Mumbai, Nov 27 (Ians) Sunburn Festival Goa will be making an on-ground comeback with a three-day showcase on December 27, 28 and 29. Grammy-nominated Dutchman, Armin van Buuren will be headlining the event as he will set the turntables on fire with his Trance and Progressive House tracks. Armin, who has been crowned the World’s […]...
- 11/27/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Mumbai, Nov 27 (Ians) Sunburn Festival Goa will be making an on-ground comeback with a three-day showcase on December 27, 28 and 29. Grammy-nominated Dutchman, Armin van Buuren will be headlining the event as he will set the turntables on fire with his Trance and Progressive House tracks. Armin, who has been crowned the World’s […]...
- 11/27/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Chicago – There was a time in Hollywood when the character actor was a familiar and reassuring presence in great movies and TV series. Shirley Knight, who worked from 1959-2018, was one of those reliable performers. Knight passed away on April 22nd, 2020, at the age of 83.
Shirley Knight was born in Kansas, and came up through the famous Pasadena Theatre School and the Hb Studio in New York City in the 1950s. Her unique look and talent was evident in her Oscar nominated roles in “The Dark At the Top of the Stairs” (1960) and “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962). She worked steadily in film during the 1960s, with roles in “The Group” (1966) and “Petulia” (1968), which have become cult favorites.
In subsequent years, she was cast in films as diverse as “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure” (1979). “Endless Love” (1981), “As Good As it Gets” (1997), “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009) and the Blumhouse Production, “Mercy” (2014). On TV,...
Shirley Knight was born in Kansas, and came up through the famous Pasadena Theatre School and the Hb Studio in New York City in the 1950s. Her unique look and talent was evident in her Oscar nominated roles in “The Dark At the Top of the Stairs” (1960) and “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962). She worked steadily in film during the 1960s, with roles in “The Group” (1966) and “Petulia” (1968), which have become cult favorites.
In subsequent years, she was cast in films as diverse as “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure” (1979). “Endless Love” (1981), “As Good As it Gets” (1997), “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (2009) and the Blumhouse Production, “Mercy” (2014). On TV,...
- 4/23/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This is the second installment of “Breaking Black,” a new weekly column focused on emerging black talent.
Award-winning multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson’s thoughtful adaptation of Richard Wright’s landmark 1939 novel “Native Son” isn’t exactly the start of a franchise, but Johnson’s first feature exists on a continuum: The film represents his latest effort to reimagine a respected artwork.
While his filmmaking career is young, Johnson has amassed a body of work that includes installations and theatrical productions that all reflect a similar impulse. But with the A24-produced “Native Son” now on HBO, that impulse is reaching its largest audience to date.
Prior to “Native Son,” Johnson only had experience directing for the stage in far more experimental terms. In 2013, he revised Amiri Baraka’s award-winning controversial 1964 play “Dutchman” for the saunas at the Russian & Turkish Baths on East 10th street in New York City. Anticipating the...
Award-winning multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson’s thoughtful adaptation of Richard Wright’s landmark 1939 novel “Native Son” isn’t exactly the start of a franchise, but Johnson’s first feature exists on a continuum: The film represents his latest effort to reimagine a respected artwork.
While his filmmaking career is young, Johnson has amassed a body of work that includes installations and theatrical productions that all reflect a similar impulse. But with the A24-produced “Native Son” now on HBO, that impulse is reaching its largest audience to date.
Prior to “Native Son,” Johnson only had experience directing for the stage in far more experimental terms. In 2013, he revised Amiri Baraka’s award-winning controversial 1964 play “Dutchman” for the saunas at the Russian & Turkish Baths on East 10th street in New York City. Anticipating the...
- 4/12/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Cinema Retro's Todd Garbarini and Lee Pfeiffer with Anthony Harvey at a screening of The Lion in Winter at the Loew's Jersey City, 2009.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Anthony Harvey, the actor who became an editor only to finally become an esteemed director, has died at age 87 at his home in Long Island. Harvey was born in London and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with the hope of becoming an actor. However, he turned to film editing instead. On a whim he contacted Stanley Kubrick and convinced the director to hire him as editor on the 1962 production of "Lolita". Kubrick was so impressed that he hired Harvey again to edit his next film "Dr. Strangelove". Harvey's innovative method of fast cutting won plaudits from the industry. At one point, however, disaster nearly struck when footage of a complicated sequence he had edited went missing, leading him to have to recreate...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Anthony Harvey, the actor who became an editor only to finally become an esteemed director, has died at age 87 at his home in Long Island. Harvey was born in London and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with the hope of becoming an actor. However, he turned to film editing instead. On a whim he contacted Stanley Kubrick and convinced the director to hire him as editor on the 1962 production of "Lolita". Kubrick was so impressed that he hired Harvey again to edit his next film "Dr. Strangelove". Harvey's innovative method of fast cutting won plaudits from the industry. At one point, however, disaster nearly struck when footage of a complicated sequence he had edited went missing, leading him to have to recreate...
