Michael Douglas is in terrific form as Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV’s new historical limited series “Franklin” but he isn’t the only actor to emerge with awards whispers whizzing through the air. Veteran actor Eddie Marsan features in a key supporting role as John Adams and delivers one of the finest performances of his career while also shining a new light onto a man that many actors have depicted before.
The limited series follows Franklin’s eight years in France as he tried to persuade King Louis XVI (Tom Pezier) to join the colonies’ cause and aid them in the American Revolutionary War. The scenes between Douglas and Marsan are nothing short of spectacular and Marsan nails his performance as Adams, as noted by critics.
Clint Worthington (Roger Ebert) noted: “Marsan’s energy as Adams is decidedly different from Paul Giamatti’s in Ellis’ original 2008 miniseries—“Franklin” feels...
The limited series follows Franklin’s eight years in France as he tried to persuade King Louis XVI (Tom Pezier) to join the colonies’ cause and aid them in the American Revolutionary War. The scenes between Douglas and Marsan are nothing short of spectacular and Marsan nails his performance as Adams, as noted by critics.
Clint Worthington (Roger Ebert) noted: “Marsan’s energy as Adams is decidedly different from Paul Giamatti’s in Ellis’ original 2008 miniseries—“Franklin” feels...
- 4/30/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
British actor Tom Wilkinson, who appeared in films including ‘The Full Monty’, ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’, passed away in the U.K. He died at the age of 75 on Saturday. He won a BAFTA for supporting actor for ‘The Full Monty’, in which he plays an unemployed steel worker who joins a male striptease dance group who decide to strip completely — “go the full Monty” — in order to make money, reports Variety.
“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30. His wife and family were with him,” the statement from his family to the BBC read.
As per Variety, Wilkinson reprised his role as Gerald in ‘The Full Monty’ for the recent Disney+ series which revisited the characters 26 years later.
Wilkinson was Oscar-nominated for his roles in ‘Michael Clayton’, in which he played...
“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30. His wife and family were with him,” the statement from his family to the BBC read.
As per Variety, Wilkinson reprised his role as Gerald in ‘The Full Monty’ for the recent Disney+ series which revisited the characters 26 years later.
Wilkinson was Oscar-nominated for his roles in ‘Michael Clayton’, in which he played...
- 12/31/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
We have some very sad news to close out 2023, folks. Tom Wilkinson, one of the finest and most beloved character actors of this (or any other) generation, has died suddenly at 75. Deadline was the first to report the news. The twice Oscar-nominated co-star of Michael Clayton, Batman Begins, In the Bedroom, and many more films last appeared in Disney Plus’s sequel series to his breakout role in The Full Monty.
Between 1998 and 2018, Wilkinson was one of his generation’s most prolific character actors, with his output putting him up there with Brian Cox and Brendan Gleeson. He made over 65 movies and TV series in that twenty-year period, starring in everything from high-profile arthouse fare like Todd Field’s In the Bedroom to his role as Carmine Falcone in Batman Begins. He often played villains, such as in The Lone Ranger, but had the range to take on pretty much any part.
Between 1998 and 2018, Wilkinson was one of his generation’s most prolific character actors, with his output putting him up there with Brian Cox and Brendan Gleeson. He made over 65 movies and TV series in that twenty-year period, starring in everything from high-profile arthouse fare like Todd Field’s In the Bedroom to his role as Carmine Falcone in Batman Begins. He often played villains, such as in The Lone Ranger, but had the range to take on pretty much any part.
- 12/30/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Tom Wilkinson, the Oscar-nominated British actor best known for roles in The Full Monty, In the Bedroom, and Batman Begins, has died at the age of 75.
Wilkinson’s family confirmed the charactor actor’s death Saturday in a statement (via the BBC), noting that he died “suddenly.”
“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30,” the family said in a statement. “His wife and family were with him. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Wilkinson was a two-time Academy Award nominee,...
Wilkinson’s family confirmed the charactor actor’s death Saturday in a statement (via the BBC), noting that he died “suddenly.”
“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30,” the family said in a statement. “His wife and family were with him. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Wilkinson was a two-time Academy Award nominee,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Tom Wilkinson, the British actor who appeared in films including “The Full Monty,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” died Saturday in the U.K., the BBC reported. He was 75.
“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30. His wife and family were with him,” the statement from his family to the BBC read.
He won a BAFTA for supporting actor for “The Full Monty,” in which he plays an unemployed steel worker who joins a male striptease dance group who decide to strip completely — “go the full Monty” — in order to make money. Wilkinson reprised his role as Gerald in “The Full Monty” for the recent Disney+ series which revisited the characters 26 years later.
Wilkinson was Oscar-nominated for his roles in “Michael Clayton,” in which he played an attorney who has a manic episode...
“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30. His wife and family were with him,” the statement from his family to the BBC read.
He won a BAFTA for supporting actor for “The Full Monty,” in which he plays an unemployed steel worker who joins a male striptease dance group who decide to strip completely — “go the full Monty” — in order to make money. Wilkinson reprised his role as Gerald in “The Full Monty” for the recent Disney+ series which revisited the characters 26 years later.
Wilkinson was Oscar-nominated for his roles in “Michael Clayton,” in which he played an attorney who has a manic episode...
- 12/30/2023
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Cari Beauchamp, the widely respected historian and author of several books on Hollywood who often appeared on Turner Classics Movies programming and at the network’s annual TCM Classic Film Festival, has died. She was 74.
