By the time David Cassidy turned 21, he had made his first million.
The actor had won hearts worldwide as the hunky, young star of The Partridge Family in the 1970s. Despite unbelievable fame, the decades that followed were marked with turmoil for Cassidy, who died Tuesday from organ failure. He was 66.
Cassidy revealed exclusively to People in February that he was battling dementia and stepping back from touring as a musician to “enjoy life” and “love.”
At the peak of his early career, Cassidy played some 350 concerts in 17 countries while releasing 10 Partridge albums, eight solo albums and 17 singles, People reported...
The actor had won hearts worldwide as the hunky, young star of The Partridge Family in the 1970s. Despite unbelievable fame, the decades that followed were marked with turmoil for Cassidy, who died Tuesday from organ failure. He was 66.
Cassidy revealed exclusively to People in February that he was battling dementia and stepping back from touring as a musician to “enjoy life” and “love.”
At the peak of his early career, Cassidy played some 350 concerts in 17 countries while releasing 10 Partridge albums, eight solo albums and 17 singles, People reported...
- 11/22/2017
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
History usually remembers Gary Hinman as the first official “Manson family” victim — killed in July 1969 by a few of Charles Manson’s cult followers at his behest. But Hinman’s life was far more important to his relatives than his death.
“It is too bad he is known as a victim of Charles Manson, but that is not how the family remembers him,” cousin Charlotte Hood tells People after the news that Manson died Sunday, at age 83.
“I saw something on the Internet that he was very, very ill, and it is about time,” Hood says.
Speaking of Hinman, who was 34 when he was killed,...
“It is too bad he is known as a victim of Charles Manson, but that is not how the family remembers him,” cousin Charlotte Hood tells People after the news that Manson died Sunday, at age 83.
“I saw something on the Internet that he was very, very ill, and it is about time,” Hood says.
Speaking of Hinman, who was 34 when he was killed,...
- 11/21/2017
- by Adam Carlson and Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Charles Manson’s murder spree — which sent him to prison for more than 40 years before he died on Sunday — broke, overnight, into American culture five decades ago and never left.
During a two-day spree in August 1969, Manson and his followers, known as “the Manson family,” were responsible for the murders of seven people, including 26-year-old actress Sharon Tate. (According to authorities, Manson had already orchestrated the death of Gary Hinman, in July 1969, and would order his “family” to kill a ninth victim, Donald Shea, before his arrest.)
The killings were part of a plot by Manson to start a race war,...
During a two-day spree in August 1969, Manson and his followers, known as “the Manson family,” were responsible for the murders of seven people, including 26-year-old actress Sharon Tate. (According to authorities, Manson had already orchestrated the death of Gary Hinman, in July 1969, and would order his “family” to kill a ninth victim, Donald Shea, before his arrest.)
The killings were part of a plot by Manson to start a race war,...
- 11/20/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
People Explains: Who Is Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore — and Does He Still Have a Chance to Win?
Almost nothing about Roy Moore’s candidacy for Senate has been without controversy.
First, he challenged incumbent Luther Strange, who had been appointed to replace Jeff Sessions when he was tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney General. During the primary, he waved a gun at an election eve campaign rally, lacked support from the Republican establishment and has called Islam a “false religion.”
But none of that scared off Alabama voters on Sept. 26, who supported Moore in the Republican primary runoff for Sessions’ vacated Senate seat.
The former chief justice for Alabama’s Supreme Court defeated Strange,...
First, he challenged incumbent Luther Strange, who had been appointed to replace Jeff Sessions when he was tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney General. During the primary, he waved a gun at an election eve campaign rally, lacked support from the Republican establishment and has called Islam a “false religion.”
But none of that scared off Alabama voters on Sept. 26, who supported Moore in the Republican primary runoff for Sessions’ vacated Senate seat.
The former chief justice for Alabama’s Supreme Court defeated Strange,...
- 11/15/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Nine times out of 10, getting a major promotion at work is cause for celebration… unless it’s a job change that will ruin your friendships with colleagues, cast a pall over your office romance and threaten to turn an entire city against you.
In the series premiere of CBS’ S.W.A.T. — a procedural drama based on the 2003 film, which itself was based on the 1970s TV show — Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson learns this the hard way. After getting tapped to lead the very S.W.A.T unit that he’s been a part of for years as a sergeant, Hondo is...
In the series premiere of CBS’ S.W.A.T. — a procedural drama based on the 2003 film, which itself was based on the 1970s TV show — Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson learns this the hard way. After getting tapped to lead the very S.W.A.T unit that he’s been a part of for years as a sergeant, Hondo is...
- 11/3/2017
- TVLine.com
Alamo Drafthouse is heading to the woods to summon an ancient evil and a whole lot of fun this September with their outdoor screening of Evil Dead 2. Part of the theater's Alamo20 anniversary events, the outdoor screening will be attended by the groovy Bruce Campbell, who will be autographing his new book, Hail to the Chin:
Press Release: Austin, TX --- August 18, 2017 --- A truly rockin' cast reunion of one of this century's most fun cult films. An on-location birthday party for Steven Spielberg's monumental science-fiction classic. And perhaps the funniest horror film ever made, screened in the woods... with Bruce Campbell. The third wave of Alamo Drafthouse's year-long cycle of 'Alamo20' anniversary events is here, providing die-hard fans across the country with three can't-miss cinematic spectacles.
