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Charlie Chaplin has left an indelible mark in world cinema with his comedy films. Born in London in 1889, Chaplin was forced to provide for his family after his father died and his mother had fallen sick. His career kicked off on stage, where he played the character The Tramp and grabbed the audience’s attention. He went on to become a movie actor and won over viewers with films like The Kid, The Gold Rush, and City Lights.

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in a still from The Kid | Credits: First National

It wasn’t just his movies that gained worldwide attention. Chaplin’s personal life was also under a massive spotlight. He was married four times and had eleven children. He was married to his fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, until his death. Their relationship raised some eyebrows due to the age difference between them.

The shocking age difference between...

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Margaret Qualley is one of the most talented and brilliant young actresses working in Hollywood right now. Born to actress Andie MacDowell, the actress, model, and dancer trained as a ballet dancer in her youth. She made her acting debut in 2013 with Gia Coppola‘s film Palo Alto. She recently starred in the hit satirical body horror film The Substance alongside Demi Moore. So, if you also love Qualley’s performances, here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Margaret Qualley.

10. My Salinger Year (AMC+ & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – IFC Films

My Salinger Year is a drama film written and directed by Philippe Falardeau. Based on the memoir of the same name by Joanna Rakoff, the 2020 film follows Joanna Rakoff, an aspiring writer working for literary agent Phyllis Westberg, as she receives some impactful personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.

At New York’s City Winery two years ago, both sides of the late J.D. Souther were on display. In a tidy dressing room backstage, Souther, looking like a dapper Old West ranch owner in his tailored suit and white hair and whiskers, was regaling a few visitors with stories. Among them were several women who were longtime fans of the songs he wrote with, or for, the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt — and of the charismatic Souther himself. It wasn’t hard to see why: Adhering to his legend, Souther remained,...

With James Earl Jones, there was always the voice. It rumbled. It poured over you, thick as molasses. It sounded regal, even when he was playing a humble ex-ballplayer instead of a king. It was always unmistakably his — he wasn’t even credited as the voice of Darth Vader in the first two Star Wars films, but everyone of course knew — yet remarkably versatile within what could have been a limited basso profundo range. He could be the epitome of evil as Vader, a clear figure of goodness and reason...

Talking to Russian actor Mark Eydelshteyn, it is easy to understand why Sean Baker cast him in Anora — set to screen at TIFF — as Ivan, an incredibly likable goofball who marries a Brighton Beach sex worker but also happens to be the son of a Russian oligarch.

Eydelshteyn, with limbs that seem to move at twice the regular human speed, is earnest, quick with a compliment and adept at self-deprecation despite English being his second language. When asked how he got into acting, he says, “It’s the only one thing that I can do.” He adds, “When I [was] graded in school, I realized that I was not really good at other spheres. I’m zero in maths, in biology or geography.”

But Eydelshteyn, whose mother is a speech coach, did like literature and entered him in speaking competitions, where he performed excerpts from works like J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.

This story was originally published in the April 16, 1981, issue of Rolling Stone.

The Outsider

He thought of himself as a dark specter beyond the bathers. Most of the lifeguards at this particular New Jersey beach had opted for the image of Bronze Protector, but Jack Nicholson was different. He was a boat guard, and he enjoyed rowing out beyond the breakers. His job was to see that no swimmer strayed too far or got in too deep. It was the mid-Fifties, and Jack was the sort of older teenager who identified with Holden Caulfield,...

Every year, when Uncle Steve went back home to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from New York City, there was a strict rule: No one talks to him about work. He’s not here on business, his brother, Patrick, would tell the kids.

The adults, at least, knew about his profession as a comic-book creator, but to his nieces and nephews, he was simply the funny uncle who scientifically manufactured bobalki balls, the traditional Slovak Christmas dish. “We were told not to pester him, so we didn’t,” his niece Joanna Opela tells Rolling Stone,...