TCM posted a tribute to Beauchamp on its Twitter/X page Friday.
“We are saddened to hear of the loss of one of our TCM family, trailblazing historian Cari Beauchamp,” the network wrote today. Without her invaluable work, many female creatives would be lost to history. We are grateful for her many contributions to our network over the years.”
Beauchamp’s work focused on the role of women in Hollywood, including in her books Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s. She also wrote Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, edited Anita Loos...
TCM posted a tribute to Beauchamp on its Twitter/X page Friday.
“We are saddened to hear of the loss of one of our TCM family, trailblazing historian Cari Beauchamp,” the network wrote today. Without her invaluable work, many female creatives would be lost to history. We are grateful for her many contributions to our network over the years.”
Beauchamp’s work focused on the role of women in Hollywood, including in her books Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s. She also wrote Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, edited Anita Loos...
- 12/16/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Cari Beauchamp, the respected film historian who put readers and viewers in close touch with the early days of Hollywood through her painstaking research as an author, editor and documentary filmmaker, died Thursday. She was 74.
Beauchamp died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her son Jake Flynn told The Hollywood Reporter.
She was unable to attend an Oct. 28 event at the Tcl Chinese Theatre that celebrated authors represented on THR’s recent unveiling of “The 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time.”
Beauchamp is on the exclusive list thanks to Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. First published in 1997, it centers on Marion, who became the highest-paid screenwriter, man or woman, in Hollywood by 1917 before receiving Oscars for The Big House (1930) and The Champ (1931).
Beauchamp then wrote and produced for TCM a 2001 documentary based on the book, earning a WGA nomination along the way.
Beauchamp died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her son Jake Flynn told The Hollywood Reporter.
She was unable to attend an Oct. 28 event at the Tcl Chinese Theatre that celebrated authors represented on THR’s recent unveiling of “The 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time.”
Beauchamp is on the exclusive list thanks to Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. First published in 1997, it centers on Marion, who became the highest-paid screenwriter, man or woman, in Hollywood by 1917 before receiving Oscars for The Big House (1930) and The Champ (1931).
Beauchamp then wrote and produced for TCM a 2001 documentary based on the book, earning a WGA nomination along the way.
- 12/15/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
101 Studios secured the rights to the Nyt bestseller White House By The Sea: A Century of the Kennedys At Hyannis Port and are fast-tracking it for a television adaptation.
Written by Rolling Stone‘s Kate Storey and published June 27 by Scribner, White House By The Sea is the multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod. The estate is where they’ve celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds – and Storey’s book is based on more than one hundred interviews.
“Kate Storey spent years researching for this book and it really shows in how she was able to bring these characters to life,” said David Glasser, CEO of 101 Studios. “Viewers will be able to get to know the Kennedy family in a way they have never seen before. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this unique...
Written by Rolling Stone‘s Kate Storey and published June 27 by Scribner, White House By The Sea is the multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod. The estate is where they’ve celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds – and Storey’s book is based on more than one hundred interviews.
“Kate Storey spent years researching for this book and it really shows in how she was able to bring these characters to life,” said David Glasser, CEO of 101 Studios. “Viewers will be able to get to know the Kennedy family in a way they have never seen before. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this unique...
- 9/19/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Just as his latest film “Armageddon Time” is hitting theaters, James Gray has already set up his next project. The “Ad Astra” and “Lost City of Z” director will helm a film about John F. Kennedy for MadRiver Pictures.
As originally reported by Deadline, the film will be a biopic depicting how JFK became the 35th president of the United States, after growing up desperate to prove himself in his politically powerful family —his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was a successful businessman and a leading member of the Democratic Party. The film will particularly focus on Kennedy’s time in World War II, where he served as a commander of a patrol boat that was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. In the explosion, Kennedy took charge and helped the crew seek safety, and ultimately located rescue after a brutal two weeks. His actions won him a Navy and Marine Corps Medal,...
As originally reported by Deadline, the film will be a biopic depicting how JFK became the 35th president of the United States, after growing up desperate to prove himself in his politically powerful family —his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was a successful businessman and a leading member of the Democratic Party. The film will particularly focus on Kennedy’s time in World War II, where he served as a commander of a patrol boat that was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. In the explosion, Kennedy took charge and helped the crew seek safety, and ultimately located rescue after a brutal two weeks. His actions won him a Navy and Marine Corps Medal,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
During the casting of "The Godfather," Paramount executives did not agree with director Francis Ford Coppola's choice of Marlon Brando for the iron-willed Vito Corleone. After a string of box office failures, on-set conflicts, and personal issues, they saw him as a temperamental has-been and prima donna. In his autobiography "Songs My Mother Taught Me," Brando admits even he thought he wasn't right for the part:
"I had never played an Italian before, and I didn't think I could do it successfully. They had to be convinced that he, not someone like Ernest Borgnine or Carlo Ponti, was perfect for the role."
But Brando proved he was the ideal choice, giving a hypnotic performance of sheer intensity and measured wisdom that went on to become his most iconic and earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor (though he famously declined the trophy and sent indigenous American rights activist...
"I had never played an Italian before, and I didn't think I could do it successfully. They had to be convinced that he, not someone like Ernest Borgnine or Carlo Ponti, was perfect for the role."
