NFL legend Dick Butkus has sadly died.
The former linebacker for the Chicago Bears passed away at his home in Malibu on Thursday (October 5), the Chicago Tribune reports. He was 80 years old.
According to his family, Dick passed overnight, peacefully in his sleep.
He is best known for playing for the Chicago Bears for eight seasons, from 1965-1973, before turning to a career as a sports commentator and actor.
Dick has had roles in movies like The Longest Yard, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Cracking Up, Superdome and more, with TV show appearances on MacGyver, Hang Time, Blue Thunder and even Murder, She Wrote.
In 1963, he married his high school sweetheart Helen Essenberg, and the two had three children, Ricky, Matt, and Nikki.
Our thoughts and condolences go out to Dick Butkus‘ family and friends during this time.
The former linebacker for the Chicago Bears passed away at his home in Malibu on Thursday (October 5), the Chicago Tribune reports. He was 80 years old.
According to his family, Dick passed overnight, peacefully in his sleep.
He is best known for playing for the Chicago Bears for eight seasons, from 1965-1973, before turning to a career as a sports commentator and actor.
Dick has had roles in movies like The Longest Yard, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Cracking Up, Superdome and more, with TV show appearances on MacGyver, Hang Time, Blue Thunder and even Murder, She Wrote.
In 1963, he married his high school sweetheart Helen Essenberg, and the two had three children, Ricky, Matt, and Nikki.
Our thoughts and condolences go out to Dick Butkus‘ family and friends during this time.
- 10/5/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Las Vegas – For Jerry Lewis, the “King of Comedy” wasn’t just a mere nickname, but an apt description for his long career and influence. He went from being the most popular entertainer of an era, to notable and studied filmmaker, to charity spokesperson and finally to comic legend. Jerry Lewis died in Las Vegas on August 20th, 2017. He was 91.
When the gawky 19 year-old Lewis met the suave singer Dean Martin in 1946, little did they know that they would become the most popular act in America for several years. Their box office draw was white-hot, so much so that neither of them could keep up with the blur of what happened to them. They eventually broke up at the height of their fame in 1956, during which Martin famously said, “Jer, when I look at you, all I see is a dollar sign.” The second phase of Lewis’s career would be about his prolific filmmaking,...
When the gawky 19 year-old Lewis met the suave singer Dean Martin in 1946, little did they know that they would become the most popular act in America for several years. Their box office draw was white-hot, so much so that neither of them could keep up with the blur of what happened to them. They eventually broke up at the height of their fame in 1956, during which Martin famously said, “Jer, when I look at you, all I see is a dollar sign.” The second phase of Lewis’s career would be about his prolific filmmaking,...
- 8/21/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Bluth family's antics are coming back to Netflix. The streaming service announced Wednesday that Arrested Development will return for its fifth season in 2018. The show is one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
After three critically acclaimed, but low-rated, seasons on Fox from 2004 to 2006, Mitch Hurwitz's cult comedy series was revived by Netflix in 2013, with the entire regular cast uniting for Season Four. Hurwitz and the original cast will again return for Season Five, which was delayed until all the talent involved could fit Arrested Development into their schedules,...
After three critically acclaimed, but low-rated, seasons on Fox from 2004 to 2006, Mitch Hurwitz's cult comedy series was revived by Netflix in 2013, with the entire regular cast uniting for Season Four. Hurwitz and the original cast will again return for Season Five, which was delayed until all the talent involved could fit Arrested Development into their schedules,...
- 5/17/2017
- Rollingstone.com
"Girls, I know this must feel very strange," the woman in the black robe says. She is older, stern, severe, authoritarian; she's addressing a group women seated in a circle, all of whom have been stripped of their reproductive rights, forcibly separated from their families and remanded to sexual slavery. "But ordinary is just what you're used to," she continues. "This might not seem ordinary to you right now. But, after a time, it will. This will become ordinary."
The promise of a "new normal," spoken by an apparatchik of a totalitarian theocracy – it's chilling,...
The promise of a "new normal," spoken by an apparatchik of a totalitarian theocracy – it's chilling,...
- 4/25/2017
- Rollingstone.com
In the latest trailer for Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Elisabeth Moss, Alexis Bledel and the rest of the star-studded cast navigate a dystopian future where women are treated as property of the state. The first three episodes of the 10 episode series will premiere at once on April 26th.
