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Lou Jacobi obituary
16 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
Lou Jacobi obituary
16 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
Eric Roberts: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:23 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)
Rediscovering Roberts
Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.
By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Rip: Lou Jacobi
28 October 2009 3:18 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
On October 23, actor Lou Jacobi passed away in his Manhattan home at the age of 95.
Born in Toronto, Jacobi began acting as a boy, but really kicked off his career in the '50s, playing Captain Noakes in Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary in 1953 and soon making his Broadway debut in 1955 as one of the attic dwellers in The Diary of Anne Frank. Only a few years later, he brought his role as Mr. Hans Van Daan to the big screen opposite Shelley Winters in 1959 and followed it with a long career as a character actor, filled with notable film and television roles.
Cinematically, he played Uncle Morty in My Favorite Year, a plant store owner in Arthur, Herb in Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Gabriel Krichinsky in Avalon, and even Kurt Godel in I.Q. -- his last film. But perhaps his most notable character was Sam Musgrave in Woody Allen »
- Monika Bartyzel
Interview: Dean Haspiel on Act-i-vate, ‘Bored to Death’, and Jack Kirby
26 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Before getting a chance to sit down and talk with Dean Haspiel (American Splendor, The Quitter, Billy Dogma) at the Alternative Press Expo, I met him at the Isotope Comics Lounge on the eve of Ape weekend for a pre-ape Isotope in-store bash. Currently, Haspiel is but one artist that is part of a larger collective of storytellers at Act-i-vate.
Recently, October saw the recent release of The Act-i-vate Primer by Idw Publishing, featuring new and original stories. While at the Isotope, I discovered Haspiel is as gracious and as nice as I could have imagined just sitting and talking with him as he signed and sketched a head shot of Harvey Pekar in my copy of The Quitter.
That night talking generally about the unique positivity that courses through the comic industry, Haspiel signs my Pekar sketch advising me to “never quit.” It’s good advice.
Needless to say, »
- Joey Pangilinan
David Mamet to Direct Diary of Anne Frank
12 August 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Disney has acquired rights to a new rendition of "The Diary of Anne Frank," to be written and helmed by David Mamet (Heist, Spartan). The film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet's own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl's right of passage. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam. Producer Andrew Braunsberg, best known for producing "Being There," spent a year gathering the rights from the Anne Frank Estate as well as the estates of Hackett and Goodrich. He met with Icm's John Burnham, who recommended Mamet. Mamet sparked to the opportunity tell the story, »
Disney to Produce New Diary of Anne Frank Movie, David Mamet To Direct
12 August 2009 6:08 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Disney has acquired the rights to The Diary of Anne Frank and plans to make a new movie adaptation with David Mamet, according to Variety.
Frank's diary chronicles her time in hiding from the Nazis. She and several family members resided in a secret attic in Amsterdam for two years before being captured and sent to concentration camps. Frank died just a few months before the end of World War II in May 1945. Her family published the diary posthumously, and it has since sold many millions of copies in all major languages.
Mamet is perhaps most famous as a playwright, earning a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, which was adapted for the screen in 1992. He directed The Spanish Prisoner, Heist, and State and Main, and also earned a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for Wag the Dog (1997).
Reportedly, Mamet will add his own interpretation, drawing from both the original diary »
- Rich Z Zwelling
David Mamet Out to Remake 'The Diary of Anne Frank'
11 August 2009 11:04 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I'm not so sure if this is a strange idea or an interesting one as Variety reports David Mamet is setting out to write and direct a new take on "The Diary of Anne Frank" for Walt Disney Pictures. The 1959 George Stevens directed original won three Oscars and was nominated for a total of eight statues. Shelley Winters won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Petronella Van Daan. As everyone knows, the film was an adaptation of the secret diary kept by Frank while she and her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. As Michael Fleming at Variety points out, the young girl became an icon after the post-war publication of her diary. Mamet is said to be adapting not only the famed diary, but plans on making an amalgamation of the diary and the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich »
- Brad Brevet
Mamet Adapting The Diary of Anne Frank
11 August 2009 10:29 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
David Mamet has signed on to write and direct an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. Disney recently acquired the film rights to a new rendition of the true story. Mamet, whose directing credits include Heist, Spartan and Redbelt, will also produce with Andrew Braunsberg. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam. The film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet's own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl's right of passage. Braunsberg, best known for producing Being There, spent a year gathering the rights from the Anne Frank Estate as well as the estates of Hackett and Goodrich. »
- James Cook
DVD Playhouse--August 2009
10 August 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—August 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
The greatest movies ever made
2 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines. The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.
