Who will be included for the special “In Memoriam” segment for Sunday night’s Oscars 2021 ceremony? With last year’s Academy Awards happening over 14 months ago, it means an even larger number of film veterans have died. Producers will hopefully be offering a longer remembrance and not leaving out people for the sake of time.
Superstar actor Chadwick Boseman died late last summer and is a nominee as Best Actor for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Previous Oscar winners from acting categories show who will likely be honored include Sean Connery, Olivia de Havilland, Cloris Leachman and Christopher Plummer. Past acting nominees include Hal Holbrook, Ian Holm, Shirley Knight, George Segal, Cicely Tyson, Max von Sydow and Stuart Whitman.
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Almost all of the near 100 people on the list below were Academy members.
Superstar actor Chadwick Boseman died late last summer and is a nominee as Best Actor for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Previous Oscar winners from acting categories show who will likely be honored include Sean Connery, Olivia de Havilland, Cloris Leachman and Christopher Plummer. Past acting nominees include Hal Holbrook, Ian Holm, Shirley Knight, George Segal, Cicely Tyson, Max von Sydow and Stuart Whitman.
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Almost all of the near 100 people on the list below were Academy members.
- 4/23/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Al Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics “The Morning After” and “We May Never Love Like This Again,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
His death was announced by spokesperson Deborah Radel. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Dominating music charts – and Oscar’s Best Original Song category – in 1973 with “The Morning After,” from The Poseidon Adventure, and again in ’75 with “We May Never Love Like This Again” from The Towering Inferno, Kasha and Hirschhorn returned to film songwriting with 1977’s Disney classic Pete’s Dragon. The duo was Oscar-nominated for that song score and the song “Candle On The Water,” sung by Pete’s Dragon star Helen Reddy.
For his Broadway stage work, Kasha received Tony Award nominations for the scores of 1981’s Copperfield and 1982’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Both Broadway productions were short-lived,...
His death was announced by spokesperson Deborah Radel. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Dominating music charts – and Oscar’s Best Original Song category – in 1973 with “The Morning After,” from The Poseidon Adventure, and again in ’75 with “We May Never Love Like This Again” from The Towering Inferno, Kasha and Hirschhorn returned to film songwriting with 1977’s Disney classic Pete’s Dragon. The duo was Oscar-nominated for that song score and the song “Candle On The Water,” sung by Pete’s Dragon star Helen Reddy.
For his Broadway stage work, Kasha received Tony Award nominations for the scores of 1981’s Copperfield and 1982’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Both Broadway productions were short-lived,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Al Kasha, the songwriter who won Academy Awards in the 1970s for co-writing hit ballads for “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 83. No cause of death was immediately given.
As part of a songwriting team with Joel Hirschhorn, Kasha received two Tony nominations, four Golden Globe nods and a People’s Choice award, plus a pair of additional Oscar nominations for “Pete’s Dragon” in addition to the duo’s two wins for the Irwin Allen disaster movies.
“Write in Power,” tweeted Diane Warren, who succeeded Kasha as movie-theme royalty. “A great songwriter and lovely man,” she said, adding a broken-heart emoji.
“The Morning After,” from 1972’s “The Poseidon Adventure,” is still remembered as one of the more indelible movie themes of all time, either despite or because of the fact that it appeared within the body of the film, being sung on...
As part of a songwriting team with Joel Hirschhorn, Kasha received two Tony nominations, four Golden Globe nods and a People’s Choice award, plus a pair of additional Oscar nominations for “Pete’s Dragon” in addition to the duo’s two wins for the Irwin Allen disaster movies.
“Write in Power,” tweeted Diane Warren, who succeeded Kasha as movie-theme royalty. “A great songwriter and lovely man,” she said, adding a broken-heart emoji.
“The Morning After,” from 1972’s “The Poseidon Adventure,” is still remembered as one of the more indelible movie themes of all time, either despite or because of the fact that it appeared within the body of the film, being sung on...
- 9/15/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Reworking a cherished Christmastime property into the Disney mold of a musical animated feature, Legacy Releasing's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie" is suitable for younger children, but its limited opening theatrically in mid-October is a perfunctory move timed with a far more sensible Nov. 10 launch on video.
Produced and directed by William R. Kowalchuk, "Rudolph" boasts a stellar cast of actors providing the voices, including John Goodman as Santa Claus and Whoopi Goldberg as the evil Stormella, an icy queen of the north. Eric Idle, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds and Richard Simmons likewise bring classiness to the project.
