Tom Cruise fights on Nov 8, 2007
The role, written for Cruise by the perceptive director Paul Thomas Anderson, seemed to pick apart Cruise s iconic status and then finally present him, at his most vulnerable and exposed, with a dying father to confront (played by Jason Robards). It was to Cruise s credit that he took the role in the first place, let alone embraced it with such gusto (his performance in the deathbed scene, all silent screams and slowly emerging rage, is one of the great screen turns of our time). (Times Online)
Television movies for the week of August 26 Aug 26, 2007
Jason Robards Jr. Al Capone and his gang go to war with Bugs Moran's gang, ending with a setup in 1929 Chicago. (NR) (1:45) MAX: Mon. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Nichols brings 'Girl' to Broadway Aug 16, 2007
It was revived on Broadway in 1972 with a cast topped by Jason Robards and Maureen Stapleton. Both Freeman and McDormand were last on Broadway, in different productions, in 1988. (Variety)
The guy who made a career out of insults Jul 19, 2007
Eventually, he enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where Jason Robards, Grace Kelly, Anne Bancroft and Tom Poston also studied at the time. He envisioned a serious acting career, but after innumerable auditions he got used to hearing, "Thank you, next ...". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Joe Henderson On Sports Jul 12, 2007
In the epic movie All The President s Men Jason Robards, playing the part of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, noted that it s time to circle the wagons on a story when those affected start calling you blank-blank liars. That s what Curt Schilling basically did after announcer Gary Thorne casually remarked during a broadcast this week that one of Schilling s teammates, Doug Mirabelli, told him that the famous red blotch on Schilling s sock during is famous playoff win against the Yankees in... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- Sports)
John Patterson Jun 29, 2007
Fred looks so good, in fact, to the official, permanent Washington establishment and its courtier caste that this week Sally Quinn, wife of former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (or Jason Robards, if you prefer), wrote in the Post that Thompson should replace the formidable Dick Cheney as vice-president. Imagine if you will a veep like Cheney, who resembles politician Martin Sheen in Cronenberg's The Dead Zone ("Hallelujah gentlemen, the missiles are flying!"), being replaced by a lazy,... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Inside the Beltway (John McCaslin) May 30, 2007
Among them: Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Walter Matthau, Charles Bronson, Gene Autry, Robert Conrad, Gene Roddenberry, Robert Altman, Jack Palance, Humphrey Bogart, Jason Robards, Henry Fonda, George C. Scott, Glenn Ford, Brian Keith, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Kirk Douglas, Shecky Greene, Paul Newman, Jack Lemmon, Jackie Cooper, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Cliff Robertson, Rod Steiger, Dennis Weaver and Robert Stack. Also dressed for battle were James Arness, Alan Hale... (Washington Times, DC)
Plummer lands seventh Tony Awards nod May 16, 2007
Only Jason Robards, who took home one Tony out of the eight times he was in the running, has more nominations. Actors Christopher Plummer, right, and Brian Dennehy shake hands during the opening night curtain call for Inherit The Wind in New York in April. (Globe and Mail)
Midler mayhem May 2, 2007
It was only when Jose Quintero mounted his famous production with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst, that it began to be reassessed, and it has grown in perception ever since. " ... My first appreciation of Spacey came in the CBS series "Wiseguy," starring Ken Wahl. Kevin played Mel Profitt. He was a villain, but very funny in a totally demented way -- shooting up drugs between his toes. Kevin laughs, "I think the censors were asleep at the switch. (Variety)
Signature wins big at Hayes (Robyn-Denise Yourse) Apr 18, 2007
Past recipients have included James Earl Jones, Mary Martin, Angela Lansbury, Jason Robards, Chita Rivera, August Wilson, Jerry Herman and Terrence McNally. TV and film star Jason Kravits, a Washington theater veteran who's currently appearing on Broadway in the Tony-winning musical "The Drowsy Chaperone," served as the evening's host. (Washington Times, DC)
Supporting Player: My Life Upon the Wicked Stage -- a Star-Filled Theatre Memoir by Richard Seff Apr 16, 2007
He has acted in film or on stage with Jason Robards, Ralph Fiennes, Christine Lahti, Christopher Reeve, Richard Thomas, William Hurt, Judd Hirsch, Linda Hunt, James Woods and so many others. In his memoir, he tells of backstage shenanigans, some of them behind closed doors. (Primezone Releases)
Bibles Thumping, Suspenders Snapping Apr 14, 2007
Over the years the sparring partners in stage, film and television versions of Wind have included , Ed Begley, , , Jason Robards, and, for the previous Broadway revival (in 1996), George C. Scott and. Mr. Plummer and Mr. Dennehy seemed as promising a pair of boxers as any of the above. (New York Times)
