Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
Today we discuss a character actress, multiple Oscar nominee (and winner) and living legend who is still somehow underrated: Kathy “Bobo” Bates!
Our B-Sides today are: A Home of Our Own, Dolores Claiborne, Love Liza, and Richard Jewell.
The actress made her bones in the theater, originating roles in iconic stuff such as ‘Night Mother and Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
Our guest is Billy Ray Brewton, host of the superb The Incinerator Podcast, the Movie Mixtapes podcast, and the Center Clueless podcast. Brewton is also the Festival Director/Lead Programmer of Make Believe Seattle.
We talk to Brewton about why it is that Bates is his favorite working actress, her innate Southern charm,...
Today we discuss a character actress, multiple Oscar nominee (and winner) and living legend who is still somehow underrated: Kathy “Bobo” Bates!
Our B-Sides today are: A Home of Our Own, Dolores Claiborne, Love Liza, and Richard Jewell.
The actress made her bones in the theater, originating roles in iconic stuff such as ‘Night Mother and Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
Our guest is Billy Ray Brewton, host of the superb The Incinerator Podcast, the Movie Mixtapes podcast, and the Center Clueless podcast. Brewton is also the Festival Director/Lead Programmer of Make Believe Seattle.
We talk to Brewton about why it is that Bates is his favorite working actress, her innate Southern charm,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Sophie is trying to move on from her short-lived relationship with Jesse in Hulu‘s How I Met Your Father. And when Val’s parents, Juan and Raquel, introduced Sophie to Oscar in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 5, sparks flew between them. Read on to learn more about the actor who plays Oscar — Victor Rasuk.
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 6, “Universal Therapy.”]
Victor Rasuk as Oscar and Hilary Duff as Sophie | Patrick Wymore/Hulu Oscar started dating Sophie in ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2
Sophie and Val visited Val’s parents in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 5, but the couple had an ulterior motive for inviting them to brunch. They have been scheming to find Val a boyfriend for years because they wanted their daughter to find a love like theirs. However, after several failed attempts, Juan and Raquel tried a different approach.
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 6, “Universal Therapy.”]
Victor Rasuk as Oscar and Hilary Duff as Sophie | Patrick Wymore/Hulu Oscar started dating Sophie in ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2
Sophie and Val visited Val’s parents in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 5, but the couple had an ulterior motive for inviting them to brunch. They have been scheming to find Val a boyfriend for years because they wanted their daughter to find a love like theirs. However, after several failed attempts, Juan and Raquel tried a different approach.
- 2/28/2023
- by Sarah Little
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Nearly two years after Downton Abbey went off the air, most of the beloved ensemble cast is back in action on screen and stage, with Michelle Dockery, Dan Stevens and Joanne Froggatt leading several high-profile projects coming out this fall.
2017 Fall Preview: Et's Complete Coverage
Even though the period drama ended in 2015, this year can definitely be dubbed “2017: Life After Abbey.” And to think, all we care about is a Downton Abbey movie!
Check out what’s coming up (and highlights of a few things you may have missed):
Michelle Dockery
Good Behavior (TNT)
Premieres 10/15
Godless (Netflix)
Premieres 11/22
Photo: PBS / Getty Images / TNT / Netflix
Dockery, aka Lady Mary, was one of the first cast members out of the gates with a decidedly un-Downton-like character, playing con artist and recovering drug addict Letty Raines on TNT’s Good Behavior. “I was very fortunate when it came along,” Dockery told Et. “I wasn’t...
2017 Fall Preview: Et's Complete Coverage
Even though the period drama ended in 2015, this year can definitely be dubbed “2017: Life After Abbey.” And to think, all we care about is a Downton Abbey movie!
Check out what’s coming up (and highlights of a few things you may have missed):
Michelle Dockery
Good Behavior (TNT)
Premieres 10/15
Godless (Netflix)
Premieres 11/22
Photo: PBS / Getty Images / TNT / Netflix
Dockery, aka Lady Mary, was one of the first cast members out of the gates with a decidedly un-Downton-like character, playing con artist and recovering drug addict Letty Raines on TNT’s Good Behavior. “I was very fortunate when it came along,” Dockery told Et. “I wasn’t...
