Apparently playing yourself isn't as simple as you might think. "I told them I could just puff out my hair a bit, but they insisted on getting me a wig," Larry King tells People of playing himself on People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. "I think they said they spent $7,500 on the wig! They also made me glasses to match the ones I wore back in the '90s and they recreated my old Larry King Live set exactly. I think they spent more recreating it than we did building it the first time." But that attention to...
- 4/5/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- PEOPLE.com
Unlike the play, the film version of Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County won’t win any awards. It’s a flatly-directed, stagey melodrama full of overripe family dynamics, characters screeching at each other, and over-the-top revelations, all which had to have worked better on stage. But the film does offer up some juicy acting, superb back-and-forth dialogue, and a few hearty laughs, so if you can adjust those Pulitzer Prize expectations, there is much to enjoy.
Cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction, adultery, incest. The list of pathologies afflicting one or another of the Westons, the family at the center of August: Osage County, is seemingly endless (and overly familiar). Meryl Streep stars as Violet Weston, the sharp-tongued matriarch of the dysfunctional Oklahoma clan. Early in the film, Violet’s exhausted husband Beverly (Sam Sheppard) walks off, never to be heard from again. The couple’s three adult daughters are called back to the family homestead,...
Cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction, adultery, incest. The list of pathologies afflicting one or another of the Westons, the family at the center of August: Osage County, is seemingly endless (and overly familiar). Meryl Streep stars as Violet Weston, the sharp-tongued matriarch of the dysfunctional Oklahoma clan. Early in the film, Violet’s exhausted husband Beverly (Sam Sheppard) walks off, never to be heard from again. The couple’s three adult daughters are called back to the family homestead,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We’ve already had one trailer for Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper’s new drama Out Of The Furnace. Now here comes the second, which digs a little deeper into the world of Christian Bale’s troubled steel mill worker Russell Baze. Have a look over at Apple.We meet Russell as a man with a rough life: working his dead-end blue collar job by day to provide for his girlfriend Lena (Zoe Saldana), and caring for his terminally ill father (Sam Sheppard) by night.When his brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from serving time in Iraq, he gets lured into one of the most ruthless crime rings in the Northeast and mysteriously disappears. The police, including Forest Whitaker, fail to crack the case, so with nothing left to lose Russell takes matters into his own hands, putting his life on the line to seek justice for his brother...
- 10/7/2013
- EmpireOnline
London, Apr : A woman from Monmouthshire, Wales, who has been disappointed by her boyfriend's attempt at popping the question, is offering lessons in how to propose.
Sam Sheppard, 34, claimed that she did not even realise her lover was popping the question and the experience was more like "being asked out for pizza" - so she set up a company to train other men in the art of proposing.
She has started her own company, The Proposal Expert, and has already helped couples all over Britain to take the first step toward tying the knot, the Telegraph reported.
Although most of her customers have kept secret the fact that they paid her for help.
"The idea came from my own disappointing experience - my boyfriend.
Sam Sheppard, 34, claimed that she did not even realise her lover was popping the question and the experience was more like "being asked out for pizza" - so she set up a company to train other men in the art of proposing.
She has started her own company, The Proposal Expert, and has already helped couples all over Britain to take the first step toward tying the knot, the Telegraph reported.
Although most of her customers have kept secret the fact that they paid her for help.
"The idea came from my own disappointing experience - my boyfriend.
- 4/9/2013
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid ends with the two outlaws killed in a standoff with the Bolivian military in 1908, but there.s a long-running rumor that Cassidy survived the shootout and the new western Blackthorn is premised on that speculation. Blackthorn takes place in the late 1920.s and Cassidy (Sam Sheppard), now in his 60.s, is quietly living out his years as a horse breeder under the name James Blackthorn with his Mexican wife in a remote Bolivian village. Tired of his long exile from the Us and hoping to see his family again before he dies, Cassidy withdraws his life savings and sets out on horseback for the long journey home. But an unexpected encounter with charismatic criminal-on-the-run Eduardo Apodaca (Eduardo Noriega) derails his plans and results in the loss of his savings. When Apodaca claims to have stashed a fortune stolen from a greedy railroad baron, Butch...
- 10/21/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For some reason or other Baltasar Kormakur's first Us produced film, Inhale, has remained unreleased in the Us for some time now but fans of the director can rejoice because it's been let out of the gates in the Netherlands on DVD and Blu Ray. The story follows a criminal lawyer who has to bend the rules quite a bit when he employes some dubious doctors south of the border for his daughter's lung transplant. This is of course highly illegal and things don't go as smoothly as he hoped it would. Doesn't it always?The film stars Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Sheppard.A trailer for the Dutch release has hit the web via Youtube and you can also check out some nice looking stills on cinematographer Ottar Gudnason's web site through the link below.
