At last: Streisand memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ coming Nov. 7
February 7, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Barbra Streisand's very long and very long-awaited memoir, a project she has talked about for years, is coming out this fall. Viking, a Penguin Random House imprint, will release “My Name is Barbra” on Nov.
Trailblazing director Euzhan Palcy returns for Oscar honor
November 16, 2022 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Director Euzhan Palcy has made history more than a few times in her four decades in the movie business.
She was the first Black woman to direct a film produced by a major studio (MGM’s “A Dry White Season”), the first Black director of any gender to win the César Award in France, the first woman to win a Venice Silver Lion (for “Sugar Cane Alley”), the only woman to direct Marlon Brando and the first Black woman to direct an actor to an Oscar nomination (also Brando).
Sacheen Littlefeather, actor who declined Brando Oscar, dies
October 3, 2022 GMTSacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans, has died.
Film academy apologizes to Littlefeather for 1973 Oscars
August 15, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apologized to her for the abuse she endured.
Liv Ullmann has given out many Oscars. Now she gets her own.
March 24, 2022 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Liv Ullmann likes to say that she’s given away many Oscars in her life. But she’s not talking about losing.
The great Norwegian actor was once a frequent presenter at the awards.
The Human: Richard Jenkins’ real, lived-in performances
November 24, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — For a long time, it bothered Richard Jenkins that he didn't look or come off like the movie stars he grew up with. How could he, the son of a dentist from DeKalb, Illinois, measure up in the same business as Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy?
Paul Newman memoir left unpublished to come out next year
November 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman's thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate ride to stardom, and aging gracefully.”
LEADING OFF: Wildfires darken California skies; Cole vs O’s
September 10, 2020 GMTA look at what’s happening around the majors today:
LEADING OFF: Wildfires darken California skies; Cole vs O’s
September 10, 2020 GMTA look at what’s happening around the majors Thursday:
Actor John Saxon dies; ‘Enter the Dragon’ among many roles
July 26, 2020 GMTMURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Actor John Saxon, a versatile actor with a lengthy and prolific career who starred with Bruce Lee in “Enter the Dragon” and appeared in several “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies, has died at his home in Tennessee, according to the Hollywood Reporter...
Actress-author Patricia Bosworth dies from coronavirus at 86
April 4, 2020 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Patricia Bosworth, an actress who once starred alongside Audrey Hepburn and later wrote biographies on several stars including Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, has died due to the coronavirus...
Let’s cancel ‘OK Boomer’ in 2020, and the humblebrag, too
December 6, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Either loudly sing your own praises or don’t in the new year, but let’s leave the humble brag behind, along with a few other oversaturated, cloying or just plain silly cultural quirks that deserve a big goodbye...
Q&A: Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later
August 14, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — If filmmaking is a war, then "Apocalypse Now" was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola's Waterloo...
NPR fires critic David Edelstein after ‘Last Tango’ joke
November 28, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — NPR's "Fresh Air" has parted ways with contributor David Edelstein after the film critic made a joke about the rape scene in "Last Tango in Paris" on his Facebook page following Monday's death of director Bernardo Bertolucci...
James Karen, ‘Mr. Teague’ of ‘Poltergeist,’ is dead at 94
October 25, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — James Karen, a prolific and beloved character actor whose hundreds of credits included memorable appearances in "Poltergeist" and "The Return of the Living Dead," has died...
Something new to binge-watch: TV’s rich history of itself
May 15, 2018 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Diahann Carroll recalls a date with Marlon Brando that yielded a slap and career advice. Robert Adler tells how he co-invented the TV remote control. Walter Cronkite shares his dismay over learning that White House pressure trimmed a CBS report on Watergate.
After Brando, the deluge of Oscar politics
February 27, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Should any of this year's Oscars winners use the occasion to promote a political cause, you can thank — or blame — Marlon Brando...
Coppola and ‘Godfather’ cast reunite at Tribeca Film Fest
April 30, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Debilitating studio battles. One miraculously still cat. Mooning contests between James Caan and Marlon Brando. These were the memories shared, 45 years later, on the making of "The Godfather" in a rare reunion of the film's cast and director Francis Ford Coppola at Radio City Music Hall.