Jennifer Garner took center stage at the Starkey Hearing Foundation Gala in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday night. The actress was honored at the gala for her work with early childhood education. Garner, 44, stunned in a long, black gown with a plunging asymmetrical strappy neckline for the special occasion. She kept her hair loose around her shoulder and paired her look with simple silver jewelry. Steven Sawalich of the Starkey Hearing Foundation introduced Garner, praising the actress for her dedication to her philanthropic work with children. "Her name is recognizable in the entertainment world as an award-winning performer," Sawalich said.
- 7/18/2016
- by Jodi Guglielmi, @JodiGug3
- PEOPLE.com
Jennifer Garner took center stage at the Starkey Hearing Foundation Gala in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday night. The actress was honored at the gala for her work with early childhood education. Garner, 44, stunned in a long, black gown with a plunging asymmetrical strappy neckline for the special occasion. She kept her hair loose around her shoulder and paired her look with simple silver jewelry. Steven Sawalich of the Starkey Hearing Foundation introduced Garner, praising the actress for her dedication to her philanthropic work with children. "Her name is recognizable in the entertainment world as an award-winning performer," Sawalich said.
- 7/18/2016
- by Jodi Guglielmi, @JodiGug3
- PEOPLE.com
Tonight, Own begins its 10-part documentary series, Operation Change, which follows philanthropists Bill and Tani Austin and their son Steven Sawalich, who are joined by celebrities as they tackle challenges facing the world today. The Austins are the founders of the Starkey Hearing Foundation, a nonprofit organization that gives free hearing aids to impoverished people around the world. Each week, the family travels to some of the world’s most remote, dangerous and poverty-stricken places, where they are joined by notable figures like President Bill Clinton, Sir Elton John, Harry Connick Jr. and Marlee Matlin. Throughout each episode, the team immerses … Continue reading →
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- 6/23/2014
- by Kellie Freeze
- ChannelGuideMag
Own will highlight the international charity work against hearing loss and the prominent figures who take part in its activities. The network has ordered 10 episodes of the series titled “Operation Change,” which debuts Monday, June 23 at 10 p.m. “Operation Change” highlights the work of Bill and Tani Austin and their son Steven Sawalich's Starkey Hearing Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides hearing aides to those in need. Also read: Cindy Crawford to Take Over Own's ‘Oprah's Lifeclass’ as First Ever Guest Teacher (Exclusive) “Our family has always found fulfillment in helping others,” said Sawalich in a statement. He continued,...
- 4/1/2014
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
Horror on television has not been the same since Tales from the Crypt went off the air in 1996. According to Deadline, the series might be making a return in the near future.
“Fifteen years after horror anthology Tales from the Crypt ended its seven-year-run on HBO, a new TV series based on the popular and controversial 1950s EC Comics anthology is in the works with Gil Adler, producer on the HBO Crypt series, and Andrew Cosby, co-creator of Syfy hit Eureka and co-founder of comic book publisher Boom! Studios. The new hourlong series will neither be anthological nor related to the HBO show. “It will be an ongoing series that uses characters from the comic books in a more modern context,” Cosby said. “It’s all about continually elevating the genre, for both existing fans of the source material and mainstream audiences.” Cosby and Adler first started discussing reviving the...
“Fifteen years after horror anthology Tales from the Crypt ended its seven-year-run on HBO, a new TV series based on the popular and controversial 1950s EC Comics anthology is in the works with Gil Adler, producer on the HBO Crypt series, and Andrew Cosby, co-creator of Syfy hit Eureka and co-founder of comic book publisher Boom! Studios. The new hourlong series will neither be anthological nor related to the HBO show. “It will be an ongoing series that uses characters from the comic books in a more modern context,” Cosby said. “It’s all about continually elevating the genre, for both existing fans of the source material and mainstream audiences.” Cosby and Adler first started discussing reviving the...
- 7/28/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
Exclusive: Fifteen years after horror anthology Tales from the Crypt ended its seven-year-run on HBO, a new TV series based on the popular and controversial 1950s EC Comics anthology is in the works with Gil Adler, producer on the HBO Crypt series, and Andrew Cosby, co-creator of Syfy hit Eureka and co-founder of comic book publisher Boom! Studios. The new hourlong series will neither be anthological nor related to the HBO show. "It will be an ongoing series that uses characters from the comic books in a more modern context," Cosby said. "It's all about continually elevating the genre, for both existing fans of the source material and mainstream audiences." Cosby and Adler first started discussing reviving the franchise on TV and then approached Joel Eisenberg, whose company with Timothy Owens Emo Films had partnered with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., the rightsholder of all EC-related properties, which is run...