'Moon' orbits around Spacey's evolution Apr 11, 2007
Virtually unseen after its 1943 premiere, the 1973 rediscovery identified, perhaps forever, the souls of Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst as the moon-crossed almost-lovers in a long night's journey at a Connecticut pig farm in 1923. In 2000, Cherry Jones and Gabriel Byrne never shook the ghosts of Robards and Dewhurst off the characters. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Kevin Spacey Takes on Eugene O'Neill Apr 10, 2007
The play was never considered in the top tier of O'Neill's works until the revelatory 1973 revival starring Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst. Since then, Broadway has seen two other productions - one with Ian Bannen and Kate Nelligan in 1984 and another with Gabriel Byrne and Cherry Jones in 2000. (Forbes)
A Moon for the Misbegotten Apr 10, 2007
The masterful symbiosis achieved by Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst in Jose Quintero's heartbreaking 1973 Broadway revival (preserved on DVD) may never be equaled. But the imbalance here is especially regrettable given Eve Best's stirring work as Josie. (Variety)
Kline's 'Lear' is sure to give you big chills Mar 8, 2007
Chronologically, it feels awfully early for his "King Lear," the daunting mountain of tragic poetry and family business that other actors of a certain age - including Jason Robards and Peter O'Toole - have left untouched at the top of their proclaimed wish lists. But here he is, at 59, back at the Public Theater, where producer Joseph Papp raised him, after impresario John Houseman trained him, looking like Zeus gone mad in a soulful, courageous, heart-shredding portrayal of deluded patriarchy. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Rewind: When Actors Sing! Feb 27, 2007
In a wonderfully surreal moment in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" (1999), much of the cast including Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Jason Robards, John C. Reilly and William H. Macy (but excluding the frogs) begins interacting with the soundtrack, singing along to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up.". "Duets" (2000) boasts somewhat less-than-mellifluous singing by Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti and Maria Bello, but they are to be excused since the film is based in the world of karaoke, an arena not known for... (VHI.com -- Music News)
A.R.Gurney's Love Letters Feb 24, 2007
Since then, Love Letters couples include Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, Kathleen Turner and John Rubenstein, Nancy Marchand and Fritz Weber, Barbara Eden and Hal Linden, Shirley Jones and Marty Engels, Martha Henry and Rod Beattie. That's just a few. (Suite101.com)
A Riveting 'Journey' Feb 6, 2007
" She's an image of bustling, matronly contentment in B. Modern's attractive housedress costume, her white-streaked hair piled high atop her head. But there's a discomfiting nervousness in her rapidly fluttering fingers, a seismic pain glimpsed in her fallen features when she's alone, a frightening artificiality in her cheerful composure when her husband enters the room. King encapsulates the uneasy onset and the heartbreaking finale of Jonathan Moscone's curiously concentrated and unevenly... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'She's become the first lady of the stage' Feb 4, 2007
Although she's acted for a living for nearly three decades, Jones still seems a little stage - struck, as smitten with the theater as the 16-year-old who saw Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards in a workshop production of "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and never looked back. "You start as a child, acting," says Jones, who grew up in west Tennessee. (Boston Globe)
'Sahara' author sues moviemaker Feb 3, 2007
One of Cussler's books, Raise the Titanic, was made for the big screen in 1980, starring Jason Robards, but didn't do well at the box office. Anschutz no slouch. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The Secret Mainstream Feb 1, 2007
Herzog spent three years in the jungle making Fitzcarraldo, and in the process had to deal with scrapping everything halfway through when his original star, Jason Robards, fell ill with dysentery and was forbidden by his doctor to return to Peru; plane crashes; a border war between Peru and Ecuador; Herzog s arrest by the authorities; several crew members injuries (including one man chainsawing off his own foot after being bitten by a poisonous snake); and attacks by hostile Indians (one of... (Harper's Magazine)
Author, billionaire get heated over film Sahara Feb 1, 2007
was made for the big screen in 1980, starring Jason Robards, but didn't do well at the box office. Anschutz, 67, who made his fortune from oil and railroad holdings, helped build the fibre-optic network company Qwest Communications. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Biographical dramas spin film gold Jan 20, 2007
