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Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the Peter, Paul and Mary hit “Puff the Magic Dragon” and developed technology used for today’s digital 3D theatrical projection systems, has died. He was 82.
Lipton died Wednesday of brain cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Noah told The Hollywood Reporter.
While studying engineering as a freshman at Cornell University, Lipton, inspired by a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, “The Tale of Custard the Dragon,” wrote a poem in 1959 on a typewriter owned by another physics major at the school, Peter Yarrow.
Yarrow discovered the poem — about a boy named Jackie Paper and his imaginary dragon friend in a land by the sea — in the typewriter and years later used it for the lyrics to “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
Yarrow’s Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the song in 1962. It was released...
Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the Peter, Paul and Mary hit “Puff the Magic Dragon” and developed technology used for today’s digital 3D theatrical projection systems, has died. He was 82.
Lipton died Wednesday of brain cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Noah told The Hollywood Reporter.
While studying engineering as a freshman at Cornell University, Lipton, inspired by a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, “The Tale of Custard the Dragon,” wrote a poem in 1959 on a typewriter owned by another physics major at the school, Peter Yarrow.
Yarrow discovered the poem — about a boy named Jackie Paper and his imaginary dragon friend in a land by the sea — in the typewriter and years later used it for the lyrics to “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
Yarrow’s Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the song in 1962. It was released...
- 10/6/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina and Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Archie Gips’ production company Unrealistic Ideas is teaming with producer Van Echeverri for a documentary feature about the FBI’s takedown of USC football player-turned-drug kingpin Owen Hanson.
“Unrealistic Ideas has a strong track record in the true-crime space, and the story of Owen Hanson jumped out at us,” said Unrealistic Ideas President/Partner Gips. “This is a working-class guy who worked hard to get into USC and then used the business skills he gained through his education there to create a global drug empire. We’re looking to explore how that happened and how it all fell apart.”
Hanson began dealing recreational drugs and steroids to teammates in college during the early 2000s, ultimately building a violent empire that operated in U.S., Central and South America and Australia. Arrested in September 2015 and sentenced in late 2017 to more than 21 years in federal prison,...
“Unrealistic Ideas has a strong track record in the true-crime space, and the story of Owen Hanson jumped out at us,” said Unrealistic Ideas President/Partner Gips. “This is a working-class guy who worked hard to get into USC and then used the business skills he gained through his education there to create a global drug empire. We’re looking to explore how that happened and how it all fell apart.”
Hanson began dealing recreational drugs and steroids to teammates in college during the early 2000s, ultimately building a violent empire that operated in U.S., Central and South America and Australia. Arrested in September 2015 and sentenced in late 2017 to more than 21 years in federal prison,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Archie Gips’ production company Unrealistic Ideas has taken the rights to bestselling author Mark Shaw’s non-fiction book, Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Kilgallen and the Ties That Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination. Unrealistic Ideas plans to develop the IP into a documentary feature film.
In his book, Shaw, a noted historian, former criminal defense attorney and TV network legal analyst connects the dots between the three 20th century icons for the first time, finally providing an intriguing, well-documented and credible account of how Monroe and Kilgallen were denied justice when they mysteriously died in the 1960s. Shaw uses fresh evidence garnered from more than 100 primary-source witnesses, while retrieving clues from secret government reports and a flawed autopsy to reveal that then Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the main suspect in orchestrating Marilyn Monroe’s death.
In his book, Shaw, a noted historian, former criminal defense attorney and TV network legal analyst connects the dots between the three 20th century icons for the first time, finally providing an intriguing, well-documented and credible account of how Monroe and Kilgallen were denied justice when they mysteriously died in the 1960s. Shaw uses fresh evidence garnered from more than 100 primary-source witnesses, while retrieving clues from secret government reports and a flawed autopsy to reveal that then Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the main suspect in orchestrating Marilyn Monroe’s death.
- 10/28/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
All the world is a game and we are merely players! The Bard will probably disagree with that assessment, but game shows and panel series have been a staple on both radio and television. And they are going strong today.