- 7/27/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Noir crime-fiction writer Ken Bruen’s work has become a hot commodity in Hollywood this past year and now it appears Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) is on the shortlist to direct a second Bruen adaptation: Once Were Cops. Joining Monahan on the shortlist is Animal Kingdom writer/helmer David Michôd. Despite Monahan having already worked an adaptation on Bruen’s Brit-noir London Boulevard (which hits U.K. theatres next week), of the two, it would appear that Michôd would have the slight advantage, he is in award season mode, while Monahan might feasibly be working on screenplay material. Also on board Once Were Cops are writer David Logan (Circus) and producers Gil Adler (Superman Returns) and Steven Sawalich (Music Within.) Gist: Here's the complete book synopsis -- Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem.
- 11/18/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Noir crime-fiction writer Ken Bruen’s work has become a hot commodity in Hollywood this past year and now it appears Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) is on the shortlist to direct a second Bruen adaptation: Once Were Cops. Joining Monahan on the shortlist is Animal Kingdom writer/helmer David Michôd. Despite Monahan having already worked an adaptation on Bruen’s Brit-noir London Boulevard (which hits U.K. theatres next week), of the two, it would appear that Michôd would have the slight advantage, he is in award season mode, while Monahan might feasibly be working on screenplay material. Also on board Once Were Cops are writer David Logan (Circus) and producers Gil Adler (Superman Returns) and Steven Sawalich (Music Within.) Gist: Here's the complete book synopsis -- Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem.
- 11/18/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan ("The Departed") and "Animal Kingdom" director David Michod are on the shortlist to direct the big-screen adaptation of Ken Bruen's crime novel "Once Were Cops," an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. There are several other directors in the mix, but Monahan and Michod appear to have the inside track on the gig. David Logan ("Circus") wrote the script and Steven Sawalich ("Music Within") and Gil Adler ("Superman Returns") are producing the picture. Bruen's novel follows an unbalanced member of Ireland's elite police force who joins the...
- 11/18/2010
- The Wrap
Writer David Logan has two new gigs on his schedule.
Paramount has hired the British scribe to rewrite "Sebastian Knight," and Articulus Entertainment has brought Logan aboard to adapt the Ken Bruen novel "Once Were Cops."
"Knight" centers on a Bond-like CIA agent who has a one-night stand with a woman while on vacation in Monaco and then has to deal with her neurotic behavior as the smitten lady begins to stalk him.
John Goldwyn and Lorne Michaels are producing through their Michaels-Goldwyn banner. Dan Levine is shepherding for the studio and Hilary Marks for Michaels-Goldwyn.
The "Cops" project follows two unbalanced New York police officers cutting their way through the city's criminal underworld. Articulus principal Steven Sawalich will produce along with Gil Adler ("Superman Returns").
Logan, repped by Wma and Jewerl Ross, recently did a rewrite on "Hammer Down" for DreamWorks and has an original screenplay, "The Rip," in...
Paramount has hired the British scribe to rewrite "Sebastian Knight," and Articulus Entertainment has brought Logan aboard to adapt the Ken Bruen novel "Once Were Cops."
"Knight" centers on a Bond-like CIA agent who has a one-night stand with a woman while on vacation in Monaco and then has to deal with her neurotic behavior as the smitten lady begins to stalk him.
John Goldwyn and Lorne Michaels are producing through their Michaels-Goldwyn banner. Dan Levine is shepherding for the studio and Hilary Marks for Michaels-Goldwyn.
The "Cops" project follows two unbalanced New York police officers cutting their way through the city's criminal underworld. Articulus principal Steven Sawalich will produce along with Gil Adler ("Superman Returns").
Logan, repped by Wma and Jewerl Ross, recently did a rewrite on "Hammer Down" for DreamWorks and has an original screenplay, "The Rip," in...
- 5/21/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This review was written for the theatrical release of "Music Within".
You need an Erin Brockovich to sock home points about toxic waste. So "Music Within" will hook the audience up with a supremely cool and witty real-life character, Richard Pimentel (well played by Ron Livingston), who then escorts you through his life as a disabled Vietnam veteran, motivational speaker, author and passionate activist for the disabled community. So what should be a tough, sentimental slog whisks by in a breezy, entertaining 94 minutes like a kind of illustrated stand-up comedy routine.
