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Monday, November 17, 2008 Last Update: 09:30 AM EST. Last updated: 3:18 amNovember 16, 2008 Posted: 3:01 amNovember 16, 2008. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Hollywood idols quiz Nov 13, 2008
Gary Cooper is B. A is Alan Ladd, who starred in Shane and C is Randolph Scott, who made his last Western, Ride the High Country, aged 64. Lawrence was played by O'Toole in David Lean's 1962 classic, which won seven Oscars. (BBC News -- UK)
The classic Western returns with 'Appaloosa' Oct 3, 2008
And if it's not particularly surprising, ask yourself how often John Wayne, Alan Ladd or Jimmy Stewart surprised us. It's not the novelty that sells this. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Hit Movies Filmed in Greece Sep 5, 2008
The island of Hydra was the setting for the film, which starred Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb and Sophia Loren. A string of classics followed, including Never on Sunday, shot in 1960 in the port town of Piraeus and starring Melina Merkouri. (Suite101.com)
Local winner on global playing field Sep 3, 2008
Finally, special awards were given earlier in the festival to recognize the lifetime contributions of Huppert, famed U.S. producer Alan Ladd, Jr. and actor Tony Curtis, the Brooklyn-born star of Some Like It Hot, who shot from the lip during his days at the festival this year. jgriffin@thegazette. (The Gazette (Montreal))
Back from the brink Aug 22, 2008
Various film competitions and showcases on world cinema, documentaries, tributes to film creators from Alan Ladd Jr. and Tony Curtis, and even a retrospective seven Soviet-era Russian musicals are among this year's attractions. Also on hand is director Brian De Palma conducting a master class as part of the festival. (Globe and Mail)
AFI Names Top Ten Western Films of ... Jul 28, 2008
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Walter Jack Palance. Director: George Stevens. (Suite101.com)
Gary Wolf vs Walt Disney Studios May 24, 2008
and NBC, in favour of producer/former studio head Alan Ladd Jr. and the creators of Will & Grace. The Writer's Guild is also backing a bill in the California Legislature aimed at regulating self-dealing transactions among movie studios. (Suite101.com)
New column: I'll get to saving the world shortly May 2, 2008
Wasn't Alan Ladd really short. Don't know about the size of his noggin, but I recall stories of his needing to stand on something to appear taller than his leading ladies. (Longview Daily News, WA)
New releases Mar 29, 2008
Unfortunately, the movie's 78 minutes long. With Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett, and (in archival footage) Ronald Reagan and Alan Ladd. (78 min., unrated) (Ty Burr). (Boston Globe)
Training-film spoof takes a shot at the Iraq war Mar 21, 2008
Starring: Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett, Mackenzie Astin, William Holden, Alan Ladd, Ronald Reagan. At: Kendall Square. (Boston Globe)
Made in Wyoming Mar 2, 2008
It stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin and Jack Palance ... Starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Jack Palance and Ben Johnson, it was filmed primarily in Jackson Hole areas now part of Grand Teton National Park, Farmer said. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
The good, the bad and the petty Feb 1, 2008
There were dark heroes, whether it was John Wayne in The Searchers or Alan Ladd in Shane - they were killers struggling with redemption; struggling with the shadows of darkness. Somehow this genre allowed Hollywood to explore some really rich themes that they almost couldn't in any other genre. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The man with the big picture Jan 11, 2008
"Laddy [studio boss Alan Ladd jnr] said, 'Can you think of another ending?"' Scott says. "I said, 'No, can you?' He said, 'No.' I said, 'Fine.' He said, 'But they drive off the cliff.' I said, 'Do you like it?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'So what are you mucking about for?' He said, 'That car goes down, the hat comes off, it's really depressing.' I said, 'Tell you what, we'll freeze it.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Writers, studios break off talks Dec 8, 2007
"It's going to be a very black Christmas for everybody," said veteran producer Alan Ladd Jr., whose credits include the Oscar winner "Braveheart.". The television industry, which already has been disrupted by the shutdown of more than 50 shows, will be even harder hit. (Los Angeles Times)
Movies better than the books that spawned them Dec 1, 2007
