Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a generation of TV watchers, died of pneumonia Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Ct. He was 95.
His wide-ranging career included scoring five early Stanley Kubrick films, including “Paths of Glory” and “The Killing”; receiving the only Oscar nomination ever given for a documentary score, 1975’s “Birds Do It, Bees Do It”; and earning five other Emmy nominations for music in specials, TV movies and miniseries.
The prolific Fried scored approximately 40 films, some three dozen TV-movies and miniseries, and episodes of another 40 TV series during a career that spanned more than six decades.
Among his most famous TV series music was from the original “Star Trek.” He scored five episodes of the series, most famously the Spock-in-heat episode “Amok Time,” which...
His wide-ranging career included scoring five early Stanley Kubrick films, including “Paths of Glory” and “The Killing”; receiving the only Oscar nomination ever given for a documentary score, 1975’s “Birds Do It, Bees Do It”; and earning five other Emmy nominations for music in specials, TV movies and miniseries.
The prolific Fried scored approximately 40 films, some three dozen TV-movies and miniseries, and episodes of another 40 TV series during a career that spanned more than six decades.
Among his most famous TV series music was from the original “Star Trek.” He scored five episodes of the series, most famously the Spock-in-heat episode “Amok Time,” which...
- 2/18/2023
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Casting board Polaroids from Heat (1995). (Courtesy of Michael Mann)Michael Mann's debut novel is titled Heat 2, which is both a prequel and sequel to his 1995 classic crime thriller. Co-written with novelist Meg Gardiner, Heat 2 will be published on August 9 through the HarperCollins-based Michael Mann Books imprint. Jonas Mekas 100! is a program dedicated to honoring the influential critic, writer, and filmmaker Jonas Mekas. The events of the program are currently underway and are taking place worldwide, from Sweden to Taiwan, with a focus on "[expanding] global recognition of his work." Bong Joon-ho is moving forward with his next English-language film, an adaptation of Edward Ashton's upcoming science fiction novel Mickey7, with Robert Pattinson set to star. The book is about a "disposable employee" on a space colony base who refuses to be replaced by a clone.
- 1/26/2022
- MUBI
Screenwriter and novelist Jeb J. Rosebrook died Aug. 31 in Scottsdale, Az. He was 83.
Born in New York City on June 11, 1935, Rosebrook was raised in NYC and Connecticut before being diagnosed with childhood asthma. His parents sent him to the Quarter Circle V Bar Ranch School in Prescott, Az and spend Christmas in New York or Los Angeles. His adventures in various states would shape his life as a storyteller.
His career in the film and TV industry started with NBC in New York in 1956. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va and returned to New York in 1957 before heading west.
After marrying Dorothy Fischer, Jeb and his wife moved to the Los Angeles and settled in Brentwood. He worked for an advertising agency and in 1965 he published his first novel titled Saturday. He went on to pursue screenwriting for film and television in 1967 and was mentored by his friend Earl Hamner,...
Born in New York City on June 11, 1935, Rosebrook was raised in NYC and Connecticut before being diagnosed with childhood asthma. His parents sent him to the Quarter Circle V Bar Ranch School in Prescott, Az and spend Christmas in New York or Los Angeles. His adventures in various states would shape his life as a storyteller.
His career in the film and TV industry started with NBC in New York in 1956. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va and returned to New York in 1957 before heading west.
After marrying Dorothy Fischer, Jeb and his wife moved to the Los Angeles and settled in Brentwood. He worked for an advertising agency and in 1965 he published his first novel titled Saturday. He went on to pursue screenwriting for film and television in 1967 and was mentored by his friend Earl Hamner,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeb Rosebrook, who wrote the screenplay for the Steve McQueen-Sam Peckinpah rodeo classic Junior Bonner, died Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, his family announced. He was 83.
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Jeb Rosebrook, who wrote the screenplay for the Steve McQueen-Sam Peckinpah rodeo classic Junior Bonner, died Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, his family announced. He was 83.
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
By John M. Whalen
It goes without saying that Kirk Douglas is a Hollywood icon. From his first role as Walter O’Neill in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” (1946) to “Spartacus” (1960) and beyond that until his last, so far, appearance in a made for TV movie, he remains—even in retirement after a stroke and a helicopter crash— one of those larger than life movie stars, the kind they just don’t make any more. He had a look and a style. Those shiny white teeth could as easily smile charmingly at you or snarl like a barracuda. His bright blue eyes could be full of tenderness one minute, as in his love scenes in “Spartacus,” or fierce and mean as in “Gunfight at the Ok Corral.” He played complex characters that were always a mix of good and bad, but never evil.
Such a character is Johnny Hawks,...
It goes without saying that Kirk Douglas is a Hollywood icon. From his first role as Walter O’Neill in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” (1946) to “Spartacus” (1960) and beyond that until his last, so far, appearance in a made for TV movie, he remains—even in retirement after a stroke and a helicopter crash— one of those larger than life movie stars, the kind they just don’t make any more. He had a look and a style. Those shiny white teeth could as easily smile charmingly at you or snarl like a barracuda. His bright blue eyes could be full of tenderness one minute, as in his love scenes in “Spartacus,” or fierce and mean as in “Gunfight at the Ok Corral.” He played complex characters that were always a mix of good and bad, but never evil.
