Actor James Farentino, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to a family spokesman. He was 73. Farentino died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital after a long illness, said the spokesman, Bob Palmer. Farentino starred alongside Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen in the 1980 science fiction film "The Final Countdown." The movie featured a modern aircraft carrier that travels back in time to Pearl Harbor hours before the Japanese...
Hugo tops The Artist to lead all nominees Early Tuesday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards, recognizing the best films and filmmakers of 2011. Each of the two top nominees this year is a film about films. Most experts predicted Hugo to wind up with numerous nominations, and it did that and more; Martin Scorsese's family film bested all other contenders with 11 total nominations. Meanwhile, frontrunner The Artist finished...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences paid homage Tuesday morning to the early days of cinema by bestowing the lion's share of Oscar nominations on two films that are valentines to the early days of cinema. "Hugo," Martin Scorsese's heartfelt love letter to filmmaking, earned the most nominations with 11, including best picture, best director and best screenplay as well as several technical Oscars. "The Artist," the low-budget black-and-white silent movie that offers a glimpse of...
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Washington - Funeral services have become a familiar scene and, often, a reunion of sorts, for the remaining members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African-American fighter pilots to serve in the military. And so it was once again Friday as a few of the men gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to say farewell to Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers Jr. "I've gone to more of these than I can count," said retired former Tuskegee Airman Bill Broadwater, 85, of suburban Upper Marlboro, Md....
"Red Tails" is an old-school war movie with a pretty ambitious payload. For the most part, it's mission accomplished.A long-cherished project by "Star Wars" maven George Lucas -- co-written by Mequon native John Ridley and "Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder -- "Red Tails" puts an overdue, big-screen spotlight on the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-African-American unit of the Army Air Corps that battled racism at home while helping the Allies achieve air supremacy in Europe during World War...
LucasFilm Escorting a squadron of bombers, Andrew "Smokey" Salem (Ne-Yo) signals fellow pilots on the way into combat with German forces in the new film Red Tails, based on the experiences of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter group. It took George Lucas more than two decades to bring the movie Red Tails to the screen. It was all the way back in the late '80s that the man behind Star Wars and Indiana Jones fell under the spell of another story of adventure, this one with real-life heroes —...
Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter has taken a turn for the worse in his fight against cancer. Doctors at Duke University on Thursday told Carter’s family that the former Montreal Expos star has “several new spots/tumours on his brain,” the New York Daily News reported. The Daily News reported that Carter’s condition had deteriorated this week, with Carter suffering from severe headaches, fatigue and problems with balance. The balance issues caused a fall on Christmas Day, during...
Multiple promotional images, extended TV spots, and trailers for the fourth Underworld film have been released over the past few weeks – with the intention being to get moviegoers excited for the fantasy/action flick and remind them why they love this franchise so much in the first place The latest batch of Underworld Awakening pics likewise focuses on Beckinsale as Selene, looking sexy and ready to kill anyone (or anything) that gets in her way. There are also some additional images of the...
