1980: Another World spin-off Texas premiered on NBC,
starring Beverlee McKinsey as Iris."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: Donald Briscoe assumed the role of Tony Merritt in Days of our Lives. A message appeared on the screen to explain the recast: "The part of Tony Merritt will be played by Donald Briscoe."
1980: Another World returned to 60 minutes daily, after more than a year of 90-minute episodes, to make room for Texas. Russ (David Bailey) and Tracy began their honeymoon, and Jamie (Richard Bekins) had dinner with Mac and Rachel.
starring Beverlee McKinsey as Iris."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: Donald Briscoe assumed the role of Tony Merritt in Days of our Lives. A message appeared on the screen to explain the recast: "The part of Tony Merritt will be played by Donald Briscoe."
1980: Another World returned to 60 minutes daily, after more than a year of 90-minute episodes, to make room for Texas. Russ (David Bailey) and Tracy began their honeymoon, and Jamie (Richard Bekins) had dinner with Mac and Rachel.
- 8/6/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1975: The Doctor's Carolee made a decision.
1980: Dee and Ian arrived in Italy on As the World Turns.
1988: Australian soap opera Home and Away premiered.
2007: General Hospital's Elizabeth made a confession."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1958: On The Edge of Night, Mike Karr (John Larkin) called Willy and asked him to put two investigators on Toni for protection.
1966: Charles Baxter debuted as attorney Fred Douglas on Another World.
1967: On Peyton Place, Lee Webber (Stephen Oliver) taunted Chris (Gary Haynes) at Ada's tavern.
1980: Dee and Ian arrived in Italy on As the World Turns.
1988: Australian soap opera Home and Away premiered.
2007: General Hospital's Elizabeth made a confession."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1958: On The Edge of Night, Mike Karr (John Larkin) called Willy and asked him to put two investigators on Toni for protection.
1966: Charles Baxter debuted as attorney Fred Douglas on Another World.
1967: On Peyton Place, Lee Webber (Stephen Oliver) taunted Chris (Gary Haynes) at Ada's tavern.
- 1/17/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1975: Another World expanded to an hour full-time.
1983: Felicia Gallant arrived in Another World's Bay City.
1986: General Hospital's Monica was at odds with Alan.
1997: Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach premiered on NBC."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: On Peyton Place, Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal) visited Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) at Doctors Hospital. She had told Rodney she loved him on the day of his arraignment but she no longer remembered her feelings for him. The episode was written by Sonya Roberts and Rita Lakin.
1983: Felicia Gallant arrived in Another World's Bay City.
1986: General Hospital's Monica was at odds with Alan.
1997: Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach premiered on NBC."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: On Peyton Place, Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal) visited Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) at Doctors Hospital. She had told Rodney she loved him on the day of his arraignment but she no longer remembered her feelings for him. The episode was written by Sonya Roberts and Rita Lakin.
- 1/15/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1963: Search for Tomorrow's Marian faced troubled times.
1974: How to Survive a Marriage premiered on NBC.
1980: As the World Turns' Mary was shocked to see Joyce.
2005: Young and the Restless' Drucilla and Phyllis faced off."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1957: On The Edge of Night, Sara (Teal Ames) had a drink at the bar with the man she recognized from the photo, Roy Benson. When Mike (John Larkin) arrived, Sara pretended he was her boyfriend which caused the man to leave. Mike had Willy (Edward Holmes) follow him.
1974: How to Survive a Marriage premiered on NBC.
1980: As the World Turns' Mary was shocked to see Joyce.
2005: Young and the Restless' Drucilla and Phyllis faced off."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1957: On The Edge of Night, Sara (Teal Ames) had a drink at the bar with the man she recognized from the photo, Roy Benson. When Mike (John Larkin) arrived, Sara pretended he was her boyfriend which caused the man to leave. Mike had Willy (Edward Holmes) follow him.
- 1/9/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1980: Another World spin-off Texas premiered on NBC,
starring Beverlee McKinsey as Iris."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: Donald Briscoe assumed the role of Tony Merritt in Days of our Lives. A message appeared on the screen to explain the recast: "The part of Tony Merritt will be played by Donald Briscoe."
