It has all the elements of a big-screen blockbuster — a beautiful actress, a handsome leading man, a brooding fifth wheel and a moment of sickening terror with the most horrific consequences. Using in-depth firsthand accounts from new witnesses, the new podcast series Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood investigates the night Hollywood’s leading lady went missing while on a yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner, and their friend Christopher Walken on the evening of November 28, 1981 — only to tragically turn up dead. To preview Fatal Voyage, Dylan Howard, host of the popular All Rise podcast, scored a world exclusive interview with Natalie’s sister, Lana Wood. Dylan Howard: Lana, what do you think happened? Lana Wood: I believe that there was a horrible fight onboard the Splendour. I think the evidence is also not just what Dennis Davern, the captain, has said, but the broken wine bottle and...
- 7/20/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
It has all the elements of a big-screen blockbuster — a beautiful actress, a handsome leading man, a brooding fifth wheel and a moment of sickening terror with the most horrific consequences. Using in-depth firsthand accounts from new witnesses, the new podcast series Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood investigates the night Hollywood’s leading lady went missing while on a yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner, and their friend Christopher Walken on the evening of November 28, 1981 — only to tragically turn up dead. To preview Fatal Voyage, Dylan Howard, host of the popular All Rise podcast, scored a world exclusive interview with Natalie’s sister, Lana Wood. Dylan Howard: Lana, what do you think happened? Lana Wood: I believe that there was a horrible fight onboard the Splendour. I think the evidence is also not just what Dennis Davern, the captain, has said, but the broken wine bottle and...
- 7/20/2018
- by Editorial Staff
- Life and Style
It has all the elements of a big-screen blockbuster — a beautiful actress, a handsome leading man, a brooding fifth wheel and a moment of sickening terror with the most horrific consequences. Using in-depth firsthand accounts from new witnesses, the new podcast series Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood investigates the night Hollywood’s leading lady went missing while on a yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner, and their friend Christopher Walken on the evening of November 28, 1981 — only to tragically turn up dead. To preview Fatal Voyage, Dylan Howard, host of the popular All Rise podcast, scored a world exclusive interview with Natalie’s sister, Lana Wood. Dylan Howard: Lana, what do you think happened? Lana Wood: I believe that there was a horrible fight onboard the Splendour. I think the evidence is also not just what Dennis Davern, the captain, has said, but the broken wine bottle and...
- 7/20/2018
- by Editorial Staff
- In Touch Weekly
In Japan Leonard Schrader's docu about real-life American horrors was called Violent America. The decidedly unflattering picture couldn't find a U.S. distributor when new but accrued a reputation as the ultimate compilation of violent historical images. It's now filed with cannibal and zombie pictures in exploitation movie catalogs, yet it has more in common with Schrader's Taxi Driver. The Killing of America Blu-ray Severin Films 1981 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 95, 115 min. / Street Date October 25, 2016 / 29.98 Starring Chuck Riley (narrator, English version), Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi, Sirhan Sirhan, Wayne Henley, Ed Kemper. Cinematography Robert Charlton, Tom Hurwitz, Willy Kurant, Peter Smokler Film Editor Lee Percy Original Music W. Michael Lewis, Mark Lindsay Written by Leonard Schrader, Chieko Schrader Produced by Mataichiro Yamamoto, Leonard Schrader Directed by Sheldon Renan
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
1980s censorship in Japan strongly limited violent images on TV. They didn't see the steady...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
1980s censorship in Japan strongly limited violent images on TV. They didn't see the steady...
- 11/12/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Los Angeles — FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and re-issued, revealing the names of some of the movie star's communist-leaning acquaintances who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage.
But the files, which previously had been heavily redacted, do not contain any new information about Monroe's death 50 years ago. Letters and news clippings included in the file show the bureau was aware of theories the actress had been killed, but they do not show that any effort was undertaken to investigate the claims. Los Angeles authorities concluded Monroe's death was a probable suicide.
Recently obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, the updated FBI files do show the extent the agency was monitoring Monroe for ties to communism in the years before her death in August 1962.
The records reveal that some in Monroe's inner...
But the files, which previously had been heavily redacted, do not contain any new information about Monroe's death 50 years ago. Letters and news clippings included in the file show the bureau was aware of theories the actress had been killed, but they do not show that any effort was undertaken to investigate the claims. Los Angeles authorities concluded Monroe's death was a probable suicide.
Recently obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, the updated FBI files do show the extent the agency was monitoring Monroe for ties to communism in the years before her death in August 1962.
The records reveal that some in Monroe's inner...
- 12/28/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Actor who won fame as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and crimesolving medical examiner Quincy
Television was the medium that conferred stardom on the actor Jack Klugman, who has died aged 90. In a long, distinguished career that also embraced theatre and film, he was principally identified with two television characters: Oscar Madison, the slovenly, down-to-earth, cigar-smoking flatmate of the neurotically neat Felix Unger (Tony Randall) in the long-running comedy series The Odd Couple (1970-75; in the play and film, Felix's surname was spelt Ungar), and Quincy in Quincy, Me (1976-83), a crime-solving medical examiner.
