David Denby: “Wild River,” at Film Forum. Oct 19, 2009
Kazan s direction is maddeningly deliberate, and some of the staging is stiff, but Lee Remick is extraordinary as the matriarch s granddaughter, a passionate woman who hurls herself against the anxieties and diffidence of Clift s official. The movie couldn t have greater present-tense resonance: how do you get people who loathe the federal government to do what s good for them when the government recommends it. (New Yorker)
Play prepares to close out season Jul 28, 2009
However, after several musical movie failures, the movie was shelved, but a television version starring Lee Remick and Hal Linden premiered in 1982. The play opens in Raton Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. It will continue Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and will end its run the following Sunday, Aug. 2, with an afternoon matinee at 2:30 p.m., closing the summer season. (Raton Range, AL)
Elia Kazan retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive Jul 26, 2009
The most notable rediscovery, Wild River (1960; Aug. 7 and 10), is a CinemaScope epic about a rural community in the 1930s fighting a dam, with Montgomery Clift starring as a New Deal official who falls in love with a local widow (Lee Remick). Never released on US home video, Wild River may be the great lost Kazan film, and for now this is your only chance to see it. (Boston Globe)
'Ain't No Sunshine': The Story Behind Kris Allen's 'Idol' Cover Apr 2, 2009
" The song was Withers' first hit, and it charted when the then-32-year-old Navy veteran was working at a factory making airplane parts. The all-acoustic arrangement was overseen by soul legend Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the MG's, and it featu 00004000 res guitar work from Crosby, Still & Nash member Stephen Stills.The part of the tune where Withers repeats the phrase, "I know, I know" more than 20 times, was originally just a place holder until Withers could come up with more lyrics, but... (VHI.com -- Music News)
The Empire strikes back Feb 21, 2009
A LONG time ago Lee Remick went to England and got a job playing Winston Churchill's mother in a really nice bonnet drama called Jennie ... I'm fairly certain that Lee Remick is dead. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