1980: Another World returned to 60 minutes daily, after more than a year of 90-minute episodes, to make room for Texas. Russ (David Bailey) and Tracy began their honeymoon, and Jamie (Richard Bekins) had dinner with Mac and Rachel.
1980: Texas ("starring Beverlee McKinsey" as Iris) premiered on NBC.
starring Beverlee McKinsey as Iris."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: Donald Briscoe assumed the role of Tony Merritt in Days of our Lives. A message appeared on the screen to explain the recast: "The part of Tony Merritt will be played by Donald Briscoe."
1980: Another World returned to 60 minutes daily, after more than a year of 90-minute episodes, to make room for Texas. Russ (David Bailey) and Tracy began their honeymoon, and Jamie (Richard Bekins) had dinner with Mac and Rachel.
1980: Texas ("starring Beverlee McKinsey" as Iris) premiered on NBC.
- 8/6/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1975: The Doctor's Carolee made a decision.
1980: Atwt's Dee and Ian arrived in Italy.
1988: Australian soap opera Home and Away premiered.
2007: General Hospital's Elizabeth made a confession."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1958: On The Edge of Night, Mike Karr (John Larkin) called Willy and asked him to put two investigators on Toni for protection.
1980: Atwt's Dee and Ian arrived in Italy.
1988: Australian soap opera Home and Away premiered.
2007: General Hospital's Elizabeth made a confession."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1958: On The Edge of Night, Mike Karr (John Larkin) called Willy and asked him to put two investigators on Toni for protection.
- 1/17/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1975: Another World expanded to an hour full-time.
1983: Felicia Gallant arrived in Another World's Bay City.
1986: General Hospital's Monica was at odds with Alan.
1997: Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach premiered on NBC."History is a vast early warning system."
― Norman Cousins
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: On Peyton Place, Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal) visited Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) at Doctors Hospital. She had told Rodney she loved him on the day of his arraignment but she no longer remembered her feelings for him. The episode was written by Sonya Roberts and Rita Lakin. Lakin went on to become head writer of daytime soap opera The Doctors.
1983: Felicia Gallant arrived in Another World's Bay City.
1986: General Hospital's Monica was at odds with Alan.
1997: Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach premiered on NBC."History is a vast early warning system."
― Norman Cousins
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: On Peyton Place, Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal) visited Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) at Doctors Hospital. She had told Rodney she loved him on the day of his arraignment but she no longer remembered her feelings for him. The episode was written by Sonya Roberts and Rita Lakin. Lakin went on to become head writer of daytime soap opera The Doctors.
- 1/14/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1963: Search for Tomorrow's Marian faced troubled times.
1974: How to Survive a Marriage premiered on NBC.
1980: As the World Turns' Mary was shocked to see Joyce.
2005: Young and the Restless' Drucilla and Phyllis faced off."History is a vast early warning system."
― Norman Cousins
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1957: On The Edge of Night, Sara (Teal Ames) had a drink at the bar with the man she recognized from the photo, Roy Benson. When Mike (John Larkin) arrived, Sara pretended he was her boyfriend which caused the man to leave. Mike had Willy (Edward Holmes) follow him.
1963: On Search for Tomorrow, Marian Rand (Jane...
1974: How to Survive a Marriage premiered on NBC.
1980: As the World Turns' Mary was shocked to see Joyce.
2005: Young and the Restless' Drucilla and Phyllis faced off."History is a vast early warning system."
― Norman Cousins
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1957: On The Edge of Night, Sara (Teal Ames) had a drink at the bar with the man she recognized from the photo, Roy Benson. When Mike (John Larkin) arrived, Sara pretended he was her boyfriend which caused the man to leave. Mike had Willy (Edward Holmes) follow him.
1963: On Search for Tomorrow, Marian Rand (Jane...
