NEWS
By Phil Perrier | March 24, 2002
LOS ANGELES -- Judging from this year's Academy Award nominees, you would think all of the male members of the academy had been knocked unconscious and locked in a basement. The contenders for Best Picture are A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings and Moulin Rouge. Oprah Winfrey's book club could have made these choices. Not one movie about soldiers, gladiators or cowboys. Perhaps after decades of critics bemoaning the lack of quality small films being nominated, this is a makeup year.
FEATURES
By Lou Cedrone | March 22, 1991
THE LONG Walk Home'' dramatizes an early chapter in the civil rights war, and, despite the familiarity of the material, it engages the audience. This may be history we know, but it has all been done with great dignity.The cast has much to do with this. Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg star. Spacek is a Montgomery, Ala., matron, and Goldberg is the woman who serves as her maid. It is 1955, and Rosa Parks has already sparked the rebellion by refusing to sit in the back of the bus. The Montgomery blacks, resentful of having to enter the front of the bus, drop coins, then get off and enter the rear door, stage a boycott of the bus lines.
NEWS
December 14, 2007
FREDDIE FIELDS, 84 Agent, studio executive Freddie Fields, the Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive who helped make stars of Mel Gibson, Richard Gere and others with films such as The Year of Living Dangerously, American Gigolo and Glory, died Tuesday of lung cancer at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., said publicist Warren Cowan, a longtime friend. During a long, colorful career as one of Hollywood's biggest behind-the-scenes players, Mr. Fields founded the international talent agency Creative Management Associates and served as president of two major film studios, MGM and United Artists.
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By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,SUN MOVIE CRITIC | October 11, 2002
Charming has devolved into almost a pejorative these days, but Tuck Everlasting is the sort of film that could change that. There's simply no other word to describe this gossamer-winged ode to love and death, an adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's 1975 novel that doesn't aspire to big truths as much as gentle persuasions and atmospheric pleasures. While a reliance on simplistic dialogue - the phrase "I wish this moment could last forever" should have been banned long ago - and a rather gaping logic hole in the final act keeps the movie from soaring the way it tries to, the talented cast (including three Oscar winners)
NEWS
October 26, 2003
Earl Peyroux, 78, who was the host of more than 600 episodes of the Public Broadcasting Service Gourmet Cooking television show, died Thursday in Pensacola, Fla., after a prolonged illness. He was a culinary teacher at Pensacola Junior College when the campus public television station, WSRE, asked him to be host of a cooking show in 1977. "It lasted for 18 years, was picked up by PBS and shown coast to coast," said Jerry Gillmore, his longtime companion. "He was slightly overweight and looked like he enjoyed his food."
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By Michael Sragow and By Michael Sragow,SUN MOVIE CRITIC | December 25, 2001
Ducking into an art-plex near Lincoln Center on a rainy New York afternoon a few weeks ago, I immediately headed for In the Bedroom, which had already been winning raves as the best movie of the year. After two hours, I felt I should have opted for the rain. "It's unrelenting," said the man in front of me to his wife. "It's unrelenting; it's unrelenting - and then it stops!" she added, derisively. First-time director and co-writer Todd Field based this drab picture on Andres Dubus' 18-page short story "Killings."