Woody Allen strikes again Aug 17, 2008
But then along would come a film with him featured that would turn out to be one of my cherished Allen favorites: the superb "Everyone Says I Love You" with its scene of Goldie Hawn and Allen so swept up in the romance of Paris that they literally dance up into the air; the pointed and probing "Crimes and Misdemeanors" featuring an indelible Martin Landau; the smooth and low-key "Sweet and Lowdown," with its director's love of jazz infused into every frame. He has scored some recent successes... (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Big stars in 'Teenage Paparazzi' Aug 12, 2008
The documentary will feature Grenier interviewing actors and commentators - including Martin Landau, Noam Chomsky and Daily Show comedian Lewis Black - about the culture of fame. Paparazzi is being shopped to distributors and might be unveiled as a feature or miniseries. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Tim Burton Films With Johnny Depp Aug 11, 2008
Additional cast: Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette. Rating: R. (Suite101.com)
SDCC 08: All Aboard the Ember Express Jul 24, 2008
City of Ember is based on the 2003 novel by Jeanne DuPrau and is being produced by Tom Hanks' Playtone production company, stars fresh faces Harry Treadaway and Saoirse Ronan alongside Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Liz Smith, Toby Jones, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Mackenzie Crook. The story revolves around Lina Mayfleet (Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Treadaway), two youngsters coming of age in the mysterious City of Ember. (IGN FilmForce)
When somebody needs a brother, here's Adam Scott Jul 23, 2008
And in Lovely, Still, also out next year, he enjoys a brotherly-like bond with Elizabeth Banks as they care for an ailing man (Martin Landau) over the holidays. Fortunately, Scott, 35, doesn't take the typecasting personally. (USA Today)
Sarah Jessica Parker And Johnny Depp: Life Before 'Sex' (And 'Pirates'), In The Loder Files Jun 11, 2008
Other cast members included Bill Murray, Vincent D'Onofrio (who contributed a striking cameo as Orson Welles), and Martin Landau, who won an Academy Award for his touching portrayal of the has-been horror star Bela Lugosi. "Ed Wood" was a surprisingly buoyant movie. (VHI.com -- Music News)
POLLACK WAS LOVED May 29, 2008
" Not long ago, Sydney and I were seated together at a Waldorf extravaganza, featuring Oprah and Elie Wiesel, which 00004000 was one of the most tedious, boring events I've ever experienced. But I went away after a long evening completely joyful. Sydney and I had whispered sotto voce through much of it, and I told him things I've never told anyone else. He was very amused when I said that each time I glimpse "Tootsie" being shown on TV, I sit down and watch it again to the end, just to see him... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Stars pay tribute to late Pollack May 29, 2008
" Pollack started out as an actor after developing a love of drama and enrolling at a drama school in New York. Oscar-winning actor and long-time friend Martin Landau said: "We started together in New York and he always excelled at everything he set out to do, his friendships and his humanity as much as his talents. " Pollack's last screen appearance was in romantic comedy Made of Honour, where he played the on-screen father of star Patrick Dempsey. He had been diagnosed with cancer 10 months... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Sydney Pollack Dies Of Cancer At 73 May 28, 2008
"We started together in New York and he always excelled at everything he set out to do, his friendships and his humanity as much as his talents," said Martin Landau, a longtime close friend and associate in Actor's Studio, through spokesman Dick Guttman. After appearing in a handful of Broadway productions in the 1950s, Pollack turned his eye to directing - where he would ultimately leave his biggest mark. (CBS News)
Actor Sydney Pollack Dead May 27, 2008
" His last screen appearance was in "Made of Honor," a romantic comedy currently in theaters, where he played the oft-married father of star Patrick Dempsey's character. In recent years, Pollack produced many independent films with filmmaker Anthony Minghella and a production company Mirage Enterprises. The Lafayette, Ind. native was born to first-generation Russian-Americans. In high school, he fell in love with theater, a passion that prompted him forego college and move to New York and enroll... (WTVR.com, VA)
Ex-`Vampire Slayer' star coming to comic-book confab in Novi May 15, 2008
Landau, who is making her first trip to Michigan, comes from a family of thespians; she is the daughter of Martin Landau and Emmy winner Barbara Bain, both of whom starred in the original ``Mission: Impossible'' and ``Space: 1999'' TV series. She has acted alongside her parents: She appeared in 1996's ``Ed Wood'' with her father (who won a best supporting actor Oscar for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi), and appeared onstage with her mother three years ago in the play, ``Failure of Nerve. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