But Brando proved he was the ideal choice, giving a hypnotic performance of sheer intensity and measured wisdom that went on to become his most iconic and earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor (though he famously declined the trophy and sent indigenous American rights activist...
- 9/9/2022
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Warning: this Peaky Blinders review contains spoilers.
Tommy escaped. He escaped it all – the fascists and the fake diagnosis and his family and himself. He rode out of Peaky Blinders just as he rode into it, only this time (this drama loves symbolism) on a white and not a black horse. Season six had sent him to hell where he’d reckoned with his sins. Then a plot by his enemies presented him with a rare opportunity to ride for the hills and leave it all behind. And as we know, Tommy’s never one to miss an opportunity. When Arthur and Curly and Charlie rake the ashes of Tommy’s wagon for silver and gold, they’ll find his wedding ring and watch and think him gone. He’s free.
Free, that is, until the Peaky Blinders feature film comes out, when Tommy Shelby or Mr Jones or the...
Tommy escaped. He escaped it all – the fascists and the fake diagnosis and his family and himself. He rode out of Peaky Blinders just as he rode into it, only this time (this drama loves symbolism) on a white and not a black horse. Season six had sent him to hell where he’d reckoned with his sins. Then a plot by his enemies presented him with a rare opportunity to ride for the hills and leave it all behind. And as we know, Tommy’s never one to miss an opportunity. When Arthur and Curly and Charlie rake the ashes of Tommy’s wagon for silver and gold, they’ll find his wedding ring and watch and think him gone. He’s free.
Free, that is, until the Peaky Blinders feature film comes out, when Tommy Shelby or Mr Jones or the...
- 4/4/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The Godfather, which just turned 50 last week, took out all the competition. Budgeted at $6 million, it earned $287 million in theaters. Its worldwide box office was 38.4 times its production costs. It was the first film in history to take in a million bucks a day. Completed ahead of schedule, director Francis Ford Coppola’s family film reflected his Sicilian roots and those of Mario Puzo, the author of the novel. But it wasn’t personal for them, just business.
Prior to 1972, the gangster movie genre traditionally presented a disillusioned underclass in morality plays which sent the same message: “Crime doesn’t pay.” The Godfather says it does. The Corleone Family at the center of the film and novel turn a profit. Puzo’s book charts the rise and fall of the “Mafia,” a word never spoken in the movie, from the vantage point of the most upwardly mobile of New York’s Five Families.
Prior to 1972, the gangster movie genre traditionally presented a disillusioned underclass in morality plays which sent the same message: “Crime doesn’t pay.” The Godfather says it does. The Corleone Family at the center of the film and novel turn a profit. Puzo’s book charts the rise and fall of the “Mafia,” a word never spoken in the movie, from the vantage point of the most upwardly mobile of New York’s Five Families.
- 3/29/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
This year, over 2,000 people participated in the 20th Annual Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port presented by Pepsi-Cola and Shaw’s and Star Market Foundation, a cycling, run and walk fundraiser from Boston to Hyannis Port, May 31 – June 1.
The Challenge raised $6.6 million in total donations for Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd).
Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, served as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, helped honor Steve Difillippo, chef, restaurateur and owner of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston, with the 2019 Spirit of Leadership award. This is Best Buddies’ highest accolade presented to organizations who show great leadership, generosity and spirit...
The Challenge raised $6.6 million in total donations for Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd).
Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, served as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, helped honor Steve Difillippo, chef, restaurateur and owner of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston, with the 2019 Spirit of Leadership award. This is Best Buddies’ highest accolade presented to organizations who show great leadership, generosity and spirit...
- 6/17/2019
- Look to the Stars
Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for friendship, employment, leadership development and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd), is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port , presented by Pepsi-Cola and Shaw’s and Star Market Foundation, will take place May 31 – June 1.
More than 2,000 people are expected to participate in the Challenge – a charity ride, run, and walk to benefit Best Buddies International.
Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, will serve as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, will help honor Steve Difillippo, chef, restaurateur and owner of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston, with the 2019 Spirit of Leadership award. This is Best Buddies’ highest accolade presented to organizations who show great leadership,...
More than 2,000 people are expected to participate in the Challenge – a charity ride, run, and walk to benefit Best Buddies International.
Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, will serve as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, will help honor Steve Difillippo, chef, restaurateur and owner of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston, with the 2019 Spirit of Leadership award. This is Best Buddies’ highest accolade presented to organizations who show great leadership,...
- 5/30/2019
- Look to the Stars
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren formally declared today that she’s running for president, capping a months-long buildup that included DNA testing, online video experiments and much debate.
Warren made her announcement at a rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and will then barnstorm, visiting New Hampshire, Iowa and four other states. The Lawrence site was chosen because of its connection to a successful labor strike started by women, hitting on themes Warren will emphasize in her campaign.
She faces an uphill battle. Her DNA testing that proved she had minuscule Native American heritage was once believed to be a fatal blow to her presidential ambitions, and the issue refuses to die. Just this week, a handwritten registration for the Texas bar surfaced, listing her heritage as “American Indian.”
Warren was also mocked for an online video that showed her sipping a beer with her husband in her home kitchen, an attempt to humanize that fell flat.
Warren made her announcement at a rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and will then barnstorm, visiting New Hampshire, Iowa and four other states. The Lawrence site was chosen because of its connection to a successful labor strike started by women, hitting on themes Warren will emphasize in her campaign.
