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Interview: An Ice Cream Social With Oscar Winner Richard Dreyfuss

23 September 2009 8:46 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Actor Richard Dreyfuss is comfortable. This was on display as he was eating ice cream while talking about his career and life, just before an appearance at the brand new Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Ill.

Dreyfuss made a huge splash in the 1970s starring in the triptych of classic films: “American Graffiti,” “Jaws,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” He won his Best Actor Oscar – the youngest actor in Academy Award history to do so at the time – playing Elliott Garfield in the comedy, “The Goodbye Girl.”

Oscar-winning Actor Richard Dreyfuss in a Candid ‘Close Encounter’ at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Illinois, September 19th, 2009

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com He continued with great films throughout his career, including roles in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “What About Bob?,” another Best Actor nomination for “Mr Holland’s Opus” and “W” as Vice President Dick Cheney. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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'The Ugly Truth': Vile or surprisingly enjoyable? Poll!

6 August 2009 1:55 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

By now, you've heard that The Ugly Truth, starring Katherine Heigl as a TV news producer who is forced to work with on-air "talent" (Gerard Butler) who preaches that men are exactly who women fear they are -- then agrees to follow his advice to either land the man of her dreams or have the right to fire him -- blows. I braved the 14 percent Tomatometer rating, finally saw it, and... I enjoyed it. Judging by the laughter I heard, so did others in the theater. (I know! I was surprised there were "others," too. I'd expected a private screening like when I went to see Rhinestone in 1984.) Now before you jump on me like a couple of colleagues did after reading my confession in my Facebook status ("That movie was really vile"), I'm willing to admit that my expectations were low knowing that the general response to the film has been disgust, »

- Mandi Bierly

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Aaron Sorkin Joins Columbia’s Moneyball

9 July 2009 11:10 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Although acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbegrh is no longer attached to direct, Columbia’s Moneyball has found new life in writer Aaron Sorkin. The screenwriter, known for his TV credits including The West Wing and Sports Night, has signed on to rewrite the film. Brad Pitt is still attached to star. The original screenplay, which is based on Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, was written by Oscar winner Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List). Soderbergh also wrote a draft, which is where the problems first arose. Production on Moneyball was set to start last month, but Columbia’s Amy Pascal wound up pulling the plug on the film just days before shooting was to begin when Soderbergh’s new version of the script wasn’t what the studio wanted to make. Soderbergh's draft and production plans took a more documentary approach that the studio felt »

- James Cook

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The Social Network’s Script Gets Reviewed (Yes, The Facebook Movie)

7 July 2009 11:27 AM, PDT | Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news »

There’s only one interesting conversation I like having with people who like Aaron Sorkin scripts and that’s this: The guy was On Fire from A Few Good Men, The American President, through Sports Night and into 3 seasons of The West Wing, which he wrote almost exclusively by his lonesome. Thing is, the guy was [...] »

- Dave

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Top Ten: After Kate Winslet, Who?

4 March 2009 10:48 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next?

Or rather... who is most overdue?

Contrary to popular belief, it ain't easy to win an Oscar. It certainly wasn't easy for Kate the Great. You need more than an accent, a disability, a good or popular movie, old age makeup or mimicry skills. You also need star charisma, a role that compliments or complicates that charisma and media support. Above all else you need luck combined with surgically precise good timing. History is full of performers who never won the movie's top prize despite plentiful contributions to the art of acting.

For the following list I'm ignoring outstanding performers who have never »

- NATHANIEL R

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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up - Feb. 05, 2009

5 February 2009 7:51 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

It’s time for another Mid Week Movie News Wrap Up.

This week:

John Carpenter chooses yet another project; Clooney and Sorkin like a good Challenge; Bill Murray decides to Get Low; Bloom and Kurylenko get Cross and Nottingham wants an accountant.

 

1. It looks like John Carpenter just can’t make his mind up! First it appeared that L.A Gothic would be the follow-up to Ghosts of Mars, and then it looked like Scared Straight (or Riot as it was renamed) starring Nicolas Cage would be his next film. Wrong on both counts.

It now looks like The Master of Horror’s next film will be The Ward with Amber Heard.

According to Variety:

“Heard will star as a haunted woman in a mental institution.”

Sounds like anything could happen - but I’ll believe this to be Carpenter’s next movie when I see the first still. I »

- Niall Browne

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Peter Sellers named top Us president

20 January 2009 4:52 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Sing “The Star Spangled Banner”, play a little baseball or chow down on some apple pie as today is all about America. Yes, the eyes of the world are on the Us of A as Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States in a mere matter of hours. Here at Boxwish we’ve gotten into the American spirit by looking at how real-life presidents have been given the Hollywood treatment in our feature here, but American TV news channel CNN has taken a different approach rating its favourite fictional and real-life inhabitants of the Oval Office. And the top pick isn’t immediately obvious coming in the shape of Peter Sellers’s President Merkin Muffley from Stanley Kubrick’s seminal black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

It’s an unusual choice, very much at odds with »

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Sellers Tops Presidential List

19 January 2009 11:09 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Peter Sellers' portrayal of President Merkin Muffley in cult movie Dr. Strangelove has topped a new list of fictional and real-life U.S. leaders.

Sellers' famous role in the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film beat out Harrison Ford's James Marshall (Air Force One) and Kevin Kline's William H. Mitchell (Dave) in the CNN Inauguration Day countdown.

The only real-life leader to make the list is outgoing U.S. leader George W. Bush, as portrayed by Josh Brolin in W. He comes in at number 10.

The full list is:

1. Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb); 2. Harrison Ford as James Marshall (Air Force One); 3. Kevin Kline as William H. Mitchell (Dave); 4. John Travolta as Governor Jack Stanton (Primary Colors); 5. Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd (The American President) »

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Vin Diesel's xXx 1967 Pontiac to be sold at auction

9 January 2009 5:08 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

His star isn’t shining as brightly as once it did, but once upon a time Vin Diesel was pretty cool. The brawny baldy flexed his many tattooed muscles, growled in a deep voice and raced about in fast muscle cars – none more wet-your-pants cool than the 1967 Pontiac Gto from xXx. And now that very car as driven by Diesel in the 2002 action flick is to be sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. I wonder if it still has the flame thrower, exploding hubcaps, concealed stinger missiles, mini-bombs, parachutes in seats and ejectable roof. Surely that would cost extra.

The classic muscle car joins 200 other General Motors cars of historical or cultural significance to go under the hammer at the event which kicks off this Sunday continuing until the 18th. Others of interest include a 1986 presidential limousine replica that has graced the silver screen in flicks such as »

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