“Billions,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “A Spy Among Friends” star Stephen Kunken will direct a film about “The Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger.

Kunken is currently preparing to star in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s climate change play “Kyoto” in Stratford-upon-Avon, U.K. The Salinger film, titled “The Red House,” will be Kunken’s follow-up to his feature directorial debut “Before/During/After” (2020), which won awards at the San Diego, Naples, Greenland and Dances With Films festivals.

“The Red House” is in collaboration with playwright and screenwriter Richard Nelson, who Kunken previously worked with on the plays “That Hopey Changey Thing,” “Sweet and Sad,” “Regular Singing” and “Nikolai and the Others.”

“I have collaborated with him probably more than any other playwright that I’ve worked with,” Kunken told Variety of Nelson. “I love him and I’m thrilled to make the jump to this new relationship with him.”

Of “The Red House,...

The 34-year-old British actor Nicholas Hoult kicked off production last week on Warner Bros. Discovery’s next big bet: “Superman” with director James Gunn and actors David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. The star of “About a Boy,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and Hulu series “The Great” recently went on Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast and talked a bit about preparing for the role of the evil mastermind Lex Luthor.

First, he complimented his new boss Gunn for making the audition process fun. He said he enjoyed the “Guardians of the Galaxy” auteur’s method of “try[ing] things in the moment, just shouting out from the monitors, ‘Say this line. Do this! Do that!’”

Then he added that even though Luthor is better known for his brains rather than his brawn, Hoult has been hitting the weights. “There’s that bit in ‘All-Star Superman’ [the Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely...

Sometimes there’s a creator whose work you like, and you keep checking to see if they have anything new, and they just don’t. For a decade or two. You’re pretty sure they’re still out there, and you hope they’re doing something fun and interesting. You may have the secret hope, most famously centered around J.D. Salinger, that the creator is just piling up lots of Good Stuff, kept unpublished for idiosyncratic reasons, and you will eventually get to see all of that on some glorious future day.

Michael T. Gilbert is one of those, for me. I liked his Mr. Monster stories both in the ’80s, with goofy, near-parody humor/horror style, and in the ’90s, when he retooled in a more serious mode for an “Origins” series. And I gather he’s had some random Mr. Monster stories since then, but nothing regular. I...

The New Hollywood revolution was raging in 1971, and studios were rapidly transitioning from old-school leadership to boat-rocking up-and-comers who seemed to have the pulse of the Baby Boomer-driven counterculture. The age of star-studded mega-musicals and old-fashioned oaters was over; movies didn't necessarily need a serrated edge to slash into the zeitgeist, but even a weepie like Arthur Hiller's "Love Story" boasted a lived-in verisimilitude. These films, shorn of backlot artifice, were happening in the real world.

Young moviegoers weren't the only ones craving authenticity. John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" couldn't have been voted Best Picture of 1969 without significant support from gray-haired Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members. This was a film that plunged viewers into the seamiest iteration of New York City ever captured by a studio movie, that dealt with issues of sex work and homosexuality so unflinchingly that the MPAA (now known as MPA) gave it an X-rating.

Billy Joel stopped by The Late Show to discuss his new single, “Turn The Lights Back On,” and his Madison Square Garden residency. After coming onstage to chats of “Billy! Billy!” from the late-night show audience, Joel explained the inspiration behind releasing what he calls his first new song in 30 years.

“I didn’t expect this to happen,” Joel told host Stephen Colbert. “This is something that just developed starting about two years ago. I met a guy, who was a fan, and he wanted to try to get me...

The future is now, whether we like it or not. As we cross into the second month of 2024, a significant date in science-fiction history from 2002's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime is now upon us: the 'Laughing Man Incident', in which the infamous hacker made his first public appearance and caused mayhem while digitally hiding his face with the iconic image pictured below, inspired by a J. D. Salinger short story. Scene from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man Ova Related: Ghost In The Shell Franchise Gets Brand New Global Website To mark the occasion, an official '0th Anniversary' website was launched with a new commemorative logo, a special live-action video, a link to the 2005 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man anime, which is free to watch on YouTube for a limited time, and more. A...

