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"Sesame Street" Fans Mourn The Loss Of Star Alaina Reed Hall
21 December 2009 3:35 AM, PST
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"Sesame Street" fans all over the world are mourning the death of star Alaina Reed Hall. The actress passed away on Thursday at the age of 63. Hall battled breast cancer for the past several years, but her official cause of death has not yet been released.
Hall began her career starring in several Broadway and off-Broadway productions such as "Hair" and "Chicago." Starting in 1976, she spent several years playing Olivia, the younger sister of Gordon on "Sesame Street." She left the children's show in 1988. Hall also starred as Rose on the NBC sitcom "227."
Hall's big screen credits include "Death Becomes Her" alongside Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep and 1999's "Cruel Intentions" with Sarah Michelle Geller. She was married to Tamim Amini at the time of her death.
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Their Best Role: Meryl Streep
18 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best.
Last August, "Meryl Streep" wrote an op-ed piece for The Onion called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In." It was really written by the Onion staff, of course, but they (and Streep) made a good point. For a woman who is very possibly the finest living actor of any sex, she has made very few truly unforgettable films. Her resume doesn't contain anything quite like Rear Window, The Godfather, Chinatown or Pulp Fiction. Case in point: the article brings up Kramer vs. Kramer. "Streep" says "I'd watch it if it were on," but it isn't really a masterpiece. Also, it's more Dustin Hoffman's movie than Streep's movie, and if you look at it that way, it ranks pretty far down on Hoffman's list of classics.
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol
4 November 2009 8:20 AM, PST
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Robert Zemeckis has been a relatively unsung innovator in the use of computer-generated and -enhanced imagery in films, in movies such as Death Becomes Her and Forrest Gump.
Perhaps the problem is that his technological advances have been shackled to underwhelming films (i.e., Death Becomes Her). His film version of Chris van Allsburg's The Polar Express was a leap forward in the blending of motion-capture technology with computer animation. But while it gets trotted out on an annual basis, it's an unsatisfying film because the faces (particularly the eyes) of the characters look dead. The same was true of his Beowulf.
Zemeckis has made strides to overcome that problem with Disney's A Christmas Carol, the hubristically titled new version of Charles Dickens' classic story. There are still too many characters whose faces (particularly the eyes) look as lifeless as animatrons from the
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- Marshall Fine
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Slideshow: Oscar-Winning Chicago Director Robert Zemeckis For ‘A Christmas Carol’
24 October 2009 6:51 PM, PDT
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Chicago – This three-image slideshow contains our ribbon-cutting photography for Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” train tour at Chicago’s Union Station with Oscar-winning Chicago director Robert Zemeckis.
Robert Zemeckis has directed “Romancing the Stone,” “Back to the Future,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Back to the Future Part II,” “Back to the Future Part III,” “Death Becomes Her,” “Forrest Gump,” “Contact,” “What Lies Beneath,” “Cast Away,” “The Polar Express,” “Beowulf” and “A Christmas Carol”.
“A Christmas Carol” opens everywhere on Nov. 6, 2009. You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto and HollywoodChicago.com. All rights reserved.
robertzemeckis1: Chicago’s own Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis smiles for the HollywoodChicago.com lens at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” train tour at Chicago’s Union Station
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Meryl Streep on the prowl in 'It's Complicated' trailer
7 August 2009 7:13 AM, PDT
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James Bond and Mr. Darcy were just the beginning for Meryl Streep. "Turns out [she's] a bit of a slut." In Nancy Meyers' It's Complicated, the Mamma Mia! star juggles Jack Donaghy and a mild-and-crazy guy. In the film's trailer, Streep's bitter divorcee becomes The Other Woman when she and her remarried ex (Alec Baldwin) renew their passions. Caught in between is Steve Martin's sweet, square architect.
My first thought when I saw this was, "Wow, Meryl Streep's going to star in two $100 million hits this year." (I don't mean to jinx Julie & Julia.) What a run for the actress who, in her "Hollywood prime," flailed in attempts to prove her stardom with misses like The River Wild and Death Becomes Her. What she's doing now is unprecedented for an actress of her...experience.
What did you think of the trailer, PopWatchers? Too much Something's Gotta Give? Which
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- Jeff Labrecque
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Sissy
11 July 2009 7:26 PM, PDT
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I had no idea how many of you were fans but in the long running comments (almost to 100) on that August: Osage County casting post she seems to be a favorite for Violet. So here's to Sissy getting another role that's worthy of her sometime soon. It's been eight years since the last one.
next week: I'll try to touch on Death Becomes Her (1992), Grey Gardens (2009), I Love You Beth Cooper, Brüno, a little more on Chéri, Schindler's List (1993), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The River Wild (1994) and The Hurt Locker.
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- NATHANIEL R
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Streep Nom #9 and Act III: Funny Lady
11 July 2009 9:59 AM, PDT
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Streep at 60: We've been looking at each Meryl Streep Oscar nod and its competition. Previously 78, 79, 81, 82 and 83, 85, 87 and 88
I believe that Meryl Streep's film career can be divided into five chapters or acts (thus far).
Act I (Liberated Lady) 1977-1981Act II (Chamaeleonidae Erotica) 1981-1988Act III (Funny Lady) 1989-1992Act IV (???) 1993-2001Act V (The Great Entertainer) 2002-presentAfter the High Drama years it came as a shock to many when Meryl was suddenly making comedies. Some felt it was a career crisis and there was some backlash going on. This is possibly hard to comprehend for her new young fans but great success always leads to it and many people were sick of Streep's total dominance as the Eighties wound down. It was somewhat common wisdom at the time that her run at the top was ending, having turned 40 in 1989. Several younger stars were coming into their own
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- NATHANIEL R
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Dead Celebrities Crazy People Insist Are Still Alive But in Hiding
10 July 2009 4:00 AM, PDT
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When Michael Jackson died on June 25, it took about five minutes before some looney Internet junkie started blogging about how he's really not dead, he's just hiding. That's right, he faked his own death "to escape the crushing pressures of life in a fishbowl." (Thanks for the quote, Derek Klontz, "herbalist, author and journalist of international reach.")
