Twenty-five years ago, Macaulay Culkin taught the world that a home invasion can result in physical comedy magic and family fun for all. Yes, Home Alone first opened in theaters on Nov. 16, 1990. Of course, Home Alone taught us other lessons too. For example, you can accidentally abandon your child without getting in trouble with Child Protective Services. We learned that a scary old man next door just might be a lonely guy who's handy with a snow shovel. And perhaps most important of all, Home Alone proved you can make a successful movie starring one child actor onscreen alone for...
- 12/17/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
Cch Pounder has been lots of things throughout her career -- detectives, aliens, lawyers, doctors and so much more -- but chances are none of it would have happened if it wasn't for a childhood accident.
"When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head and I had memory problems," Pounder told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. "I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember, to try and get the memory going again. After a couple of weeks there would be a couple of nuns, and then four, then six, then it was like, 'Oh, I think they like me.' At first I thought they were checking on my accuracy with the words, but then I realized that they were being entertained. I liked it."
Pounder's impressive list of film and TV credits (there are...
"When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head and I had memory problems," Pounder told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. "I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember, to try and get the memory going again. After a couple of weeks there would be a couple of nuns, and then four, then six, then it was like, 'Oh, I think they like me.' At first I thought they were checking on my accuracy with the words, but then I realized that they were being entertained. I liked it."
Pounder's impressive list of film and TV credits (there are...
- 8/27/2013
- by Chris Harnick
- Huffington Post
A new day dawns and Eileen's down one personal assistant.
We open with her on the phone with Scott, her previously unnamed assistant, who belatedly advises her that he's working for her soon-to-be-ex Jerry now. Scott, you better hope it works out because you know Diana Ross would give you a better reference than Eileen will.
With that unpleasantness behind us we shift to the rehearsal studio. Derek calls Karen over to work on some dance steps and to tell her she's scared of “everything below the neck”. Eileen and Tom arrive together, Eileen hectoring Tom for some new script pages Julia is supposed to be working on. Julia strolls in, on the phone with husband Frank who's on a teaching retreat. She has lines like “this connection is so bad” so it's like, symbolism and stuff. Ivy arrives and spots Karen and Derek dancing so she freaks.
Later that...
We open with her on the phone with Scott, her previously unnamed assistant, who belatedly advises her that he's working for her soon-to-be-ex Jerry now. Scott, you better hope it works out because you know Diana Ross would give you a better reference than Eileen will.
With that unpleasantness behind us we shift to the rehearsal studio. Derek calls Karen over to work on some dance steps and to tell her she's scared of “everything below the neck”. Eileen and Tom arrive together, Eileen hectoring Tom for some new script pages Julia is supposed to be working on. Julia strolls in, on the phone with husband Frank who's on a teaching retreat. She has lines like “this connection is so bad” so it's like, symbolism and stuff. Ivy arrives and spots Karen and Derek dancing so she freaks.
Later that...
- 3/6/2012
- by fakename
- The Backlot
Wow, I'm surprised, that was so fast. I really thought that the selection process for the starring role in Marilyn: The Musical would stretch out over several weeks. But by the end of tonight's episode, we will have our Marilyn Monroe.
We open on Karen onstage singing the Blondie hit “Call Me” to an audience that includes Ellis, Tom, Julia, Eileen and Derek.
So, obviously a fantasy sequence, which is lucky because “Call Me” is entirely not a Katharine McPhee song. Karen snaps out of it at her waitressing job, stressed because it's been four days since the callback with no word. “I wish they'd just call me,” she tells her co-worker. I see what you did there, Smash!
The very people for whose call Karen is waiting are gathered in Eileen's office, hashing over their two choices. Tom is pushing hard for Ivy while Derek is championing Karen. Tom extols Ivy's singing,...
We open on Karen onstage singing the Blondie hit “Call Me” to an audience that includes Ellis, Tom, Julia, Eileen and Derek.
So, obviously a fantasy sequence, which is lucky because “Call Me” is entirely not a Katharine McPhee song. Karen snaps out of it at her waitressing job, stressed because it's been four days since the callback with no word. “I wish they'd just call me,” she tells her co-worker. I see what you did there, Smash!
The very people for whose call Karen is waiting are gathered in Eileen's office, hashing over their two choices. Tom is pushing hard for Ivy while Derek is championing Karen. Tom extols Ivy's singing,...
