In his latest podcast/interview, host Stuart Wright talks to writer/director Mike Todd about his new documentary Shankly: Nature’s Fire; which has its World Premiere Sunday 29 October at the Liverpool Philharmonic. Tickets at www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/shankly-natures-fire
Shankly: Nature’s Fire will air on BBC Autumn 2017 – check local press for details. Available on DVD from Monday 4 December. Distributed by Thunderbird. Check for further screenings www.thunderbirdreleasing.com...
Shankly: Nature’s Fire will air on BBC Autumn 2017 – check local press for details. Available on DVD from Monday 4 December. Distributed by Thunderbird. Check for further screenings www.thunderbirdreleasing.com...
- 10/16/2017
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
During her life in the spotlight, Elizabeth Taylor was quadruple threat: a world-renowned actress, businesswoman, activist and a beauty and fashion icon. But with three children, the star’s role as a mother was the most sacred. Taylor once said about her children, “They make me the proudest of anything that I’ve ever done.”
And now, six years after her death, we’re getting an intimate look at Elizabeth Taylor the mom role with rarely before seen photos of the actress and her kids in the video above.
The short film, which was created by the Elizabeth Taylor Trust...
And now, six years after her death, we’re getting an intimate look at Elizabeth Taylor the mom role with rarely before seen photos of the actress and her kids in the video above.
The short film, which was created by the Elizabeth Taylor Trust...
- 5/9/2017
- by Jillian Ruffo
- PEOPLE.com
In a new book about their life together, Kirk and Anne Douglas reflect on their close friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and her third husband, Mike Todd. Theirs was a bond laced with Hollywood glamour, but it took a tragic turn when Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958 — the very same plane that Douglas decided not to board at the last minute. Todd’s death left Taylor a young widow at 26.
“I had never seen Mike as besotted with any woman as he was with Elizabeth,” writes Anne, 98, in Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood,...
“I had never seen Mike as besotted with any woman as he was with Elizabeth,” writes Anne, 98, in Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood,...
- 5/3/2017
- by Sam Gillette
- PEOPLE.com
They died within a day of one another — but that’s not the only parallel in the lives of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher.
The mother-daughter duo’s Hollywood careers were filled with coincidences. From their signature movies to their troubled marriages, here are a few instances where their lives lined up.
Both had breakout roles at 19
Reynolds had one of those classic Hollywood discovery stories. As a contestant in the Miss Burbank beauty pageant when she was 16, a talent scout from Warner Bros. discovered her and signed her to a contract with the powerhouse studio.
She made five films...
The mother-daughter duo’s Hollywood careers were filled with coincidences. From their signature movies to their troubled marriages, here are a few instances where their lives lined up.
Both had breakout roles at 19
Reynolds had one of those classic Hollywood discovery stories. As a contestant in the Miss Burbank beauty pageant when she was 16, a talent scout from Warner Bros. discovered her and signed her to a contract with the powerhouse studio.
She made five films...
- 12/29/2016
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Debbie Reynolds found herself caught in a widely publicized love triangle in the 1950s when her then-husband, singer Eddie Fisher, had an affair with their longtime friend, Elizabeth Taylor.
In 1958, Reynolds and Fisher were one of Hollywood's hottest couples, along with Taylor and her then-husband, producer Mike Todd. The couples were inseparable at the time, with Fisher serving as Todd’s best man and Reynolds being Taylor’s matron of honor.
That all changed in 1958 when Todd died in a plane crash. Taylor soon struck up a romance with Fisher, which led to Reynolds divorcing her husband in 1959, and Fisher and Taylor getting married that same year.
Watch: Todd Fisher Says Mom Debbie Reynolds Missed Daughter Carrie Fisher and 'Wanted to Be With Her'
In 1988, Et spoke with Reynolds -- who was promoting her autobiography, Debbie: My Life, at the time -- about her marriage to Fisher and how it all ended. "We, at that...
In 1958, Reynolds and Fisher were one of Hollywood's hottest couples, along with Taylor and her then-husband, producer Mike Todd. The couples were inseparable at the time, with Fisher serving as Todd’s best man and Reynolds being Taylor’s matron of honor.
That all changed in 1958 when Todd died in a plane crash. Taylor soon struck up a romance with Fisher, which led to Reynolds divorcing her husband in 1959, and Fisher and Taylor getting married that same year.
Watch: Todd Fisher Says Mom Debbie Reynolds Missed Daughter Carrie Fisher and 'Wanted to Be With Her'
In 1988, Et spoke with Reynolds -- who was promoting her autobiography, Debbie: My Life, at the time -- about her marriage to Fisher and how it all ended. "We, at that...
- 12/29/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
People’s Lynette Rice recalls her 2015 meeting with legendary actress Debbie Reynolds, who died Wednesday at the age of 84, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died at age 60.
There was no greater thrill than to be ordered around by Debbie Reynolds.
In preparation for the Life Achievement honor that Debbie would receive from the Screen Actors Guild in 2015, I had the privilege of interviewing the then-83-year-old actress about her extraordinary life and career. I begged for the chance, actually; when a former People colleague lamented about having too much on her plate, I pleaded for the chance to...
There was no greater thrill than to be ordered around by Debbie Reynolds.
In preparation for the Life Achievement honor that Debbie would receive from the Screen Actors Guild in 2015, I had the privilege of interviewing the then-83-year-old actress about her extraordinary life and career. I begged for the chance, actually; when a former People colleague lamented about having too much on her plate, I pleaded for the chance to...
- 12/29/2016
- by jodiguglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
With Debbie Reynolds’ death on Wednesday, Hollywood has lost a true legend of the Golden Age. At the height of her career, Reynolds was known as America’s sweetheart — and her fame often outshone the parts she played.
In fact, one of her most famous roles came during an offscreen drama which involved a love triangle seemingly ripped from a movie script.
Back in 1958, Reynolds and her husband, famed crooner Eddie Fisher, were among the most glamorous couples in Hollywood. The only other duo that came close to their star power also happened to be their best friends, Elizabeth Taylor and her husband,...
In fact, one of her most famous roles came during an offscreen drama which involved a love triangle seemingly ripped from a movie script.
Back in 1958, Reynolds and her husband, famed crooner Eddie Fisher, were among the most glamorous couples in Hollywood. The only other duo that came close to their star power also happened to be their best friends, Elizabeth Taylor and her husband,...
- 12/29/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
Screen icon Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84. The news comes just one day after her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, 60, died of a heart attack.
Reynolds was thinking of her daughter in her final moments. “I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie,” she said shortly before passing, her son Todd told TMZ.
Reynolds was at her and Fisher’s property when she had to be rushed to the hospital for a possible stroke on Wednesday afternoon, People confirmed .
On Tuesday, Reynolds had taken to social media to thank fans for their support in the...
Reynolds was thinking of her daughter in her final moments. “I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie,” she said shortly before passing, her son Todd told TMZ.
