Marty Pasetta, best known as director of Academy Awards telecasts for most of the 1970s and ’80s, has died. Pasetta died after he was struck by a car he had just exited Thursday night in La Quinta, CA. He was 82. The driver of the car had dropped off Pasetta and another passenger, and subsequently exited the car but left the transmission engaged, according to the Desert Sun. The car then struck both passengers. Pasetta died at the scene and the other passenger was…...
- 5/23/2015
- Deadline TV
Marty Pasetta, best known as director of Academy Awards telecasts for most of the 1970s and ’80s, has died. Pasetta died after he was struck by a car he had just exited Thursday night in La Quinta, CA. He was 82. The driver of the car had dropped off Pasetta and another passenger, and subsequently exited the car but left the transmission engaged, according to the Desert Sun. The car then struck both passengers. Pasetta died at the scene and the other passenger was…...
- 5/23/2015
- Deadline
Marty Pasetta, who directed every Academy Awards telecast from 1972 through 1988 and helped transform the way awards shows were staged and directed , has died at the age of 82. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s office: “On Thursday, May 21, at 9:22 P.M. the La Quinta Police Department responded to the 49000 block of Via Conquistador, in the city of La Quinta regarding a fatal traffic collision. The driver, Keith Stewart, age 75 of La Quinta, was stopped on Via Conquistador allowing passengers to exit his vehicle. Stewart exited his vehicle, with the transmission still engaged, and collided with two passengers...
- 5/22/2015
- by Joe Otterson and Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The veteran Hollywood publicist died yesterday at his home in St. Augustine, Fl. Mack Newberry was 89. A protege of Lee Solters, he spent more than a decade at Solters Roskin Friedman in Los Angeles, working with clients including Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Donny and Marie Osmond, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme and Marty Pasetta, who directed Oscar telecasts from 1972-88. Newberry also managed publicity for the Grammy Awards in the pre-cable/Internet years and was West Coast PR rep for the Tonys. He worked as a unit publicist for such films as Doctor Detroit, China Moon, My Girl, Straight Talk […]...
- 8/9/2014
- Deadline
PARK CITY -- There's no other way of saying it: A girl sucks off her dog in this carnal, crazy and, most amazingly, heartwarming love story from Bob Goldthwait. Bagged with deliriously unprintable moments, "Stay" flabbergasted and fractured a Sundance audience here during the weekend. We can hear the French bark-ing "auteur" already.
Certain to win the Howard Stern crowd, "Stay" should bark up some strong college-kid notoriety and metastasize into a bizarre form of date movie. More likely, it will be the kind of outing that everyone from the dorm floor goes to see en masse because they're unlikely to have the courage to pair up on a first date for such subject matter.
Undeniably, local standards will be "offended." As such, a neo-early Miramax marketing ploy of playing up the controversial could unleash some big dollars. If anything, a brave and wacky distributor should readily bag considerable loot with this no-budget oddity, which used unauthorized locations with "for sale" signs on the lawn.
There's a perversely profound premise in this Goldthwait concoction: It's OK to tell white lies about ourselves because we improve by trying to live up to our false better images. That said, the terrible thing that Amy Melinda Page Hamilton) has done confounds even her: One boring evening, she actually performed oral sex on her dog. Even she can't figure out why, much less explain it to others. Yet instead of stopping in the name of love, she confesses to her fiance. Faster than you can say "Dr. Phil", that guy is out the door.
Beneath the profanely preposterous premise, "Stay" is a rather sweet and conventional love story that perambulates around the notions of trust and acceptance. Interlacing his raw humor with tender notions, Goldthwait has certainly plopped down a surprisingly warm romantic comedy.
It's a tribute to the superb cast that this thing actually gells. Highest praise to Hamilton for her daringly endearing portrayal of the nice girl with her bowser on her belt. Overall, the entire cast is sympathetic in a wide range of goofball roles, with special praise to Jack Plotnick as Amy's meth-head brother and Geoff Pierson as her ramrod father. Not to mention the uncredited love-struck canine.
Technically, "Stay" makes do: Credit filmmaker Goldthwait and editor Jason Stewart for the nicely gaited pace and Gerald Brunskill for the sweetly screwy music.
STAY
HareBrained Pictures
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Bob Goldthwait
Producer: Marty Pasetta Jr.
Director of photography: Ian S. Takahashi
Composer: Gerald Brunskill
Costume designer: Sarah de Sa Rego
Editor: Jason Stewart
Cast:
Amy: Melinda Page Hamilton
John: Bryce Johnson
Dad: Geoff Pierson
Ed: Colby French
Dougie: Jack Plotnick
Mom: Bonita Friedericy
Randy: Brian Posehn
Linda: Morgan Murphy
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 89 minutes...
Certain to win the Howard Stern crowd, "Stay" should bark up some strong college-kid notoriety and metastasize into a bizarre form of date movie. More likely, it will be the kind of outing that everyone from the dorm floor goes to see en masse because they're unlikely to have the courage to pair up on a first date for such subject matter.
Undeniably, local standards will be "offended." As such, a neo-early Miramax marketing ploy of playing up the controversial could unleash some big dollars. If anything, a brave and wacky distributor should readily bag considerable loot with this no-budget oddity, which used unauthorized locations with "for sale" signs on the lawn.
There's a perversely profound premise in this Goldthwait concoction: It's OK to tell white lies about ourselves because we improve by trying to live up to our false better images. That said, the terrible thing that Amy Melinda Page Hamilton) has done confounds even her: One boring evening, she actually performed oral sex on her dog. Even she can't figure out why, much less explain it to others. Yet instead of stopping in the name of love, she confesses to her fiance. Faster than you can say "Dr. Phil", that guy is out the door.
Beneath the profanely preposterous premise, "Stay" is a rather sweet and conventional love story that perambulates around the notions of trust and acceptance. Interlacing his raw humor with tender notions, Goldthwait has certainly plopped down a surprisingly warm romantic comedy.
It's a tribute to the superb cast that this thing actually gells. Highest praise to Hamilton for her daringly endearing portrayal of the nice girl with her bowser on her belt. Overall, the entire cast is sympathetic in a wide range of goofball roles, with special praise to Jack Plotnick as Amy's meth-head brother and Geoff Pierson as her ramrod father. Not to mention the uncredited love-struck canine.
Technically, "Stay" makes do: Credit filmmaker Goldthwait and editor Jason Stewart for the nicely gaited pace and Gerald Brunskill for the sweetly screwy music.
STAY
HareBrained Pictures
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Bob Goldthwait
Producer: Marty Pasetta Jr.
Director of photography: Ian S. Takahashi
Composer: Gerald Brunskill
Costume designer: Sarah de Sa Rego
Editor: Jason Stewart
Cast:
Amy: Melinda Page Hamilton
John: Bryce Johnson
Dad: Geoff Pierson
Ed: Colby French
Dougie: Jack Plotnick
Mom: Bonita Friedericy
Randy: Brian Posehn
Linda: Morgan Murphy
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 89 minutes...
- 1/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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