In 'The Golden Boys,' old men of the sea are salty and sweet Oct 31, 2008
A coin is flipped, Jerry is the winner - or loser, I guess - and Mariel Hemingway, prim and almost twice Torn's height, comes to town ... Starring: David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, John Savage, Jason Alan Smith, and Charles Durning. (Boston Globe)
Oscars for 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' Penelope Cruz and Woody Allen? Aug 18, 2008
Woody Allen directed 14 actors in -nominated performances: Michael Caine ("Hannah and Her Sisters"), Judy Davis ("Husbands and Wives"), Mariel Hemingway ("Manhattan"), Diane Keaton ("Annie Hall"), Martin Landau ("Crimes and Misdemeanors"), Samantha Morton ("Sweet and Lowdown"), Geraldine Page ("Interiors"), Chazz Palminteri ("Bullets Over Broadway"), Sean Penn ("Sweet and Lowdown"), Mira Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite"), Maureen Stapleton ("Interiors"), Jennifer Tilly ("Bullets Over Broadway"),... (Los Angeles Times)
Amor and more in 'Barcelona' Aug 16, 2008
For years, the young women in Allen's films - Mariel Hemingway in "Manhattan," Juliette Lewis in "Husbands and Wives," Natasha Lyonne in "Everyone Says I Love You" - actually seemed young. Now his interest in young characters comes at the expense of their youth. (Boston Globe)
Olympics-inspired movies Aug 9, 2008
Mariel Hemingway stars as an aspiring Olympic athlete who gets the Robert Towne treatment. Which is to say, the director, who also wrote the script, weaves a lot of sexual drama - involving coaches and athletes and variations thereof - in with the sports elements. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Athletes from 1980 return toHayward field Jun 29, 2008
In fact, the local filming of the movie Personal Best with Mariel Hemingway got more attention than the trials, Scott mused. Had he gone to Moscow, Scott could have run against Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett in the 1,500 finals. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
New IMAX Theater Opens On Cannery Row Apr 5, 2008
One of the founding partners of the project is Academy Award-winning actress Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of the famous author. Hemingway said the goal is to bring more tourists to the historically rich Cannery Row. (KSBW 8, CA)
Extraordinary Cinema goes global in Portsmouth Mar 29, 2008
This wrenching documentary from Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman combines harrowing archival footage, interviews with survivors and reenactments with actors Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff, Mariel Hemingway, and Jurgen Prochnow reading from the diaries of real-life heroic westerners who set up a safety zone in attempt to shelter the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the city. Its very well made and should be considered required viewing. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
36UpFront: Green Your Scene revs ‘em up for 48Straight Mar 19, 2008
Encouraging all to green it up a notch, environmental ethos delivered by the likes of Aspen's Auden Schendler, hometown celeb Mariel Hemingway and barefoot bio-balladeer Michael Franti gave the audience much to consider ... Mariel Hemingway's million dollar smile then lit up the entire church as she described a connectedness essential to an eco-conscious personal journey. (Wood River Journal, ID)
New on DVD: Running, running everywhere Jan 18, 2008
Ahead of its time but dramatically inert indoors, it casts Mariel Hemingway (in full mealy-mouth mode) and real-life pentathlete Patrice Donnelly as competitors/lovers who must deal with Hemingway falling for a guy (a chicken-out that commercially alienated one of the film's target demographics). Better around the edges than down the middle, and with convincing track atmospherics that include Scott Glenn as a coach. (USA Today -- Life)
Romance is on fast track in 'Personal Best' Jan 13, 2008
What's even more striking about writer-director Robert Towne's drama is how matter-of-factly it depicts the romantic relationship between eventual track rivals Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) and Tory Skinner (real-life Olympian Patrice Donnelly). There's nothing sensationalistic or prurient at play in the women's involvement with each other. (Boston Globe)
'Nanking' documentary honors foreign heroes Jan 10, 2008
Their eloquent and heart-breaking accounts, taken from letters and diaries, are re-imagined in stage readings by actors Mariel Hemingway, Woody Harrelson and others. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007, "Nanking" has screened in China, Mexico and France; it opens in Bay Area theaters Friday. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Nanking Nightmare Jan 6, 2008
