Timothy Bottoms News

In the classic film about law school, "The Paper Chase," there is this priceless moment when the incomparable John Houseman, playing the professor, holds up a coin and offers it to the beleaguered student played by Timothy Bottoms.

Dear David Inman: I have tried and tried to remember the name of this movie: It was about a seeing-eye dog and his owner and how the seeing-eye program got started.

No pain, no gain, for the frolicking twain in Spain. As a director, Alan J. Pakula was best known as the captain of commanding Hollywood vessels like Klute , All the President's Men , and Sophie's Choice - big honkin' entertainments that reaped respect, awards, and box office.

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Timothy Bottoms, the brother of actors Joseph and Sam Bottoms, was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., on this date in 1951.

Timothy Bottoms, who has appeared in more than 60 feature films including The Last Picture Show and The Paper Chase , lives nowhere near Hollywood.

Timothy Bottoms, who has appeared in more than 60 feature films including The Last Picture Show and The Paper Chase , lives nowhere near Hollywood.

A tornado threatens the Snow Prom, where Jackie's runner-up finish for Snow Queen prompts a parody of "The Wizard of Oz." Wizard: Pamela Sue Martin.

TRUMPETING TRUMBO I read Dalton Trumbo's 1939 masterpiece of antiwar literature Johnny Got His Gun in high school.

Hailed by some as an anti-war classic, 1971's "Johnny Got His Gun" is finally on DVD.

It was December 1971. I was spending the holidays in New York City, where I decided to go to the opening night of a new movie set in Texas titled The Last Picture Show .

After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed, a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see, left to wander within his own mind between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone.

Photograph by: Handout, Files Johnny Got His Gun 5/5 stars Dalton Trumbo's timeless meditation on what it means to be wounded in battle, and the absurd tragedy of war itself, finally sees North American release with this features-laden disc.

Video Event of the Week: Is it Fox Home Video's Blu-ray of the restored Todd-AO version of Joshua Logan 's humongously widescreen South Pacific ? Might the Weinstein Company's DVD of the inexplicably Oscar-nominated Holocaust porn The Reader get the nod? Or against everything good and holy in this world, could Frank Miller 's appalling adaptation ...