Tag: Hollywood
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Just in time for The 78th Golden Globes: HFPA vs LAPC & big money?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Updated: Yeah, some bad blood is coming out in Hollywood, with the worst timing ever for The 78th Annual Golden Globes, at least for insiders and entertainment industry watchers. What’s this all about? Short answer: long-simmering feuds in Awardland. First the Rona, as Covid-19 is called in LA, shuts…
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TCM Celebrates Legendary Actress Cicely Tyson Jan. 31
Curated by Screenmancer Staff Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will celebrate the life and career of iconic actress Cicely Tyson with a programming tribute on Sunday, January 31. Tyson, who passed away on January 28 at the age of 96, broke barriers throughout her more than seven-decade career. Among awards she earned, the list includes a Peabody Award, an honorary Oscar…
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Award Season’s first salvo is Gary Oldman’s Oscar-worthy MANK
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “Times are changing, Mr. Mankiewicz,” says GOT’s Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in the Gary Oldman starrer MANK, but have they really changed? Hearst is TPTB or the powers that be, paying half the salary of CITIZEN KANE screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz without his knowledge. And that’s the…
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Adam Driver & Fellows in Arms Want You to #HonorAndRemember Today, Always at AITAF
by AITAF on Screenmancer At Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), we believe deeply in the power of storytelling, and its ability to connect, inspire, and inform. We are especially honored to hear stories of your loved ones who have served – whether you share them publicly or through private correspondences with us. This Memorial Day, we encourage you…
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Corey Levitan Rethinks Woody Allen, After We Side-eyed His Memoir & Allen v. Farrow
by Corey Levitan, Special Correspondent UPDATE: I’m not ashamed of having written this [see article below], and have not asked that it be taken down, only that it be amended by this note… It is my unwavering opinion that convicting an innocent person, even just in the court of public opinion, is one of the…
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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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Op-Ed: The Woody Allen Memoir… We Need the Dregs?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent OP-ED: Who writes a memoir in defense of marrying their step-daughter? You guessed it: Woody Allen. And with his new memoir – that was axed by Hachette and brought back to life elsewhere – we all get to wrestle with this Shakespearean dilemma… To buy, or not to buy?…
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POV: Hollywood Award Shows in Wartime, Will History Repeat Itself?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Superman and Batman saluted a flyby; in 1943, the Oscar statuette was made of plaster instead of metal due to shortages during World War II. In 1945, Doubleday published “Movie Lot to Beachhead.” Edited by Look Magazine staff, and prefaced by…
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Martin Scorsese Tells You All You Need to Know About Movies: AFI 2019 Tribute Reel
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Friday night Martin Scorsese was feted at AFI’s Film Fest in the Chinese Theater. Scorsese has been around long enough that people actually spell his name right now. He would laugh at that, considering the late great Roger Ebert once spelled his name incorrectly in an early review out of…
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Top 10 Ways to Get Yourself Booked on TV Shows, Really
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent How did this idea come about, you may wonder? Let’s just say there’s a perfect voice down in Florida that recently piped up in a tone so unique, we just had to find someplace for this talent to land. That said, Amy Baczkowski, an Unscripted Concept Developer, Producer &…
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Adam Schlachter, Director of AND THE BRAVE SHALL RISE, On 17 Ways to Save America
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When “Shorts by the Sea” closed its film run at the Santa Monica Laemmle last week, indie film supporters paid $14 to see the slate of little screen gems, including AND THE BRAVE SHALL RISE, a 19-minute documentary. This short was the closer, the last film to be shown…
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HATSHEPSUT Short Closing Night 9/19 Laemmle
Okay, here they are – my Superstars – Director Sonia Machado-Hines who directed my script HATSHEPSUT as a short now up for Awards Consideration & my best Dog Park Friend, Diane Ford, Neonatal Nurse, saves babies at Kaiser.https://t.co/V5TX2FbXX3 pic.twitter.com/B6TTfjnmPt — Quendrith Johnson (@Quendrith) September 19, 2019
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Don’t Hate on QT’s ONCE: He’s “The Single Most Influential Director” Right?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Studio Binder is reminding us that Quentin Tarantino is an actor, writer, and “the most influential director of our generation,” says Peter Bogdanovich. Here’s where to see that video essay from Studio Binder. Studio Binder has The Director’s Chair, a meaningful exploration of some great directors. Watch and remember…
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To Hell With Stunt Casting, Remember Gary Kent Stunt Man & DANGER GOD
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There’s something in the smog, in the air that is, in Hollywood, whereby stunt men and women are getting their due. Take Gary Kent, for example, one of the derring-dudes which inspired Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD character Cliff Booth played by Brad Pitt. If you…
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Top Gun Returns With Tom Cruise as Maverick, We Care
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent A voice-over in TOP GUN: MAVERICK announces “thirty plus years of service” to describe fighter pilot Tom Cruise as call-sign Maverick – and you could swear he’s describing TC’s film career since the first box office barn-burner, TOP GUN from 1986. Cruise, who turned 57 this month on July…
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