The Friars Club is involved. That means it's going to be a bawdy, no-holds-barred evening. Stevedores will blush like girls at their first prom. It'll cost you a few bucks, but it's for a great cause. (And think about it, face time with Betty White is priceless.)
Betty White via CharityBuzz.Com
Here's the scoop from Charity Buzz:
Bid now on 2 tickets to the Friars Club Roast of Betty White on May 16, 2012 plus meet the funny lady herself. The event will be held at the Sheraton Hotel in NYC.
Terms: Valid for 2 people on May 16, 2012 only. Cannot be resold or re-auctioned. Travel and accommodations are not included.
Donated by: The Friars Club and the one-and-only Betty White
SAG New Media and NATPE have partnered to provide Screen Actors Guild members a special registration discount to the three-day NATPE Market & Conference, the only American program market serving the worldwide television community.
Held annually, this year's conference will take place at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami FL, January 23–25.
SAG members get discounted registration by visiting the conference’s registration page and using promo code N12SAG to register for $650. That’s a savings of $600 off the NATPE Event Rate.
About SAG New Media
New Media is a multifaceted department within SAG, administering the SAG New Media and Interactive Media Agreements and advising and participating in all aspects of new media as it pertains to all SAG collective bargaining agreements. The Department also provides the Guild and its members valuable insights into the implications of emerging technology.
NATPE Poster, 2012
About NATPE
Celebrating over 40 years of service to the ever-evolving global television industry, NATPE continues to redefine itself and the services it provides to meet the needs of its members. Today’s industry encompasses so much more today than ever before and NATPE has remained flexible in an effort to encourage and support the progress of the industry and all of the platforms it now serves. What has remained constant is NATPE’s commitment to keeping members apprised of the changes occurring daily in the global media environment.
Q&A will be streamed live from Los Angeles after a screening of the film.
Email questions for Brad Pitt or Jonah Hill to LiveStream@sagfoundation.org or tweet to #SAGF.
Stars Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill have both received SAG Award nominations for their work in MONEYBALL.
Columbia Pictures’ Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) – once a would-be baseball superstar who, stung by the failure to live up to expectations on the field, turned his fiercely competitive nature to management. Heading into the 2002 season, Billy faces a dismal situation: his small-market Oakland A’s have lost their star players (again) to big market clubs (and their enormous salaries) and he is left to rebuild his team and compete with a third of their payroll.
Driven to win, Billy takes on the system by challenging the fundamental tenets of the game. He looks outside of baseball, to the dismissed theories of Bill James, and hires Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a brainy, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist.
Together they take on conventional wisdom with a willingness to reexamine everything and armed with computer driven statistical analysis long ignored by the baseball establishment. They reach imagination-defying conclusions and go after players overlooked and dismissed by the rest of baseball for being too odd, too old, too injured or too much trouble, but who all have key skills that are universally undervalued. Ultimately this experiment will lead not only to a change in the way the game is played, but to an outcome that would leave Billy with a new understanding that transcends the game and delivers him to a new place.
Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman, is directed by Bennett Miller. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. The story is written by Stan Chervin. Based on the book by Michael Lewis. The producers are Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt.
Associate Press is reporting that Threlkeld, a former news anchor and reporter for ABC and CBS, has been killed.
ABC News is reporting veteran news correspondent Richard Threlkeld has been killed in a car accident.
The 74-year-old Threlkeld died Friday morning in Amagansett, N.Y., and was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. He lived nearby in East Hampton.
Photo credit Newsday
Threlkeld, who worked for ABC News from 1982-89, spent the majority of his career at CBS News, retiring in 1998. He was a reporter, anchor and bureau chief for CBS for more than 25 years. He covered the Persian Gulf War and the Vietnam War, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial, and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
His final assignment at CBS was as Moscow correspondent.
WMAR TV's Justin Berk and Gene Norman, chief meteorologist at KHOU in Houston, are going at it this weekend as the Baltimore Ravens take on the Houston Texans in the second round of the NFL playoffs.
The terms of the bet: Berk’s crab cakes against Norman’s barbeque sauce, which the loser must eat on the air in the opposing team’s gear.
