Frank D. Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and director, died Saturday evening from natural causes. He was 89. Gilroy wrote the 1964 play The Subject Was Roses, for which he won the Tony Award for best play and the Pultizer Prize for drama. The play centers on a World War II veteran returning home to deal with family tension. He also worked in Hollywood, writing screenplays including the 1968 film adaptation of The Subject Was Roses. Other Hollywood film work included the screenplay for The Gallant Hours (1960), which starred James Cagney, along with writing and directing Desperate Characters (1971)
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- 9/13/2015
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filth
Written for the screen and directed by Jon S. Baird
UK, 2013
Though infused with an infectious anarchic energy, Filth confuses rudeness with rebellion. Even the gleeful excesses can’t save the film’s muddled script as it loses its narrative steam and plummets into melodrama. The wickedness feels less like provocation and more like a diversion to hide the wafer-thin story. In other words, Filth is all talk and no shock.
Adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, Filth plunges us into a poisonous world of sex, drugs and the rottenly droll. Desperate characters lurk around every corner, some fueled by fear and others by addiction. An intoxicating mix of nihilism and ambition makes everyone corruptible in Welsh’s Edinburgh, especially the police. And if anyone is drunk on nihilism and ambition, surely it’s Detective Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy).
It seems that Bruce is bucking...
Written for the screen and directed by Jon S. Baird
UK, 2013
Though infused with an infectious anarchic energy, Filth confuses rudeness with rebellion. Even the gleeful excesses can’t save the film’s muddled script as it loses its narrative steam and plummets into melodrama. The wickedness feels less like provocation and more like a diversion to hide the wafer-thin story. In other words, Filth is all talk and no shock.
Adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, Filth plunges us into a poisonous world of sex, drugs and the rottenly droll. Desperate characters lurk around every corner, some fueled by fear and others by addiction. An intoxicating mix of nihilism and ambition makes everyone corruptible in Welsh’s Edinburgh, especially the police. And if anyone is drunk on nihilism and ambition, surely it’s Detective Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy).
It seems that Bruce is bucking...
- 6/2/2014
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Max & Charlie Carver will play twin werewolves Ethan & Aiden! Teen Wolf's casting department is getting Desperate — sorry, I couldn't resist. HollywoodLife.com's sister site Deadline reports that Max and Charlie Carver, who starred as the grown-up versions of Lynette's twins on Desperate Housewives, are joining the MTV hit's third season. Their characters Ethan and Aiden, also twins, are described as being "dangerous charmers with brilliant minds." (So, basically, they're playing the exact opposite of their Desperate characters.) But Ethan and Aiden aren't the only new kids on the block! Neighbours star Adelaide Kane will play Cora, a character with "secrets ties to Beacon Hills," and Felisha Terrell will play Kali, an alpha wolf who's described as "ruthless and sexy." (Yikes!) Are you as pumped about this casting as I am? I was a big fan of the Scavo twins' shenanigans, so I'm looking forward to seeing the hell they can raise in Beacon Hills.
- 11/28/2012
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
American actor known for his comic roles in the films of Mel Brooks
Kenneth Mars, who has died aged 75 from pancreatic cancer, was cherished by audiences for his unhinged comic performances in two of the writer-director Mel Brooks's finest and funniest movies, The Producers (1968) and Young Frankenstein (1974). Along with performers including Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman, he created some of the most sublimely silly moments in Us film comedy.
For all that, he longed for his acting range to be recognised. Asked in 2001 what he would change about the perception of himself, he replied: "That I am only a comedic actor – I would like to be considered for more dramatic roles." Small wonder, then, that he cited as his favourite among his own work the little-seen 1971 drama Desperate Characters, in which he appeared opposite Shirley MacLaine and gave what the critic Roger Ebert called "a deeply felt,...
Kenneth Mars, who has died aged 75 from pancreatic cancer, was cherished by audiences for his unhinged comic performances in two of the writer-director Mel Brooks's finest and funniest movies, The Producers (1968) and Young Frankenstein (1974). Along with performers including Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman, he created some of the most sublimely silly moments in Us film comedy.
For all that, he longed for his acting range to be recognised. Asked in 2001 what he would change about the perception of himself, he replied: "That I am only a comedic actor – I would like to be considered for more dramatic roles." Small wonder, then, that he cited as his favourite among his own work the little-seen 1971 drama Desperate Characters, in which he appeared opposite Shirley MacLaine and gave what the critic Roger Ebert called "a deeply felt,...
- 2/16/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
10 Questions With Kenneth Mars
As part of a recurring feature I was doing then, about 10 years ago I did a “10 Questions” piece with the now late, great comic actor Kenneth Mars (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Fletch, The Little Mermaid and more). I thought I’d pull that piece from the vaults to mark his passing…
1. What is your favorite piece of music?
The operas La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, and anything by Gilbert and Sullivan.
2. What is your favorite film?
Anything by Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen’s Crimes & Misdemeanors, The Producers, and What’s Up Doc?.
3. What is your favorite TV program, past or current?
Current: Will and Grace. Past: He & She
4. What do you feel has been your most important professional accomplishment to date?
Acting in the film Desperate Characters, directed by Frank Gilroy.
5. Which project do you feel didn’t live up to what you envisioned?
A play...
As part of a recurring feature I was doing then, about 10 years ago I did a “10 Questions” piece with the now late, great comic actor Kenneth Mars (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Fletch, The Little Mermaid and more). I thought I’d pull that piece from the vaults to mark his passing…
1. What is your favorite piece of music?
The operas La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, and anything by Gilbert and Sullivan.
2. What is your favorite film?
Anything by Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen’s Crimes & Misdemeanors, The Producers, and What’s Up Doc?.
3. What is your favorite TV program, past or current?
Current: Will and Grace. Past: He & She
4. What do you feel has been your most important professional accomplishment to date?
Acting in the film Desperate Characters, directed by Frank Gilroy.
5. Which project do you feel didn’t live up to what you envisioned?
A play...
- 2/15/2011
- by UncaScroogeMcD
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