In the scenario credited to Michael Aschner, Rudolph is born with a red schnozzle that glows when he's excited. Made fun of by his contemporaries, Rudolph is reassured by Santa himself that the nose is what makes him special. But even his jolliness can't stop poor Rudy from being disqualified after he wins a "Ben-Hur"-like sled race.
Down and feeling rejected, the lead runs away and teams up with a fox (Idle) and bear (Newhart) to rescue Rudolph's doefriend held captive by malicious Stormella. Eventually, as made famous in one of the most popular songs of the past 60-plus years, the resilient Young Buck saves Christmas when a blinding storm unleashed by Stormella makes Santa's mission perilous.
The visuals by Corland Animation are adequate for this gentle, upbeat project. The original songs by Al Kasha and Michael Lloyd, sung with the help of Goldberg ("I Hate Santa Claus"), Reynolds ("What About His Nose") and Idle ("It Could Be Worse") are likewise nothing special but get the job done. Clint Black's rendering of the titular classic is fairly routine, while the big ballad number "Show Me the Light" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes (who last teamed up on the hit "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing") is reminiscent of a dozen or so similar numbers in the past.
Indeed, "Rudolph" is amiably derivative but thankfully short on topical references, and it doesn't try to overwhelm one with style and technique, or distract one with anything resembling irreverence. Even Goldberg seems reined in, while Goodman is a natural as the legendary gift-giver from the North Pole.
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MOVIE
Legacy Releasing
GoodTimes Entertainment presents a Cayre Brothers production
Tundra Prods.
Credits: Producer-director: William R. Kowalchuk; Screenwriter: Michael Aschner; Executive producers: Andrew Greenberg, Seth Willenson; Songs, music and lyrics: Al Kasha, Michael Lloyd. Voices: Young Rudolph: Eric Pospisil; Grown-Up Rudolph: Kathleen Barr; Santa Claus: John Goodman;
Stormella: Whoopi Goldberg; Slyly the Fox: Eric Idle; Leonard the Polar Bear: Bob Newhart; Mrs. Santa Claus: Debbie Reynolds; Boone: Richard Simmons. MPAA rating: G. Color/stereo. Running time -- 83 minutes.
Produced and directed by William R. Kowalchuk, "Rudolph" boasts a stellar cast of actors providing the voices, including John Goodman as Santa Claus and Whoopi Goldberg as the evil Stormella, an icy queen of the north. Eric Idle, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds and Richard Simmons likewise bring classiness to the project.
In the scenario credited to Michael Aschner, Rudolph is born with a red schnozzle that glows when he's excited. Made fun of by his contemporaries, Rudolph is reassured by Santa himself that the nose is what makes him special. But even his jolliness can't stop poor Rudy from being disqualified after he wins a "Ben-Hur"-like sled race.
Down and feeling rejected, the lead runs away and teams up with a fox (Idle) and bear (Newhart) to rescue Rudolph's doefriend held captive by malicious Stormella. Eventually, as made famous in one of the most popular songs of the past 60-plus years, the resilient Young Buck saves Christmas when a blinding storm unleashed by Stormella makes Santa's mission perilous.
The visuals by Corland Animation are adequate for this gentle, upbeat project. The original songs by Al Kasha and Michael Lloyd, sung with the help of Goldberg ("I Hate Santa Claus"), Reynolds ("What About His Nose") and Idle ("It Could Be Worse") are likewise nothing special but get the job done. Clint Black's rendering of the titular classic is fairly routine, while the big ballad number "Show Me the Light" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes (who last teamed up on the hit "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing") is reminiscent of a dozen or so similar numbers in the past.
Indeed, "Rudolph" is amiably derivative but thankfully short on topical references, and it doesn't try to overwhelm one with style and technique, or distract one with anything resembling irreverence. Even Goldberg seems reined in, while Goodman is a natural as the legendary gift-giver from the North Pole.
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MOVIE
Legacy Releasing
GoodTimes Entertainment presents a Cayre Brothers production
Tundra Prods.
Credits: Producer-director: William R. Kowalchuk; Screenwriter: Michael Aschner; Executive producers: Andrew Greenberg, Seth Willenson; Songs, music and lyrics: Al Kasha, Michael Lloyd. Voices: Young Rudolph: Eric Pospisil; Grown-Up Rudolph: Kathleen Barr; Santa Claus: John Goodman;
Stormella: Whoopi Goldberg; Slyly the Fox: Eric Idle; Leonard the Polar Bear: Bob Newhart; Mrs. Santa Claus: Debbie Reynolds; Boone: Richard Simmons. MPAA rating: G. Color/stereo. Running time -- 83 minutes.
- 12/14/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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