- 1/14/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Directing a new Black Mirror film gives Jodie Foster the chance to look back at her own upbringing. The Hollywood titan talks to Tim Adams
Last week Charlie Brooker was recalling for me the moment he learned Jodie Foster would direct an episode of Black Mirror, his inspired series of one-off dramas about the ways our gadgets are colonising the idea of “human”. Brooker had written a script for the new series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter and keep her safe from the world. The Netflix people suggested they tried the script out on the two-time Oscar-winning actor.
Brooker has had considerable global success with Black Mirror but still, the thought of working with Foster, “an actual icon”, made him come over, he says, “all British and starstruck”. He turned to his co-showrunner for the series, Annabel Jones. “We were like: ‘You’re kidding,...
Last week Charlie Brooker was recalling for me the moment he learned Jodie Foster would direct an episode of Black Mirror, his inspired series of one-off dramas about the ways our gadgets are colonising the idea of “human”. Brooker had written a script for the new series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter and keep her safe from the world. The Netflix people suggested they tried the script out on the two-time Oscar-winning actor.
Brooker has had considerable global success with Black Mirror but still, the thought of working with Foster, “an actual icon”, made him come over, he says, “all British and starstruck”. He turned to his co-showrunner for the series, Annabel Jones. “We were like: ‘You’re kidding,...
- 12/10/2017
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Jake Gyllenhaal has driven his body to the limit for his acting roles. Now it’s his mind that’s taking a hammering. He talks to Tim Adams
I meet Jake Gyllenhaal in a makeshift production office in an industrial estate outside Boston, Massachusetts. He is bright-eyed and sitting in a bare corner room. He closes the door on his dog, a big Alsatian, which roams outside among a team of assistants staring at screens and eating lunch. He has been here for six months making Stronger, a film based on the life of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing and then identified one of the killers, who he had stood next to in the crowd. Gyllenhaal, who has a legendary work ethic, is both starring in and producing the film. He’s got to know Bauman well. “The irony is that, however terrible the situation was,...
I meet Jake Gyllenhaal in a makeshift production office in an industrial estate outside Boston, Massachusetts. He is bright-eyed and sitting in a bare corner room. He closes the door on his dog, a big Alsatian, which roams outside among a team of assistants staring at screens and eating lunch. He has been here for six months making Stronger, a film based on the life of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing and then identified one of the killers, who he had stood next to in the crowd. Gyllenhaal, who has a legendary work ethic, is both starring in and producing the film. He’s got to know Bauman well. “The irony is that, however terrible the situation was,...
- 4/24/2016
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Jake Gyllenhaal has driven his body to the limit for his acting roles. Now it’s his mind that’s taking a hammering. He talks to Tim Adams
I meet Jake Gyllenhaal in a makeshift production office in an industrial estate outside Boston, Massachusetts. He is bright-eyed and sitting in a bare corner room. He closes the door on his dog, a big Alsatian, which roams outside among a team of assistants staring at screens and eating lunch. He has been here for six months making Stronger, a film based on the life of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing and then identified one of the killers, who he had stood next to in the crowd. Gyllenhaal, who has a legendary work ethic, is both starring in and producing the film. He’s got to know Bauman well. “The irony is that, however terrible the situation was,...
I meet Jake Gyllenhaal in a makeshift production office in an industrial estate outside Boston, Massachusetts. He is bright-eyed and sitting in a bare corner room. He closes the door on his dog, a big Alsatian, which roams outside among a team of assistants staring at screens and eating lunch. He has been here for six months making Stronger, a film based on the life of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing and then identified one of the killers, who he had stood next to in the crowd. Gyllenhaal, who has a legendary work ethic, is both starring in and producing the film. He’s got to know Bauman well. “The irony is that, however terrible the situation was,...
- 4/24/2016
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Will Ferrell knows exactly how to make us laugh. He’s back with Mark Wahlberg for his latest film, Daddy’s Home, and will soon return as Mugatu in Zoolander 2. Tim Adams meets him to see what’s behind the most expressive jowls in America
Half an hour before I interviewed Will Ferrell I made the mistake of watching a clip of him interviewing himself. In one of Ferrell’s many Saturday Night Live (SNL) incarnations he did a celebrated spoof of the long-running American arts show Inside the Actors Studio, in which James Lipton presents cerebral interrogations of Hollywood stars. Ferrell donned a bald wig and beard, sat with a pile of Lipton’s preferred blue notecards and went through a parody of the questions he might have asked: “What’s your favourite curse word?” he asked of himself. “If heaven exists what would you like to hear God say when you arrive?...
