Farewell Peter O'Toole!

Farewell Peter O'Toole!

Peter O'Toole passed away the other day, 14 December 2013. He was 81, and quite a wonderful Actor.

Groucho Marx described him as "The only Actor with a double phallic name."

More than just the sum of his parts, Peter O'Toole was such a Great Actor. He started right at the top, and...stayed there. Here is the way I want to remember him.

Lawrence Of Arabia - His first starring role! Seriously.



My Favorite Year - A fun one from Richard Benjamin and Mel Brooks



A play he did at London's Old Vic Theatre, "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell." (Bad Language, but mostly right at the beginning).

Teddibly witty. A fine turn for the actual son of a Bookie.



I will always remember his famous exchange with Peter Sellers, in "Casino Royale." If you remember, there were THREE Directors of that picture, and it got confused, poor thing.  Also confusing.

Only loosely based on Ian Fleming's book "Casino Royale." And I use the term "loosely," very loosely.

In the midst of some scene of wretched excess, Peter O'Toole marches up, in a foggy column of far-too-many Pipers.

O'TOOLE
Are you Richard Burton?

SELLERS
No, I'm Peter O'Toole!

O'TOOLE
Then you're the finest man that ever breathed!

Just in case you don't believe me. Casino Royale.
Now, that's a cameo!



Mr. O'Toole was nominated eight times for a Best Actor Oscar, but his peers had the unfortunate tendency to award it to other persons.

That makes him the most-nominated Actor, who did not alas, win. I am sure that was some small consolation.

YEAR  NOMINATED FOR    BUT THEY GAVE IT TO

1962 Lawrence of Arabia     Gregory Peck, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
1964 Becket                    Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
1968 The Lion in Winter      Cliff Robertson – Charly
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips    John Wayne – True Grit
1972 The Ruling Class       Marlon Brando – The Godfather
1980 The Stunt Man              Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
1982 My Favorite Year       Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
2006 Venus            Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland


In 2003, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award, for all his work and lifelong contribution to film. He wrote the Academy back, saying he was "Still in the game," and would prefer to "win the lovely bugger outright."

Academy said they were giving it to him, no matter O'Toole's preference. O'Toole's children talked him into accepting, and it was presented to him by Meryl Streep, who has been nominated more times than any other Actress.



Peter Sellers
Peter O'Toole
My Favorite Year
Lawrence Of Arabia
Becket
The Lion in Winter
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Ruling Class
The Stunt Man
Venus
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Fair Lady
Charly
True Grit
The Godfather
Raging Bull
Gandhi
The Last King of Scotland
Casino Royale

Happy Birthday Steven Spielberg!

Happy Birthday Steven Spielberg! 

You are great, and have achieved so much.
18 December 1946

Steven Spielberg filmography


AMATEUR

1959 The Last Gun
1961 Fighter Squad
        Escape to Nowhere
1964 Firelight


PROFESSIONAL

1968 Amblin'
1971 Duel
1974 The Sugarland Express
1975 Jaws
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1979 1941
1980 The Blues Brothers
        Used Cars
1981 Continental Divide
        Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
        Poltergeist
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie (Segment "Kick the Can")
1984 Gremlins
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
        Room 666
1985 Fandango
        Back to the Future
        The Color Purple
        The Goonies
        Young Sherlock Holmes
1986 An American Tail
        The Money Pit
1987 Batteries Not Included
        Empire of the Sun
        Harry and the Hendersons
        Innerspace
        Three O'Clock High
1988 The Land Before Time
        Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 Always
        Back to the Future Part II
        Dad
        Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 Arachnophobia
        Dreams
        Back to the Future Part III
        Gremlins 2: The New Batch
        Joe Versus the Volcano
        Roller Coaster Rabbit
1991 A Wish for Wings That Work
        An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
        Cape Fear
        Hook
        Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
        A Brief History of Time
1993 Jurassic Park 
        We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
        Schindler's List 
1994 The Flintstones
1995 Casper
        Balto
1996 Twister
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
        Men in Black
        Amistad 
1998 Saving Private Ryan 
        The Last Days
        The Mask of Zorro
        Deep Impact
1999 Wakko's Wish
        Medal of Honor
2000 Shooting War
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
        Jurassic Park III
        Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
        Vanilla Sky
2002 Minority Report
        Men in Black II
        Austin Powers in Goldmember
        Catch Me If You Can 
2003 Double Dare
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
        The Terminal 
2005 Directed by John Ford
        War of the Worlds
        The Legend of Zorro
        Memoirs of a Geisha
        Munich 
2006 Flags of Our Fathers
        Letters from Iwo Jima
        Monster House
        The Shark Is Still Working
2007 Transformers
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
        Eagle Eye
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
        The Lovely Bones
2010 Hollywood Don't Surf!
        Hereafter
        True Grit
2011 Paul
        Super 8
        Transformers: Dark of the Moon
        Cowboys & Aliens
        Real Steel
        The Adventures of Tintin 
        War Horse 
2012 Men in Black 3
        Lincoln 
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction
        The Hundred-Foot Journey
2015 Jurassic World
        American Sniper
        The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun

Sam Longoria Quotes

Sam Longoria Quotes

"Seattle has only two weeks in August you can shoot movies,
and you don't know until September, which ones they were."
 -- Sam Longoria 

Happy Birthday Woody Allen!

Happy Birthday, Woody Allen!

Woody Allen was born 1 December 1935, and is 78 years old today. He has 71 films and tv to his credit, as Director (71 credits) or Writer (71 credits) or Actor (44 credits). How many have you seen?

2014 Magic in the Moonlight
2013 Blue Jasmine
2013 Fading Gigolo
2012 Paris-Manhattan
2012 To Rome with Love
2011 Midnight in Paris
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2009 Sdelka
2009 Whatever Works
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2007 Cassandra's Dream
2006 Scoop
2005 Match Point
2004 Melinda and Melinda
2003 Anything Else
2002 Hollywood Ending
2001 The Concert for New York City
          ("Sounds from the Town I Love")
2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2000 Company Man
2000 Small Time Crooks
2000 Picking Up the Pieces
2000 Company Man
1999 Sweet and Lowdown
1998 Antz
1998 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1998 The Impostors
1998 Celebrity
1997 Deconstructing Harry
1997 Count Mercury Goes to the Suburbs
1997 Wild Man Blues
1996 The Sunshine Boys (TV Movie)
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1995 Mighty Aphrodite
1995 Une aspirine pour deux (TV Movie)
1994 Bullets Over Broadway
1994 Don't Drink the Water (TV Movie)
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery
1992 Husbands and Wives
1991 Shadows and Fog
1991 Scenes from a Mall
1990 Alice
1989 New York Stories ("Oedipus Wrecks")
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 Somebody or The Rise and Fall of Philosophy
1988 Another Woman
1987 King Lear
1987 September
1987 Radio Days
1986 Meeting Woody Allen (Documentary)
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1984 Broadway Danny Rose
1983 Zelig
1982 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1981 The Subtil Concept
1980 Stardust Memories
1979 Manhattan
1978 Interiors
1977 Annie Hall
1976 The Front
1975 Love and Death
1973 Sleeper
1972 Play It Again, Sam
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
          But Were Afraid to Ask
1971 Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971 Bananas
1970 Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
1970 Hot Dog (TV Series)
1969 The Woody Allen Special
1969 The Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
1969 Take the Money and Run
1969 Don't Drink the Water
1967 The World: Color It Happy (TV Movie)
1967 Casino Royale
1967 The Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
1967 Woody Allen Looks at 1967
1966 Gene Kelly in New York, New York
1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1965 What's New Pussycat
1963 The Sid Caesar Show (TV Series)
1962 The Laughmakers (TV Short)
1961 The Garry Moore Show (TV Series)
1960 Candid Camera (TV Series)
1960 Hooray for Love (TV Movie)
1959 At the Movies (TV Movie)
1958 The Sid Caesar Show (TV Series)
1956 Stanley (TV Series)
1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series)

Woody Allen
Golden Globes
Academy Awards
Birthday 1 December
Motion Picture Academy

Woody Allen To Snub Golden Globes

Woody Allen To Snub Golden Globes

Woody Allen, celebrated stage, tv, and motion picture Writer-Director-Actor, has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Golden Globes, and yet predicts he will not attend that Award Ceremony.

Woody seems still to be reticent regarding Awards and Award ceremonies, even though he has been nominated for thirteen and won two previous Golden globes, and four Academy Awards, and has been Nominated by the Motion Picture Academy a record fifteen times. And many, many other Awards. (113 wins & 131 nominations).