- 9/25/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Read More: Review: Brad Bird's 'Tomorrowland,' Starring George Clooney, is More Than Just a Theme Park Ride Arc Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to "Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism," a family film based on the bestselling book series by Georgia Byng. The first of the six-book series has been adapted to the screen by director Christopher N. Rowley ("Bonneville") and stars British child actor Raffey Cassidy ("Tomorrowland," "Snow White and the Huntsman") as the titular character, Molly Moon. The film premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival. The official synopsis reads: "'Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism' tells the story of a young orphan girl, Molly Moon, who comes across a book, 'Hypnotism, An Ancient Art.' Learning its lessons, she hypnotizes her way to stardom in London and becomes rich and famous. But little does she know that...
- 7/20/2015
- by Sara Itkis
- Indiewire
Jessica Lange is now the face of Marc Jacobs Beauty line at 64, photographed by David Sims below. (Take that previously daring Lancôme with Isabella Rossellini as their international spokesface until she was in her dotage at 44).
What a second act Jess's career! After a very long rough stretch (approximately 1996-2008 which saw the likes of Hush and Bonneville and a couple of barely released movies) she's really on top of it all again... except the movies. What can we trace the revival back to? Many of you would shout "Grey Gardens!" from 2009, but I think the secret might be her honorary place in David O. Russell's I ♥ Huckabees with its Jessica Lange photo fetish.
Is it a crime? Is it a crime to look at Lange?!
Question: If she made Titus (1999) or Big Fish (2003) now, and gave the exact same performance she gave then, post career resurgence, do you...
What a second act Jess's career! After a very long rough stretch (approximately 1996-2008 which saw the likes of Hush and Bonneville and a couple of barely released movies) she's really on top of it all again... except the movies. What can we trace the revival back to? Many of you would shout "Grey Gardens!" from 2009, but I think the secret might be her honorary place in David O. Russell's I ♥ Huckabees with its Jessica Lange photo fetish.
Is it a crime? Is it a crime to look at Lange?!
Question: If she made Titus (1999) or Big Fish (2003) now, and gave the exact same performance she gave then, post career resurgence, do you...
- 2/28/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
After NBC canceled "Harry's Law," Kathy Bates was reluctant to return to television, the actress admitted during the "American Horror Story: Coven" panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.
"Harry's Law" was considered a bubble show because it scored a mere 0.8 in the coveted adults 18-49 demo, but its overall ratings were healthy -- especially by NBC standards -- always pulling in over 7 million viewers. Because of this, its cancellation came as a shock to many fans -- and Bates herself.
The Oscar winner had some choice words for NBC during the Q&A for the FX drama, telling reporters, "I don't wanna give 'em any airtime -- I think they treated us like shit; they kicked us to the curb; they disrespected us; they disrespected our 7 to 11 million viewers every week, and I think they're getting what they deserve ... I wasn't gonna say anything about it, but who cares?...
"Harry's Law" was considered a bubble show because it scored a mere 0.8 in the coveted adults 18-49 demo, but its overall ratings were healthy -- especially by NBC standards -- always pulling in over 7 million viewers. Because of this, its cancellation came as a shock to many fans -- and Bates herself.
The Oscar winner had some choice words for NBC during the Q&A for the FX drama, telling reporters, "I don't wanna give 'em any airtime -- I think they treated us like shit; they kicked us to the curb; they disrespected us; they disrespected our 7 to 11 million viewers every week, and I think they're getting what they deserve ... I wasn't gonna say anything about it, but who cares?...
- 8/2/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Jonathan Lapaglia and Luke Hemsworth are joining The Reckoning, a film from Lightning Entertainment. The film will be directed John V. Soto (Crush). Hemsworth, much like the third Manning brother, is the lesser known of the Hemsworth clan, that has Thor and Gale as the other members. Lapaglia is the son of Without A Trace star Anthony Lapaglia. Check the press release for more deets on the film.
Los Angeles – Jonathan Lapaglia and Luke Hemsworth will star in the crime thriller The Reckoning, written and to be directed by John V. Soto (Needle, Crush), it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment who is set to handle International sales rights to the film.
The Reckoning will start principal photography on April 29th on location in Australia. Deidre Kitcher (Needle, Crush) is producing. Robert Lundberg, Greg Coote, David Calvert-Jones, Roger Savill and Kim Savill will executive produce the film.
Los Angeles – Jonathan Lapaglia and Luke Hemsworth will star in the crime thriller The Reckoning, written and to be directed by John V. Soto (Needle, Crush), it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment who is set to handle International sales rights to the film.
The Reckoning will start principal photography on April 29th on location in Australia. Deidre Kitcher (Needle, Crush) is producing. Robert Lundberg, Greg Coote, David Calvert-Jones, Roger Savill and Kim Savill will executive produce the film.