On September 26th in Los Angeles, Alamo Drafthouse and Birth.Movies.Death. are celebrating Mondo's new vinyl reissue of...
Press Release: Austin, TX --- August 18, 2017 --- A truly rockin' cast reunion of one of this century's most fun cult films. An on-location birthday party for Steven Spielberg's monumental science-fiction classic. And perhaps the funniest horror film ever made, screened in the woods... with Bruce Campbell. The third wave of Alamo Drafthouse's year-long cycle of 'Alamo20' anniversary events is here, providing die-hard fans across the country with three can't-miss cinematic spectacles.
On September 26th in Los Angeles, Alamo Drafthouse and Birth.Movies.Death. are celebrating Mondo's new vinyl reissue of...
- 8/18/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Chicago – The combination of two different souls with two different problems – isolated in rural Illinois – was the story that director James Choi knew he wanted to produce as his next film project. So armed with a micro budget, a four man production crew and a cast of passionate actors, Choi created “Empty Space.” The film is making its Chicago premiere at the Windy City Film Festival on Saturday, July 1st, 2017.
A Scene from ‘Empty Space,’ directed by James Choi
Photo credit: Beachwood Productions
“Empty Space” is a film about discovering similarities, especially in individuals who perceive that their handicaps are keeping them from experiencing life. Tom (Merrick Robison) is an overweight man plagued with self-doubt, who escapes to his grandmother’s cabin in the vast rural plains of Illinois. The small town residents attached to where he is staying still bullies him about his weight, except for a rebellious teenage...
A Scene from ‘Empty Space,’ directed by James Choi
Photo credit: Beachwood Productions
“Empty Space” is a film about discovering similarities, especially in individuals who perceive that their handicaps are keeping them from experiencing life. Tom (Merrick Robison) is an overweight man plagued with self-doubt, who escapes to his grandmother’s cabin in the vast rural plains of Illinois. The small town residents attached to where he is staying still bullies him about his weight, except for a rebellious teenage...
- 7/1/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Another 3-D breakthrough, this time for a Paramount musical rescued from oblivion and remastered by the 3-D Archive. Rhonda Fleming and Gene Barry star in a blend of songs and Alaskan adventure filmed in downtown Hollywood. The depth effects are great, but the big surprise is Teresa Brewer, the radio star turned one-shot movie musical wonder. Her voice resurrects memories of pop vocals just prior to the arrival of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Those Redheads from Seattle
3-D Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1953 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 90 min. / Street Date May 23, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring: Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Teresa Brewer, The Bell Sisters, Guy Mitchell, Jean Parker, Roscoe Ates, John Kellogg, Sheila James Kuehl, Dub Taylor, Max Wagner.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon
Film Editor: Archie Marshek
Original Music: Sidney Cutner, Leo Shuken
Written by Lewis R. Foster, Geoffrey Holmes (Daniel Mainwearing) and George Worthing Yates
Produced by William H. Pine,...
Those Redheads from Seattle
3-D Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1953 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 90 min. / Street Date May 23, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring: Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Teresa Brewer, The Bell Sisters, Guy Mitchell, Jean Parker, Roscoe Ates, John Kellogg, Sheila James Kuehl, Dub Taylor, Max Wagner.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon
Film Editor: Archie Marshek
Original Music: Sidney Cutner, Leo Shuken
Written by Lewis R. Foster, Geoffrey Holmes (Daniel Mainwearing) and George Worthing Yates
Produced by William H. Pine,...
- 5/20/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The allegations of domestic violence surrounding Chris Brown and former girlfriend Karrueche Tran are growing after singer Kay Cola, a neighbor of Brown’s at the time, claimed she heard Brown abusing Tran when they were dating.
Cola, 31, tweeted her accusations on Tuesday, saying she was so worried, she even called the police.
Some of y'all make me sick to my stomach talking about. Karrueches lying. I've heard him beating her myself. I even called the police:
— TheLucidDreamQueen (@KayCola) February 21, 2017
Her tweets came just hours after it was revealed that Tran, a model, was granted a temporary restraining order against...
Cola, 31, tweeted her accusations on Tuesday, saying she was so worried, she even called the police.
Some of y'all make me sick to my stomach talking about. Karrueches lying. I've heard him beating her myself. I even called the police:
— TheLucidDreamQueen (@KayCola) February 21, 2017
Her tweets came just hours after it was revealed that Tran, a model, was granted a temporary restraining order against...
- 2/23/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
By the time David Cassidy turned 21, he had made his first million.
The actor had won hearts worldwide as the hunky, young star of The Partridge Family in the 1970s. Despite unbelievable fame, the decades that followed were marked with turmoil for Cassidy, now 66.
Cassidy revealed exclusively to People on Monday that he is battling dementia and that he is stepping back from touring as a musician to “enjoy life” and “love.”
At the peak of his early career, Cassidy played some 350 concerts in 17 countries while releasing 10 Partridge albums, eight solo albums and 17 singles, People reported in 1983. Cassidy would fight...