- 2/14/2012
- by fakename
- The Backlot
The first thing Giancarlo Esposito's colleagues on "Breaking Bad" want you to know is that he's nothing like the character he plays, Gustavo "Gus" Fring.
"In his real life, he's an embracing, loving, wonderful man. He's sweet and engaging, he makes eye contact, he's this kind of spiritual guy," co-star Bryan Cranston says.
Adds series creator Vince Gilligan: "I don't know how he does it, because in real life he's this sweet, goofy guy with an infectious smile, just a wonderful, warm, loving, human being. Where he pulls the character of Gus from I don't know, but it's amazing."
(Don't read any further if you haven't seen the season premiere. Or at least peruse our recap first.)
In the climactic scene of Sunday's season premiere, Gus coldly kills his lieutenant, Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui), to prove a point to Walt (Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) -- and he utters...
"In his real life, he's an embracing, loving, wonderful man. He's sweet and engaging, he makes eye contact, he's this kind of spiritual guy," co-star Bryan Cranston says.
Adds series creator Vince Gilligan: "I don't know how he does it, because in real life he's this sweet, goofy guy with an infectious smile, just a wonderful, warm, loving, human being. Where he pulls the character of Gus from I don't know, but it's amazing."
(Don't read any further if you haven't seen the season premiere. Or at least peruse our recap first.)
In the climactic scene of Sunday's season premiere, Gus coldly kills his lieutenant, Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui), to prove a point to Walt (Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) -- and he utters...
- 7/18/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
TV Diaries: ABC's Increasingly Charming Comedy Block Why Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Happy Endings are starting to rival NBC's Thursday night. By James Brady Ryan Author's note: Has anyone else noticed how much TV is on right now? It's probably better for the audience, in the end, that the traditional concept of “seasons” is on its way out, but my God! A new show premieres every week! Sundays are getting ridiculously busy. I'm dancing as fast as I can! And my Valium prescription is running so very low. Sunday, April 17 9 p.m. — I've already discussed Game of Thrones on these virtual pages before — and I stand by my thought that there were some weird racial issues in the pilot — but let's talk about things that don't involve unfortunate stereotypes of non-white people. Instead, let's talk about siblings who are [...]...
- 4/22/2011
- by James Brady Ryan
- Nerve
Witty and sophisticated American film star known for her role in An Unmarried Woman
The actor Jill Clayburgh, who has died of leukaemia aged 66, was one of the brightest female stars of the 1970s, yet was somewhat forgotten in the decade that followed. "If they don't give me good parts in movies, I'm just not going to do them. And there's a time when they just move on to the next person," Clayburgh said prophetically at the height of her fame in 1978. Perhaps conservative Hollywood did not really know how to cope with an independent-minded, intelligent performer who refused to be pigeonholed.
Born in Manhattan, New York, Clayburgh was the daughter of wealthy parents. Her father was the vice-president of two large companies and her mother was a secretary to the Broadway producer David Merrick. As a child, Clayburgh was inspired to become an actor when she saw Jean Arthur...
The actor Jill Clayburgh, who has died of leukaemia aged 66, was one of the brightest female stars of the 1970s, yet was somewhat forgotten in the decade that followed. "If they don't give me good parts in movies, I'm just not going to do them. And there's a time when they just move on to the next person," Clayburgh said prophetically at the height of her fame in 1978. Perhaps conservative Hollywood did not really know how to cope with an independent-minded, intelligent performer who refused to be pigeonholed.
Born in Manhattan, New York, Clayburgh was the daughter of wealthy parents. Her father was the vice-president of two large companies and her mother was a secretary to the Broadway producer David Merrick. As a child, Clayburgh was inspired to become an actor when she saw Jean Arthur...
- 11/7/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Jill Clayburgh, the Oscar-nominated actress whose portrayal of suddenly single women in the 1970s helped define feminism in movies and reshape the role of leading lady, died today at her home in Lakeville, Connecticut; she was 66.
A stage actress who started appearing onscreen in the 70s, she suddenly became the "It Girl" -- or rather, "It Woman" -- with her acclaimed performance as an upper-class Manhattan wife suddenly left by her husband in the comedy-drama An Unmarried Woman. For a brief time one of Hollywood's most recognizable actresses in both comedy and drama, her career took a rapid decline in the 80s before she resuscitated her career with a number of television and film roles. Still, despite her career ups and downs, she remained one of the most important actresses of the 70s, alongside Jane Fonda, Glenda Jackson, Diane Keaton, and the young Meryl Streep (with whom she was friends) -- women whose films were marked by their portrayals of strong, independent women who didn't need a man to complete their lives and were prepared to take a stand by doing so.
