Joy Behar said she once auditioned for Saturday Night Live, but it didn’t necessarily go as planned.
The comedian and co-host of ABC’s The View shared on the daytime talk show’s companion podcast The View: Behind the Table Wednesday that she auditioned for the sketch comedy show’s cast in 1975.
“There was a period where I tried to get on because I had this funny character that I did. And I had to audition for [creator] Lorne Michaels,” she recounted. “He never laughed, and after I was done, he said, ‘That was funny.’ I said, ‘You didn’t laugh,’ and he said, ‘Well, I don’t want to laugh because then you’ll think you have a job.’ I said, ‘That’s Ok, don’t worry about it.’ I didn’t even want the job, to tell you the truth.”
While The View producer Brian Teta proceeded to...
The comedian and co-host of ABC’s The View shared on the daytime talk show’s companion podcast The View: Behind the Table Wednesday that she auditioned for the sketch comedy show’s cast in 1975.
“There was a period where I tried to get on because I had this funny character that I did. And I had to audition for [creator] Lorne Michaels,” she recounted. “He never laughed, and after I was done, he said, ‘That was funny.’ I said, ‘You didn’t laugh,’ and he said, ‘Well, I don’t want to laugh because then you’ll think you have a job.’ I said, ‘That’s Ok, don’t worry about it.’ I didn’t even want the job, to tell you the truth.”
While The View producer Brian Teta proceeded to...
- 3/29/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tempting though it is to pen this review in the voice and style of Mort Rifkin, the most indelible Woody Allen character in years, the embattled New York-born director deserves a fairer shake––maybe a fair trial, if we could say. In this early-2020s era of a gradual pushback against MeToo morality, Allen actually found himself, with Coup de Chance, enjoying a high-ish-profile Venice premiere earlier this week on the verge of a legitimate comeback. A new Variety interview hinted at a path for resuming work in his former production model, an absolute pick of American A-listers again if (perhaps) just one of them scabs. But do we want this? Isn’t it all still enveloped in a kind of discomfort?
Making a very natural transition into classy Francophone cinema, here he has the choice of a potential royal flush of French stars. Coup de Chance is rather pleasurable...
Making a very natural transition into classy Francophone cinema, here he has the choice of a potential royal flush of French stars. Coup de Chance is rather pleasurable...
- 9/8/2023
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Diane Keaton has been starring in films for five decades, taking on iconic role after role. In her almost 60 films, she has worked with actors like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Michael Douglas. The list goes on and on.
Keaton grew up in Highland Park, CA, and got the acting bug at age 6 when she saw her mother crowned Mrs. Highland Park. It was then that she knew she wanted to be a famous movie star.
Diane Keaton’s career Diane Keaton attends the Ralph Lauren SS23 Runway Show. I Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Keaton’s career began at age 19 when she moved to New York to study acting. Her first role was in Hair on Broadway. Soon after, she was working with Woody Allen on the stage and film versions of Play It Again, Sam. Her next role was in The Godfather.
Keaton grew up in Highland Park, CA, and got the acting bug at age 6 when she saw her mother crowned Mrs. Highland Park. It was then that she knew she wanted to be a famous movie star.
Diane Keaton’s career Diane Keaton attends the Ralph Lauren SS23 Runway Show. I Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Keaton’s career began at age 19 when she moved to New York to study acting. Her first role was in Hair on Broadway. Soon after, she was working with Woody Allen on the stage and film versions of Play It Again, Sam. Her next role was in The Godfather.
- 4/12/2023
- by Stacy Feintuch
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“Sometimes it’s easier to figure out someone else’s secret than it is to deal with your own.”
That observation by Steve Martin’s character in Hulu’s new comedy Only Murders in the Building is a nice little summary of the show… and of the current true-crime craze, too. Only Murders — premiering Tuesday, Aug. 31 on the streamer; I’ve seen the first four episodes — takes square aim at our strange collective fascination with other people’s grisly deaths, and it pummels that target with a barrage of sharply honed laughs, bolstered by the presence of two comedy legends.
That observation by Steve Martin’s character in Hulu’s new comedy Only Murders in the Building is a nice little summary of the show… and of the current true-crime craze, too. Only Murders — premiering Tuesday, Aug. 31 on the streamer; I’ve seen the first four episodes — takes square aim at our strange collective fascination with other people’s grisly deaths, and it pummels that target with a barrage of sharply honed laughs, bolstered by the presence of two comedy legends.
- 8/23/2021
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Trailer: Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez Sleuth for Hulu
Steve Martin and Martin Short have been making comedy magic together for decades, from “Three Amigos” to “Father of the Bride” and their Netflix special “Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.” Now the longtime pals have a new project in the works with “Only Murders in the Building,” a comedy-mystery limited series heading to Hulu this summer. The series is the duo’s first narrative scripted project together in years. Selena Gomez also stars in the series.
“Only Murders in the Building” follows three strangers “who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. As they record a podcast of their own to document the case,...
“Only Murders in the Building” follows three strangers “who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. As they record a podcast of their own to document the case,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Festival’s 68th edition set to go ahead in September.
Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival is to receive its world premiere as the opening film of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Rifkin’s Festival was shot in and around San Sebastian last summer and centres on a married American couple who attend the film festival, only for the wife to have an affair with a French movie director and the husband to fall in love with a local woman. The cast includes Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, Wallace Shawn and Christoph Waltz.
Also written by Allen,...
Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival is to receive its world premiere as the opening film of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Rifkin’s Festival was shot in and around San Sebastian last summer and centres on a married American couple who attend the film festival, only for the wife to have an affair with a French movie director and the husband to fall in love with a local woman. The cast includes Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, Wallace Shawn and Christoph Waltz.
Also written by Allen,...
- 6/25/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival” will world premiere this September as it opens the 68th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where it will play out of competition.
San Sebastian’s Kursaal building hosted the film’s initial announcement 11 months ago where, apart from a boycott by leftist Basque party Eh Bildu of a party thrown for Allen by the San Sebastian mayor, Spain’s reception of Allen has largely been warm.
This will be the second time that Allen will have opened the festival. He first curtain raiser came in 2004, when he received the Donostia Award for career achievement, with “Melinda and Melinda.” Allen’s films “Manhattan,” “Zelig,” “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Match Point,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Whatever Works” and “Irrational Man” have all participated in some capacity at San Sebastian over the past four decades.
