Let’s get this straight first: My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider’s Journey Through Hollywood was written by Tom Mankiewicz (and Robert Crane). Tom Mankiewicz was the son of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the writer-producer-director of All About Eve, Guys and…
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There’s Christopher Walken with a bad toupee, sitting like a zombie on the sofa in his comfy suburban house. His perky, bespectacled wife Mia Farrow sits next to him. They both watch an episode of Seinfeld, gazing at the TV…
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She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress her first time on screen, holding her own opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. She’s shown her versatility in all genres from comedies (The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming)…
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At the memorable end of 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Yankee bank robbers Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) face off against scores of sharp-shooting lawmen and soldiers in Bolivia. After Butch informs Sundance that the bandit…
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Jonah Hill is everywhere. He showed up on the MTV Video Music Awards, bantering and handing out a statue with Niki Minaj. He then took the stage at ESPN’s ESPY Awards, where he was dwarfed by the Minnesota Timberwolves’ power…
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Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig has been directing films and TV shows for 25 years. But after work on such acclaimed efforts as Italian for Beginners and Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself), she moved into the limelight with 2009’s An Education,…
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When you hear about a film called Submarine, you expect a war movie, perhaps set during World War II. Action! Suspense! Water! Dive! Dive! Dive! But Submarine, directed by Richard Ayoade and adapted by the filmmaker from the first novel…
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At first glance, Bridesmaids looks like the female version of a surprise hit movie from two summers ago about a group of guys at a drug and alcohol-fueled bachelor party in Las Vegas which has a sequel coming out next…
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He’s eaten nothing but McDonald’s food for a month (in Super Size Me), travelled to dangerous hot-spots in the Middle East to track down the most wanted man in the world (in Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?)…
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Thomas McCarthy is a man who likes to wear different hats. As a busy character actor, McCarthy has appeared in films like Meet the Fockers, 2012, Flag of Our Fathers and Good Night, and Good Luck and in such TV…
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