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Five things you might not know about Tony Scott
Scott, the Top Gun director who died on Sunday, was well-known for his high-octane action films. But did you know he was also an avid mountain climber? We’ve compiled some interesting facts about the late filmmaker.
In case you missed it yesterday, here’s our complete Oscar nomination coverage:
Oscars 2012: The full list of nominees
The nine best picture contenders, reviewed
Oscar snubs: And the nominees aren’t…
Oscars 2012: Pixar snub, Tree of Life nod among Academy surprises
Oscars 2012: The race for best actress
In which Chris Knight, analyzes the cinematic season’s hype-o-meter. This week, we have a look at the contenders for best actress in a leading role.
Golden Globe nominations: The Descendants, The Artist, The Help are this year’s top nominees
Silent movie The Artist painted a pretty picture at the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday, leading all movies with six nods overall including best film comedy or musical.
Following The Artist among top nominees for the Hollywood awards were The Descendants, starring George Clooney as a man struggling to keep his family together, and civil rights movie The Help with five nods each, including both in the key category of best film drama.
Joining Descendants and The Help among the films vying for top drama were four movies, Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse and The Ides of March.
The Golden Globe Awards, which are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are among the most widely-watched honors programs leading up to the Oscars in February.
Liberal Muppets are brainwashing your kids
On Fox Business Channel, anchor Eric Bolling showed a clip of the new Disney movie and suggested — well, no, he said outright — that the story was aimed at planting the seeds of class warfare among our precious children.
That’s because the Muppet-villain is an oil baron called Tex Richman.
“What’s actually going on there? Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to brainwash our kids?” he asked, quite reasonably.
Shania Twain calls Hollywood star a ‘miracle’
Canadian country pop diva Shania Twain was honoured with a star on Hollywood’s storied Walk of Fame on Thursday, and voiced surprise that she had come so far.
“I mean, why is a girl from Timmins, Ontario, standing here, getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?” the Grammy-winner asked. “I really don’t know … it’s a small miracle, to be honest, that I am here today.”
Twain, who just published her memoirs and launched a new TV show, was joined by veteran actress Bo Derek to receive the star, the 2,442nd to grace the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard. (Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
Ashton Kutcher in deal to replace Sheen on ‘Two and a Half Men’: reports
Ashton Kutcher was reported to have signed a deal to replace Charlie Sheen in a revamped version of top-rated U.S. television comedy “Two and A Half Men.”
Deadline Hollywood said Kutcher, 33, the husband of Demi Moore, had signed a deal to join the cast of the CBS show when it returns for a ninth season. The Hollywood Reporter said the “That ’70s Show” actor was in final negotiations on Thursday night.
![Help send M. Night Shyamalan back to film school
Film lovers are wondering where M. Night Shyamalan’s spark has gone, and they think he should go back to school to find it.
A new website guesses there must be at least 150,000 movie buffs who “are tired of [Shyamalan’s] schlocky plot twists, canned dialogue, and over commercialized image as an ‘auteur,’ ” and would be willing to pay to have it restored.
Thus, the M. Night School campaign is aiming to raise $150,000 to send Shyamalan back to New York University. They want him to get his groove back and create films that are more Sixth Sense than The Happening.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljnoptpP201qze0z6o1_1280.jpg)
Help send M. Night Shyamalan back to film school
Film lovers are wondering where M. Night Shyamalan’s spark has gone, and they think he should go back to school to find it.
A new website guesses there must be at least 150,000 movie buffs who “are tired of [Shyamalan’s] schlocky plot twists, canned dialogue, and over commercialized image as an ‘auteur,’ ” and would be willing to pay to have it restored.
Thus, the M. Night School campaign is aiming to raise $150,000 to send Shyamalan back to New York University. They want him to get his groove back and create films that are more Sixth Sense than The Happening.
Illustration by Kagan McLeod
Photos: Elizabeth Taylor, February 27 1932 – March 23, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor: A beauty too radiant to overcome
She was unnaturally beautiful. A goddess, too beautiful to lead a normal life. Her beauty was a curse, because it overshadowed the fact that she happened to be a great actress and intelligent to boot, with a big heart and a lively sense of humour
Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79, her publicist told CNN. She was the archetypal Hollywood movie queen, a violet-eyed beauty known equally for her stormy romances and eight marriages as her Oscar-winning performances.
Photos: Elizabeth Taylor, February 27 1932 – March 23, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor: A beauty too radiant to overcome
She was unnaturally beautiful. A goddess, too beautiful to lead a normal life. Her beauty was a curse, because it overshadowed the fact that she happened to be a great actress and intelligent to boot, with a big heart and a lively sense of humour
Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79, her publicist told CNN. She was the archetypal Hollywood movie queen, a violet-eyed beauty known equally for her stormy romances and eight marriages as her Oscar-winning performances.
RIP Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79, her publicist told CNN. She was the archetypal Hollywood movie queen, a violet-eyed beauty known equally for her stormy romances and eight marriages as her Oscar-winning performances.
Over a five-decade career she won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” one of many films where she played opposite her two-times husband Richard Burton.
The best quotes from Charlie Sheen’s Today Show & ABC appearances (Photo: ABC News/Reuters)
On being on drugs:
“I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”
On how he avoids relapsing:
“I just don’t do it. I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA.”
On himself:
“I’m tired of pretending I’m not a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars.”
Unknown: Stranger and fiction
This is one of those movies where you may come up with six different “why didn’t he just … ?” questions on the way home. “We Germans are experts at forgetting,” says Herr Jürgen, the Stasi spook. The film seems to be hoping for similar skills from its audience. Then again, if you can suspend (if not forget) your disbelief, Unknown offers an enjoyable thrill ride. Neeson makes for a watchable man on the run, even if some of his techniques, like the just-in-time subway escape, have been done to death. And ducking into a noisy nightclub? In Berlin? You’d be hard-pressed not to wind up in one.
‘I get there, just in time’: Liam Neeson on Natasha Richardson’s death
Two years after Liam Neeson’s wife, actress Natasha Richardson, died after a fall at a Quebec ski resort, the Hollywood star told Esquire magazine that he initially wasn’t able to see his dying spouse because he wasn’t recognized at the Montreal hospital where she was being treated.
Artwork painted on a Los Angeles billboard on February 16, 2011. Street artist Banksy’s first film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is up for an Oscar — and it seems the subversive Briton may be waging an unorthodox award campaign on the walls and billboards of Los Angeles. (Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
Banksy goes to Hollywood
Last week, it was reported that anonymous street artist Banksy won’t be allowed onstage at the Academy Awards in the event that his film Exit Through the Gift Shop picks up the best documentary Oscar, which prompted us to speculate that he may pull a prank or two on Hollywood.
