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Brittany Murphy's funeral: A celebration of her life, spirit and kindness
25 December 2009 8:14 AM, PST | Zap2It - The Dish Rag | See recent Zap2It - The Dish Rag news »
Brittany Murphy was laid to rest Thursday, Dec 24, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
According to reports, the service was held at the Church of the Hills.
About 25-30 of Brittany's close friends and family celebrated her life and spirit that one person said, "brought sunshine" into their lives and "made them fly".
The music for the service began with Chet Atkins' song "My Funny Valentine" and finished with Brittany's rendition of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile." The group sang "Amazing Grace" and the Kaddish prayer was recited.The service had both a rabbi and a pastor
Several mourners spoke of her life, her kindness, her talent. Her husband Simon Monjack recalled that Brittany's favorite phrase was "thank you." "She was always grateful for everything. She'd always want you to celebrate her life."
Afterwards, the burial took place in the Bright Eternity section of the memorial park.
The pall bearers included »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Interviews: Christmas Stars Shine With Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren, Larry Hagman
24 December 2009 6:10 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – On this Christmas Eve, we will bask in the light of sparkling film stars, and honor their legacy. Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Tippi Hedren and Larry Hagman met admirers at the Hollywood Celebrities Show.
The older stars are the most fascinating and best attended towards at these type of events. There is a sense of regal elements to their bearing, but at the same time a knowledge that they were possessed in another era, simpler perhaps, but still significant in this time of online and DVD assess to the older canon.
Let us spend time briefly this Christmas Eve with the following legends of film, as HollywoodChicago and the ace of all aces, photographer Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto, connect to the living embodiments of our film history past at the Hollywood Celebrities Show in Rosemont, Illinois.
Mickey Rooney, Film and Box Office Titan for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
The Mickster, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Movie Preview: Sherlock Holmes (Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law)
23 December 2009 8:18 AM, PST | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »
Sherlock Holmes (2009) is back in action, along with his legendary companion, Watson. The year is 1891. There's a conspiracy underway to destroy Britain, and it's up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters to thwart it. This latest challenge may be the most sinister ever faced by the duo, and they respond in ways never before revealed. Robert Downey, Jr. takes on the role of Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law tackles the part of Watson, his trusted ally. The action/adventure/mystery is set to open in theaters on December 25th. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie, who admits to being a long-standing fan of the sleuths. Ritchie was initially of the opinion that Downey was too old for the part of Sherlock Holmes, since he wanted the film to portray a younger version of the character who he says "was on a learning curve." Downey felt the »
- jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)
Forget E-Books: The Future of the Book Is Far More Interesting
23 December 2009 7:51 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Coming soon... It's the end of the book as we know it, and you'll be just fine. But it won't be replaced by the e-book, which is, at best, a stopgap measure. [Viral Loop Chronicle #8]
Take a long hard look at a book, any book. Pull a favorite off a shelf, dust off the top--maybe it's the Bible, the Koran, a novel by Jane Austen or Leo Tolstoy. Perhaps you're more into Dan Brown or Jacqueline Winspear mysteries, Doris Kearns Goodwin biographies, or you've dog-eared page after page in Skinny Bitch. You may even gravitate toward business books like Viral Loop, my latest. Now say your goodbyes, because there will soon be a day that you may view such analog contrivances as museum pieces, bought and sold on eBay as collectibles, or tossed into landfills.
Coming soon ... It's the end of the book as we know it, and you'll be just fine. But »
- Adam Penenberg
Interviews: ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Wayne’s World,’ ‘Growing Pains,’ ‘Three’s Company’ at Hollywood Celebrities Show
21 December 2009 5:23 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – At the recent Hollywood Celebrities Show in Rosemont, Illinois, Jonathan Frakes of “Star Trek,” Tia Carrere of “Wayne’s World,” Julie McCullough of “Growing Pains” and Jenilee Harrison of “Three’s Company” were attendees.
HollywoodChicago.com was there and scored interviews with all of these popular TV and film stars, as well as putting them through the lens of Starstuck Foto’s Joe Arce.
