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I used to think of Billy Wilder primarily as a very witty, literate screenwriter who made sophisticated, Lubitsch-like films. But re-watching Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17 recently, I was reminded again of how hard-edged Wilder’s sense of humour is. Full Article at Jabberwock
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"BRUNO" Genre: Straights dressing up Classic Precursor: "Some Like It Hot" (1959). Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, like Sacha Baron Cohen, won plenty of pre-release publicity for exploring how the other half loves. Full Article at Variety
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Actor Andy Garcia arrives for the premiere of �Tetro,� at the Billy Wilder theater in Los Angeles, California on June 3, 2009. View Photo »
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Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplain, they’re all writer-directors and you can see them in their work. They’re unmistakable.
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For screen legend Tony Curtis, making his signature film, the cross-dressing comedy "Some Like It Hot," was anything but a drag. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News
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This week I’ve wallowed in the despair of writer’s block. It’s not that my fingers freeze on the keyboard. It’s that what comes out is crap. I know it’s crap. It knows it’s crap. And that’s what I can’t move past. Until today. Full Article at True/Slant
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++ After The Candie Maids you became the Archangels and then CC Baxter. So tell me what happened in between the bands? Were there major lineup changes? Why the change of names? Full Article at Cloudberry Cake Proselytism
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Actress Alicia Silverston arrives for the premiere of �Tetro,� at the Billy Wilder theater in Los Angeles, California on June 3, 2009. View Photo »
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It seemed like a Billy Wilder movie in a way, with Matt as Jack Lemmon ... I enjoy making the Ocean films because it is a justifiable way of playing with the camera, but in a movie like this, my job is to let the performance take position front and centre, just be simple.
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One final (but less serious) note about West Berlin and the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Billy Wilder’s lesser-known movies, but an absolutely hilarious romp, is about Berlin just before the Wall was built. Full Article at The Corner
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Next week, he'll serve as grand marshal at the Veteran's Day Parade in Manhattan. We recently spoke by phone with Curtis from his home in Las Vegas. Since this all happened 50 years ago, did you have to do a lot of research for the book? Full Article at The State
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Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplain, they’re all writer-directors and you can see them in their work. They’re unmistakable.
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It seemed like a Billy Wilder movie in a way, with Matt as Jack Lemmon ... I enjoy making the Ocean films because it is a justifiable way of playing with the camera, but in a movie like this, my job is to let the performance take position front and centre, just be simple.
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The original 1936-37 Ashes series is pretty good, but I think I prefer the Billy Wilder version from 1963 with Bill Lawry as Stan McCabe.
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I don't have one specific person who guided me along the way. There are people who inspire me -- everyone from John Cassavetes to Billy Wilder to John Huston. Great filmmaking inspires me, great writing inspires me.
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They discussed films, and gossipped. Shirley told her stories about Billy Wilder and the time when she 'kicked Jack Nicholson in the groin.' Ms MacLaine also enquired of her film Hissss, as she has long been fascinated by reincarnation and has written nine books on it.
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The majority of my favourite film-makers were Europeans who went to America — Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Milos Forman, John Schlesinger. Many of their best movies, Midnight Cowboy and Psycho, are pieces of Americana fuelled by a vision that is not homegrown, with a detached, slightly critical view
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