The story of the infamous serial-killer case nicknamed the Boston Strangler involved 13 sexual assaults and murders in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. Officially, 12 of them have never been solved. The 13th, decades later, was proven through DNA techniques to be the chief suspect, and self-confessed “Boston Strangler” Albert DeSalvo. He was famously represented by F. Lee Bailey, who later would write a book about the case.
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The fact that there were, and still are, so many questions about it all did not deter Hollywood and others from exploiting the case to various degrees — most famously in the 1968 20th Century Fox...
Related Story ‘Boston Strangler’ Trailer: Keira Knightley Leads 20th’s True-Crime Thriller For Hulu Related Story Demi Lovato Making Directorial Debut With 'Child Star' Documentary at Hulu Related Story Criminologist Docuseries 'The Lesson Is Murder' Set At Hulu From ABC News Studios The Boston Strangler, 1968 20th Century Fox
The fact that there were, and still are, so many questions about it all did not deter Hollywood and others from exploiting the case to various degrees — most famously in the 1968 20th Century Fox...
- 3/17/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Helen Reddy, the Australian pop singer who died Tuesday at age 78, was an unlikely pop superhero. She sang in a smooth timbre that never lost its becalmed manner — call her the anti-Joplin — and most of the Seventies hits for which she’s known (“Delta Dawn,” “No Way to Treat a Lady,” “Angie Baby”) were the essence of the smooth pop that appealed to baby boomers then approaching their settling-down thirties. Reddy was more of a regular presence on talk and variety shows and in Vegas than at rock clubs.
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- 9/30/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
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“Don’T You Call Them Tattoos!”
By Raymond Benson
Ray Bradbury’s excellent 1951 short story anthology, The Illustrated Man, is one of the author’s most revered works. It contains eighteen tales loosely framed by a narrator who meets a carnival sideshow freak covered in tattoos that “tell stories”—and each entry in the book illustrates one of the tattoos.
“Don’t you call them tattoos!” Rod Steiger belligerently yells at the protagonist of the 1969 film adaptation. “They are skin ill-us-tra-tions!” Steiger emotes in his inimitable scenery-chewing way.
And there is the crux of why The Illustrated Man, which was adapted by co-producer Howard B. Kreitsek, doesn’t work too well. Steiger, who plays “Carl,” the illustrated man, had a checkered career marked by many brilliant performances… but also, perhaps, more eccentric and over-the-top ones. His good screen appearances are truly excellent, and...
“Don’T You Call Them Tattoos!”
By Raymond Benson
Ray Bradbury’s excellent 1951 short story anthology, The Illustrated Man, is one of the author’s most revered works. It contains eighteen tales loosely framed by a narrator who meets a carnival sideshow freak covered in tattoos that “tell stories”—and each entry in the book illustrates one of the tattoos.
“Don’t you call them tattoos!” Rod Steiger belligerently yells at the protagonist of the 1969 film adaptation. “They are skin ill-us-tra-tions!” Steiger emotes in his inimitable scenery-chewing way.
And there is the crux of why The Illustrated Man, which was adapted by co-producer Howard B. Kreitsek, doesn’t work too well. Steiger, who plays “Carl,” the illustrated man, had a checkered career marked by many brilliant performances… but also, perhaps, more eccentric and over-the-top ones. His good screen appearances are truly excellent, and...
- 6/30/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
(Goldman with James Caan on the set of "A Bridge Too Far"- 1976)
By Lee Pfeiffer
There's an old joke among writers about the naive young starlet who thought she could make it in Hollywood by sleeping with screenwriters. Indeed, the people who made it possible for hit films to exist by writing the scenarios the actors carried out on screen were often regarded as being very low on the industry totem pole- and relatively low-paid as well. Not so with novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, who elevated regard for screenwriters while demanding- and receiving- the kind of breakthrough salaries that revolutionized the film industry's respect for writers. Goldman has died from cancer in Manhattan at age 87. He was known to be opinionated, abrasive and demanding, but no one questioned his talents. He won Oscars for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men". Among his other...
By Lee Pfeiffer
There's an old joke among writers about the naive young starlet who thought she could make it in Hollywood by sleeping with screenwriters. Indeed, the people who made it possible for hit films to exist by writing the scenarios the actors carried out on screen were often regarded as being very low on the industry totem pole- and relatively low-paid as well. Not so with novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, who elevated regard for screenwriters while demanding- and receiving- the kind of breakthrough salaries that revolutionized the film industry's respect for writers. Goldman has died from cancer in Manhattan at age 87. He was known to be opinionated, abrasive and demanding, but no one questioned his talents. He won Oscars for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men". Among his other...
- 11/16/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
William Goldman, who won Oscars for his original screenplay for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and his adaptation of “All the President’s Men,” died on Friday in his Manhattan home, according to the the Washington Post. He was 87.
His daughter Jenny Goldman cited complications from colon cancer and pneumonia as the cause of his death.
