Hollywood veterans Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis are widely regarded as 3 of the greatest action heroes of all time, having gifted some of the most immersive pieces to the cinema. That’s why, when they collaborated for The Expendables films series, the result was nothing short of a pure blissful experience for audiences and big bucks for the actors.
The Expendables 2. | Credit: Lionsgate.
However, years before they even started working together in this action-packed franchise created by Sly — nearly two decades, to be precise — this star-studded trio collaborated for a joint project in 1991 to earn millions of dollars merely from promotion. How? Well, simply because this project was the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood, investing in which brought in big bucks for the trio.
Arnie, Sly, and Bruno Joined Forces Before The Expendables as Well
Years ago, in October 1991, the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood International Inc. was...
The Expendables 2. | Credit: Lionsgate.
However, years before they even started working together in this action-packed franchise created by Sly — nearly two decades, to be precise — this star-studded trio collaborated for a joint project in 1991 to earn millions of dollars merely from promotion. How? Well, simply because this project was the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood, investing in which brought in big bucks for the trio.
Arnie, Sly, and Bruno Joined Forces Before The Expendables as Well
Years ago, in October 1991, the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood International Inc. was...
- 5/27/2024
- by Mahin Sultan
- FandomWire
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a music studio on wheels that kids can use to get creative. It might surprise fans that one of Fergie’s biggest songs was recorded on that bus. The “Glamorous” singer sampled a classic rock icon for the tune in question. John himself was a big fan of that rock star.
1 of Fergie’s songs was recorded in Pittsburgh in the John Lennon Bus
Though she was a child actor who voiced Sally in Peanuts cartoons and a member of the girl group Wild Orchid, Fergie became famous when she joined the Black Eyed Peas. In 2006, she released her solo debut: The Dutchess.
The Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am co-produced the record. During a 2006 interview with MTV, he discussed the creation of The Dutchess. “We recorded in London,” he said. “We recorded in Beijing, we recorded in Australia, we recorded in … what’s another weird place?...
1 of Fergie’s songs was recorded in Pittsburgh in the John Lennon Bus
Though she was a child actor who voiced Sally in Peanuts cartoons and a member of the girl group Wild Orchid, Fergie became famous when she joined the Black Eyed Peas. In 2006, she released her solo debut: The Dutchess.
The Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am co-produced the record. During a 2006 interview with MTV, he discussed the creation of The Dutchess. “We recorded in London,” he said. “We recorded in Beijing, we recorded in Australia, we recorded in … what’s another weird place?...
- 12/14/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Los Angeles, Nov 2 (Ians) Rapper Lil Nas X dressed as Little Richard on Halloween.
The ‘Old Town Road’ singer recreated the late Rock legend’s iconic looks. He posted seven different looks to his Instagram account, with both in-feed posts and Stories, reports ‘People’ magazine.
The Grammy winner shared an Instagram Reel to his Story, where he impersonates the famous Rock ‘n Roll singer during his interview on BBC’s Late Night Line-Up to promote his 1972 Wembley Stadium performance.
As per ‘People’, in the first Instagram post, Lil Nas X, 24, shared five different looks, with his photo and pics of his inspiration following.
“lil richard x… this man created rock and roll and doesn’t get enough credit for it. thank u for paving the way for me in many ways little richard (sic)”, the rapper wrote. “fly high wooooo.”
The carousel of photos includes Little Richard’s looks from his iconic 1956 portrait photoshoot,...
The ‘Old Town Road’ singer recreated the late Rock legend’s iconic looks. He posted seven different looks to his Instagram account, with both in-feed posts and Stories, reports ‘People’ magazine.
The Grammy winner shared an Instagram Reel to his Story, where he impersonates the famous Rock ‘n Roll singer during his interview on BBC’s Late Night Line-Up to promote his 1972 Wembley Stadium performance.
As per ‘People’, in the first Instagram post, Lil Nas X, 24, shared five different looks, with his photo and pics of his inspiration following.
“lil richard x… this man created rock and roll and doesn’t get enough credit for it. thank u for paving the way for me in many ways little richard (sic)”, the rapper wrote. “fly high wooooo.”
The carousel of photos includes Little Richard’s looks from his iconic 1956 portrait photoshoot,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Los Angeles, Nov 2 (Ians) Rapper Lil Nas X dressed as Little Richard on Halloween.
The ‘Old Town Road’ singer recreated the late Rock legend’s iconic looks. He posted seven different looks to his Instagram account, with both in-feed posts and Stories, reports ‘People’ magazine.
The Grammy winner shared an Instagram Reel to his Story, where he impersonates the famous Rock ‘n Roll singer during his interview on BBC’s Late Night Line-Up to promote his 1972 Wembley Stadium performance.
As per ‘People’, in the first Instagram post, Lil Nas X, 24, shared five different looks, with his photo and pics of his inspiration following.
“lil richard x… this man created rock and roll and doesn’t get enough credit for it. thank u for paving the way for me in many ways little richard (sic)”, the rapper wrote. “fly high wooooo.”
The carousel of photos includes Little Richard’s looks from his iconic 1956 portrait photoshoot,...
The ‘Old Town Road’ singer recreated the late Rock legend’s iconic looks. He posted seven different looks to his Instagram account, with both in-feed posts and Stories, reports ‘People’ magazine.
The Grammy winner shared an Instagram Reel to his Story, where he impersonates the famous Rock ‘n Roll singer during his interview on BBC’s Late Night Line-Up to promote his 1972 Wembley Stadium performance.
As per ‘People’, in the first Instagram post, Lil Nas X, 24, shared five different looks, with his photo and pics of his inspiration following.
“lil richard x… this man created rock and roll and doesn’t get enough credit for it. thank u for paving the way for me in many ways little richard (sic)”, the rapper wrote. “fly high wooooo.”
