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Andrew Johnson by The Hot Blog

It's been a long time since I have seen Andrew Johnson. We lived on opposite coasts, friendly primarily at film fests. There were years in which we chatted regularly on the phone or e-mailed a lot, often suggesting quality NY-based articles we could...
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Film Essent Re-Launches In MCN Blogspace by The Hot Blog

I want to formally welcome Kim Voynar's Film Essent blog to our in-house blogroll. Kim's work on her blog will be wider ranging than most movie blogs, getting into the nitty gritty of indies that you might find hard to find, feminism, activism...
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Paul Newman, 1/26/25 - 9/26/08 by The Hot Blog

I'm not quite ready to write on this. Unlike so many of my colleagues, I didn't start the sad assignment of writing this weeks ago. (And don't take that as a slap at any of them... just the nature of rumors and editors and deadlines.) Newman...
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Chef Is Dead... Long Live Chef by The Hot Blog

An iPhone type in is hardly enough of a chance to celebrate a bad mutha Scientologist (hush yo mouth) like Isaac Hayes. There are some great voices in this generation, but we haven't really found the deep, threateningly sexy, makes you happy just...
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Bernie Mac by The Hot Blog

Who said there were no second acts in American life? (rhetorical) Bernie Mac had a fairly successful career as a stand-up and occasional movie actor before Spike Lee made and released The Original Kings of Comedy through a major studio, Paramount. But...
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Wilmington On Pollack by The Hot Blog

Sydney Pollack, the man who directed Out of Africa The Way We Were, and Three Days of the Condor, was one of those Hollywood professionals who seemed bullet-proof -- so versatile and ubiquitous, and so talented in all three of his movie professions (director...
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Sydney Pollack, 73 by The Hot Blog

I will write more on this later... boarding a plane. But this long-anticipated loss is one of the big ones for the film world, in this year or any other. He was not only an important filmmaker, but an important supporter of filmmaking... the old and the...
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I Guess We Can Have That Gun Now by The Hot Blog

Charlton Heston was a real movie star. And he way overreached on the gun thing... not unlike The Church on birth control or The Left on smoking. I grew up in the end part of his stardom. He was a near-comedic character in the less hip years before Watergate...
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Another Loss... by The Hot Blog

Arthur C. Clarke passed away at the grand old age of 90 in his beloved Sri Lanka, where he lived for the last 52 years of his life. For movie fans, Clarke is "The 2001 Guy" and little else. David Fincher has been planning a film based on another...
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Truly, Madly, Minghella by The Hot Blog

It's a very sad morning. Anthony Minghella's first film, Truly, Madly, Deeply landed when he was 36. Just five features later, he is gone. Half of them were serious Oscar bait, generating 24 Oscar nominations and 10 wins, including Best Picture...
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Down The Corridor With Roy by The Hot Blog

For me, All That Jazz is one of the seminal movies of life. And for Roy Scheider, it was, as much as Jaws and Marathon Man , his quintessential role. Scheider was a minimalist in front of the camera... so much so that it sometimes seemed like he wasn't...
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Ledger by The Hot Blog

What can one say? He will be the new Kurt Cobain. The weirdness around The Dark Knight will be unpleasant and relentless. The loss of anyone that young, especially with so much going for him, is tragic, though perhaps less tragic than many of the soldiers...
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Dusty Cohl: In Memory by The Hot Blog

(When this posts to Roger's site, I will link instead... but for now...) Dusty Cohl: In Memory By Roger Ebert Nobody ever seemed to know what Dusty Cohl did for a living. He was a lawyer, and it was said he was "in real estate," but in over...
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A Great Guy Has Passed by The Hot Blog

Most of you won't know the name Dusty Cohl. But he was my friend and someone who was unendingly generous of spirit and effort towards me. He started the Toronto Film Festival with a few partners 33 years ago and was instrumental to building it, especially...
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