“Rifkin’s Festival” was shot last...
San Sebastian’s Kursaal building hosted the film’s initial announcement 11 months ago where, apart from a boycott by leftist Basque party Eh Bildu of a party thrown for Allen by the San Sebastian mayor, Spain’s reception of Allen has largely been warm.
This will be the second time that Allen will have opened the festival. He first curtain raiser came in 2004, when he received the Donostia Award for career achievement, with “Melinda and Melinda.” Allen’s films “Manhattan,” “Zelig,” “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Match Point,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Whatever Works” and “Irrational Man” have all participated in some capacity at San Sebastian over the past four decades.
“Rifkin’s Festival” was shot last...
- 6/25/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Marge Redmond, a stage and screen actress best remembered for her role as Sister Jacqueline on the 1960s sitcom “The Flying Nun,” died in February at age 95.
Her death was not made public until May, when it was announced as part of a larger in memoriam layout in the latest SAG-aftra quarterly magazine. Her cause of death has not been disclosed.
Born in 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, Redmond began acting as a young woman in Ohio before moving on to stage roles in New York and eventually film and TV roles in Los Angeles.
Among her film roles, she appeared in “The Trouble With Angels” and the Billy Wilder film “Fortune Cookie” in 1966, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Family Plot” in 1976, and the 1993 Woody Allen film “Manhattan Murder Mystery.”
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She was most often seen on television, and appeared...
Her death was not made public until May, when it was announced as part of a larger in memoriam layout in the latest SAG-aftra quarterly magazine. Her cause of death has not been disclosed.
Born in 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, Redmond began acting as a young woman in Ohio before moving on to stage roles in New York and eventually film and TV roles in Los Angeles.
Among her film roles, she appeared in “The Trouble With Angels” and the Billy Wilder film “Fortune Cookie” in 1966, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Family Plot” in 1976, and the 1993 Woody Allen film “Manhattan Murder Mystery.”
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She was most often seen on television, and appeared...
- 5/29/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Marge Redmond, who played Sister Jacqueline on TV’s The Flying Nun and later became known as the spokeswoman in Cool Whip commercials, has died. She was 95 and her death was announced by SAG-aftra in its magazine. No cause was given.
Redmond appeared in 80 episodes of The Flying Nun, which ran from 1967-1970 and starred Sally Field. She served as the show’s narrator in addition to her acting, and received an Emmy nomination after season two.
Her film resume includes another nun role as Sister Liguori, opposite Rosalind Russell in The Trouble With Angels (1966). She also had small roles in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie (1966); in Alfred Hitchcock’s final movie, Family Plot (1976); and was in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Redmond was married to the late actor Jack Weston from 1950 to the 1980s. No details on survivors were available.
Redmond appeared in 80 episodes of The Flying Nun, which ran from 1967-1970 and starred Sally Field. She served as the show’s narrator in addition to her acting, and received an Emmy nomination after season two.
Her film resume includes another nun role as Sister Liguori, opposite Rosalind Russell in The Trouble With Angels (1966). She also had small roles in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie (1966); in Alfred Hitchcock’s final movie, Family Plot (1976); and was in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Redmond was married to the late actor Jack Weston from 1950 to the 1980s. No details on survivors were available.
- 5/29/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Lynn Cohen, a veteran stage and screen actor who played Magda on “Sex and the City,” died Friday. She was 86.
Magda was Miranda Hobbe’s (Cynthia Nixon) housekeeper and eventually her nanny, and Cohen also appeared in both film adaptations of the show.
She talked to Cosmopolitan about her role in 2018. “It showed a woman of a different age who was smart as the devil, very bossy, and also understood sexuality, and they needed that. It enlarged the canvas on which they were working, that they would not have a typical old lady molding away in some retirement home somewhere, but a woman who worked, and didn’t suffer fools,” she said.
On the big screen, Cohen played Golda Meir in in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Mags in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” She also appeared in “Eagle Eye,” “Across the Universe,” “Vanya on 42nd Street,” “The Station Agent,...
Magda was Miranda Hobbe’s (Cynthia Nixon) housekeeper and eventually her nanny, and Cohen also appeared in both film adaptations of the show.
She talked to Cosmopolitan about her role in 2018. “It showed a woman of a different age who was smart as the devil, very bossy, and also understood sexuality, and they needed that. It enlarged the canvas on which they were working, that they would not have a typical old lady molding away in some retirement home somewhere, but a woman who worked, and didn’t suffer fools,” she said.
On the big screen, Cohen played Golda Meir in in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Mags in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” She also appeared in “Eagle Eye,” “Across the Universe,” “Vanya on 42nd Street,” “The Station Agent,...
- 2/15/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
For the first time since 1981, Woody Allen didn’t release a new movie last year. The beleaguered writer-director completed “A Rainy Day in New York” in 2017 but, following the resurfaced allegations that he molested his daughter in the early 1990s, Amazon Studios opted to shelve his latest project indefinitely. The film finally has a release date, but not in America — distributor Lucky Red has announced that it will release “Rainy Day” in Italy on October 3.
Allen signed a four-picture deal with Amazon a number of years ago, with “Rainy Day” being preceded by “Café Society” and “Wonder Wheel” as part of that agreement. The filmmaker recently filed a $68 million lawsuit against the studio after it opted to delay the movie’s release indefinitely, with his complaint stating that Amazon knew of the allegations against him when the two parties entered their agreement and that the accusations are false.
The company...
Allen signed a four-picture deal with Amazon a number of years ago, with “Rainy Day” being preceded by “Café Society” and “Wonder Wheel” as part of that agreement. The filmmaker recently filed a $68 million lawsuit against the studio after it opted to delay the movie’s release indefinitely, with his complaint stating that Amazon knew of the allegations against him when the two parties entered their agreement and that the accusations are false.
The company...
- 5/7/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
While discussing her long career in Hollywood and the #MeToo era, Anjelica Huston showed support for Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Jeffrey Tambor, all men with sexual misconduct allegations brought against them.
Huston collaborated with Allen on two of his his films, “Crimes and Misdemeanors” in 1989 and “Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993. Dylan Farrow accused the director of molesting her in 1992, an incident which Allen has repeatedly denied and gave rise to the #MeToo movement. Huston said she would work with the director again in an interview with Vulture.
“In a second,” she said.