Imagine, if you will, a sleepy small town. The people who live there are hard-working, stubborn, and most of all, suspicious of outsiders. Enter one Bob Majors, a newspaperman from New York. Majors is a man of progress and change, but he's about to come up against a social wall the likes of which he's never seen. It's the kind of obstacle that can only be found in ... well, not "The Twilight Zone."

You might have read that description in the voice of famed "Twilight Zone" creator-narrator Rod Serling, but it's actually the premise of a totally different show in which Serling appeared — reportedly in his first non-narrator acting role — for just one episode in the early 1960s. The series was "Ichabod and Me," a poorly-received and short-lived series whose history is chronicled in David C. Tucker's book "Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television." The sitcom...

Josh Kramer, who worked as a film producer and financier and Amazon executive, died Nov. 27 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 67.

Kramer started his career in entertainment in foreign sales for the Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis. By pre-selling foreign movie rights, he became an integral member of the company, financing films such as “Manhunter” and “Blue Velvet.” He led the acquisition of the film rights for Madonna’s first concert film “Madonna: Truth or Dare” and later sold the film overseas.

Rachael Horovitz, who worked with him at De Laurentiis, remembered Kramer on his memorial site. “A concert pianist who helped right the Beastie Boys tourbus one night in Paris when rabid fans were tipping it over; a patient negotiator who cried reading J.D. Salinger. His contradictions made him.”

He joined forces with Thom Mount to form the Mount/Kramer Company in the early ’90s, producing Roman Polanski’s...

The day has arrived, Frasier fans: Bebe Neuwirth is back as Frasier’s prickly ex-wife Lilith… and poor Freddy is caught in the middle.

As Thursday’s episode opens, Frasier is happy to see that Freddy seems to be on a date at the bar, but his face freezes in horror when he sees Freddy is actually with… Lilith! Her hair may be gray, but she’s just as cold and composed as ever, and she and Frasier trade a few nasty barbs. (Frasier: “Who looked in the mirror and said your name three times?”) Alan tries to say hello,...

“I can do this all day.” The first time Chris Evans delivered that line, then in the form of stick-thin pre-Super Soldier Serum Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger, fans knew that Marvel had found its Cap. After live-action misfires that saw Reb Brown and Matt Salinger, son of Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger, throw Captain America‘s mighty shield, Evans proved that he could play the famously upright character without any cheesiness.

But Evans initially stalled taking the part after realizing he wouldn’t just be doing this all day. He’d be doing it as long as Marvel wanted him, which resulted in eleven film appearances (including a cameo in Thor: The Dark World) between 2011 and 2019.

In a recent breakdown of his most important roles, Evans told GQ that he knew about Marvel’s “big plans, that the goal was to create this tapestry...

Robert Klane, the screenwriter for “Weekend at Bernie’s” and “Where’s Poppa?” and the director of “Thank God It’s Friday, has died. He was 81 years old.

Klane’s son Jon Klane confirmed the news to TheWrap. He said of his dad, “His quick, razor wit lit up every room he walked into. He was a fearless, magnetic, presence whose unique brand of black comedy delivered guilty pleasures for those capable of laughing at their own dark impulses.”

In addition to those films, Klane worked as a writer on a number of movies and TV shows, including “The Man With One Red Shoe,” six episodes of “M*A*S*H*” and “Tracey Takes On,” which won an Emmy.

“Weekend at Bernie’s” is Klane’s most well-known work, though in 2014 he filed a lawsuit alongside the film’s director claiming the pair had not been paid residuals owed from the movie since its 1989 release. Klane and...

Martin Brest – an Oscar nominee for “Scent of a Woman,” the man responsible for directing Al Pacino to his only Academy Award, and the filmmaker behind ‘80s classics “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Midnight Run” – has finally offered a public comment about the 2003 flop “Gigli.”