Of course, the challenge faced by MGM is to persuade an audience to risk seeing a movie about events leading up to the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act. The film opens today in 10 markets and will need strong critical support in tandem with MGM's marketing to create awareness. The film Will More than likely make its mark in cable and DVD markets.
Pimentel literally has written the handbook on how to work with the disabled. He is a pioneer in the civil rights effort to integrate the disabled into normal American life, much of this because of his own personal magnetism.
Livingston and director Steven Sawalich keep the character in constant motion, his dialogue sprinkled with humor and his energy contagious. The film also is surrounded by a crew of ferociously individualistic characters. That starts with Pimentel's mom Rebecca De Mornay), mentally unbalanced and unable to accept or love him. Only to hear him tell it, life with Mom is bitterly funny. Especially those bimonthly suicide attempts, each to celebrate the "birthday" of a different child she lost in miscarriages.
His mother's erratic behavior and father's death produce, against all odds, a deeply ambitious man who finds his true calling in public speaking. But a college speech professor (Hector Elizondo) curtly rejects him for a scholarship because he has no point of view.
Richard joins the military. A bomb blast during a tour of duty in Vietnam robs him of much of his hearing. Returning to the same Portland, Ore., campus, he falls in with his "traveling freak show": Mike Stoltz (Yul Vazquez), a fellow veteran filled with rage, and Art Honeyman (Michael Sheen, just terrific), a wheelchair-bound student afflicted with cerebral palsy and a wicked wit. The lover Richard chooses, Christine (Melissa George), is beautiful, blond and normal but believes in open relationships, so he is forced to share her with another man.
He quits a lucrative job to get disabled people jobs, which he and Mike prove supremely good at. When a restaurant refuses to serve Art a birthday breakfast, their arrest turns him into an activist.
The screenplay by Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen and Kelly Kennemer does a fine job of shoehorning the events of Pimentel's colorful life into a tight but jaunty structure. It also helps that the film can explore mental illness, war injuries, gross disabilities, suicide, lost love and parental rejection and never loose its optimistic nature. It's the opposite of Pollyanna-ism; this group goes in for naughty, mordant humor that deflects all the negativity and prejudice.
The Vietnam sequences, filmed in the Philippines, give evidence of a limited budget, but all other sequences shot in Oregon yield a rich sense of era and place along with a soundtrack of golden oldies.
MUSIC WITHIN
MGM
Articulus Entertainment/Quorum Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Steven Sawalich
Screenwriters: Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen, Kelly Kennemer
Producers: Brett Donowho, Steven Sawalich
Director of photography: Irek Hartowicz
Production designer: Craig Stearns
Music: James T. Sale
Co-producer: Ron Livingston
Costume designer: Alexis Scott
Editor: Timothy Alverson
Cast:
Richard Pimentel: Ron Livingston
Christine: Melissa George
Art Honeyman: Michael Sheen
Mike Stoltz: Yul Vazquez
Richard's Mom: Rebecca De Mornay
Ben: Hector Elizondo
Bill: Leslie Nielsen
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
You need an Erin Brockovich to sock home points about toxic waste. So "Music Within" will hook the audience up with a supremely cool and witty real-life character, Richard Pimentel (well played by Ron Livingston), who then escorts you through his life as a disabled Vietnam veteran, motivational speaker, author and passionate activist for the disabled community. So what should be a tough, sentimental slog whisks by in a breezy, entertaining 94 minutes like a kind of illustrated stand-up comedy routine.
Of course, the challenge faced by MGM is to persuade an audience to risk seeing a movie about events leading up to the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act. The film opens today in 10 markets and will need strong critical support in tandem with MGM's marketing to create awareness. The film Will More than likely make its mark in cable and DVD markets.
Pimentel literally has written the handbook on how to work with the disabled. He is a pioneer in the civil rights effort to integrate the disabled into normal American life, much of this because of his own personal magnetism.
Livingston and director Steven Sawalich keep the character in constant motion, his dialogue sprinkled with humor and his energy contagious. The film also is surrounded by a crew of ferociously individualistic characters. That starts with Pimentel's mom Rebecca De Mornay), mentally unbalanced and unable to accept or love him. Only to hear him tell it, life with Mom is bitterly funny. Especially those bimonthly suicide attempts, each to celebrate the "birthday" of a different child she lost in miscarriages.