All the directors did was assemble a cast of actors (some of them as well-known as Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway, some of them unknown) and set them to reading the written record, cutting away to the moving footage, still pictures and a few interviews, as often as possible. Besides bearing insistent witness, the foreigners also created a "Safety Zone," some two miles wide, into which perhaps two or three hundred refugees were crammed, with just enough food and medical supplies to survive... (Time.com)
Newspapers have always headlined Hollywood's best works Jan 6, 2008
When he becomes the bigger celebrity, the killer kidnaps the reporter's live-in girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway). The Killing Fields (1984) Sam Waterston plays New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, who covered the invasion of Cambodia with the help of Dith Pran, a local journalist and translator (former refugee and Cambodian Haing S. Ngor). (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A year of Hollywood film crews all over Boston Dec 25, 2007
Stars: Charles Durning, Rip Torn, David Carradine, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Julie Harris, and Christy Scott Cashman. Story: A romantic comedy set on the Cape in 1905 about three retired sea captains who vie for the affections of an attractive middle-aged woman. (Boston Globe)
Revisiting Nanking Dec 14, 2007
One notable account was from Minnie Vautrin (Mariel Hemingway), the only woman in the group. She was a Christian missionary from Illinois who helped found the Ginling College for women in Nanking. (MSNBC -- International)
Talking up a thirst Dec 11, 2007
The film, which will now be called "The Golden Boys," stars Bruce Dern, David Carradine, Rip Torn, Mariel Hemingway, Charles Durning, and Julie Harris. Adams and his crews made headlines during production for the $60,000 in delinquent payments they owed local businesses. (Boston Globe)
* Other Releases Nov 30, 2007
The Europeans are played by actors such as Jurgen Prochnow, Stephen Dorff, Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway, while other interviews are of actual witnesses to the carnage, including victims of unspeakable violence. Prompted by the bestselling 1997 historical study by Iris Chang (ip), who committed suicide in late 2004, Nanking has been shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar, no doubt to the dismay of the Japanese government. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Today In History - November 22, 2007 Nov 22, 2007
Actress Mariel Hemingway is 46. Actor Stephen Geoffreys is 43. (CBS2.com, CA)
The cinematic stretch run is upon us Nov 9, 2007
If you are a small, independent business owner and either lost property due to the fires or shut down, please contact reporter David Washburn by phone at (619) 498-6653 or e-mail. CENTERPIECE The stretch run. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Blot Those Tears Oct 31, 2007
Guests of Wendi Murdoch - including Ivanka Trump, Jamie Johnson, Gary Ginsberg, Laurie Dhue and Rory Tahari - were moved by the Think Film documentary on the Japanese occupation of Nanking, China, during World War II. Stars like Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and Stephen Dorff contribute dramatic readings to the movie. . (New York Post -- Gossip)
BAY AREA BIZ Oct 22, 2007
Speakers include actress Mariel Hemingway and the Bay Area's Joan Barnes, founder of the Gymboree retail chain. Ladies Who Launch "Live" will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at the Herbst International Exhibition Hall, 385 Moraga Ave., in the Presidio. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Actress Hemingway to promote Gilbert product Oct 11, 2007
Actress Mariel Hemingway will serve as spokeswoman for Gilbert-based Wisdom Natural Brands ' SweetLeaf Stevia Plus product line ... Actress Mariel Hemingway will serve as spokeswoman for Gilbert-based Wisdom Natural Brands ' SweetLeaf Stevia Plus product line. (AZCentral -- Business)
Forgiveness, conversion - it's all there at the Spiritual Film Festival Sep 12, 2007
Steve Crisman, who lives here part-time with his wife Mariel Hemingway, will preview his documentary erusalem, Stories From the Street still a work in progress at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sun Valley Opera House. Crisman will discuss the work following the showing. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Beauty and the poor quarterback Jul 19, 2007
Local merchants have been carping for months that they were stiffed by the producers of "Chatham," an indie film shot on the Cape in April and starring Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, and David Carradine. The Cape Cod Times yesterday quoted the director Dan Adams as saying he still owes local businesses up to $60,000, which he hopes to pay back soon. (Boston Globe)
