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Marilyn Chambers Is Dead by The Hot Blog

I have to say... I never really got it. Somehow, for me, the idea of Marilyn Chambers was sexier than any sex scene in which I saw her perform. She seemed kinda funny and sweet and sexy... and when it got all porno, that charm was gone. I recall her various...
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Natasha Richardspn Dies At 45 by The Hot Blog

I don't quite know where to put this one. She could be a wonderful actress. Not always. Her career included some great and awarded moments, but she was, first and last, a working actress, not an acting legend. Her family's history matters... but...
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Ron Silver Passes by The Hot Blog

There are so many things to discuss about Ron Silver. He was an extreme lefty who later went extreme right. He have great performances that paved the road for higher profile performances in Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune (Oscar for Jeremy Irons)...
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The New Times Curse by The Hot Blog

Andy Klein got laid off at New Times about 8 years ago. A little while later, New Times folded LA operations in an anti-competitve deal with Village Voice Media, which owned LA Weekly. Andy got the gig at City Beat, which tried to expand into what had...
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Paul Benedict, RIP by The Hot Blog

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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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