Movies
Kim Novak, Reclusive Hitchcock Star of “Vertigo,” to Present on Oscars
What a coup! Neil Meron, co producer of the Academy Awards, has gotten Kim Novak to present at the Oscars on March 2nd.
Novak,...
Movies
“Veronica Mars” is Still A TV Show, “The Man from UNCLE” is Not a Tentpole
Warner Bros. made a couple of announcements on Friday that I'm just catching up to. "Veronica Mars: The Movie" is still pretty a TV...
Movies
Oscar Malaise Part 2: AWOL Actors Didn’t Help During this Season
I wrote back in January that awards malaise was setting in after we went through about a half dozen awards shows and still hadn't...
Celebrity
“Endless Love” Author Scott Spencer Predicted Last Year that Movie Would Fail
I just caught up with a piece written by "Endless Love" author Scott Spencer in an issue last fall of The Paris Review.
Spencer noted...
Media
Tom Brokaw Plugs Angelina Jolie Movie in Commercial Posing as Feature During Olympics
I'm confused. How about you? NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw narrated a commercial tonight on the Olympics. It was for an NBC Universal feature...
Movies
“12 Years” Wins BAFTA Best Picture, But Upsets Divide Actors’ Categories
Do the British Academy Awards mean anything to the American academy voters? It's hard to say. Probably not. But on Sunday "12 Years a...
Celebrity
“Winter’s Tale” is the First Gigantic Box Office Flop of 2014 with $7.7 Mil Weekend
That didn't take long. "Winter's Tale," directed (and written and produced) by Akiva Goldsman, is the first big studio flop of 2014.
On Friday night,...
Movies
Leonardo DiCaprio on Scorsese’s “Wolf”: “This is the Director’s Cut”
Last night Leonardo DiCaprio's mom was in the audience at the Ziegfeld Theater for a brief, but informative Q&A with the star of "Wolf...