Reynolds was at her and Fisher’s property when she had to be rushed to the hospital for a possible stroke on Wednesday afternoon, People confirmed .
On Tuesday, Reynolds had taken to social media to thank fans for their support in the...
- 12/29/2016
- by alexisloinazpeople
- PEOPLE.com
Van Williams, known for his starring role as the Green Hornet (aka Britt Reid), in the 1960s TV show, died November 28 in Scottsdale, Ariz., of kidney failure, according to Variety. He was 82. Williams was a diving instructor in Hawaii in the mid 1950s when he was discovered by producer Mike Todd. He was first signed to contract by Warner Bros. in 1959, with his big break coming that same year as co-star of ABC series Bourbon Street Beat. The New Orleans-set series aired…...
- 12/5/2016
- Deadline TV
Van Williams, star of the 1960s action sci-fi series The Green Hornet, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 82.
Born Van Zandt Jarvis Williams on Feb. 27, 1934 in Forth Worth, Texas, the actor passed away Nov. 29 of kidney failure in Scottsdale, Arizona where he lived with his wife of 57 years, Vicki Flaxman Richards.
Williams grew up on a ranch outside Fort Worth and later studied animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University. When he and his father wrangled over ranch policy, Van lit out for the wide open spaces of Hawaii in 1956. It was there, while working as...
Born Van Zandt Jarvis Williams on Feb. 27, 1934 in Forth Worth, Texas, the actor passed away Nov. 29 of kidney failure in Scottsdale, Arizona where he lived with his wife of 57 years, Vicki Flaxman Richards.
Williams grew up on a ranch outside Fort Worth and later studied animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University. When he and his father wrangled over ranch policy, Van lit out for the wide open spaces of Hawaii in 1956. It was there, while working as...
- 12/5/2016
- by peoplecomproducer
- PEOPLE.com
Touchdown! Katherine Webb and her football hubby Aj McCarron have welcomed their first child into the world! E! News can confirm the Sports Illustrated model and former Miss Alabama USA gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. "Little man is here. We have a beautiful little boy a part of our family now!!" Aj shared on Twitter Tuesday evening. "Wow is he a long one. We love you Tripp McCarron #proudparents." Katherine had posted on her Instagram page Sunday a photo of the late Elizabeth Taylor, her late third husband Mike Todd and their then-baby daughter Liza in 1957 and wrote, "Feels. Big day tomorrow," with a baby emoji. She had shared her latest baby bump pic...
- 5/25/2016
- E! Online
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the release of "Crash" (on May 6, 2005), an all-star movie whose controversy came not from its provocative treatment of racial issues but from its Best Picture Oscar victory a few months later, against what many critics felt was a much more deserving movie, "Brokeback Mountain."
The "Crash" vs. "Brokeback" battle is one of those lingering disputes that makes the Academy Awards so fascinating, year after year. Moviegoers and critics who revisit older movies are constantly judging the Academy's judgment. Even decades of hindsight may not always be enough to tell whether the Oscar voters of a particular year got it right or wrong. Whether it's "Birdman" vs. "Boyhood," "The King's Speech" vs. "The Social Network," "Saving Private Ryan" vs. "Shakespeare in Love" or even "An American in Paris" vs. "A Streetcar Named Desire," we're still confirming the Academy's taste or dismissing it as hopelessly off-base years later.
The "Crash" vs. "Brokeback" battle is one of those lingering disputes that makes the Academy Awards so fascinating, year after year. Moviegoers and critics who revisit older movies are constantly judging the Academy's judgment. Even decades of hindsight may not always be enough to tell whether the Oscar voters of a particular year got it right or wrong. Whether it's "Birdman" vs. "Boyhood," "The King's Speech" vs. "The Social Network," "Saving Private Ryan" vs. "Shakespeare in Love" or even "An American in Paris" vs. "A Streetcar Named Desire," we're still confirming the Academy's taste or dismissing it as hopelessly off-base years later.
- 5/6/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
It's time to raise your glass and rattle your jewelry for a birthday toast to Elizabeth Taylor, who'd have turned 83 on Feb. 27. Though memories of her begin to fade, the legacy of the woman who was perhaps the most beautiful, most popular, most everything movie star of all time remains as vivid as ever.
Younger moviegoers may wonder what all the fuss was about. Here, then, are 13 reasons why Taylor remains, decades after her prime and four years after her death, the queen of Hollywood.
1. In a way, she never left.
Even though she died in 2011, they're still showing her in commercials for her perfume, White Diamonds.
2. She's the original diva.
Long before Beyonce, the Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez, and other current divas, Taylor pretty much invented the concept that a celebrity's offscreen life was just as much a performance as onscreen, and just as much part of the job description.
Younger moviegoers may wonder what all the fuss was about. Here, then, are 13 reasons why Taylor remains, decades after her prime and four years after her death, the queen of Hollywood.
1. In a way, she never left.
Even though she died in 2011, they're still showing her in commercials for her perfume, White Diamonds.
2. She's the original diva.
Long before Beyonce, the Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez, and other current divas, Taylor pretty much invented the concept that a celebrity's offscreen life was just as much a performance as onscreen, and just as much part of the job description.
- 2/27/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival with the world premiere of a brand new restoration of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1955). TCM’s own Robert Osborne, who serves as official host for the festival, will introduce Oklahoma!, with the film’s star, Academy Award®-winner Shirley Jones, in attendance. Vanity Fair will also return for the fifth year as a festival partner and co-presenter of the opening night after-party. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide withTCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
- 2/14/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The actors talk about playing Hollywood's most star-crossed lovers, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
"Well, there's no point in trying to look like her, is there?" Helena Bonham Carter says, as she twiddles her monstrous fake £1m diamond ring. "And if you do try, you're just going to be perpetually disappointed."
"On no," Dominic West says. "Pointless. The thing we had going for us is, we're playing them when they're not in their prime. And we're younger than they were at the time."
Bonham Carter and West are playing the ultimate celebrity couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, in a new BBC4 film. It wasn't simply their level of celebrity that made them special; it was the scale of their lives. Both actors dealt only in superlatives raised to the power of X. So Taylor became the world's biggest child star when she made National Velvet at 12, and went on...
"Well, there's no point in trying to look like her, is there?" Helena Bonham Carter says, as she twiddles her monstrous fake £1m diamond ring. "And if you do try, you're just going to be perpetually disappointed."
"On no," Dominic West says. "Pointless. The thing we had going for us is, we're playing them when they're not in their prime. And we're younger than they were at the time."
Bonham Carter and West are playing the ultimate celebrity couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, in a new BBC4 film. It wasn't simply their level of celebrity that made them special; it was the scale of their lives. Both actors dealt only in superlatives raised to the power of X. So Taylor became the world's biggest child star when she made National Velvet at 12, and went on...
