Tender Mercies News

We talked about possible Oscar-buzzed actresses last month; now let's take a look at the lead actor category.

When Stephen Bruton was too sick, too weak from cancer to deal with airports and commercial flights, T-Bone Burnett, his friend of 45 years, hired a private jet to fly Bruton to Los Angeles to finish work on "Crazy Heart," the film that opens Dec.

It's deja vu all over again. Barely nine months after Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire shamed the Warner Bros.

Tony winner Betty Buckley will be the special guest for the first two performances of Seattle Men's Chorus "Santa Baby," combining comedy and music.

Crazy Heart, the directorial debut of Scott Cooper , finds Bridges as an ex-country singer/songwriting legend Bad Blake who is on the brink of losing everything to drink, cigarettes and a lack of passion to play music before a new relationship sparks with a much younger, clear-minded, single mum journalist .

By CARY DARLING Here's the lineup for today's Lone Star International Film Festival at the AMC Palace theater and the Four Day Weekend theater in Fort Worth: Touching Home : Written and directed by twins Logan and Noah Miller , this drama deals with guys who come to realize that their baseball dreams may never come true.

Could this be Jeff Bridges' Oscar? It smacks of Robert Duvall's Oscar winner, Tender Mercies.

An epic rags-to-riches story, played for maximum melodrama by veteran director Bruce Beresford.

The actor of choice to play gruff, but lovable grandfathers, old salts and dispensers of sage advice in the 1980s, Wilford Brimley was a former real-life ranch hand who worked his way up the Hollywood food chain from.... The actor of choice to play gruff, but lovable grandfathers, old salts and dispensers of sage advice in the 1980s, Wilford ...

By Rebecca M. Alvin of Provincetown Magazine September 17th, 2009 At 13, Betty Buckley had a vision.

Reporting from Toronto -- There are a thousand short stories behind "Get Low," which is premiering tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Betty Buckley will bring her star quality and knockout pipes to the fourth Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

A strawberry blonde player, held in high regard for her abilities by Hollywood, Tess Harper made a big impression in her very first feature film role as Robert Duvall's much younger wife in "Tender Mercies" . She.... A strawberry blonde player, held in high regard for her abilities by Hollywood, Tess Harper made a big impression in her very first ...

A $4,400 Mississippi Arts Commission grant will allow a local filmmaker to complete his labor of love, more than 20 years in the making.

Tony Award winner Betty Buckley will offer six concerts - three with Seth Rudetsky and three with Emmy winner John McDaniel - at the The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.

"When I'm around the horses, all thoughts of show business or other things that might be frustrating to me just go away.

A Tony winner for the original Broadway production of "Cats," Betty Buckley was one of musical theater's most acclaimed performers from the late 1960s through the 21st century.

A new partnership between the Bay Street Theatre and the Parrish Art Museum will kick off on Saturday, June 27, when world-famous blues/rock guitarist G.E. Smith conducts a two-day electric guitar workshop at the Parrish.

Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard and Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies." Tender Mercies by Roger Ebert "Tender Mercies" won Robert Duvall his only Academy Award in six nominations.

Two more Broadway favorites - Tony Award winner Betty Buckley and original Annie Andrea McArdle - will be part of the "all-new" Nothing Like a Dame concert, billed as "an intimate benefit concert event for The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative." Buckley and McArdle join the previously announced Kelli O'Hara and Tony winners Audra McDonald ...