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Kim Morgan: Words From the Saint, Eva Marie
In her first movie, she kissed Marlon Brando. And then she won an Oscar. How many actresses get that kind of a debut? But then, how many actresses are as wonderful as Eva Marie Saint? A performer of elegance, vulnerability, charm, beauty, intelligence and great wit, Miss Saint remains, not just a movie star, but a real actor, one of the innovators.
What happens when a dashing ad agency exec is mistaken for a U.S. secret agent, chased across the continent by enemy spies, tempted by the beautiful woman he meets on a train, chased down by a machinegun wielding, crop-dusting plane, and dangled from the faces of Mount Rushmore? Alfred Hitchcock at one of his finest moments is what happens, and it ...
The Belcourt's Elia Kazan retro showcases a director who felt every...
Film history still thinks of Elia Kazan mostly as an actor's director. Not without good reason, of course, since the Greek-American director's movies gave us so many iconic performances, including Marlon Brando 's legendary turns in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront , as well as James Dean 's starring debut in East of Eden .
Revisiting the 'Northwest' territory on DVD
WHO CAN FORGET those images - Cary Grant on a deserted highway being chased by a crop dusting plane? Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the president's noses on Mount Rushmore as they are pursued by a group of nefarious spies? Then there's the pulsating score by Bernard Herrmann, one of the great screen composer's most evocative works.
the Kimball Chronicles: Waiting For Budd
Until he was cast in the role of former light-heavyweight Terry Malloy for last summer's two-night performance of Budd Schulberg's ON THE WATERFRONT in Hoboken, Jason Cerbone's most noteworthy fight experience had come in the men's room of the Bada Bing Club, where James Gandolfini beat him within an inch of his life in a 2001 episode of "The ...
'North by Northwest' still full of thrills and chills
FAMOUS SCENE: Roger Thornhill runs from a crop duster thatA A's cutting it close in 1959A A's A A'North by Northwest.A A' A newly remastered digital print will be shown tonight at Mann Chinese Theatre Who can forget those images -- Cary Grant on a deserted highway being chased by a crop dusting plane? Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the ...
The flawed character who made stars out of other flawed characters
STEPHEN COLE Published on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.
Curtains Up at the Dallas Performing Arts Center
The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, part of the new addition to the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.
Bernardo Cubr a Is Counting The Minutes Until Tonight's Premiere Of Down, Boy
New York actor and former Houstonian Bernardo Cubria is starting to get a little nervous right about now -- he's just hours away from the staged reading of his play Down, Boy by Wordsmyth Theater Company.
Theatre will take centre stage at next year's Hong Kong Arts Festival, with 10 drama and musical productions, three of which are Asian premieres and four are new works.
Budd Schulberg, who lived in Westhampton Beach, died in August at the age of 95, with almost every obituary rightfully highlighting that Schulberg was the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, which was also named 1954s Best Picture.
Electricity for All in Elia Kazan's Wild River
The man who brought the Method to Hollywood , Elia Kazan gave James Dean his first role and got career performances from Marlon Brando , Carroll Baker , Andy Griffith , Lee Remick , and Natalie Wood , as well as Robert De Niro 's most nuanced turn in a movie directed by anyone other than Martin Scorsese .
Toronto takes a rare cinematic bow with screenings of films set right here at home, including rarities like Julian Roffman's The Bloody Brood from the 1950s, and David Cronenberg's Videodrome and Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing from the 1980s.
St. Annea s Film Series Festival Slated To Begin
Classic movie actors Bing Crosby, Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Gregory Peck are united by a common role in a series of films that will be shown by St.
From Jerusalem to Cambria via Hollywood
Fifty years ago, The Twilight Zone, one of the best written series to air on TV, got its start.
Film dispute leaves Iowans with questions
There's a famous moment in the classic 1954 movie "On the Waterfront" where Marlon Brando's character, Terry Malloy, looks at his brother, lamenting all he could have been.
Margate In Your Town - Week of Sept. 23, 2009
Fall Fun Fest Margate's Fall Funfest by the Bay will offer six blocks of fun 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept.
What does one say about Dallas Malloy? In sitting down to write this article, it became clear it would be a challenge to not turn this into a book or a novel.
Mamma Mia's leaping ahead in Portsmouth open air screening
Abba fans will be delighted a ' Mamma Mia! is way out in front as people cast their votes for Portsmouth's big drive-in movie night.
Whistleblowers On the Waterfront
It may be just as well that the wonderful novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg died when he did.
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