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19 articles from 2009
Ceaseless deaths of the famous mark summer `09
18 September 2009 5:57 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, not in the dozens.But all through the summer of 2009 came a ceaseless and somber drumbeat, as idols of all walks of life passed away. From Walter Cronkite to Sen. Ted Kennedy, the nonstop loss of luminaries continued almost as if a seasonal occurrence . as much a part of summer as hot dogs and humidity.If a filmmaker were trying to capture the summer of 2009, Michael Jackson news would be playing in the background. Many thought coverage of Jackson's death was too much; a Pew Research Center poll released in July found that 64 percent of those surveyed thought the media blitz was overdone (though none could top MTV Japan, which designated an entire week of mourning for Jackson).But news outlets went heavy on coverage for the many others who passed. Collectively, it made the constant commemorating hard to escape, »
'The Runway' Begins Shooting in Cork
10 September 2009 7:28 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Shooting of new Irish film 'The Runway' has got underway in Goleen and Schull, Co. Cork. The film is written and directed by Ian Power, produced by Macdara Kelleher and stars Mexican actor Demián Bichir (Che, Weeds) alongside Irish actress Kerry Condon (Angela's Ashes, Rome). The Runway' is loosely inspired by the true events whereby a South American pilot crashed his airplane into a field near Mallow in Cork in 1983. Against all odds, the people of a depressed town called Dromoleen come together to build a runway, fix up a plane and get the pilot home. And in doing so caught, briefly, the imagination of a nation. »
A Strange Democracy: Frank McCourt 1930-2009
22 July 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Although Frank McCourt will be remembered as a writer, that career, begun in retirement, eclipsed his lifetime's labours as a teacher in New York. His memoir of a flea- and rat-infested childhood in 1930s Limerick, Angela's Ashes, seemed to annotate an earlier, Dickensian kind of poverty, and was largely responsible foe the industry known as "the misery memoir." His was the first, but few that followed in his wake were as refined, and as eloquent, as his particular distillation.
In a debut, unflinching and unrelenting, the classic combination is harnessed. A down-trodden Irish mother, a drunken patriotic father, dead infant siblings, and the uncaring influence of the Catholic church.
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- robert cochrane
Frank McCourt, Mentor to Generations of NY Geeks, Dead at 78
21 July 2009 2:46 PM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes, died on Sunday, July 19, of metastatic melanoma. Though his loss is undoubtedly felt acutely in literary circles, it is also felt among the thousands of students to whom he taught English and Creative Writing, first at McKee Vocational High School in Staten Island, NY and then from 1967 to 1987 at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan .
What does this have to do with comics, you may ask? Well, a couple of things.
Number one, among his students was Paul Levitz, current president and publisher of DC Comics, writer of The Legion of Super Heroes and Justice Society of America, and the former editor of Batman comics. Whether you can thank or condemn any of McCourt's influence for this, I leave to the individual reader to decide.
Number two, this reporter, speaking as a Stuyvesant alumna (class of 1986) and former student of his, can tell you, »
- Kim Kindya
Frank McCourt, 78, Dies
20 July 2009 8:42 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Frank McCourt, whose bestselling novel "Angela’s Ashes" was made into a 1999 movie, died on Sunday of cancer. He had recently been treated for melanoma, the cause of his death.
The 78-year-old author and New York native achieved literary fame during his mid-60’s after a long career as a creative writing teacher. With the help of a friend, McCourt secured representation for "Angela’s Ashes," then an unfinished manuscript about his extremely poor Irish childhood.
Scribner published the book in 1996, and it became an instant favorite with readers and critics. Thanks to its popularity, a film version directed by Alan Parker and produced by David Brown was released three years later. It starred Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle and a trio of actors -- Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge -- who played the young, middle-aged, and older McCourt, respectively.
John Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for his Best Music, »
DiCaprio Enters 'Twilight Zone' & More Movie News
20 July 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Leonardo DiCaprio hires a writer to pen a new 'Twilight Zone' movie, a bomb threat forces Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler to evacuate their Beverly Hills hotel, 'Angela's Ashes' author Frank McCourt passes away at the age of 78, and more of today's top movie headlines.Filed under: Movie News
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- Thomas DiChiara
Morning Links - Rip Walter Cronkite
20 July 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
The legendary Walter Cronkite passed away on Friday - Wonderwall Harry Potter tops the box office with $79.5 million - BuzzSugar Madonna visits the workers injured on her set - PopSugarUK Production on Mischa Barton's The Beautiful Life has been delayed - Lifeline Live Christina Milian is engaged to music producer The-Dream - Popeater Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson might have a chance at a reconciliation - Fox Pop Tarts Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt died this weekend at 78 - TrèsSugar David Arquette is sorry for calling Latinas "nuts" - Celebitchy Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler evacuate La hotel following a bomb threat - I'm Not Obsessed »
- PopSugar
Frank McCourt Dead at 78
20 July 2009 8:35 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Frank McCourt, the Irish immigrant-turned-teacher-turned-author whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes was adapted to the screen in 2000, died Sunday in New York of complications from metastatic melanoma. He was 78. In development when he passed away: Teacher Man, his third autobiographical effort, which Gerard Butler's Evil Twins shingle optioned last year as a potential starring vehicle for the actor. The story covers McCourt's 30 years as a high-school writing instructor in New York. Depending on The Ugly Truth's opening this weekend, look for the project to acquire new momentum with Butler in the months ahead. [Nyt] »
'Angela's Ashes' Author Passes Away Aged 78
20 July 2009 7:29 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Frank McCourt, author of the best selling memoir, about his impoverished childhood in Limerick, 'Angela's Ashes', has died aged 78 after a battle with melanoma and meningitis. The author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work saw his life story adapted to screen in 1999. The film, directed by Alan Parker, was produced by David Brown and co-produced by James Flynn and Morgan O'Sullivan. »
Former Students Remember Beloved Frank McCourt
20 July 2009 6:15 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
While his books captivated millions of readers around the world, Frank McCourt, who died Sunday after a recent health battle, spent the earlier part of his life enthralling a smaller but no less impressionable group of people: his students in the New York City public school system, where he taught for 30 years. It was when the Brooklyn-born, Ireland-raised McCourt reached his 60s that he decided to put memories of his impossibly impoverished childhood in Limerick - and his mother Angela - to paper, and the result was Angela's Ashes, published in 1996 to acclaim and awards, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. »
- Stephen M. Silverman
'Ashes' author McCourt dies, aged 78
20 July 2009 4:53 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Angela's Ashes writer Frank McCourt has passed away, aged 78. The best-selling author died from cancer at a New York hospice on Sunday, according to the New York Times. The American had suffered from meningitis and was recently treated for a melanoma. Angela's Ashes, McCourt's most famous novel, was based on the writer's youth in the Irish town of Limerick. He moved to Ireland with his (more) »
- By Alex Fletcher
Angela's Ashes Creator McCourt Dies
20 July 2009 1:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt has died of cancer, aged 78.
The Irish writer, whose book was made into a hit movie, had been battling melanoma skin cancer in a New York hospice, but his condition took a turn for the worse when he contracted meningitis earlier this month.
His brother, veteran actor Malachy McCourt, said his sibling died on Sunday afternoon in Manhattan.
Speaking last week (beg13Jul09), Malachy admitted he wasn't expecting the scribe to get through his illness, saying, "We don't expect him to live very long. He got meningitis and that screwed up the whole thing. (Until then) he was doing okay, speaking and lecturing and appearing and signing and doing all the usual stuff."
McCourt won a Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes in 1996, which he wrote after retiring from his job as an English teacher.
His other works include Teacher Man and Tis. »
"Angela's Ashes" Author Frank McCourt Dies At 78
19 July 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt has passed away following a battle with skin cancer. He was 78.
McCourt, best known for his 1996 memoir "Angela's Ashes," suffered from melanoma since it was announced in May this year. He had been undergoing chemotherapy and was said that his cancer was in remission, until a recent setback.
He contracted meningitis around three weeks ago and was admitted to a hospice in New York. He died on Sunday.
The author was born in Brooklyn, New York. Unable to find work during the Depression era, his family moved to their native Ireland in 1934, where they did not fare any better. His autobiography, "Angela's Ashes," details his life in poverty in Limerick, Ireland until his journey back to New York at the age of 19.