Half an hour before I interviewed Will Ferrell I made the mistake of watching a clip of him interviewing himself. In one of Ferrell’s many Saturday Night Live (SNL) incarnations he did a celebrated spoof of the long-running American arts show Inside the Actors Studio, in which James Lipton presents cerebral interrogations of Hollywood stars. Ferrell donned a bald wig and beard, sat with a pile of Lipton’s preferred blue notecards and went through a parody of the questions he might have asked: “What’s your favourite curse word?” he asked of himself. “If heaven exists what would you like to hear God say when you arrive?...
- 12/20/2015
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Since Steve Jobs’s death from cancer in 2011, the myths keep accumulating. Tim Adams assesses his legacy and speaks to Danny Boyle and Alex Gibney, directors of two new films – one a drama, the other a documentary – about the mysterious Apple boss
Silicon Valley billionaires, with their boundless digital dreams, have lately turned their attention to the ultimate challenge: the disruption of death. They want to live forever. Peter Thiel, PayPal’s founder, Larry Page of Google and Larry Ellison of Oracle have each poured some of their millions into projects that scour evolutionary history for the secrets of longevity, that aim to improve the DNA they were born with, or that explore ways to copy and save the circuits of a human brain – notably their own consciousness – to survive digitally long after their physical shutdown. Like moguls and megalomaniacs through the ages, they refuse to believe the timing and...
Silicon Valley billionaires, with their boundless digital dreams, have lately turned their attention to the ultimate challenge: the disruption of death. They want to live forever. Peter Thiel, PayPal’s founder, Larry Page of Google and Larry Ellison of Oracle have each poured some of their millions into projects that scour evolutionary history for the secrets of longevity, that aim to improve the DNA they were born with, or that explore ways to copy and save the circuits of a human brain – notably their own consciousness – to survive digitally long after their physical shutdown. Like moguls and megalomaniacs through the ages, they refuse to believe the timing and...
- 11/1/2015
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Recently, CBS served up the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Blue Bloods" premiere episode 1 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Worst Case Scenario," and it turns that we're going to see some very interesting and high drama stuff take place as a major terrorist attack prompts Frank to go into high alert, and more! In the new, 1st episode press release: Frank Goes On High Alert When A Threat To New York City May Be Imminent Following A Terrorist Attack In The Middle East, On The Sixth Season Premiere Of "Blue Bloods." Press release number 2: Frank will go on high alert when a threat to New York City may be imminent following a terrorist attack in the Middle East on the sixth season premiere of Blue Bloods. Guest stars feature: Ramin Karimloo (Barry Hamidi), Yair Ben-Dor (Naseem Akhtar), Timothy Adams (John Knight, Esu Captain), Meghann Fahy (Lacey...
- 9/16/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Stuart Hall, the so-called 'godfather of multiculturalism' changed Britain for the better even while he showed us the ugly truth about our racist society
"The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire," Stuart Hall once wrote. "Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth."
For the Jamaican-born intellectual, who was one of the Windrush generation, – the first large-scale immigration of West Indians to the capital after world war two – that rottenness was unmissable. Hall came to that rotten land with its in-part slave-generated wealth from Kingston in 1951 as a Rhodes scholar to study at Oxford. "Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home," he told the Guardian in 2012. "I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to...
"The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire," Stuart Hall once wrote. "Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth."
For the Jamaican-born intellectual, who was one of the Windrush generation, – the first large-scale immigration of West Indians to the capital after world war two – that rottenness was unmissable. Hall came to that rotten land with its in-part slave-generated wealth from Kingston in 1951 as a Rhodes scholar to study at Oxford. "Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home," he told the Guardian in 2012. "I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to...