The actress was arrested in 1977 for cocaine possession at her then-boyfriend Jack Nicholson’s house after director Roman Polanski raped a 13-year-old girl. Last year, Polanski was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science over the statutory rape charge. Huston also showed sympathy for the disgraced director.
“It’s a story that could’ve...
Huston collaborated with Allen on two of his his films, “Crimes and Misdemeanors” in 1989 and “Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993. Dylan Farrow accused the director of molesting her in 1992, an incident which Allen has repeatedly denied and gave rise to the #MeToo movement. Huston said she would work with the director again in an interview with Vulture.
“In a second,” she said.
The actress was arrested in 1977 for cocaine possession at her then-boyfriend Jack Nicholson’s house after director Roman Polanski raped a 13-year-old girl. Last year, Polanski was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science over the statutory rape charge. Huston also showed sympathy for the disgraced director.
“It’s a story that could’ve...
- 5/2/2019
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Anjelica Huston has no plans to write off a future collaboration with Woody Allen, despite the growing list of actors and actresses who have expressed regret in working with the director.
Huston, 67, told Vulture she would work with Allen again “in a second” should the opportunity arise.
When pressed on the allegation of sexual abuse made against Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow, the Oscar-winning actress cited the fact that Allen has never been charged with a crime.
“I think [his inability to work is] after two states investigated him, and neither of them prosecuted him,” she said.
In late 2017, Allen faced resurfaced allegations of...
Huston, 67, told Vulture she would work with Allen again “in a second” should the opportunity arise.
When pressed on the allegation of sexual abuse made against Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow, the Oscar-winning actress cited the fact that Allen has never been charged with a crime.
“I think [his inability to work is] after two states investigated him, and neither of them prosecuted him,” she said.
In late 2017, Allen faced resurfaced allegations of...
- 5/1/2019
- by Rachel DeSantis
- PEOPLE.com
Anjelica Huston is coming to the defense of filmmakers Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and actor Jeffrey Tambor. In a candid interview with Vulture, the actress held court on topics as wide-ranging as beating Oprah for the Oscar in 1986 to Jack Nicholson’s cocaine habits. The interview was supposedly in support of her new movie, “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” Keanu Reeves’ action vehicle in which Huston plays The Director, although many more questions focused on her love life and celebrity friends.
In her long and storied life and career, Huston has overlapped with a fair amount of Hollywood elites, including a few disgraced filmmakers and actors. Huston was famously at Jack Nicholson’s house the day director Roman Polanski raped 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, a crime for which he pleaded guilty to “unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.”
“It’s a story that could’ve happened 10 years before in England or France...
In her long and storied life and career, Huston has overlapped with a fair amount of Hollywood elites, including a few disgraced filmmakers and actors. Huston was famously at Jack Nicholson’s house the day director Roman Polanski raped 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, a crime for which he pleaded guilty to “unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.”
“It’s a story that could’ve happened 10 years before in England or France...
- 5/1/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Anyone can be a multi-talent. But to be a major star with a big heart and a social conscience means even more.
Tonight at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on TNT and TBS, Alan Alda — who 83rd birthday is on Monday — will be honored by his thespian peers as he receives a Screen Actors Guild life achievement award for his body of work on stage, in film and especially on TV. That includes his 11 seasons on “M*A*S*H” (1972-83), both in front of and behind the camera, along with his activism and other landmarks in his seven-decade career.
The award predates the 25-year-old competitive awards by more than 30 years. The first recipient: Eddie Cantor in 1962. More recently, the guild has presented its honorary prize to such performers as Morgan Freeman, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Debbie Reynolds, Rita Moreno and Dick Van Dyke. Here are five reasons why Alda is fully...
Tonight at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on TNT and TBS, Alan Alda — who 83rd birthday is on Monday — will be honored by his thespian peers as he receives a Screen Actors Guild life achievement award for his body of work on stage, in film and especially on TV. That includes his 11 seasons on “M*A*S*H” (1972-83), both in front of and behind the camera, along with his activism and other landmarks in his seven-decade career.
The award predates the 25-year-old competitive awards by more than 30 years. The first recipient: Eddie Cantor in 1962. More recently, the guild has presented its honorary prize to such performers as Morgan Freeman, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Debbie Reynolds, Rita Moreno and Dick Van Dyke. Here are five reasons why Alda is fully...
- 1/27/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Although many actors have recently expressed regret at having worked with Woody Allen in the past, Alan Alda is standing by the filmmaker.
“I’d work with him again if he wanted me,” the 82-year-old actor, who has appeared in three of Allen’s films, recently told The Hollywood Reporter, ahead of receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday
“I don’t know all the facts, I don’t know if he’s guilty or innocent. But you can be uncertain — that’s what I go on,” Alda continued, referencing the accusations of sexual...
“I’d work with him again if he wanted me,” the 82-year-old actor, who has appeared in three of Allen’s films, recently told The Hollywood Reporter, ahead of receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday
“I don’t know all the facts, I don’t know if he’s guilty or innocent. But you can be uncertain — that’s what I go on,” Alda continued, referencing the accusations of sexual...
- 1/25/2019
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Six-time Emmy winner Alan Alda is receiving the 2019 Screen Actors Guild life achievement award. SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris announced the news on Thursday that the tribute will occur at the 25th annual SAG Awards on January 27. Other recent recipients have included Morgan Freeman (2018), Lily Tomlin (2017), Carol Burnett (2016), Debbie Reynolds (2015), Rita Moreno (2014), Dick Van Dyke (2013) and Mary Tyler Moore (2012).
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During his 11-season run on the classic CBS comedy series “M*A*S*H,” Alda won as an actor, director and writer. His sixth victory among 35 career nominations was for “The West Wing.” He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1994. He also won six Golden Globes and four DGA Awards plus achieved an Oscar nomination and four SAG Awards bids.
Other films in Alda’s career have included “Paper Lion” (1968), “California Suite” (1978), “Same Time, Next Year” (1978), “The Seduction of Joe Tynan...
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During his 11-season run on the classic CBS comedy series “M*A*S*H,” Alda won as an actor, director and writer. His sixth victory among 35 career nominations was for “The West Wing.” He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1994. He also won six Golden Globes and four DGA Awards plus achieved an Oscar nomination and four SAG Awards bids.