- 7/13/2013
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
Today, we're featuring Betty Garrett circa 1981. Garrett made her Broadway debut in 1942 in the revue Of V We Sing, which closed after 76 performances but led to her being cast in the Harold Rome revue Let Freedom Sing later that year. It closed after only eight performances, but producer Mike Todd saw it and signed her to understudy Ethel Merman and play a small role in the 1943 Cole Porter musical Something for the Boys. Merman became ill during the run, allowing Garrett to play the lead for a week. Later, she became known for the roles she played in two prominent 1970s sitcoms Archie Bunker's liberal neighbor Irene Lorenzo in All in the Family and landlady Edna Babish in Laverne amp Shirley. In later years, Garrett appeared in television series such as Grey's Anatomy, Boston Public and Becker as well as in several Broadway plays and revivals.
- 4/11/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
When you think of all the radical, paradigm-shifting leaps that technology has taken over the last two decades — analog to digital! print to Internet! desktop to mobile! cathode ray tube to liquid crystal display! — the very sound of 48 frames per second has a “New And Improved!” golly-gee I’ll-see-you-and-raise-you-24-frames clunkoid quaintness about it. It doesn’t sound like the future, exactly; it sounds like the past on steroids. Forty-eight frames per second, of course, is how fast the images are going to be shooting through projectors at 450 of the theaters showing Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starting today.
- 12/14/2012
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Last week, Actors’ Equity Equal Employment Opportunity Committee announced they are now accepting nominations for the 2013 Rosetta LeNoire Award. Theater professionals are asked to send in their picks for an individual or institution who has made outstanding contributions to American theater while also holding an exemplary record in hiring or promoting ethnic minorities, female actors, and actors with disabilities. LeNoire, an actor and producer, had a history of championing diversity in the theater world. As the first recipient of this award, she was recognized not only for the breadth of her stage work but also her participation with the then-titled Actors’ Equity Association’s Ethnic Minorities Committee. She also founded the Amas Repertory Theatre Company, an organization dedicated to maintaining an “interracial company” of actors. As an actor, LeNoire made her Broadway debut in Mike Todd’s 1939 production of “Hot Mikado” and also later started in “A Streetcar Named Desire...
- 12/10/2012
- backstage.com
We're in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month -- the annual celebration of the heritage and culture of Hispanic and Latino/a Americans that takes place from September 15-October 15. Indiewire's latest curation of Hulu's Documentaries page draws from this rich background, offering documentaries that explore issues and stories relevant to the U.S., Mexico, Latin America and the Spanish-speaking countries of South America and the Caribbean. Watch all of these docs for free now! Read More: Go Back to School with Indiewire @ Hulu Set in San Diego's Barrio Logan, Mike Todd's "Under the Bridge: The Story of Chicano Park" tells the story of Mexican-Americans bonding together in 1970 to enact social change. Exploring the marginalization of indigenous Chicano rights, the film reframes the immigration debate in a provocative way. Immigration is the hot button issue at the core of Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest's "Walking...
- 9/26/2012
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
My birthday is this Saturday, so I thought we'd celebrate with a little get-together. A soiree for just the four of us. A little brandy. Conversation about the college. Games. Laughter. Screaming. Vomiting. Psychological warfare. Ruining you and throwing you in the toilet and murmuring into your ear about what a miserable flop you've become. Then more drinking. Then horrified silence. Then more.
Congrats and condolences, because you're dropping in on one of my favorite movies and my personal national anthem, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, this week's candidate for "Best Movie Ever?" Bizarre secret: I often keep this movie in my computer's DVD player while I'm writing, because nothing propels my creative juices like Elizabeth Taylor's bellowing and Richard Burton's deadpanned despair. It's my Powerade. Liz and Dick shoot the electrolytes right into my skull. Forty-five years after Virginia Woolf's sensational release (and fifty after the debut...
Congrats and condolences, because you're dropping in on one of my favorite movies and my personal national anthem, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, this week's candidate for "Best Movie Ever?" Bizarre secret: I often keep this movie in my computer's DVD player while I'm writing, because nothing propels my creative juices like Elizabeth Taylor's bellowing and Richard Burton's deadpanned despair. It's my Powerade. Liz and Dick shoot the electrolytes right into my skull. Forty-five years after Virginia Woolf's sensational release (and fifty after the debut...
- 7/31/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
After doing the rounds on VoD for a few weeks, where many of you will have seen it, Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" starts to roll out in theaters from tomorrow, and we can't recommend it enough; it's a messy, sometimes frustrating film, but a deeply felt, beautifully made and wonderfully acted one, and we named it last week as one of the best of the year so far. It is not, however, recommended as a date movie, fitting into a long cinematic tradition of painful examinations of broken, decaying, collapsing or dead relationships.
After all, it's one of the more universal human experiences; unless you get very lucky, everyone who falls in love will at some point have the wrenching experience of falling out of it, or being fallen out of love with. And when done best in film, it can be bruising and borderline torturous for a filmmaker and an audience,...
After all, it's one of the more universal human experiences; unless you get very lucky, everyone who falls in love will at some point have the wrenching experience of falling out of it, or being fallen out of love with. And when done best in film, it can be bruising and borderline torturous for a filmmaker and an audience,...
- 6/28/2012
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Celebrity psychic John Cohan is set to stun fans of the late Elizabeth Taylor by revealing the lovechild the movie icon paid an Irish family to bring up as its daughter was the product of a tryst with a Hollywood studio carpenter.
Cohan, who was Taylor's longtime confidante and spiritual guide, went public with the news of the baby born out of wedlock last year shortly after the actress' death, revealing his client had asked him to reveal all about the child she never knew after she had passed.
Cohan told the New York Post's gossip columnist Cindy Adams that Taylor called her daughter Norah, adding, "Money was exchanged. Living in Ireland, the child, resenting the mother who gave her up, wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth."
He told Adams Taylor was not sure who the father was, as she had been with three men at the time the baby was conceived.
But now he tells WENN the actress' husband Mike Todd tracked the child down in Ireland and, in describing her to his wife, Taylor determined that the father was a carpenter she had once romanced.
Cohan says, "Mike Todd tracked down the child many years later. There was the hope of a reunion but the child and her family wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth and she never met the daughter she gave away. She was devastated.
"But at least she discovered who the father was - she was convinced he was a carpenter she had briefly romanced. As my client, I never pressed her for a name or any other details. She just told me to get this out when she was gone."
Cohan claims his late friend never got over the guilt she felt about giving up her baby daughter - and this led to her adopting a child, called Maria, from Germany while she was married to singer Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband.
The psychic adds, "She thought having her daughter Liza with Mike Todd would erase the guilt but it didn't; that's why she adopted Maria."
Taylor also had two sons with her second husband, British actor Michael Wilding.
Cohan will reveal all about his famous client's confessions in biographer Darwin Potter's new book Elizabeth Taylor, which is set for release this autumn.
