Not every erotic thriller is a film noir, but they all owe a debt to the genre. The ‘80s erotic thriller took the formulas established by post-war noir and adapted them for a post-pornographic film landscape, adding scenes of explicit sex and nudity where they were once merely suggested. Like classic noirs, erotic thrillers also revolve around the archetypes of the femme fatale and her hapless mark. These, too, were updated to fit the times, reaching their ultimate ‘80s form in Adrian Lyne’s 1987 smash hit “Fatal Attraction.”
In Lyne’s film the male schmuck in question is a married Manhattan yuppie about to move to the suburbs, and the femme fatale is a single career woman with a loft in the Meatpacking District. Fear of female independence is foundational to the femme fatale archetype. Here, it’s incorporated with Susan Faludi’s “backlash” theory to create what Brian De Palma...
In Lyne’s film the male schmuck in question is a married Manhattan yuppie about to move to the suburbs, and the femme fatale is a single career woman with a loft in the Meatpacking District. Fear of female independence is foundational to the femme fatale archetype. Here, it’s incorporated with Susan Faludi’s “backlash” theory to create what Brian De Palma...
- 8/16/2023
- by Katie Rife
- Indiewire
You may have heard that Bill Maher hated the Barbie movie — an all-too-predictable outcome for a 67-year-old crank who some HBO exec thinks is “edgy” because he spends so much of his airtime railing against “wokeness.” You’d think someone whose film acting CV includes winners like Pizza Man, Tomcats, and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death would have a bit more self-awareness; then again, this is not one of Maher’s strong suits.
On Monday afternoon, the Real Time host took to the platform formerly known as...
On Monday afternoon, the Real Time host took to the platform formerly known as...
- 8/9/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
“Barbie” may be a worldwide smash hit phenomenon that’s raked in more than $1 billion (and counting) at the box office, but not everyone is a fan.
Count Bill Maher among the movie’s critics, with the “Real Time” host taking to Twitter to slam the film in a lengthy critique.
‘Ok, Barbie’: I was hoping it wouldn’t be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three. What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it; Or something that Used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true. ‘Barbie’ is this kind of #ZombieLie,” he began.
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“Spoiler alert, Barbie fights the Patriarchy. Right up to the Mattel board who created her, consisting of 12 white men! The Patriarchy! Except there’s a Mattel board in real life,...
Count Bill Maher among the movie’s critics, with the “Real Time” host taking to Twitter to slam the film in a lengthy critique.
‘Ok, Barbie’: I was hoping it wouldn’t be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three. What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it; Or something that Used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true. ‘Barbie’ is this kind of #ZombieLie,” he began.
Read More: ‘Barbie’ Hits $1 Billion At The Box Office
“Spoiler alert, Barbie fights the Patriarchy. Right up to the Mattel board who created her, consisting of 12 white men! The Patriarchy! Except there’s a Mattel board in real life,...
- 8/9/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Bill Maher took to Twitter (or X) on Monday to tell his followers that he had seen Barbie and promised a “review” to follow. On Tuesday, Maher delivered…sort of. His post reads less like a review than one of his biting closing soliloquies on Real Time — which it’s worth noting, airs on HBO, a corporate sibling to the studio behind Barbie, Warner Bros.
While admitting the film is fun, Maher begins by called it “preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie.”
What, you ask, is a “Zombie Lie?”
Maher defines it as, “Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it; Or something that Used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true.”
In any case, Maher’s gist is that Barbie, with a main character who fights the patriarchy,...
While admitting the film is fun, Maher begins by called it “preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie.”
What, you ask, is a “Zombie Lie?”
Maher defines it as, “Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it; Or something that Used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true.”
In any case, Maher’s gist is that Barbie, with a main character who fights the patriarchy,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Add Bill Maher to small-but-loud anti-Barbie crowd.
The HBO Real Time host posted a lengthy critique of filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s summer sensation, which just crossed the $1 billion global mark at the box office.
“I was hoping it wouldn’t be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three,” Maher wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Here’s what Maher had to say about the Margot Robbie hit. Fair warning: The below is a tad rant-y, not entirely easy to follow, contains mild spoilers and is generally a bit of an eyeroll.
“What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it (tax cuts for the rich increase revenues, e.g.); Or something that Used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true,” Maher wrote. “Barbie is this kind of #ZombieLie. Spoiler alert,...
The HBO Real Time host posted a lengthy critique of filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s summer sensation, which just crossed the $1 billion global mark at the box office.
“I was hoping it wouldn’t be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three,” Maher wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Here’s what Maher had to say about the Margot Robbie hit. Fair warning: The below is a tad rant-y, not entirely easy to follow, contains mild spoilers and is generally a bit of an eyeroll.
“What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it (tax cuts for the rich increase revenues, e.g.); Or something that Used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it’s still true,” Maher wrote. “Barbie is this kind of #ZombieLie. Spoiler alert,...
- 8/8/2023
- by James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We’re not sure if Carrie is really ready for a new relationship on And Just Like That…, but Younger alum Peter Hermann is not a bad place to start, huh?
Carrie has a classic meet-cute with Hermann’s character George this week on the streets of New York: She wanders into the bike lane just as he’s speeding up, and he swerves to avoid her, crashing his bike and hurting his wrist in the process. She takes him to urgent care and helps him fill out forms — and we’re sensing a bit of a spark between them.
Carrie has a classic meet-cute with Hermann’s character George this week on the streets of New York: She wanders into the bike lane just as he’s speeding up, and he swerves to avoid her, crashing his bike and hurting his wrist in the process. She takes him to urgent care and helps him fill out forms — and we’re sensing a bit of a spark between them.