Mariel Hemingway to speak on healthy living at Seaside Center Jul 13, 2007
Actress and author Mariel Hemingway will appear at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas on July 20 to present a talk on 'How To Experience and Stay Present in Your Life,' based on principles from her latest book, 'Healthy Living from the Inside Out ... For actress and writer Mariel Hemingway, however, life is not so neatly subdivided. (North County Times)
Infotainment Jul 4, 2007
Rock The KasbahHOLLYWOOD: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson (2nd L) poses with Mariel Hemingway (L), Jewel (2nd R) and Jewels boyfriend Ty Murray (R) at the Virgin Unites Rock The Kasbah benefit reception. reuters. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Japanese WW2 massacre film premieres in Beijing Jul 4, 2007
Hollywood actors, including Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway, do staged readings of diary entries kept by the Westerners in the safe zone. The writers talk of Chinese women cutting their hair and blackening their faces in a bid to avoid being raped. (News on Japan, Japan)
U.S. documentary on Nanjing Massacre to be screened in China Jul 4, 2007
The documentary was narrated by Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff and Mariel Hemingway. In January 2007, the documentary Nanking debuted at Sundance Film Festival where it received the Editing Award. (Xinhuanet, China)
Not the retiring type Jun 4, 2007
Especially not this outsider quartet best known for iconoclastic and prickly roles in films such as "Boxcar Bertha" and "Bound for Glory (Carradine), "Silent Running" and "Black Sunday" (Dern), "Cross Creek" and "Men in Black" (Torn), and "The Sting" and "Dog Day Afternoon" (Durning). They may all be in their 70s and 80s now, but they would just as soon go down shooting, or rip their agents' hearts out with their bare hands, as stop acting.Which makes them unlikely choices to head a romantic... (Boston Globe)
For Mariel Hemingway, investing's a matter of trust May 2, 2007
Fame ne: Mariel Hemingway (Page 1 of 4) ... Fame ne: Mariel Hemingway Pursues beliefs, not trends when she invests By Jay MacDonald, Bankrate ... Mariel Hemingway's statuesque, athlete-next-door good looks first captured our imagination, and a best supporting actress Oscar nomination, as Woody Allen's dream girl in "Manhattan." But the sense of adventure she shares with her famous grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, would ultimately earn her a larger-than-life public persona, well in keeping with the... (USA Today -- Money)
Related: Hot Docs: Critics' picks Apr 21, 2007
The narrative thread is the incredible, heroic story of a group of foreigners who stayed to help and managed to create a safe zone for residents too poor to escape the onslaught; personal letters and diary entries are read by well known actors such as Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway. A hauntingly powerful film. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
"Chatham" extra blogs Apr 9, 2007
In case you havent heard, its stars David Carradine, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn and Mariel Hemingway. Ill be pulling on the long black skirt, high-necked white collared blouse, black wool cape and black felt hat (all loaned graciously by the Kay DeFord at the Chatham Drama Guild) to portray a Chatham woman on 1905. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
DANIELYNN PATERNITY CONTEST HEATING UP Apr 2, 2007
Charles Durning, filming "Chatham" in Cape Cod with Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, David Carradine, Rip Torn, despite some problem that's making him require assistance to walk. DreamWorks producing a charming film charmingly titled, "Dinner for Schmucks." This charming confection will star the equally charming Sacha Baron Cohen. (New York Post -- Gossip)
The main attraction Mar 27, 2007
The trio, played by David Carradine, Bruce Dern and Rip Torn, agree that whoever loses will let the other two live with him and his new wife, played by Mariel Hemingway. As romantic comedies go, reality presents a few twists and turns, but love wins out in the end, according to Adams. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
Lights, camera, 'Chatham'! Mar 26, 2007
The film, starring David Carradine, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn and Mariel Hemingway, tells the story of three retired sea captains who get tired of each other's cooking and advertise for a bride. They agree to draw straws, and the one who marries the woman will allow the other two to live with them. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
Clarke happy to chill with Ice Mar 21, 2007