Cohan, who was Taylor's longtime confidante and spiritual guide, went public with the news of the baby born out of wedlock last year shortly after the actress' death, revealing his client had asked him to reveal all about the child she never knew after she had passed.
Cohan told the New York Post's gossip columnist Cindy Adams that Taylor called her daughter Norah, adding, "Money was exchanged. Living in Ireland, the child, resenting the mother who gave her up, wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth."
He told Adams Taylor was not sure who the father was, as she had been with three men at the time the baby was conceived.
But now he tells WENN the actress' husband Mike Todd tracked the child down in Ireland and, in describing her to his wife, Taylor determined that the father was a carpenter she had once romanced.
Cohan says, "Mike Todd tracked down the child many years later. There was the hope of a reunion but the child and her family wanted nothing to do with Elizabeth and she never met the daughter she gave away. She was devastated.
"But at least she discovered who the father was - she was convinced he was a carpenter she had briefly romanced. As my client, I never pressed her for a name or any other details. She just told me to get this out when she was gone."
Cohan claims his late friend never got over the guilt she felt about giving up her baby daughter - and this led to her adopting a child, called Maria, from Germany while she was married to singer Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband.
The psychic adds, "She thought having her daughter Liza with Mike Todd would erase the guilt but it didn't; that's why she adopted Maria."
Taylor also had two sons with her second husband, British actor Michael Wilding.
Cohan will reveal all about his famous client's confessions in biographer Darwin Potter's new book Elizabeth Taylor, which is set for release this autumn.
- 5/18/2012
- WENN
Douglas Trumbull knows a little bit about movie visual effects. In his mid-20s, he worked with Stanley Kubrick to create the look and feel of the final frontier in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He later helped craft the effects for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the gorgeous futuristic visuals of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Last year, after nearly 30 years away from the Hollywood business, he collaborated with Terrence Malick for the symphonic visuals in The Tree of Life.
Trumbull has always been an innovator. For decades, he’s been tinkering with technology to enhance the audience experience,...
Trumbull has always been an innovator. For decades, he’s been tinkering with technology to enhance the audience experience,...
- 5/2/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
The story of Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery was disgustingly decadent, absurd – and thrilling
I speak to you as one who has every biography of Elizabeth Taylor ever published neatly arrayed on her bookshelves and thoroughly read. They are in my Hollywood film section, which also comprises juicy, glittering hardbacks full of juicy, glittering facts – or, far more likely, factoids and outright, fabulous lies – about the lives of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Montgomery Clift and all the glorious rest of them, and the even-more-fabulously-ridiculous autobiographies of gossip-column queens Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham. Louella Parsons' is literally in the post.
So (apart from the fact that I will go to my grave regretting that I did not manage to buy one of the six-volume catalogues that accompanied the sale at Christie's last year) I'm afraid I couldn't have been happier last night, luxuriating in Elizabeth Taylor: The...
I speak to you as one who has every biography of Elizabeth Taylor ever published neatly arrayed on her bookshelves and thoroughly read. They are in my Hollywood film section, which also comprises juicy, glittering hardbacks full of juicy, glittering facts – or, far more likely, factoids and outright, fabulous lies – about the lives of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Montgomery Clift and all the glorious rest of them, and the even-more-fabulously-ridiculous autobiographies of gossip-column queens Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham. Louella Parsons' is literally in the post.
So (apart from the fact that I will go to my grave regretting that I did not manage to buy one of the six-volume catalogues that accompanied the sale at Christie's last year) I'm afraid I couldn't have been happier last night, luxuriating in Elizabeth Taylor: The...
- 4/18/2012
- by Lucy Mangan
- The Guardian - Film News
The Apprentice | Elizabeth Taylor: Auction Of A Lifetime | Beautiful Minds | Decked Out | Sons Of Anarchy | 2012 Olympic Games – 100 Days To Go
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
It is hard to decide what is more worrying about The Apprentice: the dodgy calibre of the characters upon whose shoulders our entrepreneurial future apparently rests, or the sheer sadism of those willing to watch them make such excruciating spectacles of themselves. This week, watch between your fingers as the teams pitch dance and weight-based gym programmes to health and fitness chains, with disaster surely in the offing. David Stubbs
Elizabeth Taylor: Auction Of A Lifetime
9pm, Channel 4
Elizabeth Taylor was magnetic, with diamonds attaching themselves to her like iron filings. This documentary tells her story through her extraordinary collection of bling, amassed over the course of eight marriages and recently auctioned off for staggering amounts. Meanwhile, Liza Minnelli and Joan Collins...
The Apprentice
9pm, BBC1
It is hard to decide what is more worrying about The Apprentice: the dodgy calibre of the characters upon whose shoulders our entrepreneurial future apparently rests, or the sheer sadism of those willing to watch them make such excruciating spectacles of themselves. This week, watch between your fingers as the teams pitch dance and weight-based gym programmes to health and fitness chains, with disaster surely in the offing. David Stubbs
Elizabeth Taylor: Auction Of A Lifetime
9pm, Channel 4
Elizabeth Taylor was magnetic, with diamonds attaching themselves to her like iron filings. This documentary tells her story through her extraordinary collection of bling, amassed over the course of eight marriages and recently auctioned off for staggering amounts. Meanwhile, Liza Minnelli and Joan Collins...
- 4/17/2012
- by David Stubbs, Ali Catterall, Martin Skegg, John Robinson, Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Feature-length film that explores late actor's fascination with jewels to air on Channel 4 in the spring
Channel 4 is to tell the definitive story of the late actor Elizabeth Taylor in a feature-length documentary – through the history of her extensive jewellery collection.
The broadcaster is to air the documentary, which explores the actor's life story through some of her most precious jewels, later this spring.
The jewels have recently featured in landmark auctions in New York and London and at her death were valued at more than £100m.
Taylor once declared that jewels were one of the three loves of her life, alongside two of her seven husbands – the producer Mike Todd, who died in 1958, and actor Richard Burton, whom she married twice.
"You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines," she once said.
Channel 4 is to tell the definitive story of the late actor Elizabeth Taylor in a feature-length documentary – through the history of her extensive jewellery collection.
The broadcaster is to air the documentary, which explores the actor's life story through some of her most precious jewels, later this spring.
The jewels have recently featured in landmark auctions in New York and London and at her death were valued at more than £100m.
Taylor once declared that jewels were one of the three loves of her life, alongside two of her seven husbands – the producer Mike Todd, who died in 1958, and actor Richard Burton, whom she married twice.
"You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines," she once said.