Born in New York City to a manufacturing executive father and a mother who was the production secretary for theatrical producer David Merrick, Clayburgh had a privileged Upper East Side upbringing, attending the noted Brearley Academy and then Sarah Lawrence College. After joining the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston, she worked primarily onstage, moving to Broadway for such shows as Pippin and The Rothschilds.
After sporadic film and TV appearances (including a stint on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow), Clayburgh nabbed her first big role in 1972's Portnoy's Complaint. Roles in TV shows such as Medical Center, Maude, and The Rockford Files followed (she received an Emmy nomination for the 1975 TV movie Hustling), before she essayed the role of Carole Lombard opposite James Brolin's Clark Gable in the critically lambasted Gable and Lombard (1976). The lavish biopic was soundly drubbed and might have marked the end of her career had it not been for a number of acclaimed performances and box office hits in rapid succession. Clayburgh earned acclaimed opposite Peter Falk in the TV cancer drama Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) and that same year co-starred opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in the blockbuster hit comedy Silver Streak. She held her own against two other high-profile, wildly popular leading men--Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson--in the football comedy Semi-Tough (1977) before landing the role that would make her a superstar of the decade: Erica in Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman.
The story of a well-to-do wife and mother who is left by her husband for a younger woman, and attempts to reclaim her identity as a single woman in a world marked by the rise of feminism, the film was a lightning rod for many of the issues of the late 70s, from divorce to sexual liberation. With its message that it was okay not to be married, the film was a box office and critical hit, winning Clayburgh the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. An Unmarried Woman would receive three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Actress, but lost both awards to Vietnam-themed dramas The Deer Hunter and Coming Home (Jane Fonda was the Best Actress winner).
Anointed as the screen's quintessential liberated woman, Clayburgh followed that film in 1979 with two wildly disparate roles, as an opera singer who seduces her 15 year old son in Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna, and as a slightly ditzy kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a recently divorced Burt Reynolds in the comedy Starting Over. The former film was reviled by critics, while the latter earner her a second Academy Award nomination (surprisingly, she received Golden Globe nominations for both films).
The early 80s saw Clayburgh play two more independent women in the comedies It's My Turn and First Monday in October, as well as a Valium addict in the adaptation of the bestselling memoir I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can. But as the 80s came under the influence of the Reagan administration and lost interest in the burgeoning feminist movement, roles for Clayburgh became less easy to attain, and a string of film flops followed throughout the decade. Roles in low-budget movies and telefilms followed, though it was through a number of television appearances in the late 90s and early 2000s that Clayburgh revitalized her career on the small screen: there were acclaimed but failed sitcoms Everything's Relative and Leap of Faith, and a well-received turn as the mother of Calista Flockhart's titular character in the hit show Ally McBeal.
After appearances on The Practice and Nip/Tuck (the latter earning her a second Emmy nomination), she co-starred in the TV series Dirty Sexy Money opposite Donald Sutherland as the matriarch of a wealthy New York family. In the mid-2000s Clayburgh also starred on Broadway in Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way and in the 2006 revival of Barefoot in the Park. Her most recent roles include the upcoming comedy-drama Love and Other Drugs, as well as next year's Bridesmaids.
Clayburgh married acclaimed playwright David Rabe (Hurlyburly, Streamers) in 1979; she is survived by Rabe and their daughter, actress Lily Rabe, who will be appearing opposite Al Pacino, with whom Clayburgh was involved in the early 70s, in the new Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, which has currently been delayed.
A stage actress who started appearing onscreen in the 70s, she suddenly became the "It Girl" -- or rather, "It Woman" -- with her acclaimed performance as an upper-class Manhattan wife suddenly left by her husband in the comedy-drama An Unmarried Woman. For a brief time one of Hollywood's most recognizable actresses in both comedy and drama, her career took a rapid decline in the 80s before she resuscitated her career with a number of television and film roles. Still, despite her career ups and downs, she remained one of the most important actresses of the 70s, alongside Jane Fonda, Glenda Jackson, Diane Keaton, and the young Meryl Streep (with whom she was friends) -- women whose films were marked by their portrayals of strong, independent women who didn't need a man to complete their lives and were prepared to take a stand by doing so.