“Of all the movies that I’ve worked on, I know them inside and out. I don’t even know what that movie looks like, frankly, because of the manner in which it took shape,” Brest said in a rare interview with Variety, the first he’s done with a media outlet in years. “Even the name… I refer to it as ‘the G movie.’ Probably the less said about it the better.”

“Gigli” is one of the most notorious failures in recent Hollywood history. Brest wrote and directed the thriller, which starred Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at the height of their first romance – a...

San Marcos, Calif – There was an Alan Arkin for every generation. Post World War Two adults may have seen him at Chicago’s “The Second City.” Baby Boomers remember his films “Wait Until Dark” and “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians are Coming” and Gen X saw him in “The In-Laws”, “Glengarry Glen Ross” and his Oscar winning turn in “Little Miss Sunshine.” He even did a Netflix series, “The Kominsky Method.” For every generation, for every form of acting, there was Alan Arkin. He passed away on June 29th, 2023, at the age of 89.

Alan Wolf Arkin was born in Brooklyn, and started acting at age 10. After not graduating from two colleges he joined The Second City in 1960 Chicago, one year after it was founded. His feature film debut was the musical “Calypso Heat Wave” (1957), he debuted on Broadway in a Second City revue and did episodic TV during the 1960s.

Alan Arkin, the longtime celebrated actor, who won an Oscar for his performance in “Little Miss Sunshine” and earned two Emmy nominations for “The Kominsky Method”, has died. He was 89.

Arkin’s death was confirmed to People by his sons, Adam, Matthew and Anthony, in a statement, saying, “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”

A man who wore many hats, Arkin was an actor, director and screenwriter whose career spanned over six decades.

While primarily known for his screen work, he first broke out on Broadway in New York City. He received a Tony Award for his second performance in 1963’s Enter Laughing. A decade later, he was nominated for another Tony Award, this time for directing the 1973 play The Sunshine Boys.

During that time,...

Alan Arkin, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, was nominated for Argo and two other films, scored six Emmy noms and won a Tony Award, died Thursday at his home in San Marcos, CA. He was 89.

The news was announced Friday morning by his sons, actors Adam, Matthew and Anthony, in a joint statement. Matthew Arkin told The New York Times that his father had suffered from heart ailments.

The statement read: “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”

Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries

In addition to his Oscar-winning film work, Arkin won a Tony Award for acting in Enter Laughing) and was Tony-nominated for directing The Sunshine Boys. He also was nominated for a half-dozen Emmy Awards spanning 53 years,...

Alan Arkin, the Academy Award-winning actor known for his roles in films including Little Miss Sunshine, Argo, Catch-22, and Glengarry Glen Ross, has died at the age of 89.

Arkin passed away on Thursday, June 29th at his home in California. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed,” his sons said in a statement.

Born March 26th, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Arkin began taking acting lessons at the age of 10 and studied at multiple drama academies before making his 1957 feature film acting debut in the musical Calypso Heat Wave. After a few TV cameos, he made his Broadway debut in 1961 with From the Second City.

A star turn in 1963’s Enter Laughing earned Arkin the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, which he...

In the past two decades, actor Paul Wesley has come pretty far. He started in some minor roles before finding fame as Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries, and all of a sudden, fans couldn’t get enough. The actor is known for his ability to make any character come to life, and it is always a treat when we get to see him in action.

Fans were stunned, however, when Wesley sat down for an interview and went into depth about how he feels about the characters he has played and what he hopes to do in other projects. As it turns out, Wesley’s dream role will most likely never reach the screen.

What roles has Paul Wesley taken on?

Getting his start in 1999, Paul Wesley has several acting credits to his name. His first role was in the daytime soap Another World. Since then, he hasn’t looked back.