The actor had won hearts worldwide as the hunky, young star of The Partridge Family in the 1970s. Despite unbelievable fame, the decades that followed were marked with turmoil for Cassidy, now 66.
Cassidy revealed exclusively to People on Monday that he is battling dementia and that he is stepping back from touring as a musician to “enjoy life” and “love.”
At the peak of his early career, Cassidy played some 350 concerts in 17 countries while releasing 10 Partridge albums, eight solo albums and 17 singles, People reported in 1983. Cassidy would fight...
- 2/20/2017
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
Screen launches new editorial strands Screen TV and Screen Time.
Elbert Wyche has joined Screen International as Us reporter.
Based in Los Angeles, Wyche will focus primarily on building Screen’s coverage of the high-end television business and will also handle select film news.
He will report on a daily basis to Americas editor Jeremy Kay.
Wyche, who has written at Screen since 2014, studied screenwriting through the UCLA extension writers’ programme and has interned at CBS Television, Furst Films and Madhouse Entertainment.
“Elbert is a talented, diligent self-starter and is wonderful to work with,” Kay said.
“He is already familiar to many of our contacts and I’m sure he will run with this new role as we develop Screen into a must-read destination for insightful reporting on the global television business. We’re lucky to have him.”
New strands
The addition comes as Screen International is launching editorial strands Screen TV and Screen Time.
The former...
Elbert Wyche has joined Screen International as Us reporter.
Based in Los Angeles, Wyche will focus primarily on building Screen’s coverage of the high-end television business and will also handle select film news.
He will report on a daily basis to Americas editor Jeremy Kay.
Wyche, who has written at Screen since 2014, studied screenwriting through the UCLA extension writers’ programme and has interned at CBS Television, Furst Films and Madhouse Entertainment.
“Elbert is a talented, diligent self-starter and is wonderful to work with,” Kay said.
“He is already familiar to many of our contacts and I’m sure he will run with this new role as we develop Screen into a must-read destination for insightful reporting on the global television business. We’re lucky to have him.”
New strands
The addition comes as Screen International is launching editorial strands Screen TV and Screen Time.
The former...
- 2/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
Bruce Davis, a former member of the notorious Manson “family,” was recommended for parole from a California prison Wednesday, People confirms.
“Inmate Bruce Davis was found suitable for parole at his parole suitability hearing at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo,” reads a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation statement obtained by People.
Davis, 74, is currently serving a life sentence for the July 25, 1969, murder of musician Gary Hinman and the killing of stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea in August 1969.
Davis was not involved in the grisly killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a...
“Inmate Bruce Davis was found suitable for parole at his parole suitability hearing at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo,” reads a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation statement obtained by People.
Davis, 74, is currently serving a life sentence for the July 25, 1969, murder of musician Gary Hinman and the killing of stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea in August 1969.
Davis was not involved in the grisly killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a...
- 2/3/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, who had spent the last week at a hospital in Bakersfield, California, is back in Corcoran State Prison, according to a corrections official.
“Inmate Charles Manson is at California State Prison-Corcoran,” Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation tells People. “We never stated he was anywhere else. Medical privacy laws do not allow us to discuss inmates’ medical issues, if any.”
Manson, 82, was reportedly taken to Mercy Hospital last week for an unknown ailment. The Los Angeles Times had reported that Manson was suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding and was seriously ill.
“Inmate Charles Manson is at California State Prison-Corcoran,” Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation tells People. “We never stated he was anywhere else. Medical privacy laws do not allow us to discuss inmates’ medical issues, if any.”
Manson, 82, was reportedly taken to Mercy Hospital last week for an unknown ailment. The Los Angeles Times had reported that Manson was suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding and was seriously ill.
- 1/9/2017
- by cpelisektimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Charles Manson, the 82-year-old serial killer serving nine life sentences for the grisly killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a two-day spree in 1969, is “not a model prisoner,” says a California prison official.
“He has had over 100 violations since he was incarcerated, which has been a very long time,” Kristina Khokhobashvili, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, tells People.
On Sunday, Manson was taken from California’s Corcoran State Prison and transported to a hospital in Bakersfield for gastrointestinal bleeding, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Times reports that Manson is seriously ill.
“He has had over 100 violations since he was incarcerated, which has been a very long time,” Kristina Khokhobashvili, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, tells People.
On Sunday, Manson was taken from California’s Corcoran State Prison and transported to a hospital in Bakersfield for gastrointestinal bleeding, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Times reports that Manson is seriously ill.
- 1/5/2017
- by cpelisektimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Tyrus Wong, the artist whose paintings became a visual inspiration for Disney’s animated classic Bambi, died Friday. He was 106.
Wong’s death was announced on his Facebook page, saying, “With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Tyrus Wong. Tyrus died peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving daughters Kim, Kay and Tai-Ling.”
The painter was born in China in 1910 before immigrating to California at age 9 with his father, leaving his mother and sister behind, according to a statement by the Walt Disney Museum. He attended the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles on a scholarship and,...
Wong’s death was announced on his Facebook page, saying, “With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Tyrus Wong. Tyrus died peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving daughters Kim, Kay and Tai-Ling.”