Other films in Alda’s career have included “Paper Lion” (1968), “California Suite” (1978), “Same Time, Next Year” (1978), “The Seduction of Joe Tynan...
- 10/4/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Written as an ode to classic madcap mysteries like Manhattan Murder Mystery, Dan Erickson and Rachel Wortell's new film A Sibling Mystery features witty dialog and the kind of deftly assembled cast you'd expect from such a film. The film's antics revolves around a brother and sister who lose a winning lottery ticket and become consumed with investigating a mysterious woman they suspect has stolen it. Lily Meyer, Keith Bethea, Becky Abrams, Eamon Monaghan, Jess Magee, Michele Hierholzer and Phillip John Velasco Gabriel star. A Sibling Mystery has been a film festival darling, making the rounds as an official selection at multiple film festivals, including the Vail Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Soho International and the prestigious Mill Valley Film Festival, to name just a few....
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- 9/14/2018
- Screen Anarchy
What could be better than house-sitting a fabulous rent controlled apartment in New York City for the summer and hosting parties for all of your friends? How about a winning lottery ticket to help finance those summer parties? But when the ticket goes missing, a brother and sister become consumed with investigating a mysterious woman they suspect has stolen their winning lottery ticket. There goes their summer party plans.
This is the premise behind A Sibling Mystery, the lauded indie comedy from writer/director duo Dan Erickson and Rachel Wortell. It was created as an ode to classic Hollywood comedies such as Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) (a film I love Btw) and is a good combo of well executed dialogue and a smartly assembled ensemble cast including Lily Meyer (Romance Analys...
This is the premise behind A Sibling Mystery, the lauded indie comedy from writer/director duo Dan Erickson and Rachel Wortell. It was created as an ode to classic Hollywood comedies such as Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) (a film I love Btw) and is a good combo of well executed dialogue and a smartly assembled ensemble cast including Lily Meyer (Romance Analys...
- 9/14/2018
- QuietEarth.us
He may not have made a good movie since “Blue Jasmine,” but Woody Allen’s influence still reaches far and wide. Whether it’s the charming self-deprecation of Greta Gerwig’s “Frances Ha,” Ingrid Jungermann’s update on “Manhattan Murder Mystery” with the soon-to-be-released “Women Who Kill,” or the whimsical surrealism of “Approaching a Breakthrough,” a new short film from writer/director Noah Pritzker.
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Tightly scripted and engagingly shot, Pritzker’s short is indelibly of its time while tipping its hat to cinema’s past. Kieran Culkin plays Norman, a young man running away from his debt as well as indecision. The film begins with a nuanced argument between Norman and his girlfriend Claire (Mae Whitman) about the struggle for autonomy in romantic relationships.
As their bickering devolves, Norman is suddenly approached by his two former therapists,...
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Tightly scripted and engagingly shot, Pritzker’s short is indelibly of its time while tipping its hat to cinema’s past. Kieran Culkin plays Norman, a young man running away from his debt as well as indecision. The film begins with a nuanced argument between Norman and his girlfriend Claire (Mae Whitman) about the struggle for autonomy in romantic relationships.
As their bickering devolves, Norman is suddenly approached by his two former therapists,...
- 7/13/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
When Diane Keaton accepted the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award from Woody Allen in Hollywood Thursday night, it was the end of one of the more memorable AFI tributes. And as one actress after another explained why Keaton was such a significant role model — from Oscar-winners Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon (Keaton-directed TV movie “Wildflower”) and Meryl Streep (“Marvin’s Room”) to Rachel McAdams (“The Family Stone”) and comedienne Lisa Kudrow (“Hanging Up”) — it struck me that all actresses should pay attention to why Keaton is so admired and emulated.
Here are some wise lessons to be learned from the star of “Play It Again Sam,” “The First Wives Club,” “Crimes of the Heart,” “Shoot the Moon,” and HBO’s “The Young Pope.”
1. Stay single.
Keaton launched her Hollywood career with the day-long wedding scene in “The Godfather,” at the end of which she and fellow theater outsider Al Pacino proceeded to get royally drunk.
Here are some wise lessons to be learned from the star of “Play It Again Sam,” “The First Wives Club,” “Crimes of the Heart,” “Shoot the Moon,” and HBO’s “The Young Pope.”
1. Stay single.
Keaton launched her Hollywood career with the day-long wedding scene in “The Godfather,” at the end of which she and fellow theater outsider Al Pacino proceeded to get royally drunk.
- 6/9/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
When Diane Keaton accepted the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award from Woody Allen in Hollywood Thursday night, it was the end of one of the more memorable AFI tributes. And as one actress after another explained why Keaton was such a significant role model — from Oscar-winners Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon (Keaton-directed TV movie “Wildflower”) and Meryl Streep (“Marvin’s Room”) to Rachel McAdams (“The Family Stone”) and comedienne Lisa Kudrow (“Hanging Up”) — it struck me that all actresses should pay attention to why Keaton is so admired and emulated.
Here are some wise lessons to be learned from the star of “Play It Again Sam,” “The First Wives Club,” “Crimes of the Heart,” “Shoot the Moon,” and HBO’s “The Young Pope.”
1. Stay single.
Keaton launched her Hollywood career with the day-long wedding scene in “The Godfather,” at the end of which she and fellow theater outsider Al Pacino proceeded to get royally drunk.
Here are some wise lessons to be learned from the star of “Play It Again Sam,” “The First Wives Club,” “Crimes of the Heart,” “Shoot the Moon,” and HBO’s “The Young Pope.”
1. Stay single.
Keaton launched her Hollywood career with the day-long wedding scene in “The Godfather,” at the end of which she and fellow theater outsider Al Pacino proceeded to get royally drunk.
- 6/9/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
TNT has announced it will televise the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to actress Diane Keaton on Thursday, June 8. Following the premiere, TCM (Turner Classic Movies) will dedicate an evening...
- 5/10/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
As reported by Variety, Sopranos actor and New York City restaurateur Frank Pellegrino has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 72.
Pellegrino is probably best known for playing FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso on eleven episodes of The Sopranos, and like a lot of Italian actors from New York, he spent a lot of time appearing in mobster-related films and TV shows. In addition to The Sopranos, he played Johnny Dio in Goodfellas, appeared in three episodes across the Law & Order universe, and he had smaller roles in Cop Land, Mickey Blue Eyes, and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As Variety notes, he also had a recent guest appearance on Bravo’s Odd Mom Out.