1976: Jason Robards, "All the President's Men" (Ben Bradlee). 1978: Jason Robards, "Julia" (Dashiell Hammett). (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
'Misbegotten' souls are meaty roles Jan 15, 2007
He wrote them in 1973 for a landmark production of Moon in which Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst played Jim and Josie, respectively. Their performances set the gold standard for the roles. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
O'Neill team returns for North Coast Rep's 'Moon' Jan 11, 2007
At age 19, he saw Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurt tackle the roles at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles (the pair recaptured their roles in a film version). "I was quite taken with the play," he said. (North County Times)
Rewind: Top 10 Most Wanted True-Crime Movies Jan 9, 2007
The tall, thin Jason Robards may not look like Capone the way Robert De Niro does in "The Untouchables," and George Segal (playing a mob enforcer) couldn't be menacing in any context, but B-movie auteur Roger Corman's stylish direction makes this one of the more memorable mob movies (look for a cameo by the young Jack Nicholson). 9. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Spacey redemption at Old Vic Dec 13, 2006
All that changed in 1973 as the result of a thrilling production starring Jason Robards as Tyrone and formidable Canadian-born Colleen Dew- hurst as Josie Hogan, a tenant farmer's daughter who hides her vulnerability behind the looks of an overgrown cow and the manner of a tramp. Their legendary performances brought out the power in the script that had hitherto been elusive; should you doubt it, this version is available on DVD. As for the play being dubbed a resurrection, there was more than... (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Don't give him rewrite Dec 8, 2006
The third Pitt novel, "Raise the Titanic!", was made into a 1980 film starring Jason Robards. It lost so much money that producer Lew Grade quipped, "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.". (Los Angeles Times)
Spacey to return to Broadway Nov 22, 2006
this article to your Del. 06:47 AMASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK Kevin Spacey and Eugene O'Neill, together again. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
O'Neill Lit Find Sparks A Fury Nov 22, 2006
Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards starred in a 1962 movie version of the play, while more recently, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Dennehy performed a revised version on Broadway in 2003. Robards also starred in an award-winning revival of "The Ice Man Cometh" on Broadway in 1985. (New York Post -- Business)
Cherry Jones inhabits roles with a rare magic she hopes to bring to film Nov 7, 2006
"And here's this sweet-as-can-be girl from Tennessee. But let me tell you, she knows the name of every stagehand and every dresser. She has integrity and this authentic love of the art. When she starts talking about Jason Robards, it's real. Her love of the theater is very deep and real.". Standing outside her dressing room at the Ahmanson Theatre after a recent Saturday matinee of "Doubt," Jones greeted a visitor with a wide smile and merry aquamarine eyes. (San Francisco Chronicle)
For your consideration: Sacha Baron Cohen Oct 31, 2006
Nominated in the same category as Walter Brennan and George C. Scott and Jason Robards. For a performance in a broad, NASCAR-inspired, Will Ferrell comedy. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Scorsese joins Rome fest to restore pix Oct 17, 2006
RomeFilmFest organizers intend to finance the restoration of a number of Italian films each year, beginning with Leone's 1968 Western classic starring Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale and Charles Bronson. "This is the first time a film festival will fund the hands-on restoration of a film," Scorsese said. (Variety)
New inductees chosen for Theater Hall of Fame Oct 15, 2006
She may not have been the production's biggest stars (which included Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards), but you couldn't help falling in love with her. This year's honorees were selected from a list of 69 nominees by a group that includes the American Theatre Critics Association, Hall of Fame members and other selected critics and theater historians. (Herald-Tribune)
Bob Woodwards new book about Oct 3, 2006
The book was an instant best seller and was later (1976) made into a hit movie of the same name, directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Robert Redford as BobWoodward, Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Jason Robards, Jr. as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. The book and the movie made Woodward very rich and launched him on a book-writing career as Washingtons ultimate insiders insider. (The News - International)
No humor, no point in going to 'School' Oct 1, 2006
In "A Thousand Clowns,'' Jason Robards noted that "If things aren't funny. they're like a long dental appointment. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Little Theater, Big 'Journey' Oct 1, 2006
