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...Great Plains. The Cabinet was dining on what they billed as a Wild Western menu of buffalo meat. The press was full of trend stories about how this was going to bring back "John Wayne masculinity." The TV programmers were rerunning John Wayne westerns. Karl Rove asked Hollywood to produce a film paying tribute to post-9/11 American heroism and what came back was a film called The Spirit of America, which was all clips of old movies showcasing old American film heroes in which the Westerns were prominent examples, and in particular John Wayne in The Searchers...
...original movie, directed by Hollywood veteran Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Andrew was played by Laurence Olivier, widely considered the century's greatest actor; and Michael Caine, who came to movie fame as the charming cad Alfie, was Milo. In a promising symmetry, this Sleuth has Caine playing the older man and Jude Law, who starred in a 2004 sequel to Alfie, as his young rival...
...days of talking pictures, and "talkies" is a good description of his very voluble films. His Oscar-winning scripts for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve were filled, stocked, clogged with clever badinage. Nearly 60 years later, those films are still among the pearliest repositories for Hollywood's verbal chic...
...Mankiewicz and the urban sophisticates he wrote about, words were swords in the duel of wits. He thought of himself as a screen playwright, and Hollywood as Broadway West: films were theater in closeup. (Academy voters apparently agreed with Mankiewicz: they named him best director as well as best writer for Three Wives and Eve.) No question, he loved the sound of his own authorial voice; it had an overripe eloquence that could beguile any viewer-listener. And when he turned plays into films - producing Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story or directing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - he could fall...
...District,” and the bloody “Murder Party.” GOING GOTHIC The festival kicks off with the gothic anthology “Trapped Ashes” on opening night. In four segments, it follows a group of strangers on a Hollywood studio tour who find themselves caught inside the decaying set of an infamous old horror film. In order to get out alive, they must tell their strangest and most twisted stories. Writer and producer Dennis Bartok left his position as head programmer at the art house American Cinematheque in Los Angeles to work...