Norman noted that barbeque sauce “goes real good on dead bird.” “Have you met Ray Rice? Do you know what he can do to you?” Berk shot back.
I'm in the thick of the 2012 entertainment awards season and the screening copies of DVDs have been arriving from Screen Actors Guild in big, padded envelopes. And, I love it.
This year's motion picture award line-up is wonderfully diverse in terms of story-line, era, location, costume...
Because there is such an interesting mix of movies to view, I'm thinking that making a different cocktail for each movie screening would enhance the experience just a tad. Here's what I'm planning.
My Week with Marilyn - I can't find—nor could I ever afford—Monroe's favorite libation: Dom Pérignon 1953. So, a French 75 seems appropriate.
2 ounces London dry gin
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1/2 ounce lemon juice
5 ounces Brut champagne
J Edgar - What could be better than a Pink Lady? Not only delicious, but outrageous, pink, smooth, and creamy.
1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz applejack
1/4 oz lemon juice
1-2 dashes grenadine
1 egg white
maraschino cherry for garnish
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the cherry.
The Artist - Perfect for this film would be one of my favorites. The classic Sidecar.
Shake well with cracked ice:
1 1/4 oz cognac
1/2 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
Strain into chilled, sugar-rimmed cocktail glass
The Descendants - No question, Piña Coladas.
4 oz. fresh pineapple juice
3 oz. rum
2 oz. coconut cream
2 cups crushed ice
Pour all of the ingredients into a blender. Blend briefly at high speed. Strain into a glass and serve. Garnish with a slice of fresh pineapple and a cherry.
Iron Lady - Pimms Cup No. 1
with soda and a big squeeze of lime in a tall glass filled with ice. I learned about Pimms Cup at Joe Allen restaurant in Los Angeles in the 1970s. (Gary was one hell of a bartender.)
Midnight in Paris - Absinthe.
I have it, I have the slotted spoons, I have the sugar cubes. Enough said.
The Help - A Highball.
Any highball made with bourbon or corn whisky.
Moneyball - Beer.
Any cheap beer.
A Better Life - Tequila.
Una botella grande de Tequila por favor.
You can take it from there, film fans. Let me know what you'd mix-up for the movie, Bridesmaids. I just cannot go there. (Ok, ok, I can. Fuzzy Navels all around.)
Here's cheers to the nominees and the future winners. Clink, clink. I'm having a Manhattan.
Maryland State Senate President Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael Busch weigh in on this and other important issues, on tonight's 2-hour special taped edition of today's Annapolis Summit!
Tune in from 5:00 to 7:00 to hear what's in store for the 2012 Maryland Legislative Session! Click here to read an Associated Press article about today's event!
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This news makes me happy. The documentary, Carol Channing: Larger than Life, took the Tribeca Film Festival by storm. Reviews came in as raves. The film is now being released. The movie poster is shown below.
This documentary seems like a wonderful fit for Baltimore's Charles Theatre (I'm thinking of John Waters as a speaker). Let's hope Baltimore books this gem. Here's the release from Entertainment One:
Entertainment One US will release CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE in New York and Los Angeles on January 20, 2012, with additional markets to follow.
The film, directed by Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, Some Assembly Required, Gotta Dance), examines the life and career of Tony Award-winning Broadway legend, Carol Channing – her extraordinary stage life, her offstage struggles and survival and the extraordinary storybook romance that found her reunited with her junior high school sweetheart after over 70 years.
Carol Channing's life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. In CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE, director Berinstein and co-writer and editor Adam Zucker capture the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon – both onstage and off, past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend.
“My first Broadway show was Hello, Dolly! at the age of five,” commented producer and director Berinstein. “I adored her astonishing brilliance on stage, screen and television, but it is Carol’s life behind-the-curtain that had me completely convinced that hers is a life that must be told.”
Carol Channing has been a Broadway star since stopping the show in the 1948 Broadway revue, Lend an Ear. The following year, she landed on the cover of Time Magazine and won international acclaim her riotous performance as Lorelei Lee in the musical, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Her Broadway appearances included Show Girl, The Vamp, Wonderful Town, The Millionairess and Four on a Garden.
