"That's the thesis of ""Zelig"", Allen's wisest film, which has much to say about the way a person can be bent and contorted in the name of acceptance. Its ostensibly wacky conceit ... is grounded in an emotional and psychological reality all too familiar to shrug of as farce. We'll go very far out of our way to avoid conflict. ""Zelig"" seizes on that weakness and forces us to recognize it."" Zelig Zelig is a 1983 American mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen and Mia Farrow. Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, out"
"show business: ""Broadway Danny Rose"", in which he plays a New York show business agent, ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"", a movie that shows the importance of the cinema during the Depression through the character of the naive Cecilia, and ""Radio Days"", a film about his childhood in Brooklyn and the importance of the radio. The film co-starred Farrow in a part Allen wrote specifically for her. ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"" was named by ""Time"" as one of the 100 best films of all time. Allen called it one of his three best films with ""Stardust Memories"" and ""Match"
"films ""Interiors"" (1978), ""Stardust Memories"" (1980), ""A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"" (1982), ""Zelig"" (1983), ""Broadway Danny Rose"" (1984), and ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"" (1985). Allen said that working with Willis had helped to improve his technical skills, saying of him: ""He's an artist. He's got a great sense of humor--he taught me a lot."" In the seven-year period up to 1977, Willis was the director of photography on six films that received among them 39 Academy Award nominations, winning 19 times, including three awards for Best Picture. The fact that Willis did not receive a single nomination was a"
"She was awarded Germany's Golden Camera Award for Best International Actress in 2010. Renée Zellweger Renée Kathleen Zellweger (; born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. She has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses by 2007, and was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009. Zellweger had her first starring role in """" (1994). She subsequently earned early acclaim with a brief but notable appearance in ""Empire Records"""
"Honeysuckle Rose (film) Honeysuckle Rose (also known as On the Road Again) is a 1980 American romantic drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg, written by John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, and William D. Wittliff, and starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, and Amy Irving. Buck Bonham is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and son. He has everything going his way until the daughter of his former guitarist joins his tour. The road leads to temptation, which leads to his downfall."
"Judith Crist Judith Crist (; May 22, 1922 – August 7, 2012) was an American film critic and academic. She appeared regularly on the ""Today"" show from 1964 to 1973 and was among the first full-time female critics for a major American newspaper, in her case, the ""New York Herald Tribune"". She was the founding film critic at ""New York"" magazine and became known to most Americans as a critic at the weekly magazine ""TV Guide"" and at the morning TV show ""Today"". She appeared in one film, Woody Allen's dramatic-comedy film ""Stardust Memories"" (1980), and was the author of"
"his hometown, and the effect his illness has had on their relationship. Virgil Frye died at an Orange County nursing home on May 7, 2012. Virgil Frye Virgil Charles Frye (August 21, 1930 – May 7, 2012) was an American actor and former Golden Gloves boxing champion. He grew up in Estherville, Iowa. He had two children, Sean Frye (""E.T. The Extra Terrestrial"") and Soleil Moon Frye (""Punky Brewster""), and was the father-in-law of Jason Goldberg. Frye made an uncredited appearance in the 1969 film ""Easy Rider"" while working as a makeup artist. His credited films included roles in ""Nightmare"
"Fame. Rose was a leading character in the 1975 musical film ""Funny Lady,"" a sequel to ""Funny Girl"", which continues the story of Fanny Brice, again played by Barbra Streisand. Despite physical dissimilarities, actor James Caan was cast as Rose. The 1962 film ""Billy Rose's Jumbo"", starring Doris Day, depicted the original Broadway show staged by Rose. Although he was not involved in the making of the film, a contractual stipulation made it mandatory that his name appear in the title. Posthumous Credits Billy Rose Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an"
"Jean Rogers Jean Rogers (born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren, March 25, 1916 – February 24, 1991) was an American actress who starred in serial films in the 1930s and low–budget feature films in the 1940s as a leading lady. She is best remembered for playing Dale Arden in the science fiction serials ""Flash Gordon"" (1936) and ""Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars"" (1938). Rogers was born in Belmont, Massachusetts. Her father was an immigrant from Malmö, Sweden. She had hoped to study art, but in 1933 she won a beauty contest sponsored by Paramount Pictures that led to her career in Hollywood."