The painter was born in China in 1910 before immigrating to California at age 9 with his father, leaving his mother and sister behind, according to a statement by the Walt Disney Museum. He attended the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles on a scholarship and,...
- 12/31/2016
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
In 1993, a Filipino prospector named Michael de Guzman emerged from the jungles of Busang, Indonesia claiming to have found one of the largest gold deposits on record — he partnered with a Canadian conglomerate called Bre-x Minerals Ltd., and eventually took the fall for the most famous gold mining scandal of the late 20th century.
In 2011, screenwriters Patrick Massett and John Zinman (“Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”) decided to take the Bre-x story, arbitrarily transplant it to the late 1980s, and re-conceive it as a trite rise and fall parable about the seduction of the American Dream — the result, ultimately directed without distinction by Stephen Gaghan (“Syriana”), unfolds like a chintzy ripoff of David O. Russell ripping off Martin Scorsese ripping off real life, a movie that tries to sell us the most boring version of a story that has already been panned for all of its treasure and then some.
Read...
In 2011, screenwriters Patrick Massett and John Zinman (“Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”) decided to take the Bre-x story, arbitrarily transplant it to the late 1980s, and re-conceive it as a trite rise and fall parable about the seduction of the American Dream — the result, ultimately directed without distinction by Stephen Gaghan (“Syriana”), unfolds like a chintzy ripoff of David O. Russell ripping off Martin Scorsese ripping off real life, a movie that tries to sell us the most boring version of a story that has already been panned for all of its treasure and then some.
Read...
- 12/30/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
In Beach Boy Mike Love's new memoir Good Vibrations, he recounts a story that fellow band mate Dennis Wilson told him in the spring of 1969 about allegedly witnessing serial killer Charles Manson murder a man with an M-16 assault rifle then dispose of the body in a well. If true, it would provide a dark new chapter to Manson's already evil legacy. But retired Los Angeles County prosecutor Stephen Kay, who helped convict Manson, now 81, of nine homicides, thinks otherwise. In a chapter from Good Vibrations, Love details the shocking friendship Wilson forged with Manson and his followers...
- 8/31/2016
- by By Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
In Beach Boy Mike Love's new memoir Good Vibrations, he recounts a story that fellow band mate Dennis Wilson told him in the spring of 1969 about allegedly witnessing serial killer Charles Manson murder a man with an M-16 assault rifle then dispose of the body in a well. If true, it would provide a dark new chapter to Manson's already evil legacy. But retired Los Angeles County prosecutor Stephen Kay, who helped convict Manson, now 81, of nine homicides, thinks otherwise. In a chapter from Good Vibrations, Love details the shocking friendship Wilson forged with Manson and his followers...
- 8/31/2016
- by By Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
“There’s a love in the marvelous that intertwines in all my projects.” —Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
“What is a ghost? A tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion, suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.” — “The Devil’s Backbone”
Guillermo del Toro has trouble saying no. On the verge of starting production in Toronto on Fox Searchlight’s Cold War fantasy “The Shape of Water” and flying in to promote the opening of his Los Angeles Museum of Art exhibition “At Home with Monsters,” the Mexican filmmaker got on the phone with IndieWire. “I’m exhausted,” he admitted, “but this is light for me!”
Culled by Lacma curator Britt Salvesen from Del Toro’s extensive and eclectic home collection, which he calls Bleak House (after Charles Dickens...
“What is a ghost? A tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion, suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.” — “The Devil’s Backbone”
Guillermo del Toro has trouble saying no. On the verge of starting production in Toronto on Fox Searchlight’s Cold War fantasy “The Shape of Water” and flying in to promote the opening of his Los Angeles Museum of Art exhibition “At Home with Monsters,” the Mexican filmmaker got on the phone with IndieWire. “I’m exhausted,” he admitted, “but this is light for me!”
Culled by Lacma curator Britt Salvesen from Del Toro’s extensive and eclectic home collection, which he calls Bleak House (after Charles Dickens...
- 8/8/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
“There’s a love in the marvelous that intertwines in all my projects.” —Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
“What is a ghost? A tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion, suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.” — “The Devil’s Backbone”
Guillermo del Toro has trouble saying no. On the verge of starting production in Toronto on Fox Searchlight’s Cold War fantasy “The Shape of Water” and flying in to promote the opening of his Los Angeles Museum of Art exhibition “At Home with Monsters,” the Mexican filmmaker got on the phone with IndieWire. “I’m exhausted,” he admitted, “but this is light for me!”
Culled by Lacma curator Britt Salvesen from Del Toro’s extensive and eclectic home collection, which he calls Bleak House (after Charles Dickens...
“What is a ghost? A tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion, suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.” — “The Devil’s Backbone”
Guillermo del Toro has trouble saying no. On the verge of starting production in Toronto on Fox Searchlight’s Cold War fantasy “The Shape of Water” and flying in to promote the opening of his Los Angeles Museum of Art exhibition “At Home with Monsters,” the Mexican filmmaker got on the phone with IndieWire. “I’m exhausted,” he admitted, “but this is light for me!”
Culled by Lacma curator Britt Salvesen from Del Toro’s extensive and eclectic home collection, which he calls Bleak House (after Charles Dickens...
