Shirley Maclaine

Highlights And Winners

... treated the crowd to candy dropped into the auditorium via small packages on parachutes. Hollywood steps out on Oscars night. The next awards, presented by Sofia Boutella and Chris Evans, went for sound editing and sound mixing. “Arrival” took home sound editing, while “Hacksaw Ridge” took sound mixing. Vince Vaughn acknowledged the latest recipients of the Governor’s Awards - including Jackie Chan - before a highlight reel of best supporting actress acceptance speeches ushered in this year’s award, presented by Mark Rylance. This year, best supporting actress went to Viola Davis for “Fences,” her first Oscar and third nomination. “There’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered, and that’s the graveyard,” she said from the stage, saying she wanted to exhume the stories of the people who never saw their dreams come true. “We are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life. So here’s to August Wilson, who exhumed and exalted the ordinary people.”. Davis tearfully paid tribute to her fellow cast members, co-star and director Denzel Washington, her ...

Legendary Actress Shirley Maclaine To Be Honored With Kcet Cinema Series Lumière Award At Screening Of 'the Last Word

... the initial result doesn’t meet Harriet’s high expectations, she sets out to reshape the way she is remembered, with Anne dragged along as an unwilling accomplice. As the journey unfolds, the two women develop a unique bond, which alters not only Harriet’s legacy, but also Anne’s future. "The Last Word" opens in theaters on Friday, March 3. “I am incredibly honored to be the recipient of the KCET Cinema Series Lumière Award,” commented honoree Shirley Mac Laine.  “The Last Word is written mostly from the point of view of a woman born in the 1930 s, when women were not considered a force in business,” observes the award-winning actress. “If she wanted to be successful, she had to throw her weight around. That’s what this character does, but she’s funny at the same time. She knows that she has irritated a lot of people during her lifetime, but she wants to be remembered well. It’s also about two women who reveal things that they never would have even dared to look at before. And it’s because of their prodding of one another they are able to do that. Each learns how to know herself.”. Shirley Mac Laine’s illustrious ...

Shirley Maclaine Signs With Caa

... - Shooter’s Shantel Van Santen , who plays the wife of Ryan Phillippe’s character on the USA drama. - Newcomer Sophia Lillis, who will star as the Losers Club’s lone girl, Beverly Marsh, in the upcoming It remake. More collaboration. Timbaland has extended and expanded his partnership with independent publishing and rights management company ole. The two parties will continue their publishing co-venture, Bluestone, while ole expands its worldwide administrative deal with the Grammy-winning producer to include You Tube and other digital video platforms. In addition, ole will also represent worldwide administrative rights for Timbaland’s brother Garland Mosley, who writes songs and raps under the stage name Sebastian. Media guidance. 42 West has signed actress Isabelle Mc Nally, who ...

Shirley Maclaine Remembers Mgm, Where The Rat Pack Taught Her Improv

... questions were personality questions, so they were spontaneous and without any forethought at all,” she explained. “That’s where the Personality Test was born.”. By the time MGM reached the Indiana set of Some Came Running, a new kind of movie star was maturing. Sinatra requested that Mac Laine be “lent out” to MGM for the film, based on James Jones’s novel about a disillusioned writer who returns to his hometown in the company of a girl he met on the bus. Torn between her and a professor’s daughter, he befriends a gambler and lives on the wrong side of the small town’s tracks. The movies themselves were also covering new ground. Though produced in MGM’s lavish palette—which Minnelli was using for the musical Gigi at almost the same time—Some Came Running was freewheeling film noir, prompted, to some extent, by its spontaneous stars. Sinatra and Martin liked to ad-lib, just as Mac Laine had done, by chance, in her Personality Test. “They did exactly what came to them at the moment, and if they all acted like that at the same time, it was very humorously chaotic,” Mac Laine recalled. “They loved it when things would go wrong, and then they could really be ...