"in color segments as themselves, commenting in the present day on the Zelig phenomenon as if it really happened. They include essayist Susan Sontag, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, political writer Irving Howe, historian John Morton Blum, and the Paris nightclub owner Bricktop. Also appearing in the film's vintage footage are Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Clara Bow, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Carole Lombard, Dolores del Río, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, James Cagney, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Windsor, Tom Mix, Marie Dressler, Bobby Jones,"
"Billy Rose Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as ""Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt"" (1931), ""Jumbo"" (1935), ""Billy Rose's Aquacade"" (1937), and ""Carmen Jones"" (1943). As a lyricist, he is credited with many famous songs, notably ""Me and My Shadow"" (1927), ""More Than You Know"" (1929), ""Without a Song"" (1929), ""It Happened in Monterrey"" (1930) and ""It's Only a Paper Moon"" (1933). Despite his accomplishments, Rose"
"Virgil Frye Virgil Charles Frye (August 21, 1930 – May 7, 2012) was an American actor and former Golden Gloves boxing champion. He grew up in Estherville, Iowa. He had two children, Sean Frye (""E.T. The Extra Terrestrial"") and Soleil Moon Frye (""Punky Brewster""), and was the father-in-law of Jason Goldberg. Frye made an uncredited appearance in the 1969 film ""Easy Rider"" while working as a makeup artist. His credited films included roles in ""Nightmare in Wax"" (1969), ""The Jesus Trip"" (1971), ""Garden of the Dead"" (1972), ""Deadhead Miles"" (1973), ""The Cat Creature"" (1973), ""The Klansman"" (1974), ""Bobbie Jo and"
"Robin Midgley Robin Midgley (10 November 1934 – 19 May 2007) was a director in theatre, television and radio and responsible for some of the earliest episodes of ""Z-Cars"" and for the television version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's ""Wars of the Roses"". Midgley was born in Torquay and educated at Blundell's School and King's College, Cambridge, where he directed plays with casts including Jonathan Miller, Sylvia Plath and Daniel Massey. Midgley married, first, the playwright and psychotherapist Liane Aukin, and, in 1991, the dancer and choreographer Denni Sayers. His two sons from his first marriage are Baptist Minister Rev."
"inspired ""Radio Days"". ""September"" resembles ""Autumn Sonata"". Allen uses many elements from ""Wild Strawberries"". In ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"", Allen references a scene from ""Wild Strawberries"". ""Stardust Memories"" (1980) features Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker played by Allen, who expresses resentment and scorn for his fans. Overcome by the recent death of a friend from illness, the character states, ""I don't want to make funny movies any more"" and a running gag has various people (including visiting space aliens) telling Bates that they appreciate his films, ""especially the early, funny ones."" Allen believes this to be one of his best films."
"Edgar Stehli Edgar Stehli (July 12, 1884 – July 25, 1973) was an American actor. He appeared in the films ""Boomerang"", ""Executive Suite"", ""Drum Beat"", ""The Cobweb"", ""The Brothers Karamazov"", ""No Name on the Bullet"", ""4D Man"", ""Cash McCall"", ""Atlantis, the Lost Continent"", ""Parrish"", ""Pocketful of Miracles"", ""The Spiral Road"", ""Twilight of Honor"", ""Seconds"", ""The Tiger Makes Out"" and ""Loving"", among others. His television appearances include: ""Perry Mason"" Season 1, Episode 39 (1958) as Daniel Reed in, “The Case of the Rolling Bones”. He died on July 25, 1973, at his home in Upper Montclair, New Jersey at age 89."
"Edgar Stehli Edgar Stehli (July 12, 1884 – July 25, 1973) was an American actor. He appeared in the films ""Boomerang"", ""Executive Suite"", ""Drum Beat"", ""The Cobweb"", ""The Brothers Karamazov"", ""No Name on the Bullet"", ""4D Man"", ""Cash McCall"", ""Atlantis, the Lost Continent"", ""Parrish"", ""Pocketful of Miracles"", ""The Spiral Road"", ""Twilight of Honor"", ""Seconds"", ""The Tiger Makes Out"" and ""Loving"", among others. His television appearances include: ""Perry Mason"" Season 1, Episode 39 (1958) as Daniel Reed in, “The Case of the Rolling Bones”. He died on July 25, 1973, at his home in Upper Montclair, New Jersey at age 89."