(Jason Robards Jr., who originated the role of son Jamie Tyrone on Broadway, later played father James Tyrone at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1976 and on Broadway in 1988. . (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Celebrating a living legend Sep 28, 2006
In addition to presidents, Kinstler has also brought many well-known personalities to the canvas, including Katharine Hepburn, Peter O' Toole, Paul Newman, James Cagney, Jason Robards, Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, Gene Hackman, Gregory Peck and John Wayne. Author Tom Wolfe and vocalist Tony Bennett, an old classmate, are among his closest friends. (Easton Courier, CT)
The mystery of synesthesia: Fallbrook author writes about obscure mental condition Sep 24, 2006
"Laguna Heat" was made into an HBO movie starring Harry Hamlin, Jason Robards and Rip Torn. None of Parker's other 12 books has been made into a movie, but he said television producers have discussed a series based on "The Fallen.". (North County Times)
`Edmond' puts William H. Macy out on the edge Sep 1, 2006
" The 75-minute movie is taken from a David Mamet play from the early 1980s and requires Macy, as the increasingly appalled title character, to say some unprintable things about women and blacks, to bemoan the sad state of the world, and to commit a grisly murder or two -- William H. Macy!While never less than completely miscast, Macy is also unwavering in his devotion to Mamet's central idea about the imagined weight of the white man's burden. His unflinching fervor almost makes up for the fact... (Boston Globe)
Plummer — and French — back at Stratford Aug 12, 2006
"Falstaff, of course, now that they can make fat suits that no longer weigh a ton. And I'd like to play James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night. I did some of it on a documentary about Eugene O'Neill last year and that sparked my interest."I never thought I was an O'Neill kind of guy and besides, my great friend Jason Robards had all of O'Neill sewed up as far as I was concerned, but he's gone now. "He hints slyly at a Broadway revival that he's currently in negotiations for, that reliable... (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Before Israel Horovitz exits Gloucester Stage, he's debuting a new play about a great French artist Aug 11, 2006
"Horovitz, 67, had his first play produced 48 years ago. More than 50 have followed. Some of the better known include ``The Indian Wants the Bronx, " which introduced a young Al Pacino ; ``Line, " now in its 32d year off-Broadway; and ``Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, " whose Broadway production starred Jason Robards and Judith Ivey. Tan and trim, Horovitz has the beguiling air of a man who's gone far and expects to go that much farther. (Boston Globe -- Living)
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM Jul 30, 2006
"The Ballad of Cable Hogue" (1970), a low-key western with Jason Robards as a gold prospector who hooks up with a hooker (Stella Stevens). "Junior Bonner" (1972), with McQueen as a washed-up rodeo ace and Robert Preston and Ida Lupino as his estranged parents. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The Post's Bradlee on the record Jun 19, 2006
Bradlee who at 84 maintains his wits, his hair and a jaunty stride is better known than most newspaper editors because of Watergate, which is really to say because of "All the President's Men," in the film of which he was played by Jason Robards, who won an Oscar for the role. (Newspaper editors usually only get famous during a scandal. (calendarlive.com)
Fox Movie Channel Salutes the USO on Memorial Day May 24, 2006
Starring Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Joseph Cotton. Directed by Richard Fleischer. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Entertainment : Civic Center perplexed over young audiences May 14, 2006
The play has proved popular with actors, pairing Shirley Jones with husband Marty Ingells; Charlton Heston and his wife, Lydia Clarke Heston; Elaine Stritch and Jason Robards; Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers; and Joan Collins with Stacey Keach. Hagman and Eden starred together in "I Dream of Jeannie" from 1965 to 1970. (Wyoming Tribune Eagle)
Comes a Horseman May 9, 2006
In 1940s Montana, three ranchers are caught up in an essential struggle for survival; one is a tragic, King Lear-type villain (played by Jason Robards) who hopes to usurp the land of his neighbour and former lover; she (Jane Fonda), in turn, is a stoic loner who wants to fend for herself; the third (James Caan) is an easygoing cowboy whose reserve masks brittle anger and indignation. Their paths collide, with fateful consequences, after they are approached by oilmen who tempt the ranchers to... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Blues on the Western Front: Apr 19, 2006