His mother's erratic behavior and father's death produce, against all odds, a deeply ambitious man who finds his true calling in public speaking. But a college speech professor (Hector Elizondo) curtly rejects him for a scholarship because he has no point of view.
Richard joins the military. A bomb blast during a tour of duty in Vietnam robs him of much of his hearing. Returning to the same Portland, Ore., campus, he falls in with his "traveling freak show": Mike Stoltz (Yul Vazquez), a fellow veteran filled with rage, and Art Honeyman (Michael Sheen, just terrific), a wheelchair-bound student afflicted with cerebral palsy and a wicked wit. The lover Richard chooses, Christine (Melissa George), is beautiful, blond and normal but believes in open relationships, so he is forced to share her with another man.
He quits a lucrative job to get disabled people jobs, which he and Mike prove supremely good at. When a restaurant refuses to serve Art a birthday breakfast, their arrest turns him into an activist.
The screenplay by Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen and Kelly Kennemer does a fine job of shoehorning the events of Pimentel's colorful life into a tight but jaunty structure. It also helps that the film can explore mental illness, war injuries, gross disabilities, suicide, lost love and parental rejection and never loose its optimistic nature. It's the opposite of Pollyanna-ism; this group goes in for naughty, mordant humor that deflects all the negativity and prejudice.
The Vietnam sequences, filmed in the Philippines, give evidence of a limited budget, but all other sequences shot in Oregon yield a rich sense of era and place along with a soundtrack of golden oldies.
MUSIC WITHIN
MGM
Articulus Entertainment/Quorum Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Steven Sawalich
Screenwriters: Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen, Kelly Kennemer
Producers: Brett Donowho, Steven Sawalich
Director of photography: Irek Hartowicz
Production designer: Craig Stearns
Music: James T. Sale
Co-producer: Ron Livingston
Costume designer: Alexis Scott
Editor: Timothy Alverson
Cast:
Richard Pimentel: Ron Livingston
Christine: Melissa George
Art Honeyman: Michael Sheen
Mike Stoltz: Yul Vazquez
Richard's Mom: Rebecca De Mornay
Ben: Hector Elizondo
Bill: Leslie Nielsen
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You need an Erin Brockovich to sock home points about toxic waste. So Music Within will hook the audience up with a supremely cool and witty real-life character, Richard Pimentel (well played by Ron Livingston), who then escorts you through his life as a disabled Vietnam veteran, motivational speaker, author and passionate activist for the disabled community. So what should be a tough, sentimental slog whisks by in a breezy, entertaining 94 minutes like a kind of illustrated stand-up comedy routine.
Of course, the challenge faced by MGM is to persuade an audience to risk seeing a movie about events leading up to the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act. The film opens today in 10 markets and will need strong critical support in tandem with MGM's marketing to create awareness. The film Will More than likely make its mark in cable and DVD markets.
Pimentel literally has written the handbook on how to work with the disabled. He is a pioneer in the civil rights effort to integrate the disabled into normal American life, much of this because of his own personal magnetism.
Livingston and director Steven Sawalich keep the character in constant motion, his dialogue sprinkled with humor and his energy contagious. The film also is surrounded by a crew of ferociously individualistic characters. That starts with Pimentel's mom Rebecca De Mornay), mentally unbalanced and unable to accept or love him. Only to hear him tell it, life with Mom is bitterly funny. Especially those bimonthly suicide attempts, each to celebrate the "birthday" of a different child she lost in miscarriages.
His mother's erratic behavior and father's death produce, against all odds, a deeply ambitious man who finds his true calling in public speaking. But a college speech professor (Hector Elizondo) curtly rejects him for a scholarship because he has no point of view.
Richard joins the military. A bomb blast during a tour of duty in Vietnam robs him of much of his hearing. Returning to the same Portland, Ore., campus, he falls in with his "traveling freak show": Mike Stoltz (Yul Vazquez), a fellow veteran filled with rage, and Art Honeyman (Michael Sheen, just terrific), a wheelchair-bound student afflicted with cerebral palsy and a wicked wit. The lover Richard chooses, Christine (Melissa George), is beautiful, blond and normal but believes in open relationships, so he is forced to share her with another man.
He quits a lucrative job to get disabled people jobs, which he and Mike prove supremely good at. When a restaurant refuses to serve Art a birthday breakfast, their arrest turns him into an activist.
