, PDT
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Actor and author Chris Lemmon.
Chris Lemmon Sheds Light On Jack Lemmon: The Man Behind The Magic
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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
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Lost Director Stunned By New York Crash
23 January 2009 11:11 AM, PST
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Lost director Jack Bender was spooked by the recent Hudson river jet crash - because it happened just days before the launch of the plane disaster show's new series.
All 155 passengers and crew cheated death when a Us Airways flight plunged into the water in New York last week after the craft collided with a flock of geese, losing power in both engines.
The dramatic rescue of those onboard the sinking plane made headlines around the world - just six days before the fifth series of TV hit Lost, which follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a tropical island.
Bender tells the Daily Beast website, "The timing of the plane crash was really interesting. I guess on Lost only the cool people survived the initial plane crash, the ones who you would want to spend an hour of your time with each week.
"One of my mentors and friend Jim Bridges was the director of The China Syndrome with Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas. And the film was about a nuclear meltdown, where the core goes down and supposedly causes repercussions. The China Syndrome came out the week that (1979 nuclear disaster) Three Mile Island happened, which was really scary. And it had that same kind of 'Oh my God' feeling as this plane crash just happening. Is it coincidence or is it Memorex?"
And Bender is full of admiration for Us Airways Captain Chesley B. 'Sully' Sullenberger for successfully landing the plane on the river, adding: "The one thing about that pilot is he.s extraordinarily gifted - it was a phenomenal task and he.s brilliant at his job, which was good fortune."
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