She faces an uphill battle. Her DNA testing that proved she had minuscule Native American heritage was once believed to be a fatal blow to her presidential ambitions, and the issue refuses to die. Just this week, a handwritten registration for the Texas bar surfaced, listing her heritage as “American Indian.”
Warren was also mocked for an online video that showed her sipping a beer with her husband in her home kitchen, an attempt to humanize that fell flat.
- 2/9/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: John F. Kennedy and family are set to be profiled in a two-part documentary for Viacom’s UK network Channel 5.
The British commercial broadcaster has ordered The Kennedys (w/t) from its own production division Elephant House Studios. The doc will chart the rise of America’s first family from their humble immigrant origins to become one of the richest and most powerful families in the U.S.
It will trace this journey from Patrick Kennedy’s arrival in East Boston in 1849 through the Kennedy’s growing wealth and political influence of his grandson, Joseph P. Kennedy. It will chronicle the political and personal lives of the family members and will feature analysis from experts and first-hand accounts from people who were there.
The two-parter will air later this year. The doc is produced by Elephant House Studios’ Jeff Anderson and has been ordered by factual commissioner Lucy Willis.
The British commercial broadcaster has ordered The Kennedys (w/t) from its own production division Elephant House Studios. The doc will chart the rise of America’s first family from their humble immigrant origins to become one of the richest and most powerful families in the U.S.
It will trace this journey from Patrick Kennedy’s arrival in East Boston in 1849 through the Kennedy’s growing wealth and political influence of his grandson, Joseph P. Kennedy. It will chronicle the political and personal lives of the family members and will feature analysis from experts and first-hand accounts from people who were there.
The two-parter will air later this year. The doc is produced by Elephant House Studios’ Jeff Anderson and has been ordered by factual commissioner Lucy Willis.
- 7/12/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for friendship, employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd), is pleased to announce that the 19th Annual Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port , presented by Pepsi-Cola and Shaw’s and Star Market Foundation, will take place June 1-2.
More than 2,500 people are expected to participate in the Challenge – a charity ride, run, and walk to benefit Best Buddies International.
Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, will serve as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, will help honor Eaton Vance Management with the 2018 Spirit of Leadership award.
“Best Buddies is a fantastic organization with a great message to spread, and I am so proud to support their work,” said Best Buddies Global Ambassador Tom Brady.
More than 2,500 people are expected to participate in the Challenge – a charity ride, run, and walk to benefit Best Buddies International.
Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, will serve as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, will help honor Eaton Vance Management with the 2018 Spirit of Leadership award.
“Best Buddies is a fantastic organization with a great message to spread, and I am so proud to support their work,” said Best Buddies Global Ambassador Tom Brady.
- 5/29/2018
- Look to the Stars
In our noisy, toxically divided, my-way-or-the-highway political culture, you’re on one side or the other, and there’s almost no middle ground left — no place where liberals and conservatives can overlap without feeling like they’re betraying their own cause. “Chappaquiddick,” the deep and gripping new docudrama about the tragic incident that took place on July 18, 1969, when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died by drowning, is a more probing drama of corruption than any movie Hollywood has released in years. As I said in my review, it’s a movie made in the spirit of open-eyed — and, yes, liberal — inquiry. Yet is it a film that liberal moviegoers are ready to embrace? The critics have mostly been kind, but the tone of the media coverage has been cautious, reserved, a tad skeptical; the movie is going after a sacred cow.
- 4/7/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“Chappaquiddick” is a well-acted examination of the Ted Kennedy 1969 drunk-driving scandal that ended with young Democratic aide Mary Joe Kopechne trapped and drowned in Kennedy’s car after it plunged into a pond off Dike Bridge. The new film appeals more to Republicans who hated him than the liberals who revere him — but it has a liberal director and star who refuse to publicize it through conservative outlets, and only a few under 40 know what “Chappaquiddick” means. So who will see it?
On the surface, it might seem to be a hatchet job on one of the Senate’s most respected politicians. “I hope between the reviews and word of mouth people will not see it as a one-dimensional hit piece,” said director John Curran (“The Painted Veil”). “The fear of that is understandable.”
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios acquired the film before Toronto for $4 million against $16 million in P&A.
On the surface, it might seem to be a hatchet job on one of the Senate’s most respected politicians. “I hope between the reviews and word of mouth people will not see it as a one-dimensional hit piece,” said director John Curran (“The Painted Veil”). “The fear of that is understandable.”
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios acquired the film before Toronto for $4 million against $16 million in P&A.
- 4/6/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
“Chappaquiddick” is a well-acted examination of the Ted Kennedy 1969 drunk-driving scandal that ended with young Democratic aide Mary Joe Kopechne trapped and drowned in Kennedy’s car after it plunged into a pond off Dike Bridge. The new film appeals more to Republicans who hated him than the liberals who revere him — but it has a liberal director and star who refuse to publicize it through conservative outlets, and only a few under 40 know what “Chappaquiddick” means. So who will see it?
On the surface, it might seem to be a hatchet job on one of the Senate’s most respected politicians. “I hope between the reviews and word of mouth people will not see it as a one-dimensional hit piece,” said director John Curran (“The Painted Veil”). “The fear of that is understandable.”
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios acquired the film before Toronto for $4 million against $16 million in P&A.
On the surface, it might seem to be a hatchet job on one of the Senate’s most respected politicians. “I hope between the reviews and word of mouth people will not see it as a one-dimensional hit piece,” said director John Curran (“The Painted Veil”). “The fear of that is understandable.”