There’s nothing little about the whopper at the heart of “A Little White Lie,” a comic drama about fame and impostor syndrome. The movie’s central conceit — pretending to be a renowned author, a janitor accepts an invitation to visit a liberal arts college — is rife with potential. But writer-director Michael Maren (whose 2014 debut “A Short History of Decay” also featured an author protagonist) sticks to the obvious, ignoring potential themes of blind celebrity worship and oblivious academia that would have added some satirical edge to this genial but dull movie.

Based on Chris Belden’s 2013 novel “Shriver,” “A Little White Lie” focuses on a handyman (Michael Shannon) leading a reclusive life in a rundown apartment building who receives an invitation from a university to be the guest of honor at their annual literary festival.

Simone (Kate Hudson), the organizer trying to protect the flailing event from budget cuts,...

(L-r:) Kate Hudson, Michael Shannon in A Little White Lie Photo: Saban Films Perhaps the biggest draw of any movie set within the rarified realm of the literary world is the inherent promise of sharp-tongued, dizzyingly articulate dialogue. When a film’s central characters are authors, poets, screenwriters, or any...

Season 2 of “Ginny & Georgia” is back and better than ever with a bevy of pop culture references and a killer soundtrack. Ginny’s love of literature, reading and writing was established in Season 1, and references to classic books and authors continue to thread through the show’s sophomore season.

As Ginny continues to unravel the layers of her mother Georgia’s (Brianne Howey) past, she still has to deal with an out-of-touch English professor who doesn’t exactly grasp the benefits of a diverse literary canon. Ginny’s bedroom is stocked full of classic and colorful book spines. Her dad Zion (Nathan Mitchell) also references a lot of literary figures.

Ginny’s English teacher Mr. Gitten (Johnathan Potts) challenges her to select a book to present for her AP English class; her selection should, in his words, be “anything that encompasses the Black experience in America.” The three options...

Late musician John Lennon’s former personal assistant was astounded by how quickly The Beatles icon kicked his heroin habit.

Living and working with John and the singer’s wife Yoko Ono as their Pa from 1969 to 1973, actor and mime artist Dan Richter, 83, supplied the couple with the class-a drug in the late 1960s because he didn’t want them scoring drugs on the street, reports aceshowbiz.com.

“I didn’t want them to be using. But I really didn’t want them to be using street heroin, killing themselves. There was a myth that drugs were a key to creativity. Which they might and might not be.

“People thought Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker were better artists because of drugs. Now I don’t think so,” he told The Daily Telegraph in an interview on Wednesday from his home in Sierra Nevada, Spain.

John and Yoko had started using...

Albert Pyun, the prolific director of low-budget B-movies ranging from “The Sword and the Sorcerer” to “Cyborg” to a 1992 direct-to-video version of “Captain America,” died Saturday at age 69, according to a Facebook book from his wife and producer, Cynthia Curran.

“I sat with him for his last breath that sounded like he was releasing the weight of the world,” Curran wrote. Several years ago, Pyun was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia.

Born in Hawaii, Pyun got his start in film after meeting Japanese star Toshiro Mifune, who brought him to Japan to intern on a TV series he was doing. After working as a commercial film editor for several years, then moved to Los Angeles and took his shot on the 1982 low-budget fantasy film called “The Sword and the Sorcerer.”

The film became a low-budget smash, grossing 39 million and earning Richard Lynch a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon in New York in 1980, was denied parole for the 12th time this August.

A transcript of his remarks to the New York parole boarId was recently released, and at one point he discussed that he killed the musician for fame and also said he had “evil in my heart.”

“I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life,” Chapman explained. He has been serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at a prison in New York’s Hudson Valley and is 67 years old.

“I wanted to be somebody and nothing was going to stop that,” Chapman reportedly added. “I hurt a lot of people all over the place and if someone wants to hate me, that’s ok,...

