Via Open Culture Appearing on Inside the Actors Studio back in July 2000, Spacey charmed the host James Lipton and the audience by reeling off nine impersonations in six minutes. Jimmy Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino, they all make an appearance. And so does Christopher Walken, who delighted our readers earlier this week with a great reading...
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Roger Ebert: “This is how my memoir opens. Publication date is September 13, 2011.” Here’s a link to pre-order from Amazon. MEMORY (from LIFE, ITSELF) I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don’t remember how I got into the movie, but it continues...
Lord Voldemort’s days are numbered — and those numbers could add up to Oscar-worthy critics scores. Two of Awards Daily’s comment crew have embarked on ambitious number-crunching projects to chart how the BP nomination prospects for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows stack up with the astronomically high ratings its been getting from critics. Numbers...
Shame the Harry Potter series is ending just when it’s beginning to catch on. Deadline is reporting an astonishing haul of $43.5 million from midnight screenings, a healthy head-start on what’s shaping up to be a $180 million weekend in the US alone. Domestically, $45 million has been collected already in pre-sales for this opening North America weekend, including...
We can thank comic-con for the avalanche of excellent trailers stacking up all week, as studios polish their hottest fuck-me pumps with spiked acrylic heels and sparkly rhinestone straps, ready to strut their stuff for the fan-boy brigade. While the instandorsements have been generally favorable, the biggest quibbles with two important teasers has been the choice of music...
How can any fan of John Carpenter’s classic not want to see if someone’s got the juice to riff on perfection? Before punching the auto-backlash button asking, “Why do we need a remake?!”, please remember the equally automatic argument: The 1982 version was already a remake of Howard Hawks’ 1951 expedition into depths of Cold War paranoia....