In fact, there is the Gsn cable network, as well as Buzzr which features such series as “Password,” “Family Feud,” “Tattletales” and “Classic Concentration.” “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” are still among the top syndicated series and CBS’ daytime “The Price is Right” is heading toward its fifth decade of people coming on down. And ABC is back for its summer of deja “view” with new versions of such series as “Match Game,” “To Tell the Truth,” “Press Your Luck” and “Family Feud.” The network also scored with a limited return of its 20-plus-year old “Who Wants to Be Millionaire” with host Jimmy Kimmel.
Back in the 1950s, contestants became stars like Dr.
In fact, there is the Gsn cable network, as well as Buzzr which features such series as “Password,” “Family Feud,” “Tattletales” and “Classic Concentration.” “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” are still among the top syndicated series and CBS’ daytime “The Price is Right” is heading toward its fifth decade of people coming on down. And ABC is back for its summer of deja “view” with new versions of such series as “Match Game,” “To Tell the Truth,” “Press Your Luck” and “Family Feud.” The network also scored with a limited return of its 20-plus-year old “Who Wants to Be Millionaire” with host Jimmy Kimmel.
Back in the 1950s, contestants became stars like Dr.
- 6/12/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Writer/directors John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle ("Waco"), continue developing a big screen feature adapting author Mark Shaw's true-crime conspiracy novel "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen":
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
- 10/19/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name...
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name...
- 9/6/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Writer/directors John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle ("Waco"), continue developing author Mark Shaw's true-crime conspiracy novel "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen":
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
- 3/12/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
At the Writers Guild Awards this past weekend, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” pulled off an upset by winning Best Adapted Screenplay over the presumed front-runner, “BlacKkKlansman.” Six of the last eight WGA winners in that category went on to repeat at the Oscars, but our odds still favor “Klansman” to be the academy’s choice. Can “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” pull off another upset this Sunday night? If it does, it would be historic.
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” tells the true story of biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), who made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder, and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes — and because of her abrasive personality — she attempts to make a living by forging and selling letters...
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” tells the true story of biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), who made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder, and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes — and because of her abrasive personality — she attempts to make a living by forging and selling letters...
- 2/21/2019
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name would...
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name would...
- 2/8/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Can You Ever Forgive Me? is in UK cinemas nationwide and to celebrate we are giving one lucky winner the chance to win a poster signed by the film’s multi-award nominated stars, Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, and a copy of Lee Israel’s memoir in which the film is based on.
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (McCarthy) who made her living in the 70’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.
When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Grant).
Directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl...
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (McCarthy) who made her living in the 70’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.
When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Grant).
Directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl...
- 2/7/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Writer/directors John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle ("Waco"), continue developing a big screen feature adapting author Mark Shaw's true-crime conspiracy novel "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen":
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
- 1/23/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
In Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Melissa McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found herself unable to get published because she had fallen out of step with the marketplace, she turned her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).
Opens in St. Louis on Friday November 2.
Wamg has your free passes to the advance screening of Can You Ever Forgive Me? in St. Louis.
Date: October 29, 7pm in the St. Louis area.
Enter For Your Chance To Win A Pass Good For Two!
Answer the Following:
Richard E. Grant has starred in The Age Of Innocence, Bright Young Things, Gosford Park, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Penelope. More recently he played Dr. Zander Rice in which Marvel film?...
Opens in St. Louis on Friday November 2.
Wamg has your free passes to the advance screening of Can You Ever Forgive Me? in St. Louis.
Date: October 29, 7pm in the St. Louis area.
Enter For Your Chance To Win A Pass Good For Two!
Answer the Following:
Richard E. Grant has starred in The Age Of Innocence, Bright Young Things, Gosford Park, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Penelope. More recently he played Dr. Zander Rice in which Marvel film?...
- 10/25/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In her new film, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy, 48, portrays Lee Israel, a celebrity biographer who turned to crime when her writing career faltered in the 1990s.
The real-life story is darkly riveting and McCarthy said she jumped at the chance to take on the role.
“I found her fascinating,” says McCarthy.
For more on Melissa McCarthy pick up this week’s issue of People on newsstands now.