- 2/11/2014
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Hailee Steinfeld was Oscar-nominated for her role in True Grit at just 13. Now she's back with a gravity-defying role in Ender's Game, and the lead in Romeo and Juliet. She tells Tim Adams how to handle school bullies, stand up to Jeff Bridges, fake falling in love – and make the Coen Brothers laugh
The last time we saw Hailee Steinfeld, she had fallen down a hole and was being menaced by rattlesnakes. By that climactic point in the Coen Brothers' 2010 version of True Grit, she had so stolen the show as a debutante actor in the daunting company of Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin that you had no doubt she would face down the ordeal. Steinfeld had been chosen for the role of the pigtailed Mattie Ross, heroine of the Charles Portis novel, from an open audition of 150,000 girls in her native California. The idea of a star...
The last time we saw Hailee Steinfeld, she had fallen down a hole and was being menaced by rattlesnakes. By that climactic point in the Coen Brothers' 2010 version of True Grit, she had so stolen the show as a debutante actor in the daunting company of Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin that you had no doubt she would face down the ordeal. Steinfeld had been chosen for the role of the pigtailed Mattie Ross, heroine of the Charles Portis novel, from an open audition of 150,000 girls in her native California. The idea of a star...
- 10/20/2013
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
The star of True Grit talks to the Observer about her new film Ender's Game – and models some next-season clothes for us too
Steinfeld is, in person, both older and younger than she appeared in True Grit. It is hard to imagine anyone more determined or wise beyond her years than her beetle-browed Mattie Ross, so you don't expect her to still be a smiley teenager. But she is, determinedly, as she is keen to stress, having fun. We talk first about the particular fun of Ender's Game, in which a hit squad of young Xbox addicts is recruited to save the world from alien invasion, and there is a good deal of floating upside-down in spacesuits, firing laser guns.
It required a very different skill set from those she needed in her first film. She had to learn to act in space. "The hard thing," she says, "was trying...
Steinfeld is, in person, both older and younger than she appeared in True Grit. It is hard to imagine anyone more determined or wise beyond her years than her beetle-browed Mattie Ross, so you don't expect her to still be a smiley teenager. But she is, determinedly, as she is keen to stress, having fun. We talk first about the particular fun of Ender's Game, in which a hit squad of young Xbox addicts is recruited to save the world from alien invasion, and there is a good deal of floating upside-down in spacesuits, firing laser guns.
It required a very different skill set from those she needed in her first film. She had to learn to act in space. "The hard thing," she says, "was trying...
- 10/17/2013
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
On TV this Tuesday: Golden Boy loses a little of his lustre, NCIS‘ “Tiva” takes a vengeance-filled trip, some rowdy bros visit Dixie and MTV’s party don’t start ’til Ke$ha gets her own show. Here are nine programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm Hell’s Kitchen (Fox) | The team members must pluck their animal protein from a farm pen to determine what they’ll cook in the challenge. (Note to contestants: I’m not sure if it’ll work on cows, pigs and such, but it probably won’t hurt to chant “baa-ram-ewe” when you’re there among the hoofs.
8 pm Hell’s Kitchen (Fox) | The team members must pluck their animal protein from a farm pen to determine what they’ll cook in the challenge. (Note to contestants: I’m not sure if it’ll work on cows, pigs and such, but it probably won’t hurt to chant “baa-ram-ewe” when you’re there among the hoofs.
- 4/23/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Tippi Hedren endured Alfred Hitchcock's claustrophobic attention for years, while Sienna Miller – who plays her in a new film – has her own experiences of being hounded. Here, they talk to Tim Adams about the dark side of being a star
Last week Sienna Miller was starting to think about her first Christmas as a mother. Her voice was freighted with all the emotional weariness of a woman who knows the particular joys of surviving for too long on only an hour or two's unbroken sleep. Her daughter Marlowe, now four months old, was on her lap. A good deal had happened since I interviewed her in the summer about her forthcoming TV movie The Girl, in the company of "the girl" in question, Tippi Hedren, the actor, who was muse and obsession to Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s.
As well as becoming a mother, and travelling to the States...