Tiers of meaning come from Chill Wills, Jack Elam, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Gene Evans, Richard Jaeckel, Elisha Cook, Dub Taylor, Harry Dean Stanton, Jason Robards, Barry Sullivan, and the astonishing Katy Jurado, who, were it not for the ethnic provincialism of her time, could have been America's answer to Anna Magnani. All of these actors bring to Sam Peckinpah's last Western a somber regality as well as a crude poetry of laconic and hilarious dimensions. (Slate)
A playwright who paid the ultimate price Mar 27, 2006
People saw Shakespeare and sentimental fare like ''The Count of Monte Cristo," performed ad nauseam by O'Neill's father, the popular actor James O'Neill, who squandered real talent for easy money. The son then gave them a searing look into the bitter truths of life.Burns delivers a rich film brimming with large judgment and fine detail that dramatically increases our understanding of America's only playwright to win the Nobel Prize. Six years, on and off, in the making, it is a definitive piece... (Boston Globe)
Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film Mar 27, 2006
"At the time of his death, in 1953, O'Neill's legacy was badly tarnished. His plays of the 1920s and '30s had been devalued, and he was remembered for writing as many bad plays as good ones.His widow Carlotta, determined to reclaim his reputation, got "Long Day" published and produced in 1956 despite the playwright's wish that it not be published until 25 years after his death and never produced. Jason Robards, who starred in its first production, gives a chilling account of the reaction to the... (Variety)
Ric Burns navigates fog, genius of playwright Eugene O'Neill Mar 26, 2006
The late Jason Robards talks about the play's opening night toward the end of Ric Burns' titanic two-hour documentary "Eugene O'Neill," to be broadcast Monday as part of the PBS "American Experience" series. While he also made his name as one of the great O'Neill interpreters with "The Iceman Cometh" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," Robards' story of that opening night in 1956, when he played the tragic older son Jamie on Broadway, is so downright thrilling, it makes us envious that we weren't... (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Capote' staris golden Mar 6, 2006
Other roles include the storm chaser Dusty in Twister, the sycophantic assistant to a millionaire in The Big Lebowski, a jaded rock music critic in Almost Famous, the sensitive male nurse for a dying Jason Robards in Magnolia, and the cocky playboy who sees through Matt Damons charade in The Talented Mr. Ripley. . (MSNBC -- News)
All the President's Men Mar 4, 2006
With: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards. By. (Variety)
EW review: Timeless 'President's Men' Feb 25, 2006
Jason Robards, an Oscar winner as growly Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, reins in his two newshounds admirably. EXTRAS In one of the DVD's interviews, Hoffman credits Redford with a canny idea -- that they memorize not just their own but each other's lines as well, so they could finish each other's sentences, interrupt and improvise. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Eye on the Oscars: Oscar Wrap Feb 23, 2006
This attitude was never more prettily displayed than in Sam Peckinpah's picturesque "The Ballad of Cable Hogue." Setting us up for a series of aesthetic surprises, the movie opens with a classic scene of bad guys falling out with one another, as Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) is left to die of thirst in the desert by two traitorous companions ... It's the waning days of World War II, but in Montana, small ranchers Jane Fonda and James Caan are fighting the violent attempts of big-time landowner... (Variety)
Redford remembers All the President's Men Feb 16, 2006
Soon, director Alan Pakula (The Parallax View) and Hoffman signed on, as did Jason Robards, who won an Oscar for his legendary, Woodstein. -shouting performance as Post editor-in-chief Ben Bradlee. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection Jan 30, 2006
With: Joel McCrea, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, James Coburn, Randolph Scott, Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards. By. (Variety)
Hoffman master of the oddball Jan 29, 2006
Hoffman, 38, one of the busiest and best actors of his generation, has animated supporting roles in some memorable movies: he has been (in no particular order) an obese phone-sex pest in Happiness; Chris O'Donnell's odious classmate in Scent of A Woman: a neurotic playwright in David Mamet's moviemaking satire State and Main; the greasy assistant to The Big Lebowski in the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski; Jason Robards' nurse in Magnolia; Adam Sandler's foulmouthed tormentor in Punch-Drunk Love;... (New Zealand Herald)
Red-Eye brings its thrills to DVD Jan 10, 2006
Debuting in single-disc editions are Ride the High Country, with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea as aging lawmen guarding a gold shipment, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue, a vengeance tale starring Jason Robards. A posse of Peckinpah experts provides commentary for each film. (MSNBC -- Movies)
