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Post 1922 is a still from "Knights of the Round Table"? So beautiful. Not one actress played a better lovely lady Guinevere like Ava did.

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Malaysia Star
THE 81st edition of the Academy Awards will be beamed live worldwide from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night (Monday morning Malaysian time).
As like every year, the who’s who of Hollywood will be in attendance, gracing the red carpet first, bedecked in all their finery as their fans gather to cheer them.
But as with all awards, the Academy Awards or Oscars (as the event is often referred to) has not necessarily honoured the best-of-the-best. As a matter of fact, there are numerous occasions where movies and stars were said to have been “robbed of” the recognition they deserved.
According to http://www.filmsite.org/oscars.html, “like any other awards, recognition, or best lists, the top nominees and winners do not necessarily reflect or objectively measure the greatest that cinematic history has to offer”.
“The establishment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (and its awards system) has had a major effect and influence on the film industry, due to the enormous boost a nomination or award (for a film or actor) creates, by giving prestige and bottom-line profits to a studio or performer.
“The Academy has, with limited success, tried to limit the influences of pressure groups and promotion, box office gross receipts, and studio public relations and marketing on voting results.
“It has also attempted to limit votes for melodramatic sentimentality, atonement for past mistakes, personal popularity, and prestige or epic scale, but those influences have often had a decided effect upon the outcome of some of the poll results.
“Unfortunately, the critical worth, artistic vision, cultural influence, and innovative qualities of many films are not given the same voting weight. Especially since the 80s, moneymaking ‘formula-made’ blockbusters with glossy production values have often been crowd-pleasing titans (and Best Picture winners), but they haven’t necessarily been great films with depth or critical acclaim by any mea­sure,” it adds.
According to the site, among the great films that did not get even one Academy Award nomination were King Kong (1933), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), The Wild One (1953), The Misfits (1961), Dirty Harry (1971), and Play It Again, Sam (1972).
“The greatest and most famous classic adventure-fantasy (and part-horror) film of all time is King Kong. But this remarkable film received no Academy Awards nomination.
“It contained many revolutionary technical innovations for its time (rear projection, miniature models about 18 inches in height, trick photography, etc), and some of the most phenomenal stop-motion animation sequences and special effects ever filmed.
“The Postman Always Rings Twice is one of the best film noirs of all time – and one of the earliest prototypes of today’s ‘erotic thrillers’.
“This fatalistic film from director Tay Garnett is best known for one of the hottest portrayals of a sultry and seductive femme fatale – it is one of Lana Turner’s finest performances.
“Dirty Harry (portrayed by steely-eyed Clint Eastwood in a career-boosting role) is a seminal vigilante film of the decade, along with The French Connection (1971), the UK’s Get Carter (1971), Death Wish (1974) featuring a vengeful Charles Bronson, Walking Tall (1973), The Seven-Ups (1973), and the Australian film Mad Max (1979) with Mel Gibson.
“Countless other cop-action films have been made to copy this original law-and-order film that was one of the first to appear on movie screens. However, the influential film received no Academy Awards nomination,” the site says.
There were also great films that were nominated for Academy Awards but failed to pick up any Oscars. Among them was Rebel Without A Cause (1953).
“The colourful wide-screen Cinemascope feature is most remembered for being the film that best presented the talent of young charismatic cult star James Dean, shortly before his premature death in 1955.
“The film received only three Academy Awards nominations (without wins Best Supporting Actor (Sal Mineo), Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Wood), and Best Motion Picture Story (Nicholas Ray).
“Ironically, Dean was not nominated for his role in this film (although it eventually became his iconic career role),” it adds.
The site also has a list of great actors and actresses who never had the pride of displaying an Oscar on their mantelpieces. Among them are Robert Redford, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, and Peter O’Toole, who actually failed to win despite being nominated eight times!
Among the actresses who bombed at the Oscars although they were huge box office hits were screen legends like Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Deborah Kerr and Lana Turner.

 

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Fangoria
It is with great sadness that I write of the passing of actor Robert Quarry.

To most who read FANGORIA, he was COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (AIP 1970) who Returned (1971) before he found that DR PHIBES RISES AGAIN that same year, became a DEATHMASTER in 1972, met SUGAR HILL and went to the MADHOUSE in 1974.