Letters: The Klezmatics are a collective Apr 21, 2008
Editor - A writer to the March 9 Datebook lists several "character actors" and wonders if they have been "remembered yet." Among those he mentions are Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin and Martin Landau. Interesting. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Slanguage Dictionary Mar 28, 2008
perf -- performance; "Martin Landau was much lauded for his perf in 'Ed Wood.'". PGA -- Producers Guild of America. (Variety)
Starz Entertainment's Weekly Hot Items List April 7-13 Mar 28, 2008
Saturday, 4/12 -- 12 p.m. with Bruce Dern and Harry Dean Stanton -- 12:53 p.m. with Paul Fix -- 1:45 p.m. with Johnny Crawford -- 2:40 p.m. with Charles Grodin -- 3:35 p.m. with Jill St. John and George Kennedy -- 4:30 p.m. with Buddy Hackett and Bruce Dern -- 5:23 p.m. with Martin Landau -- 6:15 p.m. with Dennis Hopper and Cloris Leachman -- 7:10 p.m. with William Shatner -- 8:05 p.m. with Bruce Dern and Fritz Weaver -- 9 p.m. with Claude Akins -- 10 p.m. with Robert Goulet, Gavin MacLeod,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
5Top: Movies with great card game scenes Mar 25, 2008
Petrovsky (Martin Landau), whether he would make the same choice of abandoning religion and family for the law, Petrovsky shrugs and says, What choice. Its a movie, as the tagline tells us, about playing the hand youre dealt. (MSNBC -- News)
Wheels stole show Mar 1, 2008
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Oscar reception honoring Nikita Mikhalkov Feb 23, 2008
Actor Robert Duvall at Pre-Oscar celebration honoring director Nikita Mikhalkov Read Article - Photo Gallery - Variety - photos, pictures, images, photographs, pics (Variety)
AARP presents Movies for Grownups Feb 7, 2008
Evening kicked off in the Bel-Air's lush garden with a senior-citizen discount crowd that included Angela Lansbury, Hal Holbrook, Norman Jewison, Julie Andrews, Martin Landau and Michael Moore, who noted: "If there's one thing AARP cares about, it's health care. You get why I'm here.". The crowd's general mood toward being AARP-ed was expressed by 80ish Roger Corman, who said: "A number of years ago I was referred to as a young filmmaker. Now I'm called a veteran filmmaker. I don't know what... (Variety)
Weirdos: a love story Jan 20, 2008
Martin Landau, as Bela Lugosi, won an Oscar after stealing the film from Depp's wide-eyed naif. SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1999. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Cassandras Dream will soon be forgotten Jan 16, 2008
There was wealthy doctor Martin Landau, conspiring to bump off his mouthy mistress in Crimes and Misdemeanors before she could tell all to his wife; tennis pro Jonathan Rhys Meyers eliminating shopgirl Scarlett Johansson in Match Point, lest she disturb his marriage into a wealthy and powerful family; and now Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as two brothers forced to homicidal extremes to fund their visions of a better life in Cassandras Dream. (Hugh Jackman kills people in... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Back to retro Jan 1, 2008
It stars Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Leonard Nimoy and Peter Lupus. Combat. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Lonny Chapman, 87; artistic director of N. Hollywood theater company Oct 20, 2007
When Chapman's name was added in 1999, among the speakers at the ceremony were actor Martin Landau -- one of Chapman's friends from the Actors Studio in New York -- and actor-director Sean Penn. "Lonny was not only the artistic director, but teacher, director, producer and actor," Wood said. (Los Angeles Times)
Kathy Bates to receive Pickford Award Sep 25, 2007
Previous recipients include Martin Landau, Jodie Foster, Francis Ford Coppola, Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands and Karl Malden. . (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Bates honoured for years of work Sep 22, 2007
Previous recipients of the award include Martin Landau, Jodie Foster, Francis Ford Coppola, Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands and Karl Malden. Bates has recently appeared in children's films Charlotte's Web and Bee Movie. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
City of West Hollywood to Host the First Annual Algonquin Awards at the Pacific Design Center on Saturday, September 29, 2007 Sep 19, 2007
In addition to the presentation of the award, a performance piece of Gertrude Stein's "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" and a staged reading, "Celebrating Dorothy and Her Friends," created by local theatre artist Michael Kearns depicting the Algonquin Round Table in its glory days will feature a host of celebrities portraying Parker and her cronies including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Harpo Marx, Tallulah Bankhead, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood with... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
IGN Discovers The City of Ember : We visit the Belfast set of the new fantasy fi... Sep 17, 2007