Woody Allen Films TV Plays

2014 Magic in the Moonlight
2013 Blue Jasmine
2013 Fading Gigolo
2012 Paris-Manhattan
2012 To Rome with Love
2011 Midnight in Paris
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2009 Sdelka
2009 Whatever Works
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2007 Cassandra's Dream
2006 Scoop
2005 Match Point
2004 Melinda and Melinda
2003 Anything Else
2002 Hollywood Ending
2001 The Concert for New York City
          ("Sounds from the Town I Love")
2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2000 Company Man
2000 Small Time Crooks
2000 Picking Up the Pieces
2000 Company Man
1999 Sweet and Lowdown
1998 Antz
1998 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1998 The Impostors
1998 Celebrity
1997 Deconstructing Harry
1997 Count Mercury Goes to the Suburbs
1997 Wild Man Blues
1996 The Sunshine Boys (TV Movie)
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1995 Mighty Aphrodite
1995 Une aspirine pour deux (TV Movie)
1994 Bullets Over Broadway
1994 Don't Drink the Water (TV Movie)
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery
1992 Husbands and Wives
1991 Shadows and Fog
1991 Scenes from a Mall
1990 Alice
1989 New York Stories ("Oedipus Wrecks")
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 Somebody or The Rise and Fall of Philosophy
1988 Another Woman
1987 King Lear
1987 September
1987 Radio Days
1986 Meeting Woody Allen (Documentary)
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1984 Broadway Danny Rose
1983 Zelig
1982 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1981 The Subtil Concept
1980 Stardust Memories
1979 Manhattan
1978 Interiors
1977 Annie Hall
1976 The Front
1975 Love and Death
1973 Sleeper
1972 Play It Again, Sam
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
          But Were Afraid to Ask
1971 Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971 Bananas
1970 Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
1970 Hot Dog (TV Series)
1969 The Woody Allen Special
1969 The Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
1969 Take the Money and Run
1969 Don't Drink the Water
1967 The World: Color It Happy (TV Movie)
1967 Casino Royale
1967 The Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
1967 Woody Allen Looks at 1967
1966 Gene Kelly in New York, New York
1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1965 What's New Pussycat
1963 The Sid Caesar Show (TV Series)
1962 The Laughmakers (TV Short)
1961 The Garry Moore Show (TV Series)
1960 Candid Camera (TV Series)
1960 Hooray for Love (TV Movie)
1959 At the Movies (TV Movie)
1958 The Sid Caesar Show (TV Series)
1956 Stanley (TV Series)
1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series)

Woody Allen
Golden Globes
Academy Awards
Birthday 1 December
Motion Picture Academy

Red Skelton 100th Birthday 18 July 2013

Red Skelton - 100th Birthday - 18 July 2013

I met him in Seattle, Summer 1977. My writing partner John Halvorson called me up on the phone. "You've got to get down here! Red Skelton is here! Olympic Hotel!" And he hung up. 

Zoomed down! Speed-walked into the Olympic Lobby. It was filled to capacity with Japanese tourists, and right in the middle, ignored by the tourists, chewing on an enormous unlighted cigar the size of a Presto-Log, was Red Skelton. 

He wasn't sad...exactly...but none of the tourists recognized him, or seemed to speak English. He brightened up, when he caught sight of us. "What are you doing here?" I asked. "Looking for you!" he replied.

The next hour was delightful. He told us he painted a painting and wrote a piece of music, every day. He told jokes - often - just like regular folks gab about the weather. He autographed my glossy of him, so it could hang on my Editing Room wall. "My Thanks, Red Skelton."

I asked if he'd autograph my copy of "The Groucho Files," because in it, Groucho wrote Red was the natural comic successor to Chaplin. Groucho wrote that Red could do anything. Monologue, pantomime, jokes, stories. He had all the comic gifts. High praise indeed, from another Master.

Red seemed quite moved. He turned to a tourist, and said "Look! Groucho Marx says I'm funny!" He only got a puzzled smile from the tourist, to which Red did a huge shocked take, which was...funny. Of course.

Wherever you are, on your 100th Birthday, bless you Red.







A delightful collection! More of Red Skelton's great comedy.



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The Pleadge
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Skelton Red
Ed Sullivan
Peforming Arts
Red Skelton Show
Red Skelton Pledge
The Red Skelton Show
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The Pledge Of The Allegiance
Red Skelton Pledge Of Allegiance
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"Solar System Soup" Is Yummy! - Book Review

"Solar System Soup" Is Yummy! - Book Review

This review is from: Solar System Soup (Paperback)
Children's Book, Story by Lindsay Marshall,
Illustrated by Don Bearwood

http://amzn.to/solar-system-soup


A good story carries one far away, and this one certainly does that. It takes me to when I was five, skipping second grade at Sartori Elementary in Renton, Washington, in 1961.