- 3/1/2012
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywood has the same problem with the Oscars that the Republicans are having with their primaries. They can't seem to agree on a candidate with a broad appeal to the base. All nine Oscar finalists were, like Mitt Romney, good enough to be nominated. But none of them appealed to average multiplex moviegoers, just as it's said Romney doesn't appeal to the Gop base. What the Hollywood establishment would love is a Best Picture winner that was also a box office winner. In their dreams, the Oscar goes to "Titanic," "Forrest Gump," "Silence of the Lambs," or "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King." In reality, the Oscar just as often goes to "The Artist," "The English Patient," "American Beauty" or "A Beautiful Mind." When "The Hurt Locker" defeated the all-time top grossing film "Avatar," there was wailing and the gnashing of teeth among those who count success in grosses.
- 2/29/2012
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Were she alive, Elizabeth Taylor would have celebrated her 80th birthday today. Instead, she got a fitting send-off as the finale of the "In Memoriam" montage at the 84th annual Academy Awards. When she died last March, she was one of the last of the goddesses of Hollywood's golden age, but it's clear from Sunday night that interest and affection for her have not dimmed. To younger viewers, she may have been more famous for being famous than for her movie career, which peaked more than 40 years ago. But she became famous in the first place because she had the goods, as one of the most beautiful and talented actresses in film history. To mark her 80th birthday, Moviefone is celebrating with a list ranking her 10 best screen performances. If you've seen them, these are still movie moments that haven't lost their power to dazzle; if you haven't, check them...
- 2/27/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Late actor's collection, including Van Gogh, Degas and Pissarro, goes under the hammer at Christie's in London
Elizabeth Taylor was a person of prodigious appetites, most famously for jewellery, fried chicken, and husbands. On Tuesday at Christie's in London, however, a less documented aspect of the star's taste will come into focus when 38 works from her art collection are auctioned.
The sale will begin with the three most significant works going under the hammer: Autoportrait by Edgar Degas, expected to fetch £350,000 to £450,000; Pissarro's Pommiers d'Eragny (£900,000 to £1.2m); and Van Gogh's Vue de l'Asile de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy, whose estimate is £5m to £7m.
"It's the part of her life that nobody knew," said Giovanna Bertazzoni, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie's. "She had as an extraordinary a way of collecting pictures as much as she did jewellery. Take the Degas: one would think she'd go for a race course or ballet scene,...
Elizabeth Taylor was a person of prodigious appetites, most famously for jewellery, fried chicken, and husbands. On Tuesday at Christie's in London, however, a less documented aspect of the star's taste will come into focus when 38 works from her art collection are auctioned.
The sale will begin with the three most significant works going under the hammer: Autoportrait by Edgar Degas, expected to fetch £350,000 to £450,000; Pissarro's Pommiers d'Eragny (£900,000 to £1.2m); and Van Gogh's Vue de l'Asile de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy, whose estimate is £5m to £7m.
"It's the part of her life that nobody knew," said Giovanna Bertazzoni, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie's. "She had as an extraordinary a way of collecting pictures as much as she did jewellery. Take the Degas: one would think she'd go for a race course or ballet scene,...
- 2/4/2012
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
Need to make a quick $116 million? Just sell off a collection of Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry.
On Tuesday night, Christie's auctioned the iconic actress's legendary collection. The night set a record for the most money spent on a private jewelry collection, ending with a total $115,932,000, says the Telegraph. That figure is more than double the previous record, with the Duchess of Windsor's jewelry collection earning $50 million at auction in 1987. Furthermore, this new record-breaking total was just for one night and only 80 items being sold. The jewelry auction is set to continue tonight, with clothing, accessories, art, and memorabilia to be sold later in the week. Part of the proceeds of the auction will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
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On Tuesday night, Christie's auctioned the iconic actress's legendary collection. The night set a record for the most money spent on a private jewelry collection, ending with a total $115,932,000, says the Telegraph. That figure is more than double the previous record, with the Duchess of Windsor's jewelry collection earning $50 million at auction in 1987. Furthermore, this new record-breaking total was just for one night and only 80 items being sold. The jewelry auction is set to continue tonight, with clothing, accessories, art, and memorabilia to be sold later in the week. Part of the proceeds of the auction will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
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- 12/14/2011
- by Mandy McAdoo
- Reelzchannel.com
She had a way with men, but also great humour and humanity, recalls her friend and fellow actress
I will remember looking at her jewellery in the sun. In recent years, I would go up to Elizabeth's home all the time to make sure she was exercising or I would send someone else to make her get in the pool. She was not a fan of exercise, so most of the time we would end up taking out her jewellery and just looking at it in the sunlight.
We first met when I was 21 and she was 23 and found we were very relaxed together. I can't remember how it happened, but then I can't remember much now about when I was 21. A man I knew was in love with Elizabeth, I think, and I knew both of them.
At that time, people were not fawning all over her – except the men,...
I will remember looking at her jewellery in the sun. In recent years, I would go up to Elizabeth's home all the time to make sure she was exercising or I would send someone else to make her get in the pool. She was not a fan of exercise, so most of the time we would end up taking out her jewellery and just looking at it in the sunlight.
We first met when I was 21 and she was 23 and found we were very relaxed together. I can't remember how it happened, but then I can't remember much now about when I was 21. A man I knew was in love with Elizabeth, I think, and I knew both of them.
At that time, people were not fawning all over her – except the men,...
- 12/12/2011
- by Shirley MacLaine
- The Guardian - Film News
Elizabeth Taylor's friendships and romances were, of course, incredibly well documented during her lifetime, but currently, the best way to get a sense of the movie star's glamorous life is at "The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor" Christie's auction in New York.
Jewelry designer Orianne Collins hosted a preview of the items last week, telling the AP that through the various tokens of affection that Taylor collected, "you can see that all the men were really, really fundamentally in love with her."
Souvenirs of her romances include couture gowns worn during her two weddings to Richard Burton and a "dazzling ruby and diamond Cartier jewelry set" from her third husband, Mike Todd. The large 33.19-carat, emerald cut diamond ring that Burton gave her in 1968, which she rarely took off, is one of the big-ticket items, worth up to $3.5 million.
Additionally, Taylor's close friend Michael Jackson is represented in the collection.
Jewelry designer Orianne Collins hosted a preview of the items last week, telling the AP that through the various tokens of affection that Taylor collected, "you can see that all the men were really, really fundamentally in love with her."
Souvenirs of her romances include couture gowns worn during her two weddings to Richard Burton and a "dazzling ruby and diamond Cartier jewelry set" from her third husband, Mike Todd. The large 33.19-carat, emerald cut diamond ring that Burton gave her in 1968, which she rarely took off, is one of the big-ticket items, worth up to $3.5 million.
Additionally, Taylor's close friend Michael Jackson is represented in the collection.
- 12/7/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Carrie Fisher's wisecracks and waspish rants fail to mask her Hollywood self-regard
Carrie Fisher's latest collection of wisecracks and kvetching rants is less a book than a standup comedy routine that you read while sitting down. Reading, in fact, hardly suits it: what she has written is a script for the eventual, inevitable audiobook. Even silenced on the page, Fisher's voice is shrill, even shrieky, as if it were amplified, and her staccato sentences and truncated paragraphs leave plenty of room for out-loud laughter.