“Butch Cassidy,” a revisionist Western that helped popularize the buddy movie, announced Goldman as a screenwriter able to balance big laughs with a sense of adventure, while “All the President’s Men” cemented his status as a deft writer of suspense. The two are considered to be among the finest screenplays ever written and exemplify Goldman’s range and versatility.
In a 2015 interview with Signature, Goldman was asked about his ability to bounce from genre to genre.
“You cross your fingers and never stop,” he said. “Praying is also good.”
Goldman, who frequently transferred his novels,...
His daughter Jenny Goldman cited complications from colon cancer and pneumonia as the cause of his death.
“Butch Cassidy,” a revisionist Western that helped popularize the buddy movie, announced Goldman as a screenwriter able to balance big laughs with a sense of adventure, while “All the President’s Men” cemented his status as a deft writer of suspense. The two are considered to be among the finest screenplays ever written and exemplify Goldman’s range and versatility.
In a 2015 interview with Signature, Goldman was asked about his ability to bounce from genre to genre.
“You cross your fingers and never stop,” he said. “Praying is also good.”
Goldman, who frequently transferred his novels,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Richard Natale and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Ray Bradbury adapted to the screen is always something to check out; this Jack Smight- directed trio of stories bound together by a mystery man wearing the graffiti of the title at least works up a little ethereal-cereal excitement. Husband and wife Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom spout ominous dialogue as they face various futuristic threats.
The Illustrated Man
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date September 19, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers, Tim Weldon, Christine Matchett
Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop
Art Direction: Joel Schiller
Film Editor: Archie Marshek
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by Howard B. Kreitsek from the book by Ray Bradbury
Produced by Howard B. Kreitsek, Ted Mann
Directed by Jack Smight
Ray Bradbury must have had some frustrating times as a screenwriter, although the three times I saw him in person he never...
The Illustrated Man
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date September 19, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers, Tim Weldon, Christine Matchett
Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop
Art Direction: Joel Schiller
Film Editor: Archie Marshek
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by Howard B. Kreitsek from the book by Ray Bradbury
Produced by Howard B. Kreitsek, Ted Mann
Directed by Jack Smight
Ray Bradbury must have had some frustrating times as a screenwriter, although the three times I saw him in person he never...
- 9/12/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
With the advent and huge success of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), studios were quick to hop aboard the killer train. Out were the outsized monsters of the ’50s, in were mama’s boys and socially maligned women dealing with sins of the past. Dementia 13 (’63) and No Way to Treat a Lady (’67) are just a sample of the ’60s horror films that focused on smaller scale, human dilemmas, regardless of how twisted they may be. One film that seems to have been misplaced in the schizoid shuffle is Freddie Francis’ The Psychopath (1966), a lean little thriller that acts as a gateway for one of the most revered European horror sub-genres: the giallo.
Of course, Psycho plays a major part in this association; the Italian-originated giallo wallowing in mysteries of the mind shot through with a razor-sharp emphasis on the visceral, stemming from a psychological need, a desire, to fix wrongs,...
Of course, Psycho plays a major part in this association; the Italian-originated giallo wallowing in mysteries of the mind shot through with a razor-sharp emphasis on the visceral, stemming from a psychological need, a desire, to fix wrongs,...
- 7/23/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Doris Roberts, who played Ray Barone’s prying mother on the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died Sunday, a representative for the actress told TheWrap on Monday. She was 90. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925, Roberts began acting in 1952, appearing on the television series “Studio One.” Appearances on “The Naked City,” “Ben Casey” and “The Defenders” followed. She first appeared on the big screen in the 1961 film “Something Wild.” Roberts’ other film credits include “A Lovely Way to Die,” “No Way to Treat a Lady” and “The Honeymoon Killers.” On television, she also appeared on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,”...
- 4/18/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Berkeley Playhouse presents the world premiere of Bridges A New Musical, with lyrics and book by Cheryl L. Davis 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner and Daytime Emmy Award nominee for As the World Turns, composed by Douglas J. Cohen 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics for Off-Broadway's Children's Letters to God, Richard Rodgers Grants and the Gilman amp Conzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation Award for Off-Broadway's No Way to Treat a Lady, and conceived by Founding Artistic Director Elizabeth McKoy developer of new musical theatre works for Berkeley Playhouse including Born And Raised, Bravado, and Just So Stories.
- 2/11/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld is excited to report thatBerkeley Playhouse will present the world premiere of Bridges A New Musical, with lyrics and book by Cheryl L. Davis 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner and Daytime Emmy Award nominee for As the World Turns, composed by Douglas J. Cohen 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics for Off-Broadway's Children's Letters to God, Richard Rodgers Grants and the Gilman amp Conzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation Award for Off-Broadway's No Way to Treat a Lady, and conceived by Founding Artistic Director Elizabeth McKoy developer of new musical theatre works for Berkeley Playhouse including Born And Raised, Bravado, and Just So Stories.
