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Cecil B. De Mille

Name at birth: Cecil Blount de MilleEarly 20th century filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille was the living stereotype of the flamboyant, egotistical director, known especially for big screen epics such as The…

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti has been a busy character actor and sometime leading man in Hollywood since breaking through in the 1997 Howard Stern biopic Private Parts. Audiences today know him for his role as a…

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg directed many of the top-grossing films in Hollywood history, including the blockbusters Jaws (1975), E.T. (1982), and many more. His first TV movie, Duel (1971), was successful…

James Mason

English actor James Mason was a movie star for half a century in Britain and the United States, known especially for playing stylish, romantic villains, as in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (…

America's Sweethearts

Director:Joe RothWriters:Billy Crystal and Peter TolanColumbia; PG-13; 100 minutesRelease:7/01Cast:John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal, Julia Roberts America's Sweethearts is…

State and Main

Director/Writer: David Mamet Fine Line Features; R; 102 minutes Release: 12/00 Cast: Alec Baldwin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy David Mamet's…

The Quintessential Santa

Yes, Virginia, he is Santa Claus... 34th Street's Edmund Gwenn is still the king of Kringles. So which celluloid Santas are best suited for the part? Author Thompson says that Allen in…

The Winter Guest

Director: Alan Rickman Writers: Alan Rickman and Sharman Macdonald Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey Editor: Scott Thomas Music: Michael Kamen Production Designer…

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich lived through all the highs and lows of Hollywood in his long career as a writer, director, and auteur. The child of immigrants from Serbia and Austria, Peter Bogdanovich got his…

William Goldman

William Goldman was the prolific author and screenwriter whose most famous work may now be the 1987 movie The Princess Bride, based on his 1973 novel of the same name. William Goldman burst onto the…