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Steve Martin: 'Failure inspires me'

5 November 2009 7:26 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Steve Martin has admitted that his own personal movie highlights happened much earlier in his career. However, the actor told Metro that he had no regrets about making his less-admired films. Martin said: "'I love Bowfinger, The Jerk, Roxanne, La Story, Planes, Trains And Automobiles. But they were all so long ago... "You have to take the good with the bad. If I do something that fails, it inspires me to do something (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

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Movie Maverick Melnick Dead At 77

15 October 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Emmy Award-winning movie maverick Daniel Melnick has died after battling lung cancer. He was 77.

The former head of production at MGM and Columbia studios made his name by signing off on bold and often controversial films like Straw Dogs, Network and Making Love.

Paying tribute to the mogul, his protege Sherry Lansing tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "He was an extraordinary producer and an extraordinary executive. He always thought out of the box and was never afraid to take a risk."

Melnick was also the brains behind cult TV show Get Smart.

He won Emmys in the mid 1960s for John Gielgud's Shakespearean TV special Ages of Man and Death of a Salesman.

Sam Peckinpah’s violent and controversial Straw Dogs was the first film Melnick produced.

He also helped to develop classic movies like Midnight Express, Kramer Vs. Kramer, All That Jazz and The China Syndrome at Columbia.

Melnick also produced 1984’s Footloose and Steve Martin's revamp of the Cyrano De Bergerac tale, Roxanne. »

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Roxanne (Blu-Ray Review)

11 September 2009 5:43 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Roxanne on Blu-Ray

Main Feature (1H 46M 50S)

This is one of those films from my childhood which I have fond memories of. I must have watched Roxanne a dozen times as a kid and loved it because of all of the slapstick comedy. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of seeing an idiot get hit in the face with a tennis racket. This is from the period in Steve Martin’s career when he was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and the appearance of his name in a film’s credits would guarantee a huge audience. Nowadays, he appears to be on a mission to destroy what remains of a once glittering career, which is a damn shame. This is by no means Steve’s funniest performance, nor does Daryl Hannah look her finest. Having said that, the combination of the funny and the looking »

- Tigervamp

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Streep Nom #7-8: The Abundant Riches of 1987-88

5 July 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

We've been looking at each Meryl Streep Oscar nod and its competitive field. Previously: 78, 79, 81, 82, 83 and 85

Meryl Streep's first act was the Liberated Lady. The second was The Chameleon in which Meryl was always the lead, always had new hair, voice and body language and basically controlled Oscar's Universe. It was as if there was only 4 spots for Best Actress, one reserved for her in perpetuity. This second act ended with her intense immersion into notorious dingo-hating Lindy Chamberlain in A Cry in the Dark. [Editor's Note: Yes, I'll do a top ten performance list when "Streep at 60" wraps in mid July. I've heard your requests and I've been rewatching all the movies.]

Starting in 1989 Act III of Streep's career began but we'll get to that shortly. First, let's look at her competition in the last two years of her legendary Act II.

1987

the nominees were...

Cher, MoonstruckGlenn Close, Fatal AttractionHolly Hunter, Broadcast NewsSally Kirkland, AnnaMeryl Streep, Ironweed

I've always loved that "Mary Louise" exchange. But is Cher rewriting history to claim Silkwood as her first movie or »

- NATHANIEL R

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DVD Playhouse--May 2009

11 May 2009 11:22 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—May 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount Studios releases two more classic titles from its library on special edition DVD: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford’s last masterpiece (although he would go on to direct two more very good films) from 1962: about an Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) who travels west only to find primal brutality in the form of sadistic bandit Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, great as always) and pragmatic brutality in local rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), each two sides of a coin that represent a way of life slowly dying out as Stewart’s modern brand of civilization tames the West. A perfect film, period. Howard Hawks’ El Dorado is essentially a remake of his earlier classic Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan as lawmen joining forces against corrupt cattle barons. Great fun. Two disc sets. »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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An Open Letter to Steve Martin

6 February 2009 10:36 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Dear Mr. Martin:

I have been aware of your work for 30 years. Even as a kid, with "King Tut" on the radio and the arrow through the head gag, I knew you were different than other comedians of the time. Somehow, I genuinely connected with your style even though the arrow through the head was definitely not aimed at me. It is ironic that in 2009, a new generation of children can laugh at your work, since your comedy has become about the lowest common denominator in almost every case.

There was not another Steve Martin when The Jerk established you as a movie star, nor was there another Steve Martin in 1987 when Roxanne showed how graceful your comedy could be. There is not another Steve Martin now, the star of The Pink Panther 2 - a has-been who's perfectly content to embark on the film version of the faded rock »

- Colin Boyd

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trailer break: ‘The Pink Panther 2’

29 January 2009 8:56 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »

If there was any doubt that Hollywood thinks audiences are morons, surely it must be laid to rest by this trailer. If this is all the funniest stuff -- as, alas, trailers tend to focus on -- I can’t even begin to imagine the trial that the rest of the film will be. The first one, in 2006, was pretty damn near unbearable -- could this be even worse? I despair of Steve Martin of late. It’s not like you can call “King Tut” or The Jerk or Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Roxanne highbrow, but they had some wit and some charm and some... something that didn’t make you want to claw your eyes out and wonder if the collective Iq of the entire planet hasn’t dropped in the last ten years. I realize that Martin’s Shopgirl was way too esoteric for mainstream audiences, »

- MaryAnn Johanson

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DVD Round Up, Jan. 20, 2009: ‘Henry Poole is Here,’ ‘The Pink Panther,’ ‘King Kong,’ ‘Skins’

20 January 2009 2:05 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – This week’s edition of the Round-Up - HollywoodChicago’s recurring feature of titles that might fall through the cracks if we don’t shine a spotlight on them, however briefly - includes proof that while not all remakes fail some certainly do, Chris Rock is still the most talented stand-up comedian alive, and the Brits usually do TV better than Americans.

“Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger,” “Henry Poole is Here,” “King Kong,” “The Pink Panther,” and “Skins”. Some you probably know well, others you may be reading about for the first time here. Take notes.

(Check out the first edition of the round-up, the second edition, number three and a few Blu-Ray Round-Ups here and here.)

All of these titles were released on January 20th, 2009, unless otherwise noted.

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger was released by HBO Home Video on January 20th, 2009.

Photo credit: HBO “Chris Rock: Kill »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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