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DVD: Review:Homeboy

25 August 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Mickey Rourke’s face somehow doesn’t look right without scars, bruises, wrinkles, and other ravages of age and abuse. In a world of pretty boys, he exudes the retro grit of John Garfield, though there’s plenty of Marlon Brando in his DNA as well. 1984’s The Pope Of Greenwich Village gave Rourke an opportunity to make a ’30s-style Warner Brothers crime drama; 1988’s simpatico Homeboy, which just received a tardy DVD release, let him shoot an equally anachronistic ’30s-style boxing movie. Rourke, who wrote the script under his “Eddie Cook” pseudonym, stars as a washed-up fighter ... »

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German Tryst On 'Postman' Plot

14 May 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

'The Postman Always Rings Twice," James M. Cain's pulp novel about a drifter who gets it on hot and heavy with a young woman married to an older guy, has served filmmakers well.

There are two well-known American versions, one in 1946 (starring John Garfield and Lana Turner) and the other in 1981 (with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange doing it on the kitchen table).

In 1943, Italian master Luchino Visconti revisted the story in "Ossessione"; there's even an Asian variation, »

- By V.A. MUSETTO

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Graham Dancer Lang Dies

27 February 2009 8:15 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Modern dancer/choreographer Pearl Lang has died, aged 87.

Lang, who took over a string of roles from dance pioneer Martha Graham, passed away on Tuesday in Manhattan, New York after suffering a heart attack while recuperating from hip surgery.

After concluding her studies at the University of Chicago, Lang moved to New York in 1941, when she was accepted into the Martha Graham Dance Company and created parts in several of its productions. She later took over Graham's own role in works including El Penitente, Appalachian Spring, Letter to the World and Clytemnestra.

Lang was a member of the company until 1952, when she founded the Pearl Lang Dance Theater.

In addition to her contributions to modern dance, she performed in several musicals throughout the 1940s and '50s, including One Touch of Venus, Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, Allegro and a revival of Peer Gynt, starring Academy Award-nominated actor John Garfield.

Lang also choreographed for the Dutch National Ballet, the Boston Ballet and the Batsheva Dance Company of Israel, and taught dance at prestigious universities including Yale, the Juilliard School and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, where she last taught in December.

She is survived by her husband, actor Joseph Wiseman, two nieces and a nephew. »

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SAG A-List Blacklist

11 January 2009 12:41 AM, PST | Digital Media Law | See recent Digital Media Law news »

The dark times at SAG just got darker. This time, the culprit is an email being circulated that advocates a No vote on awards for stars who oppose a strike authorization. Among the targets: Alec Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, Sally Field, Michael C. Hall, Susan Sarandon, Tony Shalhoub, and Kevin Spacey. The email urges SAG members not to vote for those stars in the upcoming SAG awards, for which they’ve been nominated.

Meanwhile, in another sign of how SAG politics have divided Hollywood, a rally is set for this Monday, January 12, at the commencement of the SAG national board meeting in La. The rally, occurring 8:30 a.m. at SAG’s 5757 Wilshire Blvd. headquarters, is organized by location manager and Teamsters member Scott Bigbee, in support of SAG actors who oppose a strike. Bigbee notes that the rally is not organized by the Teamsters union itself, and is »

- noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)

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2009 | 2002

4 articles from 2009

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