- 8/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
'Shadow' Runs but Can't Hide Faults / Truth is buried too deeply in CBS' take on the real 'Fugitive' tale
Somewhere in this ambitious and occasionally poignant CBS retelling of the true-life story that inspired the long-running "The Fugitive" series and film, there is an illuminating kernel of truth about the behavior of ordinary men and women under enormous pressure.
The story is told, first abruptly but later more softly, through the eyes of Sam Sheppard's son, using nostalgic, sepia-colored flashbacks. A fine cast includes Peter Strauss as the doctor -- first found guilty and then acquitted of the savage murder of his wife -- as well as Henry Czerny as his son; Jonathan Kroeker and Bradley Reid as the son at various ages; and John Colicos in a well-judged portrait-in-miniature of the man who might have been the actual killer.
As a journey of self-understanding and, in an odd way, repatriation, "My Father's Shadow" promises much, and it is no wonder the production team paid careful attention to detail.
Whether viewers stick around for the inevitable conclusion, however, may depend on whether they catch the tension between the terrible brutality and the innate sadness that kept Czerny's character from growing up, and whether they respond to the on-screen relationship between Czerny and Strauss. Neither finds a way into their characters until relatively late in the proceedings, perhaps in time with Adam Greenman's spare script and Peter Levin's cautious direction.
And while, in the process, there may be an important statement about the hysteria that surrounded the trial and the outbreak of public opinion that allegedly contributed to Sheppard's conviction, it is lost in its lack of convincing documentation and the drama's greater interest in telling the stories of the main characters.
-- Laurence Vittes
MY FATHER'S SHADOW: THE Sam Sheppard STORY
CBS
Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd.
Credits: Executive producers: Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Yvonne Chotzen, William Jenner; Producers: Adam Greenman, Christine Sacani; Director: Peter Levin; Screenwriter: Adam Greenman; Editor: Stephen Lawrence; Photography: Frank Tidy; Music: Louis Febre; Casting adviser: Lynn Kressel, Tina Gerussi. Cast: Peter Strauss, Henry Czerny, Bradley Reid, Jonathan Kroeker, Lindsay Frost, John Bourgeois, John Colicos, Janet-Laine Green, Ralph Small. Airdate: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m.
Somewhere in this ambitious and occasionally poignant CBS retelling of the true-life story that inspired the long-running "The Fugitive" series and film, there is an illuminating kernel of truth about the behavior of ordinary men and women under enormous pressure.
The story is told, first abruptly but later more softly, through the eyes of Sam Sheppard's son, using nostalgic, sepia-colored flashbacks. A fine cast includes Peter Strauss as the doctor -- first found guilty and then acquitted of the savage murder of his wife -- as well as Henry Czerny as his son; Jonathan Kroeker and Bradley Reid as the son at various ages; and John Colicos in a well-judged portrait-in-miniature of the man who might have been the actual killer.
As a journey of self-understanding and, in an odd way, repatriation, "My Father's Shadow" promises much, and it is no wonder the production team paid careful attention to detail.
Whether viewers stick around for the inevitable conclusion, however, may depend on whether they catch the tension between the terrible brutality and the innate sadness that kept Czerny's character from growing up, and whether they respond to the on-screen relationship between Czerny and Strauss. Neither finds a way into their characters until relatively late in the proceedings, perhaps in time with Adam Greenman's spare script and Peter Levin's cautious direction.
And while, in the process, there may be an important statement about the hysteria that surrounded the trial and the outbreak of public opinion that allegedly contributed to Sheppard's conviction, it is lost in its lack of convincing documentation and the drama's greater interest in telling the stories of the main characters.
-- Laurence Vittes
MY FATHER'S SHADOW: THE Sam Sheppard STORY
CBS
Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd.
Credits: Executive producers: Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Yvonne Chotzen, William Jenner; Producers: Adam Greenman, Christine Sacani; Director: Peter Levin; Screenwriter: Adam Greenman; Editor: Stephen Lawrence; Photography: Frank Tidy; Music: Louis Febre; Casting adviser: Lynn Kressel, Tina Gerussi. Cast: Peter Strauss, Henry Czerny, Bradley Reid, Jonathan Kroeker, Lindsay Frost, John Bourgeois, John Colicos, Janet-Laine Green, Ralph Small. Airdate: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m.
- 11/17/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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