- 12/1/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Supporting Actress Smackdown of '64 is just 8 days away. So it's time to get your votes in on the nominees that year. Readers, collectively, are the sixth panelists, so grade the nominees (only the ones you've seen) from 1 to 5 hearts. Your votes count toward the smackdown win!
Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek Gladys Cooper for My Fair Lady Dame Edith Evans The Chalk Garden
Agnes Moorhead Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte
Grayson Hall Night of the Iguana
But before we here at Tfe get to that particular metaphorical musical-horror mishmash of films with one of the most senior lineups the Academy ever offered up in this category, let's meet our panelists for this 50th anniversary retrospective competition.
The Panel
Special Guest
Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Lynskey is an actor from New Zealand. She made her film debut in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) and is currently starring in Joe Swanberg's...
Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek Gladys Cooper for My Fair Lady Dame Edith Evans The Chalk Garden
Agnes Moorhead Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte
Grayson Hall Night of the Iguana
But before we here at Tfe get to that particular metaphorical musical-horror mishmash of films with one of the most senior lineups the Academy ever offered up in this category, let's meet our panelists for this 50th anniversary retrospective competition.
The Panel
Special Guest
Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Lynskey is an actor from New Zealand. She made her film debut in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) and is currently starring in Joe Swanberg's...
- 6/22/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
I repost this in light of Amiri Baraka's death, at 79 years old, made public this afternoon... Made in 1967, Dutchman is the filmed version of Amiri Baraka’s (he was LeRoi Jones when he wrote it) controversial one-act stage play. It won the Obie Award for best off-Broadway play, thrusting Baraka into the limelight. It stars Al Freeman Jr. and Shirley Knight. The story: A sinister, neurotic, lascivious white girl, Lula, lures to his doom, a young black man, Clay - a stranger she picks up in the subway. The man, who, at first, sees no reason to resist the girl's advances, realizes too late that he is being used by her. He then drops his so-called "white"...
- 1/9/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
You’ll be hard pressed to think of a controversial play or film that even decades later, still remains just as controversial. You could probably count them on one hand. But it’s maybe impossible you couldn’t make up such a list without putting Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman on it.The play first premiered in 1964 in New York when Baraka, then LeRoi Jones, was in the process of a divorce from his white first wife and going through the political and philosophical process of becoming a black nationalist.Not surprisingly, his play caused shock and outrage. It’s a work that could be interpreted in hundreds of ways. But Baraka makes it clear Dutchman is whatever you want it to be, and you...
- 7/11/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
In light of Al Freeman Jr.'s death (please see the post immediately underneath this one)... Made in 1967, Dutchman is the filmed version of Amiri Baraka’s (he was LeRoi Jones when he wrote it) controversial one-act stage play. It won the Obie Award for best off-Broadway play, thrusting Baraka into the limelight. It stars Al Freeman Jr. & Shirley Knight. The story: A sinister, neurotic, lascivious white girl, Lula, lures to his doom, a young black man, Clay - a stranger she picks up in the subway. The man, who, at first, sees no reason to resist the girl's advances, realizes too late that he is being used by her. He then drops his so-called...
- 8/10/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The son of African American stage actor Al Freeman (1884-1956), and star of stage, TV and film, Al Freeman Jr. (born Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr., on March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas), has died at the age of 78 years old. His career, as an actor primarily, as well as a writer and director, spans several decades, dating back to the 1950s. He made his big screen debut in 1960's melodrama The Rebel Breed. Most notably, in 1967, Freeman Jr. co-starred with Shirley Knight in the film version of Leroi Jones' (Amiri Baraka's) off-Broadway play Dutchman, in a performance that earned him excellent reviews, and further attention for his...
