Movie City News Archive for November, 2015
Ben Affleck Feels “Ton Of Pressure”
Ben Affleck Feels “Ton Of Pressure”
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup, Gift Guide II: Great American Dream Machine, McHale’s Navy, Brothers Quay, Shaun the Sheep, No Escape and more
At a time when public-broadcast stations were commonly referred to as “educational TV,” a show likened to an “intellectual ‘Laugh-In’” began production on New York City’s non-commercial WNET. “The Great American Dream Machine” was a weekly satirical variety television series. Its audience may have been miniscule compared to “Laugh-In,” but it was composed of hard-core liberals, media mavens and the next generation of opinion-makers. It didn’t take long for the show to bear fruit in the form of “The Groove Tube,” “Saturday Night Life,” “SCTV” and Kentucky Fried Movie. Watch the show today on DVD and you’ll recognize the forebears of Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah and John Oliver.
Read the full article »Twelve-Year-Old BBC3 Youth Channel Ends By February
Twelve-Year-Old BBC3 Youth Channel Ends By February
Read the full article »Steven Gaydos Analyzes Golden Globes Historical Winners, Pushing Past Questions Of Present-Day HFPA Process
Steven Gaydos Analyzes Golden Globes Historical Winners, Pushing Past Questions Of Present-Day HFPA Process
Read the full article »A Look At Male-Female Balance In Oz Film Industry
A Look At Male-Female Balance In Oz Film Industry
Read the full article »Brian Lowry On What Empire Strikes Back Taught Him Long, Long Ago About Avoiding Spoilerage
Brian Lowry On What Empire Strikes Back Taught Him Long, Long Ago About Avoiding Spoilerage
Read the full article »Bill Boyarsky On “The Once Great Los Angeles Times”
“What major news media companies haven’t learned is that once you empty the newsroom of experienced, talented, prize-winning reporters and editors, you lose the essence of who you are, and the young, inexperienced journalists have no one to listen to when it comes to learning how to become those departing journalists.” Former City Editor Bill…
Read the full article »Redstone Lawyers Contest Competency Claims
Redstone Lawyers Contest Competency Claims
Read the full article »Eric Kohn Draws Out Paul Verhoeven On History, H’wd And Upcoming Work
Eric Kohn Draws Out Paul Verhoeven On History, H’wd And Upcoming Work
Read the full article »Disney’s ESPN Has Shed 7 Million Subscribers In Two Years
Disney’s ESPN Has Shed 7 Million Subscribers In Two Years
Read the full article »Chicago Tribune Reporter Takes Spike Lee For Not Making Chi-raq The Movie In Her Head
“We didn’t get a glimpse of the other men and women in the communities who are striving, often without pay, to provide vulnerable young people a chance at a future. I know it’s satire. But can we really afford to laugh when our situation in Chicago is so dire that a 9-year-old boy can be lured…
Read the full article »John Cleese Has A Few Choice Words About Most Everything
John Cleese Has A Few Choice Words About Most Everything
Read the full article »Carvell Wallace On “The Two Lives Of Michael Jackson”
Carvell Wallace On “The Two Lives Of Michael Jackson”
Read the full article »“The Filmable Miss Highsmith”
“The Filmable Miss Highsmith”
Read the full article »A Few Small Thoughts On The Origins Of Rocky From Producer Mike Medavoy
A Few Small Thoughts On The Origins Of Rocky From Producer Mike Medavoy
Read the full article »SF’s Le Video Shuttering At End Of Month
SF’s Le Video Shuttering At End Of Month
Read the full article »Peter Hartlaub’s Oral History Of Star Wars And San Francisco’s Coronet Theater In 1977
Peter Hartlaub‘s Oral History Of Star Wars And San Francisco’s Coronet Theater In 1977
Read the full article »“Ms. Herzer is represented in the Redstone suit by Bertram Fields, Pierce O’Donnell and other lawyers from the Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger law firm, a Hollywood powerhouse.”
“Ms. Herzer is represented in the Redstone suit by Bertram Fields, Pierce O’Donnell and other lawyers from the Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger law firm, a Hollywood powerhouse.”
Read the full article »“Harper Lee, 89, signed sheets of paper that were then bound into the books, in batches over a period of a few months. Ms. Lee is nearly blind and has trouble hearing, but can write and read documents, with the help of a magnifying machine. HarperCollins printed just 500 copies of the collectors’ edition, which includes a leather-bound book with gold gilded edges and a velvet-lined cloth box.”
“Harper Lee, 89, signed sheets of paper that were then bound into the books, in batches over a period of a few months. Ms. Lee is nearly blind and has trouble hearing, but can write and read documents, with the help of a magnifying machine. HarperCollins printed just 500 copies of the collectors’ edition, which includes a…
Read the full article »Donald Richie’s Celebration Of Actress Setsuke Hara
Donald Richie‘s Celebration Of Actress Setsuke Hara
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