Separate from his acting life, Pellegrino was a food buff and co-owner of iconic Italian eatery Rao’s in East Harlem, New York—a restaurant that has appeared in Jay Z videos, The Wolf ...
Pellegrino is probably best known for playing FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso on eleven episodes of The Sopranos, and like a lot of Italian actors from New York, he spent a lot of time appearing in mobster-related films and TV shows. In addition to The Sopranos, he played Johnny Dio in Goodfellas, appeared in three episodes across the Law & Order universe, and he had smaller roles in Cop Land, Mickey Blue Eyes, and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As Variety notes, he also had a recent guest appearance on Bravo’s Odd Mom Out.
Separate from his acting life, Pellegrino was a food buff and co-owner of iconic Italian eatery Rao’s in East Harlem, New York—a restaurant that has appeared in Jay Z videos, The Wolf ...
- 2/1/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” is garnering awards buzz and praise from the industry’s most respected critics, but if that film came out 10 years ago, the gay coming-of-age story could have counted on a more specific foundation: The Lgbt film festival circuit. San Francisco’s Frameline, Los Angeles’ Outfest, and New York’s NewFest were once the go-to market for queer filmmakers and films, but once they break out, many directors with enough clout can easily graduate to a bigger arena.
Lgbt filmmakers rarely face the stigma that once limited opportunities, but for the emerging and mid-career filmmaker, as well as foreign filmmakers looking to break into international markets, queer film festivals remain a vital opportunity to get their work in front of an often adoring audience. At a time when gay identity has yet to truly permeate Hollywood filmmaking, that support system is more vital than ever.
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Lgbt filmmakers rarely face the stigma that once limited opportunities, but for the emerging and mid-career filmmaker, as well as foreign filmmakers looking to break into international markets, queer film festivals remain a vital opportunity to get their work in front of an often adoring audience. At a time when gay identity has yet to truly permeate Hollywood filmmaking, that support system is more vital than ever.
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- 10/25/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The most surprising thing about “Keeping Up with the Joneses” isn’t that it’s actually funny, but that some touching unlikely friendships emerge amidst the outrageous action sequences. Jeff Gaffney (Zach Galifianakis) is a lovably dull suburban husband, who dotes on his wife, Karen (Isla Fisher), and enjoys a simple life in his beloved cul-de-sac. With the kids off at summer camp, the Gaffneys have time on their hands to wring their hands over the mysterious new couple that moves into the neighborhood, making an all-cash offer on the house across the street.
Tim and Natalie Jones (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) are gorgeous, worldly and very much in love. Naturally, everyone in the cul-de-sac hates them. Except affable Jeff, who quickly develops a “man-crush” on Tim (in the words of the movie). But Natalie’s perfect potluck dishes and Tim’s glass-blowing hobby are not fooling Karen, whose...
Tim and Natalie Jones (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) are gorgeous, worldly and very much in love. Naturally, everyone in the cul-de-sac hates them. Except affable Jeff, who quickly develops a “man-crush” on Tim (in the words of the movie). But Natalie’s perfect potluck dishes and Tim’s glass-blowing hobby are not fooling Karen, whose...
- 10/19/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
This Friday, Café Society, the latest release from writer/director/comic godhead Woody Allen, waltzes into theaters — the 47th feature Allen has directed over a career spanning 50 years. (Yes, we're counting New York Stories.) He's had box-office successes and outright bombs, Oscar-winning masterpieces and critically panned duds. But regardless of his movies' receptions (and the reoccurring rumors about his personal life), he's managed to pump out a film a year with impressive regularity. Some key elements have stayed the same — once a jazz clarinet slinks onto the soundtrack, audiences know exactly who they're dealing with.
- 7/13/2016
- Rollingstone.com
This Friday, Café Society, the latest release from writer/director/comic godhead Woody Allen, waltzes into theaters — the 47th feature Allen has directed over a career spanning 50 years. (Yes, we're counting New York Stories.) He's had box-office successes and outright bombs, Oscar-winning masterpieces and critically panned duds. But regardless of his movies' receptions (and the reoccurring rumors about his personal life), he's managed to pump out a film a year with impressive regularity. Some key elements have stayed the same — once a jazz clarinet slinks onto the soundtrack, audiences know exactly who they're dealing with.
- 7/13/2016
- Rollingstone.com
The cast of Woody Allen's upcoming six-episode Amazon series just got bigger. According to Entertainment Weekly, Rebecca Schull, Margaret Ladd, David Harbour, Christine Ebersole, Michael Rapaport, and, somewhat surprisingly, Joy Behar and Lewis Black will appear in Allen's mysterious show, the title and plot of which have yet to be announced. They'll join previously announced Elaine May, Rachel Brosnahan, John Magaro, and, very surprisingly, Miley Cyrus. In a world where Olivia Wilde, at 28, was deemed "too old" to play Leonardo DiCaprio's wife, it's nice to see some older actresses (Schull is 87, May is 83, and Ladd and Behar are 73) get work, and some of these casting choices are, on their face, intriguingly unconventional -- Behar, for instance, is best known these days for her hosting work (though she's also done a good bit of acting work, including in Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery), while Miley Cyrus is Miley Cyrus (Hannah...
- 3/16/2016
- by Sara Morrison
- Hitfix
Early on in Irrational Man, Woody Allen’s latest half-narcotized attempt to dramatically grapple with a philosophically tinged moral crisis, a fellow academic tells Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), “I loved your essay on situational ethics.” Abe, being a newly appointed professor/radical free thinker to the philosophy department of a picturesque Rhode Island college and himself awash in career disillusionment and an existential dilemma involving writer’s block, smiles and nods appreciatively and noncommittally. However, the audience may consider the Big Theme bell well and truly rung. Allen, who would never be so satisfied with a single easy proclamation of achievement, pads the first half of the movie with apparently awe-inspired compliments from fellow professors, administrators and students directed toward Abe’s prodigious intellect—his reputation doth well precede him, and he knows it. And you can bet that every classroom scene will be occasion to name-drop the heavy hitters-- Kant!
