It's Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "Harmony Korine" by Carrie Battan (Pitchfork): The Spring Breakers director and his music supervisor on the movie's use of Gucci Mane, Britney Spears, and lots of bass-dropping. "Roll in the hay: The rise of the Amish romance novel" by Valerie Weaver-Zercher (Larb): Reading into the "bonnet-ripper" market. "The Epic Ups and Downs of Peter Gelb" by Chip Brown (The New York Times Magazine): Everything you ever wanted to know about the guy who runs the Metropolitan Opera. "Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139" by Jerome Brooks (The Paris Review): A 1994 interview with the celebrated Nigerian novelist, who died last week. "What Is the Business of Literature?" by Richard Nash (Virginia...
- 3/24/2013
- by Andre Tartar,Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
Model and movie star whose life story was the inspiration behind the film Funny Face
In 1944, the 21-year-old Richard Avedon, just starting out as a professional photographer after leaving the Us merchant marine, walked into a bank in Manhattan, New York, and saw a 19-year-old clerk called Dorcas Nowell. It was love at first sight. He called her Doe because of her deer-like eyes, and they soon married. Doe Avedon, who has died aged 86, was the first muse of the man who was to become America's leading fashion and portrait photographer.
Richard Avedon, who had begun to get work as a photographer for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, made his wife into a top model, against her own inclinations. Although Doe gradually backed out of the limelight as a model – one of the last photos Richard took of her was posing in a fur-lined Christian Dior coat and hat at...
In 1944, the 21-year-old Richard Avedon, just starting out as a professional photographer after leaving the Us merchant marine, walked into a bank in Manhattan, New York, and saw a 19-year-old clerk called Dorcas Nowell. It was love at first sight. He called her Doe because of her deer-like eyes, and they soon married. Doe Avedon, who has died aged 86, was the first muse of the man who was to become America's leading fashion and portrait photographer.
Richard Avedon, who had begun to get work as a photographer for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, made his wife into a top model, against her own inclinations. Although Doe gradually backed out of the limelight as a model – one of the last photos Richard took of her was posing in a fur-lined Christian Dior coat and hat at...
- 12/27/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Deal reputed to be worth more than $10m suggests Hollywood still sees former California governor as box office banker
He's 63, and without a starring vehicle in cinemas for eight years, so you might expect Hollywood to bide its time before betting top dollar on a return to box-office glory for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not according to industry website Deadline, which reports that the former California governor is to enjoy a spectacular $10m-plus (£6m) payday for the latest in a series of new projects, the road movie Cry Macho.
Schwarzenegger's deal includes a 25% share of the first dollar gross for the project, an agreement that could see his wage rocketing if the film performs well at the box office. In his heyday, the Austrian-born former bodybuilder could demand a $25m salary, but the Cry Macho deal is remarkable for an actor who has been off screen for so long, and whose star...
He's 63, and without a starring vehicle in cinemas for eight years, so you might expect Hollywood to bide its time before betting top dollar on a return to box-office glory for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not according to industry website Deadline, which reports that the former California governor is to enjoy a spectacular $10m-plus (£6m) payday for the latest in a series of new projects, the road movie Cry Macho.
Schwarzenegger's deal includes a 25% share of the first dollar gross for the project, an agreement that could see his wage rocketing if the film performs well at the box office. In his heyday, the Austrian-born former bodybuilder could demand a $25m salary, but the Cry Macho deal is remarkable for an actor who has been off screen for so long, and whose star...
- 5/3/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
I wish I had Arnold Schwarzenegger’s enthusiasm. Or ambition. Or just downright ability to sell the shit out of anything he touches. After dumping politics (after all, it’s not like he could run for President or anything, right?), the Big Oak has already attached himself to a number of projects, including everything from Kim Ji-Woon’s “Last Stand”, a prison break movie called “The Tomb”, a possible fifth “Terminator” movie with “Fast Five” director Justin Lin, and then there’s that “Governator” nonsense with Stan Lee. And those are just things he put together in his first few months out of office! Hell, I don’t know if any of those things will actually get made or progress beyond the hype stage, but that’s not going to stop Schwarzenegger from adding one more to his plate: a drama called “Cry Macho”, based on the novel by Richard Nash.
- 5/2/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
"Now I know why you cry," says the T800 at the end of Terminator 2. It's an Oscar-worthy piece of emotional drama that Arnold Schwarzenegger seems keen to repeat, with Cry Macho now apparently the lead contender to return him to the big screen.Despite recent reports that Arnold's big comeback may be Terminator 5, With Wings As Eagles, The Last Stand or The Tomb, given the figures already involved ($10m for Arnold plus a share of the gross) it seems that Cry Macho is already an immediately going concern.Like Wings, it's a screenplay that's been floating around for a number of years, and involves a kidnap attempt on an 11-year-old boy that goes awry. Arnold's role is the kidnapper, a grizzled, alcoholic former-jockey turned down-on-his-luck horse breeder* with a dead wife and child, who takes the job against his better judgement. Cue an Arnold-and boy road trip, with, no doubt,...
- 5/2/2011
- EmpireOnline
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