Throughout this holiday week, we will be posting the interviews and pictures from the October 17th Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show, starting with today’s overview of these candid celebs.
Jonathan Frakes, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
Jonathan Frakes starred as the intrepid Commander William T. Riker in the first TV spin-off of the Star Trek universe from 1987-1994. He also directed a couple of the film versions, “Star Trek: First Contact” and “Star Trek: Insurrection.”
Number One: Jonathan Frakes at the Hollywood Celebrities Show, October 17th, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Tc Kids Club: A Review from Allison
14 December 2009 10:15 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Hey Guys! It's Allison from Tribeca Kids Access! I had an awesome assignment for Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club, where I watched the silent film The General by Buster Keaton. The General was a story about an engineer who loved his girl and his engine. The film is basically about his goose chase to find the engine during the Civil War. The war had an exciting plot, so in color or in black and white it would have been interesting. But the fact that it was in black and white made the film a lot more interesting! Whenever I think of silent films, I immediately think of comedies and the great Charlie Chaplin. I loved how all the little kids in the theater were reading all of the title cards out loud. It made my heart warm and made me smile at how the kids were getting so close to their »
Glee Fall Finale Cast Covers Hit iTunes
8 December 2009 11:24 AM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Glee fans can download the songs performed by the cast on tomorrow's fall finale episode, right now. Fox has made the soundtrack, thus far, available on iTunes for fans to download. Included in the fall finale are “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from “Dreamgirls,” Barbra Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You.”
Here's a bit more info from Fox
In this week’s all-new fall finale episode, airing Wednesday, Dec. 9 (9:00-10:00 Pm Et/Pt) on Fox, Sectionals is finally here for the Glee Club, but when Quinn’s (Dianna Agron) secret unravels, the club may not be able to recover in time to compete. Meanwhile, Sue’s (Jane Lynch) scheming hits an all-time high, and with Emma (Jayma Mays) and Ken’s »
- Jon Lachonis
Free Flick Fridays: Chaplin
3 December 2009 11:00 PM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Chaplin Dir. Richard Attenborough (1992) Robert Downey, Jr.'s two Oscar nominations make an amusing pair of bookended actors. Most recently was 2008, when he was nominated for Tropic Thunder, delivering a wicked parody of the pomposity of actors with his so-method-he-went-blackface Kirk Lazarus, and then there was 1992, where he was eerily on-point as one of the true legends of film, Charles Chaplin, better known to you as Charlie Chaplin. Perhaps he had to go Lazarus in order to get to the root of Chaplin; but really, Downey's wildman antics (his publicized drug difficulties took up the rest of the 90s) and general sadness-underneath-the-geniality lends a gravitas to the actor, who was in his late twenties when he played the role. Attenborough's film, based on Chaplin's autobiography and David Robinson's book Chaplin: His Life and Art is wildly ambitious (the original cut was nearly four hours long) - an epic ride through »
Luciano Emmer obituary
3 December 2009 10:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Distinguished Italian director noted for art documentaries
Though the Italian media prefer to remember him as one of the inventors of the first popular programme of television commercials – called Carosello (Carousel) and broadcast each evening at peak viewing time on the only channel of the Italian public broadcaster Rai in the mid-1950s – Luciano Emmer, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Italian cinema director. He directed a dozen features during 70 years as a film-maker, the first of which, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August), became an international arthouse hit in 1950. He was, however, best known for scores of documentaries on art.
Born in Milan, Emmer spent most of his childhood in Venice, where his father was the city's municipal engineer. As a boy, he made good use of his father's free pass to the local cinemas, where his preference was for Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, but he also »
- John Francis Lane
Glee recap (1.12): "Once Upon A Mattress"
3 December 2009 8:54 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
I was actually a little shell shocked after this week's episode. I needed a minute to pull myself together. And no, I actually did not cry this week, but it was very emotionally draining. There was some fantastic acting, and I thought it was another well-written episode — though definitely not the best.
We start off with two bits of important information. One is that Ken has scheduled his and Emma's wedding for the same day as the Glee Sectionals, and the other is that it is officially yearbook photo time at McKinley High.