City of Ember, which is based on the 2003 novel by Jeanne DuPrau and is being produced by Tom Hanks' Playtone production company, stars fresh faces Harry Treadaway and Saoirse Ronan alongside Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Liz Smith, Toby Jones, Martin Landau, Toby Jones, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Mackenzie Crook ... We met cast members Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway on Day 59; unfortunately, Bill Murray and Tim Robbins had both already wrapped their respective... (IGN FilmForce)
Playtime for soon-to-be producer Peta Sep 8, 2007
Wilson, who has starred in La Femme Nikita, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Superman Returns, has been working on setting up a movie production business, called The Vision Picture Company, in which she has three partners - two mystery investors from Queensland and one in Hollywood, Susan Landau Finch, the daughter of the actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. "We have given our first script to a director and we're waiting for a response and also a decision on what country the film will... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
HBO renews comedies Conchords, Entourage Aug 21, 2007
Entourage will compete for four Emmys next month best comedy series, supporting actor for both last years winner, Jeremy Piven, and Kevin Dillon, and guest actor for Martin Landau. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Television)
Playboy Mansion at centre of sexual assault claim Aug 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Police Dept. said on Wednesday it was investigating an allegation of sexual assault at the Playboy Mansion, the famed site of unabashed hedonism for more than 30 years (Reuters.uk)
Sex assault probed at Playboy Mansion Aug 9, 2007
com, the annual Midsummer Night's Dream bash was attended by the likes of socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton, movie director Garry Marshall, rock star Dave Navarro and Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Crime)
GRRR! The Vincent Chase Factor Aug 7, 2007
Like the episode in which old-time movie producer Bob Ryan, played by the legendary Martin Landau, portrays a once-successful Hollywood producer from a bygone era who is tolerated out of politeness, but never taken seriously by the power players. God knows there are hundreds of one-time success stories just like Ryan (think Robert Evans, David Brown, Barry Spikings) Oscar-winners all, who were mercilessly left behind by the new Hollywood. (Fox News)
'Sopranos,’ 'Knee,’ 'Trail’ Top Emmys Jul 21, 2007
Nominations for HBO s Hollywood buddy comedy Entourage included competitive nominations for Jeremy Piven and Kevin Dillon as best supporting actor, and a nod for Academy Award winner Martin Landau for a guest starring role. Multiple nominee Planet Earth, Discovery Channel s all high-definition look at life on our globe, was nominated as the best non-fiction series among its seven nods; HBO s epic Rome also earned seven; and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was nominated six times. (Multichannel News)
Emmy Nominations: Here We Go Again Jul 20, 2007
Guest star nods for Elizabeth Reaser and Kate Burton for Grey's, Judith Light for Betty and Martin Landau for Entourage. Is that something you'd be interested in. (E! Online)
What did the stars say about their nods? Jul 20, 2007
Lifeline Live - Category Archives - USATODAY.com. Other USA TODAY blogs. (USA Today -- Life)
Ember Cast Fired Up Jul 14, 2007
Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace) and Harry Treadaway (Brothers of the Head) have signed on to the Walden Media and Playtone production, per the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, directed by Monster House helmer Gil Kenan, follows two teens searching for answers as the power source in their city -- a place where the only light comes from street lamps -- begins to fail. (IGN FilmForce)
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)
Producer Gil Cates is Oscars ringmaster Apr 29, 2007
He pulled the plug on good friend Martin Landau, a supporting actor winner in 1994 for Ed Wood, despite Landaus on-stage plea to halt the music. He was really just talking about stuff, Cates says. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
With her help, Pepperdine program is in great shape Apr 25, 2007
Adam Sandler, Martin Landau, David Duchovny and Rob Schneider have supported the women's basketball program. Sean Astin is a fan of the baseball program. (Pepperdinesports.com)
New on DVD: 'Jonestown' will mesmerize Apr 13, 2007
The better-known Martin Landau, Jack Warden and a young Louise Fletcher (in the Barker episode) came later. Heavy artillery launches nearly every hour, although Stack opens one episode in full role-model mode by merely slapping around one hood. (USA Today -- Life)
'Entourage' hugs it out in a manly way Apr 5, 2007
Previous episodes have included James Cameron, Paul Haggis, James Woods, Martin Landau, Val Kilmer (almost unrecognizable as a bearded sherpa/pot dealer), Bob Saget, Scarlett Johansson, Pauly Shore, Gary Busey, Mandy Moore, Hugh Hefner and rapper Saigon. Entourage has been a career-maker for Ellin and most of the cast, especially so for Piven for his close-to-the-bone, over-the-top sendup of obnoxious agents. (USA Today)