He was more than that, though. Born Robert Walter Quarry on November 3, 1925, the highly intelligent Quarry (who it was said had an I.Q. of 168) graduated High School at age 14, and started his acting career soon after on radio. Living in Santa Rose, Quarry won an acting scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse. When Alfred Hitchcock came to Santa Rosa, Quarry auditioned and won the role of Theresa Wright’s boyfriend in the 1943 classic SHADOW OF A DOUBT. His role, however, was all but cut out (he swore he appeared a nanosecond mooning over the actress), but it led to his Hollywood career, as well as a lifelong friend ship with Ms Wright and Joseph Cotten.

Cotton all but adopted Quarry, letting him stay in his home and even letting his daughter date the young actor as he pursued his career. Besides all his work in radio, Quarry did several unbilled bits (often as a dancer, for he was quite accomplished) in film as well as studying acting. He sat at the feet of wunderkind Orson Welles once at a party in awe.

Working at the famous TURNABOUT THEATRE in California, he was too young to appreciate the advice of a fan of the Puppet/Melodrama theatre during a rehearsal. How many people could say they had Charlie Chaplin give them notes for a stage play?

A superb tennis player, he often played against and teamed with the major stars of the time, including longtime friend Katherine Hepburn. A studio contract player, actors were groomed ,given acting lessons, and other valuable training .Besides being put into unbilled roles to learn, Quarry was often sent out as a “date’ set up by the studios with their upcoming starlets and major actresses. Quarry’s dashing good looks, wit, and dancing skills made him a popular date.

One of the people he dated was Veronica Lake, who was romantically linked to the actor for quite a while. Indeed they toured in shows like PETER PAN and THE GRAMERCY GHOST , and Quarry often said that Lake was a superb Peter Pan (Quarry was Captain Darling/Captain Hook, prepping him for future villainous roles) .

He was signed to MGM briefly , but after a screen test for MOGAMBO (1953 ) resulted in him being rejected since he made the two main stars, Clark Gable AND Ava Gardner seem old (!), he went over to 20th CENTURY FOX ,where he fared little better. He got to go to Japan for HOUSE OF BAMBOO (Fox, 1955) to play bad Guy Robert Ryan’s gunsel *.

 

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San Francisco Chronicle

Nothing says glam like red lipstick. Designer Michael Kors, who showed a patriotic red, white and blue collection for spring, complemented the look with ruby lips.








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"This is the first time in 27 years I've done a red lip," he told Women's Wear Daily. Many other designers also felt the time was right to bring it back for the warmer weather. Models wore the siren shade at spring shows by Thakoon, Proenza Schouler, Sonia Rykiel, Louis Vuitton, John Galliano and Nina Ricci.
"Red just cheers you up," says Robert Williams, the Chanel makeup artist at Saks Fifth Avenue in Union Square. "The new reds are clear reds; they're not heavy or too matte."
Some of his favorite new colors include Manhunt, by Nars, "a sheer, clear red with not a lot of blue." He also likes Dior Addict's Red Flamenco, "a shimmery sunset red," and, of course, Chanel's Gypsy Scarlet, a soft red with just a touch of blue. "Ava Gardner would have worn this, danced the flamenco all night and still looked great in the morning."

 

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Times Online
What ’ave you ’ad for breakfast zis morning?” asks Albert Roux as he plonks himself beside me in the bar of the Rocpool Reserve hotel, Inverness. We are meeting for dinner but the issue of breakfast is very much on his mind. “Tomorrow morning, I shall ’ave kippers. Two kippers . . .” “With extra butter?” prompts the maitre d’ . “Wiz extra butter,” says Roux, savouring the thought.
Top chefs are notoriously temperamental and they don’t come more august than Roux. Le Gavroche, the London restaurant he opened with his brother Michel in 1967, was the first British establishment to win three Michelin stars. It pioneered French food in the UK and helped to change the eating habits of a generation. Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Robert Redford and Ava Gardner attended the opening. In a world where even leading restaurants can envy a fruit fly its longevity, Le Gavroche has been at its peak for more than four decades.

 

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Female First

Royalty, pop superstars and a veritable who’s who of the film world they were all fans of Peter Sellers, the star who was acclaimed as one of the greatest comedians of all time.

Prince Charles led the star-studded line-up of devotees. The heir to the British throne adored the humour of Sellers from the moment he heard him at work in classic radio comedy series, The Goon Show.

It’s also claimed that after a screening of The Return Of The Pink Panther that Charles told the actor that he had laughed so much and so hard that his tears had wet the dress of the lady sitting next to him!