The Last Word’ Filmmakers And Cast On Working With Shirley Maclaine Video

... Shirley Mac Laine (Video). Sundance 2017: “Mark asked me to play Shirley Mac Laine’s daughter and I said, ‘Yeah sure, when?'” Anne Heche tells The Wrap. Matt Hejl, provided by. Published 4:49 pm, Monday, January 30, 2017. Image 1 of/1. ‘The Last Word’ Filmmakers and Cast on Working with Shirley Mac Laine (Video). 1 / 1. Back to Gallery. Shirley Mac Laine stars in “The Last Word” as Harriet Lauler, a retired businesswoman who is underwhelmed when she hires a journalist to write her obituary before she dies. Deciding to rewrite the story of her life, she drags a few people along as unwitting accomplices. “The genesis of this idea was, ‘What kind of person would want to have their obituary written while they were still alive?” asked writer Stuart Ross Fink. “The character of Harriet Lauler was created from ...

Shirley Maclaine And Sarah Green To Enter Texas Film Hall Of Fame

... also starred in AFS Artistic Director Richard Linklater’s 2011 film Bernie. “Shirley Mac Laine is one of the world’s most important living actors,” says Linklater. “It’s incredible to think that she’s given groundbreaking performances in seven different decades. Her embodiment of Larry Mc Murtry’s Aurora Greenway in both Terms of Endearment and The Evening Star introduced the world to a fearless and determined Texas woman, a character with a spirit of independence and self-reliance that resonated richly with Texans. She has left her mark on our regional cinema, and we’re honored to celebrate this legacy at the Texas Film Awards.”. Sarah Green’s celebrated Texas films include Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Song to Song, which will make its world premiere as the Opening Night film at SXSW on March 10. Green has also served as the producer of several other Malick films, as well as John Sayles’ Passion Fish and The Secret of Roan Inish, and Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter and Loving. Nichols is also one of the TFHOF’s ...

Celebration Of Women Filmmakers Triggers Heated Debate Among Salma Hayek, Jessica Williams And Shirley Maclaine

... to be better, and with my blackness — which is the opposite of whiteness.”. Director Dee Rees, right, and author Sarah M. Bloom. Vivien Killilea / Getty Images for Glamour. Director Dee Rees, right, and author Sarah M. Bloom. Director Dee Rees, right, and author Sarah M. Bloom. (Vivien Killilea / Getty Images for Glamour). I don’t see myself a victim. [Jessica] doesn’t see herself as a victim. But it’s how you're read. — Dee Rees, director. Cora, who had been in the kitchen cooking lamb stew and halibut,  wandered over to share that she grew up gay in Mississippi, where she was sexually abused from age 6. No matter an individual’s experience, she said, she just wished all women would have one another’s backs. It was a somewhat of an abrupt turn, and “Transparent” creator Soloway returned to Williams to ask her to continue speaking. “With intersectional feminism, it’s our responsibility as white women to recognize that when there are people of color or people who are queer — we need to prioritize your voices and let you speak the loudest and learn from your experience, because we haven’t been listening. So please, Jessica, finish ...

Shirley Maclaine To Be Honored By Texas Film Hall Of Fame

... the lifetime achievement award and the "Star of Texas" award for her Oscar-winning role in Terms of Endearment. Oscar-nominated producer Sarah Green — whose films include The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, Frida, Girlfight, Midnight Special, Mud and Take Shelter — will be inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Green works closely with Austin-based writer-directors Jeff Nichols and Terrence Malick. Austin Film Society artistic director Richard Linklater said of Mac Laine, "Shirley Mac Laine is one of the world’s most important living actors. It’s incredible to think that she’s given groundbreaking performances in seven different decades. Her embodiment of Larry Mc Murtry’s Aurora Greenway in both Terms of Endearment and The Evening Star introduced the world to a fearless and determined Texas woman, a character with a spirit of independence and self-reliance that resonated richly with Texans. She has left her mark on our regional cinema, and we’re honored to celebrate this legacy at the Texas Film Awards.". AFS CEO Rebecca Campbell said Green's "work with Texas-based directors ...