Sue sashays in with two black eyes from her yearly plastic surgery touchup for the yearbook. (Emma: "Sue! Did someone finally punch you?") Sue had her eyes done this year. "While they were in there, I had them go ahead and yank out those tear ducts. Wasn't using 'em." She delights in informing Will that Glee Club »
- josh
Downey Jr. Lands Top Hollywood Honour
2 December 2009 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Robert Downey Jr. is to become part of Hollywood royalty on Monday when his hand and footprints are added to the cement outside Tinseltown landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
The Iron Man star will join the likes of George Clooney, John Wayne and Charlie Chaplin, who he once famously portrayed on the big screen, when he's honoured on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
His wife Susan Downey and moviemaker Joel Silver will be among the guests paying tribute to the movie star. »
Blue Skies and Black Metal
30 November 2009 7:48 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week's slate gathers together so many big name stars in one place you'd think it was Oscar night already.
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A stripped-down neo-noir with a twist, this feature debut for filmmaker Alex Merkin began as a 2005 short (starring Adrian Grenier, which can be found online here). Grenier didn't return, but Mike Vogel takes his place as Julian, a young man who races to a seedy hotel where his best friend's wayward fiancée (Brittany Murphy) and another man have aroused the suspicions of his pal, who's holed up "across the hall" with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"Armored"
Having garnered a great deal of attention with his grungy murder mystery debut "Kontroll," American-born Hungarian helmer Nimród Antal first made his mark in Hollywood »
- Neil Pedley
Tiff 2009 Day 7: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
A welcomed "diversion" to my viewing slate, Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator wasn't the first picture that came to mind when watching Dany Boon's miming about in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "anti-war" themed pic. - A welcomed "diversion" to my viewing slate, Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator wasn't the first picture that came to mind when watching Dany Boon's miming about in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "anti-war" themed pic. I wasn't thinking of anti-war pics, and it was upon further reflection that I thought about the whole non-violence combating violence discourse of the film, but it was the collection of pics from the late 70's/early 80's films that I grew up on that I had in mind. In my estimation, Jeunet's Micmacs delivers that tingling feeling sensation that we find in spades in Amelie, the pic is a technically fun film to watch, and is inoffensive, quirky »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Birthday Suits: The Blonde and the Bookish
29 November 2009 4:24 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Celebrating cinematic birthdays for 11/29. Which celebrity would you most like to spank today?
Blond³: Diane, Anna and Cathy
1832 Louisa May Alcott wrote the oft-adapted Little Women
1895 Busby Berkeley, legendary choreographer/director. What would the early musicals have been without him?
1898 C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia which were made into unfortunately generic movies. He also wrote The Screwtape Letters which I personally pray will never see the silver screen despite Hollywood's efforts. Some books just deserve the undiluted perfection of their original form. Sir Anthony Hopkins played him in the weepy bio Shadowlands (1993)
1901 Mildred Harris, silent film actress and Mrs Charlie Chaplin (for a few years)
1918 Madeleine L'Engle prolific author, most famous for Wrinkle in Time
1931 Shintarô Katsu the original blind swordsman Zatoichi
1932 Diane Ladd, if you don't love her Oscar nom'ed performances in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Rambling Rose and Wild at Heart, well... what's wrong with you? »
- NATHANIEL R
Charlie Chaplin museum to open in Swiss mansion
26 November 2009 3:11 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Former home by Lake Geneva to showcase life and work of legendary actor
Charlie Chaplin's Swiss mansion is to become a museum, one of his sons said today.
The Corsier-sur-Vevey property by Lake Geneva was chosen over sites in Los Angeles and London as the site of the first museum dedicated to the screen legend, said Michael Chaplin. The museum, which has been a decade in the planning and will be finished within two years, will feature objects from the actor's life and displays chronicling his rise from London's music halls to Hollywood stardom. "He was very happy here because he had a family life," Michael Chaplin said of the Swiss home where his father lived for more than 20 years until his death in 1977.