Captain America has one of the most iconic costumes in all of comic book history, if not pop culture at large. Since his debut in "Captain America Comics No. 1" in 1941, his design by the legendary "King of Comics" Jack Kirby has remained largely unchanged. It's deceptively simple and effectively sublimates the "rah-rah" patriotism as the heart of the character without being too in your face (a single step further would be overkill), and the chainmail texture of his suit harkens back to previous champions of lore.

How did the Marvel Cinematic Universe fare with its attempts at bringing this instantly-recognizable costume to the big screen? The results have been mixed, but they've given us plenty of versions to consider. It would be safe to assume that Cap's many wardrobe changes were at least partially commercially-motivated since a new costume means a new action figure to add to your collection. Cap...

Paramount has released the trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller "The Infernal Machine," written and directed by Andrew Hunt. Guy Pearce stars as Bruce Cogburn, the writer of a controversial book that was cited as the cause of a teenager murdering 13 people, seemingly from a message contained in the book. Cogburn stopped writing because of it, and has been living a reclusive life ... until the non-stop letters start coming in from a single fan. 

If you're not familiar with the phrase "infernal machine," it's a device that is deliberately designed to destroy. Think of a bomb or a cryptic message that is a call to action for a criminal cell. The trailer does keep much of the plot under wraps, but it seems that Cogburn's mysterious letter-writing fan has uncovered the same hidden message that supposedly caused the mass shooting.

"The Infernal Machine" also stars Alice Eve ("Star Trek Into Darkness...

When he was fresh out of USC’s School of Dramatic Arts in the mid-1990s, Danny Strong’s goals were modest. The future multihyphenate just wanted to be able to pay his rent with his earnings as an actor.

It took about 18 months, but he got there. And it wasn’t because he lucked into a cushy network series gig.

“It was scrappy work,” Strong recalls. “It was this commercial, that guest star role, this small part in a movie, that big part in a small movie. It was radio commercials, all of the above. And auditioning for endless animation jobs that I never booked.”Over time, Strong realized that while guest shots on “Seinfeld,”“3rd Rock From the Sun” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which later blossomed into a recurring role, allowed him to pay his bills, his career overall was not advancing.The frustration and “mild depression...

In an essay for OprahDaily.com, author Joyce Maynard has revealed her fascination with the just-concluded defamation trail of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Her surprising conclusion: someone abused Heard. Just not Depp.

Maynard knows about tempestuous relationships. She released a 1998 memoir, At Home in the World, detailing her abusive live-in situation with iconic Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger. She was villified for writing about the notoriously private Salinger, and accused of trying to vengefully destroy him, much as Heard was portrayed.

Given that background, Maynard came into the trial coverage with her own prejudices. She wrote that the online abuse of Heard “confirm the deeply entrenched misogyny in our culture and the zeal with which it continues to shame women.”

However, her initial impressions changed after extensively watching the legal proceedings.

“Here’s an alternative view,” Maynard wrote in her essay. “Maybe yesterday’s verdict served to...

On Aug. 31, 1998, Variety reported that New Zealand filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh would transform J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy of books into three films. Reporter Benedict Carver added that the books are “a highly prized literary property that has eluded filmmakers for years.”

It was the culmination more than three decades of trying to adapt Tolkien’s work for the screen, after the world of visual effects had finally caught up to the British author’s fantastical storylines.

But three decades before, the Beatles had tried to get a “Lord of the Rings” film off the ground. After playing themselves in “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!,” the Fab Four was ready to play fictional characters. Apple Films executive Denis O’Dell spearheaded the hunt for material, and Lennon reportedly loved the idea of “Rings.” Lennon would play Gollum, Paul McCartney would play Frodo, George Harrison would...

The first James Bond film, ‘Dr. No,” starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord and Joseph Wiseman, opened in England on Oct. 2, 1962. But the 007 classic didn’t open in New York and Los Angeles until May 29, 1963. Let’s travel back almost six decades to look at the top events, movie, TV series, books and other cultural events of that year in James Bond history, which was punctuated by the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22.

