Tom Reynolds
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
08/08/1866
Paddington, London, England |
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Actor Jason Robards, 78, Dies
August 01, 2001 11:48am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26, 2000 -- Actor Jason Robards, a two-time Oscar winner, died today at age 78 after a long battle with cancer. Robards appeared on stage and in motion pictures in a career that spanned 50 years in entertainment. Sally Dalton, a spokeswoman for Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Conn., confirmed to The Associated Press that the actor died at about 2:45 p.m. EDT. Robards, whose last silver screen appearance was as the ill father of a character played by Tom Cruise in the 1999 Pa
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It's the Emmys! (Well, Sort Of)
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28, 2000 – In case you missed it, and you probably did, the creative arts Primetime Emmy awards, honoring the best in behind-the-scenes technical work on TV, were handed out in a ceremony in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday. And Bruce Willis -- a movie star, may we stress – was the biggest winner, and the biggest news. The "Armageddon" action dude took his second career Emmy, for his charity guest stint on the NBC sitcom "Friends," wherein he played the father of David Schwimmer's g
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BOX OFFICE ESTIMATES FOR AUG. 25-27, 2000
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTThe cheerleaders of "Bring It On" easily topped the chart, despite tracking studies suggesting a closer race for first place with "The Art of War." Universal's opening of Beacon Pictures' PG-13-rated dark comedy about cheerleaders kicked off to a cheerful ESTIMATED $17.41 million at 2,380 theaters ($7,315 per theater). Its per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide release this weekend. "In an environment this year where there were lots of teen films that didn't w
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BOX OFFICE ESTIMATES FOR MAY 5-7, 2000
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTMoviegoers gave DreamWorks' "Gladiator" a thumbs-up vote of nearly $33 million. The R-rated DreamWorks' action adventure set in ancient Rome arrived to a spectacular ESTIMATED $32.7 million at 2,938 theaters ($11,130 per theater). Its per theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide or limited release this weekend. "It really is a great opening," DreamWorks distribution head Jim Tharp said Sunday morning. "I think we're so pleased with it because it's an R-rated movie, it h
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ROLE CALL: George Clooney's 'Fail Safe' Plan
December 31, 1899 7:00pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 4, 2000 -- Maybe it was that live broadcast of "E.R." Or perhaps the save-the-world-from-nuclear-holocaust heroics in "The Peacemaker." Whichever, big-screen George Clooney is set to produce a live small-screen staging of the Cold War drama "Fail Safe" on CBS on April 9. Based on the 1962 novel (released at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis), the story focuses on a man's Tom Clancy-style struggle to save the world from total annihilation. (Henry Fonda starred in t
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ROLE CALL: Trinity Ready For Trilogy
December 31, 1899 7:00pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., April 18, 2000 -- It's amazing what a $171 million blockbuster can do for your career. A few years ago, Carrie-Anne Moss was toiling in straight-to-video movies and TV shows such as "Models Inc." This week, she's under contract for two upcoming sequels to "The Matrix." Word comes today from Variety that Canadian-born Moss will reprise the character of Trinity -- a role in which she was so good, she even had us believing that Keanu Reeves was a messianic hero. Meanwhile, Mo