The Prince’s late aunt, Princess Margaret was another Royal fan. Margaret even appeared in one of his comic routines in which Sellers disappeared behind a screen and then ‘magically’ re-appear as the princess.

Since Sellers received this Royal seal of approval it seems appropriate that he was also a favourite of The King! Elvis Presley got a big kick out of seeing this British star in action. So much so, that Elvis always had Sellers’ classic Pink Panther films on board his flight when he was on tour.

Liverpool’s uncrowned kings of pop, The Beatles were fans and friends who invited Sellers to drop in when they were recording at the legendary Abbey Road studios. An indication of the friendship is that the Fab Four presented Sellers with a special copy of early versions of the songs that were to appear on their famous White Album.

Apart from having a seal of royal approval, it might also be argued that many of today’s major movie comedy stars have, wittingly or not, carried forward the legacy of Peter Sellers. Mike Myers, for instance, could easily have his fondness for taking on multiple roles traced back to Sellers.
Dr Evil, from the Austin Powers hits, has an accent that you could say was inspired by the Sellers gift for funny voices. And, of course, Sellers also dreamed up a humorous Scotsman the extravagantly kilted Thrifty McTravel, who featured in a TWA commercial decades before Myers came up with the obese, tartan clad character, Fat Bastard.

Another obvious fan is Eddie Murphy. With his passion for portraying several different characters in his movies, Murphy has definitely taken a lead from Sellers. Another movie star who has also gone down that route is Mike Myers’ former Wayne’s World side-kick, Dana Carvey; while the madcap humour of Robin Williams also seems to owe a debt to the multi-talented Brit.

Interestingly, since he was a comedy performer who could adopt chameleon like qualities to transform himself into a wide variety of characters, Peter Sellers’ comedy favourite funny man was the po-faced Stan Laurel. Like Laurel, Sellers could use his seemingly rather ordinary features to great effect to create great comic moments.

Sellers had an interesting take on his talents. He once said rather self-deprecatingly, that if he had been asked to play himself on screen, he would not know what to do. 'I do not know who or what I am,' said the star whose gift for mimicry and physical comedy has had him rightly acclaimed as a comic genius.

Sellers was best known for his performances as the bungling, language twisting French cop Inspector Clouseau whom he portrayed so brilliantly in a series of movie comedies that included The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Revenge of the Pink Panther and Trail of the Pink Panther.

The unforgettable comedy created by Sellers in these films gave him international success. Yet he was the classic example of the star who couldn’t bear to watch himself go through his paces on the big screen. "I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image, was his self-critical view. 'I look like such an idiot, some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company.'

Of course this couldn’t have been further from the truth. The comedy star, born Richard Henry Sellers, was an enormously gifted performer. That was evident from his early days on radio when he teamed up with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine to create The Goons, a bizarre comedy show which had in Prince Charles one of its most devoted fans.

In the Goon Shows, Sellers and crew combined comedy and music he played the drums. He also managed to mix music and laughter successfully enough to have a few hits in the pop charts. He duetted with Sophia Loren on Goodness Gracious Me in 1960 and reached the top five. A year later Sellers and Loren proved that hit was not a flash in the pan when they took the comic number Bangers And Mash into the UK charts.
Sellers also had a couple of solo hit records - Any Old Iron in 1957 and a hilarious cover of The Beatles song A Hard Day's Night in 1965. The comic take on a Beatles classic was inspired since Sellers did it in the style of Laurence Olivier as Richard III!

Tragically, Peter Sellers died at a relatively young age 54 from heart disease. He had had health problems since suffering a series of heart attacks on the set of Kiss Me Stupid. And although he won Oscar nominations for his portrayal of Chauncey Gardener in Being There and a trio of roles mad German scientist, the US President and a ‘chocks away’ sort of RAF officer in Dr Strangelove, it is as Clouseau that Sellers is most affectionately remembered.

Remarkably though, the role of Clouseau was not originally intended to be one that Sellers would play. Director Blake Edwards had cast another man of many voices, Peter Ustinov, as the dotty detective in the first of The Pink Panther comedies, which was filmed in Rome.

But, at the last minute, Ustinov backed out of the production, which had already suffered from Ava Gardner having quit the all-star cast. 'We were desperate,' recalls Blake Edwards, who was not convinced that Sellers was the solution for his problems.

 

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