Lee was a successful New York writer who profiled the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. But after her book on Lauder wasn’t well received,...
The real-life story is darkly riveting and McCarthy said she jumped at the chance to take on the role.
“I found her fascinating,” says McCarthy.
For more on Melissa McCarthy pick up this week’s issue of People on newsstands now.
Lee was a successful New York writer who profiled the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. But after her book on Lauder wasn’t well received,...
- 10/19/2018
- by Mia McNiece
- PEOPLE.com
Following a nearly ten-year journey, Can You Ever Forgive Me? hits theaters this weekend via Fox Searchlight. Starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, and based on the true story of celebrity biographer Lee Israel, the film will have a platform start this weekend en route to several hundred runs.
The feature is one of several Specialty titles heading into release with name casts and possible awards hopes. Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, which he co-wrote. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, opens via IFC Films after playing recent festivals.
Bleecker Street is opening What They Had with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. Launching in several locations, the film is the first-time directorial by actor Elizabeth Chomko. And on the doc side, Menemsha Films is giving a New York launch for Austria’s Foreign Language contender, The Waldheim Waltz.
Also one...
The feature is one of several Specialty titles heading into release with name casts and possible awards hopes. Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, which he co-wrote. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, opens via IFC Films after playing recent festivals.
Bleecker Street is opening What They Had with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. Launching in several locations, the film is the first-time directorial by actor Elizabeth Chomko. And on the doc side, Menemsha Films is giving a New York launch for Austria’s Foreign Language contender, The Waldheim Waltz.
Also one...
- 10/19/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, things get much more complicated when you look closer to see she wrote more than just about the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen and Estée Lauder. Israel also wrote as some of her subjects too. During the early 1990s when she was down on her luck professionally, financially, and personally, a fateful discovery occurred that would ultimately ensure her name would no longer be accompanied by “author” in the history books nor her own 2008 memoirs. From that point on her infamous occupation became simply “literary forger.”
The label has allure — enough that she was able to leverage her crimes into an autobiography I assume made her more money than the almost...
The label has allure — enough that she was able to leverage her crimes into an autobiography I assume made her more money than the almost...
- 9/16/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
For a comedian like Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey, it takes “serious” roles to get respect, but not so Melissa McCarthy, who earned an Oscar nomination for her breakout performance in “Bridesmaids” and has been a critical darling ever since. Still, that shouldn’t stop her from branching out, and it’s our gain that she does in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” an unexpectedly profound, incredibly true dramedy in which she plays Lee Israel, a miserable Manhattan author who resorted to forging letters by famous writers in order to pay the bills — and found the basis for her most successful book in the process.
Dowdy, half-soused, and frowning for nearly the entire running time, McCarthy earns nearly as many laughs playing this curmudgeonly cat lady as she does in her more irrepressible comedic parts. But, of course (and this is why critics love watching cut-ups reveal their more introspective...
Dowdy, half-soused, and frowning for nearly the entire running time, McCarthy earns nearly as many laughs playing this curmudgeonly cat lady as she does in her more irrepressible comedic parts. But, of course (and this is why critics love watching cut-ups reveal their more introspective...
- 9/2/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
See Melissa McCarthy like you’ve never seen before in the trailer for Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me.
Based on a true story, the film will receive its UK Gala Screening at the BFI London Film Festival on Friday 19th October at Embankment Garden Cinema.
Directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl); written by Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said) and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film stars Richard E. Grant and Dolly Wells alongside McCarthy.
Also in trailers – Netflix release trailer for Orson Welles final movie The Other Side of the Wind
The film will be released into UK cinemas February 1st 2019
Can You Ever Forgive Me Official Synopsis
Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the...
Based on a true story, the film will receive its UK Gala Screening at the BFI London Film Festival on Friday 19th October at Embankment Garden Cinema.
Directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl); written by Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said) and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film stars Richard E. Grant and Dolly Wells alongside McCarthy.
Also in trailers – Netflix release trailer for Orson Welles final movie The Other Side of the Wind
The film will be released into UK cinemas February 1st 2019
Can You Ever Forgive Me Official Synopsis
Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the...