The carousel of photos includes Little Richard’s looks from his iconic 1956 portrait photoshoot,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Agency News Desk
John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met while growing up in Liverpool. While Lennon was slightly older than McCartney, the pair bonded over their shared love of music, and McCartney eventually joined John and his band. Paul had to prove to John he had talent, and he still remembers the song he played for his future bandmate to impress him.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at a church performance John Lennon and Paul McCartney | Gab Archive/Redferns
Before The Beatles were even an idea, John Lennon was a member of The Quarrymen Skiffle Group. On July 6, 1957, the Quarrymen performed at the garden fete of St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool. Lennon was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band. In attendance at the performance was a young Paul McCartney. McCartney was beginning to develop a love of rock n’ roll and was thrilled that there was a...
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at a church performance John Lennon and Paul McCartney | Gab Archive/Redferns
Before The Beatles were even an idea, John Lennon was a member of The Quarrymen Skiffle Group. On July 6, 1957, the Quarrymen performed at the garden fete of St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool. Lennon was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band. In attendance at the performance was a young Paul McCartney. McCartney was beginning to develop a love of rock n’ roll and was thrilled that there was a...
- 5/8/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
One of the paradoxes of the great early rock ‘n’ rollers is that they possessed a cathartic sexuality and bombs-away rockabilly-on-pep-pills energy that was unlike anything we’d ever seen, yet their revolution shook the world so profoundly that within a few years it was hard to imagine what the world was like before them. If you came along (as I did) after that earthquake, their fervor no longer looked shocking; it looked old-fashioned. When I was growing up, everything about Elvis Presley, including his hip-swiveling erotic brashness, seemed impossibly quaint. For the most part, it took years for me to be able to see past the wilder era I was living in and connect with the anarchic spirit of early rock ‘n’ roll.
But Little Richard was always another story. If Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis were wild-ass country boys, teasing their audience with a grin of delinquent effrontery,...
But Little Richard was always another story. If Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis were wild-ass country boys, teasing their audience with a grin of delinquent effrontery,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Producer-director Michael Curtiz’s femme fatale noir has a lot going for it — high production values, VistaVision, and new film talent in Tom Tryon, Carol Ohmart, Elaine Stritch & Jody Lawrance. Excellent location shooting and a Nat King Cole song provide authentic Los Angeles atmosphere. But the storyline is ten years out of date. The advertising promoted Ms. Ohmart as a new ’50s sex symbol. She may have caught fire, but the show didn’t.
The Scarlet Hour
Region free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] #152
1956 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date August 31, 2022 / Available from Amazon Au / 39.95; / Available from Viavision / 39.95
Starring: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch, E.G. Marshall, Edward Binns, David Lewis, Billy Gray, Jacques Aubuchon, Scott Marlowe, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Richard Deacon, Benson Fong, Theron Jackson, Almira Sessions.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon
Costumes: Edith Head
Art Directors: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen
Film Editor: Everett Douglas
Original Music: Leith Stevens...
The Scarlet Hour
Region free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] #152
1956 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date August 31, 2022 / Available from Amazon Au / 39.95; / Available from Viavision / 39.95
Starring: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch, E.G. Marshall, Edward Binns, David Lewis, Billy Gray, Jacques Aubuchon, Scott Marlowe, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Richard Deacon, Benson Fong, Theron Jackson, Almira Sessions.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon
Costumes: Edith Head
Art Directors: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen
Film Editor: Everett Douglas
Original Music: Leith Stevens...
- 9/20/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
If I ever meet an extraterrestrial who asks me to help shed some light on America in the 20th century, high on its modern Earth watchlist would be Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help It. For my money, it is, not only the most joyous, but possibly also the coolest movie of the 1950s… and I am quite aware that this is the decade that brought us James Dean and Marlon Brando. This is largely because the film is an inspired live-action cartoon, though its director, Tish-Tash, as he was known in the loony toon circles, despite very much being an animation veteran with Porky Pig to his credit, resented anybody for making too fine a point on this… like those over-intellectualizing French kids over...
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- 4/25/2022
- Screen Anarchy
The Girl Can’t Help It
Blu ray
Criterion
1957 / 2.35:1 / 98 Min.
Starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O’Brien
Written by Frank Tashlin
Directed by Frank Tashlin
In 1957 it was commonplace for burlesque comedians to share the bill with a musical act or two, but in New York’s theater district one of those revues stood out from the rest—it opened on February 8th at The Roxy, a magnificent theater dubbed “The Cathedral of the Motion Picture.” But that cathedral had never held a service like Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help It—for 98 minutes the congregation was cajoled, regaled, and set free by a parade of clownish mobsters, gyrating showgirls and hyperventilating rockers raising the roof in 4 track stereo—the only thing missing was 3D—and who needed that with Jayne Mansfield center screen and busting out all over. William Castle introduced the gimmicky Emergo for House on Haunted Hill...
Blu ray
Criterion
1957 / 2.35:1 / 98 Min.
Starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O’Brien
Written by Frank Tashlin
Directed by Frank Tashlin
In 1957 it was commonplace for burlesque comedians to share the bill with a musical act or two, but in New York’s theater district one of those revues stood out from the rest—it opened on February 8th at The Roxy, a magnificent theater dubbed “The Cathedral of the Motion Picture.” But that cathedral had never held a service like Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help It—for 98 minutes the congregation was cajoled, regaled, and set free by a parade of clownish mobsters, gyrating showgirls and hyperventilating rockers raising the roof in 4 track stereo—the only thing missing was 3D—and who needed that with Jayne Mansfield center screen and busting out all over. William Castle introduced the gimmicky Emergo for House on Haunted Hill...
