Michael Ansara, an actor who had a busy career in TV and movies for 55 years, has died at the age of 91. The tall, deep-voiced, Syrian-born Ansara was cast as a wide array of Native Americans, Arabs, Mexicans, and other exotic types, though he was perhaps best known for playing the legendary Klingon warrior and diplomat Kang in episodes of three different series in the Star Trek franchise. In the mid-‘40s and well into the ‘50s, Ansara made flyspeck appearances, often uncredited, in several films, including South Sea Sinner (1950), Soldiers Three (1951), My Favorite Spy (1951), the ...
- 8/2/2013
- avclub.com
The Americans is one of our favorite new shows of 2012-2013 season. It’s a rich period piece that revolves around Phillip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) Jennings, Russian sleeper spies who have spent 20 years secretly integrating themselves to American society, complete with two children and the picket fence. As the Cold War begins to heat up in the early 1980′s, so too does the spy game in Washington D.C. where the Jennings live.
It’s a multi-layered story of espionage, identity, loyalty, duplicity, patriotism, loneliness, and family, made even more complex when FBI Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) and his family move in across the street from the Jennings, and we see how he approaches those same themes from the other side, while forcing a Russian spy named Nina (Annet Mahendru) to turn on her country and be his mole. It places a critical magnifying glass over...
It’s a multi-layered story of espionage, identity, loyalty, duplicity, patriotism, loneliness, and family, made even more complex when FBI Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) and his family move in across the street from the Jennings, and we see how he approaches those same themes from the other side, while forcing a Russian spy named Nina (Annet Mahendru) to turn on her country and be his mole. It places a critical magnifying glass over...
- 4/9/2013
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 12, 2013
Price: DVD $19.99
Studio: Paramount
Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr are Samson and Delilah.
Producer/director Cecil B. DeMille’s (The Ten Commandments) 1949 classic epic film Samson and Delilah finally makes it’s official DVD debut following years of, er, unofficial editions and poorly transferred imports.
Starring Victor Mature (The Robe) and Hedy Lamarr (My Favorite Spy) in the title roles, Samson and Delilah tells the story of the Bible’s fabled strongman and the woman who seduces and betrays him as it brings to life Samson’s incredible feats, including his battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, and the spectacular climax in which he pulls down a pagan temple. Still, that Delilah is no slouch either…
Also starring George Sanders (All About Eve) and Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate), the lavish production earned five Academy Award nominations and won...
Price: DVD $19.99
Studio: Paramount
Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr are Samson and Delilah.
Producer/director Cecil B. DeMille’s (The Ten Commandments) 1949 classic epic film Samson and Delilah finally makes it’s official DVD debut following years of, er, unofficial editions and poorly transferred imports.
Starring Victor Mature (The Robe) and Hedy Lamarr (My Favorite Spy) in the title roles, Samson and Delilah tells the story of the Bible’s fabled strongman and the woman who seduces and betrays him as it brings to life Samson’s incredible feats, including his battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, and the spectacular climax in which he pulls down a pagan temple. Still, that Delilah is no slouch either…
Also starring George Sanders (All About Eve) and Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate), the lavish production earned five Academy Award nominations and won...
- 12/13/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Algiers Hedy Lamarr can be seen later this month on Turner Classic Movies: I Take This Woman (1940) will be shown on Saturday, April 28, and The Conspirators (1944) on Monday, April 30. I Take This Woman was a troubled production that took so long to make — W.S. Van Dyke replaced Frank Borzage who had replaced original director Josef von Sternberg — that punsters called it "I Retake This Woman." Spencer Tracy co-stars as a doctor who marries European refugee Lamarr. Jean Negulesco’s The Conspirators has several elements in common with Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, including an "exotic" World War II setting (in this case, Lisbon), conflicting loyalties, male lead Paul Henreid, and supporting players Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Curiously, at one point Lamarr had been considered for the Casablanca role that eventually went to Ingrid Bergman. Neither I Take This Woman nor The Conspirators did much for Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood career.
- 4/24/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The idea of a funny, bumbling secret agent is nearly as old as the spy thriller film. Of course they’ve had their forefathers in the comedy cops and detectives that emerged in the silents ( Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. ) and the talkies ( Bob Hope in My Favorite Brunette, and gumshoes played by Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, the Bowery Boys, and the Three Stooges ). In the swingin’ sixties there was the ultimate incompetent Inspector Closeau in the Pink Panther film series and on TV it was ” Car 54, Where Are You?’ and that legend of Mayberry, Deputy Barney Fife ( played to perfection by the multiple Emmy-winning Don Knotts ). There were a few secret agents during the Golden Age ( and Bob Hope, again, in My Favorite Spy ), but it wasn’t till we were introduced to 007 during the cold war that the big and small screen was filled gadget-heavy trench coats.
- 10/21/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This is a Recap of Top Chef D.C. (Season 7), Episode 10, entitled “Cover Cuisine”, originally airing August 18, 2010. I could tell you about this episode, but then I’d have to kill you, but not really I mean in terms of food. See how little sense that makes? Now let’s discuss the episode. This week’s Quickfire judge is Wylie Dufresne. You know what that means – time to cook some random ingredients and have other random ingredients show up in question mark boxes and throw them into your dishes on the fly. These Matrix agents are relentless (topical alert): By the end, the chefs have to incorporate fish, fava beans, hominy, squid, black garlic, ramps, passion fruit, and jicama. This results in Wylie commenting “Some of the flavor combinations were bizarre.” You Suck, Chefs! You should have made it less bizarre. There’s no more immunity in the Quickfires,...
- 8/19/2010
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr once blackmailed a movie bigwig to land a film role opposite Bob Hope.
The actress caught the unnamed executive having an affair with another actress and threatened to tell his wife if he didn't help her secure a film role.
The revelation comes from Lamarr biographer Devra Hill, who recounts the story in her new book What Almost Happened To Hedy Lamarr.
Hill says, "He (executive) was married and had children and Hedy had told him she had caught him having an affair and he got a little upset.
"She wanted to do a certain movie at the time and he wasn't that enthusiastic about the movie, and yet she got the movie made - because she told him she saw him having this affair.
"She made a funny movie with Bob Hope, My Favourite Spy, and Hollywood didn't think of her as a comedienne, so that may have been the movie. She never said what film it was."...
The actress caught the unnamed executive having an affair with another actress and threatened to tell his wife if he didn't help her secure a film role.
The revelation comes from Lamarr biographer Devra Hill, who recounts the story in her new book What Almost Happened To Hedy Lamarr.
Hill says, "He (executive) was married and had children and Hedy had told him she had caught him having an affair and he got a little upset.
"She wanted to do a certain movie at the time and he wasn't that enthusiastic about the movie, and yet she got the movie made - because she told him she saw him having this affair.
"She made a funny movie with Bob Hope, My Favourite Spy, and Hollywood didn't think of her as a comedienne, so that may have been the movie. She never said what film it was."...
- 9/1/2008
- WENN
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