- 3/30/2013
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
'American Horror Story' Season 3: Kathy Bates to reunite with Jessica Lange in Oscar winner showdown
"American Horror Story" has had no shortage of casting coups in its brief history but landing Oscar winner Kathy Bates to square off with fellow Oscar winner Jessica Lange may be the biggest get yet.
TVLine reports that Bates will play Lange's friend turned enemy in the third season -- or installment -- of the ongoing miniseries. Details of the new season remain vague, but Lange is expected to play a far more glamorous role than "Asylum's" Sister Jude and the storyline will involve young love, multiple cities and multiple timelines.
Previous "Horror Story" cast members Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga and Frances Conroy are also confirmed to return.
Bates and Lange have shared the screen twice before: in 1990's "Men Don't Leave," before Bates won her Oscar for "Misery," and again in 2006's little seen indie "Bonneville" (which also starred Joan Allen -- another great actress...
TVLine reports that Bates will play Lange's friend turned enemy in the third season -- or installment -- of the ongoing miniseries. Details of the new season remain vague, but Lange is expected to play a far more glamorous role than "Asylum's" Sister Jude and the storyline will involve young love, multiple cities and multiple timelines.
Previous "Horror Story" cast members Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga and Frances Conroy are also confirmed to return.
Bates and Lange have shared the screen twice before: in 1990's "Men Don't Leave," before Bates won her Oscar for "Misery," and again in 2006's little seen indie "Bonneville" (which also starred Joan Allen -- another great actress...
- 2/26/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Chicago – The 64th Annual Emmy Awards will go down on Sunday night and this year promises to be more unpredictable than ever…unless it’s not. While most pundits are thinking that this is the year that the Academy will take risks and award new blood, there’s just as much of a chance that we’ll see as many repeat winners as ever, maybe more. It will probably be a healthy mix of the two with new winners like Deschanel & Danes joining returning favorites like Cranston & Parsons. How’s it all going to end? No one knows for sure (but come back Sunday night for all the winners). Here’s my best guesses along with what should win and what should have been nominated.
Downton Abbey
Photo credit: PBS
Outstanding Dramatic Series
“Boardwalk Empire” (HBO)
“Breaking Bad” (AMC)
“Downton Abbey” (PBS)
“Game of Thrones” (HBO)
“Homeland” (Showtime)
“Mad Men...
Downton Abbey
Photo credit: PBS
Outstanding Dramatic Series
“Boardwalk Empire” (HBO)
“Breaking Bad” (AMC)
“Downton Abbey” (PBS)
“Game of Thrones” (HBO)
“Homeland” (Showtime)
“Mad Men...
- 9/22/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Writers: Daniel D. Davis Directors: Christopher N. Rowley Cast: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen,Tom Skerritt, Christine Baranski, Victor Rasuk, Tom Amandes, Tom Wopat Rating: PG Studio: 20th Century Fox Release Date: June 24, 2008 I’m not overly fond of the sentimental, chick-friendly flicks that so many men try to get out of watching with their girlfriends. While Bonneville has that [...]Sharethis.addEntry({ title: "DVD Review: Bonneville", url: "http://www.literaryillusions.com/LIreviews/2008/06/23/dvd-review-bonneville/" });...
- 6/24/2008
- by Dominick
NEW YORK -- SenArt Films is making an unusual marketing move with Princess Cruises, hosting sneak previews of its comic drama Bonneville on several ships.
In what may be the first promotional strategy of its kind, the road movie starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen will be shown on high seas trips to Australia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Argentina and other locales.
Screenings will take place the week of Feb. 11, some two weeks before its theatrical premiere. The companies have also partnered for a weeklong cruise sweepstakes featured on the official Bonneville Web site.
In what may be the first promotional strategy of its kind, the road movie starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen will be shown on high seas trips to Australia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Argentina and other locales.
Screenings will take place the week of Feb. 11, some two weeks before its theatrical premiere. The companies have also partnered for a weeklong cruise sweepstakes featured on the official Bonneville Web site.
- 1/11/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producer SenArt Films is creating a distribution division, SenArt Films Releasing, and hiring New York indie film veteran Jeff Lipsky as its director of marketing distribution.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has signed on as its video releasing partner.
Lipsky, co-founder of October Films and Lot 47 Films, will oversee the arm's first U.S. release, Christopher N. Rowley's road movie Bonneville, starring Jessica Lange, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates. SenArt founder Robert May and John Kilker produced the project. Lightning Entertainment is handling overseas sales at this week's American Film Market.