- 8/10/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
What makes for African-American theater? According to Kelley Nicole Girod, a playwright and lead producer of The Fire This Time Festival, there are major misconceptions. Now in its third year, the Off-Broadway event, produced by the Horse Trade Theater Group, provides a platform for emerging playwrights of color to present 10-minute plays. These may be snippets of larger works or completed pieces.As literary descendants of Lorraine Hansberry ("A Raisin in the Sun") and Amiri Baraka ("Dutchman"), black playwrights continue to be identified with such topics as the heritage of slavery, political struggle, and identity crises, Girod says. "That's been the standard, and it's come to be expected." "The Submission," "The Mountaintop," and "Stick Fly" are current examples on and Off-Broadway, she notes. "I'm not saying those plays shouldn't be written, but there's so much more that makes up the black experience," she continues. "In our first year, we had plays.
- 1/18/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Readjusting to a Broadway stage after 11 years of performing in front of a TV camera is a bit of a challenge, says Dulé Hill, perhaps best known as Charlie Young, the personal aide to President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) on the long-running "The West Wing" and more recently as the straitlaced private detective Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych.""The camera is so intimate, it can catch a twinkle in the eye," he notes. "But that twinkle won't read in the back of the theater. I had to learn how to magnify while keeping the moments intimate and real." The vocal challenges—specifically maintaining vocal strength—have been the most daunting.Hill is no stranger to the stage, but with the exception of co-starring in an Off-Broadway revival of Amiri Baraka's two-hander "Dutchman" four years ago, his roster of stage credits boasts only musicals. His current gig, Lydia R. Diamond's "Stick Fly,...
- 12/8/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Actor Al Freeman Jr. is 77 today. The accomplished actor, who began his career in an episode of the 1958 TV series Suspicion, became the first African-American actor to be honored with an Emmy award in the Best Lead Actor category. His credits include a long list of various television programs and movies such as Kojak, Roots: The Next Generation, Dutchman, soap opera One Life To Live and Down In The Delta. Playing Elijah Muhammed in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X may be considered his most memorable role.
Actress Sabrina LeBeauf will be 53 today. The actress is probably best known for her role as Sondra Huxtable on The Cosby Show. She beat out Whitney Houston for that role. She earned a BA in Theatre Arts from UCLA and an Mfa in acting from the Yale School of Drama where she was a classmate of John Turturro, Charles S. Dutton and Oscar-nominee Angela Bassett.
Actress Sabrina LeBeauf will be 53 today. The actress is probably best known for her role as Sondra Huxtable on The Cosby Show. She beat out Whitney Houston for that role. She earned a BA in Theatre Arts from UCLA and an Mfa in acting from the Yale School of Drama where she was a classmate of John Turturro, Charles S. Dutton and Oscar-nominee Angela Bassett.
- 3/21/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
Chicago – The wake of the 1960s still resonates on our shores, and entertainment was a viable leader during the era for breaking new barriers. At the recent Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show, Shirley Knight, Barbara Parkins and Victoria Sellers were reminders of those special times.
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show occurred in September of 2010. The show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com was there to add the photographic spice to the proceedings.
Shirley Knight of “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962) and “Petulia” (1968)
Shirley Knight has been a working actress since doing an uncredited role in the classic “Picnic” (1955). She made a substantial mark in the early 1960s by being nominated for a Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her first two major films – “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” (1960) and “Sweet Bird of Youth...
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show occurred in September of 2010. The show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com was there to add the photographic spice to the proceedings.
Shirley Knight of “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962) and “Petulia” (1968)
Shirley Knight has been a working actress since doing an uncredited role in the classic “Picnic” (1955). She made a substantial mark in the early 1960s by being nominated for a Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her first two major films – “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” (1960) and “Sweet Bird of Youth...
- 3/15/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Made in 1966, Dutchman is the filmed version of Amiri Baraka’s controversial one-act stage play. It won the Obie Award for best off-Broadway play, thrusting Baraka into the limelight. It stars Al Freeman Jr. & Shirley Knight.
The story, for those unfamiliar, goes… A sinister, neurotic, lascivious white girl, Lula, lures to his doom, a good-looking young black man, Clay – a stranger she picks up in the subway. She mocks him for wearing the clothes, and employing the voice and manners of what she deems the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first, sees no reason to resist the girl’s advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her. He then drops his so-called “white” disguise, and launches into a counterattack, against the girl, and at whites in general, leading to its haunting, shocking conclusion.
Dutchman initially played to primarily white audiences, until Baraka moved it to...