35th Annual Academy Awards

Best Picture: “Lawrence of Arabia”

Best Director: David Lean, “Lawrence of Arabia”

Best Actor: Gregory Peck, “To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft, “The Miracle Worker”

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley, “Sweet Bird of Youth”

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke, “The Miracle Worker”

Top 10 highest grossing films

“Cleopatra”

“How the West Was Won”

“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”

“Tom Jones”

“Irma La Douce...

Less than a month before opiate crisis miniseries Dopesick is scheduled to launch on Hulu, writer and Empire co-creator Danny Strong has been sued over commissions by his former management group.

Represented by Hollywood heavyweight lawyer Patricia L. Glaser, The Gotham Group is seeking a court declaration that their almost 20-year oral agreement with Strong is “enforceable.” They want to continue to receive their 10% commissions on projects that occurred when the two parties were working together.

CAA-represented Strong cut ties with Gotham Group on September 13.

“Not long after the termination, it became apparent to Gotham Group that Danny was only terminating them with the hope of avoiding paying Gotham Group commissions associated with his shiny new deal extension,” said the filing submitted to Los Angeles Superior Court late last week. “This suspicion was confirmed when Danny’s entertainment lawyer, on behalf of Danny, stated that Gotham Group was no longer...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review, a perspective on “My Salinger Year,” a new release adaptation of the memoir of the same name by Joanna Rakoff. The Salinger is of course J.D. Salinger, the legendary author and recluse. In theaters and through VOD beginning March 5th, 2021.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

“My Salinger Year” is set in the 1995. The poet/writer Joanna Rakoff, portrayed by up-and comer Margaret Whalley, takes a chance and leaves her California life and boyfriend behind in a move to New York City, and finds admin work at an older and once prestigious literary agency. The office is run by a tough-but-benign head honcho (Sigourney Weaver), and one of agency’s main clients is none other than a 76-year-old J.D.“Jerry” Salinger, legendary author of “Catcher in the Rye.” Joanna’s adventures and misadventures through that literary filter changes her life profoundly.

“My Salinger Year” is...

The Hi-Pointe Theater, at 1005 McCausland Ave in St. Louis, is the best place to see movies. Sigourney Weaver in My Salinger Year opens this Friday March 5th at The Hi-Pointe. The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found Here

In New York City’s late nineties, a young aspiring writer lands a day-job at J.D. Salinger’s literary agency. While her eccentric and old-fashioned boss tasks her to process Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, she struggles to find her own voice.

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For subtlety’s sake, it’s better if coming-of-age stories don’t feature subplots in which characters are asked to pen their own autobiographical tales of maturation, and then spend time debating the merits of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” as well as their personal similarities to its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. That “Boogie” does this is emblematic of its frequent clunkiness. Nonetheless, Eddie Huang’s directorial debut about a Chinese American basketball player trying to balance athletics, romance and parental expectations — elements that should give it a leg up on the competition when it debuts in theaters on March 5.

In Flushing, Queens, Alfred “Boogie” Chin (Taylor Takahashi) strives to realize his dream of making it to the NBA. To facilitate this goal, Boogie — at the behest of his demanding father (Perry Yung) — transfers to City Prep, where he thinks he’ll have the best shot at beating...

As writer/director Eddie Huang’s fortune teller states, when a dragon and a dog come together, they create a snake. That’s what Alfred ‘Boogie’ Chin (Taylor Takahashi) is: temperamental like his father (Perry Yung), culturally respectful like his mother (Pamelyn Chee), and intuitive enough to realize he’s been trapped between them without a voice of his own. Both parents see him as the answer to their financial woes, but Mr. Chin plays the long game while Mrs. Chin seeks a quick payday. Neither negates Boogie’s own dream of playing in the NBA, but they do alter the journey by causing psychologically crippling strife. Because the more they grab hold of his present to pull him towards their potential futures, the more it all starts feeling pointlessly self-destructive to him.

