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Martin Scorsese Set To Stir Cannes Again, 47 Years After ‘Taxi Driver’
When Martin Scorsese’s latest picture, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” premieres at the Cannes Picture Festival on May 20th, he will return to a festival with a long history.
“Taxi Driver,” Scorsese’s masterwork of urban alienation, premiered at Cannes in 1976. Its premiere was raucous in Cannes history, with boos and some walkouts due to the brutality in Scorsese’s drama about disillusioned New York cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro). Tennessee Williams, the jury president at the time, denounced the film.
“Films should not take a voluptuous pleasure in spilling blood and lingering on terrible cruelties as though one were at a Roman circus,” Williams stated.
Nonetheless, “Taxi Driver” received Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or. Scorsese and crew had already returned home after learning of Williams’ rejection, and their aspirations for a major award shattered.
“I got a call around five o’clock in the morning from (publicist) Marion Billings saying, ‘You’ve won the Palme d’Or,'” Scorsese later told The Hollywood Reporter. “We thought we might get best screenplay or best actor for De Niro, so it was very surprising.”
Scorsese’s appearance in Cannes for “Taxi Driver” was not his first. Two years prior, he premiered his breakthrough movie, “Mean Streets,” in Directors Fortnight, a selection of films from emerging directors that play outside Cannes’ main stage, the Palais des Festivals.
“Cannes was the international platform for ‘Mean Streets,’ a film I didn’t think would even get distributed,” Scorsese stated at a Cannes lecture celebrating the film’s debut in 2018.
“Taxi Driver,” Scorsese’s masterwork of urban alienation.
“My visit was almost perfect in terms of anonymity.” And he’s working hard to alter that!” he stated. “On the Croisette, I could go from table to table and meet actors, directors, and many others.” It was still a period of discovery, not only for new filmmakers, but also for older, underappreciated directors.”
Between “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver,” Cannes was instrumental in establishing Scorsese as a prominent filmmaking artist. Scorsese has maintained a close relationship with the festival ever since, though launching a film there has grown increasingly rare.
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” his eagerly anticipated adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling novel, is his first new film to screen in the official selection at Cannes since “After Hours” in 1986. Scorsese won best director for that film, a darkly comedic midnight New York adventure.
His next film, which will be released in theatres on October 6th by Apple in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, will not compete in Cannes. In announcing this year’s roster, Festival Director Thierry Frémaux said he pushed Scorsese to enter it for the Palme d’Or but was turned down.
Scorsese has frequently attended Cannes in other capacities in the interim.
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” which has a running time of 206 minutes, is about a series of Native American murders in 1920s Oklahoma and the FBI investigation that followed. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, and Tantoo Cardinal star in the film.
Scorsese has frequently attended Cannes in other capacities in the interim. He presided over the jury that awarded the Palme d’Or to Theo Angelopoulos’ “Eternity and a Day” in 1998. In 2002, he also presided over the Cinéfondation jury.
And Scorsese has frequently been associated with other films in Cannes, either as an executive producer (for Joanna Hogg’s two-part “The Souvenir”) or to unveil freshly restored classics by the Film Foundation, the organization he created. This year, the Film Foundation, in collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, will screen a previously unseen “Spellbound,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 thriller.
Before a 2009 Cannes screening of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 masterwork “The Red Shoes,” Scorsese stated that restoration is only important if people see the work.
“The more audiences see these films, the more they want to see other films like them, and then what happens is the audience changes, which means the films that are being made change,” Scorsese explained. “There is an audience for special and good films, for a different way of looking at the world — not just blockbusters.”
SOURCE – (AP)
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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone
Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.
In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.
As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.
Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.
“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”
“Kelce how does it feel that your brother is a f****t for dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason Kelce proceeded to slam this kids phone on the ground.
Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason. Wild scene in State College pic.twitter.com/3PEdZXWhSg
— Chives (@jarrett_daveler) November 2, 2024
Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.
Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.
“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.
The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.
The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.
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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.
On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.
“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.
However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.
Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.
Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”
He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.
Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.
Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.
According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.
“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.
The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.
SOURCE | CNN
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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79
Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.
Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”
Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.
Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.
She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.
In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.
Teri Garr, a comedian
Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”
She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”
Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.
“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.
The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”
Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.
A gift for spontaneous humor
Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.
She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.
Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.
During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.
Source: AP
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