- 4/23/2022
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Woody Guthrie, the singer, songwriter and writer who spoke truth to power decades before the phrase was invented, was long known to take a political stand. Now, 55 years after his death, he’s still doing just that. As part of a new exhibit of his life and work, he’s joined the list of musicians unhappy with Spotify in light of the company’s affiliation with Joe Rogan’s podcast and his Covid-related opinions and comments.
“Woody Guthrie: The People Are the Song,” on display through May at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum,...
“Woody Guthrie: The People Are the Song,” on display through May at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum,...
- 3/14/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
2022 is, I guess, in something like swing, and if there’s any bit of normalcy we’re glad to retain it’s the monthly Criterion announcements. On the disc side of things they’ve just unveiled April’s selection, their 4K project advancing with For All Mankind. Few movies deserve that fidelity more than Al Reinert’s documentary about the lunar landings—the experience might induce a kind of hallucinatory bliss.
The colors and curves of Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help It will pop in HD while the sounds of Bertrand Tavernier’s ’Round Midnight practically taunt you to upgrade your sound system. I’m thrilled Alex Cox (sort of) returns from semi-reclusion for a new restoration of his acid western Walker, long a glaring blind spot for yours truly; Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan and twin sibling Arie and Chuko Esiri’s recent...
The colors and curves of Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help It will pop in HD while the sounds of Bertrand Tavernier’s ’Round Midnight practically taunt you to upgrade your sound system. I’m thrilled Alex Cox (sort of) returns from semi-reclusion for a new restoration of his acid western Walker, long a glaring blind spot for yours truly; Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan and twin sibling Arie and Chuko Esiri’s recent...
- 1/18/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
It’s a very musical episode! Director and Tfh Guru, Allan Arkush, returns to talk about his favorite rock and roll movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
No Nukes (1980)
Amazing Grace (2018) – Dennis Cozzalio’s Oscar nominee reactions
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Eli Roth’s trailer commentary
Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) – Jesus Treviño’s trailer commentary
Mister Rock And Roll (1957)
Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Hail Hail Rock And Roll! (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Almost Famous (2000) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Wayne’s World (1992)
The Graduate (1967) – Neil Labute’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Scorpio Rising...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
No Nukes (1980)
Amazing Grace (2018) – Dennis Cozzalio’s Oscar nominee reactions
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Eli Roth’s trailer commentary
Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) – Jesus Treviño’s trailer commentary
Mister Rock And Roll (1957)
Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Hail Hail Rock And Roll! (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Almost Famous (2000) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Wayne’s World (1992)
The Graduate (1967) – Neil Labute’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Scorpio Rising...
- 12/7/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle, and sometimes also wanted to be invisible.
“Beatle George Harrison, above, is due in court here today to answer assault charges,” John Lennon reads from a newspaper in a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back. “Harrison is accused of assaulting a photographer last May as he and Beatle Ringo Starr left a nightclub.”
The accused looks fairly bewildered, as did much of the audience. The story intermittently creeps back into the documentary, making its presence known while Harrison largely ignores it and moves on.
In The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson shows how news items about The Beatles have a tendency to take on lives of their own. Paul McCartney improvises his version of Michael Housego’s article “The End of a Beautiful Friendship,” about Harrison quitting the band, while the rest of the group rolls through old time rock and roll.
“Beatle George Harrison, above, is due in court here today to answer assault charges,” John Lennon reads from a newspaper in a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back. “Harrison is accused of assaulting a photographer last May as he and Beatle Ringo Starr left a nightclub.”
The accused looks fairly bewildered, as did much of the audience. The story intermittently creeps back into the documentary, making its presence known while Harrison largely ignores it and moves on.
In The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson shows how news items about The Beatles have a tendency to take on lives of their own. Paul McCartney improvises his version of Michael Housego’s article “The End of a Beautiful Friendship,” about Harrison quitting the band, while the rest of the group rolls through old time rock and roll.
- 12/3/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Velvet Goldmine (1998)Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine (1998) opens with a confession that swiftly becomes a command: “Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume.” Those words, mischievously repurposed from Martin Scorsese’s concert film The Last Waltz (1978), herald one of the great pop music fantasias: a cinema à clef that reimagines ’70s glam rock in an alternate dimension, where fictional versions of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and others perform a parallel version of history as we know it. Embracing the period’s mutable personae and camp energies, the film evokes the spirit of its patron saint, Oscar Wilde—depicted as the original pop star, descended to Earth from outer space—treating “art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction,...
- 8/12/2021
- MUBI
Early rock & roll drummer Charles Connor — who played with Little Richard, Sam Cooke, and James Brown in the Fifties — died in his home in Glendale, California, after a battle with the brain disorder normal pressure hydrocephalus. He was 86.
“He was one of those drummers that was a bricklayer of creating that rock & roll genre,” his daughter, Queenie Connor Sonnefeld, told the Associated Press. “He played behind so many legendary musicians in the Fifties. He was a loving grandfather and was very proud of his family and took a lot of...
“He was one of those drummers that was a bricklayer of creating that rock & roll genre,” his daughter, Queenie Connor Sonnefeld, told the Associated Press. “He played behind so many legendary musicians in the Fifties. He was a loving grandfather and was very proud of his family and took a lot of...
- 8/3/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Drought, unemployment, unstable weather, ruined crops, decimated farmers: In retrospect, the devastating Dust Bowl of the Thirties sounds like a precursor to America in the Covid-19 era. Aptly, the album that chronicled those hard years in the Southern Plains in real-time is making a comeback of its own.
Just in time for another national crisis comes Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads, a track-by-track remake of Guthrie’s album Dust Bowl Ballads. Likely one of the first concept albums in music history, Guthrie’s 1940 album was inspired...