1. The Night of the Hunter, 1955
That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again. »
- Roger Ebert
DVD: Coraline, Hotel, Watchmen
20 July 2009 7:09 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Try to imagine this DVD release roundup in 3-D for maximum enjoyment.
What's new on DVD Tuesday? We'll bookend this roundup with the two best releases. Links to add them to your queues provided because I'm sweet and helpful like that.
Coraline - I loved the use of 3D in Coraline so I'm wondering how it will transfer to the flatter world of home entertainment: Will that tunnel into Other Mother be as beckoning? Would the transformative acrobatic sister act pay off quite so well? Even if they won't, the film's imaginative visuals and fun character play will pull you into its rewarding tale of a bored little girl suddenly fighting for her soul and her parent's lives in a fantasy world that's not quite like her own. Coraline's journey is often compared to Alice's trip through the looking glass or down the rabbit hole. Miyazaki's Spirited Away was also described that way. »
- NATHANIEL R
DVD Playhouse--July 2009
14 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—July 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Do The Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Spike Lee’s groundbreaking fable about race relations in an ethnically mixed Brooklyn neighborhood during a sweltering New York summer remains as potent, timely and prescient as it was in 1989. Lee is among the cast, which also includes John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Rosie Perez (to name a few), that provide the tableaux-like framework for this stunning work. Criminally ignored by Oscar (it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, but did garner nods for Supporting Actor Danny Aiello and Lee’s screenplay), it endures as a timeless classic. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Wynn Thomas, Joie Lee; Documentary; Deleted and extended scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Coraline (Universal) A young girl moves into an old Victorian house with her parents »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
14 Links (I Started and Couldn't Stop)
13 July 2009 8:18 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Gawker Harry Potter pr strategy: well behaved role model stars
TransGriot excerpts from Kerry Washington interviews. She's on the circuit for her transsexual role in Life is Hot in Cracktown.
SLatIFR 'The Kings of Cinematic Schlong' ...and yes Ewan McGregor is accounted for
Cinematical a certain heiress is being sued for not promoting a movie that paid her a cool million. Serves the filmmakers right, really. Roles in movies are meant to be played by actresses.
Old Hollywood a classic quippy moment with Shelley Winters, also known as Shirley
JoBlo first still for Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Playlist is tired of Henry Cavill missing out on every A-List role he's been considered for (The Green Lantern being the latest). They have a point. He does look like this...
I Need My Fix yet another product endorsement for Scarlett Johansson. You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she retires »
- NATHANIEL R
The Diary of Anne Frank, 50th Anniversary Edition - DVD Review
25 June 2009 6:01 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
George Stevens. powerful film is given a new anniversary edition adding some new special features, but still showing that the film hasn.t lost any of the emotional power it displayed in 1959. In 1942, the Nazis invade and occupy Amsterdam. The Frank family, Otto (Joseph Schildkraut), Edith (Gusti Huber), and their daughters Margot (Diane Baker), and the young Anne (Millie Perkins), the van Daan family, Petronella (Shelley Winters), Hans (Lou Jacobi), and their son Peter (Richard Beymer), and Mr. Dussell (Ed Wynn) enter into hiding because the Nazis are rounding up all the Jews. The Franks have a secret loft over their factor and are aided in their confinement by Kraler (Douglas Spencer) and Miep (Dodie Heath). They »
- Jeff Swindoll
[DVD Review] The Diary of Anne Frank
23 June 2009 9:01 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
After the works of Elie Wiesel, the manuscript of Anne Frank written during hiding in World War II may be the most essential memoir written by someone who experienced the Holocaust firsthand. Anne Frank’s diary relays the struggles of two families inhabiting a hidden attic at the height of Nazi occupation in Europe. The journal as is possesses incredible historic value; but when you consider Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp, that her writings survived to tell her harrowing story of survival becomes borderline miraculous. Now, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is read by students around the world as a key piece of literature on the subject of Holocaust education. The English translation of Anne’s diary appeared in 1952 and quickly spawned a play and eventually a film adaptation by George Stevens.