- 7/13/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
For gay men who came of age in the 1970s through the early 1990s, hiding the “International Male” catalog, which somehow seemed to magically appear in the family mailbox, became a rite of passage. “All Man: The International Male Story” examines the genesis of the catalog and its continuing cultural relevance — and the story told here winds up being more complex than it may at first appear.
Co-directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed and writer Peter Jones manage to cover a lot of territory in a compact 83-minute running time, while striking the same balance between sexy and peculiar that makes the catalog such a hard-to-parse artifact of its era.
It all began in the head of Gene Burkard, interviewed here as an elderly man who recalls spending all night hiding under the table of a gay bar in order to avoid arrest. Burkard grew up in the post-war...
Co-directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed and writer Peter Jones manage to cover a lot of territory in a compact 83-minute running time, while striking the same balance between sexy and peculiar that makes the catalog such a hard-to-parse artifact of its era.
It all began in the head of Gene Burkard, interviewed here as an elderly man who recalls spending all night hiding under the table of a gay bar in order to avoid arrest. Burkard grew up in the post-war...
- 6/13/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Audible has snapped up the rights to three podcasts from Audio Up – two series created by James Ellroy, the Demon Dog of American literature, and The Playboy Interviews.
The Amazon-owned company will launch two Ellroy adaptations – Hollywood Death Trip and American Tabloid – and The Playboy Interviews, which features the voice talents of the likes of Michael Shannon and Taye Diggs, as Audible Originals.
It comes on the back of a deal between the two companies for Maejor Frequency, a series fronted by Justin Bieber and Drake collaborator Brandon Green.
Hollywood Death Trip will launch first on July 7 2022. The five-part series will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet,...
The Amazon-owned company will launch two Ellroy adaptations – Hollywood Death Trip and American Tabloid – and The Playboy Interviews, which features the voice talents of the likes of Michael Shannon and Taye Diggs, as Audible Originals.
It comes on the back of a deal between the two companies for Maejor Frequency, a series fronted by Justin Bieber and Drake collaborator Brandon Green.
Hollywood Death Trip will launch first on July 7 2022. The five-part series will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: A slew of stars including Rosanna Arquette, Taye Diggs, Gael Garcia Bernal and Maya Hawke, are to portray famous figures across history in a new podcast series from Playboy and Audio Up.
The two companies are launching Playboy Interview, an audio series that features teleplay-style re-enactments of the most iconic Playboy interview conversations.
Other stars also include Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Kevin Corrigan and Gina Gershon.
The series, which is set to debut in September, will see Arquette voice feminist pioneer Betty Friedan, Diggs will portray Muhammad Ali, Garcia Bernal plays Salvador Dali, Shannon is Tennessee Williams, Shea Whigham is John Wayne, Maya Hawke is Helen Gurley Brown, Kevin Corrigan is Frank Sinatra and Gina Gershon is Oriana Fallaci.
The first two episodes will feature “conversations” with Friedan and Ali.
The series is based on the classic Playboy Interview, which started in 1962 with Alex Haley’s conversation with Miles Davis...
The two companies are launching Playboy Interview, an audio series that features teleplay-style re-enactments of the most iconic Playboy interview conversations.
Other stars also include Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Kevin Corrigan and Gina Gershon.
The series, which is set to debut in September, will see Arquette voice feminist pioneer Betty Friedan, Diggs will portray Muhammad Ali, Garcia Bernal plays Salvador Dali, Shannon is Tennessee Williams, Shea Whigham is John Wayne, Maya Hawke is Helen Gurley Brown, Kevin Corrigan is Frank Sinatra and Gina Gershon is Oriana Fallaci.
The first two episodes will feature “conversations” with Friedan and Ali.
The series is based on the classic Playboy Interview, which started in 1962 with Alex Haley’s conversation with Miles Davis...
- 6/24/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Bold Type,” which airs its fifth and final season premiere Wednesday night, might not have ever happened if it weren’t for Katy Perry. Former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles recalls the genesis of the series, inspired by her life at the top of the masthead, as stemming from a cover shoot with the pop singer years ago.
“It had gone really well. The one thing we asked her not to do was to Instagram anything from the shoot, because the pictures wouldn’t be out for another six weeks on the cover of Cosmo,” Coles recalls. “She promised she wouldn’t, and we all left feeling very high after the shoot. Within 20 minutes, she had posted the exact picture that we were going to use on the cover. I was beside myself. We couldn’t use the best picture because it had already been out there.”
Annoyed, Coles went...
“It had gone really well. The one thing we asked her not to do was to Instagram anything from the shoot, because the pictures wouldn’t be out for another six weeks on the cover of Cosmo,” Coles recalls. “She promised she wouldn’t, and we all left feeling very high after the shoot. Within 20 minutes, she had posted the exact picture that we were going to use on the cover. I was beside myself. We couldn’t use the best picture because it had already been out there.”
Annoyed, Coles went...
- 5/27/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
In Ryan White’s breezy documentary “Ask Dr. Ruth,” the 90-year-old Ruth Westheimer asks a fair share of the questions. “Are you hungry?” “Are you sure you’re not hungry?” And with her grandmotherly credentials thus verified, she’s free to turn to her Alexa and ask it to find her a boyfriend. Alas, the app demurs. “If she doesn’t know that, what good is she?” the doctor tuts of the AI program. Not good enough to do what Westheimer did: leap from being a licensed sex therapist with a risqué 15-minute radio call-in show into a national sensation with six TV programs, more than three dozen books, and countless talk-show appearances in which she’s used her no-nonsense charm to, among other things, needle Arsenio Hall into saying the word “vagina.” Dr. Ruth denies she’s political — she even says she’s not a feminist — but that moment...
