Theoni V. Aldredge
Full name, Theoni Athanasios Vachlioti Aldredge; born August 22, 1932, in Salonika, Greece; daughter of Athanasios (an army general and politician) and Meropi (maiden name, Gregoriades) Vachlioti; immigrated to the United States, c. 1949; married Tom Aldredge (an actor), December 10, 1953. Addresses:Agent: The Gersh Agency, 232 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Read the rest of this entry »
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor.
Early life and career
He was born in New York City, New York as Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn, the son of Jewish American vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn, and his Irish-American Catholic wife, the former Hilda Keenan, but took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks’ film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the [...]
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies. Weaver is also a three-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. She [...]
Al Pacino
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful–my personal life suffers.
— Al Pacino
A NATIVE son of New York City’s East Harlem, Al Pacino was the only child of Salvatore (an insurance salesman) and Rose Pacino. His parents divorced when he was two, and Al and his mother moved in with her parents in [...]
Not Enough Vision
Take a year: 1977. Take a place: New York City. You stitch together a broad tapestry of the supercharged events that both clashed and co-existed one amazing summer: record heat, a World Series won by the Yankees, the peak of disco, pre-AIDS orgies in private clubs, the arrival of punk culture, Gotham-wide blackouts and their [...]
Sibling Rivalry
Fox Searchlight
Director–Edward Burns
Starring Edward Burns, Jennifer Aniston
Romance 96 min
Edward Burns’ second feature, on the heels of last year’s spunky The Brothers McMullen, is dragged a bit by a not-unusual sophomore slump in the budding career of a promising filmmaker.
The Answer is Maybe
One of my favorite movie stories from the 1980s concerns Steven Spielberg’s reaction to a rough cut of his production Gremlins. After watching the grisly fate that befalls the little buggers over the course of the film — everything from being nuked in a microwave to being blown to bits in a movie theater — [...]
Unfunny Old Men
Paramount
Director–Howard Deutch
Starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
Comedy 92 min
Did Neil Simon forget what made The Odd Couple funny? He must have, because his stiff new sequel to the 1965 hit play and Gene Saks’ 1968 film of the same have little in common besides two famous leads.
Night Falls, And Can’t Get Up
Paramount
Director–Sidney Lumet
Starring Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss
Drama 113 min
There is a creakiness and artificiality to Sidney Lumet’s Night Falls On Manhattan that hints at, more than anything, creative exhaustion. And why not? Lumet has been mining the courtroom drama and complementary topic of official corruption for an awfully long time, from 12 Angry Men to Guilty [...]