- 7/16/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
"Annie Hall" "Annie Hall" is a definitive comic gem from 1977, a watershed romantic comedy that gave great roles to Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, and even Paul Simon. And you better not bring it up around me, because I will be livid. Can't you talk about "Manhattan Murder Mystery" or something? You realize Anjelica Huston plays a poker expert in that, right? "Harold and Maude" Damn, I love Ruth Gordon. One of the top five Oscar speeches of all time, for sure. Bud Cort? What a wonderful performance he gives. What a strange, enigmatic, weird, funnyish movie. Sigh. Too bad if you bring it up one more time like it makes you a sensitive, deep man who can appreciate peculiar whimsicality, I'm going to tie up and torture your improv instructor. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Unless you're voicing a conspiracy theory that Harper Lee wrote all of Truman Capote's best work,...
- 6/10/2015
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
The new trailer for the indie, hipster, screwball mystery Wild Canaries proclaims it “a love letter to old screwball comedies.” To me it looks a lot like Woody Allen’s early 90s screwball mystery Manhattan Murder Mystery, only this time with Brooklyn hipsters instead of married Manhattanites. Not that that’s a bad thing: Wild Canaries seems to be all that it claims, and more.
The story centers around Noah and Barri (Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Takal), whose elderly neighbor Sylvia dies a total un-mysterious death. Barri suspects foul play, though, and does some snooping of her own with the help of her roommate Jean (Alia Shawkat). This involves breaking into people’s apartments and apparently stalking the suspected murderer, all with Noah tagging along, objecting strenuously. As the pair dive deeper and deeper into the investigation, things come to light about the people in their building that they never really wanted to know.
The story centers around Noah and Barri (Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Takal), whose elderly neighbor Sylvia dies a total un-mysterious death. Barri suspects foul play, though, and does some snooping of her own with the help of her roommate Jean (Alia Shawkat). This involves breaking into people’s apartments and apparently stalking the suspected murderer, all with Noah tagging along, objecting strenuously. As the pair dive deeper and deeper into the investigation, things come to light about the people in their building that they never really wanted to know.
- 1/29/2015
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Everyone knows Woody Allen. At least, everyone thinks they know Woody Allen. His plumage is easily identifiable: horn-rimmed glasses, baggy suit, wispy hair, kvetching demeanor, ironic sense of humor, acute fear of death. As is his habitat: New York City, though recently he has flown as far afield as London, Barcelona, and Paris. His likes are well known: Bergman, Dostoevsky, New Orleans jazz. So too his dislikes: spiders, cars, nature, Wagner records, the entire city of Los Angeles. Whether or not these traits represent the true Allen, who’s to say? It is impossible to tell, with Allen, where cinema ends and life begins, an obfuscation he readily encourages. In the late nineteen-seventies, disillusioned with the comedic success he’d found making such films as Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), and Annie Hall (1977), he turned for darker territory with Stardust Memories (1980), a film in which, none too surprisingly, he plays a...
- 1/24/2015
- by Graham Daseler
- The Moving Arts Journal
The Philadelphia Film Festival completed another offering of debut, homegrown, and festival circuit successes.
Cannes winner Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to his 2011 masterpiece Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is another slow-burner, awash in the director’s favored browns and tans. Thematically similar to both Anatolia and 2008’s Three Monkeys, Winter Sleep features a methodical style, long conversations, and as the title might suggest, a chilly atmosphere. It feels like something of Sartre or Bresson in its slow descent into ugliness and detachment.
Dave Boyle’s Man From Reno is a flawed but fun film, reminiscent of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s 6ixtynin9 from 1999. Intentionally overplotted, the film veers into unexpected Patricia Highsmith territory in its final 15 minutes – territory that seems to warrant its own film rather than a continuation of the narrative already at hand – but does have a second act worthy of the breakneck confusion of The Big Sleep.
Cannes winner Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to his 2011 masterpiece Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is another slow-burner, awash in the director’s favored browns and tans. Thematically similar to both Anatolia and 2008’s Three Monkeys, Winter Sleep features a methodical style, long conversations, and as the title might suggest, a chilly atmosphere. It feels like something of Sartre or Bresson in its slow descent into ugliness and detachment.
Dave Boyle’s Man From Reno is a flawed but fun film, reminiscent of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s 6ixtynin9 from 1999. Intentionally overplotted, the film veers into unexpected Patricia Highsmith territory in its final 15 minutes – territory that seems to warrant its own film rather than a continuation of the narrative already at hand – but does have a second act worthy of the breakneck confusion of The Big Sleep.
- 10/28/2014
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Make people laugh and they won't even realize you're making them think. Over the past 50 years, women have broken through the glass ceiling time after time, shattering stereotypes and thumbing their noses at the old chestnut that "Women aren't funny." Fact: Anybody who says women aren't funny doesn't want them to be funny. We're looking back on the 50 funniest women of the past 50 years, their contributions to comedy, and their enduring legacies that inspire men and women alike. These are the 50 women who have helped (and are helping) to introduce the next class of hilarious women, which will inevitably include Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Tig Notaro, Chelsea Handler, Maria Bamford, Aubrey Plaza, and Kate McKinnon. Keep in mind this list only includes women who are primarily performers in movies, television, and standup comedy. That's why you don't see legends like Nora Ephron, Anne Beatts, and Elaine May here.
- 10/15/2014
- by Louis Virtel, Chris Eggertsen, Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
Woody Allen's new movie, Magic in the Moonlight, hits limited theaters this weekend. Meanwhile, he's off in Providence, Rhode Island with Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and new additions to the cast, Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley, shooting his next movie, which the Chicago Sun Times reports is "a murder mystery, set on a college campus." On top of that it's said to be a "serious-ish drama," which I guess might place it in Match Point territory considering Manhattan Murder Mystery was definitely comedic. In other Allen news, in a recent New York Times profile they revealed Allen has secured financing for not only the film he's currently shooting, but three more beyond that and it sounds like all four will be released by Sony Pictures Classics: Mr. Allen said that his next four films, including the currently untitled one he is making with Ms. Stone and Mr. Phoenix,...
- 7/25/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Reviews of Lawrence Michael Levine's Wild Canaries may have been mixed so far, but it's come in for noteworthy praise from the New Yorker's Richard Brody, Calum Marsh in the Village Voice and, writing for Artforum, Nick Pinkerton, who calls it "a neo-screwball bauble concerning a couple who look into strange goings-on in their Brooklyn triple-decker and become embroiled in a convoluted murder mystery, their investigation further complicated by a four-way romantic tangle involving his ex- (Eleonore Hendricks) and their lesbian roommate (Alia Shawkat). Levine’s film owes an obvious debt to Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), but it boasts considerably better timing and more worked-out set-pieces than any Allen comedy in the past decade. » - David Hudson...