The story, for those unfamiliar, goes… A sinister, neurotic, lascivious white girl, Lula, lures to his doom, a good-looking young black man, Clay – a stranger she picks up in the subway. She mocks him for wearing the clothes, and employing the voice and manners of what she deems the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first, sees no reason to resist the girl’s advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her. He then drops his so-called “white” disguise, and launches into a counterattack, against the girl, and at whites in general, leading to its haunting, shocking conclusion.
Dutchman initially played to primarily white audiences, until Baraka moved it to...
- 3/4/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Saturday’s weather in NYC was too lovely for me to stay inside, and so I missed yesterday’s birthdays. Thus, today will include yesterday’s and today’s.
Yesterday, 3/20/10, Spike Lee turned 53 yesterday. Happy belated b-day Spike! You know we love ya around these parts, despite any criticisms we’ve previously leveled against you .
Today, 3/21/10:vDJ Premier is 44 years old today. The other half of rap duo Gang Starr (Guru being the other) has never acted, but you can find his music on the soundtracks of numerous films, including, most recently, Get Smart in 2008.
Al Freeman Jr is 76 years old today. The first African-American actor to be so honored with an Emmy award in the Best Lead Actor category, began his career in 1958, in an episode of a TV series titled Suspicion. The role he won the Emmy for is possibly his most recognized – as Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera,...
Yesterday, 3/20/10, Spike Lee turned 53 yesterday. Happy belated b-day Spike! You know we love ya around these parts, despite any criticisms we’ve previously leveled against you .
Today, 3/21/10:vDJ Premier is 44 years old today. The other half of rap duo Gang Starr (Guru being the other) has never acted, but you can find his music on the soundtracks of numerous films, including, most recently, Get Smart in 2008.
Al Freeman Jr is 76 years old today. The first African-American actor to be so honored with an Emmy award in the Best Lead Actor category, began his career in 1958, in an episode of a TV series titled Suspicion. The role he won the Emmy for is possibly his most recognized – as Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera,...
- 3/21/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Made in 1966, Dutchman is the filmed version of Amiri Baraka’s controversial one-act stageplay. It won the Obie Award for best off-Broadway play, thrusting Baraka into the limelight. It stars Al Freeman Jr. & Shirley Knight.
A sinister, neurotic, lascivious white girl, Lula, lures to his doom, a good-looking young black man, Clay – a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway, and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes, and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl’s advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, then drops his “white” disguise, and launches into a counterattack against her, and on the entire white race, leading to its haunting, shocking conclusion.
Dutchman initially played to primarily white audiences, until Baraka moved it to a Harlem theater that he founded, in order to reach,...
A sinister, neurotic, lascivious white girl, Lula, lures to his doom, a good-looking young black man, Clay – a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway, and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes, and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl’s advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, then drops his “white” disguise, and launches into a counterattack against her, and on the entire white race, leading to its haunting, shocking conclusion.
Dutchman initially played to primarily white audiences, until Baraka moved it to a Harlem theater that he founded, in order to reach,...
- 1/29/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
(L to R) Cinema Retro contributing writer Todd Garbarini, editor-in-chief Lee Pfeiffer and Anthony Harvey at the Loews Jersey City.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Last Friday, I attended the special screening of The Lion in Winter at the Loews Theatre, the classic movie palace in Jersey City, New Jersey. Not only did I want to see the highly acclaimed film on the big screen for the first time, but the event also allowed me to meet with my old friend, Anthony Harvey who directed the 1968 classic. It had been a few years since I had seen Tony, who I first met when I was writing the Sony DVD documentary on the making of Dr. Strangelove. Tony had been Stanley Kubrick's editor on that film as well as Lolita and it was Kubrick himself who persuaded Tony to try his hand at directing. I was pleased to see Tony looking as...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Last Friday, I attended the special screening of The Lion in Winter at the Loews Theatre, the classic movie palace in Jersey City, New Jersey. Not only did I want to see the highly acclaimed film on the big screen for the first time, but the event also allowed me to meet with my old friend, Anthony Harvey who directed the 1968 classic. It had been a few years since I had seen Tony, who I first met when I was writing the Sony DVD documentary on the making of Dr. Strangelove. Tony had been Stanley Kubrick's editor on that film as well as Lolita and it was Kubrick himself who persuaded Tony to try his hand at directing. I was pleased to see Tony looking as...
- 5/1/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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