He kisses me. It's a sweet kiss. It asks permission and makes no assumptions. I return his kiss, which turns out to be more than a kiss. It's an invitation into his life. For one brief year Brandon Lee will be my beau.
What does a Production Designer actually do? Production Designer Bill Brzeski says he's the "point person for the movie's overall look," and is in charge of everything from locations, reflecting time of day, real to virtual scenery and the shape of buildings.
What does a bookkeeper or accountant do on a movie? "Essentially", says Michael Menzies -- veteran of such movies as Conan The Destroyer and Body of Evidence -- "my job is to work with the film's producer and the studio to create the budget. And then simply help them stick to it."
There are some movies that you forget five minutes after you leave the theater, and then there are the movies that stay with you for a long time. Best of all are the movies that cause you to fall in love, movies from which you remember whole passages of dialogue. Here are my top five.
Each generation has its classical movie stars, its public figures who please the populace while maintaining an impenetrable allure. Matt Bomer might be just such a star.
You've probably heard old-timers talk about how movie stars aren't as good as they used to be. This is a little unfair -- plenty of fine actors are working in the movies -- but in one respect, the new stars really aren't a patch on the stars of yore.
Marilyn the Tortoise, was bequeathed to my brothers and me in '69
by our drug-dealing Cuban building superintendent
who, running one step ahead of the...
There are no more movie stars. I blame TMZ and its reality show brethren, who have taken all the mystery out of celebrity. In movie-making, like pretty much every other business, the paradigm has changed, and we must respond accordingly.
Larry Crowne marked Tom Hanks, who is now 55, as a star who can no longer open a movie. Not that he's lost anything as an actor -- he hasn't. But the movie flopped.
After sixty everyone expects you to get some Botox, go on an AARP singles cruise to Alaska and play bingo. That's okay, but there's so much more to aging. I refuse to give up on finding undying love.
As we move into the 3D era in both the theatre and our living rooms, I will continue to long for that movie going experience that enriches your life, transports you, fills you up, and thrills you.
The nation's most famous city of movie stars and swimming pools has a special reverence for their cats. And because of this the new book First Person ...
Grace Kelly has always been a sort of shadowy figure to me. Perhaps this is because she was blond and I am brunette, and as such I have intrinsically ...
Two actors from Gone With the Wind--Evelyn Keyes who played Suellen O'Hara and Fred Crane who played Stuart Tarleton one of Scarlett's many beaus passed away in 2008.