My school had an enormous library, full of good books and a nice Librarian, who imparted to me my love of books and facts and stories. That Library was amazing! There were screenings of Bell Laboratory science movies (Directed by Frank Capra), great big Encyclopedias, and huge models of Saturn and our Moon, hanging in the Lobby. It was magnificent, and I remember it fondly.

I walked under those planetary models every day, and I went to the Library as often as I could, and my imagination was stoked! I wanted to go to Outer Space! (I almost went once, and I'll tell you about it some time).

Well, this book is like that. "Solar System Soup," written by Lindsay Marshall and Illustrated by Don Bearwood, takes the Reader on a fanciful journey around our Solar System, where Sam's Dad gathers ingredients from the Planets, to make Sam a special Birthday Soup.

It's a simple story, and a good one, and if I tell you too much, I'll just mess it up. Don Bearwood's illustrations are charming, done in colored pencil and paint, by hand! Not on a computer! And they are lovely, in that way I remember from my favorite books as a child. They stick in my mind, and I am glad I read this book. You'll like "Solar System Soup," too! So will your kids.

Sam Longoria                http://amzn.to/solar-system-soup
Producer
Hollywood CA USA  

Gondoliers - Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Gondoliers - Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondoliers,
or the King of Barataria."
Gilbert & Sullivan's last big hit, and a wonderful evening's entertainment. 

Tickets $16 Youth, $35 Seniors, $38 Adults.
CLICK TICKETS http://bit.ly/-gondoliers

Showtime 7:30 pm
July 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27

Matinee 2 pm
July 13, 14, 20, 21, and 27
CLICK TICKETS http://bit.ly/-gondoliers




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The Adventures of Mark Twain - Claymation - Clay Animation

The Adventures of Mark Twain - Claymation - Clay Animation

Man! This was a long time ago. Let me tell you about a hectic year. 1982.

I owned a movie theatre in Enumclaw, Washington, and a Print Shop, and was a DJ, playing music and comedy on the local AM radio station. That was on weekends.

Most of the week, I did a 300-mile commute to Portland, Oregon, and built computers and cameras for an animation company, making an animated Mark Twain theatrical feature. 

I fooled away the rest of my time, sleeping. Sometimes, I slept as I drove.

Will Vinton, Portland Claymation tm Producer, had won an Oscar for an 8-minute animated film he made with Bob Gardiner, seven years earlier.

He had read about my 35mm feature film, and my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I computer motion-control animation system, and my software. He hired me to design and build one for him. So I began the commute.

It was all very creative. A house full of Artists! Sweet and funny Patty (Matt Groening's sister) answered the phone, and managed the office.

The script was amusing, sculptors were insanely talented, and the Twain anecdotes were funny. Modeled in clay, and photographed one frame at a time.

It was one very cold wet year in Portland, building cameras and projectors and motion-control, and writing software, just before I went Hollywood. The coldest and wettest year on record! I'm still shivering.





All I could think was, "Next year, I want to be somewhere WARM." Luckily, the movie got done, and I went to Hollywood, and everything moved forward...warmly.

I didn't know anybody had even seen this film until recently, because it had a poor distribution deal at first, and Independent Distribution is so iffy.

I'm gratified so many have seen it, and that they like it.
Now "The Adventures Of Mark Twain" is on DVD and blu-ray!



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Tales Of Hollywood - Ray Harryhausen Lunch

Tales of Hollywood - Ray Harryhausen Lunch

In 1983, I was working "Ghostbusters" and "2010," for Boss Film, and the stop-motion guys were fun to lunch with. They had done some of the best stop-motion anywhere. Phil Tippett, Jon Berg, Randall William Cook, Jim Aupperle, and some others. 

They were very funny guys, and I was was very pleased to be in their company. I was fresh off an animated clay movie in Portland, and my 35mm Seattle feature, now I was building 65mm camera equipment in Hollywood. 

My friend Jerry Jeffress had told me Ray Harryhausen had a unique way of speaking, and Jerry could imitate it perfectly. He was great at it. So, I could mimic Jerry imitating Ray, which I did to the amusement of the stop-motion guys at lunchtime.

