I’m interviewing Academy Award winning actor/dancer George Chakiris, famous for West Side Story and so much more. [...]
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30 April 2011  My first night at TCM Fest featured my first viewing of Stanley Donen’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” especially fun since Jacques d’Amboise was just in Los Angeles on a book talk and he spoke a lot about making the film. [...] 5 February 2011  Mindy, a dance critic and Barnard College professor, describes how, under [Walt's brother] Roy Disney’s influence, “dancing and music were given very high priority in terms of quality and in terms of refinement of technology” at Disney studios. Aloff then dons her severe dance critic’s hat, and notes that “Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse were both very good dancers.” [...] 16 May 2010  arts•meme is looking forward to the June 30 screening of PETER PAN (1924) at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. [...] 29 April 2010  Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS with 25 minutes of lost footage restored and live accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra: a huge event for cinephiles. It was the penultimate closing-night event of TCM Classic Film Festival. Everyone loved it. Everyone except arts•meme … I found it overwhelming and incomprehensible. What tickled me, however, was watching the acknowledged German masterpiece dating [...] 27 April 2010  The great cowboy actor Glenn Ford’s steady presence and a rapturous Technicolor Grand Teton setting made ‘psychological western’ JUBAL (1956) my favorite film of TCM Fest. Film critic Leonard Maltin and actor Ernest Borgnine, the prodigious character actor who co-stars with Ford and Rod Steiger in the film, chatted after the screening. The feisty Borgnine is still in fine fettle. [...] 26 April 2010  A revival of the newly restored technicolor film noir, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, at TCM Classic Film Festival. [...] 25 April 2010  TCM Classic Film fest honors 100-year old actress Luise Rainer. [...] 22 April 2010  The TCM Fest launches in Hollywood tonight. [...] 1 April 2010  It’s tough living in Los Angeles. If you are a film lover, there’s simply too much to see in April 2010. [...] | |||
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