Just in time for another national crisis comes Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads, a track-by-track remake of Guthrie’s album Dust Bowl Ballads. Likely one of the first concept albums in music history, Guthrie’s 1940 album was inspired...
- 7/28/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
In 2002, when Halle Berry won the Oscar for her performance in “Monster’s Ball,” becoming the first African American to take home the Academy Award for best actress, after 30 seconds of convulsive tears she said, “This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll…And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because this door tonight has been opened.” To achieve something by standing on the shoulders of others is a profound feeling. And what Halle Berry’s speech hit home is that where those earlier performers had allowed her to become a giant, they were giants too — more than contemporary audiences often know.
“How It Feels to Be Free” is a documentary, at once sobering and enchanting, that interweaves portraits of six legendary stars, all of them Black women, telling the story of the trails they blazed,...
“How It Feels to Be Free” is a documentary, at once sobering and enchanting, that interweaves portraits of six legendary stars, all of them Black women, telling the story of the trails they blazed,...
- 4/18/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Blake Shelton has announced his first full-length studio record in nearly four years. The Oklahoma native will release Body Language on May 21st. The album is the follow-up to Shelton’s 2017 long-player Texoma Shore.
Body Language — a Conway Twitty-esque title if ever there were one — spans 12 tracks, including Shelton’s current single “Minimum Wage” and the duet with fiancée Gwen Stefani, “Happy Anywhere.” The title track is a collaboration with the Swon Brothers, Shelton’s former protégés on The Voice.
“We’ve been working on this album on and off for two years now,...
Body Language — a Conway Twitty-esque title if ever there were one — spans 12 tracks, including Shelton’s current single “Minimum Wage” and the duet with fiancée Gwen Stefani, “Happy Anywhere.” The title track is a collaboration with the Swon Brothers, Shelton’s former protégés on The Voice.
“We’ve been working on this album on and off for two years now,...
- 3/29/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***I believe David Thomson once said something about Fox's fifties output being "the antithesis of cinema," which is very slightly nuts if you consider the films of Samuel Fuller (Pick-Up on South Street among others), Nicholas Ray (Bigger Than Life), Frank Tashlin (The Girl Can't Help It), and more.But we sort of know what he means: the advent of CinemaScope caused aesthetic confusion, as technical advances often do, and we can all picture laundry lines of less-than-fresh 1940s actors eking out their remaining B.
- 9/1/2020
- MUBI
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***"We offer for your mental scrutiny / The reasons for the mutiny."I believe Where Do We Go From Here? (1945) qualifies as a rarity, having never been released on any home video or streaming format. This is a shame, but you can see why. The whole concept of whimsy has a tendency to lumpenness, even though the very word seems to imply a lighter-than-air approach. Which is heavier, a ton of scrap metal or a ton of feathers?So what we have here is a fantasy in...
- 6/4/2020
- MUBI
“If you are not ready to have some fucking fun, to move your bodies, to get lifted, then you should leave right now, because it’s going to be all action, all Richard, all the time,” Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner shouted at the start of his regular livestream on Saturday night. The South Philly musician dedicated the latest installment of his “Tough Cookies” online performance — the 15th he’s done since quarantine began — to Little Richard, who died earlier that day at 87.
For those who watch the livestreams,...
For those who watch the livestreams,...
- 5/10/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
John Waters will always remember how an interview he conducted with Little Richard crashed and burned. The Polyester and Hairspray filmmaker had met the Architect of Rock & Roll — Waters’ idol to the point that he modeled his mustache after the singer — in a shockingly normal hotel room where he was living in 1987 for a piece that would run in Playboy. As Waters recounted in The Guardian and his book Role Models, the whole thing went south when Richard, worried about some of the more lascivious things he’d said, demanded...
- 5/10/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Although they only met a few times, the bond between John Fogerty and Little Richard, who died Saturday at 87, was strong. Fogerty grew up on Little Richard’s music and, with Creedence Clearwater Revival, covered “Good Golly Miss Molly.” (Fogerty’s own “Travelin’ Band” was itself a nod to the wild singles Little Richard made early in his career.) In turn, Little Richard remade Fogerty’s “Born on the Bayou” on one of his post-ministry comeback albums in the late Sixties. While hunkered down in southern California, Fogerty discussed the...
- 5/9/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
This story, originally titled “Tooty, Fruity,” was published in the July 19/Aug 2 1984 issue of Rolling Stone
Richard Penniman was a dishwasher who would be king — or queen, depending on his mood. Born in 1932, the third of Charles and Leva Mae Penman’s 12 children, raised in less than regal circumstances in the black neighborhoods of Macon, Georgia, he was compelled to invent his particular brand of majesty. This was Little Richard, “Handsomest Man in Rock & Roll.”
His image was an immaculate conception, a fantasy born of years in traveling medicine shows,...
Richard Penniman was a dishwasher who would be king — or queen, depending on his mood. Born in 1932, the third of Charles and Leva Mae Penman’s 12 children, raised in less than regal circumstances in the black neighborhoods of Macon, Georgia, he was compelled to invent his particular brand of majesty. This was Little Richard, “Handsomest Man in Rock & Roll.”
His image was an immaculate conception, a fantasy born of years in traveling medicine shows,...
- 5/9/2020
- by Gerri Hirshey
- Rollingstone.com
Rebellion, outrage, scandal, hypersexual egomania, ripping it up, rocking it up, gigantic hair, and mascara — all these things are in rock & roll because Little Richard put them there. He was the loudest and wildest and rudest of the Fifties pioneers, the most flamboyantly and untamably free. He invented the rock star. That’s why the world is mourning today for Little Richard, who died this morning at 87. “The Girl Can’t Help It,” “Tutti Frutti,” “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” “Heebie Jeebies” — these songs have been an inspiration to rebel hearts ever since.
