The Mirisch Corporation
An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
Highland Films
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
20th Century Fox
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Amy Aquino (Ak wee' no) represents the essence of what this feature is all about, as she may hold the record for most recurring characters being played concurrently at any one time. Although her stock has certainly risen since this profile was first introduced, her career has maintained a steady pace.
Warner Bros.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Danny Chambers is a former Child Psychologist from Portland Oregon. He has been earning his living as an actor the since moving to Los Angeles from Portland's renowned repertory theater community.
Woodfall Film Productions
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.
Why did you chose Ed Wood as a character? Tim...
quote-leftThe first film by him that I saw was "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1958). It had images I never forgot. Later he was elected ‘worst director of all time’. How can someone be elected as the worst? There are so many bad filmmakers. I started reading about his life and about the bizarre characters that surrounded him, like Bela Lugosi. Wood was always positive, even in the worst circumstances. When you read his letters, you realize he thought he was making great films, he thought he was making ‘Citizen Kane’. In a letter from his final days, Wood wrote that he led a great life and made great pictures and in fact, he was abandoned and dying of alcoholism. That’s what fascinates me about that character. He was very weird. I think it would be easy to copy an image by Alfred Hitchcock, not with his mastery, but it is possible to imitate it. But copying an image by Ed Wood is so hard. His images were very weird. You don’t know how he did them. Wood was something more special than just bad [laughs].
Horizon Pictures
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
You told me at the time "Rumble in the Bronx" opened that you didn't think that you were going to be able to find an American audience.
quote-leftYeah.
So, what happened?
quote-leftBecause, fifteen years ago [with 1980's "The Big Brawl"], I tried to get into the American market, doing the same thing, the same humor--I picked an American director, of course [Robert Clouse]--same fighting. They seemed to not accept it. So why suddenly can "Rumble" be released in America? I still doubted it, and I really scared box office not doing so good. Suddenly, big huge hit and I don't know. I still don't have the confidence how long this audience will continue to like this kind of movie, but seems I do have a big following. But how many people in America? There's almost two billion people, right?
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
