The beloved "I Dream of Jeannie" star reassured fans she is not seriously ill after festival organizers described her last-minute withdrawal as a "sudden illness", a characterization Eden herself corrected within hours. Barbara Eden, who turned 95 last month, was scheduled to appear in person at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles over […] The post Barbara Eden, 95, sets the record straight after medication scare forced her out of film festival appeared first on American Almanac .
The beloved "I Dream of Jeannie" star reassured fans she is not seriously ill after festival organizers described her last-minute withdrawal as a "sudden illness", a characterization Eden herself corrected within hours. Barbara Eden, who turned 95 last month, was scheduled to appear in person at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend to receive the Cinecon Legacy Award. Instead, organizers posted a Facebook announcement the morning of her appearance saying Eden would not attend due to a "sudden illness." The announcement set off a wave of concern among fans worldwide, concern Eden moved quickly to address on her own terms. Eden took to Instagram to clarify that the organizers had it wrong. She was not…Open
Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze were locked in as star-crossed rivals in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 adrenaline-fueled, utterly earnest surf action thriller.
Actor Anthony Michael Hall revealed that the late director John Hughes spent part of their final phone call pitching a sequel to "The Breakfast Club", a film whose original cast recently said they would never revisit without him. Hall, now 58, shared the story during a Wednesday appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show." He said […] The post Anthony Michael Hall says John Hughes floated a 'Breakfast Club' sequel in their last conversation appeared first on American Almanac .
Actor Anthony Michael Hall revealed that the late director John Hughes spent part of their final phone call pitching a sequel to "The Breakfast Club", a film whose original cast recently said they would never revisit without him. Hall, now 58, shared the story during a Wednesday appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show." He said Hughes called him around 1988 with comedian John Candy already on the line, and the three talked for a couple of hours. During the conversation, Hughes laid out a concept for a sequel that would reunite the five original characters as 30-year-olds navigating the workforce. Page Six reported Hall's account of the call, which he described as the last time he spoke with the director. Hughes died in August 2009 at age 59…Open
Christopher Atkins, the former teen heartthrob who starred in 1980's "The Blue Lagoon," told a convention audience that heavy drinking destroyed his shot at the lead role in "Footloose", a part that launched Kevin Bacon into stardom. Atkins, now 65 and nearly four decades sober, laid out the story at a panel appearance at Fanboy […] The post Christopher Atkins says drinking cost him the lead in 'Footloose' before Kevin Bacon got the part appeared first on American Almanac .
Christopher Atkins, the former teen heartthrob who starred in 1980's "The Blue Lagoon," told a convention audience that heavy drinking destroyed his shot at the lead role in "Footloose", a part that launched Kevin Bacon into stardom. Atkins, now 65 and nearly four decades sober, laid out the story at a panel appearance at Fanboy Expo Knoxville in Tennessee. He didn't blame Hollywood politics or bad luck. He blamed himself, and the bottle. The actor told the crowd he had effectively been offered the role of Ren McCormack in the 1984 classic before Bacon ever entered the picture. But when filmmakers called him in for what should have been a formality, Atkins was in no shape to show up. Atkins had the part, until he walked in impaired …Open
In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. The post The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. As an inhabitant of one of the cities caught up in the nationwide heatwave earlier this month—Columbus, Ohio—I can confirm that the weather was stifling. The heatwave has dropped out of the news—that will happen when a Democratic Senate candidate has ended his cataclysmically ill-advised candidacy and the Iran War peace deal has evidently failed to hold—but the temperatures remain persistently unpleasant. But, having learned from my upbringing in the reliably hot and humid suburbs of New…Open
Photo Credit:RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Charlton Allen Orson Welles’s film may no longer shock us the way it shocked audiences in 1941—but only because so much of modern cinema learned to speak its language.
The 2006 comedy is filled with moments big and small that have stood the test of time, thanks in no small part to Meryl Streep’s turn as Miranda Priestly.
Watching movies with loved ones can be its own kind of communication. The post As My Mother Lay Dying appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture As My Mother Lay Dying Watching movies with loved ones can be its own kind of communication. As my mother lay dying in the hospital, her eyes tired and her breathing labored, she told me that she had loved watching movies with my brother and me. She said, in the days before her death from cancer at 79 in September 2023, other things to me, too, but not as many as one might expect. She was the most loving of mothers, but she sometimes struggled to express her feelings plainly. To do so at the 11th hour would not only have represented a reversal of a lifetime of her habits but, for her, a grim confirmation of what we both then…Open