She riffs on the arranged marriage of her parents, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, then hilariously derides the step-parents who replaced them when Debbie settled for another loveless match with a flatulent shoe tycoon and Eddie was scooped up by Liz Taylor, who felt the need for Jewish company after losing Mike Todd. She shreds the reputation of Senator Edward Kennedy by recording his randy,...
Carrie Fisher's latest collection of wisecracks and kvetching rants is less a book than a standup comedy routine that you read while sitting down. Reading, in fact, hardly suits it: what she has written is a script for the eventual, inevitable audiobook. Even silenced on the page, Fisher's voice is shrill, even shrieky, as if it were amplified, and her staccato sentences and truncated paragraphs leave plenty of room for out-loud laughter.
She riffs on the arranged marriage of her parents, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, then hilariously derides the step-parents who replaced them when Debbie settled for another loveless match with a flatulent shoe tycoon and Eddie was scooped up by Liz Taylor, who felt the need for Jewish company after losing Mike Todd. She shreds the reputation of Senator Edward Kennedy by recording his randy,...
- 11/10/2011
- by Peter Conrad
- The Guardian - Film News
By Christina Garibaldi
It’s no secret that Kim Kardashian’s idol is legendary Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor. If you watched the four hour, two night E! Special “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event,” Kim and her sisters mention numerous times her love for the star.
In February, Kim had the honor of interviewing Elizabeth Taylor for Harper’s Bazaar magazine and kicked off the interview saying, “You are my idol. But I'm six husbands and some big jewels behind. What should I do?” To which Taylor responded, “Follow your passion, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.”
Seems like something Kim didn’t need was her second husband, Kris Humphries. Kim filed for divorce on Monday, just 72 days after saying “I Do.” So does this mean that Kim is one step closer to being her idol, Elizabeth Taylor? Let’s compare.
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It’s no secret that Kim Kardashian’s idol is legendary Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor. If you watched the four hour, two night E! Special “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event,” Kim and her sisters mention numerous times her love for the star.
In February, Kim had the honor of interviewing Elizabeth Taylor for Harper’s Bazaar magazine and kicked off the interview saying, “You are my idol. But I'm six husbands and some big jewels behind. What should I do?” To which Taylor responded, “Follow your passion, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.”
Seems like something Kim didn’t need was her second husband, Kris Humphries. Kim filed for divorce on Monday, just 72 days after saying “I Do.” So does this mean that Kim is one step closer to being her idol, Elizabeth Taylor? Let’s compare.
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- 11/1/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Cavalcade of bling owned by late film-star makes UK stop on world tour that finishes with an auction in New York in December
Even in death, it seems, Elizabeth Taylor knows how to put on a show. Her legacy rolled into Britain on the second leg of a world tour to regale fans via the medium of diamonds, pearls and outrageous haute-couture.
Inside auctioneers Christie's London HQ, reporters jostled with photographers and the dignitaries tripped over the TV cables. It was part showcase and part circus. All that was missing was the woman herself.
Highlights from the Elizabeth Taylor collection plays to the public this weekend before moving on to Paris, Dubai and Hong Kong before a grand, everything-must-go auction in New York in December. The collection includes paintings by Degas, Renoir and Van Gogh and dresses by Valentino and Versace. All in all, it paints a vivid picture of...
Even in death, it seems, Elizabeth Taylor knows how to put on a show. Her legacy rolled into Britain on the second leg of a world tour to regale fans via the medium of diamonds, pearls and outrageous haute-couture.
Inside auctioneers Christie's London HQ, reporters jostled with photographers and the dignitaries tripped over the TV cables. It was part showcase and part circus. All that was missing was the woman herself.
Highlights from the Elizabeth Taylor collection plays to the public this weekend before moving on to Paris, Dubai and Hong Kong before a grand, everything-must-go auction in New York in December. The collection includes paintings by Degas, Renoir and Van Gogh and dresses by Valentino and Versace. All in all, it paints a vivid picture of...
- 9/23/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Sept 8: Elizabeth Taylor's world-renowned jewellery collection valued at 30million dollars will be auctioned at Christie's in New York in December.
Most of the entire collection of 300 pieces were gifts from Mike Todd, the only one of her seven husbands whom she did not divorce - he died a year into their marriage - and her twice-husband Richard Burton, whose grand gestures of love for his fellow star came to symbolise the intensity of their relationship.
Lots will include the first jewel Burton bought for Taylor - the 33.19-carat Asscher-cut Krupp Diamond, which later became known as.
Most of the entire collection of 300 pieces were gifts from Mike Todd, the only one of her seven husbands whom she did not divorce - he died a year into their marriage - and her twice-husband Richard Burton, whose grand gestures of love for his fellow star came to symbolise the intensity of their relationship.
Lots will include the first jewel Burton bought for Taylor - the 33.19-carat Asscher-cut Krupp Diamond, which later became known as.
- 9/8/2011
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Auctions are great. We once put our Garbage Pail Kids on Ebay and scored a cool 9 bucks for the whole set. Elizabeth Taylor's jewels are expected to do better when they hit the auction block at Christie's New York on Dec. 13 and 14.
Christie's estimates the jewels will bring in more than $30 million before select highlights from the 269-piece collection embark on an eight-city tour spanning Moscow, London, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong.
Among the highlights of the dazzling collection are:
The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond: given to Taylor by husband Richard Burton, the 33 carat piece is expected to sell for $2.5 to $2.5 million.The Richard Burton Ruby and Diamond Ring: a 1968 Christmas present.The Mike Todd Diamond Tiara: a gift from Mike Todd, a producer and another Taylor husband, the $60,000-$80,000 dollar headpiece was worn by Taylor to the 1957 Academy Awards.
If you're interested in bidding on the jewels,...
Christie's estimates the jewels will bring in more than $30 million before select highlights from the 269-piece collection embark on an eight-city tour spanning Moscow, London, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong.
Among the highlights of the dazzling collection are:
The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond: given to Taylor by husband Richard Burton, the 33 carat piece is expected to sell for $2.5 to $2.5 million.The Richard Burton Ruby and Diamond Ring: a 1968 Christmas present.The Mike Todd Diamond Tiara: a gift from Mike Todd, a producer and another Taylor husband, the $60,000-$80,000 dollar headpiece was worn by Taylor to the 1957 Academy Awards.
If you're interested in bidding on the jewels,...
- 9/7/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
300 'exquisite' items include treasures given by her twice-husband Richard Burton
There was jewellery for the eight wedding days, the numerous film premieres, the table tennis victories and of course Tuesdays. Who among us does not get an 'it's Tuesday and I love you' gift?
The woman who certainly did was Elizabeth Taylor and it helped her build up one of the most remarkable and dazzling private collections of jewellery ever created.