- 8/8/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Matthew McConaughey was joined by two beautiful women at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala in La on Thursday - his wife, Camila Alves, and his mom, Kay McCabe. The actor walked hand in hand with Camila as they made their way into Dodger Stadium for the event, which also brought out Lea Michele, Taylor Lautner, Lindsey Vonn, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Matthew recently opened up about the night he first met Camila, whom he began dating in 2006 and married in 2012. In an interview with People, the Oscar winner described the Brazilian beauty as "this sort of aqua-green figure," adding, "As I was trying to get that's attention across the room, I went in my head, 'This is not the kind of woman you call over across the room, McConaughey. Get your ass out of your chair and go get her.' Which I did." A decade and three adorable kids later,...
- 7/29/2016
- by Brittney Stephens
- Popsugar.com
Former The Shield actor Michael Jace was sentenced Friday to 40 years to life in prison for shooting his wife to death last April in their Los Angeles home in front of the couple's two young sons, People confirms.
Jace, 53, was found guilty of second-degree murder after a week-long trial last month.
The actor, who portrayed Lapd officer Julien Lowe on the FX television series The Shield, was upset his wife, April Jace, wanted a divorce, Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef told jurors in opening statements.
Jace waited in their home and when April arrived, he shot her once in the back,...
Jace, 53, was found guilty of second-degree murder after a week-long trial last month.
The actor, who portrayed Lapd officer Julien Lowe on the FX television series The Shield, was upset his wife, April Jace, wanted a divorce, Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef told jurors in opening statements.
Jace waited in their home and when April arrived, he shot her once in the back,...
- 6/10/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- People.com - TV Watch
Former The Shield actor Michael Jace was sentenced Friday to 40 years to life in prison for shooting his wife to death last April in their Los Angeles home in front of the couple's two young sons, People confirms. Jace, 53, was found guilty of second-degree murder after a week-long trial last month. The actor, who portrayed Lapd officer Julien Lowe on the FX television series The Shield, was upset his wife, April Jace, wanted a divorce, Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef told jurors in opening statements. Jace waited in their home and when April arrived, he shot her once in the back,...
- 6/10/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
On the afternoon of November 16, 1969, a birdwatcher spotted the body of a young woman tangled in dense brush off L.A.'s scenic Mulholland Drive. The victim, who had no identification on her, had been stabbed in the neck 150 times in what police believe was a "rage" killing. "It was personal," says Lapd cold case detective Luis Rivera. "There was a lot of outrage behind it. It was a maniac…or love gone wrong." News of her death spread. A caretaker at Spahn Ranch, the notorious Manson Family hangout, told police that the victim, who became known as Jane Doe...
- 4/28/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
The origin of this project goes as far back in our women's collective memory to the time in the late 80s when Janet Grillo was head of Acquisitions for New Line Cinema and Sara Risher was head of production. I was buying features for Lorimar or Republic Pictures. We did not know at that time that one day, after Janet had completed her directorial debut, the lovely and loving film "Fly Away," that Sara would tell a certain writer-producer. to show her script to Janet as a possible director.
Janet liked it and together they developed it further at L.A. Film Independent. They then won the PGA Script Award. They hired an 18-year-old who had been a child actress and was a Nyu Freshman just finishing a TV Career. She agreed to star in January and the film was shot the following May 2014.
It premiered in Geena Davis’ Inaugural 2015 Bentonville Film Festival in May 2015 where it won the Jury Geena Davis’ new effort to celebrate the work of women and diverse voices in media also is the only festival to guarantee distribution for its winners’ project.
“The goal of the festival is not just to showcase women and diversity—it’s to really have a proactive and powerful effect on the industry,” says Davis, Bff co-founder and founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. “We’re intent on being extremely proactive in showing the films that include women and that are very commercial. Our goal is to show that this is the direction in which things are heading and we should get there sooner.”
"Jack of the Red Hearts” has now arrived in theaters nationwide as of February 26, 2016. "Jack of the Red Hearts”. Arc Entertainment and Trent Drinkwaer who founded the Bentonville Film Festival with Geena guarantees a minimum of one week in AMC theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Mimai, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington D.C.
On its opening night, Thursday, February 25, Geena Davis, Famke Janssen, Phyllis Nagy (writer, “Carol”), Catherine Hardwicke (director, “Twilight ”) and Danielle Carrig (Svp Lifetime) joined "Jack of the Red Hearts” director Janet Grillo, producer Lucy Mukerjee-Brown and writer Jennifer Deaton for a special screening of the film and Q&A at the YouTube Space in L.A. In conjunction with Broad Focus, Lifetime, the Genna Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Bentonville Film Festival, the Q&A, moderated by the Wrap’s Sharon Waxman, will begin immediately followed the 7pm screening.
It will play on Lifetime April 20 which is Autism Awareness Month. It will show again at Bentonville Film Festival’s second edition May 3 - 8 of this year.
Bentonville’s strong affiliation with Walmart, the only vendor and the largest still selling DVDs will release it in its stores and on its VOD site.