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios acquired the film before Toronto for $4 million against $16 million in P&A.
- 4/6/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Elisabeth Moss is set to portray one of the most mysterious members of America’s iconic political family, the Kennedys.
The Handmaid’s Tale star, 35, will bring to life the late Rosemary Kennedy, who underwent a lobotomy at the age of 23, in new film A Letter From Rosemary Kennedy.
Rosemary was one year younger than her brother President John F. Kennedy, and the third child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald’s nine children.
Director Ritesh Batra told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement, “The movies about the Kennedy family are deservedly stormy affairs, but here’s a story...
The Handmaid’s Tale star, 35, will bring to life the late Rosemary Kennedy, who underwent a lobotomy at the age of 23, in new film A Letter From Rosemary Kennedy.
Rosemary was one year younger than her brother President John F. Kennedy, and the third child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald’s nine children.
Director Ritesh Batra told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement, “The movies about the Kennedy family are deservedly stormy affairs, but here’s a story...
- 2/10/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
He’s named after one of the most mythic figures in American politics, but John “Jack” Kennedy Schlossberg has kept a relatively low profile over the years. But all that changed this week when he made headlines with his first red carpet at the 2017 Met Ball and first live TV appearance on NBC’s Today.
Growing up in New York City’s Upper East Side, the 24-year-old youngest child of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg (and only grandson of JFK and Jackie Kennedy) was largely left alone by the photographers that followed his uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. from the...
Growing up in New York City’s Upper East Side, the 24-year-old youngest child of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg (and only grandson of JFK and Jackie Kennedy) was largely left alone by the photographers that followed his uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. from the...
- 5/5/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
The retrospective Frank Capra, The American Dreamer is showing April 10 - May 31, 2017 in the United Kingdom.Frank CapraFrank Capra has fallen badly out of fashion in recent decades. While still well-known for the extraordinary Depression-era purple patch that produced It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), the critics have rarely been kind. His work is routinely derided as “Capra-corn” for its perceived sentimentality and “fairy tale” idealism while the man himself is written off in favour of contemporaries Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch.Elliot Stein, writing in Sight & Sound in 1972, attacked Capra’s “fantasies of good will, which at no point conflict with middle-class American status quo values”, arguing that his “shrewdly commercial manipulative tracts” consist of little more than “philistine-populist notions and greeting-card sentiments”. Pauline Kael found him “softheaded,” Derek Malcolm a huckster hawking “cosily absurd fables.” To an extent,...
- 4/4/2017
- MUBI
After Nazi Germany fell in 1945 and the world had learned the horrors of the Holocaust, a young John F. Kennedy paid a visit to Adolf Hitler’s bomb-ravaged Bavarian Berghof residence and Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat.
After the visit — part of his tour of Germany as a Hearst newspaper war correspondent — Kennedy, then 28, wrote a diary entry revealing his fascination with the late Führer, who had committed suicide just four months earlier at his air-raid shelter in Berlin.
“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as...
After the visit — part of his tour of Germany as a Hearst newspaper war correspondent — Kennedy, then 28, wrote a diary entry revealing his fascination with the late Führer, who had committed suicide just four months earlier at his air-raid shelter in Berlin.
“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as...
- 3/22/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Christopher Kennedy, the eighth child of the late Robert F. Kennedy, is expected to announce today his candidacy for governor of Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Kennedy, a decades-long Illinois resident, has flirted with running for the top seat in Illinois for months, as he’s hired political consultants and pollsters for the run, according to Politico. In years past, he’s considered runs for both the senate and governor, but ultimately decided not to run, according to the Chicago Tribune.
In 2009, he said he decided against running because he felt he could do more at home in Illinois than...
Kennedy, a decades-long Illinois resident, has flirted with running for the top seat in Illinois for months, as he’s hired political consultants and pollsters for the run, according to Politico. In years past, he’s considered runs for both the senate and governor, but ultimately decided not to run, according to the Chicago Tribune.
In 2009, he said he decided against running because he felt he could do more at home in Illinois than...
- 2/8/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Not since John F. Kennedy, whose father, Joseph P. Kennedy, had once owned a major movie studio, and Ronald Reagan, movie star and California governor, has a president-elect been on such familiar terms with the leaders of the American media business. And to add to all the other Donald Trump paradoxes — rich man but populist leader, social liberal but head of the Republican Party, libertine but beloved by evangelicals — he's a mogul buddy but at war with the media. CBS Corp. chairman Leslie Moonves, Disney chairman Bob Iger, 21st Century Fox and News Corp executive chairman Rupert
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- 11/16/2016
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rosemary Kennedy, the "hidden Kennedy" who underwent a lobotomy at just 23 years old, ordered by her father, Joseph P. Kennedy, leaving her with the mental capacity of a two year old, had an unlikely friendship with the daughter of actress Marlene Dietrich when the star was having an affair with Rosemary's father. In a new biography of John F. Kennedy's sister Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth, author Paula Byrne sheds new light on the eldest Kennedy daughter, Rosemary's friendship with Maria Riva - then Maria Sieber - the daughter of film star Marlene Dietrich.
