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Some are just naturals.

Surprising that Henry Thomas' career didn't just take off after ET!

This has been circulating around the internet of late. What a "Wonderful" Photo!

This is the Wrap Picnic for "It’s a Wonderful Life".

The camera was on a tripod about 10’ high. The photographer climbed a ladder and turned a handle. It was the first Widelux. Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart are on the left side. Once the lens was past them, they ran around behind to the right side, so they’re on both sides of the photograph. "It's a Wonderful Life" premiered in New York on 20 December 1946, 75 years ago.

Tap the image and see how many you can recognize!

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Happy birthday to a legend! Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award honoree Rita Moreno @theritamoreno is one of the few performers to achieve the rare honor of the EGOT. Her library of work ranges from Singin’ in the Rain (1952) to TV's Electric Company and One Day at a Time, to BOTH film versions of West Side Story (1961, 2021). The documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It is streaming now. #BOTD #treasure

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I must agree!

Has this been your experience?

To what do you attribute this phenomenon?

Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

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While we were impressed by a post recently made in the Director's Department where this guy depicted the role and responsibilities of the Director pretty well, we also found his video on the Producer well worth the view:

We welcome your thoughts and contributions!

While the Internet is filled with all degrees of information, good and bad regarding the craft of the Director. And even though we discovered this video on a site filled with misinformation about many of the jobs on a Film or TV set, we believe this guy describes the role and duties of the Director quite accurately!

What do you think?

I love this piece from the Cinema Shorthand Society:

On this date in 1981, "Ragtime" was released.
Jack Nicholson had to drop out of the film less than a month before filming began, leaving the producers without a name star. Director Milos Forman recruited James Cagney, who he had met the year before at a private dinner in Connecticut. He offered Cagney any part he wanted, including (facetiously) Evelyn Nesbitt.

According to Forman, Cagney initially agreed to play New York City Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo on two conditions: he would not sign a contract of any kind, and he reserved the right to change his mind and quit the film until three days before shooting began on his scenes.

Cagney had been advised by his doctors and caregivers that making a film at this point in his life was very important for his health. The actor never flew, so he and his wife took an ocean liner to London, where his scenes were filmed. Despite his numerous infirmities, he stayed on set during his fellow actors' close ups to give them line readings. Because of the presence of the ailing Cagney, in what became his final big screen appearance, the movie was officially exempted from the long-running actors' strike of the early 1980s. It was the only production to receive that honor.

Cagney used a wheelchair at the time of shooting. Most scenes show him sitting. A stand-in was used for scenes showing him on his feet, shot from the back to obscure the stand-in's face.

Cagney was 81 when he filmed this movie. His character, Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo, was 32 at the time in which the movie was set.
This film reunited Cagney with Pat O'Brien (photo below), his frequent co-star from the 1930s and 1940s. It was the last theatrical film for both of them. In addition, Forman hired Donald O'Connor at the request of Cagney. O'Connor had been having personal and professional problems, and Cagney wanted to help him.(IMDb)

When a legend speaks.... You must listen and learn!
Peter O'Toole on playing Lawrence

Is Alec Baldwin Going to Jail for the Death of Halyna Hutchins?

Here is some speculative legal opinions regarding the "Rust" shooting by a legal expert.
Note that he clarifies from the start that this is not based upon the ongoing investigation!

How ‘No Time To Die’ Pulled Off James Bond’s Opening Chase | Movies Insider.

Necessity is the mother of invention. This really shows the inventiveness of the makers of film.

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Positive move on the part of SAG-AFTRA, and well deserved!

Cherokee American actor and producer Wes Studi has a three-decade career that has included Dances With Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and Avatar. In 2019 he was presented an Academy Honorary Award for his body of work. #FeatureFriday #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Thirty years ago today (Nov 2), Denise and I attended a memorial service for Gene Roddenberry at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles. Several hundred friends, family members, and members of the Star Trek community were in attendance. It was a simple event featuring a few speakers, including Ray Bradbury, Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, and Christopher Knopf, who told the story of he and Gene attending a Dodgers baseball game in the early 1960s, at which Gene came up with the kernel of the idea that became Star Trek. Nichelle Nichols sang, and we stood solemnly as “Amazing Grace” played mournfully on bagpipes.
At the conclusion of the event, everyone moved outside, standing under the Los Angeles sky to witness an aircraft flyover. I wondered what kind of aircraft would participate in the salute to Gene Roddenberry, who had served as an aviator in World War II, and had later flown as a commercial pilot for Pan Am. We looked skyward and saw four tiny dots in the distance. They weren’t military jets, but they did not seem familiar. As they got closer, I could hear that they were propeller-driven craft, but had an unusual swept-wing design.
Then it hit me: They were "Starships," experimental business aircraft built by Beechcraft. One of the futuristic planes peeled off from the group, in the traditional aviators’ “missing man formation” salute to a fallen comrade. I could not imagine a more fitting salute to Star Trek’s creator. For some reason, my eyes felt moist. I looked around me. I was not alone.
PHOTO: Beech Starship in flight by Ken Mist. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/eyeno/5999381564/

Very nice mention on Facebook by Stepfanie Kramer on the passing of Peter Scolari

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Netflix & Amazon Film Crew EXPOSE Conditions On Set
Oct 7, 2021

Production workers at Netflix, Amazon and other major studios are forced to skip meals & bathroom breaks, working 12+ hr days at minimum wage. The workers, represented by IATSE, have hit a breaking point. This week they voted to authorize the biggest U.S. private sector strike in over 10 years.