The Handmaid's Tale takes place in the near-future in a totalitarian nation called Gilead, meant to be the former United States. Many women have been rendered infertile, largely due to the contaminated environment. Fertile women like Moss'...
The Handmaid's Tale takes place in the near-future in a totalitarian nation called Gilead, meant to be the former United States. Many women have been rendered infertile, largely due to the contaminated environment. Fertile women like Moss'...
- 3/23/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Selina Meyer sets out to write the next chapter of her life and seek some well-deserved vengeance in the hilarious new trailer for Season Six of Veep. The comedy returns to HBO April 16th.
The clip opens with the ex-President offering a filtered take on her first year out of office on a morning show then cuts to an encounter with now-Congressman Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons), who cost her the election in the House of Representatives. "I will destroy you in ways that are so creative, they...
The clip opens with the ex-President offering a filtered take on her first year out of office on a morning show then cuts to an encounter with now-Congressman Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons), who cost her the election in the House of Representatives. "I will destroy you in ways that are so creative, they...
- 3/14/2017
- Rollingstone.com
There ought to be a VIP firing range for all these celebs taking shots at Donald Trump. Related: Hillary Clinton Tries To Read Donald Trump Quotes Without Cracking Up Cher was not one to mince her words when addressing the Republic presidential candidate: “It’s like a racist ‘Fun with Dick and Jane’… He doesn’t mean we […]...
- 8/24/2016
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big! Jack Fisk” celebrates one of cinema’s greatest production designers. The first weekend brings four Malick features, Mulholland Dr., Carrie, and There Will Be Blood.
A collection of the Muppets‘ appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson will be presented this Sunday.
Metrograph
A retrospective of the...
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big! Jack Fisk” celebrates one of cinema’s greatest production designers. The first weekend brings four Malick features, Mulholland Dr., Carrie, and There Will Be Blood.
A collection of the Muppets‘ appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson will be presented this Sunday.
Metrograph
A retrospective of the...
- 3/11/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
It’s been 35 years since a certain werewolf terrorized London, and to celebrate that anniversary, we gathered director John Landis, special effects guru Rick Baker, and actor David Naughton to discuss the production of An American Werewolf In London with Maniac Cop’s William Lustig moderating.
Screening the film for old fans and newbies gave the panel a rush of energy, and the three men laughed heartily at the remembrances. Landis recalled that he had been working on a film called Kelly’S Heroes when he saw some gypsies burying a man covered in rosaries and garlic and incense — and they were burying him feet first! — all to keep the corpse from coming back from the dead. He found it fascinating, and wondered how these superstitions could be so strong two months after we’d gone to the moon.
So he wrote the script for over a decade before the film finally went into production.
Screening the film for old fans and newbies gave the panel a rush of energy, and the three men laughed heartily at the remembrances. Landis recalled that he had been working on a film called Kelly’S Heroes when he saw some gypsies burying a man covered in rosaries and garlic and incense — and they were burying him feet first! — all to keep the corpse from coming back from the dead. He found it fascinating, and wondered how these superstitions could be so strong two months after we’d gone to the moon.
So he wrote the script for over a decade before the film finally went into production.
- 3/6/2016
- by Harker Jones
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
With Christmas around the bend, there's not nearly as much specialty programming from now until the end of the year, but there's still some great screenings worth mentioning. The Austin Film Society will be closing out 2014 with Cracking Up, a 1983 comedy from Jerry Lewis in 35mm. Bryan Connolly will be on hand for a post-film discussion for the showings tonight and again on Sunday evening.
In terms of the rest of the week in specialty screenings, they are pretty exclusively Christmas-themed. The Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter has free daily screenings of Arthur Christmas for Alamo Kids Club and Home Alone pizza parties on Sunday and Tuesday (which also will happen at the Alamo Lakeline). The Alamo Ritz has a digital restoration of Meet Me In St. Louis on Saturday and Sunday for Broadway Brunch, Gremlins on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday, Die Hard in 35mm from Sunday through Wednesday for daily shows,...