Anna Sophia Robb portrays “Jack,” a tough teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer. The conniving street kid brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and forms a unique bond with an 11 year-old autistic girl named Glory, brilliantly played by newcomer Taylor Richardson. Famke Janssen, as the child's desperate mother Kay, also bonds with the imposter, as a surrogate daughter she can actually talk to. And the girl’s cute older brother Robert (Israel Broussard) falls in love. When the deception is exposed and the cops descend, loving father Mark (Scott Cohen) struggles to hold his family together as the pieces of this puzzle are reshuffled into a new, satisfying whole.
"Jack of the Red Hearts” is directed by Janet Grillo (writer/director of “Fly Away” and executive producer of Emmy®-winning “Autism: The Musical”) and written by Jennifer Deaton. Both have strong ties to the autism community as Grillo is mother to a child on the autism spectrum and Deaton is aunt to a child on the spectrum. The producers are Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, and Morgan White.
The film stars AnnaSophia Robb (“The Carrie Diaries,” “Soul Surfer”), Famke Janssen (“X-Men”), Scott Cohen (“One Life to Live”), Taylor Richardson (“Annie”), Israel Broussard (“The Bling Ring”) and John D’Leo (“Unbroken”).
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/jackoftheredhearts.
Janet liked it and together they developed it further at L.A. Film Independent. They then won the PGA Script Award. They hired an 18-year-old who had been a child actress and was a Nyu Freshman just finishing a TV Career. She agreed to star in January and the film was shot the following May 2014.
It premiered in Geena Davis’ Inaugural 2015 Bentonville Film Festival in May 2015 where it won the Jury Geena Davis’ new effort to celebrate the work of women and diverse voices in media also is the only festival to guarantee distribution for its winners’ project.
“The goal of the festival is not just to showcase women and diversity—it’s to really have a proactive and powerful effect on the industry,” says Davis, Bff co-founder and founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. “We’re intent on being extremely proactive in showing the films that include women and that are very commercial. Our goal is to show that this is the direction in which things are heading and we should get there sooner.”
"Jack of the Red Hearts” has now arrived in theaters nationwide as of February 26, 2016. "Jack of the Red Hearts”. Arc Entertainment and Trent Drinkwaer who founded the Bentonville Film Festival with Geena guarantees a minimum of one week in AMC theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Mimai, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington D.C.
On its opening night, Thursday, February 25, Geena Davis, Famke Janssen, Phyllis Nagy (writer, “Carol”), Catherine Hardwicke (director, “Twilight ”) and Danielle Carrig (Svp Lifetime) joined "Jack of the Red Hearts” director Janet Grillo, producer Lucy Mukerjee-Brown and writer Jennifer Deaton for a special screening of the film and Q&A at the YouTube Space in L.A. In conjunction with Broad Focus, Lifetime, the Genna Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Bentonville Film Festival, the Q&A, moderated by the Wrap’s Sharon Waxman, will begin immediately followed the 7pm screening.
It will play on Lifetime April 20 which is Autism Awareness Month. It will show again at Bentonville Film Festival’s second edition May 3 - 8 of this year.
Bentonville’s strong affiliation with Walmart, the only vendor and the largest still selling DVDs will release it in its stores and on its VOD site.
Anna Sophia Robb portrays “Jack,” a tough teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer. The conniving street kid brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and forms a unique bond with an 11 year-old autistic girl named Glory, brilliantly played by newcomer Taylor Richardson. Famke Janssen, as the child's desperate mother Kay, also bonds with the imposter, as a surrogate daughter she can actually talk to. And the girl’s cute older brother Robert (Israel Broussard) falls in love. When the deception is exposed and the cops descend, loving father Mark (Scott Cohen) struggles to hold his family together as the pieces of this puzzle are reshuffled into a new, satisfying whole.
"Jack of the Red Hearts” is directed by Janet Grillo (writer/director of “Fly Away” and executive producer of Emmy®-winning “Autism: The Musical”) and written by Jennifer Deaton. Both have strong ties to the autism community as Grillo is mother to a child on the autism spectrum and Deaton is aunt to a child on the spectrum. The producers are Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, and Morgan White.
The film stars AnnaSophia Robb (“The Carrie Diaries,” “Soul Surfer”), Famke Janssen (“X-Men”), Scott Cohen (“One Life to Live”), Taylor Richardson (“Annie”), Israel Broussard (“The Bling Ring”) and John D’Leo (“Unbroken”).
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/jackoftheredhearts.
- 2/29/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Two episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
There are no evil carnivals in Heroes Reborn. For diehard fans of the series, well, first welcome back to 2006! And, second, I have good news: the new NBC mini-series/event saga/reboot/apology tour is worth your time. The 13-episode run has some characters and locations fans will know and recognize, but creator Tim Kring largely sticks to the “reboot” part of this new do-over, introducing half a dozen fresh faces into the mix and kicking things off with a literal bang that sends shivers and ripples down each of the show’s multiple plots.
Chronologically, the new “volume” takes place what seems to be a few months after Claire “came out” to the world as an Evo (new lingo in Reborn), with her dad, good ol’ Hrg Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) meeting her at a rally meant to promote the symbiosis of humans and the new evolved.