Following her death in March aged 79, Christie's announced on Wednesday it is to sell nearly 300 of the star's jewels over two sessions in New York. There will be diamonds, pearls, emeralds, rubies and sapphires; rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, tiaras and more in a sale expected to make over $30m (£19m).
The chairman and president of Christie's America, Marc Porter, said the sale promised "to captivate the auction world". He added: "This is without a doubt the greatest private collection...
There was jewellery for the eight wedding days, the numerous film premieres, the table tennis victories and of course Tuesdays. Who among us does not get an 'it's Tuesday and I love you' gift?
The woman who certainly did was Elizabeth Taylor and it helped her build up one of the most remarkable and dazzling private collections of jewellery ever created.
Following her death in March aged 79, Christie's announced on Wednesday it is to sell nearly 300 of the star's jewels over two sessions in New York. There will be diamonds, pearls, emeralds, rubies and sapphires; rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, tiaras and more in a sale expected to make over $30m (£19m).
The chairman and president of Christie's America, Marc Porter, said the sale promised "to captivate the auction world". He added: "This is without a doubt the greatest private collection...
- 9/7/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
By Chris Michaud
New York (Reuters) - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's world-renowned collection of jewelry will be auctioned off in December at a two-day sale that is expected to realize more than $30 million, Christie's said Wednesday.
The December 13-14 sale will follow a global three-month tour that will also include Taylor's couture, fine art and memorabilia, and will be the first of a series of auctions from the estate of the legendary film star who died in March.
Some 269 diamonds, pearls, rubies, rings, necklaces and even a tiara will be sold, with several of the most valuable, and storied pieces tied to Taylor's lengthy and complicated relationship with Richard Burton, whom she married twice and divorced twice.
"This is without a doubt the greatest private collection of jewelry ever assembled in one place," said Christie's Americas chairman and president Marc Porter.
The collection includes everything "from her most jaw-dropping diamonds,...
New York (Reuters) - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's world-renowned collection of jewelry will be auctioned off in December at a two-day sale that is expected to realize more than $30 million, Christie's said Wednesday.
The December 13-14 sale will follow a global three-month tour that will also include Taylor's couture, fine art and memorabilia, and will be the first of a series of auctions from the estate of the legendary film star who died in March.
Some 269 diamonds, pearls, rubies, rings, necklaces and even a tiara will be sold, with several of the most valuable, and storied pieces tied to Taylor's lengthy and complicated relationship with Richard Burton, whom she married twice and divorced twice.
"This is without a doubt the greatest private collection of jewelry ever assembled in one place," said Christie's Americas chairman and president Marc Porter.
The collection includes everything "from her most jaw-dropping diamonds,...
- 9/7/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
New York -- Elizabeth Taylor dazzled the world with her luminous beauty, lavish lifestyle – and an unquenchable passion for diamonds and jewels that was fueled by the great loves of her life.
The late Hollywood star amassed one of the foremost jewelry collections in the world, including a 33.19-carat diamond ring and a 16th century pear-shaped pearl from one of her seven husbands, Richard Burton.
The Associated Press recently viewed about two dozen of her most iconic pieces at Christie's auction house, which is selling her complete jewelry collection, valued at $30 million, in New York on Dec. 13-14.
"These are the top jewels that Elizabeth Taylor received from the great loves of her life, Mike Todd and Richard Burton," said Christie's jewelry expert Rahul Kadakia. "They're from moments in life that were very dear to her," jewels that were purchased in Bulgari in Rome, at Cartier in New York and at auction.
The late Hollywood star amassed one of the foremost jewelry collections in the world, including a 33.19-carat diamond ring and a 16th century pear-shaped pearl from one of her seven husbands, Richard Burton.
The Associated Press recently viewed about two dozen of her most iconic pieces at Christie's auction house, which is selling her complete jewelry collection, valued at $30 million, in New York on Dec. 13-14.
"These are the top jewels that Elizabeth Taylor received from the great loves of her life, Mike Todd and Richard Burton," said Christie's jewelry expert Rahul Kadakia. "They're from moments in life that were very dear to her," jewels that were purchased in Bulgari in Rome, at Cartier in New York and at auction.
- 9/7/2011
- by AP/Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Apparently, Grant Morrison isn't the only villain menacing the popular art-punk-pop band My Chemical Romance. Late last week, the band's drummer Michael Pedicone was kicked out of the group for allegedly stealing from the band.
The Hollywood Reporter picked up on the news which first broke on My Chemical Romance's own website this past Friday. Here's what the group said of the situation with their former bandmate:
The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.
The band has no intention of pressing charges or taking this matter any further than we have to. We just want him out of our lives. The people who play in this band are a family, and family...
The Hollywood Reporter picked up on the news which first broke on My Chemical Romance's own website this past Friday. Here's what the group said of the situation with their former bandmate:
The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.
The band has no intention of pressing charges or taking this matter any further than we have to. We just want him out of our lives. The people who play in this band are a family, and family...
- 9/6/2011
- by Aubrey Sitterson
- ifc.com
Joan Blondell Q&A Pt.3: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Condoms and Censorship Though I know that Joan Blondell and Ann Sothern were quite different as performers, they often played no-nonsense, wisecracking dames in lots of programmers — Blondell at WB, Sothern at Rko and then MGM. Now, Sothern became an A-list player at MGM in the late 1940s, after having been around for more than 15 years. Why didn't Blondell keep her leading lady status after the early 1940s? Did she refuse to sign any long-term contracts with the studios? There was a critical point in Joan's career in the late '30s and early '40s — after she left Warners and began freelancing — where opportunities were lost. The quality of roles offered at Columbia, MGM, and Universal, was no better than what she had at Warners. As she describes it, she wasn't a fighter for decent scripts the way Bette Davis was.
- 8/25/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ted Donaldson, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Joan Blondell Q&A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder Convention City My favorite Joan Blondell performance is her Aunt Sissy in Elia Kazan's 20th Century-Fox drama A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). How did she get that role? What was it like for her to work with Kazan, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn? What did the film do for her career? And how in the world could she not have received an Academy Award nomination? (Especially considering that James Dunn won in the supporting category.) Did Fox push Dunn while ignoring Blondell? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a beautiful movie, and certainly Aunt Sissy is one of Joan's best performances. According to the sources I use in the book, a Fox contract was delivered to her...
- 8/25/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Pete Hammond
HollywoodNews.com: Call it Hollywood’s 3D August clearance sale or call it a disaster but what ever way you look at it the glut of new movies unleashed this week pretty much tanked. When a small drama about black maids in the racially-tinged South of the 1960’s in its second weekend wipes the floor over brand new big genre action and family movies It may be time for Hollywood to think again just what it is that audiences want these days?
The Help’s success might give them a clue. Dropping just 20% in its second weekend and moving from number two to number one, this well-reviewed social drama based on the best-selling novel made an estimated $20 million and now is up to $71 million after nearly two weeks in theatres. This should easily hit $150 million or more and gain year end awards attention. The quartet of new...