Born in New York City to a manufacturing executive father and a mother who was the production secretary for theatrical producer David Merrick, Clayburgh had a privileged Upper East Side upbringing, attending the noted Brearley Academy and then Sarah Lawrence College. After joining the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston, she worked primarily onstage, moving to Broadway for such shows as Pippin and The Rothschilds.
After sporadic film and TV appearances (including a stint on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow), Clayburgh nabbed her first big role in 1972's Portnoy's Complaint. Roles in TV shows such as Medical Center, Maude, and The Rockford Files followed (she received an Emmy nomination for the 1975 TV movie Hustling), before she essayed the role of Carole Lombard opposite James Brolin's Clark Gable in the critically lambasted Gable and Lombard (1976). The lavish biopic was soundly drubbed and might have marked the end of her career had it not been for a number of acclaimed performances and box office hits in rapid succession. Clayburgh earned acclaimed opposite Peter Falk in the TV cancer drama Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) and that same year co-starred opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in the blockbuster hit comedy Silver Streak. She held her own against two other high-profile, wildly popular leading men--Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson--in the football comedy Semi-Tough (1977) before landing the role that would make her a superstar of the decade: Erica in Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman.
The story of a well-to-do wife and mother who is left by her husband for a younger woman, and attempts to reclaim her identity as a single woman in a world marked by the rise of feminism, the film was a lightning rod for many of the issues of the late 70s, from divorce to sexual liberation. With its message that it was okay not to be married, the film was a box office and critical hit, winning Clayburgh the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. An Unmarried Woman would receive three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Actress, but lost both awards to Vietnam-themed dramas The Deer Hunter and Coming Home (Jane Fonda was the Best Actress winner).
Anointed as the screen's quintessential liberated woman, Clayburgh followed that film in 1979 with two wildly disparate roles, as an opera singer who seduces her 15 year old son in Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna, and as a slightly ditzy kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a recently divorced Burt Reynolds in the comedy Starting Over. The former film was reviled by critics, while the latter earner her a second Academy Award nomination (surprisingly, she received Golden Globe nominations for both films).
The early 80s saw Clayburgh play two more independent women in the comedies It's My Turn and First Monday in October, as well as a Valium addict in the adaptation of the bestselling memoir I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can. But as the 80s came under the influence of the Reagan administration and lost interest in the burgeoning feminist movement, roles for Clayburgh became less easy to attain, and a string of film flops followed throughout the decade. Roles in low-budget movies and telefilms followed, though it was through a number of television appearances in the late 90s and early 2000s that Clayburgh revitalized her career on the small screen: there were acclaimed but failed sitcoms Everything's Relative and Leap of Faith, and a well-received turn as the mother of Calista Flockhart's titular character in the hit show Ally McBeal.
After appearances on The Practice and Nip/Tuck (the latter earning her a second Emmy nomination), she co-starred in the TV series Dirty Sexy Money opposite Donald Sutherland as the matriarch of a wealthy New York family. In the mid-2000s Clayburgh also starred on Broadway in Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way and in the 2006 revival of Barefoot in the Park. Her most recent roles include the upcoming comedy-drama Love and Other Drugs, as well as next year's Bridesmaids.
Clayburgh married acclaimed playwright David Rabe (Hurlyburly, Streamers) in 1979; she is survived by Rabe and their daughter, actress Lily Rabe, who will be appearing opposite Al Pacino, with whom Clayburgh was involved in the early 70s, in the new Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, which has currently been delayed.
- 11/6/2010
- by Mark Englehart
- IMDb News
Oscar-nominated Jill Clayburgh passed away on Friday at her home in Lakeville, Connecticut at the age of 66, reports The New York Times . The cause was chronic leukemia, with which she had lived for 21 years, her husband, the playwright David Rabe, said. Clayburgh received an Oscar nomination for starring in 1978's An Unmarried Woman , directed by Paul Mazursky. She also received an Oscar nomination for Starting Over (1979), directed by Alan J. Pakula. Her other credits include Semi-Tough (1977), It's My Turn (1980), First Monday in October (1981) and I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982). Her many television credits include guest appearances on "Law & Order," "The Practice" and "Nip/Tuck," and a recurring role on "Ally...
- 11/5/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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