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Frank McCourt, Pulitzer-Winning Memoirist, Dies at 78
19 July 2009 6:38 PM, PDT | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
Frank McCourt, a teacher who in his sixties wrote a memoir of his desperately poor Irish childhood that became the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes, has died. He was 78.
McCourt, whose novel was adapted into a 1999 film of the same name, died of metastatic melanoma, said his brother, actor and writer Malachy McCourt. Frank McCourt, who lived in New York City and Roxbury, Conn., died Sunday, The New York Times reported.
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- Tim Molloy
Angela's Ashes Author Frank McCourt Said to Be Near Death
17 July 2009 6:15 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Frank McCourt, the Brooklyn-born, Ireland-raised author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes, is in a hospice, his brother Malachy McCourt said Thursday. Frank McCourt, 78, who recently battled melanoma and contracted meningitis about two weeks ago, "is not expected to live," his younger (by one year) brother told Reuters. The author is in a New York hospice, "his faculties shutting down," according to his sibling. After the best-selling Angela's Ashes, which tracked his unimaginably impoverished childhood and was adapted to the screen in 1999, McCourt went on to write two other memoirs, 1999's 'Tis and 2005's Teacher Man, about his experiences »
- Stephen M. Silverman
Angela's Ashes Creator Battling Meningitis
17 July 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Cancer-hit Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt is fighting for his life after contracting meningitis.
McCourt, whose book was made into a hit movie, has been battling melanoma skin cancer in a New York hospice, but his condition took a turn for the worse when he contracted the deadly brain disease.
And the 78 year old is not expected to recover from the illness, according to his brother, veteran actor Malachy McCourt.
He says, "We don't expect him to live very long. He got meningitis and that screwed up the whole thing. (Until then) he was doing okay, speaking and lecturing and appearing and signing and doing all the usual stuff.
"He was one of the unfortunate ones. Only three to five per cent of people who have melanoma get this form of meningitis.
"He's still conscious, but his hearing has gone and his eyesight is going. He's speaking less." »
Actor McCourt Breaks Leg
21 May 2009 5:05 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran actor Malachy McCourt has been forced to pull out of a theatre production in Vermont after shattering his leg in a nasty fall.
The 77 year old, brother of Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, slipped over in his hotel room, breaking his leg in three places.
He is recovering at Helen Hayes Hospital in Rockland County, but the accident has left him unable to continue his run in Prelude to a Kiss in the city of Burlington.
But he remains upbeat about the bad news, telling New York Post gossip column PageSix, "Friends told me, 'Break a leg,' so I did. Now, I have enough plates in my leg for a dinner party." »
Angela's Ashes Author Diagnosed With Skin Cancer
20 May 2009 2:55 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes is battling skin cancer.
Frank McCourt, 78, is being treated for melanoma, according to his publicist Brian Belfiglio, but the writer's brother insists he's not as gravely ill as reports suggest.
Malachy McCourt states his sibling's cancer is in remission, adding McCourt is "a hearty fellow, and he's survived worse than this."
The writer's agent, Molly Friedrich, tells U.S. TV news show The Insider that McCourt was in the hospital about a month ago but is now back at home and undergoing chemotherapy.
She insists her client is "doing well". »
How Come There Are No Great Soccer Films?
26 March 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
If soccer movies were as exciting as sportscaster Andrés Cantor makes scoring in real-life soccer matches sound ("Goooooooooooooool!!!'), we wouldn't be asking this question. But even die-hard fans of both cinema and soccer must ask, Why have there been no great movies about the most popular sport in the world?
You might easily dismiss my thinking since I'm an American and I live in a city where (American) football is considered a religion, so why not listen to more informed opinions? Simon Clifford, team owner and manager, trained players for soccer film The Damned United, which opens in the UK tomorrow. He told Glenn Moore of The Independent UK: "If the football doesn't look right the whole film can fall flat."
Director Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Fame, Angela's Ashes) observed: "It's an impossibly difficult sport to replicate because football is seen primarily in wide-shot. The excitement unfolds seeing at »
- Peter Martin
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