- 7/6/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
After years of opening doors for the Upper East Side's elite, three New York City doormen might soon join their ranks - all thanks to a woman who reportedly once romanced John F. Kennedy, according to DNAinfo.com. Alice Corning Clark, a socialite, died on Feb. 10, leaving behind at least $17 million in assets, per DNAinfo.com. In her handwritten 2001 will, filed in probate court in the Bahamas, Clark allegedly bequeathed $1 million to her longtime doorman, William Courtney, 62. In addition, DNAinfo.com reported, Feliz Afandor and George Rodriguez - two other doormen at 955 Fifth Ave., which borders Central Park - were also allegedly named as beneficiaries.
- 5/19/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
After years of opening doors for the Upper East Side's elite, three New York City doormen might soon join their ranks - all thanks to a woman who reportedly once romanced John F. Kennedy, according to DNAinfo.com. Alice Corning Clark, a socialite, died on Feb. 10, leaving behind at least $17 million in assets, per DNAinfo.com. In her handwritten 2001 will, filed in probate court in the Bahamas, Clark allegedly bequeathed $1 million to her longtime doorman, William Courtney, 62. In addition, DNAinfo.com reported, Feliz Afandor and George Rodriguez - two other doormen at 955 Fifth Ave., which borders Central Park - were also allegedly named as beneficiaries.
- 5/19/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
The Kennedy family has a long history of hiding its scandals behind closed doors, and it was no different with Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy's controversial marriage to a Protestant future duke named Billy Hartington. Devout Catholics Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife, Rose, were mortified by their favorite daughter Kick's decision to marry outside the faith. To make matters worse, the marriage came just as her brother John F. Kennedy, with an eye toward the presidency, was considering running for Congress in Massachusetts. In the new biography Kick Kennedy, which offers a fresh look at the rebellious Kennedy who died in...
- 4/16/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
The Kennedy family has a long history of hiding its scandals behind closed doors, and it was no different with Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy's controversial marriage to a Protestant future duke named Billy Hartington. Devout Catholics Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife, Rose, were mortified by their favorite daughter Kick's decision to marry outside the faith. To make matters worse, the marriage came just as her brother John F. Kennedy, with an eye toward the presidency, was considering running for Congress in Massachusetts. In the new biography Kick Kennedy, which offers a fresh look at the rebellious Kennedy who died in...
- 4/16/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Before her tragic death in a plane crash at 28, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the star of the Kennedy family. Nicknamed "Kick" for her high-spirited personality, she was her father's favorite: charming, outgoing, and fiercely driven - just like her older brother, John F. Kennedy. "Like Jack, nothing stopped her. She was his psychological twin," says author Barbara Leaming, whose new biography, Kick Kennedy, offers a fresh look at the beloved but rebellious Kennedy daughter, who took Britain's stodgy aristocratic world by storm when she arrived in London with her family in 1938. "Kick was as aggressive, as ambitious, as eager for power [as her brother]," Leaming adds.
- 4/15/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Before her tragic death in a plane crash at 28, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the star of the Kennedy family. Nicknamed "Kick" for her high-spirited personality, she was her father's favorite: charming, outgoing, and fiercely driven - just like her older brother, John F. Kennedy. "Like Jack, nothing stopped her. She was his psychological twin," says author Barbara Leaming, whose new biography, Kick Kennedy, offers a fresh look at the beloved but rebellious Kennedy daughter, who took Britain's stodgy aristocratic world by storm when she arrived in London with her family in 1938. "Kick was as aggressive, as ambitious, as eager for power [as her brother]," Leaming adds.
- 4/15/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
She wasn't a great beauty, nor was she noted for her intellect. But when Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy - the fourth child of Joseph P. Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and his wife, Rose - arrived in London in 1938, she caused an unlikely sensation. In the new biography Kick Kennedy, author Barbara Leaming reveals fresh insight into the Kennedy daughter who died in a plane crash in 1948, just four years after her eldest brother, Joe Jr., was killed in a top-secret mission during World War II. Kick, Leaming writes, was "actually quite plain in appearance. Her hair was a shade of 'mousy brown,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Tierney McAfee and Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
She wasn't a great beauty, nor was she noted for her intellect. But when Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy - the fourth child of Joseph P. Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and his wife, Rose - arrived in London in 1938, she caused an unlikely sensation. In the new biography Kick Kennedy, author Barbara Leaming reveals fresh insight into the Kennedy daughter who died in a plane crash in 1948, just four years after her eldest brother, Joe Jr., was killed in a top-secret mission during World War II. Kick, Leaming writes, was "actually quite plain in appearance. Her hair was a shade of 'mousy brown,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Tierney McAfee and Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
Miley Cyrus‘ younger brother and Patrick Schwarzenegger‘s older sister are reportedly dating each other, according to TMZ.So much has changed for the Kennedy clan, since Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy wed in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12th, 1953. The groom’s father, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, had picked out blue blood Jacqueline Bouvier as the right wife for a future president of the United States, well on his way as the groom was already a United States Senator – John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The Kennedys reportedly treated the wedding as a political event and the hundreds of guests […]...
- 1/14/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
There was one Kennedy that the world never got to know: Rosemary, the third of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose's nine children. Born in 1918, she was mentally impaired and never truly fit in with her family. "The shame of her disability was our family secret," says her nephew Timothy Shriver, 55, who includes her story in his new book, Fully Alive. Related: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette: Their Love Story"She grew up in a time where there was enormous shame surrounding children with special needs," Shriver, the son of Rosemary's sister, Eunice Shriver, tells People. "People didn’t want to admit it.