There are no evil carnivals in Heroes Reborn. For diehard fans of the series, well, first welcome back to 2006! And, second, I have good news: the new NBC mini-series/event saga/reboot/apology tour is worth your time. The 13-episode run has some characters and locations fans will know and recognize, but creator Tim Kring largely sticks to the “reboot” part of this new do-over, introducing half a dozen fresh faces into the mix and kicking things off with a literal bang that sends shivers and ripples down each of the show’s multiple plots.
Chronologically, the new “volume” takes place what seems to be a few months after Claire “came out” to the world as an Evo (new lingo in Reborn), with her dad, good ol’ Hrg Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) meeting her at a rally meant to promote the symbiosis of humans and the new evolved.
- 9/19/2015
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
This week includes several brand new shows to get excited about while one cult series says goodbye.
From the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead to the finale of Hannibal, these are Digital Spy's top TV picks over the next seven days.
Monday - Fear the Walking Dead, AMC UK on BT at 9pm
The long-awaited spinoff to The Walking Dead arrives in the UK a week after the Us premiere, and the reviews have been pretty positive.
Taking place during the beginnings of the zombie outbreak, the series focuses on a new bunch of characters in Los Angeles, including a married couple played by Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis. Expect plenty of screams.
Tuesday - Rectify, AMC UK on BT at 9pm
Hot on the heels of Fear the Walking Dead is another Us export in the form of this SundanceTV drama. Three seasons have aired in the Us...
From the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead to the finale of Hannibal, these are Digital Spy's top TV picks over the next seven days.
Monday - Fear the Walking Dead, AMC UK on BT at 9pm
The long-awaited spinoff to The Walking Dead arrives in the UK a week after the Us premiere, and the reviews have been pretty positive.
Taking place during the beginnings of the zombie outbreak, the series focuses on a new bunch of characters in Los Angeles, including a married couple played by Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis. Expect plenty of screams.
Tuesday - Rectify, AMC UK on BT at 9pm
Hot on the heels of Fear the Walking Dead is another Us export in the form of this SundanceTV drama. Three seasons have aired in the Us...
- 8/30/2015
- Digital Spy
"The enjoyment of a work of art, the acceptance of an irresistible illusion, constituting, to my sense, our highest experience of "luxury," the luxury is not greatest, by my consequent measure, when the work asks for as little attention as possible. It is greatest, it is delightfully, divinely great, when we feel the surface, like the thick ice of the skater's pond, bear without cracking the strongest pressure we throw on it. The sound of the crack one may recognise, but never surely to call it a luxury." —Henry James, from The Preface to The Wings of the Dove (1909) "[The critic’s] choice of best salami is a picture backed by studio build-up, agreement amongst his colleagues, a layout in Life mag (which makes it officially reasonable for an American award), and a list of ingredients that anyone’s unsophisticated aunt in Oakland can spot as comprising a distinguished film. This prize picture,...
- 7/27/2015
- by Greg Gerke
- MUBI
The Narbonne High School girls' basketball team has yet to play Saturday's Los Angeles City Section championship game - but it's already scored a crucial victory. The members of the team made headlines this week when they were barred from the game for wearing unapproved uniforms bearing breast cancer awareness colors in an earlier playoff game last Saturday. But following a national uproar, a three-person panel overturned the ban Tuesday and said the team could play in the game after all, although their coach, Victoria Sanders, has been suspended for the rest of the season. "In the spirit of the game and for the kids,...
- 3/4/2015
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
The Narbonne High School girls' basketball team has yet to play Saturday's Los Angeles City Section championship game - but it's already scored a crucial victory. The team made headlines this week when they were barred from the game for wearing unapproved uniforms bearing breast cancer awareness colors in an earlier playoff game last Saturday. But following a national uproar, a three-person panel overturned the ban Tuesday and said the team could play in the game after all, although their coach, Victoria Sanders, has been suspended for the rest of the season. "In the spirit of the game and for the kids,...
- 3/4/2015
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
Excited for their one-way trip to colonize Mars, five of the Mars One final candidates give People all the details behind their decision to leave Earth. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive interviews.It sounds like an adventure of a lifetime. Sometime around 2024, four earthlings will blast off in a rocket to Mars. In following years, more people will make the trip. Their mission: to create a colony on the Red Planet and begin a new era in space exploration. There's just one caveat: it's a one-way trip. "This is a mission of permanent settlement," says Bas Lansdorp,...
- 2/27/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
Excited for their one-way trip to colonize Mars, five of the Mars One final candidates give People all the details behind their decision to leave Earth. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive interviews.It sounds like an adventure of a lifetime. Sometime around 2024, four earthlings will blast off in a rocket to Mars. In following years, more people will make the trip. Their mission: to create a colony on the Red Planet and begin a new era in space exploration. There's just one caveat: it's a one-way trip. "This is a mission of permanent settlement," says Bas Lansdorp,...
- 2/27/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
Photo: Screen Actors Guild It's the first major industry award show of the year as the media has weighed in with their thoughts at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, but tonight the Screen Actors Guild announce the winners of the 2015 SAG Awards and Laremy and I are back at the helm, live-blogging the awards just as we did with the Golden Globes. As far as the current awards race is concerned, with Birdman winning the Producers Guild Awards last night, all eyes will be on the ensemble category as Boyhood will be looking to gain back that edge and remain the Oscar frontrunner. However, should Birdman take tonight's top prize don't be surprised to see Birdman swing into that top spot in my Best Picture predictions. We'll see how things turn out... You can check out the full list of feature film nominees right here and we'll be...