HollywoodNews.com: Call it Hollywood’s 3D August clearance sale or call it a disaster but what ever way you look at it the glut of new movies unleashed this week pretty much tanked. When a small drama about black maids in the racially-tinged South of the 1960’s in its second weekend wipes the floor over brand new big genre action and family movies It may be time for Hollywood to think again just what it is that audiences want these days?
The Help’s success might give them a clue. Dropping just 20% in its second weekend and moving from number two to number one, this well-reviewed social drama based on the best-selling novel made an estimated $20 million and now is up to $71 million after nearly two weeks in theatres. This should easily hit $150 million or more and gain year end awards attention. The quartet of new...
- 8/21/2011
- by Pete Hammond
- Hollywoodnews.com
The band Coheed and Cambria is known for their pounding, emo-inflected math-rock done in service of a complex mythology played out over numerous albums, comics and even a novel. Unfortunately, one member of the band, Mike Todd, will now also be known for that time he tried to steal a bunch of hillbilly heroin before a show.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, at around 1pm on Sunday (July 10), Todd went into a Massachusetts Walgreens, issued a bomb threat and then demanded and received six bottles of Oxycontin. We're not sure if there's a C&C song about a pill-crazed bomber, but if there's not, they should probably get to work on one.
The craziest part of this story (aside from a member of a popular rock band thinking that a bomb threat was the most reasonable way to score some drugs) is that following the alleged robbery, Todd got right into a cab,...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, at around 1pm on Sunday (July 10), Todd went into a Massachusetts Walgreens, issued a bomb threat and then demanded and received six bottles of Oxycontin. We're not sure if there's a C&C song about a pill-crazed bomber, but if there's not, they should probably get to work on one.
The craziest part of this story (aside from a member of a popular rock band thinking that a bomb threat was the most reasonable way to score some drugs) is that following the alleged robbery, Todd got right into a cab,...
- 7/11/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: He was supposed to be opening for Soundgarden as the grunge rockers prepared to perform a reunion concert in Massachusetts. Instead, Coheed and Cambria bassist Mike Todd found himself under arrest for alleged armed robbery in one of the strangest stories of the weekend.
Police in Attleboro, Mass., reportedly took Todd into custody for attempting to rob a Wahlgreens pharmacy on Sunday afternoon, THR reports.
“Upon arrival, it was learned that a male had threatened a pharmacist with a bomb threat and demanded Oxycontin,” police said a statement. “The male was given six bottles of pain pills.”
Todd then got in a cab, which took him to the Comcast Center, where Coheed and Cambria were scheduled to open for Soundgarden. Instead, the 30-year-old musician was arrested and charged with armed robbery and possession of a class B controlled substance.
“Michael Todd was arrested today...
Hollywoodnews.com: He was supposed to be opening for Soundgarden as the grunge rockers prepared to perform a reunion concert in Massachusetts. Instead, Coheed and Cambria bassist Mike Todd found himself under arrest for alleged armed robbery in one of the strangest stories of the weekend.
Police in Attleboro, Mass., reportedly took Todd into custody for attempting to rob a Wahlgreens pharmacy on Sunday afternoon, THR reports.
“Upon arrival, it was learned that a male had threatened a pharmacist with a bomb threat and demanded Oxycontin,” police said a statement. “The male was given six bottles of pain pills.”
Todd then got in a cab, which took him to the Comcast Center, where Coheed and Cambria were scheduled to open for Soundgarden. Instead, the 30-year-old musician was arrested and charged with armed robbery and possession of a class B controlled substance.
“Michael Todd was arrested today...
- 7/11/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Firebrand Welsh actor Richard Burton almost went broke trying to please the late actress Elizabeth Taylor with exquisite diamonds, fabulous furs and exotic holidays around the world.Though warned repeatedly by his aides to stop spending or he would go bankrupt, an astonishing series of documents reveals that Burton simply couldn.t care less.According to the Daily Express, Burton.s secretary warned him in 1970 not to buy a diamond necklace that cost over a million dollars.The secretary is believed to have told Burtonthrough a memo that going for such a purchase was unthinkable.Burton was also cautioned against selling jewellery given to Elizabeth by her third husband, film producer Mike Todd, because they were probably worth around 120,000 pounds, not the millions Todd had claimed.This personal correspondence was found in the home of a neighbour of the Burtons when they lived in Mexico.<p> </p>...
- 4/24/2011
- Filmicafe
The London Daily Mail is posting a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor at 24, reportedly taken by close friend Roddy McDowall when she was dating producer Mike Todd: He persuaded her to pose naked by promising her it would be done tastefully. She then gave it to Todd as a present after he proposed in 1956 – the pair married a few months later but the relationship was tragically short-lived. Todd was killed 13 months after their wedding day when his private plane crashed during a storm over New Mexico. Update: The Daily News debunks the portrait as Taylor; they say it's dancer Lee Evans. Here's the site of photographer Peter Gowland. The photo was taken in 1940, when Taylor was eight years old.
- 4/13/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
A number of AIDS charities are expected to benefit from Elizabeth Taylor's death. The Hollywood star passed away from congestive heart failure at the age of 79 on Wednesday, March 23, and although the details of her will have not yet been made public, a number of charities including the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and amfAR are set to receive proceeds from the sale of her jewelery.
Christie's auction house in London will oversee the sale of $240 million worth of the "Cleopatra" star's jewel collection, including a Cartier necklace from husband Mike Todd and the famous 69.42-carat pear-shaped Burton-Taylor diamond which cost former husband Richard Burton over $1 million in 1969, with the money set to be shared among the two charities.
Elizabeth raised $270 million for her AIDS Foundation during her lifetime after taking up the cause when her close friend Rock Hudson died from the illness in 1985. The savvy actress amassed the...
Christie's auction house in London will oversee the sale of $240 million worth of the "Cleopatra" star's jewel collection, including a Cartier necklace from husband Mike Todd and the famous 69.42-carat pear-shaped Burton-Taylor diamond which cost former husband Richard Burton over $1 million in 1969, with the money set to be shared among the two charities.
Elizabeth raised $270 million for her AIDS Foundation during her lifetime after taking up the cause when her close friend Rock Hudson died from the illness in 1985. The savvy actress amassed the...
- 3/31/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Screen icon Elizabeth Taylor, who died last week at age 79, was famously known for the great loves of her life, including Richard Burton and Mike Todd -- but she also had a close bond with her seventh and final husband, construction worker Larry Fortensky, according to his sister.
Linda Untiet told the Daily Mail that her former sister-in-law loved her brother until the end. "Elizabeth wrote Larry a love letter at the end of last year.
Linda Untiet told the Daily Mail that her former sister-in-law loved her brother until the end. "Elizabeth wrote Larry a love letter at the end of last year.
- 3/28/2011
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