- 11/6/2014
- by Liz McNeil @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
There was one Kennedy that the world never got to know: Rosemary, the third of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose's nine children. Born in 1918, she was mentally impaired and never truly fit in with her family. "The shame of her disability was our family secret," says her nephew Timothy Shriver, 55, who includes her story in his new book, Fully Alive. Related: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette: Their Love Story"She grew up in a time where there was enormous shame surrounding children with special needs," Shriver, the son of Rosemary's sister, Eunice Shriver, tells People. "People didn’t want to admit it.
- 11/6/2014
- by Liz McNeil @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
Socialite Jacqueline Bouvier married Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, scion of the powerful Boston clan, in Newport, R.I., on Sept. 12, 1953, and though it would be another seven years before the movie-star-beautiful couple would be ready to move into the White House, it easily could be said Camelot was born on their wedding day. "The whole affair, said one enthusiastic guest, was 'just like a coronation,' " reported Life magazine, America's window on the world at the time. To mark the 60th anniversary of the nuptials, Life.com offers a gallery of the very best of photographer Lisa Larsen's takes...
- 9/12/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Today, we're featuring Peter Strauss in 1981. Notably, he plays Abel Roznovski in Kane and Abel, the TV miniseries from Jeffrey Archer's book of the same title. He won an Emmy Award for his role on the 1979 made-for-television movie The Jericho Mile, and he starred in a television remake of the classic 1946 film Angel on My Shoulder in 1980. His other noted television miniseries credits include starring roles in Rich Man, Poor Man, its sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, and Masada. Strauss plays Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in the 1977 TV movie Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy.
- 11/21/2012
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
We've been counting down a slew of smokin' hot Republicans and now—it's time to give the Democrats some love. So, we're kicking off our hot dem of the day with a member of the Kennedy fam because looks and the Kennedy legacy simply must go hand-in-hand (hats off to you, JFK and Jackie O). With that chiseled jaw and that tossled ginger head of hair, Joseph P. Kennedy III is currently running for the congressional seat in Massachusetts fourth congressional district. He was previously a lawyer for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office (he resigned in January to run for office) and his father is former U.S. congressman Joseph Patrick Kennedy II. In February, the 31-year-old...
- 9/5/2012
- E! Online
I can’t explain why I’ve always been attracted to the films of Rko. It can’t just be that arresting radio tower logo; there’s something unpredictable about the studio’s body of work during the 1930s and '40s. Now, thanks to longtime studio scholar Richard Jewell (who coauthored the coffee-table reference book The Rko Story years ago) I understand a lot more about the workings—and undoing—of this once-promising organization. Born out of the remnants of Joseph P. Kennedy’s silent Fbo studio, the powerful Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville theater chain, with 700 houses across the country, and David Sarnoff’s imposing Radio Corporation...
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- 6/7/2012
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
With President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign suddenly riding the surge of economic recovery and his potential Republican challengers seemingly locked in the political equivalent of a circular firing squad, you’d think Hollywood Democrats have enough to lift their spirits these days. But there’s more—a new Kennedy to support. Joseph P. Kennedy III is running for the Massachusetts congressional seat Barney Frank vacated when he decided to retire, and this evening, Bobby Shriver (a cousin) and Malissa Feruzzi will host a fundraiser for the 32-year-old grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy and the son of former Rep. Joseph
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- 3/21/2012
- by Tina Daunt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reelz Channel The cast of the Reelz Channel Miniseries, “The Kennedys”
For Barry Pepper, an Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie is a reward for months of historical research.
Playing former Attorney General, U.S. Presidential candidate and political wunderkind Robert F. Kennedy in the Reelz Channel biopic miniseries “The Kennedys,” Pepper spent hours listening to recordings of his real-life character’s distinctive voice.
“The accent was extremely daunting going in,” Pepper said in a...
For Barry Pepper, an Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie is a reward for months of historical research.
Playing former Attorney General, U.S. Presidential candidate and political wunderkind Robert F. Kennedy in the Reelz Channel biopic miniseries “The Kennedys,” Pepper spent hours listening to recordings of his real-life character’s distinctive voice.
“The accent was extremely daunting going in,” Pepper said in a...
- 7/15/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: It was a controversial television mini-series that struggled to find a home before landing on Reelz Channel. Now you’ll have the ability to bring “The Kennedys” into your own home starting on May 15.
Muse Distribution International has begun taking pre-orders for the DVD. The three-disc package contains every episode of the “Kennedys” series, with 45 minutes of bonus footage including “Making of the Kennedys.”
From the release:
Following the family from the 1930s to 1968, the miniseries provides an intimate look at how Joseph Kennedy Sr. shaped his sons John and Robert to become two of the most influential men in the country. The major political events of the era, such as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the civil rights movement, play in the background of the personal relationships between brother and brother, father and sons and husbands and wives.
Hollywoodnews.com: It was a controversial television mini-series that struggled to find a home before landing on Reelz Channel. Now you’ll have the ability to bring “The Kennedys” into your own home starting on May 15.
Muse Distribution International has begun taking pre-orders for the DVD. The three-disc package contains every episode of the “Kennedys” series, with 45 minutes of bonus footage including “Making of the Kennedys.”
From the release:
Following the family from the 1930s to 1968, the miniseries provides an intimate look at how Joseph Kennedy Sr. shaped his sons John and Robert to become two of the most influential men in the country. The major political events of the era, such as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the civil rights movement, play in the background of the personal relationships between brother and brother, father and sons and husbands and wives.