9 Stars Align Mar 22, 2007
Joining him are Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly (Hulk), Crispin Glover (Back to the Future), Oscar winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood), Christopher Plummer (Inside Man), and John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights). Scripted by Pamela Pettler, 9 is being produced by Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley. (IGN FilmForce)
Elijah Wood, Martin Landau join 9 Mar 22, 2007
Focus Features has assembled an all-star cast for Shane Acker's animated movie 9, including Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), who has the title role, and Academy Award winners Jennifer Connelly and Martin Landau. Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer and John C. Reilly help fill out the cast. (Suite101.com)
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Remember bad guy Martin Landau plummeting to his death after chasing Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint across a Hollywood Mount Rushmore that looked more like a Lego construction. A number of movies, or parts of them, have been filmed in South Dakota, the most notable of which was Kevin Costner s 1990 Dances With Wolves. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Captain Underpants on Ice Mar 20, 2007
"The part was written for a young Martin Landau," says Ferrell. "It's a script that's been around for 30 years, just waiting for its time. That time is now.". (Time.com)
Director replaces two stars Mar 3, 2007
The movie revolves around three retired bachelor sea captains - Carradine, Dennis Hopper and Martin Landau - who grow tired of each other's cooking and decide to advertise for a bride for one of them. The three agree that once one is married, the other two will live with the couple as boarders and reap the benefits of the woman's domestic skills. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
While you were sleeping, they partied all night long in Hollywood Feb 27, 2007
Octogenarian Martin Landau shared a sofa with Kirsten Dunst. Sacha Baron Cohen, Natalie Portman and Gael Garc;a Bernal engaged in an intense conversation, while Sean Penn rubbed shoulders with Heroes' Masi Oka. (Houston Chronicle)
ACTRESS SEEKS SAFETY IN B'KLYN Feb 27, 2007
" So did Madonna and Guy Ritchie; Jessica Biel talking to Faye Dunaway; Spike Lee; Tom Cruise and Katie Scientologist; Oprah with Mary J. Blige; Sean Penn; Hugh Jackman; Gwen Stefani; Linda Evangelista; Chevy Chase, who hugged Martin Landau; Bill Maher, who hugged a drink; Meryl Streep, who headed straight for the bar; Daniel Craig; Ryan Phillippe with a bunch of guys, no Reese look-alike; Jerry Seinfeld, who was excellent on the telecast and obviously prefers working only for free these days.... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Movies: Keeping Hollywood's magic alive Feb 20, 2007
When Baker won the first Academy Award given for makeup, for John Landis's "American Werewolf in London" in 1982, he offered some of the used props to Burns; the huge wolf puppet he created, along with an artificial arm that grows werewolf fingernails when a rod is pressed, retain pride of place in Burns's collection along with three of the alien masks Baker created for the canteen sequence in "Star Wars" and other bits of Baker's work, including the Bela Lugosi mask Martin Landau wore in Tim... (International Herald Tribune)
The best anti-Valentine's Day movies Feb 12, 2007
In this film, the plot is split between the adulterous optometrist Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), as he tries to hide his affair with Dolores Paley (Anjelica Huston), and Cliff Stern (Allen), a documentary filmmaker who hopes his marriage falls apart so he can get together with Halley Reed (Mia Farrow) ... Yet another Woody Allen film, "Match Point" steals a little bit from Martin Landau's half of "Crimes and Misdemeanors." In the film, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Myers) and Chloe Hewitt... (The Crimson White, AL)
Starz InBlack Recognizes Black History Month With Month-Long Celebration Featuring Films From a Different Decade Every Night in February Feb 1, 2007
2/11 - (Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair) Decade of Movies from the '80s - Week of Feb. 12: * Bustin' Loose 2/12 - (Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Robert Christian) * School Daze 2/13 - (Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell) * Hollywood Shuffle 2/14 - (Robert Townsend, Anne-Marie Johnson, Starletta Dupois) * The Brother from Another Planet 2/15 - (Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James) * Brewster's Millions 2/16 - (Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee) *... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Biographical dramas spin film gold Jan 20, 2007
1994: Martin Landau, "Ed Wood" (Bela Lugosi). 2001: Jim Broadbent, "Iris" (John Bayley). (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
