We don’t like to get too political here on Meansheets, but did anybody catch Clint Eastwood’s speech at the GOP Convention last night? Whoa, I know this blog is a celebration of nostalgia — but I just want to erase last night and remember Clint the way Bill Gold did.
Oh well, I’m sure Eastwood will get plenty of chances to laugh it off when he does the press junket for his upcoming Trouble With the Curve.
Ari Graynor and Lauren Anne Miller, stars of For A Good Time, Call…, are saying that their new female buddy sex phone comedy was inspired by those 80s tandems of Bette Midler and Shelley Long, etc. (IMP)
The new minimalist one-sheet for the Brad Pitt thriller, Killing Them Softly, looks like it may have taken a page from the classic German poster for The Maltese Falcon by Hans Hillman.
Tony Scott, the director who brought us Top Gun, Crimson Tide, and a whole slew of popular thrillers from the 80s and 90s — as well as the younger brother of Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien) — has sadly died of an apparent suicide after jumping off a bridge in San Pedro, CA. (IMP)
…Or should we call this the money over-the-shoulder shot? (IMP)
As the 2012 Summer Olympic Games wraps up this weekend, I’d like to remind all you movie poster participants that you’re all winners in my book! (IMP)
Steven Spielberg’s highly-anticipated historical drama, Lincoln, comes out this fall — and Dreamworks has just released this first image of British/Irish-Anglo thespian, Daniel Day-Lewis, as the iconic American President (not the Vampire Hunter).
Marking the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times has a nice tribute, along with a very revealing encounter of the bombshell from director, Mike Nichols. (graphic by Istvan Banyai)
What do you get when you team up Blake Lively and Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of Drive? Gucci, of course!
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