- 5/9/2020
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Saturday marks a sad day for music fans with the passing of Little Richard at the age of 87. Long regarded as one of the modern architects of rock and roll, as well as other genres including R&b, hip-hop, and soul, the artist also known as Richard Wayne Penniman has influenced everyone from Mick Jagger to Brian Wilson to Ava DuVernay.
Following news of the musician’s death, celebrity tributes poured out on social media from his greatest admirers, including Spike Lee, who shared a black-and-white, vintage commercial touting Air Jordans for Nike from 1991. It features Lee himself, plus Michael Jordan, and Little Richard. Watch below.
Also below, check out other celebrity tributes honoring the legendary artist, whose greatest hits included “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” “The Girl Can’t Help It,” and many more.
Spike Lee’s next film, “Da 5 Bloods,” will...
Following news of the musician’s death, celebrity tributes poured out on social media from his greatest admirers, including Spike Lee, who shared a black-and-white, vintage commercial touting Air Jordans for Nike from 1991. It features Lee himself, plus Michael Jordan, and Little Richard. Watch below.
Also below, check out other celebrity tributes honoring the legendary artist, whose greatest hits included “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” “The Girl Can’t Help It,” and many more.
Spike Lee’s next film, “Da 5 Bloods,” will...
- 5/9/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Little Richard Penniman, whose boogie woogie blues piano laid the foundation for rock and roll, died Saturday, May 9, at 87, according to Rolling Stone. The cause of death was unknown.
Little Richard, along with Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, the Delta Cats, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Elvis Presley, wed blues with gospel and country for a new music genre which changed the world and how we hear it. “Tutti Frutti, “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” all pounded out in 1956, got jukeboxes jumping, made senses reel and gave parents fits. “All the flat top cats and the dungaree dolls” swarmed the dance floors, while budding musicians around the world took notice.
Little Richard’s influence is almost beyond measure. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Elton John, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Lemmy Kilmister, and his own contemporaries, like Presley, Buddy Holly, and Bill Haley and fellow piano pounder Jerry Lee Lewis,...
Little Richard, along with Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, the Delta Cats, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Elvis Presley, wed blues with gospel and country for a new music genre which changed the world and how we hear it. “Tutti Frutti, “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” all pounded out in 1956, got jukeboxes jumping, made senses reel and gave parents fits. “All the flat top cats and the dungaree dolls” swarmed the dance floors, while budding musicians around the world took notice.
Little Richard’s influence is almost beyond measure. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Elton John, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Lemmy Kilmister, and his own contemporaries, like Presley, Buddy Holly, and Bill Haley and fellow piano pounder Jerry Lee Lewis,...
- 5/9/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Following news of Little Richard’s death at the age of 87, artists turned to social media Saturday to pay tribute to the founding father of rock & roll.
“The King Of Rock And Roll. Zero Questions,” Questlove wrote on Instagram. “Journalists Do Your Job. Not Architect not Pioneer. not Hitmaker. This man was literally The Blueprint of all the world took from. Little Richard is The True King. Long Live The King.”
“I’m very sorry to hear about Little Richard,” Brian Wilson tweeted. “He was there at the beginning and...
“The King Of Rock And Roll. Zero Questions,” Questlove wrote on Instagram. “Journalists Do Your Job. Not Architect not Pioneer. not Hitmaker. This man was literally The Blueprint of all the world took from. Little Richard is The True King. Long Live The King.”
“I’m very sorry to hear about Little Richard,” Brian Wilson tweeted. “He was there at the beginning and...
- 5/9/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Little Richard, the wild singer/pianist/songwriter who was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s pioneers, has died at age 87. His death was confirmed by his son, but the cause was not initially given.
Later in the morning, Little Richard agent Dick Alen told People that the rock icon died from bone cancer.
“Little Richard passed away this morning from bone cancer in Nashville. He was living with his brother in Nashville,” Alen said in a statement. “He was battling for a good while, many years. I last spoke to him about two or three weeks ago. I knew he wasn’t well but he never really got into it, he just would say ‘I’m not well.’ He’s been suffering for many years with various aches and pains. He just wouldn’t talk about it much.”
Little Richard’s catalog of hits is still performed by many bar bands to this day,...
Later in the morning, Little Richard agent Dick Alen told People that the rock icon died from bone cancer.
“Little Richard passed away this morning from bone cancer in Nashville. He was living with his brother in Nashville,” Alen said in a statement. “He was battling for a good while, many years. I last spoke to him about two or three weeks ago. I knew he wasn’t well but he never really got into it, he just would say ‘I’m not well.’ He’s been suffering for many years with various aches and pains. He just wouldn’t talk about it much.”
Little Richard’s catalog of hits is still performed by many bar bands to this day,...
- 5/9/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Little Richard, the legendary rock, soul and funk artist and singer of hits like “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly Miss Molly,” died Saturday. He was 87.
The singer’s son confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, but the cause of death is unknown.
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One of the founding fathers of rock ‘n’ roll, Richard (neé Richard Wayne Penniman...
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One of the founding fathers of rock ‘n’ roll, Richard (neé Richard Wayne Penniman...
- 5/9/2020
- TVLine.com
Roy Loney, the original lead singer for the influential garage rock group Flamin’ Groovies, has died at the age of 73.
The band confirmed Loney’s death on their Facebook page. “We are all deeply saddened and stunned to learn that our dearest friend and bandmate, Roy Loney, passed away this morning,” the band wrote. The musician died of severe organ failure at San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center, his girlfriend Vivian Altmann told the San Francisco Chronicle.
News of Loney’s death was initially announced by punk rock photographer Roberta Bayley,...
