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George Lucas Hails Maverick Filmmakers, Teases Indy 4 | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/18/2007
George Lucas is feeling good about television. In his life post-Star Wars franchise, the legendary writer, director, producer, special-effects czar and mega-mogul is still embracing his legacy ? the far-far-away galaxy he created for six films that changed the cinematic universe and became a part of world pop culture. But now a new medium will bear the message. In a conversation with TV Guide executive editor Steve Sonsky that began with a discussion of Fog City Mavericks, a Starz documentary... read more
Directors with the (Oscar) Golden Touch, and More Questions | Ask FlickChick | 5/10/2007
What does Prison Break owe Sometime a Great Notion, and more questions.Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk! Question: I was wondering which director has "coached" the most actors to Oscar nominations and/or wins? I'm thinking it's Clint Eastwood. — Diane FlickChick: Nowhere near. Five actors have earned best actor/actress Oscar recognition after appearing in Clint Eastwood movies: Hilary Swank won for Million... read more
At the Movies: Batman Recasts Kate with Maggie | Today's News: Our Take | 3/9/2007
Per Variety, Maggie Gyllenhaal is in final talks to play Rachel Dawes, the Katie Holmes role in Batman Begins, in the follow-up The Dark Knight.... Clint Eastwood is looking to direct and Angelina Jolie may star in The Changeling, about a woman whose son is abducted and then returned. Or is he?.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Walt Disney will introduce its first African-American animated heroine with The Frog Princess, pegged as "an American fairy tale" about a girl who lives in New Orleans'... read more
A Likable Host for a Long, Low-Key Oscars | Roush Dispatch | 2/26/2007
The one thing I realized as Oscar night droned on and on for nearly four hours: If I ever had to choose someone to be stranded with for hours on end (say, like those poor Jet Blue passengers a few weeks ago), it would have to be Ellen DeGeneres.Keeping her cool, and her genuine aura of chipper goodwill, throughout three costume changes (in suits from red velvet to all-white to royal blue) and what seemed once again like an overindulgent excess of movie montages (we definitely could have done... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/16/2007
It's often said that the Golden Globes is the most fun and relaxed of all award shows, but does that prove especially tr read more
Eastwood, Al Gore and YouTube Deemed Significant | Today's News: Our Take | 12/28/2006
The American Film Institute on Wednesday detailed what it is calling the year's Moments of Significance, eight developments that impacted the worlds of TV and film. And they are:— Clint Eastwood's double whammy of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima— The passing of filmmaker Robert Altman— The influence of documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Iraq in Fragments— The rise of YouTube— The migration of TV news to this "Internet" thing— The death... read more
National Board of Review Loves Clint's Letters | Today's News: Our Take | 12/7/2006
Speaking of the awards season... Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, the companion film to this fall's earlier-released Flags of our Fathers, has been named best picture by the National Board of Review. Martin Scorsese was named best director for The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) nabbed the top acting prizes. Volver won best foreign film, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was declared top documentary, and Cars led the animated-entries... read more
At the Movies: Prison Breaker Is Up a Creek | Today's News: Our Take | 11/16/2006
Holy hunkitude! Prison Break's Dominic Purcell and Desperate Housewives' Jesse Metcalfe are brothers on a revenge mission who become ensnared in an occult experiment in Town Creek, a vampire flick directed by Joel Schumacher.... Per Variety, Warner Bros. is moving up the release date of Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood's companion pic to Flags of Our Fathers, from Feb. 9 to Dec. 20, making it, too, eligible for awards consideration. read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/7/2006
Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) pays tribute to a cinema giant in Turner Classic Movies' read more
Televisionary | 1/3/2006
I used to watch Rawhide as a kid, and I remember trail boss Gil Favor, my favorite guy on the show, leaving near read more
FlickChick | 9/8/2005
Can you explain what an animated film director does? Does he or she put together pieces of different pictures drawn by a read more
FlickChick | 9/1/2005
What is a spaghetti western, how does it differ from just a regular western?The short answer is that Spaghetti Westerns read more
Televisionary | 8/25/2005
Can you tell me who played Hunter on the old TV series by that name? Thank you.That was ex-All-Pro defensive end Fred read more
FlickChick | 6/2/2005
Question: Is Clint Eastwood going to make another Dirty Harry movie? — Susan Flickchick: It's always dangerous to sa read more
Roush Dispatch | 5/19/2005
CBS didn't really need Aretha Franklin to come out and sing "Respect" on the Carnegie Hall stage as the climax of its bu read more
FlickChick | 5/5/2005
Question: People often quote the line "Play it again, Sam" from Casablanca, even though no one ever says that exact line read more
FlickChick | 3/17/2005
Question: I'm such a longtime Clint Eastwood fan that I should know the answer to my own question, but when did he start read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/28/2005
In case you didn't hear, Clint Eastwood's boxing saga Million Dollar Baby KO'd a potential Aviator sweep at Sunday's Aca read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 2/28/2005
This year, whether Oscar winners accepted their kudos on the Kodak Theater's stage or from the balcony, the middle of th read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/28/2005
In case you didn't hear, Clint Eastwood's boxing saga Million Dollar Baby KO'd a potential Aviator sweep at Sunday's Aca read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/25/2005