Actress Mariel Hemingway, who is filming on the Cape for the movie "Chatham," will be taking a break to head to New York's Central Park this weekend to host MORE magazine's marathon and half marathon for women over 40. We're told Hemingway won't be the only one racing down to NYC for Sunday's event. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Will the real Pop please stand up? Mar 20, 2007
Shooting continued yesterday on the Cape for the movie "Chatham," with actors Bruce Dern and Mariel Hemingway on the set of director/writer Daniel Adams's movie. Alison Arnett of the Globe staff contributed. (Boston Globe)
NANKING Goes to THINKFilm Mar 11, 2007
The events of the film are told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries as performed by Jurgen Prochnow, Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff, and Mariel Hemingway, among others. "NANKING is an exceedingly well-crafted and moving historical recreation of a shocking event," says Urman. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
New history, old wounds Feb 19, 2007
"And then there is the American version: "Nanking," a documentary (with dramatic readings by Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway) which debuted at Sundance in January. It focuses on 22 European and American expatriates who stayed behind in the Japanese-occupied city, using their precarious influence to establish a "safe zone" that protected some 200,000 grateful Chinese residents.If there's one point on which Japanese and Chinese historians agree, it is that World War II did have the salutary... (Boston Globe)
Hemingway at home Feb 3, 2007
Your living space mirrors your life, Mariel Hemingway says in Healthy Living From the Inside Out ... By Diana McKeon Charkalis, Special for USA TODAY LOS ANGELES A bronze dancing figure is the first thing you see when you step inside Mariel Hemingway's home. (USA Today -- Life)
7 Surprises from SundanceMovie lovers learn to expect the unexpected at the film festival, and, from older actors hitting their strides to short filmmakers getting the spotlight, 2007 was no different Jan 28, 2007
4) Documentaries get starry: Some of the hottest documentaries at the film festival employed actors to tell their tales: the opening-night movie, Chicago 10, relies on a voice cast including Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo and Liev Schreiber in animated scenes of the trial of anti-war demonstrators from the 1968 Democratic National Convention; Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway read letters and journals in Nanking, about the Japanese occupation of the Chinese city in 1937; Strange Culture features... (Time.com)
Everett promoting 'Red' book Jan 23, 2007
Mariel Hemingway is 45 and looks a good decade younger; she is not altered or distorted, either. The actress, who found fame in Woody Allen's "Manhattan," has a nifty, inspiring new book "Healthy Living from the Inside Out." In person, Hemingway reveals a refreshing, bawdy personality, and though she is serious about her book, she does not insist the reader do as commanded. (Variety)
Actors enliven Sundance documentaries Jan 20, 2007
Nanking, a study of the brutal Japanese occupation of the Chinese city in 1937, employs powerful performances by Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and others reciting from letters, journals and other accounts of people who lived through the invasion. Strange Culture features Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan and other actors in dramatized segments of events that led to the arrest of a University of Buffalo professor on suspicion of bioterrorism. (MSNBC -- Movies)
When Hollywood drops a real bomb Jan 20, 2007
The actioner, which starred Mariel Hemingway as a Secret Service agent out to rescue the kidnapped U.S. vice president from South African rebel forces, played for one week last year at a total of four theaters in San Diego, New York, San Francisco and Palm Desert and brought in a grand sum of $890, according to distributor Regent Releasing. That was double the take of Serum. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Lifetime Television Partners With Publishing Phenomenon Nora Roberts and Peter Guber's Mandalay Television on Four Lifetime Original Movies Jan 12, 2007
Mandalay movies and miniseries have delivered some of the strongest ratings of all-time, including Dean Koontz's "Intensity," a four-hour miniseries based on the best-seller by Dean Koontz -- the highest rated miniseries ever on FOX; "First Daughter," a two-hour original movie starring Mariel Hemingway for TBS, "First Target" and "First Shot"; "Blood Crime," which launched USA's Crime Friday; and "The Linda McCartney Story." Mandalay is currently in production on the second season of... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