- 12/24/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The advertising promised a surfeit of sleaze -- but the film is a superior thriller about a real-life, low-rent serial killers from back in the late 1940s. Tony Lo Bianco and the great Shirley Stoler are Ray and Martha, mixed-up lovers running a Merry Widow racket through the personals ads in romance magazines. Leonard Kastle's film is dramatically and psychologically sound, while the disc extras detail the true crime story, which is far, far, sleazier. The Honeymoon Killers Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 200 1969 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 107 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 29, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts, Kip McArdle, Marilyn Chris, Dortha Duckworth, Barbara Cason, Ann Harris Cinematography Oliver Wood Film Editor Richard Brophy, Stanley Warnow Music Gustav Mahler Produced by Warren Steibel Written and Directed by Leonard Kastle
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The ad campaign for this crime shocker...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The ad campaign for this crime shocker...
- 9/29/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Gig, a musical by Douglas J. Cohen No Way to Treat a Lady, The Big Time, based on the 1985 film by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Frank D. Gilroy The Subject Was Roses, is a selection of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf, making its New York City debut at the PTC Performance Space, tonight, July 15 - July 21.
- 7/15/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Gig, a musical by Douglas J. Cohen No Way to Treat a Lady, The Big Time, based on the 1985 film by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Frank D. Gilroy The Subject Was Roses, is a selection of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf, making its New York City debut at the PTC Performance Space, July 15 - July 21.
- 6/20/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Phantom Projects Theatre Group is still on the hunt for young talent. The Los Angeles-area youth theater company produces a four-show season at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in addition to staging local tours of its plays. While it employs adult actors, the bulk of its roles go to young performers. "One thing we always do is find children to play children," said Steve Cisneros, who founded Phantom Projects in 1997 when he was 17. "And that's because when the audience is full of young people, they want to relate to that actor or actress. A 14-year-old kid in the audience sees a 14-year-old kid on stage, it's going to inspire them that much more." The company recently staged "The Diary of Anne Frank" at La Mirada, where it has a residency, and will begin casting for its next show, "No Way to Treat a Lady," in early April. Despite the youthfulness of its casts,...
- 2/25/2014
- backstage.com
Helen Reddy B.B. King Blues Club and Grill Times Square, New York March 23 and 24, 2013
Helen Reddy’s performance at B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan, last weekend, was utterly magnificent in every way. I left the venue floating on a cloud--and that afterglow is still with me. Ms. Reddy, who in the 1970s created hit-after-hit and went on to appear in theater both on Broadway and London’s West End, has recently returned to performing after a decade’s hiatus.
Her unique voice as fresh, vibrant and warm as ever, and her confident, even hypnotic presence was that of a performer engaged in the here-and-now. Absent was any hint of those haul-out-the-old-timer nostalgia shows (the kind public television often concocts for fundraising). The audience was treated to a purveyor of pop songs, completely in possession of fine-tuned comprehensive artistry and relaxed and masterful delivery. In short, each of the eighteen...
Helen Reddy’s performance at B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan, last weekend, was utterly magnificent in every way. I left the venue floating on a cloud--and that afterglow is still with me. Ms. Reddy, who in the 1970s created hit-after-hit and went on to appear in theater both on Broadway and London’s West End, has recently returned to performing after a decade’s hiatus.
Her unique voice as fresh, vibrant and warm as ever, and her confident, even hypnotic presence was that of a performer engaged in the here-and-now. Absent was any hint of those haul-out-the-old-timer nostalgia shows (the kind public television often concocts for fundraising). The audience was treated to a purveyor of pop songs, completely in possession of fine-tuned comprehensive artistry and relaxed and masterful delivery. In short, each of the eighteen...
- 3/31/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
When it comes to actresses, the movie business has always had an eye for beautiful faces. Unfortunately, it has often only been an afterthought as to whether or not that beautiful face could do anything other than be beautiful. Leaf through the archives of any of the movie glamour magazines from long ago and you’ll find them a cemetery of beautiful faces primped and hyped by the Hollywood PR machine to be The Next Great Thing. Some never made it past a screen test, while others managed to survive a few screen roles, but through lack of talent, charisma, the right roles — whatever mysterious magic it is that causes a performer to click with an audience — soon disappeared, never to be heard of again. It’s a long, looong casualty list of forgotten pretties like Merrilyn Grix, Eleanor Counts, Kathy Marlowe, Myrna Dell, Sandra Giles, Jean Colleran, Sunnie O’Dea,...
- 8/2/2011
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, which consists of L.A.-area theater journalists in various media, has announced nominees and special awards for its 41st annual awards ceremony, to be held March 22 at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.Awards will be given in 20 categories, honoring excellence in theater over the past year. Eight special awards will include a special citation to actor Kirk Douglas for his lifetime contribution to Los Angeles theatre, as well as the new Milton Katselas Award for career or special achievement in direction, sponsored by Camelot Artists.The 2009 Special Awards include:– The Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an outstanding new play: Julie Marie Myatt for the bittersweet domestic drama "The Happy Ones," which premiered at South Coast Repertory. The award is accompanied by an offer to publish and a $1,000 check funded by Samuel French, Inc.– The Polly Warfield Award for an excellent season...
- 1/25/2010
- backstage.com
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