The screenplay by Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen and Kelly Kennemer does a fine job of shoehorning the events of Pimentel's colorful life into a tight but jaunty structure. It also helps that the film can explore mental illness, war injuries, gross disabilities, suicide, lost love and parental rejection and never loose its optimistic nature. It's the opposite of Pollyanna-ism; this group goes in for naughty, mordant humor that deflects all the negativity and prejudice.
The Vietnam sequences, filmed in the Philippines, give evidence of a limited budget, but all other sequences shot in Oregon yield a rich sense of era and place along with a soundtrack of golden oldies.
MUSIC WITHIN
MGM
Articulus Entertainment/Quorum Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Steven Sawalich
Screenwriters: Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen, Kelly Kennemer
Producers: Brett Donowho, Steven Sawalich
Director of photography: Irek Hartowicz
Production designer: Craig Stearns
Music: James T. Sale
Co-producer: Ron Livingston
Costume designer: Alexis Scott
Editor: Timothy Alverson
Cast:
Richard Pimentel: Ron Livingston
Christine: Melissa George
Art Honeyman: Michael Sheen
Mike Stoltz: Yul Vazquez
Richard's Mom: Rebecca De Mornay
Ben: Hector Elizondo
Bill: Leslie Nielsen
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Of course, the challenge faced by MGM is to persuade an audience to risk seeing a movie about events leading up to the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act. The film opens today in 10 markets and will need strong critical support in tandem with MGM's marketing to create awareness. The film Will More than likely make its mark in cable and DVD markets.
Pimentel literally has written the handbook on how to work with the disabled. He is a pioneer in the civil rights effort to integrate the disabled into normal American life, much of this because of his own personal magnetism.
Livingston and director Steven Sawalich keep the character in constant motion, his dialogue sprinkled with humor and his energy contagious. The film also is surrounded by a crew of ferociously individualistic characters. That starts with Pimentel's mom Rebecca De Mornay), mentally unbalanced and unable to accept or love him. Only to hear him tell it, life with Mom is bitterly funny. Especially those bimonthly suicide attempts, each to celebrate the "birthday" of a different child she lost in miscarriages.
His mother's erratic behavior and father's death produce, against all odds, a deeply ambitious man who finds his true calling in public speaking. But a college speech professor (Hector Elizondo) curtly rejects him for a scholarship because he has no point of view.
Richard joins the military. A bomb blast during a tour of duty in Vietnam robs him of much of his hearing. Returning to the same Portland, Ore., campus, he falls in with his "traveling freak show": Mike Stoltz (Yul Vazquez), a fellow veteran filled with rage, and Art Honeyman (Michael Sheen, just terrific), a wheelchair-bound student afflicted with cerebral palsy and a wicked wit. The lover Richard chooses, Christine (Melissa George), is beautiful, blond and normal but believes in open relationships, so he is forced to share her with another man.
He quits a lucrative job to get disabled people jobs, which he and Mike prove supremely good at. When a restaurant refuses to serve Art a birthday breakfast, their arrest turns him into an activist.
The screenplay by Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen and Kelly Kennemer does a fine job of shoehorning the events of Pimentel's colorful life into a tight but jaunty structure. It also helps that the film can explore mental illness, war injuries, gross disabilities, suicide, lost love and parental rejection and never loose its optimistic nature. It's the opposite of Pollyanna-ism; this group goes in for naughty, mordant humor that deflects all the negativity and prejudice.
The Vietnam sequences, filmed in the Philippines, give evidence of a limited budget, but all other sequences shot in Oregon yield a rich sense of era and place along with a soundtrack of golden oldies.
MUSIC WITHIN
MGM
Articulus Entertainment/Quorum Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Steven Sawalich
Screenwriters: Bret McKinney & Mark Andrew Olsen, Kelly Kennemer
Producers: Brett Donowho, Steven Sawalich
Director of photography: Irek Hartowicz
Production designer: Craig Stearns
Music: James T. Sale
Co-producer: Ron Livingston
Costume designer: Alexis Scott
Editor: Timothy Alverson
Cast:
Richard Pimentel: Ron Livingston
Christine: Melissa George
Art Honeyman: Michael Sheen
Mike Stoltz: Yul Vazquez
Richard's Mom: Rebecca De Mornay
Ben: Hector Elizondo
Bill: Leslie Nielsen
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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