Tag: film

If the financing comes through on his next acting project, former Agatha's: A Taste of Mystery actor and writer Gary Anthony Williams might just be flexing his improv skills again later this year. For three seasons now, the former "Malcolm in the Middle" actor has given voice to comic strip creator Aaron McGruder's outrageous Uncle Ruckus character on "The Boondocks," the popular Cartoon Network Adult Swim animated series.

G-CAPP founder Jane Fonda's cinematic career will be encased in concrete this Spring as the two-time Oscar winner is honored at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. The Atlanta-based cable channel tells Atlanta magazine, Fonda will be recognized in a public ceremony when the 75-year-old activist-actress sticks her hands and feet in wet cement in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre (since Fonda is starring in yoga DVDs for seniors these days, this likely won't be a problem).

This month, movie fans around the world are being introduced to the delights of Atlanta's landmark Starlight Drive In via Turner Classic Movie's annual "TCM Remembers" tribute film honoring those in the film industry who passed away in 2012. The drive in's Moreland Avenue marquee, six screens, projection room, snack bar and even the drive in's blue raspberry and strawberry slushy machines all have starring roles in the 5 minute and 37 second tribute.

During his 70-minute "A John Waters Christmas" show at the Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points Thursday evening, the 66-year-old Baltimore director of "Pink Flamingos" and "Hairspray" offered fans a guide to surviving the holidays. Literally. Case in point: Invitees to Waters' annual Christmas party next week in Baltimore should not ring the host in advance to inquire about who's catering the party and then disclose an allergy to wheat. "Please don't tell me about your food allergies," Waters told the crowd. "If you do, I may use them to kill you."

It's not even 11 a.m. on the set of Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz's living room in Midtown Atlanta and already Lawrence Carter-Long has the movie buff, along with director Sean Cameron and the crew completely charmed. Carter-Long, the public affairs specialist for the National Council on Disability, has flown in from Washington D.C. to co-host TCM's month-long film festival "The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film." Carter-Long curated the 21 films in the series and they range from 1946's post-World War II drama "The Best Years of Our Lives" to Jack Nicholson's Oscar-winning performance in 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" as a psychiatric patient who rebels against the institution's dire conditions. Nattily attired in a gray formal jacket, Carter-Long is artfully making a case for tonight's airing of "Charly," the now-dusty 1968 drama that won Cliff Robertson an Oscar playing an intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental (and highly questionable by today's standards) surgery to raise his IQ.

The good news? Thanks to Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, the source of that high-pitched shrieking heard this week throughout West Midtown has finally been identified. Actors Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth (Oh. My. God. So Gorgeous!!), who are here currently shooting "Catching Fire," the second "Hunger Games" blockbuster, were spotted by a young fan taking in a screening of their "Hunger Games" co-star Woody Harrelson's edgy new dark comedy "Seven Psychopaths" at Atlantic Station's Regal Stadium 16. The ever-gracious actors happily posed for a photo with "Hunger Games" fan Rebecca Foust outside the theater. She later became the coolest kid in her Twitter-sphere when she shared the photo on Twitter (photo by @rebeccaaaf at right) and Atlantic Station borrowed it for the retail/residential center's Instagram account.

There's a moment in director Kieran Turner's riveting new documentary "Jobriath A.D." when, if you can look past the spaceman suit, the crazy elf ears and the fact that "Midnight Special" guest host Gladys Knight butchers his name as she introduces him on the late-night NBC concert series, you can see a rock star blazing to life. Unfortunately for Jobriath, the talented kid born Bruce Wayne Campbell in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania that life would be short lived. The immaculately researched doc screens Thursday at 6:15 p.m. at Landmark Midtown Art Cinemas.

Actor Owen Wilson and his nose were among those checking out Whiskey Park's latest Saturday night party concept, Vintage inside the W Midtown at 14th and Peachtree last weekend. Our spies tell us Wilson was hanging with local act and party hosts The Whiskey Gentry. The actor and bandmates enjoyed bottle service inside the club's exclusive Crystal Lounge. Vintage rolls out week two of the fun this weekend.

Weary of watching grown folks run their reproductive organs into large rubber spheres on TV this summer? Beginning today, Atlanta's own Turner Classic Movies begins it's month-long Summer Under the Stars film festival with 24 hours of programming dedicated each day to a separate star. On August 4, TCM will air a day of Marilyn Monroe's films to mark the 50th anniversary of her death and a day of Elvis Presley's flicks on August 16 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of his passing.

Most of us will forever remember actor Andy Griffith as the kindly TV sheriff in the sleepy Southern town of Mayberry on "The Andy Griffith Show." Or your grandma's favorite TV attorney, "Matlock." Or perhaps the really creepy way that he was buried within seconds of drawing his last breath this week at age 86.