"in 1960. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Original Screenplay, but the nomination was refused by Bergman. The film is included on the Vatican Best Films List, recommended for its portrayal of a man's ""interior journey from pangs of regret and anxiety to a refreshing sense of peace and reconciliation"". ""Wild Strawberries"" influenced the Woody Allen films ""Stardust Memories"" (1980), ""Another Woman"" (1988), ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" (1989), and ""Deconstructing Harry"" (1997). In ""Stardust Memories"", the film's plot is similar in that the protagonist, filmmaker Sandy Bates (Woody Allen), is attending a viewing of his films, while reminiscing"
"family and the Swedish painter Nils Dardel and his freethinking artistic circle. Nils Asther died on October 13, 1981 at a hospital in Farsta, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is buried in Hotagen, Jämtland, Sweden. In 1960, Asther was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6705 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry. Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) Uncredited performer: ""Ride of the Valkyries"" and ""Tableau Russe"""" (Symphonic Suite Composed by Lionel Barrymore) Storm at Daybreak (1933) Performer: ""Roses From the South"" Nils Asther Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 –"
"the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Honeysuckle Rose (film) Honeysuckle Rose (also known as On the Road Again) is a 1980 American romantic drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg, written by John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, and William D. Wittliff, and starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, and Amy Irving. Buck Bonham is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and son. He has everything going his way until the daughter of"
"Diane Paragas Diane Paragas is a documentary and commercial director. She co-directed the film Brooklyn Boheme with Nelson George which was released on Showtime (TV network) in 2012. She has produced and directed for TV programs on PBS, Discovery Channel, Bravo, IFC, Oxygen and BET. As a commercial director, she has directed campaigns for American Airlines, Andrew Cuomo, care.com and Proust.com for which she won first place in the Google TV For All Contest. Ms Paragas wrote and directed the narrative feature Yellow Rose starring Eva Noblezada about a 17 year old undocumented Filipino teen who must embarks on a"
"had four children. He died from complications of throat cancer on 4 January 2018; he was to appear on a TV4 program, ""Tillsammans mot cancer"" (Together Against Cancer) on 8 January. Johannes Brost Edvard Johannes Brost Forssell (25 September 1946 – 4 January 2018) was a Swedish actor. He became recognized for his roles in the television programs ""Stjärnhuset"" and ""Rederiet""; in ""Rederiet"" he appeared in 318 episodes. In 2013, he won a Guldbagge award for his role in the film ""Avalon"". He also had several roles in theater. Brost was the son of author and journalist , and film"
"her for his adaptation of Louis Begley's novel ""Wartime Lies"". Kubrick abandoned the project after it became clear that Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"" would be released first. Johanna ter Steege Johanna ter Steege (born 10 May 1961) is a Dutch actress. She won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in ""The Vanishing"" (1988). Among her other films are Robert Altman's ""Vincent & Theo"" (1990), István Szabó's ""Meeting Venus"" (1991) and ""Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe"" (1992), Bernard Rose's ""Immortal Beloved"" (1994), and Bruce Beresford's ""Paradise Road"" (1997). In 1993, she was a member of the"
"Robert Englund Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor, voice actor, singer, and director, best known for playing the infamous serial killer Freddy Krueger in the ""Nightmare on Elm Street"" film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for """" in 1987 and """" in 1988. Englund is a classically trained actor. Englund was born on June 6, 1947, in Glendale, California, the son of Janis (née MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 airplane. He is of part Swedish ancestry and part Scottish. Englund"
"The Rose (film) The Rose is a 1979 American drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager. The film stars Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus, and David Keith. The story is loosely based on the life of singer Janis Joplin. Originally titled ""Pearl"", after Joplin's nickname, and the title of her last album, it was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story. It was"
"accidentally being killed by a leading character named Sally. John Bregar John Francis Bregar (born March 1, 1985) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Dylan Michalchuk on """". He also played Cody Flowers in ""Family Biz"". His professional acting debut was starring in the music video ""Father"" by Knights of the Realm. He played Jason Valentine in the Canadian Film Center short film, ""Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil"". He and Adamo Ruggiero were nominated for a GLAAD Media Award at the 15th Annual GLAAD Media Awards and featured in ""The Advocate"" for their roles"