But, of course, as anyone (who's completely certifiably insane and has seen Death Becomes Her too many times) can tell you, Mj wasn't the first celebrity to grow tired of all that fame and money and attention and decide to check out with a forged death certificate.
Here's a tribute to some of the others, wherever they're holed up.
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10 Coolest Grandmothers in Movies
7 July 2009 1:44 PM, PDT
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My maternal grandmother passed away over the weekend, so I’d like to pay her tribute with a movie list. I’m not sure how big a fan of movies she was, having not grown up very close to her, physically, but Grandma Gloria can be credited with introducing me to movie hopping, at least. One of the few summers I was able to visit her was in 1992, and I mainly recall the year due to the movie we snuck into, Sister Act. And the movie we legally watched before it, Death Becomes Her. I probably would have forgotten both of these lame films in any other circumstance, but the significance of the event has kept the specific time and place of their viewing in my memory probably forever.
Grandma Gloria certainly wasn’t the most free-spirited grandmother to ever live, but a few things, such as the introduction to movie hopping,
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- Christopher Campbell
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Rossellini Calls For Older Beauty Models
15 April 2009 5:10 AM, PDT
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Italian actress Isabella Rossellini has called for a complete makeover in cosmetics advertising, insisting she has no desire to see a young model promoting wrinkle cream.
The Death Becomes Her star was dropped as the face of French beauty firm Lancome in 1992 - the same year she entered her 40s.
Rossellini was replaced with a younger model - despite having represented Lancome for 14 years.
And the beauty is convinced the move alienated the brand's older customers, who want to see women their own age featured in ad campaigns.
Rossellini says, "I understand advertising is about selling dreams but I'm not sure that women dream of staying young. I don't. I dream of being elegant and sophisticated.
"After Lancome let me go it took them some time to find a substitute. All research indicates that women were actually pleased to have somebody in her 40s advertising anti-ageing cream because a girl in her 20s doing so doesn't feel right.
"Ageism has put women in a situation where they feel uncomfortable with the idea of getting older."
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Infected Hits DVDs May 19th Plus Details
14 April 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Santa Monica, Calif. (March 9, 2009) – Gil Bellows (TV’s “Ally McBeal”), Golden Globe nominee Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Golden Globe and Emmy-nominee Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her) and Maxim Roy (A Woman Hunted) star in the sci-fi thriller Infected, debuting on DVD May 19 from Genius Products and Rhi Entertainment. Ben (Bellows) and Lisa (Roy), disgruntled reporters for The Boston Daily, are looking for stories to match their ambitions. They find the story of a lifetime when the mayor is assassinated-not by a crazed gun nut, but by a terrified man desperate to stop an alien invasion of “infectious” proportions. Starting in the highest echelon [...]
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Infected Infects DVD May 19th!
13 April 2009 12:39 PM, PDT
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It Won’t Kill You … It Will Become You. Infected! Golden Globe® and Emmy®-Nominee Isabella Rossellini, Judd Nelson, Gil Bellows, and Maxim Roy Star in the Sci-fi Thriller Debuting on DVD May 19!
Santa Monica, Calif. (March 9, 2009) – Gil Bellows (TV’s “Ally McBeal”), Golden Globe® nominee Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Golden Globe® and Emmy®-nominee Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her) and Maxim Roy (A Woman Hunted) star in the sci-fi thriller Infected, debuting on DVD May 19 from Genius Products and Rhi Entertainment. Ben (Bellows) and Lisa (Roy), disgruntled reporters for The Boston Daily, are looking for stories to match their ambitions. They find the story of a lifetime when the mayor is assassinated—not by a crazed gun nut, but by a terrified man desperate to stop an alien invasion of “infectious” proportions. Starting in the highest echelon of government, the infection is quickly spreading. To stop it,
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Rossellini Fascinated By 'Animal Sex'
2 April 2009 12:35 AM, PDT
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Italian actress Isabella Rossellini is so captivated by animals mating she can spend hours watching and filming creatures having sex.
The Death Becomes Her star has held an interest in wildlife from a young age, but admits her hobby has taken on a more saucy nature in recent years.
Rossellini has even made a string of short films on animal sex, called Green Porno.
She says, "I'm not interested in people sex, just animal sex! More scandalous!
"I try to avoid mammals, apart from whales. The animals I tend to portray in my films are like bugs, barnacles, starfish...
"They can do it everywhere. They can reproduce sexually, like us, but they can also do it asexually. They're so freaky, I love them! It's fascinating."
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Movie Review - 'Bride Wars'
8 January 2009 11:01 PM, PST
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Bride Wars
Starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway
Directed by Gary Winnick
Rated PG
And so it begins, another year of romantic comedies, and you'd think that there'd be a learning curve at some point, so that instead of treading the same ground time after time, this genre of movies would learn from previous mistakes. But it doesn't. The Romantic Comedy only learns from what makes money, because that is, indeed, the great deodorant.
And one thing that continues to work for the RomCom is Kate Hudson. Last year when Fool's Gold was released, I lamented over Hudson and Matthew McConaughey settling for the scripts with the best locations.
They're a good on-screen team, and have consistently shown workable chemistry, even though their movies are bad. Why do they have to be lousy? I have no idea. But that's not a question the RomCom concerns itself with, seeing instead that Hudson makes money.
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- Colin Boyd
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