Category: Legends
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MGM Loses Its Mind, Lets Sly Stallone Live-Host ROCKY & FREE Watch Party for You
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Suddenly everyone is Robert Osborne online – if you don’t remember him, he was a Turner Classic Movies Host who literally brought back “old movies” to a new generation – but now there are so many liner-note commenters. You’ve got a cinema ga-lazy of Blogstars and Podcast heroes, so it’s unremarkable…
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A Titanic Movie Life Sets Off in SEBERG, Or Kristen Stewart’s Career Sails Again on Prime
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Perhaps the racial fault lines of another era resulted in America’s once-sweetheart Jean Seberg (1938-1979) suicided in the back of a sedan at age 40, nevertheless Kristen Stewart shines a meaningful klieg light on her short life in SEBERG, debuting on Prime Video today as an Amazon Original. Jean-Luc…
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Nancy Kwan Co-Hosts Asian Americans In Film for TCM in May
by Screenmancer Staff Actress Nancy Kwan from classics as the 1961 film FLOWER DRUM SONG will team up with TCM Host Dave Karger to look at the range of Asian actors who have found a home in Hollywood movies. The Spotlight series will include a pan-Asian selection from DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1937) to JOY LUCK…
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Bird by Bird Brad Picks Your Classics for TCM’s The Essentials
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent He gave us pint-sized costume genius Edna Mode, a mash-up of Hollywood’s sartorial icon Edith Head and Oscar-winner Linda Hunt, remember? Now Mr. Brad Bird will pick a designer slate of classic films for TCM’s series “The Essentials” with Ben Mankiewicz, zooming to your device May 2. Who doesn’t love…
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Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Digs JURASSIC PARK, Yeah, #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You’ve heard of the Broadway smash “Hamilton” from showbiz reframer Lin-Manuel Miranda? Did you know the original cast once included the extremely talented Daveed Diggs as the titular character? #AFIMOVIECLUB just drafted this Broadway-star-turned-feature-phenom to pull back the curtain on the Spielberg box-office crusher JURASSIC PARK. This is the film that…
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Jack Black Rocks THIS IS SPINAL TAP for #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent What could be more perfect than SCHOOL OF ROCK’s Jack Black, a frontman himself, giving you insider info on THIS IS SPINAL TAP for #AFIMOVIECLUB? The Jackster has been known to break into song even at film-related events, such as with Shirley MacLaine once when they did a press junket…
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Eva Longoria Calls Out Rita Hayworth’s Nuclear Charm in GILDA for #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent She was born in the Year of the Other Pandemic, 1918, The Spanish Flu, and Margarita Carmen Cansino turned out to be fever-inducing herself for servicemen around the planet with her WWII status as a pin-up. But not until they dyed her locks, anglicized her name, and tried to…
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Even If You’re in the Pink COVID19-wise, PINK Schools You About It
by Quendrith Johnson, Screenmancer Staff There’s a time for infighting among the Redbull and BlueMoon States, or states of mind, but right now we’re all trying to be in the pink, health-wise. #COVID19 and the Coronavirus health-quake is on now. EllenTube, from Ellen Degeneres, shows us in her interview with musical artist PINK that we…
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Stand-up Hollywood Citizen Cynthia Erivo Says See DEVIL WEARS PRADA for #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent While most viewers are familiar with Cynthia Erivo from HARRIET, just about everyone in the Known Watching World heard her ballad at the 92nd Oscars, in that rounded fairy-tale golden cape-dress with the haute couture swagger. And while you can enjoy her singing performance here, first Cynthia hips us…
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Et Tu, Halle Berry? Nooo, That’s Her as E.T. Fan for AFI Movie Club
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Mod-hatted, awesome Oscar winner, Halle Berry has it going on at-home-fashion-wise in her touching introduction to the Spielberg family classic, E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL for #AFIMOVIECLUB. Berry earned her place in Hollywood History for the MONSTER’S BALL Academy Award, but Halle earned her place in our hearts as the superstar…
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The First Rule of AFI Movie Club, Oh Okay, You Get It: Brad Pitt Does BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Not only does the man look and sound like Hollywood forefather Robert Redford, now Brad Pitt will actually tell you things you didn’t know about the wild robber-romp from The Greatest Screenwriter William Goldman, that launched Redford when Paul Newman laid down the law about casting. BUTCH CASSIDY AND…
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Or You Could Just Watch Scorsese in ONCE WERE BROTHERS & Robertson, Dylan, Clapton, at Home
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent So Martin Scorsese appears as “Self” in this documentary film, ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND. Producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are also behind this coming-to-life of The Band’s homespun journey from backing Bob Dylan and touring with Ronnie Hawkins, to alternative fame in the 1970’s. A…
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Hollywood’s Hidden Power Couple: Mirren & Hackford for SOME LIKE IT HOT on AFIMovieClub
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent They’re beloved and lovable, married and not so harried during the Coronavirus lockdown? That’s right, you guessed it: Dame Helen Mirren and Mr. Taylor Hackford. Now they’re here to give you the download on the downlow for AFIMovieClub’s film, SOME LIKE IT HOT. Everything you already know about SOME LIKE IT…
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Steven Spielberg Kicks Off AFI MOVIE CLUB for COVID-19 Shut-Ins, Sheltered, Everybody
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from AFI Los Angeles, CA (03/31/2020): The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the launch of AFI Movie Club – a daily virtual gathering to leverage our collective love of film on behalf of optimism in this time of global uncertainty. AFI Trustee Steven Spielberg introduced the inaugural film, THE WIZARD OF OZ, in…
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Director Peter Bogdanovich’s Own Plot Thickens on TCM’s Podcast
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Apparently the late Robert Evans isn’t the only kid who stays in the picture business, as storied director Peter Bogdanovich, 80, gives him a run for the money on TCM’s “The Plot Thickens” podcast bowing on April 28. Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, grandson of Herman J. Mankiewicz AKA writer of…
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