- 8/31/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Austin Film Festival has unveiled the first batch of films that will screen at its 25th-anniversary program taking place October 25 to November 1. Among the lineup is Boy Erased, the Joel Edgerton-helmed coming-of-age Lgbtq drama that stars Lucas Hedges, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman.
In addition, Melissa McCarthy-starring biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me?, directed by Marielle Heller, will get a regional premiere at the fest, while Nia DaCosta’s directorial debut Little Woods, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, and Hannah Fidell’s comedy, The Long Dumb Road, with Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas are also set.
World premiere films include The Black String, which stars Malcolm In The Middle alum Frankie Muniz as well as family cult drama Fishbowl, faith-based flick Speaking in Tongues, and high school football documentary Fathers of Football.
Furthermore, Aff will host a screening of Roger Corman’s 1957 film Rock All Night, as part of its retrospective series,...
In addition, Melissa McCarthy-starring biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me?, directed by Marielle Heller, will get a regional premiere at the fest, while Nia DaCosta’s directorial debut Little Woods, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, and Hannah Fidell’s comedy, The Long Dumb Road, with Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas are also set.
World premiere films include The Black String, which stars Malcolm In The Middle alum Frankie Muniz as well as family cult drama Fishbowl, faith-based flick Speaking in Tongues, and high school football documentary Fathers of Football.
Furthermore, Aff will host a screening of Roger Corman’s 1957 film Rock All Night, as part of its retrospective series,...
- 8/21/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the best debuts of the past few years was Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl and this fall, the director will make her return with the Melissa McCarthy-led biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me?. The film follows the true s tory of a once-famous entertainment writer who starts to forge letters from deceased celebrities. Ahead of an October release, the first trailer has now arrived courtesy of Fox Searchlight.
“There are pitfalls to biopics that are hard to get away from. There’s an expectation that you’re doing a certain amount of journalistic storytelling that’s going to give an exact play-by-play showing someone’s entire life from cradle to grave. This does none of that,” Heller tells EW. “I like telling stories about women who would otherwise be [ignored],” says Heller. “[Lee] wishes…. that she could have been a part of this great intellectual...
“There are pitfalls to biopics that are hard to get away from. There’s an expectation that you’re doing a certain amount of journalistic storytelling that’s going to give an exact play-by-play showing someone’s entire life from cradle to grave. This does none of that,” Heller tells EW. “I like telling stories about women who would otherwise be [ignored],” says Heller. “[Lee] wishes…. that she could have been a part of this great intellectual...
- 3/19/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Writer/directors John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle ("Waco"), willl develop a big screen feature from author Mark Shaw's true-crime conspiracy novel "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen":
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
"...was 'What's My Line' TV Star, media icon and crack investigative reporter 'Dorothy Kilgallen'...
"...murdered for writing a tell-all book about the 'JFK' assassination? If so, are the main suspects in her death still at large?
"These questions and more are answered, unfolding a 'whodunit' conspiracy, based on official, previously unobtainable documents, featuring a gaggle of suspects...
"...including those who had the most to benefit from her death, including the 'Democrat' party, the 'Kennedy' family, 'Frank Sinatra' and 'FBI' head J. Edgar Hoover..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Dorothy Kilgallen...
- 3/13/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Dorothy Kilgallen, the iconic columnist and media personality whose own investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy criticized the findings of the Warren Report, is getting the big-screen treatment.
John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, who created the recent Paramount Network series Waco, have optioned Mark Shaw’s true-crime novel The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen. For the feature, the writers will also draw from Shaw’s in-progress follow-up, Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History.
A syndicated newspaper columnist...
John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, who created the recent Paramount Network series Waco, have optioned Mark Shaw’s true-crime novel The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen. For the feature, the writers will also draw from Shaw’s in-progress follow-up, Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History.
A syndicated newspaper columnist...
- 3/12/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mark Shaw's true crime novel The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen has been optioned by filmmakers John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle. They are still determining what form the book will take, limited series or film. The filmmaking brothers last created and executive produced Paramount Network's limited series Waco which starred Taylor Kitsch as Branch-Davidian leader David Koresh. In The Reporter Who…...