To my surprise, they ALL could imitate Ray's speaking voice! It was clear they loved him. He was their hero, the reason they got started animating. That was fun! 

In the next couple of days, some amazing things happened. A magazine writer asked if I could do a favor. Ray Harryhausen was in town, and could I take him to lunch? And then bring him to Showscan, where the writer also worked, to see the Showscan demo presentation? 

(Showscan was a 65mm 60fps system, at Doug Trumbull's company near Boss Film). 

Then Mr. Harryhausen would be interviewed for the magazine. Did I say yes? Yes, indeed! 

I picked up Mr. Harryhausen, and we chatted a bit. I took him to the restaurant, where the stop-motion guys were. I asked if we could surprise someone, and he grinned yes. As he waited outside for a minute, I went in. 

"Guys, our last lunchtime, my Ray Harryhausen imitation wasn't very good. I've been working on it, and it's better. I want to show it to you. I just need a moment to prepare." What a setup. Such eager, expectant faces.

I went outside, and sent Ray back in. Hubbub! Tumult! Somebody yelled "Sam, that's a fantastic imitation!" And that was a fantastic lunch.



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When Are The Oscars Decided?

When Are The Oscars Decided? 

Most think of the Academy Awards selection as a mysterious process. I've seen some parts of it up close, and I can tell you, what I saw was just a bunch of guys having dinner, and discussing "Who did what," Who deserves what," and "Who gets what." Just like you or I would judge a school Talent Show or local Film Festival.  

When are the Oscars decided? Three times. When they are Nominated, When they are reported in the Media, and again When they are Voted upon. 

Are there rules to the selection? Yes, and you have probably noticed them. If you haven't noticed the rules, Journalist Bill Wyman has, and he will share them with you.



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That Thing You Do - Tom Hanks - Film Editing - Richard Chew - Conversation - Singles - Walter Murch

That Thing You Do - Tom Hanks - Film Editing - Richard Chew - Conversation - Singles - Walter Murch


I really like Tom Hanks's "That Thing You Do," Tom is a wonderful Director, as well as a foremost and accomplished Actor.

Editing on the film was spectacular, as well as the Acting and Writing. And that means the Director was waay good. Yay Tom! 

Tom also chose, when he wrote himself the part, something hard to pull off. His character is utterly necessary to the story, and he pushes the story along, and he is NOT LIKEABLE. 

This movie is wall-to-wall cute (Liv Tyler has never looked so kissable), and yet Tom Hanks wrote himself a hard-nosed cold-blooded toad, to play. And then played him, straight as a string. I have a LOT of admiration for Tom in this movie, on every level.

"That Thing You Do" is a movie about the Music Business, before the Beatles came along and changed everything, by refining the process and jacking the numbers up to the stratosphere. 

This little Band, "The Wonders" does not sound like the Beatles, but their one-hit wonder song follows the classic pop formula the Beatles followed, and the sound is pure-dee 1964. If I were to describe their music, I'd say it is a faithful re-creation of The Dave Clark Five.

Tom was more interested in making the feel of this movie just right, and that is the foundation of this film, the feeling.

There is one scene where the Band hears its song on the radio for the first time. No dialogue, just Band members running in to turn it on, and then jumping up and down and screaming. Too wonderful scene. 

I'll tell you how wonderful the Editing was. Only in hindsight did I realize - There is ONLY ONE song to play in the movie. They play it through at least FOUR times, and the Editor manages to keep it extremely interesting, and make it feel different each time. An Amazing Task! It is done so well, one scarcely notices it. Really well done! 

I am not surprised the Editor is ABLE to do it, he is Richard Chew. He and Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas and George Lucas edited the original "Star Wars," and Mr. Chew edited Francis Coppola's "The Conversation," (Sound by Walter Murch), one of the best ever. 

The only film which compares to "That Thing You Do" in my mind, for the pop music sequences, is George Lucas's "American Graffiti."
(Edited by Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas, and George Lucas, Sound by Walter Murch). 

HOW Mr. Chew chose to pull off that prodigious feat, (playing the same song multiple times, and keeping it exciting), in "That Thing You Do," is utter Mastery of Film Editing. Man, he is good!

Richard Chew also Co-Produced and Edited THE made-in-Seattle music movie, 1990's "Singles."  As I have similar projects going, I'm waay interested. Read about how a real Hollywood movie goes together in Seattle.



That Thing You Do
Song That Thing You Do
The Conversation
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