What Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, the center of FX's new 'Feud,' can tell us about modern female movie-star power
(May 9, 2016 | LA Times)
by Rebecca Keegan Joan Crawford, left, and Bette Davis appear in a scene from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" in 1962. (Associated Press)In 1962, powerful Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper held a strange and intimate dinner party, hosting rival movie stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis for a truce meal at her home on Tropical Avenue in Beverly Hills, an elegant brick colonial Hopper...read more
Ret Turner, Award-Winning Costume Designer, Dies at 87
(May 8, 2016 | New York Times)
Ret Turner, an Emmy Award-winning costume designer who worked with many of television's biggest stars in the 1970s and '80s, including Lucille Ball, Perry Como, Carol Burnett, Andy Williams and Cher, died on Wednesday at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 87 and the oldest working member of the Costume Designers Guild.His death was confirmed by his niece and closest survivor, Jean Drufner,...read more
Shirley MacLaine and Matthew Broderick Join Forces for TV Series
(May 6, 2016 | Playbill)
Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine and Tony winner Matthew Broderick will star in a new TV series project for Paramount Television entitled Bettyville, according to Deadline.com.The dramedy is an adaptation of the best-selling memoir by journalist George Hodgman. John Hoffman will write the script and will also serve as showrunner and executive producer of the potential TV series, which is currently being...read more
TCM Festival Cements Bonds With Viewers, Announces FilmStruck
(May 5, 2016 | mediapost.com)
by Phyllis Fine,HOLLYWOOD: On the first full day of Turner Classic Movies' seventh annual Classic Film Festival, I was already living the event's theme, "Moving Pictures," as in films that touch you emotionally. I had just seen "The Passion of Joan of Arc," where the saint burns to a crisp in excruciating close-up."I need a drink to recover from my last movie," I told the college-aged festival crew...read more
Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange to Play Bette Davis and Joan Crawford for Ryan Murphy
(May 5, 2016 | Vanity Fair)
Murphy is debuting a new anthology series titled Feud.BY JULIE MILLERFrom Bettmann/Getty Images.Following the smash success of The People v. O.J. Simpson, FX has announced that it is diving even deeper into American history for another tantalizing Ryan Murphy collaboration titled Feud. Like American Horror Story and American Crime Story, Feud will also be an anthology series, and has already...read more
Age is Just a Number at the TCM Festival
(May 3, 2016 | Indiewire)
By Leonard Maltin | Leonard Maltin May 3, 2016 at 8:36PMI chat with Rita Moreno before a screening of The King and I at Grauman's Chinese TheatreI'm still recovering from the TCM Classic Film Festival this past weekend, where I hosted ten events…but I suspect that some of the people I interviewed are doing just fine because they seem to have limitless energy, not to mention charisma. I'm talking...read more
Madeleine Sherwood, Star of Tennessee Williams Classics on Stage and Screen, Dies at 93
(Apr 25, 2016 | Hollywood Reporter)
9:23 AM PDT 4/25/2016 by Mike BarnesMadeleine Sherwood (right) with Sally Field in 'The Flying Nun.'PhotofestShe appeared in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'Sweet Bird of Youth' and later played the Mother Superior on 'The Flying Nun.'Madeleine Sherwood, who starred in the stage and film versions of the Tennessee Williams classics Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth,...read more
The 'Psycho' house has been recreated - on the rooftop of the Met!
(Apr 21, 2016 | Today.com)
Atop the roof garden of the famous New York City museum sits the 2016 seasonal installation by British artist Cornelia Parker called "Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)," which replicates Norman Bates' home in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho." In a video interview on the museum's website, Parker said that she originally wanted to do something with a red barn for the project...read more
Psycho hits Manhattan... The Roof Garden Commission: Cornelia Parker, Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
(Apr 19, 2016 | The Met)
A large-scale sculpture by acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two emblems of American architecture-the classic red barn and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho-will comprise the fourth annual installation of site-specific works commissioned for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor...read more
Largest Ever Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia Auction To Take Place In LA
(Apr 18, 2016 | Elle)
There's no business like show business. The largest ever collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia is set to head to auction in November, and it's expected to fetch millions of dollars. The collection - which boasts over 400 items from film sets, personal jewelry, clothing and correspondence, and even property owned by the late star - is owned by David Gainsborough-Roberts and spans the vast majority...read more
Long-awaited Chaplin museum opens in Switzerland
(Apr 16, 2016 | ABC News)
By Simon Bradley, Corsier-sur-VeveyA new immersive museum dedicated to the life and work of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin has opened at his former Swiss home near Lake Geneva after more than 15 years of planning.Chaplin's World features recreated sets wax figures, film clips and interactive multimedia installations in the Hollywood-style studio (Keystone)"It's a great pleasure to see the final...read more
Charlie Chaplin museum to open in Switzerland
(Apr 16, 2016 | Telegraph.co.uk)
by Martin Chilton, culture editor The Charlie Chaplin Museum opens in Switzerland on April 17, 2016, paying tribute to the London-born comedian who was one of Hollywood's most important early stars.Chaplin's World, which has been in planning for 15 years, will open in the pretty village of Corsier-sur-Vevey on Lake Geneva, some 15 miles from Lausanne.Chaplin, who was born...read more
Marlon Brando Returns to the Big Screen in Oscar®-Winning Best Picture Classic ON THE WATERFRONT
(Apr 13, 2016 | Fathom Events)
Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies Present Elia Kazan's Legendary Drama in Select Cinemas Nationwide April 24 and 27More than 60 years after its original release, ON THE WATERFRONT, Academy Award®-winning director Elia Kazan's classic tale of crime and corruption among unionized dock workers in New York and New Jersey, returns to movie theaters as part of the Fathom Events and Turner...read more
TCM April Star of the Month: Judy Garland
(Mar 28, 2016 | TCM)
She was variously called Miss Showbiz, Queen of MGM Musicals and World'sGreatest Entertainer. Whatever the label, and whether in concert or on the silver screen, Aprll Star of he Month, Judy Garland, used her expansive talents as singer, dancer and actress to make a unique and powerful emotional connection with her audiences. Minnesota-born Garland enjoyed a breakthrough at her home studio in Broadway...read more
Kino Lorber Studio Classics Announces its April 2016 Home Video Releases
(Mar 27, 2016 | Kino Lorber)
Ulee's Gold starring Peter Fonda, Sci-fi Cult Classics Journey to the Seventh Planet starring John Agar and Panic in Year Zero starring Ray Milland, War Dramas The Purple Plain starring Gregory Peck and The Gallant Hours starring James Cagney, Crime Thrillers including John Frankenheimer's The Holcroft Covenant starring Michael Caine, The File of the Golden Goose starring Yul Brynner, and Shadows...read more