Payne, Winger To Share Omaha Stage Sep 14, 2009
Payne won an Oscar for his screenplay of "Sideways." He also directed "About Schmidt," "Election," and "Citizen Ruth.". Winger is best known for "Terms of Endearment," "Urban Cowboy," and "An Officer and a Gentleman." She also appeared in last year's independent hit "Rachel Getting Married.". (7 KETV Omaha)
Hawaii lands film based on Isle novel Aug 15, 2009
He also was director of 1999's "Election" and 2002's "About Schmidt.". It "really bodes well for our industry," said Dawson, adding that it was a coup for the state to have a Fox Searchlight production here. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Nicholson's Wet, Hot, French SummerThe acclaimed actor reclaims the good times during French Riviera vacation. Aug 6, 2009
"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor," Nicholson said during an interview for 2002's "About Schmidt." "I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30s. Most of the people who wrote that, who thought they were younger than me, are now bald and wrinkled.". Related. (ABC News)
Nancy Franklin: The secret life of an American schoolteacher. Jun 29, 2009
In Payne s previous work his movies include About Schmidt and Sideways men of a certain age, like Ray, find themselves at a crossroads and fling themselves forward on picaresque, compassless journeys. Ray s journey happens to be taking place at home, but the impulse is similar, albeit with a twist. (New Yorker)
* OTHER RELEASES Jun 19, 2009
A railway engineer in Norway by the name of Odd Horten retires, but unlike Jack Nicholsons character in About Schmidt, this agreeable fellow comes to terms with his sudden change in timetable and personal limitations without quiet trauma. Instead, the door is opened to the strangeness of his surroundings as the old man bemusedly takes in his new life and new acquaintances. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
STARS PLAY CALL GIRLS THIS TIME, MO... Jun 16, 2009
" Since some might recall her "About Schmidt" scene in which she went naked in a Jacuzzi with Jack Nicholson, and since "Ch. ri" is big with sex and hookers and Doing It, is Kathy Bates also clothesless in this one? "Oh, God no. No hot tub in this one for me. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Beating the rush on decade's best movies Apr 4, 2009
Best performance by an actor (baker's dozen, no order): Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," Don Cheadle in "Hotel Rwanda," George Clooney in "Michael Clayton," Paul Giamatti in "Sideways," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote," Tommy Lee Jones in "No Country for Old Men," Erland Josephson in "Saraband," Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," Jack Nicholson in "About Schmidt, Sean Penn in "Milk," Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler," Denzel Washington in... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Davis and Harden shine in Carnage Mar 27, 2009
The role to which shes referring was Jack Nicholsons daughter in the 2002 movie About Schmidt. . (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