These days when you tell someone you’re going to watch a three-hour-long Holocaust epic, »
- Lex Walker
Red Carpet Lineup & 1980 Pflashback
20 June 2009 5:45 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Another random sampling of ladies hitting the red carpet or being caught by the paparazzi these past few days...
Kathy Bates was not at the press day for Chéri. But that's good. I was experiencing sensory overload anyway. Imagine if I had been made to feel even crazier than I already did about being in the same room with Michelle Pfeiffer. I didn't need Bates there as a freaky "I'm your no. 1 fan" reminder of the obsessive vibe I was probably giving off (uhhhh) New Topic!
Remember how fun Bates was on Six Feet Under a few years back? I kind of want her to do another TV series which is uncommon for me, given that I like my film actresses to stay put.
Sacha Baron Cohen, excuse me, Brüno at a photocall in Spain. That outfit... he really can't help himself. I'm drawn to the "too much" factor, I think. »
- NATHANIEL R
Reminder & Guest Update: Free Grace screening Tomorrow!
10 June 2009 11:25 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Our friends over at USC got in touch to let us know that they've added quite a few more guests to this event, so we're re-posting this with updated details.
Those eager to catch Fangoria Blood Drive alum Paul Solet's Grace have a chance to do so for Free, provided they live close enough to see it at USC.
On June 12th (Tomorrow!), the USC School of Cinematic Arts' Alumni Screening Series will present Grace at 7pm, University Park Campus, Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall.
In an unforgettable emotional and psychological journey into terror, a young woman is forced to make the ultimate motherly sacrifice.
The School of Cinematic Arts and Anchor Bay Entertainment invite you and a guest to a special preview screening of Grace, followed by a Q&A with writer/director Paul Solet and composer Austin Wintory.
Free admission. Open to all.
About Grace
Love. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Playing it Straight
7 April 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
While Sean Penn’s recent Best Actor Oscar win for Milk helped bring Harvey Milk’s message to a wide audience — both from the increased visibility of the film and from Penn’s moving acceptance speech — the occasion marked another instance of a Hollywood tradition: a gay character played by a heterosexual actor.
Penn, like Tom Hanks (Philadelphia [1993]) and William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman [1985]) before him, was praised for his “bravery” for taking on the role and even — eek! — kissing another man.
Gay actors, on the other hand, get no such credit for playing gay roles; let’s not forget the year that Rupert Everett’s hilarious supporting turn in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) was ignored by the Academy, with the implication that queer thespians need merely show up to play queer characters, with no actual acting involved. (To add insult to injury, that same year saw »
- dennis
Is 'Irena's Vow' the next Holocaust awards champ?
13 March 2009 10:57 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Now that "The Reader" has proved the continued strength of Holocaust films in the awards derby, reaping an overdue Oscar for Kate Winslet plus nominations for best picture, director, screenplay and cinematography, there should be keen interest in "Irena's Vow." The Broadway play, which opens March 29, has already been optioned for a feature film and shows strong potential, just like "The Reader," in the lead actress race.
"Irena's Vow" is based upon the real-life experiences of Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic who saved 12 Jews from extermination by hiding them in the basement of a Nazi officer's villa. The Broadway production at the Walter Kerr could finally earn theater veteran Tovah Feldshuh her first Tony Award after four losses: "Golda's Balcony" (lead actress in a play, 2004), "Lend Me a Tenor" (featured actress in a play, 1989), "Sarava" (lead actress in a musical, 1979), "Yentl" (lead actress in a play, 1976).
Feldshuh is known primarily as a stage actress, »
- tomoneil
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