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Passionn? de cin?ma am?ricain, il en a ?t? un des plus grands passeurs en France avec son livre 50 ans de cin?ma am?ricain, co-?crit Jean-Pierre Coursodon. Un ouvrage phare qu'il avait remis au go?t du jour ces derni?res ann?es, r?visant ses jugements sur certains r?alisateurs phares qu'il avait ?reint?s dans les ann?es 1970, comme Clint Eastwood.
Passionate about American cinema, he was one of its greatest backers in France with his book 50 Years of American Cinema, co-authored by Jean-Pierre Coursodon. A landmark work that he had updated in recent years, revising his judgments on some of the leading directors he had criticized in the 1970s, such as Clint Eastwood.
Jessica Walter, Tart-Tongued Matriarch of 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80
An Emmy Award-winning actress, she gained early fame in Clint Eastwood's "Play Misty for Me" and found a new audience in a cult TV hit.
Jessica Walter, who capped a six-decade acting career with her portrayal of the oblivious, self-involved and beautifully dressed Lucille Bluth on the cult sitcom "Arrested Development," died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 80.
Ms. Walter was 30 when she starred in "Play Misty for Me" (1971) as a radio fan who falls--hard, fast and psychotically--for a handsome young Northern California disc jockey (Clint Eastwood, making his directorial debut). She transforms from call-in admirer with a sexy voice to one-night stand (well, two) to stalker to suicidal visitor to homicidal slasher. It was clear from the beginning that the character had anger management issues.
Cry Macho, the neo-western and potential awards contender directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, will open via Warner Bros in the US on October 22 this year.
The 1978-set film will also debut on Warner Bros' stablemate HBO Max for a limited period.
Coming in for a landing! (Tufted Titmouse)
Love this breed! Funny you mention that about rescue dogs, because you're right -- and yet I still think of these "working dogs" as simply rescue dogs. Google tells me they're SAR (Search and Rescue Dogs) now.
Don't know that I've shared this story before, but I was shocked to find my French Bulldog, Penny, (about as far from a SAR as any) has an innate desire to rescue. Back when Katie was still around, she had gotten herself under a bed full of storage, and was unable to back herself out. She was stuck under the bed with boxes blocking her path, and started crying. Penny heard her, ran to her, poked under the bed, assessed her situation, ran to the other side of the bed and started pulling out everything that was blocking Katie's path until she was able to move forward the rest of the way out from under the bed. I just stood back and watched, as it was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen a dog do. Then there was the the time I was running downhill with Penny, tripped and wiped out and for a good couple of minutes couldn't move. She was in terror, trying to find help, licking my face, and finally so relieved when I got up again. Dogs are amazing creatures. My SAR:
Does anyone know who taught Mr. Eastwood how to ride? I have a friend that worked the studios and refers to him and others on riding lessons.
According to Richard Schickel in his biography Clint Eastwood (p. 75), Clint learned to ride while he was a participant in Universal's talent program back in the early 1950s. Riding was among the accomplishments the young actors were expected to learn, and they had classes every week. Clint learned fast. Schickel says:QuoteHis favorite place was the [Universal Studios] back lot, one of the most extensive in the industry, with some of its sets dating back to silent-picture days. "You could go out anytime you wanted to and check out the horseback riding. I didn't know how to ride, so I'd go riding with the old wranglers--hung out with them." His report cards show Clint moving into the advanced group of riders quite quickly, and before long he was checking out horses and heading alone into the hills southeast of the studio ... In the fifties, before the studio tour, and before the hotels and the Universal amphitheater were built on this land, it remained a wilderness: "Deer back in there?I'd run up there on horseback, and coyotes would be running across the road. It was really remote. It was really terrific!"
Ernest Velarde was a wrangler during that time frame. Ernest son Richard Velarde and I are family and Richard often tells stories how his dad gave riding lesson to actors such as Mr. Eastwood ... Always enjoy listening to stories from him referring to the movies they worked on.
The "bronzed grackle" race of the Common Grackle, breeding roughly west of the Appalachians and in New England, has the characteristic bronzy back. Birds of the Southeast, from North Carolina to Louisiana, often called the "Florida grackle," are darker green on the back rather than bronzy, and they're purple on the belly. An intermediate race along the Eastern seaboard is sometimes called the purple grackle.
(top picture).Hocine, you don't mention "Midnight in the garden of good and evil" . I love that film, must have seen 4 or 5 times.
Christopher Plummer, the prolific and versatile Canadian-born actor who rose to celebrity as the romantic lead in perhaps the most popular movie musical of all time, was critically lionized as among the pre-eminent Shakespeareans of the past century and won an Oscar, two Tonys and two Emmys, died on Friday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 91.
The scion of a once-lofty family whose status had dwindled by the time he was born, Mr. Plummer nonetheless displayed the outward aspects of privilege throughout his life. He had immense and myriad natural gifts: a leading man?s face and figure; a slightly aloof mien that betrayed supreme confidence, if not outright self-regard; an understated athletic grace; a sonorous (not to say plummy) speaking voice; and exquisite diction.