The band confirmed Loney’s death on their Facebook page. “We are all deeply saddened and stunned to learn that our dearest friend and bandmate, Roy Loney, passed away this morning,” the band wrote. The musician died of severe organ failure at San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center, his girlfriend Vivian Altmann told the San Francisco Chronicle.
News of Loney’s death was initially announced by punk rock photographer Roberta Bayley,...
- 12/14/2019
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City died Tuesday at the age of 89, the Jefferson Parish Coroner says.
The New Orleans musician's daughter said he died peacefully while surrounded by family and friends, CBS affiliate Wwl-tv reports.
In appearance, he was no Elvis Presley. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, with hits including "Blueberry Hill," ''Ain't It a Shame" and other standards of rock 'n' roll.
Photos: Stars We've Lost in 2017
He was one of the first 10 honorees named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rolling Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement. The magazine listed Domino at No. 25 in its list of...
The New Orleans musician's daughter said he died peacefully while surrounded by family and friends, CBS affiliate Wwl-tv reports.
In appearance, he was no Elvis Presley. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, with hits including "Blueberry Hill," ''Ain't It a Shame" and other standards of rock 'n' roll.
Photos: Stars We've Lost in 2017
He was one of the first 10 honorees named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rolling Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement. The magazine listed Domino at No. 25 in its list of...
- 10/25/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The Fourth Wall is broken early and often in Frank Tashlin's wacked-out followup to The Girl Can't Help It, which bears little resemblance to the Broadway play it's based on but is still a heck of a lot of fun. 1950s "culture" is skewered mercilessly, especially television--at times it looks like this was produced directly by The National Association of Theater Owners. Jayne Mansfield's career highlight.
- 9/8/2016
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
All hail Frank Tashlin! America's subversive secret weapon of the 1950s made incredible adult live-action cartoon movies that satirized all the sex and vulgarity denied by the mainstream. In Technicolor! Political incorrectness meets lollypop-sweet sentimentality in a farce that transcends good taste. Susan Slept Here Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1954 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 98 min. / Street Date April 19, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Alvy Moore, Glenda Farrell, Horace McMahon, Herb Vigran, Les Tremayne, Mara Lane, Maidie Norman, Rita Johnson, Ellen Corby, Red Skelton. Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca Film Editor Harry Marker Original Music Leigh Harline Choreographer Robert Sidney Written by Alex Gottlieb from a play by Gottlieb and Steve Fisher Produced by Harriet Parsons Directed by Frank Tashlin
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Director Frank Tashlin has finally found an appreciative audience with adventurous film fans, but the charms of his glorious style of filmmaking are unknown to...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Director Frank Tashlin has finally found an appreciative audience with adventurous film fans, but the charms of his glorious style of filmmaking are unknown to...
- 3/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
When a friend of Fats Domino's invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino's New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a decade later, Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll will air tonight, on Domino's 88th birthday. The film captures how the New Orleans pianist cut what many believe is the first rock & roll record, 1949's The Fat Man, and went onto sell 65 million records, making the Billboard pop chart...
- 2/26/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Scoping out the latest trends for this upcoming season, Anna Kendrick and Jessica Hart stopped by a show during Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2014 on Tuesday (February 11).
The "Pitch Perfect" starlet donned a black textile dress with a matching jacket while the 27-year-old supermodel wore a black-and-white coat with a blue skirt and brown shoes.
Meanwhile, after attending the Hollywood Stands Up To Cancer Event last week, Anna took to Twitter to share a photo of Katy Perry once again feeling her up and tweeted, "The girl can't help it."
Last month, the "Firework" hitmaker apparently "finger banged" Miss Kendick's cleavage while they both attended the 2014 Grammys.
Although she kept her "finger banging" at bay, Miss Perry still managed to cop a feel at the charity fundraiser.
The "Pitch Perfect" starlet donned a black textile dress with a matching jacket while the 27-year-old supermodel wore a black-and-white coat with a blue skirt and brown shoes.
Meanwhile, after attending the Hollywood Stands Up To Cancer Event last week, Anna took to Twitter to share a photo of Katy Perry once again feeling her up and tweeted, "The girl can't help it."
Last month, the "Firework" hitmaker apparently "finger banged" Miss Kendick's cleavage while they both attended the 2014 Grammys.
Although she kept her "finger banging" at bay, Miss Perry still managed to cop a feel at the charity fundraiser.
- 2/11/2014
- GossipCenter
Admiring her Stacey Bendet's gorgeous Fall 2014 collection, Anna Kendrick attended the Alice + Olivia presentation during New York Fashion Week last night (February 10).
The "Pitch Perfect" cutie joined AnnaSophia Robb, and Disney cuties Bella Thorne and Zendaya Coleman and checked out the stunning designs from the celeb-favorite designer.
In related news, Anna shared a moment on Twitter last night from the recent Hollywood Stands Up to Cancer event with pal Katy Perry.
The snapshot shows the "Dark Horse" singer, once again, groping Anna's lady parts. Kendrick quipped, "The girl can't help it," as a caption to the pic.
The "Pitch Perfect" cutie joined AnnaSophia Robb, and Disney cuties Bella Thorne and Zendaya Coleman and checked out the stunning designs from the celeb-favorite designer.
In related news, Anna shared a moment on Twitter last night from the recent Hollywood Stands Up to Cancer event with pal Katy Perry.
The snapshot shows the "Dark Horse" singer, once again, groping Anna's lady parts. Kendrick quipped, "The girl can't help it," as a caption to the pic.
