Fellini’s muse, Sandra Milo, turns 80

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Mar 102013
 

8CarlaGuido 700x372 Fellinis muse, Sandra Milo, turns 80

Sandra Milo was born in Tunis 11 March 1933. She made her film début along­side Alberto Sordi in The Bach­elor in 1955, but it wasn’t until she was dis­covered by Fed­erico Fellini that she came into her own.

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Although she she had ‘retired’ after get­ting mar­ried, in 1963 Fellini con­vinced her to take on the role of the sexy, light­headed mis­tress of Mar­cello Mas­troi­anni in 8½. She went on to make Juliet of the Spir­its with Fellini in 1965.

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In 2010 she appeared in a celebrity real­ity tv show, where she proved that at 77 maybe she wasn’t the dumb-blond of the pub­lic ima­gin­a­tion, as she caught fish, built refuges, and battled to be one of the last sur­viv­ors on a desert island with oth­ers less than half her age.… [con­tinue reading]

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Billy Connolly, star of Dustin Hoffman’s film Quartet, on old age

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Sep 122012
 

Billy Connolly Billy Connolly, star of Dustin Hoffmans film Quartet, on old ageBilly Con­nolly stars in ’s movie adapt­a­tion of Ron­ald Harwood’s stage play Quar­tet. The film, set in a retire­ment home for opera sing­ers, with Brit­ish stal­warts , and Tom Cour­tenay, is an amus­ing but thought-provoking look at old-age and ageing.

Con­nolly, who turns 70 in two months’ time, spoke to the Toronto Sun about old age with the wry humour and dis­sect­ing eye that has made his com­edy so universal:

[Old age] is lovely as long as you don’t pay any atten­tion to it. Don’t let a num­ber con­trol your life. People make decisions based on what num­ber you’ve become, which I think is quite baff­ling. It’s like act­ing your street num­ber. Because you’ve become 57 or 58 you should wear beige or wear wide trousers with a saggy ass.… [con­tinue reading]

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Marilyn Monroe at the National Portrait Gallery

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Aug 262012
 

‘A Brit­ish Love Affair’, an exhib­i­tion explor­ing ’s con­nec­tion with Bri­tain, will be at the from 29 Septem­ber. The dis­play is free to visit and coin­cides with the 50th anniversary of Monroe’s death.

Por­traits of Mon­roe by Brit­ish phở­to­graph­ers will be shown along­side rare magazine cov­ers, vin­tage prints, lobby cards and film stills to put the works in context.

Mon­roe arrived in Bri­tain with her new hus­band, play­wright Arthur Miller, on 14 July 1956. They arrived for the shoot­ing of The Prince and the Show­girl with co-starring and dir­ect­ing. For 4 months she gen­er­ated a buzz among the press as only she could, and the NPG will be dis­play­ing some rare Life magazine phở­tos by phở­to­journ­al­ist Larry Bur­rows, and press images of Mon­roe meet­ing the Queen amongst oth­ers.… [con­tinue reading]

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Michael Fassbender’s recipe for making a robot

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Jun 072012
 

Clipboard Michael Fassbenders recipe for making a robot

plays a robot in the upcom­ing film Pro­meth­eus, a pre­quel to the Alien tri­logy. Sur­pris­ingly Fass­bender doesn’t take off his clothes in this one as the robot doesn’t have any nude scenes.

TIME magazine asked him what it takes to play a robot:

The inspir­a­tion we used was David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth, and for films there were the rep­lic­ants in Blade Run­ner. Greg Lou­ganis, in terms of phys­ic­al­ity. Lawrence of Ara­bia of course, and Peter O’Toole as Lawrence, and Dirk Bog­arde. They were the ingredients.

Photo: Peter O’Toole + Dirk Bog­arde + Rut­ger Hauer in Blade Run­ner + David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth + Greg Lou­ganis = Michael Fass­bender as David in Pro­meth­eus… [con­tinue reading]

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Barbra Streisand to play Momma Rose in the screen version of Gyspy — Julian Fellowes will write the screenplay

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Mar 132012
 

Streisand Barbra Streisand to play Momma Rose in the screen version of Gyspy Julian Fellowes will write the screenplay

Pro­du­cers and Joel Sil­ver have set Academy Award-winning writer Julian Fel­lowes to pen the screen­play adapt­a­tion of Stephen Sond­heim and Arthur Laurents’ Tony Award win­ning musical, , which Streis­and and Sil­ver are cur­rently devel­op­ing for Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures. Streis­and will por­tray “Momma Rose” in the new ver­sion, her first musical film since Yentl in which the Oscar-winning act­ress and iconic singer starred, pro­duced, co-wrote and dir­ec­ted in 1983.

Fel­lowes won the Ori­ginal Screen­play Academy Award for Gos­ford Park and most recently earned the Emmy and Golden Globe for cre­at­ing and writ­ing the acclaimed min­iser­ies, Down­ton Abbey. His musical theatre work includes adapt­ing the script for Disney’s stage pro­duc­tion of Mary Poppins.

Gypsy has exhil­ar­ated audi­ences on both stage and screen since its first Broad­way run in 1959 with Ethel Mer­man.… [con­tinue reading]

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Woody Allen adapts Bullets Over Broadway for a new Broadway musical

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Feb 252012
 

Bullets over Broadway Woody Allen adapts Bullets Over Broadway for a new Broadway musical’s 1994 film “Bul­lets Over Broad­way” explored the trav­ails of an aspir­ing play­wright strug­gling to bring his cre­ation to the Great White Way. And now, in a pos­sible case of art imit­at­ing, um, art, Allen is work­ing on a musical adapt­a­tion of the film, with a Broad­way première tent­at­ively slated for 2013, repor­ted Reu­ters.

Allen will write the book for the musical, which will fea­ture exist­ing music from 1920s, in which “Bul­lets Over Broad­way” is set, said pro­du­cers Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson.

The ori­ginal film, which starred John Cus­ack, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Pal­min­teri and Jen­nifer Tilly, was nom­in­ated for seven , and won one — in the Best Sup­port­ing Act­ress cat­egory, for Wiest’s por­trayal of alco­holic act­ress Helen Sin­clair.… [con­tinue reading]

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