In 1964, she created the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly!, winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She would play the role of Dolly over 5,000 times throughout the world, without missing a performance. Channing also received a Special Tony Award in 1968 and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995.
Channing received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Her other films include Paid in Full, The First Traveling Saleslady, Skidoo, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Her TV specials include “Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl,” “Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway” and the White Queen in “Alice Through the Looking Glass”. Other credits include appearances on “What’s My Line?” “I’ve Got a Secret,” “Password,” “Hollywood Squares”; variety shows, including “The Dean Martin Show,” “The Red Skelton Show,” “The Milton Berle Show,” “Rowen & Martin’s Laugh-In,” “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Muppet Show,” as well as episodes of Playhouse 90, “The Love Boat,” “Magnum P.I.” “The Nanny,” “Touched By an Angel,” “The Drew Carey Show” and “Family Guy”.
Channing made headlines in 2003 when she married her junior high school sweetheart, businessman Harry Kulijian after a 70 year separation. She also released her best selling memoirs, Just Lucky I Guess and has been touring in her one woman show, The First Eighty Years are the Hardest. She released a new CD, For Heaven Sake in 2010, included many of the songs she loved as a child, as well as spirituals taught to her by her father.
Dori Berinstein is a three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and an award-winning directed and producer of film and television. Documentary features directed and produced by Dori include Gotta Dance (2008), which won the Audience Award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival; Some Assembly Required (2007), which won Best Feature Documentary at the International Family Film Festival and ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007), which won Best Feature Documentary from the Florida Film Festival and was one of the International Documentary Association’s Top 5 Films of 2007.
As a Broadway producer, her credits include Legally Blonde (Best Musical Olivier Award), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Best Musical Tony Award), The Crucible, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Best Revival of a Play Tony Award), Fool Moon (Special Tony Award), Flower Drum Song, Enchanted April and Golden Child.
In addition to Channing and Kulijian, the film includes interviews with Jerry Herman, Lily Tomlin, Chita Rivera, Barbara Walters, Tommy Tune, Tyne Daly, Debbie Reynolds, Phyllis Diller, Loni Anderson, JoAnne Worley and Bruce Vilanch.
CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE is written and edited by Adam Zucker. Director of Photography is Rob Vanalkemade and music is by Craig Sharmat. The film was co-produced by B. Harlan Boll.
Maryland Lawyers for the Arts begins the New Year with a new name, a new web site, a new logo, and new offices, the organization announced Jan. 5.
Now in its 26th year of providing pro bono legal referrals and legal education to Maryland artists, the nonprofit will immediately begin operating under the name Maryland VOLUNTEER Lawyers for the Arts (MdVLA).
The change is meant to clarify the volunteer nature of the organization's mission. Despite the fact that MdVLA has been helping Maryland artists since 1985, some people remained unclear about its purpose and questions like "Is it a group of lawyers who like art?" were common.
While the organization's volunteer attorneys do in fact like art, the key point is that they like it so much they're willing to volunteer their time, energies, and expertise to help artists. While artists pay a small administrative fee to help support the organization's activities, they don't have to pay their volunteer attorneys a single red cent.
MdVLA couldn't function without our volunteer lawyers and we wanted to make that clear. So we added the word to our name-hence, Maryland VOLUNTEER Lawyers for the Arts.
That change led us to our new acronym and logo — Md|VLA — which in turn led to the need for a new and improved web site, www.mdvla.org. The new, more user-friendly site, expertly designed and built by Steven Seebode, spotlights just a few of the artists helped by MdVLA volunteer attorneys.
The new virtual address also coincides with MdVLA's real-world move to a new office in the amazing new community of nonprofits at Union Mill,
1500 Union Ave Suite 1330 Baltimore, MD 21211 410.752.1633.
The new space opens up a world of possibilities for MdVLA, with space for events and workshops, as well as collaborations with the other nonprofit tenants. Please visit us at our new online home and bookmark it to stay up with workshops and events. Our phone number stays the same at 410.752.1633, but the email is now info@mdvla.org. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@MarylandVLA).