- 3/12/2018
- Deadline
Elizabeth Taylor in Giant, achieving the impossible task of being the
gayest thing in this picture. (With Rock Hudson and James Dean.)
What are you supposed to do, not celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's birthday? The venerable violet-eyed legend (not to be confused with Violet Venable -- that's Katharine Hepburn's role in Suddenly, Last Summer, not Elizabeth's) would've been 81 years old today, and I thought we'd commemorate the occasion with a simple question: What's Liz's most underrated moment?
I could bore you with familiar references to Reflections in a Golden Eye or her long, lovely scenes of pure dialogue in Giant (Is it just me or does nobody ever talk about her work in that movie?), but I'll hit you with this televised stunner: In 1954, Liz appeared on What's My Line? and blew away the panelists, audience, and host John Daly with a comical Southern Belle voice and awesome improvisational skills.
gayest thing in this picture. (With Rock Hudson and James Dean.)
What are you supposed to do, not celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's birthday? The venerable violet-eyed legend (not to be confused with Violet Venable -- that's Katharine Hepburn's role in Suddenly, Last Summer, not Elizabeth's) would've been 81 years old today, and I thought we'd commemorate the occasion with a simple question: What's Liz's most underrated moment?
I could bore you with familiar references to Reflections in a Golden Eye or her long, lovely scenes of pure dialogue in Giant (Is it just me or does nobody ever talk about her work in that movie?), but I'll hit you with this televised stunner: In 1954, Liz appeared on What's My Line? and blew away the panelists, audience, and host John Daly with a comical Southern Belle voice and awesome improvisational skills.
- 2/27/2013
- by virtel
- The Backlot
It's time for November sweeps, which means one thing: Television execs want to make money off your time! Hooray! And what better way to celebrate the money-grubbing, callous-as-hell world of television than with one of the most damning films about the industry, Quiz Show? This week's Best Movie Ever? selection has everything: Mean TV execs, hot TV stars, annoying TV stars, Rob Morrow's mushmouthed New England accent, Martin Scorsese in an acting role, and enough '50s-style morals to drive the Drapers crazy. I also happen to love it, which means it qualifies to be Best Movie Ever. So there.
Quiz Show, the 1994 Best Picture nominee by director Robert Redford (who also helmed our beloved Ordinary People), takes a close look at the game show scandals of the 1950s when contestants like Herb Stempel (John Turturro) and Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) answered trivia questions for extraordinary sums of money.
Quiz Show, the 1994 Best Picture nominee by director Robert Redford (who also helmed our beloved Ordinary People), takes a close look at the game show scandals of the 1950s when contestants like Herb Stempel (John Turturro) and Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) answered trivia questions for extraordinary sums of money.
- 11/12/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series – Starring Eric Close and Megan Ward – Secrets and Conspiracies Spill from All 19 Original Riveting Episodes, Extensive DVD Bonus Content, Special Booklet and much more! Own The Collectible 6-dvd Box Set On January 18, 2011 From Shout! Factory
An idealistic Congressional aide discovers evidence of aliens living among us. When he stumbles into the government’s longtime cover-up, his life changes forever. In the landmark television series Dark Skies, freedom fighter John Loengard declares that “history as we know it is a lie,” and sets out to find the truth before it’s too late. He and girlfriend Kim Sayers embark on a cross-country crusade, attempting to derail plans by the sinister alien “Hive.” Majestic-12, a covert government agency assigned to secretly fight the aliens, monitors Loengard; and Capt. Frank Bach is ready to silence him—or quietly aid his quest. Call it alternative history or call it the unthinkable truth.
An idealistic Congressional aide discovers evidence of aliens living among us. When he stumbles into the government’s longtime cover-up, his life changes forever. In the landmark television series Dark Skies, freedom fighter John Loengard declares that “history as we know it is a lie,” and sets out to find the truth before it’s too late. He and girlfriend Kim Sayers embark on a cross-country crusade, attempting to derail plans by the sinister alien “Hive.” Majestic-12, a covert government agency assigned to secretly fight the aliens, monitors Loengard; and Capt. Frank Bach is ready to silence him—or quietly aid his quest. Call it alternative history or call it the unthinkable truth.
