Lee Wallace, the Ed Koch look-alike who coincidentally or not played mayors in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Tim Burton’s Batman, died Sunday in New York after a long illness, his family announced. He was 90.Wallace also appeared in other notable films including Klute (1971), The Hot Rock (1972), The Happy Hooker […]
Continue readingAward-winning casting director Alixe Gordin died at her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on November 28. She was 96. Additional details about her death were not revealed.Born Alixe Glas on April 10, 1922 in Dayton, Ohio, she took her stage name Gordin when she started performing as a musician and an actor. She got into casting […]
Continue readingJane Fonda and Candice Bergen were some of the most seductive stars of the 1970s, with boundary-pushing fare like “Klute,” “Barbarella,” and “Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice” winning critical acclaim and filling theaters.Five decades later, the question is whether their fanbase will turn for the decidedly more commercial “Book Club,” set to open […]
Continue readingEmily Blunt, Sandra Bullock, Dave Chappelle and Jane Fonda are among the latest batch of stars to present at this weekend’s 90th Oscars telecast. The Girl On A Train star, Ocean’s 8 actress, stand-up comedian and Fonda, who won an Oscar for her controversial performance in 1972’s Klute, will be joined by Eugenio Derbez, Ansel […]
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