- 4/29/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Myth: The History Channel commissioned an 8-episode miniseries about The Kennedys starring Greg Kinnear as JFK, Barry Pepper as Robert, Katie Holmes as Jackie-o, and Tom Wilkinson as Joseph Kennedy Sr., but ended up not airing the series because it was too controversial, then the rights were acquired by the Reelz Channel so it could finally be seen! Much More Likely: The History Channel didn’t air the series because it is completely f***ing terrible, then the Reelz Channel aired it because they didn’t care that it is completely f***ing terrible. Forget every synonym of the word “controversial” that you’ve heard during the modest, intentionally-flame-fanned leadup to the Kennedys minieries. Forget the “conservative critics love it” controversy, or controversies about historical inaccuracies, or controversies about perceived, tough-to-digest historical accuracies, or controversies about peoples’ enjoyment of the miniseries largely overlapping with their modern-day political affiliations. Ignore...
- 4/18/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
Event television it may be but The Kennedys has had a troubled run to the small screen. The miniseries has been clouded by rumours that it was pulled from its Us network after pressure from the Kennedy family. For all the controversy, though, it still boasts a Hollywood cast of real pedigree and a seriously compelling story to boot. Just ask Oliver Stone. Offering a behind-the-scenes swirl around The History Channel's recreation of the first family, these stills give a flavour of what to expect. Look! There's Greg Kinnear as JFK, Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as Joseph Kennedy Sr., boss man of the clan. And, yes, that's Barry Pepper as Bobby Kennedy.Okay, looks-wise we'd probably plump for Thirteen Days' Steven Culp and Bruce Greenwood in a Kennedy-off with Kinnear and Pepper, but they're a formidable pair and should offer an interesting new spin on the brothers' relationship.
- 4/1/2011
- EmpireOnline
© 2010 Kennedys Productions (Ontario) Inc. and Zak Cassar An image from the miniseries “The Kennedys.”
The controversial coming miniseries “The Kennedys” features mystery, bribery, skulduggery, and a good deal of adultery. What it doesn’t have is History, since that network dropped the show. The miniseries starring Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, and Barry Pepper will air on ReelzChannel on April 3. The Journal’s Lauren A.E. Schuker has put together a guide to the series.
Episode Highlights From ‘The Kennedys’
Note:...
The controversial coming miniseries “The Kennedys” features mystery, bribery, skulduggery, and a good deal of adultery. What it doesn’t have is History, since that network dropped the show. The miniseries starring Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, and Barry Pepper will air on ReelzChannel on April 3. The Journal’s Lauren A.E. Schuker has put together a guide to the series.
Episode Highlights From ‘The Kennedys’
Note:...
- 3/21/2011
- by Lauren A.E. Schuker
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Controversial miniseries The Kennedys (which was dropped by The History Channel in the Us, over concerns of historical accuracy), has been picked up for transmission by BBC2 in the UK, following its British digital premiere on UK’s version of The History Channel.
The $25m eight-part series chronicles the lives of the world-famous Kennedy family. It stars Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy, Katie Holmes as Jacqueline Kennedy, Barry Pepper as Robert F. Kennedy, Tom Wilkinson as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Frank Sinatra. The series was directed by 24′s Jon Cassar.
Many historians criticized the script’s inaccuracies and unflattering depiction of the Kennedy family, including David Talbot (whose book had been the show’s basis) and Ted Sorensen (a former speech writer for JFK), who claimed it was a “character assassination” (unintentional spoiler for JFK’s fate, there.)
After The History Channel refused to broadcast it,...
The $25m eight-part series chronicles the lives of the world-famous Kennedy family. It stars Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy, Katie Holmes as Jacqueline Kennedy, Barry Pepper as Robert F. Kennedy, Tom Wilkinson as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Frank Sinatra. The series was directed by 24′s Jon Cassar.
Many historians criticized the script’s inaccuracies and unflattering depiction of the Kennedy family, including David Talbot (whose book had been the show’s basis) and Ted Sorensen (a former speech writer for JFK), who claimed it was a “character assassination” (unintentional spoiler for JFK’s fate, there.)
After The History Channel refused to broadcast it,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
Beverly Hills, CA . The life and career of silent film star Gloria Swanson and camera movement in classic Hollywood cinema will be the topics explored by Cari Beauchamp and Patrick Keating, respectively, who have been named Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Academy.s Institutional Grants Committee selected the pair for the honor on the basis of their manuscript proposals. Each will receive $25,000 from the Academy to aid in the research and writing of their projects.
Beauchamp, an independent film historian and author of five previous books, will research and write the first comprehensive biography of Gloria Swanson (1899.1983) whose iconic career spanned from silent films to television and included her Oscar®-nominated performance as Norma Desmond in .Sunset Blvd.. The book will explore the actress and producer.s influence on film production and the culture at large, as well as her off-camera life...
The Academy.s Institutional Grants Committee selected the pair for the honor on the basis of their manuscript proposals. Each will receive $25,000 from the Academy to aid in the research and writing of their projects.
Beauchamp, an independent film historian and author of five previous books, will research and write the first comprehensive biography of Gloria Swanson (1899.1983) whose iconic career spanned from silent films to television and included her Oscar®-nominated performance as Norma Desmond in .Sunset Blvd.. The book will explore the actress and producer.s influence on film production and the culture at large, as well as her off-camera life...
- 3/7/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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