- 2/6/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Two of the world’s most influential women — pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall and lauded writer Joan Didion — are both on the receiving end of insightful new documentaries this year, both of which are hitting screens in the coming weeks. Brett Morgen’s “Jane” (which opened just last week to deservedly rave reviews) tracks the early years of Goodall’s work in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, combining both new interviews with the still-trailblazing scientist and early footage lensed by her former husband Hugo van Lawick (a celebrated animal photographer) to tell a full-bodied story about Goddall’s amazing ethic and her tremendous empathy for the animals she’s made the center of her life.
This week, Griffin Dunne’s look at Didion’s life, “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” will arrive on Netflix, following her own early years and her current state as a literary icon. Both...
This week, Griffin Dunne’s look at Didion’s life, “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” will arrive on Netflix, following her own early years and her current state as a literary icon. Both...
- 10/24/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Fox 2000 will tell the story of the trailblazing rise of Helen Gurley Brown, who became one of the first female editors of a national magazine when she took the reins at Cosmopolitan in 1965. The studio has optioned Enter Helen: The Rise And Reign Of The Original Cosmo Girl, the upcoming book by Brooke Hauser that HarperCollins will publish next year. Chernin Entertainment will produce, and Marisa Paiva is overseeing for the studio.
I’m picturing Mad Men, except with a ballsy woman who thrives in a male-dominated world, her currency a legion of women ready to rebel against the housewife stereotype in search of careers and sexual freedom. The story begins in the early ’60s when she wrote the blockbuster book Sex And The Single Girl and then took the top job at the then-floundering Cosmo. She remade the magazine, and in doing so, helped changed the perception to...
I’m picturing Mad Men, except with a ballsy woman who thrives in a male-dominated world, her currency a legion of women ready to rebel against the housewife stereotype in search of careers and sexual freedom. The story begins in the early ’60s when she wrote the blockbuster book Sex And The Single Girl and then took the top job at the then-floundering Cosmo. She remade the magazine, and in doing so, helped changed the perception to...
- 11/19/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
It's "the voice of a generation," from cover to cover — Lena Dunham's highly anticipated memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, hits bookstores Sept. 30 as an advice guide for today's young women, or her update of Helen Gurley Brown's Having It All. (Read an excerpt via The New Yorker, which ran a chapter of Dunham's therapy-related memories earlier this month.) As one of the buzziest — and priciest — book deals in recent memory, Not That Kind of Girl was optioned by Random House in Oct. 2012 for a reported $3.7 million after a 66-page proposal
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- 9/24/2014
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lena Dunham can add now officially add author to her growing list of job titles. On Monday, the Girls mastermind posted to Instagram a photo of herself proudly clutching a copy of her first book, Not That Kind of Girl. Taking its inspiration from feminist field guides like Helen Gurley Brown's Having It All, Not That Kind of Girl bills itself as an irreverent hybrid of memoir and advice book, in which Dunham "tells you what she's 'learned,'" according to the book's strategically scare-quoted subtitle. The cover features large type in black and fuchsia -- a nod to book jacket designs of the '60s and
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- 2/10/2014
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I didn’t know that writer blockitis was catching, but it must be, because just like my buddy and fellow columnist John Ostrander, I seem to be suffering from the same ailment today.
Signs and symptoms include sluggishness, an inability to form ideas, a lack of imagination, a desire to smash the computer, great interest in infomercials, and reading the Sunday New York Times.
Oh. Wait. Here’s something.
It’s an article by Brooke Barnes in the Arts & Leisure section, and it’s called “Save My Blockbuster!” Considering all the words and thoughts that have gone into discussing Man Of Steel by the columnists (including me) here at ComicMix since its opening on June 14, as well as the other comics, science fiction, and pop culture cinematic adventures that have already hit the screen (Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness, World War Z) or are still to come (The Lone Ranger,...
Signs and symptoms include sluggishness, an inability to form ideas, a lack of imagination, a desire to smash the computer, great interest in infomercials, and reading the Sunday New York Times.
Oh. Wait. Here’s something.
It’s an article by Brooke Barnes in the Arts & Leisure section, and it’s called “Save My Blockbuster!” Considering all the words and thoughts that have gone into discussing Man Of Steel by the columnists (including me) here at ComicMix since its opening on June 14, as well as the other comics, science fiction, and pop culture cinematic adventures that have already hit the screen (Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness, World War Z) or are still to come (The Lone Ranger,...
- 7/1/2013
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Girls star Lena Dunham has had her book proposal leaked online. Dunham sold her book to Random House for $$3.7 million (£2.3m) back in October. The proposal has since been leaked online through Gawker. Dunham's 66-page pitch, inspired by Helen Gurley Brown's Having It All, chronicles her life and her advice about work, dieting, travel and more. Selected sentences from the book, according to the (more)...
- 12/10/2012
- by By Sarah Luoma
- Digital Spy
The proposal for Lena Dunham's essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned, is now available for public perusal, thanks to Gawker, who acquired the document and put it online.
Random House announced in October that it bought the 26-year-old Girls creator's book, after a bidding war between publishers that brought the price up to $3.7 million. Dunham attracted the publishers' attention with a 66-page illustrated proposal, decked out in vintage trade-paperback style and modeled after the advice books of legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown.
Random House announced in October that it bought the 26-year-old Girls creator's book, after a bidding war between publishers that brought the price up to $3.7 million. Dunham attracted the publishers' attention with a 66-page illustrated proposal, decked out in vintage trade-paperback style and modeled after the advice books of legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown.