Fox is a financial partner with SenArt, collaborating on its overall marketing strategy, encompassing theatrical and DVD releases.
"In this age of niche marketing, we are pioneering what we call 'hyper-viral marketing,'" May said. "We'll identify a film's target demographic -- in this case, the underserved female boomer audience -- and then find brands and organizations who are targeting the same demo and set up innovative cross-promotional partnerships."...
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has signed on as its video releasing partner.
Lipsky, co-founder of October Films and Lot 47 Films, will oversee the arm's first U.S. release, Christopher N. Rowley's road movie Bonneville, starring Jessica Lange, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates. SenArt founder Robert May and John Kilker produced the project. Lightning Entertainment is handling overseas sales at this week's American Film Market.
Fox is a financial partner with SenArt, collaborating on its overall marketing strategy, encompassing theatrical and DVD releases.
"In this age of niche marketing, we are pioneering what we call 'hyper-viral marketing,'" May said. "We'll identify a film's target demographic -- in this case, the underserved female boomer audience -- and then find brands and organizations who are targeting the same demo and set up innovative cross-promotional partnerships."...
- 11/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Put three old friends in a convertible for a cross-country road trip to a loved one's funeral, and what do you get? Very few surprises, in this feel-good fluff that, despite offering nothing novel, could do well with older audiences who rightly feel that too few films are being made with them in mind.
Things get off on the wrong foot, with an unfortunate credits sequence that tells the back story -- Arvilla (Jessica Lange) and husband Joe were globe-trotting free spirits, now Joe has died -- in a photo-album montage that looks like the intro to a TV dramedy series about a newly widowed woman starting her new life.
Thankfully, the film never gets quite that syrupy again. We meet Arvilla's friends Margene and Carol (Kathy Bates and Joan Allen) and Joe's daughter from a previous marriage, Francine (Christine Baranski), who presents an unlikely problem: Francine will let Arvilla keep the house she and Joe shared for 20 years (he meant for her to have it, but appears not to have gotten around to updating his will) only if she will ignore her promise to scatter Joe's ashes, instead letting Daddy be interred alongside his first wife.
Ignoring the option that any respectable free spirit would consider first -- scatter the ashes and give none-the-wiser Francine an urn full of stuff from the fireplace -- Arvilla decides to deliver Joe's remains in person, bringing Carol and Margene with her on the trek from Idaho to Francine's home in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Cue the cute hitchhiker who knows how to change a tire, the rugged but soulful trucker, the fatigue-generated blowup between friends, the revelation of secrets and the parade of scenic vistas seen through the windshield of a vintage convertible. We don't need to see the women pose in sunglasses with the top town to be reminded of another gal-buddy road trip that was edgy where this one is tame.
As the script holds no twist that isn't either foreshadowed early on or an expectation of the genre (the only surprise is that the film doesn't make more out of a bit of good fortune in Vegas), Bonneville is awfully lucky in its cast. Bates is particularly likable as a man-hungry smart aleck who gets shy when the ball's in her court. But the tightly wound Allen keeps the wanderlust fantasia planted in the pragmatic world without being a nag, and Lange is convincing in her bereavement (albeit saddled with a wince-worthy scene near the film's end, a monologue in which she talks to Joe while gazing up into the night sky).
Middle-age women who can get over the shock of having a movie made for them might dream of an even less common occurrence: What if a movie for and starring women their age had a woman in the director's chair? Or writing the script? Or even among the four credited producers? Maybe next time.
BONNEVILLE
SenArt Films
Credits:
Director: Christopher N. Rowley
Screenwriter: Daniel D. Davis
Producers: Robert May, John Kilker
Executive producers: Bob Brown, R. Michael Bergeron
Director of photography: Jeffrey Kimball
Production designer: Christopher DeMuri
Costume designer: Sue Gandy
Music: Shie Rozow
Editor: Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
Cast:
Arvilla: Jessica Lange
Carol: Joan Allen
Margene: Kathy Bates
Emmett: Tom Skerritt
Francine: Christine Baranski.
Running time -- 103 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Things get off on the wrong foot, with an unfortunate credits sequence that tells the back story -- Arvilla (Jessica Lange) and husband Joe were globe-trotting free spirits, now Joe has died -- in a photo-album montage that looks like the intro to a TV dramedy series about a newly widowed woman starting her new life.