"the TV series ""Mr Selfridge"". Dolly Sisters Rose ""Rosie"" Dolly (October 25, 1892 – February 1, 1970) and Jenny Dolly (October 25, 1892 – June 1, 1941), known professionally as The Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers and actresses. The sisters, Rózsika (later known as Rose or Rosie) and Janka (later known as Yancsi or Jenny) Deutsch, were born on October 24, 1892, in Balassagyarmat, Hungary. Their parents, Julius and Margaret Deutsch, emigrated to the United States in 1905. As children, the sisters trained as dancers and began earning money in beer halls as early as 1907. Barred for"
"star located at 1551 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Farley Granger Farley Earle Granger Jr. (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: ""Rope"" in 1948 and ""Strangers on a Train"" in 1951. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in ""The North Star"", a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of World War II, but later condemned for its political bias. Another war film, ""The Purple"
"""A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"" (1982) was the first movie Allen made starring Mia Farrow, who stepped into Diane Keaton's role when Keaton was shooting ""Reds"". He next produced a vividly idiosyncratic tragi-comical parody of documentary, ""Zelig"", in which he starred as a Leonard Zelig, man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people who surround him. Allen has combined tragic and comic elements in such films as ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" (1986) and ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" (1989), in which he tells two stories that connect at the end. He also made three films about"
"George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, Marni Nixon and Jo Ann Worley. He died at the age of 96 on November 1, 2014. Donald Saddler Donald Edward Saddler (January 24, 1918 – November 1, 2014) was an American choreographer, dancer, and theatre director. Born in Van Nuys, California, Saddler studied dance at an early age to regain his strength after a bout of scarlet fever. He spent his school vacations at the MGM studios, eventually dancing in the chorus of movie musicals such as ""The Great Ziegfeld"" (1936), ""Rosalie"" (1937), ""Broadway Melody of 1938"" (1937), ""Babes in Arms"" (1939), and ""The"
"starring Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren and Takeshi Kitano, and ""New Rose Hotel"" (1998), starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Asia Argento. The former was the first time in history that a book was launched simultaneously as a film and a CD-ROM interactive video game. , Vincenzo Natali still hoped to bring ""Neuromancer"" to the screen, after some years in development hell. ""Count Zero"" was at one point being developed as ""The Zen Differential"" with director Michael Mann attached, and the third novel in the Sprawl trilogy, ""Mona Lisa Overdrive"", has also been optioned and bought. An anime adaptation of ""Idoru"""
"and, in spite of success, has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time."" The conflict between the maternal, nurturing woman and the earnest, usually younger one, is a recurring theme in Allen's films. Like many of Allen's films, ""Stardust Memories"" incorporates several jazz recordings including those by such notables as Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and Chick Webb. The film's title alludes to the famous take of ""Stardust"" recorded in 1931 by Armstrong, wherein the trumpeter sings ""oh, memory"" three times in succession. However, it is the master take that plays in the movie"
"Roger Rose Roger Rose (born August 15, 1958) is an American actor, voice actor, and former VH1 VJ, known for such films as ""Ski Patrol"" and for voice work in animated films and television series such as ""Happy Feet"", ""Rugrats"", ""Scooby-Doo"", ""The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"", and ""Quack Pack"". He is also an occasional announcer. His first live role was in an episode of ""Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"". He auditioned at Rod Roddy's podium in 2004 for the announcing job on television's longest running game show, ""The Price Is Right"", and was the announcer for the"
"written by Bill Kerby and Bo Goldman from a story by Bill Kerby, and directed by Mark Rydell. ""The Rose"" was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actress in a Leading Role (Bette Midler, in her screen debut), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frederic Forrest), Best Film Editing and Best Sound. Midler performed the soundtrack album for the film, and the title track became one of her biggest hit singles. In late 1969, Mary Rose Foster (Bette Midler) is a famous rock and roll diva known as The Rose. Although a success, she is burnt out and lonely"