“Uggie has not been asked to participate or appear at the Oscars,” said The Weinstein Company, distributors of “The Artist”. Without an official invitation or credential, the playful Jack Russell terrier, 10, will not be able to romp with other stars on the Oscar red carpet as the silent film front-runner vies for the movie […]
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Meryl Streep’s talks at length about Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady: Very, very impressive
Everyone’s talking as if Meryl Streep had already won an Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, though the film will not be released for another month. In the meantime The Sunday Times talked to the actress about the effort in playing such a formidable character. On seeing Margaret Thatcher speak at her daughter’s university […]
Ken Russell dies at 84
Ken Russell, the British director of “Women in Love” and “The Devils”, has died at the age of 84. In a statement his wife said, It was completely unexpected. He had recently agreed to direct the feature film Alice In Wonderland The Musical and he was working on the script and casting of that.” Russell began his directing […]
‘Sleeping Beauty’ triumphs at the Bolshoi
Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that last night’s première of The Sleeping Beauty at the Bolshoi, the first ballet on the renovated stage, was a great success. The première was attended by Russian first couple Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev. The new production, which will be transmitted in cinemas around the world tomorrow, is by the Italians Franca Squarciapino and […]
James Earl Jones receives an Oscar onstage in London
James Earl Jones has received an honorary Oscar on the London stage, to the surprise of his matinee audience. Jones, currently starring opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy – said he was “plain gobsmacked” as he accepted the award. The 80-year-old was presented with his Oscar on stage by Sir Ben Kingsley. Jones, whose […]
Close Encounters sound-man Frank Warner dies at 85
Sound designer and sound effects editor Frank Edward Warner, who won an Oscar for his sound editing work on “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died of natural causes in Arizona, on August 31. He was 85. Warner said that “sound is like music that gives us the emotion that the writer intended.” In 1966, […]
English film composer John Barry has died at 77
Although best known for his Bond music (Federico Fellini said that Goldfinger was his favourite music for film), he wrote almost one hundred film scores, and some of his best music wasn’t for the Bond series at all. He won Oscars for 1969’s The Lion in Winter, 1985’s Out of Africa and 1991’s Dancing with Wolves. His […]
“We don’t really talk shop at home,” Meryl Streep’s daughter tells journalists. “It’s not like we own a line of pizza joints, and there is a secret ingredient.”
Mamie Gummer, the 27 year-old daughter of Meryl Streep, must have had numerous advantages starting out as an actress with a living film legend as her mother. But it surely can’t be easy either knowing that everyone who watches her perform have seen her mother in countless Oscar-nominated performances. Now she’s about to take an […]