- 6/18/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Lawrence Michael Levine reaches back to a seemingly dead genre, the screwball murder mystery, for his primary influences on Wild Canaries. Using The Thin Man series as one of his earliest reference points, Levine models Noah after William Powell's Nick Charles, developing a character who is comically reserved and rational, yet despite his carefulness is also quite vulnerable. Noah is so tentative in his actions -- well, except for whenever he is inebriated -- that this character takes a backseat in the murder mystery to Barri. The plot of Wild Canaries could almost be explained as a modern day adaptation of Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) -- which is debatably the last legitimate entry into the screwball murder mystery cannon -- with Levine playing the Woody Allen to Takal's Diane Keaton.
- 3/9/2014
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Woody Allen Golden Globes 2014 tribute: Diane Keaton remembers ‘friend’ (photo: Woody Allen directing Cate Blanchett in ‘Blue Jasmine’) Accepting from presenter Emma Stone the 2014 Cecil B. DeMille Award for absentee Woody Allen, Diane Keaton (Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery) was a likable presence at the January 12, 2014, Golden Globes ceremony, but her reminiscences about Allen were clearly PG-rated, going on about their "friendship" as if the two had always been just pals. Was that lullaby she sang moving or would Woody Allen have been right in yelling, "get the hook and get her off the god damn stage"? You decide. Now, in all fairness, Diane Keaton’s Woody Allen tribute wasn’t all PG-rated treacle, as she was twice bleeped by the censors. Apparently, NBC — and the ludicrous FCC — believe television audiences should be treated as if we were all three-year-olds. (See also: “Golden Globes...
- 1/13/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Golden Globes 2014 winners (photo: 2014 Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence in ‘American Hustle’) Scroll down to check out the full list of Golden Globes 2014 winners. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony took place earlier this evening, January 12, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey back as hosts. (Here are our fearless — and somewhat accurate — Golden Globes 2014 Predictions and our equally fearless — and mostly accurate — 2014 Golden Globes Predictions - The Nominations.) The 2014 Golden Globe nominations were announced by Aziz Ansari, Zoe Saldana, and Olivia Wilde exactly one month ago. Among the surprises was the inclusion in the Best Picture - Drama category of Ron Howard’s domestic box office disappointment Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth and Best Supporting Golden Globe nominee Daniel Brühl, and the exclusion of The Wolf of Wall Street‘s Martin Scorsese from the Best Director roster. Also, Julie Delpy and Greta Gerwig were both in the running...
- 1/13/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Strap on your leather gloves and jaunty hat, because it’s Diane Keaton‘s 68th birthday this weekend! The legendary thespian will always be known for Best Actress-earned turn in Annie Hall, but she’s given us enough joy to last us a few cinematic lifetimes: Love and Death, Sleeper, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, Marvin’s Room, The First Wives Club, and hell, Something’s Gotta Give. She eked an Oscar nomination out of Something’s Gotta Give, people. The woman has earned her props. And her memoir? Is outstanding.
To celebrate her big day, I ask you: What’s the most underrated Diane Keaton performance?
I already hear your shouts of Crimes of the Heart, but I’m going with a simpler, lighter film: Manhattan Murder Mystery. Although I love Mia Farrow in Woody’s movies, Diane takes to his often...
To celebrate her big day, I ask you: What’s the most underrated Diane Keaton performance?
I already hear your shouts of Crimes of the Heart, but I’m going with a simpler, lighter film: Manhattan Murder Mystery. Although I love Mia Farrow in Woody’s movies, Diane takes to his often...
- 1/3/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Diane Keaton will accept Woody Allen's honorary Golden Globe at January's ceremony.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced in September that Allen will be the latest recipient of the prestigious Cecil B DeMille Award, but doubts arose as to whether he would actually attend the gala.
Allen has famously avoided awards shows, having made an exception in 2002 to present a post-9/11 tribute to New York City at the Oscars.
It was confirmed on Tuesday (December 3) that Keaton will in fact be receiving the award on Allen's behalf.
Keaton and Allen were lovers for several years, and collaborated on the classic films Sleeper, Annie Hall and Manhattan.
The pair have remained close friends since the end of their romance in the 1970s, with Keaton making a cameo in Allen's Oscar-nominated 1987 movie Radio Days.
Keaton and Allen also reunited in the 1993 comedy Manhattan Murder Mystery.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the 2014 Golden Globes,...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced in September that Allen will be the latest recipient of the prestigious Cecil B DeMille Award, but doubts arose as to whether he would actually attend the gala.
Allen has famously avoided awards shows, having made an exception in 2002 to present a post-9/11 tribute to New York City at the Oscars.
It was confirmed on Tuesday (December 3) that Keaton will in fact be receiving the award on Allen's behalf.
Keaton and Allen were lovers for several years, and collaborated on the classic films Sleeper, Annie Hall and Manhattan.
The pair have remained close friends since the end of their romance in the 1970s, with Keaton making a cameo in Allen's Oscar-nominated 1987 movie Radio Days.
Keaton and Allen also reunited in the 1993 comedy Manhattan Murder Mystery.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the 2014 Golden Globes,...
- 12/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Today we are talking to a spectacularly talented screenwriter and bookwriter known for his legendary string of onscreen collaborations with Woody Allen as well as for writing and directing films himself in addition to penning the Best Musical Tony Award-winner Jersey Boys and others - the accomplished and entertaining Marshall Brickman. Discussing bringing the tale of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons via Jersey Boys to the stage as well as the new big screen movie musical adaptation that just wrapped production, Brickman outlines his role in the international stage sensation and what we can expect from the highly anticipated celluloid creation on the way in 2014. Besides Jersey Boys, Brickman also sheds some light on the ongoing success of The Addams Family, touring the country and performed around the world. Plus, Brickman shares first details on his new musical project, a biomusical based on the life of legendary 20th century American entertainer Roy Rogers.
- 10/14/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Scrubs star to make Broadway debut in Woody Allen's own adaptation of his 1994 film
A critical mauling in the West End clearly hasn't put Zach Braff off theatre. The Scrubs star will make his Broadway debut next year, starring in a musical adaptation of Woody Allen's film Bullets Over Broadway.