Clint Eastwood's boxing saga Million Dollar Baby KO'd an Aviator sweep at Sunday's Academy Awards, winning best picture, read more
Hilary Swank Defends Her Baby | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 2/10/2005
Actress Hilary Swank is basking in her well-deserved best actress Oscar nomination for Million Dollar Baby. However, the current controversy surrounding Baby's big plot twist sure isn't conducive to a festive mood. Spoiler alert! If you haven't seen Clint Eastwood's film, you dunno what we're talking about and you don't wanna know, stop reading now. Still reading? OK, then TV Guide Online shall proceed without fear of grumpy "You ruined the movie for me" e-mail. Some advocates for the ... read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/31/2005
The Directors Guild of America made Clint Eastwood's day Saturday, bestowing its highest honor on the filmmaker for his read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/25/2005
Martin Scorsese's reign as the Susan Lucci of the movie world may finally be coming to an end. The Oscar-challenged dire read more
The Watercooler | 1/17/2005
SUNDAY For Damian Holbrook's complete minute-by-minute account of the Golden Globes, scroll down to the bottom of the p read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/10/2005
Clint Eastwood's acclaimed boxing drama Million Dollar Baby was voted the best film of the year Saturday at the National read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/7/2005
Nominees for the Directors Guild of America Awards were announced yesterday, and they are: Clint Eastwood for Million Do read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/14/2004
The kudos keep rolling in for Sideways. Just hours after the acclaimed road-trip indie scored seven Golden Globe nominat read more
Televisionary | 11/2/2004
Question: I guess this is a question for you rather than FlickChick because it involves Evening Shade, but it's really a read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/13/2004
Clint Eastwood has settled a $10 million libel lawsuit against Clint: The Life and Legend author Patrick McGilligan and read more
FlickChick | 8/12/2004
Question: I saw a B&W Japanese film about a lone samurai without a cause to fight for and what happens when he arrives a read more
Today's News: My Take | 7/9/2004
Hollywood power players Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg are joining forces to bring the Battle of Iwo Jima to the bi read more
Soaps News | 6/30/2004
Due to Wimbledon, Passions will be preempted on July 1 and 2. It's a case of "I don't" as Soapnet presents Wedding I read more
Soaps News | 6/28/2004
Due to Wimbledon, Passions will be preempted on July 1 and 2. It's a case of "I don't" as Soapnet presents Wedding I read more
Soaps News | 6/25/2004
Due to Wimbledon, Passions will be preempted on July 1 and 2. It's a case of "I don't" as Soapnet presents Wedding I read more
Soaps News | 6/25/2004
Due to Wimbledon, Passions will be preempted on July 1 and 2. It's a case of "I don't" as Soapnet presents Wedding I read more
Today's News: My Take | 6/14/2004
Hollywood's acting elite turned out en masse Thursday to watch Meryl Streep (of 19 West 12th Street) receive a lifetime read more
FlickChick | 6/3/2004
Question: How many actors have been in two separate trilogies? — Jon Flickchick: First, I'm going to assume that you read more
FlickChick | 6/3/2004
Question: How many actors have been in two separate trilogies? — Jon Flickchick: First, I'm going to assume that you read more
Eli Wallach's Ugly Memories | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/20/2004
It's the film Quentin Tarantino wishes he had directed. Stylish, flamboyant and groundbreaking, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is what '60s cinema was all about. This week, the cult flick rides in with a new DVD ? including a fistful of extras that'd make the Man with No Name crack a smile. Actor Eli Wallach, who co-starred as the comically cruel Tuco in the film, reminisces with TV Guide Online about star Clint Eastwood, director Sergio Leone and the hazards of uncooked potatoes. TV ... read more
FlickChick | 4/29/2004
Question: Back in the early 1960s, there was a TV program where birds did the work in a fake town — sparrows, crows read more
Ask Matt | 4/5/2004
Question: I am 63 and have loved Westerns all my life. I have seen and loved almost all of them. I waited in anticipatio read more
Today's News: My Take | 3/31/2004
Clint Eastwood has chosen Million Dollar Baby as his follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama Mystic River. Eastwood will di read more
The Watercooler | 3/22/2004
SUNDAY Inside the Actors Studio: Barbra Streisand I make my living writing about TV, so I'm well aware of how hypocr read more
The Watercooler | 3/1/2004
SUNDAY The 76th Annual Academy Awards and Countdown To The Oscars 2004 OK, here we go (and you thought the telecast read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/28/2004
Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated drama Mystic River was named the best movie for grown-ups by AARP The Magazine. The mag read more
Ask Matt | 1/19/2004
Question: I was recently conversing with an older friend about television and movies and what's cult and what's cool and read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/7/2004
The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for its 56th annual DGA Awards, and the finalists for outstanding read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/6/2004
The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for its 56th annual DGA Awards, and the finalists for outstanding read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/5/2004
Actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood — whose latest directorial effort, Mystic River, is an Oscar shoo-in, will receive a read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/17/2003
Clint Eastwood's wrenching drama Mystic River and the feel-good indie In America topped the nominees for the 2003 Critic read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/4/2003
