Category: News
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Famed stuntman and director Hal Needham has passed away
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Hal Needham, who directed the films Smokey and the Bandit and a number of other films featuring actor Burt Reynolds has died. But long before he first sat in the director’s chair of a feature…
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Tom Clancy, master of the techno-thriller, dead at 66
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Prolific author of “The Hunt for Red October” and a number of other books has died in Baltimore.
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Remembering Karen Black
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Karen Black, veteran and Academy Award-nominated actress who has been in roughly 200 works, passed away after battling ampullary cancer last month. She was 74.
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Oscar nominee Eileen Brennan has passed away
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Actress Eileen Brennan, best known for her role in The Last Picture Show as a waitress with a generous soul, and as a martinet officer in Private Benjamin, has died at the age of 80. …
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Dennis Farina, star of ‘Law & Order’ and ‘Get Shorty’ has died
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Actor Dennis Farina has died in a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 69 and his publicist says the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. Born and raised in Chicago, he spent three years…
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‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ comes to VOD and digital download today.
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The excellent documentary film “Greedy Lying Bastards” may not have made it into the city where you live, but starting today you can see it.
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Taken from us too soon: James Gandolfini dead at 51
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Actor James Gandolfini, best known for playing “Tony Soprano” on the hit HBO series The Sopranos has died suddenly in Italy. He was only 51 years old.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 2-time Oscar winning screenwriter, dead at 85
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She is known for her lengthy association with director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant, the duo who created Merchant Ivory Productions.
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The 85th Oscars are in the books and there were a few surprises
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Seth MacFarlane did a good job in his first stint as Oscar hope, although some will object to the closing musical number.