Denis Hopper
DENNIS HOPPER — actor, filmmaker, photographer, art collector, world-class burnout, first-rate survivor — never blew it. Unlike the villains and freaks he has played over the decades — the psycho with the mommy complex in “Blue Velvet,” the mad bomber with the grudge in “Speed” — he has made it through the good, the bad and some spectacularly terrible times. He rode out the golden age of Hollywood by roaring into a new movie era with “Easy Rider.” He hung out with James Dean, played Elizabeth Taylor’s son, acted for Quentin Tarantino. He has been rich and infamous, lost and found, the next big thing, the last man standing. More from New York Times
Good Morning, Mister Jenkins
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James Coburn
James Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career.He played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film Affliction (1998).
He appeared in some of Hollywoods best known films – The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Charade and in many television shows some would conside rthe golden age of American television – Bonanza, Perry Mason and others. (More from WikiPedia)
Vintage Coolness: Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson, born as Emanuel Goldenberg to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1903.
He began his acting career in 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. He made his film debut in a minor and uncredited role in 1916; in 1923 he made his named debut as E. G. Robinson in The Bright Shawl. One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930 but left his stage career that year and made 14 films in 1930-1932.
An acclaimed performance as the gangster Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (1931) led to him being typecast as a “tough guy” for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final (1931), Smart Money (1931; his only movie with James Cagney), Tiger Shark (1932), Kid Galahad (1937) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and A Slight Case of Murder and The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). In the 1940s, he expanded into psychological dramas including Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1945) and Scarlet Street (1945); but he continued to portray gangsters such as Johnny Rocco in John Huston’s Key Largo (1948), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart.
It’s all a mathematical formula where x = a dumb audience!
Modern Hollywood blockbusters follow a distinctive mathematical formula where similar camera shots aimed to maintain fickle audiences’ attention spans, a study found.
American researchers, who analysed the duration of every shot in 150 high-grossing films over the past seventy years, discovered that a certain length of scene would most likely grab our attention.