- 12/8/2012
- Rollingstone.com
Random House has posted 26-year-old "Girls" creator Lena Dunham's 66-page proposal for a Helen Gurley Brown advice book ala "Having It All," which yielded a heavy bidding war in October and a $3.7 million book deal. (That's $56,000 per page.) It also brooks comparison to "Bridget Jones Diary," as the proposal details Dunham's feelings about eating and dieting. Check it out below, complete with headings and illos, via Gawker. Some sample lines: When I was about nine I developed a terrible fear of being anorexic. Once I had a vegan dinner party which was chronicled for the style section of the New York Times. Once at poetry camp I saw my friend Joana in a bikini..... I immediately started seeing my mother's nutritionist, Vinnie. Every ice pop I ate, every movie I watched, every poem I wrote was tinged with a...
- 12/8/2012
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
As you may recall, the Lena Dunham Backlash Curve dipped again this fall when the Girls creator sold an advice book for a whopping $3.7 million. Two months later, Gawker has posted Dunham's book proposal in full, so that you might learn exactly what kind of advice is worth mid-seven figures. The 66-page, whimsically illustrated proposal includes anxious travel anecdotes, lessons learned from Dunham's therapist, the expression Fupa ("Fat Upper Pussy Area"), and an extensive retelling of the things that Lena ate during the last week of August, 2010. (Warning: There's also a rude pig photo inserted in the middle.) It is pretty much exactly what you would expect from a Lena Dunham send-up of Helen Gurley Brown. Anyway, it's here; have at it. ...
- 12/7/2012
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
Update: "Not That Kind of Girl" sells to Random House for $3.7 million. Earlier: Strike while the iron is hot. Following her four Emmy nominations, 26-year-old writer-director-actress Lena Dunham coninues her consummate overachieving with a book proposal worth $3.6 million, per Deadline New York. The outline for a collection of essays, currently titled "Not That Kind of Girl," is half-inspired by late "Cosmo" editor Helen Gurley Brown's "Having It All," although Dunham knowingly admits that Brown's notorious, feminist-ruffling advice book is a bit bonkers. True to the self-deprecating nature of Dunham's film and TV work, her "Not That Kind of Girl" proposal features outlines and sample chapters of personal tales focusing on such poignant-funny-embarrassing topics as her virginity loss, attempts to eat healthily and Woody Allen-style death obsessing. Hannah Horvath would be proud.
- 10/8/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Lena Dunham is reportedly shopping a book to New York publishers. The Girls creator apparently wants $$1 million (£619,233) for a book tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl, a modern update of the work of Helen Gurley Brown. A source close to Dunham told Page Six: "Instead of just auctioning off the book to the highest bidder and having them publish it, they are doing it in a unique way. (more)...
- 10/2/2012
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Tags: Pussy RiotRachel MaddowPaul RyanElizabeth BanksHolland TaylorMartha PlimptonIMDb
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Marina Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison, officially for hooliganism and having a concert at a Moscow Cathedral, but many believe their actual crime is pissing off Vladimir Putin. Gawker published their fierce and moving closing statements last week. I highly recommend them.
This Week in Ladybits
Feministing pointed to a remarkable article by an abortion provider on what’s at stake in the ongoing attempts to lock down your uterus.
Hey, Rachel Maddow, are your arms tired from hammering Paul Ryan all week? In addition to looking like Will Schuester’s evil twin, Ryan really, really, really does not care for ladies controlling their own ladybits. For example, he sponsored a bill that would make abortion illegal even in the case of rape or incest - and Kevin Drum over...
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Marina Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison, officially for hooliganism and having a concert at a Moscow Cathedral, but many believe their actual crime is pissing off Vladimir Putin. Gawker published their fierce and moving closing statements last week. I highly recommend them.
This Week in Ladybits
Feministing pointed to a remarkable article by an abortion provider on what’s at stake in the ongoing attempts to lock down your uterus.
Hey, Rachel Maddow, are your arms tired from hammering Paul Ryan all week? In addition to looking like Will Schuester’s evil twin, Ryan really, really, really does not care for ladies controlling their own ladybits. For example, he sponsored a bill that would make abortion illegal even in the case of rape or incest - and Kevin Drum over...
- 8/17/2012
- by Ali Davis
- AfterEllen.com
When 'Cosmopolitan' magazine's legendary editor Helen Gurley Brown, 90, passed away on Aug. 13, I lost a friend and mentor. But we all lost the woman who blew open the doors of opportunity for us all. You may not have ever met Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary Editor in Chief who created Cosmopolitan magazine in 1967, but she changed your life without you even knowing it. I got to know Helen when I had the honor of being named as her successor as editor of Cosmopolitan after Helen had led the magazine for more than 30 years. When you look at the opportunities that you have today to choose the college and career of your choice. The fact that you have equal relationships with the men you love , and that you can have a sex life that you enjoy -- you have to thank Helen. That's because when Helen was a young woman making...
- 8/15/2012
- by Bonnie Fuller
- HollywoodLife
The actor, famous for playing Arnold Horshack on the classic sitcom, suffered a heart attack in his sleep. Hollywood has lost yet another iconic TV actor. Ron Palillo, who most fans remember as Welcome Back Kotter's lovable buffoon Arnold Horshack, suffered a heart attack Aug. 13 in his Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., home and passed away. He is survived by his partner of 41 years, actor Joseph Gramm. After his four-year run on Kotter ended in 1979, Ron appeared on a number of hit TV shows, including One Life to Live and Cagney & Lacey. In case you aren't familiar with Ron — or you're just a fan who'd like to enjoy the good times — here's a famous clip from Welcome Back Kotter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd4VkBcG2PQ — Andy Swift Follow @AndySwift [Deadline]
More Tragic Passings: Legendary Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dead At 90 Legendary Composer Marvin Hamlisch Dies At 68 Kitty Wells, Country Music's First Female Superstar,...
