William Wyler directed some of the most critically acclaimed movies of his time. Known for his sensitive direction of great actors, he worked with John Barrymore, Bette Davis, Humphry Bogart and Myrna Loy, amongst others.
It's that time of year again folks. No, I'm not talking about dressing the kids up as superheroes, or eating excessive amounts candy, or even getting blackout drunk in a questionable costume.
Elizabeth Pena, the locally-born actress best known for her roles in Rush Hour and La Bamba, is dead at age 55, according to her nephew Mario-Francisco Robles, writer at the Latino Review , who announced that the beloved Hispanic actress died on Tuesday, October 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Born in 1959 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but raised in Cuba before returning to the U.S. at the age of eight with her immigrant parents, Pena was destined for a career in the arts.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has poked fun at her clean-living lifestyle in a new episode of Lisa Kudrow's comedy series "Web Therapy." The "Shakespeare In Love" star made a guest appearance on the season four premiere on Wednesday, when she portrayed new age character Maya Ganesh and prayed to "call in the light" before her session with Kudrow, as therapist Fiona Wallice.
Oscar-nominated writer and director Philip Kaufman will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing at the 22nd edition of Camerimage next month. The festival, based in Bydgoszcz, Poland, is one of the few in the world dedicated solely to the art of cinematography.
Bremerton's Admiral Theatre began its 2014-15 season this October, live performances and offering Kitsap a chance to do the time warp again. Before the month is out, the theater has two more unique treats for audiences: A midnight showing of the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show, and country legend Leon Russell.
Yet here once again is a gift in the guise of that passively interactive test of reader acumen: "Did this conversation actually take place?" It's the column all the kids are talking about when they're not talking about something that actually interests them. The rules are so simple a weekly newspaper editor can explain them.
He doesn't have an agent. He doesn't have a publicist. He doesn't even seem to have a fixed address.
Common sense tells you that you need to have a beginning, middle and an end to every story. While we generally accept that they do not need to be in that order, we do expect it all to make sense.