The vaulted wine cellars of the house will be used to evoke the Victorian-era London of Chaplin's youth, while Hollywood will be recreated in the »
Robert Gives Thanks
25 November 2009 11:01 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I love slow movies. Really slow. For the longest time I thought everyone else considered that word to signify the worst in movies. Slow meant bad enough to put you to sleep. I love movies that put me to sleep. I’ve a whole collection of movies that I can pop in the DVD player whenever I can’t sleep and they’ll do the trick. If we can agree that music peaceful enough to put you to sleep can still be great, why not movies?
So this year I’m thankful for slow movies. But I’m also thankful for others who love them, because together we inspire filmmakers to keep making them. Great modern films like Goodbye, Solo and The Assassination of Jesse James..., and The Band’s Visit and Silent Light.
I’m thankful that cinema hasn’t been completely overrun by the desire to make anything »
- Robert
Chaplin Museum Set For Switzerland
24 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Silent movie icon Charlie Chaplin's home in Switzerland is to be turned into a museum.
The mansion at Corsiersur-Vevey by the shores of Lake Geneva was Chaplin's last home before his death in 1977. It has been chosen as the site for the museum over the star's homes in London and Los Angeles.
His son Michael says, "He was very happy here."
The museum, which will feature feature objects from Chaplin’s life and career, is expected to open in 2011. »
Judd Apatow and Aziz Ansari Sell Universal On 'Funny People' Spin-Off
24 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Last week, during a live Q&A on FunnyOrDie.com, Judd Apatow addressed the idea of a "Funny People" spin-off focused on Aziz Ansari's minor stand-up comedian character, Randy (or, Raaaaaaaandy), implying that it was all up to the actor if it would happen. "You should Twitter Aziz Ansari and tell him you want that movie," Apatow urged fans via webcam. "Aziz may be concerned that more people think he's Randy than Aziz. That may be his hesitation."
Well, the occasional IMAX protester and costar of NBC's "Parks and Recreation" has apparently gotten over that hesitation, whether due to fans Tweeting him or not. According to Variety, he and writer-director Jason Woliner, one of Ansari's collaborators on MTV's sketch comedy show "Human Giant," have sold Apatow and Universal Pictures on a pitch for the Randy movie, along with two other movie ideas.
Ansari notes that he was surprised Apatow »
- Christopher Campbell
Chaplin: museum in Corsier-sur-Vevey
24 November 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »
Favored over Los Angeles and London, the small town of Corsier-sur-Vevey will host a museum dedicated to Charlie Chaplin, says his son, Michael Chaplin. The future pilgrimage destination for fans of the legendary English filmmaker should be complete within two years. It will be dedicated to Charlie Chaplin's career, screening clips of his masterpieces and exhibiting some of his possessions, such as the piano he used to compose his unforgettable songs. In the great Swiss tradition, when the idea was first raised several neighbors of the villa in which Chaplin lived for twenty years were immediately opposed to the idea of transforming it into a museum, afraid visitors to the site, from old to young, would dare to infringe on their hard-earned, idyllic daily lives. Luckily, after about ten years of legal battles, Vevey authorities and the Nestlé Group has prevailed, and the multinational will pick up the reported »
- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
Gucci Mane Album Preview: State Vs. Radric Davis Is Surprisingly Jovial
22 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Guest verses from Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Cam'ron boost incarcerated Mc's latest, due December 8.
By Shaheem Reid
Gucci Mane
Photo: Rick Diamond/ Getty Images
The most important album of Gucci Mane's career is scheduled to surface in stores December 8. For Gucci, the title The State vs. Radric Davis took on an all-too-real relevance a couple of weeks ago when the rapper was sent to jail for 12 months.
He violated the terms of his probation, and at a time when he should be on the road promoting, Gucc is behind bars. He does have a slew of mixtape tracks holding him down in the streets and the clubs. A Gucci set is necessary for just about every hip-hop dance floor now. For the mainstream, the Zone 6 rep left a calling card: "Spotlight" with Usher. Meanwhile, "Wasted" with Plies continues its chart success.
Things couldn't be better for Gucci, career-wise. Despite the LP's grave title, »
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