More Tragic Passings: Legendary Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dead At 90 Legendary Composer Marvin Hamlisch Dies At 68 Kitty Wells, Country Music's First Female Superstar,...
- 8/14/2012
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
I am a Cosmo girl, thanks to Helen Gurley Brown, and proud of it. I once was photographed for Cosmopolitan in an editorial photograph with the logo, "What will happen to you if you become a Cosmo Girl." Well, opportunity came my way due to the credo of Helen Gurley Brown, who impressed upon her readers and models that we could look sexy, have a career and stay single for as long as we wished and still have an active sex life … like a man. As a result, I went on...
- 8/14/2012
- by Carole Mallory
- The Wrap
Helen Gurley Brown, the pioneering author of Sex and the Single Girl, the 1962 book which scandalized America with its stories of women having sex before marriage, and the founder of Cosmo magazine, died Monday at age 90. Two of her friends, who also helped change America’s view of sex, talked with The Hollywood Reporter about the influence of her life and work. Hugh Hefner founded Playboy magazine in 1953, spurring on the sexual revolution. Erica Jong coined the term “zipless f---” in Fear of Flying, her controversial 1973 novel about sex and relationships, and went on
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- 8/14/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Iconic Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown died this morning at the age of 90, according to The New York Times. Brown, 90, began her career as a secretary and advertising copywriter before writing the bestselling 1962 advice book Sex And The Single Girl. It established her as a leader of the sexual revolution, encouraging financial independence for women and speaking frankly about sex, and directly inspired work across decades to come—including Mad Men, whose Matthew Weiner has cited it as an influence, and its most obvious descendant, Sex And The City. (In many ways, Brown was the original Carrie ...
- 8/13/2012
- avclub.com
"Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere." Helen Gurley Brown, the famously forward writer and editor credited with revamping Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in New York City at age 90. Fans and celebs—including Lena Dunham, Ann Curry and Mayor Mike Bloomberg, took to Twitter to remember the progressive feminist. "Rip Helen Gurley Brown, you beautiful enigma. Confused but wholehearted love from mouseburgers & feminists everywhere.," wrote Dunham, the mastermind behind HBO's Girls. Curry tweeted: "'Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork..reading, writing, thinking..can.'-Helen Gurley Brown, once editor of Cosmo, has died at 90." Mayor...
- 8/13/2012
- E! Online
She may have left us at 90, but trailblazing, sex-positive Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown will live on with a trove of quotable material -- from her landmark 1962 bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, its sequels and beyond. Like womankind's answer to Hugh Hefner, Gurley Brown was as much a philosopher as she was a publisher, tossing off a stream of pithy and provocative meditations on what modern women can and should desire. Story: Legendary Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies at 90 In a word, she wrote the Joan Holloway playbook -- and though the Mad Men character is fiction, there were
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- 8/13/2012
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Helen Gurley Brown, who was the legendary Editor of 'Cosmopolitan' for 32 years, has died today, August 13, at the age of 90. Her death was announced in a press release from Hearst, the owner of Cosmopolitan. Helen was a mentor to HollywoodLife.com's Editor in Chief Bonnie Fuller. Gurley Brown first broke out with her best-selling book Sex and the Single Girl. In July 1965, she became the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and revolutionized the magazine and the publishing industry. She stepped down from the position in 1997 but remained in the masthead as editor in chief for Cosmopolitan International through 2012. After Helen stepped down, HollywoodLife.com's Editor in Chief Bonnie Fuller was named the Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan and worked closely with her. Frank A. Bennack, Jr., CEO of Hearst Corporation, said in the statement, "Helen Gurley Brown was an icon. Her formula for honest and straightforward advice about relationships, career and beauty revolutionized the magazine industry.
- 8/13/2012
- by Dory Larrabee
- HollywoodLife
Helen Gurley Brown, who was editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" for 32 years, died today after a brief hospitalization, the Hearst Corporation announced today (Aug. 13). She was 90.
The iconic publishing trailblazer led the feminist movement with her revolutionary "Sex and the Single Girl," published in 1962 -- a year before Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique."
With "Single Girl" and, later, "Cosmo," Gurley Brown advocated what become the model for "Sex and the City": encouraging single women to focus on their careers and enjoy sexual relationships outside of marriage.
Pics: Notable deaths of 2012
Hearst Magazines president David Carey called Gurley Brown "an inspiration [and] a true success story," adding, that her "her energy, enthusiasm and true passion for women's issues unleashed a platform for women worldwide. She brought the subject that every woman wanted to know about but nobody talked about, to life, literally, in Cosmo's pages."
A memorial is scheduled for this fall,...
The iconic publishing trailblazer led the feminist movement with her revolutionary "Sex and the Single Girl," published in 1962 -- a year before Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique."
With "Single Girl" and, later, "Cosmo," Gurley Brown advocated what become the model for "Sex and the City": encouraging single women to focus on their careers and enjoy sexual relationships outside of marriage.
Pics: Notable deaths of 2012
Hearst Magazines president David Carey called Gurley Brown "an inspiration [and] a true success story," adding, that her "her energy, enthusiasm and true passion for women's issues unleashed a platform for women worldwide. She brought the subject that every woman wanted to know about but nobody talked about, to life, literally, in Cosmo's pages."
A memorial is scheduled for this fall,...