- 12/6/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Producer John Davis has acquired the rights to Paul Alexander's book, Good Night, Dorothy Kilgallen, which Variety reports might be distributed by Fox. Kilgallen was a journalist who covered myriad stories for Hearst newspapers from the 1930s to the mid-60s, everything from UFOs to show business to the Sam Sheppard murder trial (the basis for The Fugitive). She was also a panelist on What's My Line.
The focus of the film will be Kilgallen's independent investigation into the JFK assassination. She conducted one of the very few interviews with Jack Ruby, and claimed, "That story isn't going to die as long as there's a real reporter alive, and there are a lot of them alive."
Unfortunately, Kilgallen wasn't alive for long. She passed away in 1965 before finishing her investigation, and the cause of death was "undetermined," leading many to believe she was another victim of the Kennedy Conspiracy. That appears to be Alexander's position,...
The focus of the film will be Kilgallen's independent investigation into the JFK assassination. She conducted one of the very few interviews with Jack Ruby, and claimed, "That story isn't going to die as long as there's a real reporter alive, and there are a lot of them alive."
Unfortunately, Kilgallen wasn't alive for long. She passed away in 1965 before finishing her investigation, and the cause of death was "undetermined," leading many to believe she was another victim of the Kennedy Conspiracy. That appears to be Alexander's position,...
- 10/5/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Producer John Davis has just finished writing his yet to be published book about Dorothy Kilgallen. The film will be an expose tying the death of journalist Kilgallen to her investigation of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Kilgallen considered Kennedy a friend, and was obsessed with investigating the circumstances of his death. She became convinced his assassination was part of a conspiracy, and was determined to prove it. She managed to obtain enough evidence and interviews (including the only one with Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald) that the FBI kept her under close surveillance.
She was murdered after finishing her book “Murder One,” and that its chapters about JFK disappeared. Even her death was also under mysterious...
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Kilgallen considered Kennedy a friend, and was obsessed with investigating the circumstances of his death. She became convinced his assassination was part of a conspiracy, and was determined to prove it. She managed to obtain enough evidence and interviews (including the only one with Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald) that the FBI kept her under close surveillance.
She was murdered after finishing her book “Murder One,” and that its chapters about JFK disappeared. Even her death was also under mysterious...
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- 10/4/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
'I'm As corny as Kansas in August!" sings Nellie Forbush.
The Famed Rodgers & Ham merstein Music Publishing business, run by Ted Chapin, has put itself on the market for a mere $250 million. This seems like as good a time as any, what with R&H a hit again at Lincoln Center in the brilliant revival of just one of their famous musicals, "South Pacific."
But Chapin isn't selling his other gold mine - the music of Irving Berlin.
Hizzoner the mayor of New York has peripheral publicity this month. Mike Bloomberg's terrific girlfriend, Diana Taylor,...
The Famed Rodgers & Ham merstein Music Publishing business, run by Ted Chapin, has put itself on the market for a mere $250 million. This seems like as good a time as any, what with R&H a hit again at Lincoln Center in the brilliant revival of just one of their famous musicals, "South Pacific."
But Chapin isn't selling his other gold mine - the music of Irving Berlin.
Hizzoner the mayor of New York has peripheral publicity this month. Mike Bloomberg's terrific girlfriend, Diana Taylor,...
- 8/3/2008
- by By LIZ SMITH
- NYPost.com
Actress Anne Heche is in early talks with Showtime to star in a currently untitled movie about reporter, columnist and television celebrity Dorothy Kilgallen. 31-year-old Heche was involved with "wild and crazy guy" Steve Martin and recently split up from longtime lesbian lover Ellen DeGeneres. Heche (who pronounces her surname "haytch") would play Kilgallen in the film based on Lee Israel's book "Kilgallen, " about the life, and mysterious death, of a journalist who investigated John F. Kennedy's assassination and Marilyn Monroe's death.
- 9/18/2000
- WENN
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