Last week Sienna Miller was starting to think about her first Christmas as a mother. Her voice was freighted with all the emotional weariness of a woman who knows the particular joys of surviving for too long on only an hour or two's unbroken sleep. Her daughter Marlowe, now four months old, was on her lap. A good deal had happened since I interviewed her in the summer about her forthcoming TV movie The Girl, in the company of "the girl" in question, Tippi Hedren, the actor, who was muse and obsession to Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s.
As well as becoming a mother, and travelling to the States...
- 12/17/2012
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Tippi Hedren endured Alfred Hitchcock's claustrophobic attention for years, while Sienna Miller – who plays her in a new film – has her own experiences of being hounded. Here, they talk to Tim Adams about the dark side of being a star
Last week Sienna Miller was starting to think about her first Christmas as a mother. Her voice was freighted with all the emotional weariness of a woman who knows the particular joys of surviving for too long on only an hour or two's unbroken sleep. Her daughter Marlowe, now four months old, was on her lap. A good deal had happened since I interviewed her in the summer about her forthcoming TV movie The Girl, in the company of "the girl" in question, Tippi Hedren, the actor, who was muse and obsession to Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s.
As well as becoming a mother, and travelling to the States...
Last week Sienna Miller was starting to think about her first Christmas as a mother. Her voice was freighted with all the emotional weariness of a woman who knows the particular joys of surviving for too long on only an hour or two's unbroken sleep. Her daughter Marlowe, now four months old, was on her lap. A good deal had happened since I interviewed her in the summer about her forthcoming TV movie The Girl, in the company of "the girl" in question, Tippi Hedren, the actor, who was muse and obsession to Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s.
As well as becoming a mother, and travelling to the States...
- 12/16/2012
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
It can't be Bond again, can it? Friday was the 50th anniversary of Dr No, the first film in the series, and – not shy of a handy bit of synchronous publicity – the Skyfall marketing people took the chance to push out a new trailer with the Adele theme song and a clip from the film.
But we've gone on about Bond long enough. Out with the old, in with the new, that's what we say in the fast moving world of motion pictures. Truth at 24 frames a second, that's what we're all about. Hence, we're going to forget about Bond and look forward: specifically, to the London film festival, which has just kicked off.
First out of the blocks was the gala screening of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, a rather nice little stop-motion film about...
The big story
It can't be Bond again, can it? Friday was the 50th anniversary of Dr No, the first film in the series, and – not shy of a handy bit of synchronous publicity – the Skyfall marketing people took the chance to push out a new trailer with the Adele theme song and a clip from the film.
But we've gone on about Bond long enough. Out with the old, in with the new, that's what we say in the fast moving world of motion pictures. Truth at 24 frames a second, that's what we're all about. Hence, we're going to forget about Bond and look forward: specifically, to the London film festival, which has just kicked off.
First out of the blocks was the gala screening of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, a rather nice little stop-motion film about...
- 10/11/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Having stunned us as Ian Curtis in Control, Sam Riley is now starring as Jack Kerouac in On the Road. Could he get any cooler? Tim Adams finds out
In 1957 Jack Kerouac, suddenly famous as the authentic prophet of the Beat generation, wrote to Marlon Brando to ask him to star in a film adaptation of his novel On the Road. The instantly legendary book, written in three weeks on a single roll of paper, had just been published to contentious acclaim, and Kerouac, never a man scared to dream, had high hopes that the film could be a similar fast-forward phenomenon. He imagined himself starring in it as his questing alter ego Sal Paradise, alongside Brando, who would take the part of Dean Moriarty, the fictional version of his Benzedrine-fuelled soulmate, Neal Cassady.
In his suitably breathless letter to Brando, Kerouac could hardly contain his excitement at the prospect:...
In 1957 Jack Kerouac, suddenly famous as the authentic prophet of the Beat generation, wrote to Marlon Brando to ask him to star in a film adaptation of his novel On the Road. The instantly legendary book, written in three weeks on a single roll of paper, had just been published to contentious acclaim, and Kerouac, never a man scared to dream, had high hopes that the film could be a similar fast-forward phenomenon. He imagined himself starring in it as his questing alter ego Sal Paradise, alongside Brando, who would take the part of Dean Moriarty, the fictional version of his Benzedrine-fuelled soulmate, Neal Cassady.