Not the sweeping motion picture, cherished for its cinematography and for iconic performances by Alan Ladd and Jack Palance. Screenplay: A.B. Guthrie Jr.. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Read a bit from Sage-ing While Age-ing Nov 8, 2007
I did have a crush on Alan Ladd until I met him and saw that he came up to my waist. And I adored Nora Kaye, who could do sixty-four fouett. (USA Today -- Life)
Enjoying the magic of the movies Nov 6, 2007
Alan Ladd was the perfect mysterious anti-hero, he wore buckskin better than Davy Crockett, and he ruled in that climactic gun fight with little Brandon de Wilde peeping under the barroom doors and telling him to watch out for the guy with the shotgun. That stuff just sends me off the wall. (Braintree Forum, MA)
Hollywood cliffhanger as writers plot to strike back Nov 3, 2007
Coincidentally and simultaneously, a Los Angeles jury awarded Alan Ladd jnr, an Academy Award winner and former Fox studio head, more than $US2 million after he sued Warner Brothers for profit participation, involving transparency in accounting practices. This was a rare, if not seminal, event in the Hollywood culture. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Chinese Film Week staged in Tokyo Oct 22, 2007
Results of the competition will be announce on the closing day of the festival by the jury, which was headed by U.S. film producer Alan Ladd Jr.. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to its motherland, festival organizer has also arranged a special section for films from Hong Kong. (Xinhuanet, China)
Tokyo Int'l Film Festival curtains up Oct 21, 2007
Results of the competition will be announced on the closing day of the festival by the jury, which was headed by U.S. film producer Alan Ladd Jr.. To celebrate the 35 anniversary of the normalization of ties between Japan and China and the 10 anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, the organizer arranged China Film Week and Hong Kong Film Week respectively. (Xinhuanet, China)
Tokyo fest gets underway Oct 20, 2007
Jury headed by Alan Ladd Jr will decide winning film from the competition section and deliver prizes worth $50,000 and $20,000. Events unroll at the Toho Cinema complex in Roppongi Hills and at the Bunkamura in Shibuya. (Variety)
Premiere brings plenty of star power to Boston Oct 16, 2007
"This has an audience that'll know if it's real or false." Others at the screening included producers Sean Bailey and Alan Ladd Jr.; actors Brian Scannell, William Lee, Bob Wahlberg, Sean Malone, Eamon Brooks, Jay Giannone, and Madeline O'Brien, who plays little Amanda McCready; Damon's mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige; and Affleck's co-screenwriter, Aaron Stockard, a Cambridge native who said he and Ben brought authenticity to bear on the script. "We knew these people and we knew their stories," he... (Boston Globe)
Ben Affleck on JLo Oct 13, 2007
The rights to the key characters in "Gone Baby Gone" were owned by Alan Ladd Jr., who'd gotten then-Paramount chief Sherry Lansing to buy them when he had a deal at the studio. Affleck approached Ladd and expressed interest in writing the script. (Los Angeles Times)
Ben Affleck takes 'Baby' steps Oct 11, 2007
Casey Affleck chatted in a booth with pic's producer Alan Ladd Jr. and later discussed the ease that came from working with his brother. "We had a sort of shorthand based on genes and commonalities. We were able to get things done quicker," he said. (Variety)
DVD watch: The too-short career of Laird Cregar Oct 9, 2007
Cregar is the villain in the taut Graham Greene adaptation that made Alan Ladd a star, even though Ladd plays a sympathetic hit man ... He's the bad guy: Laird Cregar, left, and Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire. (USA Today -- Life)
ZAPiT Games Brings Brain-Bending Sudoku to Families in Latest Title Release for Game Wave(TM) System Oct 9, 2007
The Alan Ladd Group Lia Brandligt, 310-702-8022. Source: ZAPiT Games. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
More of this story Sep 30, 2007
Alan Ladd Jr., the Academy Award-winning producer and former 20th Century Fox head who green-lighted tar Wars, was honored Friday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ... Ladd's father, the late actor Alan Ladd, also has a Walk of Fame star. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
the Set List. Sep 29, 2007
com - Entertainment news, movie reviews, industry events - Variety Magazine Online. Variety: Digital Editions. (Variety)
Secret lunch honors Ladd Sep 28, 2007