- 2/11/2014
- GossipCenter
Anna Kendrick has at least one overly eager fan. The Pitch Perfect star shared a picture of Katy Perry grabbing her boob at the Hollywood Stands Up to Cancer event on Jan. 28 on Twitter. "The girl can't help it. @katyperry," Kendrick, 28, captioned the picture. The new besties were attending the celeb-filled event hosted by Reese Witherspoon and her hubby Jim Toth, which benefited cancer research. But this wasn't their first cleavage-filled encounter. At the Jan. 26 Grammy awards, Kendrick wore a cleavage-baring cream-colored Azzaro gown to present [...]...
- 2/11/2014
- Us Weekly
The actor who was Oscar-nominated for her role alongside Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's 1959 melodrama has died at home
Juanita Moore, the Oscar-nominated star of Imitation of Life, has died at the age of 99. The actor, who played alongside Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's 1959 race drama, died at home, according to her grandson, actor Kirk Kelleykahn.
In Imitation of Life, Moore played a black single mother who befriends Turner's character, a widow whose dreams of becoming a Broadway star are complicated by her responsibility for her own young child. Susan Kohner, who played Moore's daughter Sarah Jane as a teenager in the film, told The Hollywood Reporter that Moore was "a lovely human being with a wonderful sense of humour".
Both Kohner and Moore were nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar in 1959. Moore was only the fifth black woman to be nominated for the award. She lost out to Shelley Winters,...
Juanita Moore, the Oscar-nominated star of Imitation of Life, has died at the age of 99. The actor, who played alongside Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's 1959 race drama, died at home, according to her grandson, actor Kirk Kelleykahn.
In Imitation of Life, Moore played a black single mother who befriends Turner's character, a widow whose dreams of becoming a Broadway star are complicated by her responsibility for her own young child. Susan Kohner, who played Moore's daughter Sarah Jane as a teenager in the film, told The Hollywood Reporter that Moore was "a lovely human being with a wonderful sense of humour".
Both Kohner and Moore were nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar in 1959. Moore was only the fifth black woman to be nominated for the award. She lost out to Shelley Winters,...
- 1/2/2014
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Previously, on Smash
This week's episode finds us watching Jimmy Charming and Ana singing the song from Hit List that I thought last week was called “Let the Broken Pieces Go” but is actually called “Heart Shaped Wreckage” which is not any better. They're performing it for Scott Nichols (Jesse L. Martin) and members of the Manhattan Theatre Workshop board of directors and it makes me wonder again why they didn't have Ana perform the first night at Fringe instead of scrambling to replace Karen with an outsider.
Scott and the board adjourn to Scott's office to discuss whether to offer the main stage to Hit List. Derek calls for a decent cup of coffee from some random who's wandered on stage. The random introduces himself as Blake, the lighting designer, and advises Derek that everyone's responsible for their own caffeination. He then congratulates Kyle on the show and between...
This week's episode finds us watching Jimmy Charming and Ana singing the song from Hit List that I thought last week was called “Let the Broken Pieces Go” but is actually called “Heart Shaped Wreckage” which is not any better. They're performing it for Scott Nichols (Jesse L. Martin) and members of the Manhattan Theatre Workshop board of directors and it makes me wonder again why they didn't have Ana perform the first night at Fringe instead of scrambling to replace Karen with an outsider.
Scott and the board adjourn to Scott's office to discuss whether to offer the main stage to Hit List. Derek calls for a decent cup of coffee from some random who's wandered on stage. The random introduces himself as Blake, the lighting designer, and advises Derek that everyone's responsible for their own caffeination. He then congratulates Kyle on the show and between...
- 3/20/2013
- by fakename
- The Backlot
I didn't have high hopes for The First Time (1952), despite my Tashlin mania: I'd tried to watch Marry Me Again (1953), his other marital comedy starring Robert Cummings (known in my household as "the Butcher of Strasburg" after his role in Anthony Mann's 1949 Reign of Terror), and found the gag-happy, sketch-comedy approach unsatisfactory within such a constrained domestic setting and with a straight actor instead of a comedian in the lead. And the jokes about shooting down "Japs" in the war are pretty...bad. As a result, I only put The First Time on for a minute to see what it was like...and then ended up watching the whole thing.
It's very funny, and Cummings, along with Barbara Hale, is really good in it. No, really.
It's also very interesting, and quite subversive at times...Tashlin often seems to favour a kind of masculinism, in a slightly tiresome "Fathers for Justice" way,...
It's very funny, and Cummings, along with Barbara Hale, is really good in it. No, really.
It's also very interesting, and quite subversive at times...Tashlin often seems to favour a kind of masculinism, in a slightly tiresome "Fathers for Justice" way,...
- 8/11/2011
- MUBI
Criterion releases Kiss Me Deadly on DVD and Blu-ray today and, for the occasion, they're running an essay by J Hoberman adapted from his book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War: "Genres collide in the great Hollywood movies of the mid fifties cold-war thaw. With the truce in Korea and the red scare on the wane, ambitious directors seemed freer to mix and match and even ponder the new situation. The western goes south in The Searchers; the cartoon merges with the musical in The Girl Can't Help It. Science fiction becomes pop sociology in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And noir veers into apocalyptic sci-fi in Robert Aldrich's 1955 masterpiece Kiss Me Deadly, which, briefly described, tracks one of the sleaziest, stupidest, most bru tal detectives in American movies through a nocturnal, inexplicably violent labyrinth to a white-hot vision of cosmic annihilation.
- 6/21/2011
- MUBI
Shhhhhh. It's a day of rest and Hugh Jackman is sleeping. Let him be.
Wait. Anna!? What are you doing?!? Don't tiptoe up to deadly people while they're having nightmares.
AakHHGGGgghHNnnHhh! ouch
Well, don't say we didn't warn you. Anna Paquin is always hovering carelessly around killers, isn't she? Whether they be clawed or fanged. The girl can't help it.