In his suitably breathless letter to Brando, Kerouac could hardly contain his excitement at the prospect:...
- 9/22/2012
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Everything I learned about menopause I learned from The Golden Girls, so, yeah, not too much. But what I know now is that menopause looked Rita Daniels in the face, and she looked back and smiled, all witchy-like a knowing. Actually, it looked like this: Much like Aaliyah, 71-year-old Rita Daniels believes age ain’t nothin’ but a number. Get this: Daniels was arrested for getting dirty in the back of her Buick with a guy she picked up at a bar. Of course, that’s not grounds for arrest, but they did get thrown in the clink for indecent exposure and public drunkenness. It should also be noted that her license plate reads “DIVA145,” and that she and Tim Adams (who is seventeen years her junior, Ftw) had the cops called on them because they were getting their freak on in a restaurant parking lot In The Middle Of The Day.
- 10/6/2011
- by Eliot Glazer
- BestWeekEver
Prolific author Peter Ackroyd talks to Euan Ferguson about his monumental six-part history of England
For anyone struggling to summon the self-discipline and due diligence to write even one book, a visit to Peter Ackroyd's first-floor Bloomsbury flat could prompt a month's worth of guilty nightmares, the comparison between his workload and those of lesser mortals being so instantly, odiously obvious.
He's sitting in what looks like his library but isn't really: every book on these wall-to-wall shelves is being employed in researching the second volume of his latest venture, which is nothing less than an entire history of England. Before him, beside his computer, sits a long, fat, neat row of books on Charlie Chaplin, which catches my eye. "Oh yes, I'm also doing a short biography of Chaplin. Well, maybe not so short. He's fascinating. I just thought I'd have a go at him."
He's short of time,...
For anyone struggling to summon the self-discipline and due diligence to write even one book, a visit to Peter Ackroyd's first-floor Bloomsbury flat could prompt a month's worth of guilty nightmares, the comparison between his workload and those of lesser mortals being so instantly, odiously obvious.
He's sitting in what looks like his library but isn't really: every book on these wall-to-wall shelves is being employed in researching the second volume of his latest venture, which is nothing less than an entire history of England. Before him, beside his computer, sits a long, fat, neat row of books on Charlie Chaplin, which catches my eye. "Oh yes, I'm also doing a short biography of Chaplin. Well, maybe not so short. He's fascinating. I just thought I'd have a go at him."
He's short of time,...
- 8/25/2011
- by Euan Ferguson
- The Guardian - Film News
On this date in...
1980: Texas ("starring Beverlee McKinsey") premiered on NBC. The show was created by John William Corrington, Joyce Corrington, and Paul Rauch. The show lasted until December 31, 1982. Another World returned to 60 minutes (from 90) that day.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Laurie Heineman (ex-Sharlene, Another World; ex-Mary, As The World Turns)
President Barack Obama - 50
Sebastian Roché (ex-Jerry, General Hospital) - 47
Crystal Chappell (Gina, Venice; Carly, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Olivia, Guiding Light; ex-Maggie, One Life To Live; ex-Jane, Santa Barbara; ex-All My Children) - 46
James Tupper (Andrew, Grey's Anatomy; ex-Jack, Men In Trees) - 46
Timothy Adams (ex-Ron, One Life To Live; ex-Rob, Guiding Light; ex-Casey, Sunset Beach) - 44
Daniel Dae Kim (ex-Jin, Lost; ex-Dr. Kim, All My Children) - 43
Mick Cain (ex-cj, The Bold And The Beautiful) - 33
Abigail Spencer (ex-Becca, All My Children; ex-Miss Farrell, Mad Men) - 30
Editor's Note: If you would like to...