Such a character is Johnny Hawks,...
- 5/26/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
At the core of USA Network’s Colony lies the big question: to resist or collaborate with the aliens that have taken over the world? At this year’s Comic-Con, I had the opportunity to participate in roundtable press room interviews with the cast and crew of Colony to discuss both sides of the Occupation, what’s to come in season two, and much more.
Colony co-creator / executive producer / writer Carlton Cuse on expanding the show’s world in season two and increasing the sci-fi elements:
Carlton Cuse: The show will be more dystopic in season two. We intentionally tried to steer away from the traditional Blade Runner, rogue level of dystopia. Proxy Snyder was a guy who thought, “I’ll try to leave things as much the same as they were in order to give people the best experiences under this occupation.” It didn’t work out too well for him,...
Colony co-creator / executive producer / writer Carlton Cuse on expanding the show’s world in season two and increasing the sci-fi elements:
Carlton Cuse: The show will be more dystopic in season two. We intentionally tried to steer away from the traditional Blade Runner, rogue level of dystopia. Proxy Snyder was a guy who thought, “I’ll try to leave things as much the same as they were in order to give people the best experiences under this occupation.” It didn’t work out too well for him,...
- 8/11/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Bernard Herrmann music + weird landscapes = Nirvana. This big-star western tale has an unbreakable story but terrible dialogue and weak characters... yet for fans of adventure filmmaking it's a legend, thanks to a thunderous Bernard Herrmann music score that transforms dozens of uncanny, real Mexican locations into something other-worldly. Garden of Evil Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1954 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 100 min. / Ship Date May 10, 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Víctor Manuel Mendoza. Cinematography Milton R. Krasner, Jorge Stahl Jr. Art Direction Edward Fitzgerald, Lyle Wheeler Film Editor James B. Clark Original Music Bernard Herrmann Special Effects Ray Kellogg Written by Frank Fenton, Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg Produced by Charles Brackett Directed by Henry Hathaway
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"The Garden of Evil. If the world was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"The Garden of Evil. If the world was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt.
- 5/14/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur was a freakin’ animated masterpiece. This is easily my favorite film that Pixar has made so far, and a couple of the reasons for that are the message that it delivers and the film's western frontier setting. This movie was packed to capacity with heart and soul, and you can read my review for it here.
I had the opportunity to talk to Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, and more about the movie, and they all happily jumped at the opportunity to work with Pixar on this film. This project was basically like a dream come true for them. They also praised director Peter Sohn for the incredible work that he did on the film, and how he knew exactly what he wanted when he was directing them.
A couple of the things I was most interested in learning about the film was the message behind...
I had the opportunity to talk to Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, and more about the movie, and they all happily jumped at the opportunity to work with Pixar on this film. This project was basically like a dream come true for them. They also praised director Peter Sohn for the incredible work that he did on the film, and how he knew exactly what he wanted when he was directing them.
A couple of the things I was most interested in learning about the film was the message behind...
- 11/26/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It's fitting that Clint Eastwood and John Wayne both have the same birthday week. (Wayne, who died in 1979, was born May 26, 1907, while Eastwood turns 85 on May 31). After all, these two all-American actors' careers span the history of that most American of movie genres, the western.
Both iconic actors were top box office draws for decades, both seldom stretched from their familiar personas, and both played macho, conservative cowboy heroes who let their firearms do most of the talking. Each represented one of two very different strains of western, the traditional and the revisionist.
As a birthday present to Hollywood's biggest heroes of the Wild West, here are the top 57 westerns you need to see.
57. 'Meek's Cutoff' (2010)
Indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and her frequent leading lady, Michelle Williams, are the talents behind this sparse, docudrama about an 1845 wagon train whose Oregon Trail journey goes horribly awry. It's an intense...
Both iconic actors were top box office draws for decades, both seldom stretched from their familiar personas, and both played macho, conservative cowboy heroes who let their firearms do most of the talking. Each represented one of two very different strains of western, the traditional and the revisionist.
As a birthday present to Hollywood's biggest heroes of the Wild West, here are the top 57 westerns you need to see.
57. 'Meek's Cutoff' (2010)
Indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and her frequent leading lady, Michelle Williams, are the talents behind this sparse, docudrama about an 1845 wagon train whose Oregon Trail journey goes horribly awry. It's an intense...
- 5/26/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Robert Redford movies: TCM shows 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Sting' They don't make movie stars like they used to, back in the days of Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Harry Cohn. That's what nostalgists have been bitching about for the last four or five decades; never mind the fact that movie stars have remained as big as ever despite the demise of the old studio system and the spectacular rise of television more than sixty years ago. This month of January 2015, Turner Classic Movies will be honoring one such post-studio era superstar: Robert Redford. Beginning this Monday evening, January 6, TCM will be presenting 15 Robert Redford movies. Tonight's entries include Redford's two biggest blockbusters, both directed by George Roy Hill and co-starring Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned Redford, already in his early 30s, into a major film star to rival Rudolph Valentino,...
- 1/7/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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