The X-Men movie franchise was launched 10 years ago in July 2000 and I watched it again last week with the intention of celebrating it with lots of prurient screencaps of Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Romijn and some discussion about the casting for X-Men: First Class (2011) aka Muppet Mutant Babies or "it's time for yet another reboot" but the time got away from me, it did. But better late than never for a couple of observations.
In some ways the original X-Men is a tentative mediocre movie: the budget limitations are obvious,...
Wait. Anna!? What are you doing?!? Don't tiptoe up to deadly people while they're having nightmares.
AakHHGGGgghHNnnHhh! ouch
Well, don't say we didn't warn you. Anna Paquin is always hovering carelessly around killers, isn't she? Whether they be clawed or fanged. The girl can't help it.
The X-Men movie franchise was launched 10 years ago in July 2000 and I watched it again last week with the intention of celebrating it with lots of prurient screencaps of Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Romijn and some discussion about the casting for X-Men: First Class (2011) aka Muppet Mutant Babies or "it's time for yet another reboot" but the time got away from me, it did. But better late than never for a couple of observations.
In some ways the original X-Men is a tentative mediocre movie: the budget limitations are obvious,...
- 7/17/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Back in the late 1990s, I became interested in Iranian cinema through some great films like Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry and Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven. I started to explore further, and to date I have seen nearly 50 films from that intrepid country. As much as I love them, I will admit one thing: they're mostly about children and/or poetic realism, and they are not for people looking for a good "B" movie fix. Until now, that is: Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats opens in limited release this week, and it may be the first Iranian "B" movie.
It's a rock 'n' roll movie, specifically an "assemble the band" movie like The Blues Brothers, but it has the rambling, slapdash quality of something like A Hard Day's Night, including some welcome humor. It uses the many-band format of films like The Girl Can't Help It or 9 Songs,...
It's a rock 'n' roll movie, specifically an "assemble the band" movie like The Blues Brothers, but it has the rambling, slapdash quality of something like A Hard Day's Night, including some welcome humor. It uses the many-band format of films like The Girl Can't Help It or 9 Songs,...
- 4/18/2010
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
The Fourth Wall is broken early and often in Frank Tashlin's wacked-out followup to The Girl Can't Help It, which bears little resemblance to the Broadway play it's based on but is still a heck of a lot of fun. 1950s "culture" is skewered mercilessly, especially television--at times it looks like this was produced directly by The National Association of Theater Owners. Jayne Mansfield's career highlight.
- 1/6/2010
- Trailers from Hell
On The Evolution Of CinemaScope: Or, of you're going to be a stickler about names of formats and such, "The 2.35:1 Or So Aspect Ratio."
Above: The Robe (Henry Koster, 1953).
Above: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958).
Above: Le Mepris (Contempt) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963).
When CinemaScope was introduced in 1953, the first film in the widescreen format was in the then au-courant sand-and-sandals quasi-Biblical-epic genre. The Robe still plays, in its silly way, as a study in gargantuan production value. And the gargantuan dimensions of the CinemaScope screen were seen as something of a novelty, a piece of showmanship rather than cinema per se, Zanuck's would-be blowback at television in an attempt to shore up the notion that movies were still going to be your best entertainment value.
What, though, had 'Scope to do with the art of cinema? And/or what director was going to be able to use 'Scope artistically? The answer came reasonably quickly,...
Above: The Robe (Henry Koster, 1953).
Above: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958).
Above: Le Mepris (Contempt) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963).
When CinemaScope was introduced in 1953, the first film in the widescreen format was in the then au-courant sand-and-sandals quasi-Biblical-epic genre. The Robe still plays, in its silly way, as a study in gargantuan production value. And the gargantuan dimensions of the CinemaScope screen were seen as something of a novelty, a piece of showmanship rather than cinema per se, Zanuck's would-be blowback at television in an attempt to shore up the notion that movies were still going to be your best entertainment value.
What, though, had 'Scope to do with the art of cinema? And/or what director was going to be able to use 'Scope artistically? The answer came reasonably quickly,...
- 11/13/2009
- MUBI
Below is my fav shot from the Whip It trailer below. Ellen Page is all serious and ready to go. She's willing to sweat for her leading lady status. But it's Juliette Lewis who's hogging the attention, sticking her tongue out, coarsely flirting with the camera. The girl can't help it.
Juliette Lewis "Iron Maven" and Ellen Page "Babe Ruthless"
When I first saw the trailer, I got all tingly thinking about seeing the elusive 90s star again but resigned myself to what was sure to be a short raucuous and welcome cameo. The film has a ton of characters and surely Ellen Page (star) and Drew Barrymore (director/producer/co-star) would eat up the running time!
I am elated to report that I was wrong. Juliette has plenty of screen time as the tough chick star of the Texas derby, "Iron Maven". The actress even won considerable applause during...
Juliette Lewis "Iron Maven" and Ellen Page "Babe Ruthless"
When I first saw the trailer, I got all tingly thinking about seeing the elusive 90s star again but resigned myself to what was sure to be a short raucuous and welcome cameo. The film has a ton of characters and surely Ellen Page (star) and Drew Barrymore (director/producer/co-star) would eat up the running time!
I am elated to report that I was wrong. Juliette has plenty of screen time as the tough chick star of the Texas derby, "Iron Maven". The actress even won considerable applause during...
- 10/1/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Fox, Whitaker in harmony on 'Girl' update
Fox 2000 and Forest Whitaker's Spirit Dance Entertainment are teaming to remake the 1956 comedy The Girl Can't Help It, which starred Tom Ewell and Jayne Mansfield. The music-driven original followed the story of a talent agent (Ewell) who is hired by a mobster (Edmond O'Brien) to turn his musically challenged girlfriend (Mansfield) into a big star. Fats Domino, Little Richard, Julie London and the Platters turned in performances in the film as well.
- 7/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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