- 8/13/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Birthday shoutouts go to Sebastian Stan (above) , who is 29, and Debi Mazar is 48. Ten out gay Olympians win gold at the games.Candy Crowley will become the first woman in 20 years to moderate a Presidential debate.Our thoughts go out to the family of feminist pioneer Helen Gurley Brown, who passed away today at the age of 90.Sean Hayes is joining Smash for a multi-episode arc, reuniting with Debra Messing.I never thought I'd live to see the day, but after decades on the air, The Price Is Right is hiring its first male model to point at prizes. Plinko!Michael Phelps, photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Louis Vuitton.
Speaking of, Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps Focus Of Steamy Olympic Fan Fiction.Guess what summer song will be covered by Glee on the season premiere next month? The adorable out Michael Arden talk to Huffington Post about his cabaret act and working with Charlie Sheen.
Speaking of, Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps Focus Of Steamy Olympic Fan Fiction.Guess what summer song will be covered by Glee on the season premiere next month? The adorable out Michael Arden talk to Huffington Post about his cabaret act and working with Charlie Sheen.
- 8/13/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Helen Gurley Brown, the groundbreaking editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and the bestselling author of Sex and the Single Girl, died Monday in New York. She was 90. An outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom, Brown clashed with both feminists and conservatives as she helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s with her monthly magazine that became the bible for "fun, fearless females." "Helen Gurley Brown was an icon. Her formula for honest and straightforward advice about relationships, career and beauty revolutionized the magazine industry," said Frank A. Bennack, Jr., CEO of Hearst Corporation. "She lived every day of her...
- 8/13/2012
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
Helen Gurley Brown, a pioneering journalist who helped reshape the image of American women during her 32 years as editor-in-chief of Cosomopolitian magazine, died Monday. Brown died at the McKeen Pavilion at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia after a brief hospitalization. She was 90. The news was delivered in an internal Hearst memo: Dear Hearst Colleague: I know you will join me in feelings of great sadness upon learning of the loss of our dear friend and colleague Helen Gurley Brown. Helen passed away this morning at the McKeen Pavilion at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia after a brief hospitalization.
- 8/13/2012
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in a hospital in Manhattan, according to Hearst. She was 90. She was the wife of the late Hollywood producer David Brown, whose films included Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy and The Verdict. They married in 1959 and were together for more than 50 years until Brown's death at age 93 on Feb. 1, 2010. The powerful pair were often the toast of the New York social scene, always impeccably dressed. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2012 Brown's 1962 best-selling book, Sex and the Single
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- 8/13/2012
- by Merle Ginsberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood producer and president of 20th Century Fox who made his name with Jaws
Despite the fact that the giant shadow of his father, the legendary movie mogul Darryl F Zanuck, loomed large over him for most of his life, Richard Zanuck, who has died of a heart attack aged 77, triumphantly overcame inferences of nepotism and wisecracks such as "the son also rises", to become one of the most successful Hollywood producers in the last 50 years. His reputation was due initially to Jaws (1975), among the highest grossing movies up to that time, and he was a key figure in launching the career of its director, Steven Spielberg. Zanuck was Oscar-nominated for Jaws and won the Academy Award for best picture with Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
Born in Los Angeles, Zanuck seemed destined to enter show business. He was the third child and only son of the co-founder and head of 20th Century Fox,...
Despite the fact that the giant shadow of his father, the legendary movie mogul Darryl F Zanuck, loomed large over him for most of his life, Richard Zanuck, who has died of a heart attack aged 77, triumphantly overcame inferences of nepotism and wisecracks such as "the son also rises", to become one of the most successful Hollywood producers in the last 50 years. His reputation was due initially to Jaws (1975), among the highest grossing movies up to that time, and he was a key figure in launching the career of its director, Steven Spielberg. Zanuck was Oscar-nominated for Jaws and won the Academy Award for best picture with Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
Born in Los Angeles, Zanuck seemed destined to enter show business. He was the third child and only son of the co-founder and head of 20th Century Fox,...
- 7/16/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
For The New Yorker, Lena Dunham has penned a wonderful remembrance of writer/director Nora Ephron, who passed away this week of leukemia. Not surprisingly, they knew each other and, last year, had become friends. Here’s Dunham on that friendship:
…I devoured her prose, her other film offerings, and became a fangirl right along with my mother, aunt, grandmother and every other intelligent woman in the tristate area. Which is why it was so momentous when, in March of 2011, I received a short, perfect e-mail from Ephron, saying she had seen and enjoyed my film and would like to take me to lunch.
I was twenty minutes early, and hid in a corner until I saw Nora enter, greet the hostess, and be shown to the best table in the place. I watched her order a Diet Coke, check her iPhone, and then I finally appeared at the table,...
…I devoured her prose, her other film offerings, and became a fangirl right along with my mother, aunt, grandmother and every other intelligent woman in the tristate area. Which is why it was so momentous when, in March of 2011, I received a short, perfect e-mail from Ephron, saying she had seen and enjoyed my film and would like to take me to lunch.
I was twenty minutes early, and hid in a corner until I saw Nora enter, greet the hostess, and be shown to the best table in the place. I watched her order a Diet Coke, check her iPhone, and then I finally appeared at the table,...
- 6/29/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
If you ever watch the women of Sterling Cooper navigate the sexual mores of the early 60s and think, simultaneously, "Thank god that's not me" and also that parts of that game must have been ever so slightly fun, you probably have Helen Gurley Brown to thank.
With her books "Sex and the Single Girl," "Sex and the Office," and "Sex and the New Single Girl" among others and as editor of Cosmopolitan from 1965 to 1997, Brown, who turns 90 today, basically created the Joan Holloway figure, the woman who uses her career as a means of accessing men, money, sex, great clothes, and all-around glamour.