That’s where the intrigue lies within Huang’s debut feature Boogie (the restauranteur pivoting to film...

Raise High the Roofbeams, Cinema: Falardeau’s Warm Homage Clangs Carpe Diem

“I think that one of these days…you’re going to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there” is one of the myriads of quotable references in cult American writer J.D. Salinger’s seminal 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. It’s also the throughline in director Philippe Falardeau’s latest film, My Salinger Year, based on a 2014 memoir by Joanna Rakoff, which details her short but meaningful tenure working as an assistant to a noted literary agent in mid-90s New York.…...

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Philippe Falardeau directed the drama, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley.

Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Philippe Falardeau’s My New York Year from Memento Films, and is the first title confirmed for release when indoor cinemas reopen in England post-lockdown.

The UK government announced yesterday that cinemas in England can provisionally reopen from May 17 with a capacity of up to 1,000 people or 50% of the venue, as part of a phased easing of Covid-19 lockdown measures. Drive-in cinemas may be cleared to reopen from April 12.

Vertigo is planning a saturation release for the drama, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley,...

Take a look at new footage from the dramatic feature, "My Salinger Year" written, directed by Philippe Falardeau, starring Margaret Qualley ("Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood") , Sigourney Weaver ("Alien"), Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Colm Feore and Brían F. O'Byrne, releasing in select theaters and VOD March 5th, 2021 :

"...in 1995, 'Joanna', an aspiring writer and poet, leaves Berkeley, California and her boyfriend 'Karl' to move to New York City...

"...and take a job at a literary agency...

"...run by a shrew, representing "Catcher In The Rye" author J.D. Salinger..." 

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Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver star in the new trailer for My Salinger Year, out March 5th.

Based on the 2014 memoir of the same name, Qualley stars as Joanna Rakoff, who leaves graduate school and moves to New York City to become a writer. She gets hired as an assistant at a literary agency, where she reports to Margaret, played by Weaver. (Weaver’s character is a demanding boss, but not nearly as terrible as her character in 1988’s Working Girl.)

It’s the Nineties, but the office is old-fashioned...

"You keep saying you want to write - but you work long hours for other authors." IFC Films has unveiled a new official trailer for the US release of My Salinger Year, a quirky new literary drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Falardeau. This premiered at last year's Berlin Film Festival and is now opening in March. Based on the international best-selling novel, My Salinger Year follows Joanna a young aspiring writer who lands a job at J.D. Salinger's literary agency in New York City. She is assigned the tedious task of responding to the piles of fan mail that Salinger receives. Starring Margaret Qualley as Joanna, Sigourney Weaver as her boss, and a small cast including Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Brían F. O'Byrne, Théodore Pellerin, Yanic Truesdale, Hamza Haq, and Colm Feore. It's a solid film about the relentless passion of writers. Here's the second trailer (+ ...

Opening the Berlinale Film Festival about a year ago when the world was in a much different state, Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year follows Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver in the literary world of New York City in the 1990s working for the literary agency that oversees J.D. Salinger’s works. Picked up by IFC Films for a U.S. release, it’ll now arrive this March and the new trailer and poster have arrived.

Leonardo Goi said in our Berlinale review, “Based on Joanna Rakoff’s 2014 acclaimed memoir and adapted for the screen by Falardeau himself, Salinger tips its hat to a pantheon of New York-based portraits of young women struggling to find their bearings in the Big City. Played by Margaret Qualley, Joanna fumbles into Falardeau’s universe as a distant cousin of Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha or Melanie Mayron’s Susan in Girlfriends (1978). But Salinger...

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Finding Forrester – the movie that gave birth to “You’re the man now, dog!” – is headed to TV. NBC is developing a Finding Forrester TV series based on the 2000 Gus Van Sant movie about a reclusive J.D. Salinger-like writer who mentors a Black teenager from a prestigious private high school. The late Sean Connery starred in the […]

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