Thankfully, the film never gets quite that syrupy again. We meet Arvilla's friends Margene and Carol (Kathy Bates and Joan Allen) and Joe's daughter from a previous marriage, Francine (Christine Baranski), who presents an unlikely problem: Francine will let Arvilla keep the house she and Joe shared for 20 years (he meant for her to have it, but appears not to have gotten around to updating his will) only if she will ignore her promise to scatter Joe's ashes, instead letting Daddy be interred alongside his first wife.
Ignoring the option that any respectable free spirit would consider first -- scatter the ashes and give none-the-wiser Francine an urn full of stuff from the fireplace -- Arvilla decides to deliver Joe's remains in person, bringing Carol and Margene with her on the trek from Idaho to Francine's home in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Cue the cute hitchhiker who knows how to change a tire, the rugged but soulful trucker, the fatigue-generated blowup between friends, the revelation of secrets and the parade of scenic vistas seen through the windshield of a vintage convertible. We don't need to see the women pose in sunglasses with the top town to be reminded of another gal-buddy road trip that was edgy where this one is tame.
As the script holds no twist that isn't either foreshadowed early on or an expectation of the genre (the only surprise is that the film doesn't make more out of a bit of good fortune in Vegas), Bonneville is awfully lucky in its cast. Bates is particularly likable as a man-hungry smart aleck who gets shy when the ball's in her court. But the tightly wound Allen keeps the wanderlust fantasia planted in the pragmatic world without being a nag, and Lange is convincing in her bereavement (albeit saddled with a wince-worthy scene near the film's end, a monologue in which she talks to Joe while gazing up into the night sky).
Middle-age women who can get over the shock of having a movie made for them might dream of an even less common occurrence: What if a movie for and starring women their age had a woman in the director's chair? Or writing the script? Or even among the four credited producers? Maybe next time.
BONNEVILLE
SenArt Films
Credits:
Director: Christopher N. Rowley
Screenwriter: Daniel D. Davis
Producers: Robert May, John Kilker
Executive producers: Bob Brown, R. Michael Bergeron
Director of photography: Jeffrey Kimball
Production designer: Christopher DeMuri
Costume designer: Sue Gandy
Music: Shie Rozow
Editor: Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
Cast:
Arvilla: Jessica Lange
Carol: Joan Allen
Margene: Kathy Bates
Emmett: Tom Skerritt
Francine: Christine Baranski.
Running time -- 103 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 9/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bonneville, which will debut in a gala slot Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival, is one of the hot titles vying for buyers' attention. The road movie, which stars Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen, is targeting older female moviegoers, a niche that has seen success with such recent movies as Something's Gotta Give, The Banger Sisters, Ladies in Lavender and The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club. Bonneville is one of six films that Cinetic's John Sloss, who sold The Station Agent and The Fog of War, is handling at the festival. "I'm a little concerned over the hype," he said. "It delivers to its target audience of mature women. Distributors are getting smart and realize that a movie can work with this demo with the right cast and high concept."...
Oscar winner Jessica Lange was taken by surprise when she was honored by New York City's Film Society Of Lincoln Center on Monday night, when her celebrity pals took to the stage to talk about her short-comings. The Tootsie actress was paid the tribute by the renowned cinematic body in recognition of her contribution to film and television. Misery actress Kathy Bates took the stage with Joan Allen to make fun of Lange's perceived lack of a sense of humor, with Allen saying, "Remember that time in the make-up room (on Bonneville) when she told us not to buy from Exxon because their profits were too high. She's a laugh riot!" Scottish actor Alan Cumming recalled starring naked alongside Lange, who turns 57 tomorrow, in Titus. He said to her, "I don't know what you're talking about Jessica, but you've got fantastic tits." To which she replied, "Please, if your hand weren't there that thing would be halfway round my back."...
- 4/20/2006
- WENN
- 10. Tilda Swinton She starred in a variation of roles with different screen time presence - Constantine, Broken Flowers, Thumbsucker, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. What’s next? This busy-bee will be seen with the Sundance premiere of Stephanie Daley, followed by Michael Clayton, That Man from London, Nico. 9. Sienna Miller The 5 minutes in Layer Cake was enough to give some of us heart problems and she capped off the year with Casanova. What’s next? Camille and a lead role in Factory Girl. 8. Cécile De France We saw her briefly in The Russian Dolls, but it is her delicious performance in High Tension that was worth the mention. What’s next? Unless you speak French or live in France, you won,t be seeig much of this actress – whose got a trio of French leads. 7. Keira Knightly While we won’t
- 1/2/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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