Twenty years after he made his film debut in Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, Braff will play an aspiring playwright in 1920s New York, who has to cast a gangster's talentless girlfriend in his new show to get it produced on Broadway. The role was originally played by John Cusack.
Allen has adapted the film he co-wrote with Douglas McGrath and set it to a score featuring songs from the 1920s setting. Five-time Tony-winner Susan Stroman will direct.
Braff told the Associated Press: "If you would have asked me a couple months ago: 'What are your dreams as an actor?...
A critical mauling in the West End clearly hasn't put Zach Braff off theatre. The Scrubs star will make his Broadway debut next year, starring in a musical adaptation of Woody Allen's film Bullets Over Broadway.
Twenty years after he made his film debut in Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, Braff will play an aspiring playwright in 1920s New York, who has to cast a gangster's talentless girlfriend in his new show to get it produced on Broadway. The role was originally played by John Cusack.
Allen has adapted the film he co-wrote with Douglas McGrath and set it to a score featuring songs from the 1920s setting. Five-time Tony-winner Susan Stroman will direct.
Braff told the Associated Press: "If you would have asked me a couple months ago: 'What are your dreams as an actor?...
- 7/1/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
Zach Braff, who appeared in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery and recently told Allen all about Kickstarter, has landed his debut Broadway role in 2014's musical adaptation of Bullets Over Broadway. Allen is writing the adaptation and using Prohibition-era tunes for the music. Braff will play the part John Cusack had in the movie, "a young playwright in 1920s New York who, to get his work produced, is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend, to be played on Broadway by Heléne Yorke." So you will see Zach Braff singing. A lot.
- 6/28/2013
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
New York — Zach Braff will make his Broadway debut next year in a musical adaptation of Woody Allen's crime caper "Bullets Over Broadway." The only person who might be more excited than Braff is his dad.
"If my father loved two things most, it was Woody Allen movies and Broadway musicals," Braff said by phone from Los Angeles. "When I called my father, I said, `Are you sitting down?'"
Written by Allen and Douglas McGrath, the story follows a struggling young playwright who is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama. Braff will play the hero, portrayed by John Cusack in the 1994 film.
"It's thrilling," Braff says. "I keep waking up expecting it to be a dream."
Five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph the show, which will start performances in March 2014 at the St. James Theatre. The show will feature a...
"If my father loved two things most, it was Woody Allen movies and Broadway musicals," Braff said by phone from Los Angeles. "When I called my father, I said, `Are you sitting down?'"
Written by Allen and Douglas McGrath, the story follows a struggling young playwright who is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama. Braff will play the hero, portrayed by John Cusack in the 1994 film.
"It's thrilling," Braff says. "I keep waking up expecting it to be a dream."
Five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph the show, which will start performances in March 2014 at the St. James Theatre. The show will feature a...
- 6/27/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The Garden State star has explained how he instructed the veteran director in the ways of the crowd-funding platform – to reportedly great effect
Woody Allen may be jumping onto the Kickstarter bandwagon after Zach Braff gave him a masterclass on crowd-funding when they met to discuss a potential future project.
In an email to Braff, Allen's assistant reportedly revealed that the 77-year-old film-maker "won't stop talking" about the fundraising platform and was "riveted" by Braff's explanation. Braff recounted details of the meeting in an interview on the SiriusXM show Unmasked.
Braff turned to Kickstarter to bankroll his latest project, Wish I Was Here, which he will direct and will star himself, Kate Hudson and Anna Kendrick. The film will go into production later this year after the $3m required was raised, but Braff met with criticism from some who felt that established stars should steer clear of the platform.
The...
Woody Allen may be jumping onto the Kickstarter bandwagon after Zach Braff gave him a masterclass on crowd-funding when they met to discuss a potential future project.
In an email to Braff, Allen's assistant reportedly revealed that the 77-year-old film-maker "won't stop talking" about the fundraising platform and was "riveted" by Braff's explanation. Braff recounted details of the meeting in an interview on the SiriusXM show Unmasked.
Braff turned to Kickstarter to bankroll his latest project, Wish I Was Here, which he will direct and will star himself, Kate Hudson and Anna Kendrick. The film will go into production later this year after the $3m required was raised, but Braff met with criticism from some who felt that established stars should steer clear of the platform.
The...
- 5/24/2013
- by Paul Frankl
- The Guardian - Film News
When Zach Braff announced he was going to fund his next film via Kickstarter, he was met with some cheers, some boos, and some choos. One of the folks who got behind it was none other than Woody Allen. Braff revealed on Sirius Xm's "Unmasked with Ron Bennington" that he schooled the man himself about crowd-funding. Apparently, Braff was in Allen's office, talking about working on a project together (they have worked together in the past, when Braff played Allen's son in Manhattan Murder Mystery), on the day the Wish I Was Here campaign started. Allen wanted to know what all the fuss was about, so Braff discussed it with him for ten minutes or so. And now, apparently, Allen is all abuzz about it. Braff explained, "A couple of days ago, his assistant e-mailed me about something, and I said to her, 'Ps: I’ll always remember that I...
- 5/22/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Jason Reitman’s staged live-readings of famous movie scripts has become a must-see Los Angeles event, but the next one will pay tribute to the big city on the opposite coast.
Woody Allen’s Manhattan, the 1979 story of a New Yorker who falls in love with his best friend’s mistress, will be the next film recreated by Reitman at the Film Independent series, set for Nov. 15 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“From the onset of the Live-Read series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time,...
Woody Allen’s Manhattan, the 1979 story of a New Yorker who falls in love with his best friend’s mistress, will be the next film recreated by Reitman at the Film Independent series, set for Nov. 15 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“From the onset of the Live-Read series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time,...
- 11/9/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
Jason Reitman’s staged live-readings of famous movie scripts has become a must-see Los Angeles event, but the next one will pay tribute to the big city on the opposite coast.
Woody Allen’s Manhattan, the 1979 story of a New Yorker who falls in love with his best friend’s mistress, will be the next film recreated by Reitman at the Film Independent event, set for Nov. 15 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“From the onset of the Live-Read series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time,...
Woody Allen’s Manhattan, the 1979 story of a New Yorker who falls in love with his best friend’s mistress, will be the next film recreated by Reitman at the Film Independent event, set for Nov. 15 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“From the onset of the Live-Read series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time,...
- 11/9/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
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