- 12/19/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
The centerpiece of the new issue of the multi-lingual film journal La Furia Umana is a walloping dossier on Jerry Lewis. Of the 24 pieces on Lewis, ten are in English: B Kite on the Little Clown in The Errand Boy (1961), Zach Campbell on Lewis's relation to his own image on screen, Murray Pomerance on that face, Peter Nellhaus on the extension of Lewis's auteurship into the films he didn't direct, David Phelps on Lewis's "Janus-faced comedy," R Emmet Sweeney on the September 18, 1955 broadcast of the Colgate Comedy Hour, Sudarshan Ramani on Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982), John J Kern on The Day the Clown Cried (1972), Steven Shaviro on Smorgasbord (aka Cracking Up, 1983) — and Gina Telaroli's remarkable, extra-textual piece on Hardly Working (1979).
Also in this issue: Luc Moullet's "Le Spleen de Rockefeller" in the original French; Ted Fendt's translation into English was presented here yesterday; Lilly Papagianni on Sara Driver...
Also in this issue: Luc Moullet's "Le Spleen de Rockefeller" in the original French; Ted Fendt's translation into English was presented here yesterday; Lilly Papagianni on Sara Driver...
- 4/3/2012
- MUBI
The Color Wheel is 83 minutes long. About 9 minutes and 40 seconds of those 83 minutes (i.e. roughly 1/9th) are taken up by a single shot, handheld, in which the cameraman (Sean Price Williams) only moves a few feet, but the characters of Colin (co-writer / editor / director Alex Ross Perry) and J.R. (co-writer Carlen Altman), seated on a couch, complete several transformations and a journey inward, piling on dialogue while stripping away their established personas. As a feat of form, performance and screenwriting, it's a fairly obvious showstopper—a great big narrative pirouette, grand jeté and cartwheel rolled into one, which betrays absolutely nothing that the film has (seemingly haphazardly, though actually carefully) established about the characters beforehand, and which accomplishes more in its 9 minutes and 40 seconds than most movies manage nowadays to do in their whole running times. That is: what's distinctive about the shot is not its duration, but...
- 6/19/2011
- MUBI
Directed By Jerry Lewis November 12-19
Jerry Lewis:
Check out the notices:
Village Voice
The New Yorker on Cracking Up (scroll down)
A Flavorpill pick
"
Jerry Lewis was born into a world of cinema, of images that fascinated him. Brought as a performer and star to the place where films are made, he learned film as a child learns the ways of the world. Like a child, obsessed with finding out things, he took apart the toys he was given, trying to see what was inside them and how they worked. When he won the chance to direct his own films, he used the opportunity to launch a relentless examination of his own relationship with filmic and verbal language." -Chris Fujiwara
This fall, Anthology addresses one of the questions that has challenged thinkers throughout the ages: could the French have gotten Jerry Lewis right? Though famously beloved by many...
Jerry Lewis:
Check out the notices:
Village Voice
The New Yorker on Cracking Up (scroll down)
A Flavorpill pick
"
Jerry Lewis was born into a world of cinema, of images that fascinated him. Brought as a performer and star to the place where films are made, he learned film as a child learns the ways of the world. Like a child, obsessed with finding out things, he took apart the toys he was given, trying to see what was inside them and how they worked. When he won the chance to direct his own films, he used the opportunity to launch a relentless examination of his own relationship with filmic and verbal language." -Chris Fujiwara
This fall, Anthology addresses one of the questions that has challenged thinkers throughout the ages: could the French have gotten Jerry Lewis right? Though famously beloved by many...
- 11/11/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
James Cameron in Los Angeles with 70Mm prints of "Aliens" and "The Abyss"?!?! The Dardenne brothers in New York for a career retrospective?!?! The instant cult classic "The Room" with Tommy Wiseau live in Austin?!?! Be still my heart. There's something for all tastes this summer on the West Coast, the East Coast and as you'll notice, the Third Coast on our calendar of the must-see events on the repertory theater circuit in May, June and July. And don't miss our look at the indie films that are hitting theaters or headed to online, VOD or DVD premiere this summer.
Anthology Film Archives
With the New York Polish Film Festival (May 6-10) and first-runs of the docs "Ice People" (May 1-7) and "Audience of One" (May 8-14) and Ken Jacobs' reinvention of his 1969 work "Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son" with the 3D "Anaglyph Tom" (May 15-21) taking up the Anthology's screens,...
Anthology Film Archives
With the New York Polish Film Festival (May 6-10) and first-runs of the docs "Ice People" (May 1-7) and "Audience of One" (May 8-14) and Ken Jacobs' reinvention of his 1969 work "Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son" with the 3D "Anaglyph Tom" (May 15-21) taking up the Anthology's screens,...
- 5/5/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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