Biography of Singer and Actor Bobby... Oct 29, 2009
Natalie Wood was among the attendees that praised his singing, and his performance led to his securing a reputable agent. As a result, he landed a role on the television show, "Shindig." The show lasted from 1964 to 1966. (Suite101.com)
Crypt above Monroe back up for auction Oct 15, 2009
Other celebrities including Farrah Fawcett, Natalie Wood, Rodney Dangerfield, Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon, Eva Gabor and Truman Capote have also been laid to rest at the cemetery. 2009 The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- News)
Tombstone tours: Check out these famous boneyards Oct 6, 2009
At Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery (1218 Glendon Ave.), you can pay your respects to Marilyn Monroe, Burt Lancaster, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Billy Wilder, Frank Zappa, Rodney Dangerfield and Truman Capote. Those spending eternity at the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery (6300 Forest Lawn Drive) include Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Liberace, Stan Laurel, Gene Autry and David Carradine. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Celebrity crime writer Dominick Dunne dies of bladder cancer at 83 Aug 27, 2009
If Dunne failed to reach the top tier of movie producers, he became known for his first-class parties, populated by such Hollywood luminaries as Paul Newman, Natalie Wood and Lauren Bacall. In 1964, Dunne and his wife gave a "black-and-white" ball that was said to be the inspiration for Truman Capote's more famous party in New York in 1966. (Honolulu Advertiser)
NATALIE WOOD'S DEATH PROBED 30 ... Aug 25, 2009
NATALIE WOOD'S DEATH PROBED 30 YEARS LATER - New York Post ... NATALIE WOOD'S DEATH PROBED 30 YEARS LATER ... The back cover says this "is the long awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood . . . a story told by a haunted witness to that fateful evening." The cover says Davern's version of that evening's events was initially the same as Wagner's, but that now Davern feels he somehow failed Natalie. (New York Post -- Gossip)
WOOD THAT SHE WERE STILL HERE Aug 19, 2009
YESTERDAY'S ANGEL: NATALIE WOOD' TRIBUTE SERIES KICKOFF AT LINCOLN CENTER - New York Post ... Paul Mazursky's satiric comedy about swinging couples is among the 12 films being shown as part of "Yesterday's Angel: Natalie Wood," a tribute to the actress who died 1981. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
* PLANET POP Aug 17, 2009
For those who do not have US$500,000 to spend on the space at the cemetery, which is also the final resting place for Natalie Wood, Truman Capote and Farrah Fawcett, there is still a free crypt space two spots above Monroe to the left. The going price for that spot is a mere US$250,000. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
David Denby: “Inside Daisy Clover,” at The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Aug 17, 2009
The seventeen-year-old Natalie Wood was rather touching when she worked with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and her sexual hunger in Splendor in the Grass, with Warren Beatty, may have been the most powerful emotion she ever expressed onscreen. In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), playing Aug. 20 and Aug. 22 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, she was twenty-seven playing fifteen, and pretty much at sea. (New Yorker)
AN EX SPILLS ABOUT CARY GRANT Aug 4, 2009
"In 1969, we made 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' with Natalie Wood, who Lincoln Center's Film Society is celebrating with a 12-part series. They'll show that particular movie the 21st. See, I loved Natalie. We were close friends.". July 1965, after living together three years, beautiful Dyan married Cary Grant. (New York Post -- Gossip)
PRIMETIME: Celeb Coroner: Jackson's Death Latest in High-Profile History Jul 30, 2009
From the death of Michael Jackson last month to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe in 1962 to hip-hop kingpin notorious B.I.G. in 1997 to the 1981 death by drowning of Natalie Wood and the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, the Los Angeles County coroner's office serves as more than a medical examiner's office -- it's Hollywood's psychic stopover between glamour and the grave. From Michael Jackson to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe and Nicole Brown Simpson, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office is... (ABC News)
Elia Kazan retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive Jul 26, 2009
Splendor in the Grass (1961; Aug. 1 and 3) is an intense fever-dream of teenage anxiety that contains one of Natalie Wood s most incandescent performances. As Deanie, a Kansas high school heroine in the pressure cooker of the Roaring Twenties, Wood is propelled hormonally forward while trying to be a good girl - while trying to figure out what a good girl even means. (Boston Globe)
Transformed into a star Jul 18, 2009
Her first ever audition was for Peter Bogdanovich, who was impressed enough to cast her in his television biopic of Natalie Wood, shot in Australia and released in 2004. The Aussie horror film Man-Thing followed, starring Jack Thompson. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
IN THE NICK OF TIME Jul 13, 2009