Clint Eastwood's Mystic River got a major Oscar boost Wednesday when the The National Board of Review named the acclaime read more
FlickChick | 10/16/2003
Question: This movie might be kind of hard for you to find considering that I don't remember the names of any of the act read more
Today's News: My Take | 10/13/2003
Quentin Tarantino's bloody big-screen comeback Kill Bill butchered the box office competition over the weekend, opening read more
Today's News: My Take | 10/7/2003
Another Bridges of Madison County landmark has been damaged by arson. A suspicious fire tore through the farmhouse featu read more
Roush Review | 9/22/2003
No wonder so many of our best film directors worship the blues. Raw, jubilant, steeped in the pain and exaltation of read more
FlickChick | 6/26/2003
Question: A couple of months ago Space Cowboys was on USA cable, and though I managed to see it twice, both times I was read more
FlickChick | 6/19/2003
Question: I recently read that The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, was being made into a movie. Can you tell me whether th read more
Today's News: My Take | 3/12/2003
Space Cowboys star Clint Eastwood is heading back into orbit. The legendary thesp has acquired feature film rights to Ja read more
Today's News: My Take | 3/10/2003
Chicago is on a freakin' roll! The Oscar frontrunner was the big winner at last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, pick read more
Televisionary | 2/18/2003
Question: Who is the biggest movie star that started out in TV? My guess is either Bruce Willis or Tom Hanks. Are there read more
FlickChick | 1/30/2003
Question: I've heard the name Terence Stamp mentioned for the part of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter sequels, but isn't read more
FlickChick | 1/16/2003
Question: I've heard that there was a movie in which Clint Eastwood was killed by a whore, supposedly before the Unforgi read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/30/2002
Clint Eastwood has filed a $10 million libel lawsuit against author Patrick McGilligan and publisher St. Martin's Press read more
Today's News: My Take | 11/12/2002
Clint Eastwood has been selected to receive the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award — the group's most pres read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/11/2002
Back in the '80s, TV critics called Fred Dryer "the poor man's Clint Eastwood" for his Dirty Harry-ish acting on NBC's H read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/12/2002
You think Vin Diesel was cocky before? Just wait. The former bouncer's new spy thriller XXX opened at the top of the box read more
Soaps News | 8/9/2002
Wanda De Jesus (ex-Santana, Santa Barbara) returns to the screen in Clint Eastwood's new thriller Blood Work as Graciela read more
Today's News: My Take | 6/28/2002
Clint Eastwood will direct Sean Penn and possibly Kevin Bacon in the big screen drama Mystic River, according to The Hol read more
FlickChick | 6/13/2002
Question: At the end of the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox, there's a credit that says "Watch for Firefox Down." What hap read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/16/2002
Clint Eastwood was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission on Monday... Frasier's Kelsey Gramme read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/3/2002
At a recent Hollywood soiree, we couldn't help but notice Tom Selleck's famous mustache sprouting handlebars. What gives read more
Soaps Q&A | 3/13/2002
Dear Soaps,I watched a movie called Heartbreak Ridge last week. Call me crazy, but I swear I saw a younger Dr. David Hay read more
FlickChick | 3/7/2002
Question: Where is David Soul these days? Entertainment Tonight recently did one of their "Where are they now?" bits on read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/28/2001
Make no mistake, it takes a strong man — think Denzel Washington in Crimson Tide, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven, and read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 10/25/2001
Best known as Howard Stern's wife in Private Parts, Mary McCormack has followed up that role with a string of second-ban read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/22/2001
Bruce Springsteen, he whose name is synonymous with "Born In The USA," on Friday night came to mourn with the USA. As t read more
Televisionary | 9/18/2001
Question: Can you tell me who played Hunter in the old TV series by that name? Thank you. — AJ Televisionary: That w read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/5/2001
Back in the '80s, Lorenzo Lamas intoxicated viewers as studly playboy Lance Cumson on Falcon Crest, the classic primetim read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 2/16/2001
Cancellation can be a tough pill to swallow, even coming from a former teen idol who happens to be the program's creator read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/14/2000
With its outrageous violence and film noir style, The Way of the Gun might not be the family film of the year. But for s read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/25/2000
One-time Playgirl centerfold Burt Reynolds admits his sex appeal just isn't what it used to be. The 64-year-old actor te read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/14/2000
Clint Eastwood has a message to moviegoers who are becoming increasingly frustrated with trailers that spoil the best pa read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/14/2000
Two films tied for top honors at the box office over the weekend, but there was only one true winner. In their second we read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/11/2000
Harvard-educated actor Tommy Lee Jones has a confession to make ? he's a cheater! The actor tells TV Guide Online that h read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/4/2000
They may be up to the task of saving the world, but could the fearless foursome from Space Cowboys endure 39 days on a t read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/7/2000
What does Mama Wayans think of the raunchy comedy displayed by sons Marlon and Shawn in Scary Movie? "She said 'It wa read more