- 1/25/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Seventy-five years after the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" (on December 15, 1939), it seems that nothing -- not the passage of time, not the movie's controversial racial politics, not the film's daunting length, and not even the release of certain James Cameron global blockbusters -- can diminish the romantic Civil War drama's stature as the most popular movie of all time.
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a new poster from Psychophonia, casting and production details from Tales of Halloween, a trailer for The Sugar Skull Girls, and more:
Psychophonia First Details and Poster: “Lony Ruhmann, Blanc/Biehn Productions and Give & Take Productions have announced the new thriller Psychophonia. With a story from Lony Ruhmann and screenplay by Nicholl Fellowship winner Barbara Stepansky, the new film will be helmed by Brianne Davis, who earlier this year directed The Night Visitor 2: Heather’s Story.
Psychophonia stars Vedette Lim (Chicago Fire, True Blood) in the lead role of Lilly Tarver. Rounding out the cast; Andrew W. Walker (The Torturer, 2 Bedroom One Bath), Kellee Stewart (Hot Tub Time Machine 1 & 2, The Soul Man) Adam Rose (Up In The Air, The Bounty Hunter), Daniel Quinn (Fetish Factory, Wrong Cops...
Psychophonia First Details and Poster: “Lony Ruhmann, Blanc/Biehn Productions and Give & Take Productions have announced the new thriller Psychophonia. With a story from Lony Ruhmann and screenplay by Nicholl Fellowship winner Barbara Stepansky, the new film will be helmed by Brianne Davis, who earlier this year directed The Night Visitor 2: Heather’s Story.
Psychophonia stars Vedette Lim (Chicago Fire, True Blood) in the lead role of Lilly Tarver. Rounding out the cast; Andrew W. Walker (The Torturer, 2 Bedroom One Bath), Kellee Stewart (Hot Tub Time Machine 1 & 2, The Soul Man) Adam Rose (Up In The Air, The Bounty Hunter), Daniel Quinn (Fetish Factory, Wrong Cops...
- 12/7/2014
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Jennifer M. Kroot’s To Be Takei is an affectionate portrait of the hardest-working member of the original cast of Star Trek, George Takei. That’s pronounced tuh-Kay, not tuh-kai, as so many have misspoken it over the years, including but not limited to William Shatner, whose strained non-relationship with Takei — particularly Shatner’s absence from Takei’s wedding — is one of the film’s many running threads. Others include Takei’s recent Internet fame, his intimate partnership with his husband, Brad, how Takei’s campaigning for marriage equality contributed to them being able to get married in the first place, and, perhaps most poignantly, Los Angeles–born Takei’s time spent in internment camps as a c...
- 8/20/2014
- Village Voice
Sofia Vergara is sporting some new bling -- but don't get too excited!The "Modern Family" star sparked engagement rumors on Monday, after she stepped out in Los Angeles wearing a big sparkler on that finger. Sofia Vergara Gets Cozy With Joe Manganiello at Birthday DinnerIt's only been a few weeks since the Colombian beauty and hunky actor Joe Manganiello made their romance public, so this is nothing but clever way for the actress to promote her Kay Jewelers So Sofia line.When you look closely, her bling is clearly the amethyst and diamond ring from her collection. The 42-year-old beauty is also rocking a matching necklace.Pretty genius way to promote that line, right?! Last week, the brunette bombshell spoke about her relationship with Joe for the first time. "You know, I'm just having a great time," she told Extra. "It's a special time in my life, and I'm...
- 8/19/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
The truck driver from Georgia accused of triggering a crash in New Jersey that critically injured Tracy Morgan had not slept for more than 24 hours.
The Wal-Mart truck driver from Georgia accused of triggering a crash in New Jersey that critically injured Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian had not slept for more than 24 hours, a criminal complaint said.
A court official on Monday said 35-year-old Kevin Roper is scheduled to face an initial court appearance on Wednesday. He remains free after posting $50,000 bond.
Roper has been charged with death by auto and four counts of assault by auto.
Related: Tracy Morgan 'Responsive'
Authorities said the Jonesboro, Ga., resident apparently failed to slow for traffic ahead early Saturday in Cranbury Township and swerved at the last minute to avoid a crash. Instead, his big rig smashed into the back of Morgan's chauffeured Mercedes limo bus, killing comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair, authorities said.
The...
The Wal-Mart truck driver from Georgia accused of triggering a crash in New Jersey that critically injured Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian had not slept for more than 24 hours, a criminal complaint said.
A court official on Monday said 35-year-old Kevin Roper is scheduled to face an initial court appearance on Wednesday. He remains free after posting $50,000 bond.
Roper has been charged with death by auto and four counts of assault by auto.
Related: Tracy Morgan 'Responsive'
Authorities said the Jonesboro, Ga., resident apparently failed to slow for traffic ahead early Saturday in Cranbury Township and swerved at the last minute to avoid a crash. Instead, his big rig smashed into the back of Morgan's chauffeured Mercedes limo bus, killing comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair, authorities said.
The...
- 6/9/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
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