Brown was criticized for encouraging this approach to life -- 70s feminists weren't huge fans. Still, it's hard to deny Brown's role in making America aware that single women had sex lives and that the sex they were having, and how they went about getting it,...
With her books "Sex and the Single Girl," "Sex and the Office," and "Sex and the New Single Girl" among others and as editor of Cosmopolitan from 1965 to 1997, Brown, who turns 90 today, basically created the Joan Holloway figure, the woman who uses her career as a means of accessing men, money, sex, great clothes, and all-around glamour.
Brown was criticized for encouraging this approach to life -- 70s feminists weren't huge fans. Still, it's hard to deny Brown's role in making America aware that single women had sex lives and that the sex they were having, and how they went about getting it,...
- 2/18/2012
- by Margaret Wheeler Johnson
- Huffington Post
Long-time Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown has gifted $30 million to Columbia University’s journalism school and Stanford University’s school of engineering to found an institute for media innovation, named after Gurley Brown and her late husband, producer David Brown. Each school will receive $12 million for “Institute activities” and an additional $6 million will go to Columbia to aid in the construction of a “signature space” adjacent to the current graduate school. "Great content needs useable technology," Gurley Brown said in a statement. "Sharing a language is where the magic happens. It’s...
- 1/30/2012
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films being made available by Netflix for instant streaming. Important Note: There may be some films that do not become available on the specified dates. This is merely a report of the most accurate release dates I can find, but is not directly confirmed by Netflix themselves.
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/29/2011
Synopsis: Since his tragic death from cancer at age 32, comedian Bill Hicks’s legend and stature have only grown, and this unique documentary tells his story, blending live footage, interviews and animation to fill in the details of a life cut short. A comic’s comic and unflagging critic of hypocrisy and cultural emptiness, Hicks was one of a kind, a Lenny Bruce for the late 20th century,...
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/29/2011
Synopsis: Since his tragic death from cancer at age 32, comedian Bill Hicks’s legend and stature have only grown, and this unique documentary tells his story, blending live footage, interviews and animation to fill in the details of a life cut short. A comic’s comic and unflagging critic of hypocrisy and cultural emptiness, Hicks was one of a kind, a Lenny Bruce for the late 20th century,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Last week UK Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone suggested that Christina Hendricks is a healthy role model for women, a statement that led a lot of the British media to cheer and jeer simultaneously in the way they do best, some agreeing whilst others suggesting that her figure is just as unrealistic to achieve as a size zero model. Regardless of this somewhat cyclical debate about weight and image Hendricks is now a name in the UK for more than her work on Mad Men and perfectly timed is her appearance on the cover of the September issue of British GQ. Hendricks looks amazing on the cover in a red dress whilst showing off her trademark curves and discusses Mad Men in detail in an excerpt that has been released prior to it hitting the newsstands this Thursday.
She talks about a variety of Mad Men subjects including the success of the show,...
She talks about a variety of Mad Men subjects including the success of the show,...
- 8/3/2010
- by emma fraser
- TVovermind.com
Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass team up again for a blistering thriller about the conspiracy over WMDs
Hollywood has made a habit of buying bestselling books on the strength of their catchy titles and then hiring writers to provide them with plots and dialogue. Joseph Heller undertook the task of giving flesh and wit to Helen Gurley Brown's self-help manual Sex and the Single Girl. Woody Allen performed a similar, rather more successful job on Dr David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask. Written by the Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, is an eye-opening account of the blundering operation of the Coalition Provisional Authority in its first year. It was optioned on publication four years ago, and the producers came together with director Paul Greengrass, writer Brian Helgeland...
Hollywood has made a habit of buying bestselling books on the strength of their catchy titles and then hiring writers to provide them with plots and dialogue. Joseph Heller undertook the task of giving flesh and wit to Helen Gurley Brown's self-help manual Sex and the Single Girl. Woody Allen performed a similar, rather more successful job on Dr David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask. Written by the Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, is an eye-opening account of the blundering operation of the Coalition Provisional Authority in its first year. It was optioned on publication four years ago, and the producers came together with director Paul Greengrass, writer Brian Helgeland...
- 3/14/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
In the spring of 2002 I found myself sailing solo on the Queen Elizabeth 2 from Southampton, England, to New York City, having invited Levenger customers on an author's cruise. The host of the dining room assigned me to a five-person table in the corner--a table that would be my life for six days, and also, as it turned out, change my life. A mother and daughter were already at the table when I walked up. The unassuming older woman introduced herself as Phyllis. Trying to be polite, I asked, "Oh, are you one of the authors?" "Yes, I write under the name P.D. James." My embarrassment at not recognizing the famous author didn't have a chance to linger because right then a couple arrived tableside. It was Helen Gurley Brown and her husband. Of course everyone knew Helen Gurley Brown, the...
- 3/8/2010
- by Steve Leveen
- Huffington Post
By Dylan Stableford
Steven Spielberg, Anderson Cooper and his mother Gloria Vanderbilt and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg were among those in attendance on Thursday at Hollywood legend David Brown's public funeral, held on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Brown, who produced a string of Hollywood hits including Spielberg's "Jaws," died at 93 on Monday after a long illness.
About 200 people packed into the standing-room-only service.
Helen Gurley Brown, his wife of more than...
Steven Spielberg, Anderson Cooper and his mother Gloria Vanderbilt and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg were among those in attendance on Thursday at Hollywood legend David Brown's public funeral, held on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Brown, who produced a string of Hollywood hits including Spielberg's "Jaws," died at 93 on Monday after a long illness.