Born in a poor neighbourhood of Philadelphia, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Klugman had a tough childhood. His father, a house painter, died young, forcing his mother to make hats in her kitchen to buy food and clothing for her six children. Young Jack, who worked as a street peddler, later observed: "Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
Television was the medium that conferred stardom on the actor Jack Klugman, who has died aged 90. In a long, distinguished career that also embraced theatre and film, he was principally identified with two television characters: Oscar Madison, the slovenly, down-to-earth, cigar-smoking flatmate of the neurotically neat Felix Unger (Tony Randall) in the long-running comedy series The Odd Couple (1970-75; in the play and film, Felix's surname was spelt Ungar), and Quincy in Quincy, Me (1976-83), a crime-solving medical examiner.
Born in a poor neighbourhood of Philadelphia, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Klugman had a tough childhood. His father, a house painter, died young, forcing his mother to make hats in her kitchen to buy food and clothing for her six children. Young Jack, who worked as a street peddler, later observed: "Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
- 12/26/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
It's hard to imagine a star whose life has been examined more relentlessly than that of Marilyn Monroe. Monroe has had every detail of her life -- her Dickensian childhood, her brief but unforgettable movie career, her liaisons with famous men, her mysterious death 50 years ago this week (on August 5, 1962) -- picked over by biographers and novelists, reporters and FBI agents, filmmakers and fans. And yet there is still plenty about Monroe that isn't common knowledge. Here are some details that even dedicated Monroephiles may not know, facts that only add to our continuing fascination with pop culture's most durable sex symbol. 1. Monroe's first marriage, to neighbor James Dougherty when she was 16, took place as a means of keeping her from being sent back to a state-run orphanage after one of her many foster families could no longer care for her. 2. In an early modeling gig, at an agricultural festival in Castroville,...
- 8/3/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Los Angeles -- A half century has not dimmed skeptics' suspicions about the death of Marilyn Monroe at age 36, but the intervening decades have seen technological leaps that could alter the investigation were it to occur today.
DNA, more sophisticated electronic record-keeping, drug databases and other advances would give investigators more information than they were able to glean after Monroe's Aug. 5, 1962, death – 50 years ago this Sunday.
Whether any of the tools would lead to a different conclusion – that Monroe's death from acute barbiturate poisoning was a probable suicide – remains a historical "What If?"
"The good news is we're very advanced from 50 years ago," said Max Houck, a forensic consultant and co-author of "The Science of Crime Scenes." "The bad news is, we're still trying to put it in context," he said.
Monroe's death stunned the world and quickly ignited speculation that she died from a more nefarious plot than the official cause of death.
DNA, more sophisticated electronic record-keeping, drug databases and other advances would give investigators more information than they were able to glean after Monroe's Aug. 5, 1962, death – 50 years ago this Sunday.
Whether any of the tools would lead to a different conclusion – that Monroe's death from acute barbiturate poisoning was a probable suicide – remains a historical "What If?"
"The good news is we're very advanced from 50 years ago," said Max Houck, a forensic consultant and co-author of "The Science of Crime Scenes." "The bad news is, we're still trying to put it in context," he said.
Monroe's death stunned the world and quickly ignited speculation that she died from a more nefarious plot than the official cause of death.
- 8/2/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Robert Wagner is Not a suspect in Natalie Wood's death, TMZ has learned ... this in the wake of a change in her death certificate.We broke the story ... the L.A. County Coroner has changed Wood's cause of death from "Accident" to "Undetermined."Law enforcement sources tell TMZ the reason for the change is that there was bruising on Wood's body that is not Necessarily consistent with an accident ... but it doesn't prove foul play.
- 7/9/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Authorities have reopened an investigation into Natalie Wood's drowning in 1981 - here's how the Guardian reported on it at the time
The death of any celebrity can lead to conspiracy theories galore, and the death of Natalie Wood, who drowned in 1981, has always been subject to speculation.
Her death was originally ruled an accident, but the Los Angeles County sheriff's department have reopened their investigation in the light of what they are calling "additional evidence", leading many to focus on the events that immediately preceded her death.
Speculation over an argument is not new - at the original inquest, the coroner ruled that Wood had stormed off after a disagreement between her husband Robert Wagner and their guest Christopher Walken.
Wood and Walken had been filming what became her last film, Brainstorm. Read the Guardian's review of it here.
The original inquest was presided over by Dr Thomas Noguchi,...
The death of any celebrity can lead to conspiracy theories galore, and the death of Natalie Wood, who drowned in 1981, has always been subject to speculation.
Her death was originally ruled an accident, but the Los Angeles County sheriff's department have reopened their investigation in the light of what they are calling "additional evidence", leading many to focus on the events that immediately preceded her death.
Speculation over an argument is not new - at the original inquest, the coroner ruled that Wood had stormed off after a disagreement between her husband Robert Wagner and their guest Christopher Walken.
Wood and Walken had been filming what became her last film, Brainstorm. Read the Guardian's review of it here.
The original inquest was presided over by Dr Thomas Noguchi,...
- 11/18/2011
- by Lauren Niland, Guardian Research Department
- The Guardian - Film News
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