Other Ray films in the series, which runs through Aug. 6, include his two best-known, "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), with James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood; and the 1954 Western "Johnny Guitar," featuring Joan Crawford (as a saloon owner), Sterling Hayden and deep-voiced Mercedes McCambridge. Look also for "Party Girl" (1958), with Robert Taylor as a crooked lawyer and Cyd Charisse as a showgirl; "On Dangerous Ground" (1952), featuring Robert Ryan as a NYC cop and Ida Lupino as the blind... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Here are 10 films to put you in a '60s mood Jul 12, 2009
" But it's generally good fun and well worth another look. "Bob Alice" 1969 -- Paul Mazursky's glossy study of modern lifestyles and sexual freedom also seems like a period piece, but strong performances by Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Dyan Cannon and Elliott Gould will keep you entertained. "Easy Rider" 1969 -- Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper wrote and star in this film about two motorcyclists who chuck it all and try to find the "real America. " Jack Nicholson, playing a boozy lawyer, became a... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Claudia Russell is a late bloomer in full flower Jun 28, 2009
Growing up in an artistic home in Los Angeles, she knew her father as Gilbert Russell, a British ex-pat who had moved to Hollywood in the mid-1930s and ended up working as a music teacher and vocal coach to such stars as Natalie Wood, Beau Bridges, and Shirley Jones. It wasn t until a British collector of 1920s and 30s dance-band records contacted her looking for information about Rosing that Russell discovered her father s previous life as England s supreme singer of sentimental songs. (Boston Globe)
Dressing up the MFA with the look of the stars Jun 27, 2009
Designer Arnold Scaasi has designed for numerous celebrities over the last 50 years, including Joan Rivers (above), Natalie Wood, Barbra Streisand, Barbara Bush, and Arlene Francis. ('Scaasi, A Cut Above'/ Arnold Scaasi). (Boston Globe)
Free Summer Movie Series returns Jun 19, 2009
July 1: 1 p.m. - Boomerang Big Bash - Cartoon screening featuring Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons and others 3 p.m. - "Singing in the Rain" - starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds 6 p.m. - "West Side Story" - starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer and Rita Moreno. July 2: 1 p.m. - Toon Takeover - Cartoon Pandemonium from the Cartoon Network 3 p.m. - "Casablanca" - starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Is Just War Impossible Today? Jun 18, 2009
We were in America, if vicariously, among people who came from the same gene pool as Pat Boone and Montgomery Clift, Doris Day and Natalie Wood, Shelley Berman and Bob Newhart, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. To have been a teenager in England in the late 1950s was to have been an American. (The American Conservative)
Simon Cowell: 'I'm quite odd. I do get very dark moods'... May 23, 2009
" It's because I just want to be on my own for a while. I relish it. I'm almost ecstatic. 'But I have very close relationships with my ex-girlfriends, which is quite strange. I talk to them all the time. It's one of the reasons I haven't felt the need to suddenly get into another relationship. I'm single now and it's good.' Are you, well, a particularly sexual man? 'Yeah, but it's all about chemistry. And when you have that it's incredible,' he says. Big breasts? 'Not necessarily.' Lap-dancers?... (The Drudge Report)
Exploring Hollywood's take on Latinos May 6, 2009
We talk about that in terms of "West Side Story," where everybody's identified how Natalie Wood was in brownface playing a Puerto Rican. But in 1980, there was a revival of it on Broadway, and they actually cast a Puerto Rican actress. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Where Stars Are Born Mar 28, 2009
San Francisco a major training ground for actors. Article:San Francisco a major training ground for actors:/c/a/2009/03/27/DD0C16DE4U.DTL Article:San Francisco a major training ground for actors:/c/a/2009/03/27/DD0C16DE4U.DTL. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Life Begins At Forty Mar 20, 2009
Russell also impressively stepped into the role of Rose, a part famously portrayed by Ethel Merman on Broadway, in the 1962 movie musical Gypsy, co-starring Natalie Wood. Angela Lansbury. (Suite101.com)
Why Hefner is in Miss March Mar 14, 2009
The result was that the former Mr. Natalie Wood wound up on the cutting room floor and Moore and Cregger -- who are also two members of the sketch comedy group (and TV show of the same name) The Whitest Kids U' Know -- had to go to Playboy "with their tail between their legs." As it turned out, the real Hefner actually liked what he saw, so the guys were given permission to do reshoots in the Playboy mansion and get real-life Playmate Sara Jean Underwood to cameo in the film. Oh, and Hef himself... (IGN FilmForce)
Oscar omissions Feb 22, 2009
The film received only three Academy Awards nominations (without wins): Best Supporting Actor (Sal Mineo), Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Wood), and Best Motion Picture Story (Nicholas Ray). Ironically, Dean was not nominated for his role in this film (although it eventually became his iconic career role), it adds. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Love, Hollywood Style Feb 8, 2009
Pairings such as Natalie Wood with Steve McQueen and Streep with Robert De Niro are memorable because we wouldn't see them together romantically onscreen again ... Not meeting cute: Natalie Wood as a Macy's clerk confronts Steve McQueen as a trumpet player with news that he has impregnated her. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