About 200 people packed into the standing-room-only service.
Helen Gurley Brown, his wife of more than...
- 2/4/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
David Brown, producer of hits like A Few Good Men and Deep Impact, died at his home in New York City Sunday following a prolonged illness. He was 93. He is survived by his wife, long time editor of America's Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. The movie mogul's long career began in the 1950s - he was credited with discovering the script for the 1956 movie Love Me Tender, which brought music legend Elvis Presley to the big screen for the first time, reports hollywoodreporter.com. Brown went on to form a successful producing partnership with his long time colleague Richard D. ...
- 2/3/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
London, Feb 3 - David Brown, producer of hits like ‘A Few Good Men’ and ‘Deep Impact’, died at his home in New York City Sunday following a prolonged illness. He was 93.
He is survived by his wife, long time editor of America’s Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
The movie mogul’s long career began in the 1950s - he was credited with discovering the script for the 1956 movie ‘Love Me Tender’, which brought music legend Elvis Presley to the big screen for the first time, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Brown went on to form a successful producing partnership.
He is survived by his wife, long time editor of America’s Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
The movie mogul’s long career began in the 1950s - he was credited with discovering the script for the 1956 movie ‘Love Me Tender’, which brought music legend Elvis Presley to the big screen for the first time, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Brown went on to form a successful producing partnership.
- 2/3/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Hollywood producer with a string of hit films, including Jaws
For a man who went to Hollywood late and without much enthusiasm, the career of the film producer David Brown, who has died of kidney failure aged 93, was spectacular. He was responsible for putting on screen some of the most memorable and profitable film classics of recent times, including The Sting, which won an Oscar in 1973 for best film; Jaws (1975), which broke records and established its director Steven Spielberg; the highly praised Cocoon in 1985; Driving Miss Daisy, which won an Oscar for best picture in 1989; A Few Good Men, nominated as best film in 1992; the director Robert Altman's critically acclaimed 1992 Hollywood satire The Player; and Chocolat, nominated as best film of 2000. For the last of these, Brown was well into his 80s when he supervised filming on location in France.
Before going independent with his producer partner Richard Zanuck,...
For a man who went to Hollywood late and without much enthusiasm, the career of the film producer David Brown, who has died of kidney failure aged 93, was spectacular. He was responsible for putting on screen some of the most memorable and profitable film classics of recent times, including The Sting, which won an Oscar in 1973 for best film; Jaws (1975), which broke records and established its director Steven Spielberg; the highly praised Cocoon in 1985; Driving Miss Daisy, which won an Oscar for best picture in 1989; A Few Good Men, nominated as best film in 1992; the director Robert Altman's critically acclaimed 1992 Hollywood satire The Player; and Chocolat, nominated as best film of 2000. For the last of these, Brown was well into his 80s when he supervised filming on location in France.
Before going independent with his producer partner Richard Zanuck,...
- 2/2/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywood producer David Brown, who helped launch Steven Spielberg's career, has died at the age of 93.Brown passed away at his home in New York City on Sunday following a prolonged battle with ill health. The movie mogul's long running career began in the 1950s, when he was credited with discovering the script for 1956 movie Love Me Tender, which brought music legend Elvis Presley to the big screen for the first time.
Brown went on to form a successful producing partnership with his longtime colleague Richard D. Zanuck. Their company launched in the 1970s with two of Spielberg's early films - The Sugarland Express in 1974 and Jaws in 1975.
Brown formed his own production company, The Manhattan Project Ltd, in 1988 and went on to secure success with movie hits including A Few Good Men, Deep Impact, Angela's Ashes and Road to Perdition.
He also produced numerous Broadway musicals including Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
The 93 year old, along with Zanuck, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990.
Brown is survived by his wife, longtime editor of America's Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
Brown went on to form a successful producing partnership with his longtime colleague Richard D. Zanuck. Their company launched in the 1970s with two of Spielberg's early films - The Sugarland Express in 1974 and Jaws in 1975.
Brown formed his own production company, The Manhattan Project Ltd, in 1988 and went on to secure success with movie hits including A Few Good Men, Deep Impact, Angela's Ashes and Road to Perdition.
He also produced numerous Broadway musicals including Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
The 93 year old, along with Zanuck, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990.
Brown is survived by his wife, longtime editor of America's Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
- 2/2/2010
- WENN
Longtime movie producer David Brown, the man who bolstered the film careers of Elvis Presley, Steven Spielberg and George C. Scott, died today.
The industry legend passed away at his Manhattan home after a long illness at the age of 93. The producer of classics such as "Jaws," "The Sting" and "Driving Miss Daisy," Brown was a multi-talented man, whose business interests also included writing, editing and publishing in the field of journalism.
Brown was born in New York City in 1916 and after graduating from Stanford in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, he returned to New York to get his master's degree in the field from Columbia, obtaining it the next year. Early jobs included writing in San Francisco and at The Wall Street Journal. Brown also provided content for publications like Collier's, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post and The New York Times. He also held editorial...
The industry legend passed away at his Manhattan home after a long illness at the age of 93. The producer of classics such as "Jaws," "The Sting" and "Driving Miss Daisy," Brown was a multi-talented man, whose business interests also included writing, editing and publishing in the field of journalism.
Brown was born in New York City in 1916 and after graduating from Stanford in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, he returned to New York to get his master's degree in the field from Columbia, obtaining it the next year. Early jobs included writing in San Francisco and at The Wall Street Journal. Brown also provided content for publications like Collier's, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post and The New York Times. He also held editorial...
- 2/2/2010
- icelebz.com
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