1980: Texas ("starring Beverlee McKinsey") premiered on NBC. The show was created by John William Corrington, Joyce Corrington, and Paul Rauch. The show lasted until December 31, 1982. Another World returned to 60 minutes (from 90) that day.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Laurie Heineman (ex-Sharlene, Another World; ex-Mary, As The World Turns)
President Barack Obama - 50
Sebastian Roché (ex-Jerry, General Hospital) - 47
Crystal Chappell (Gina, Venice; Carly, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Olivia, Guiding Light; ex-Maggie, One Life To Live; ex-Jane, Santa Barbara; ex-All My Children) - 46
James Tupper (Andrew, Grey's Anatomy; ex-Jack, Men In Trees) - 46
Timothy Adams (ex-Ron, One Life To Live; ex-Rob, Guiding Light; ex-Casey, Sunset Beach) - 44
Daniel Dae Kim (ex-Jin, Lost; ex-Dr. Kim, All My Children) - 43
Mick Cain (ex-cj, The Bold And The Beautiful) - 33
Abigail Spencer (ex-Becca, All My Children; ex-Miss Farrell, Mad Men) - 30
Editor's Note: If you would like to...
- 8/4/2011
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Observer writers and experts chart the concepts, trends and buzz words that defined the past year and are likely to shape the next one
1 The new politics is, in fact, the old politics
Nick Clegg will regret many things about 2010. One will be his decision to produce a Lib Dem election poster warning that the Tories would raise Vat. A few weeks later Clegg, installed as deputy prime minister, was backing coalition plans to – yes – raise Vat.
Then there was the pre-election pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. Six months later Clegg was pushing a policy to triple them.
These shifts were damaging not just because they were old-fashioned U-turns but because they fatally undermined the party's raison d'etre – its commitment to deliver a new, honest politics. A vote for the Lib Dems, Clegg had said, would be "a vote that counts".
It was all part of...
1 The new politics is, in fact, the old politics
Nick Clegg will regret many things about 2010. One will be his decision to produce a Lib Dem election poster warning that the Tories would raise Vat. A few weeks later Clegg, installed as deputy prime minister, was backing coalition plans to – yes – raise Vat.
Then there was the pre-election pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. Six months later Clegg was pushing a policy to triple them.
These shifts were damaging not just because they were old-fashioned U-turns but because they fatally undermined the party's raison d'etre – its commitment to deliver a new, honest politics. A vote for the Lib Dems, Clegg had said, would be "a vote that counts".
It was all part of...
- 12/26/2010
- by Toby Helm, Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Robin McKie, Tim Adams, William Skidelsky, Rafael Behr, Anushka Asthana, Elena Moya, Jemima Kiss, Andrew Clark, Keith Stuart, Tom Lamont, Jill Treanor, Will Hutton
- The Guardian - Film News
Sourcebooks Sells Early E-Installments of Days Of Our Lives Books
Sourcebooks is testing a new model in which it is selling early access to books connected with the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Although CEO Dominique Raccah said “very few” people have paid $9.95 to become members of the DaysInsider Early Access program so far, it’s “significantly more than we expected.”
The program launched earlier this month as a subscription-based Web site that gives fans early access to two new books in the publisher’s Days Of Our Lives series. The promotion coincides with the show’s 45th anniversary. Earlier this year, Sourcebooks and Corday Productions, which produces the show, announced a five-book deal consisting of a memoir, a 45th anniversary commemorative coffee table book, and a fiction series extending storylines featured on the show.
Michael B. Jordan previews his Friday Night Lights character Vince in the show's final...
Sourcebooks is testing a new model in which it is selling early access to books connected with the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Although CEO Dominique Raccah said “very few” people have paid $9.95 to become members of the DaysInsider Early Access program so far, it’s “significantly more than we expected.”
The program launched earlier this month as a subscription-based Web site that gives fans early access to two new books in the publisher’s Days Of Our Lives series. The promotion coincides with the show’s 45th anniversary. Earlier this year, Sourcebooks and Corday Productions, which produces the show, announced a five-book deal consisting of a memoir, a 45th anniversary commemorative coffee table book, and a fiction series extending storylines featured on the show.
Michael B. Jordan previews his Friday Night Lights character Vince in the show's final...
- 10/27/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
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