But most of all, they meet out of love and respect for Alan Ladd Jr. ... Brooks (seven films with Laddie) reveals that " 'Young Frankenstein' was all set up at Columbia when I mentioned as an afterthought, 'It's going to be in black .' And they were horrified. 'What?! Peru has color now, everybody has color!' So Michael Gruskoff said, 'Alan Ladd, Jr.'s just taken over Fox, let's show it to him.' Laddie read it and said, 'I loved it. It's very funny, and very touching as well.' 'You know it's... (Variety)
Legend & Groundbreaker: Alan Ladd Jr. Sep 28, 2007
com - Hot Topic: Legend dbreaker: Alan Ladd Jr. ... Legend dbreaker: Alan Ladd Jr.. (Variety)
Gone Baby Gone Sep 6, 2007
Produced by Alan Ladd Jr., Dan Rissner, Sean Bailey. Executive producer, David Crockett. (Variety)
Ladd, Kanter get $3.2 mil in damages Aug 4, 2007
A Los Angeles jury Thursday awarded producers Alan Ladd Jr. and Jay Kanter precisely the $3. 2 million in damages on their allocation claim against Warner Bros. (Variety)
LA jury returns $3.2 million verdict against Warner Bros. Aug 3, 2007
Jurors deliberated for five hours over two days before siding with Alan Ladd Jr. and Jay Kanter in a lawsuit against the studio ... Ladd, known among Hollywood power brokers as "Laddie," held top positions with 20th Century Fox and MGM. His father is the late Alan Ladd, who starred in the classic Western, "Shane."Kanter is a former chairman of production for MGM.. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Santa Maria Inn steeped in Central Coast history May 28, 2007
Anne Baxter, Jack Benny, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Doris Day, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, David Niven, Kim Novak, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne added their names to the growing list of nearly 100 famous guests. Today, doors in the old portion of the hotel are adorned with stars and the names of the celebrities believed to have stayed inside those very rooms. (Santa Maria Times)
A long time ago...| May 22, 2007
" As the 'Star Wars' 30th anniversary approaches, the film remains one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. As well as six movies, 'Star Wars' has spawned a cottage industry of spin-off television series, books, comics, video games, toys and other merchandise. Forbes magazine estimated in 2005 the franchise has generated as much as $20-billion in revenues over the past three decades. Ironically, however, Lucas had to fight tooth and nail to persuade the film's backers, 20th Century Fox,... (iAfrica.com)
FRESH LOOK AT '70S ICON May 3, 2007
"But that didn't bother Alan Ladd Jr., who was in charge of production. He would listen to the pitch and say, when do you want to start?". Now Mazursky is pitching a film "about an honest Chicano dishwasher in L.A., based on a true story. He was an illegal alien who found a bag of money, 220,000, that dropped out of a Brink's truck, and gave it back after much soul-searching.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Who Says Boys Don't Cry? Five Flicks Sure To Bring On The Man Tears May 3, 2007
The setup: Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into town to help a group of farmers stand up to the ranchers who want them off their land. It's inevitable that this lone drifter will win, of course, but 00003F82 it's not just that he defeats the bad guys (most notably Wilson, played by Jack Palance); it's that he does it while wearing a white hat. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Old interviews redefine 'Star Wars' story Apr 24, 2007
But as Lucas was forced to fund most of the movie's preproduction, one of the suits, Alan Ladd Jr., then the studio's production chief, emerged as a hero. In October 1975, smarting from the failure of the big-budget "Lucky Lady" with Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli, Fox imposed a moratorium on further spending on "Star Wars" until its board met on December 13. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Hemingway and Hollywood Apr 12, 2007
Fitzgerald ended up with but a handful of cinematic translations, each sorry in a completely different way: two versions of The Great Gatsby, one a veritable mess with Alan Ladd, the other, with the equally limited Robert Redford, glossy but staid, and a latter-day The Last Tycoon for Elia Kazan-lovers only. Hemingway, of all the generation of early twentieth century American writers, should have been the one, the Hollywood treasure trove, given his curt dialogue, affinity for the outdoors and... (Suite101.com)
Looking Back Jan 11, 2007
Some of his favorites are: food, chicken and fried steak; actor, Alan Ladd; actress, June Allyson; movie, Sailor Beware; song, Don't Be Cruel; singers, Teresa Brewer and Elvis Presley; pastime, watching TV; sport, football; subject, biology. Eighth grade - This interview is of Wanda Gorbatjuk. (Kalona News, IA)
