Duplicity Roberts vs. Owen = a love match (1) Nov 8, 2009
To find verbal dueling as clever and as charming as you do in Duplic-ity, you really have to go back to the 30s and 40s with Myrna Loy vs. William Powell in The Thin Man or Katherine Hepburn vs. Cary Grant or Spencer Tracy. The script for Duplicity, by director Tony Gilroy (who wrote three Bourne spy-chase movies and Michael Clayton ), is that good. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
The sad and curious exile of the American mustache Oct 11, 2009
Before them it was Douglas Fairbanks, William Powell, and Clark Gable. On Damon s adolescent-looking face, a mustache is a joke. (Boston Globe)
View from this side: From Cary Grant to Kanye West Oct 9, 2009
My thoughts wound back to an era that all This Siders would remember: when actors like Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, William Powell and Gregory Peck graced the screen. Never, never did we see them off the screen, though, and especially not at an awards show clad in anything but a tuxedo. (Hanover Mariner, MA)
Daily guide to television and radio Oct 8, 2009
A hobo (William Powell) is hired as a butler. Carole Lombard. (Boston Globe)
New Rep’s ‘Mister Roberts’ is a solid drama that needs more waves Sep 17, 2009
WATERTOWN - The shortcomings of Mister Roberts were easy to overlook in the 1955 film version because of the performances by Henry Fonda, William Powell, a snarling, hissing James Cagney, and especially a brilliant young actor named Jack Lemmon. Though the cast at the New Repertory Theater is capable enough, Mister Roberts comes across as a workmanlike comedy-drama that is sometimes trenchant but at other times simply poky, especially in the first act. (Boston Globe)
Many fall theater productions are tied to films Sep 13, 2009
However sterling its cast in Mister Roberts, the New Repertory Theatre cannot hope to match the massive star power of the 1955 movie featuring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, and a young Jack Lemmon. A similar challenge confronts the cast of the Nora Theatre Company s staging of The Caretaker, the Harold Pinter play that became a 1963 film in which Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, and Robert Shaw gave the performances of their careers. (Boston Globe)
5Top: Cheers! Movies that make you lift a glass Aug 3, 2009
As played by William Powell and Myrna Loy, Nick and Nora Charles created a genre unto themselves, playing wisecracking millionaires who solve murders for fun in between bouts of heavy cocktail consumption. From Nick complaining that a criminal case is putting me way behind in my drinking to his instructions that a Manhattan gets shaken in fox-trot time while martinis get a waltz rhythm, you may never see such lovable imbibers in an American movie. (MSNBC -- News)
Silent Legends On DVD Jul 7, 2009
Barrymore is a cerebral Holmes in this fun mystery inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, featuring the film debuts of Roland Young (as Dr. Watson) and William Powell (future "Thin Man" star). Powell plays a college student victimized by Moriarty (Gustaf von Seyffertitz). (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Tommy Guns and Toys Jun 29, 2009
Dillinger himself went to the movies on the last night of his life (an event recreated here); at times, he seemed to be modelling himself on the dapper William Powell. Most of the thugs, and the lawmen, too, dress in perfectly tailored suits and wear their pomaded hair swept back, like the grilles of those fast cars. (New Yorker)
CRITICS' PICKS Jun 28, 2009
Not only was it Young's first movie, it was the screen debut of William Powell, future star of "The Thin Man" and its many sequels. "Sherlock Holmes" is one of four silent flicks starring Barrymore, Drew's paternal grandfather, in a DVD boxed set due July 7 from Kino Video. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
What is it about the British that annoys Jeremy Paxman? May 31, 2009
Page last updated at 23:00 GMT, Saturday, 30 May 2009 00:00 UK. British are 'barbarians' - Paxman. (BBC News -- UK)
Martha Rebecca Gardner Foster (7) May 11, 2009
Colony of 1611, and she was a descendant of Captain William Powell, the vice governor of Virginia in the 1600s. Rebecca was an active member of the Republican Party. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
The Way We Were Mar 29, 2009
For either part or all of the pre-Code era, Paramount had Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Ruth Chatterton, William Powell, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Fredric March and Jeanette MacDonald (in her "lingerie queen" years) under contract. They also had some of Hollywood's finest directors: Josef von Sternberg, Rouben Mamoulian, Cecil B. DeMille and Ernst Lubitsch. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009 Mar 6, 2009
PALM SPRINGS, California William Powell, the dapper, sophisticated leading man of scores of films during the 1930s and 1940s and the wisecracking detective in The Thin Man movie series, died today. He was 91. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Court case over boy's 1990 death Feb 23, 2009
Robbie's father William Powell, of Ystradgynlais, Powys, had asked the GMC to investigate ... William Powell, Robbie's father. (BBC News -- UK)
Gervais ghosts in to steal the show Feb 18, 2009
And as much as we adore Ricky Gervais, the tubby, doughy-faced, pointy-toothed British TV star is not quite in the same league as William Powell, Cary Grant, Tom Hanks or even and this is saying something Woody Allen when it comes to making whoopee on the silver screen. Yet writer-director David Koepp, again a surprise as hes best known for penning blockbusters such as Spider-Man and War of the Worlds, has pulled off a minor miracle in conjuring the kind of breezy, witty entertainment... (The West Australian)
AN Wilson: The Victorians' grand designs were the work of ... Feb 15, 2009
William Powell Frith, whom he much admires, gives us pictures of the Victorians at play. Luke Fildes shows the urban poor in their sordid decrepitude. (Independent)