My thanks to your organization for all of your good work. Maryland's arts community wouldn't be the same without your help and assistance!
A view from my home office on North Charles Street. Baltimore's winter sunsets are vibrant; Baltimore's summer skies are the best for photographing puffy, white clouds.
For Screen Actors Guild Members in the Baltimore - Washington, DC area:
Here's the information via Screen Actors Guild:
Fox Searchlight Pictures Invites You and a Guest to a Screening of
THE DESCENDANTS
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS:
OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE GEORGE CLOONEY
OUTSTANDING CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE GEORGE CLOONEY, SHAILENE WOODLEY, BEAU BRIDGES, ROBERT FORSTER, JUDY GREER, MATTHEW LILLARD
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012 7:30 AMC Theatres Georgetown 14 3111 K Street NW WASHINGTON, DC
Please arrive at least 30 minutes early. Your guild card will admit you and a guest to this screening, based on seating availability. This film runs 115 minutes and is Rated R by the MPAA.
This screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording device into the theatre and you consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, including camera phones you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device you consent to your immediate removal from the theatre and forfeiture of the device. Unauthorized recording will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.
Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer, provides a wonderful story of their meeting and marriage:
Carol Channing married her junior high school sweetheart, Harry Kullijian, on Saturday, seven decades after they broke up.
Channing, best known for her role in Broadway's "Hello, Dolly," and Kullijian, a land developer from Modesto, were raised in San Francisco, where they attended Aptos Junior High School together. Her mother eventually put an end to their relationship because she thought her daughter was too forward, friends said.
The two went on to different high schools and separate lives, but never forgot each other.
Channing's memories of Kullijian were so fond that she included them in her recent autobiography, "Just Lucky, I Guess." Apparently, it was fortunate that she did.
A mutual friend, Mervin Morris of Atherton, founder of Mervyn's department stores, happened to be reading the book on an airplane on Jan. 29. He and his wife, Roz, had become acquainted with Channing because they both own homes near Palm Springs.
Harry Kullijian died Monday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA the day before what would have been his 92nd birthday.
Channing and Kullijian married in a matter of months after their reunion.... Channing was 82 and Kullijian 83.
One of my favorite—and lesser known—Carol Channing songs is this sweet little gem from the movie, Thoroughly Modern Mille:
We love you Miss Channing. You are in our thoughts and prayers. We are sorry for your loss.
Academy President Tom Sherak addressed the chosen tagline, "Celebrate the movies in all of us," in a release that accompanied the poster.
"Whether it's a first date or a holiday gathering with friends or family, movies are a big part of our memory," said Sherak. "The Academy Awards not only honor the excellence of these movies, but also celebrate what they mean to us as a culture and to each of us individually."
The 84th Annual Academy Awards will be broadcast Sunday, February 26th 2012 on ABC. The live telecast begins at 7 PM, EST.
Here is the full release:
Academy "Celebrates the Movies" as Poster Art Kicks Off Oscar® Campaign
Beverly Hills, CA (December 28, 2011) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the poster for the 84th Academy Awards®. The art features the iconic Oscar statuette alongside memorable images from eight films spanning eight decades: "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Casablanca" (1943), "Giant" (1956), "The Sound of Music" (1965), "The Godfather" (1972), "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), "Forrest Gump" (1994) and "Gladiator" (2000). All the films featured on the poster won the Academy Award® for Best Picture, except "Giant," for which George Stevens won the Oscar for Directing.
Supported by the tagline "Celebrate the movies in all of us," the design is meant to evoke the emotional connections we all have with the movies. "Whether it's a first date or a holiday gathering with friends or family, movies are a big part of our memory," said Academy President Tom Sherak. "The Academy Awards not only honor the excellence of these movies, but also celebrate what they mean to us as a culture and to each of us individually."
The public is encouraged to download the poster image to use as wallpaper and profile icons, and to share with friends. The image is available on the Academy's website, www.oscars.org/poster.
The artwork was created by award-winning graphic designer Anthony Goldschmidt, and Mark and Karen Crawford of the design firm Blood&Chocolate.
Posters will be available to theaters in the U.S. and internationally, along with a theatrical trailer, which will begin screening on January 6.
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
The former 'Growing Pains' actress has been tapped to headline Syfy’s original movie, 'Arachnoquake,' the cable network announced Tuesday.
Bug Hall ('The Little Rascals'), Ethan Phillips ('Star Trek: Voyager'), and Edward Furlong ('Terminator 2: Judgment Day') round out the cast in the telepic that features giant albino spiders, freed from their ancient subterranean prison who go on a killing spree in New Orleans after a massive earthquake.
January 2012, Gold will appear on ABC’s Celebrity Wife Swap, where she’ll be swapping homes with Carnie Wilson. The unscripted series bows Tuesday, Jan. 3.
Weatherman, Henry DeCarlo (KTLA 5, Los Angeles) has become a bit of a Diva if you ask me. His segment gets trimmed a bit and Missy Henry throws a fit. Live.
Maybe the Cal State Fullerton graduate thinks he's still reading sports scores at that little station in Palm Springs. He's certainly not acting like a player in the 2nd largest television market in the country.
DeCarlo Graphic courtesy KTLA 5
DeCarlo is the manager of both of his son's little league teams. I hope he doesn't take his hysterics to the field of play.
The Weinstein Company invites you to see The Artist on the big screen:
The Artist
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky is the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies. Cast also includes James Cromwell, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, and Penelope Ann Miller. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius.
Screening details:
Washington D.C.
Tuesday, December 20
7:30pm
Landmark E Street - 555 11th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
*Please be sure to state the date, time and city of the screening that you are planning to attend when you RSVP as well as if you will be bringing a guest.
If you have questions about our screening program, please contact us at (646) 862-3835 or awards@weinsteinco.com. This Film is Rated PG-13 - Please arrive at least 30-minutes before the screening.
Best Drama The Descendants The Help Hugo The Ides of March Moneyball War Horse
Best Comedy/Musical 50/50 The Artist Bridesmaids Midnight in Paris My Week with Marilyn
Best Animated Film Rango The Adventures of Timtin Puss in Boots Winnie the Pooh Arthur Christmas
Best Actor in a Drama George Clooney, The Descendants Brad Pitt, Moneyball Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March Michael Fassbender, Shame Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Jean Dujardin, The Artist Brendan Gleeson, The Guard Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50 Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love. Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn Albert Brooks, Drive Jonah Hill, Moneyball Christopher Plummer, Beginners Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Best Actress in a Drama Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs Viola Davis, The Help Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Jodie Foster, Carnage Charlize Theron, Young Adult Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn Kate Winslet, Carnage
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Shailene Woodley, The Descendants Octavia Spencer, The Help Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs Berenice Bejo, The Artist Jessica Chastain, The Help
Best Director Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris George Clooney, The Ides of March Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Alexander Payne, The Descendants Martin Scorsese, Hugo
TELEVISION
Best TV Comedy or Musical Enlightened Episodes Glee Modern Family New Girl
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Cinema Verite Downton Abbey The Hour Mildred Pierce Too Big To Fail
Best Actor in a TV Drama Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire Damian Lewis, Homeland Jeremy Irons, The Borgias Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Best Actor in a TV Musical or Comedy Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock David Duchovny, Californication Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory Thomas Jane, Hung Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Best Supporting Actor in TV Series, Mini-Series, or Made-for-TV Movie Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Paul Giamatti, Too Big To Fail Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce Tim Robbins, Cinema Verite Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Best Actress in a TV Drama Claire Danes, Homeland Mireille Enos, The Killing Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife Madeleine Stowe, Revenge Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness
Best Actress in a TV Musical or Comedy Laura Dern, Enlightened Zooey Deschanel, New Girl Tina Fey, 30 Rock Laura Linney, The Big C Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Best Supporting Actress in TV Series, Mini-Series, or Made-for-TV Movie Jessica Lange, American Horror Story Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey Sofia Vergara, Modern Family Evan Rachel Wood, Mildred Pierce
