The new movie "Air," which debuted on April 5, tells the story of how Nike landed Michael Jordan as the face of its basketball division and created the first Air Jordan sneakers. The shoes - and the resulting line of products and fashion craze - changed the world of sports, fashion, and pop culture as we knew it. The movie, directed by Ben Affleck, stars Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike employee and later athlete's rights advocate who brokered the deal; Viola Davis as Jordan's mom, Deloris, who fought for her son; and Affleck himself as Nike founder Phil Knight.
Though "Air" focuses on the Air Jordan saga, other parts of the Nike origin story play a role in the film, too. During one scene, Knight tells Vaccaro that he originally didn't like the iconic Nike Swoosh and in another, the workers joke about how much they don't like...
Though "Air" focuses on the Air Jordan saga, other parts of the Nike origin story play a role in the film, too. During one scene, Knight tells Vaccaro that he originally didn't like the iconic Nike Swoosh and in another, the workers joke about how much they don't like...
- 4/5/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
In 1977, Lewis Arquette (41) and his daughter, Rosanna Arquette (18), both made their TV acting debuts, with him appearing on an episode of “Alice” and her playing a role in the movie “Having Babies II.” Six years later, she became the first member of her family to earn Emmy recognition with her lead performance in the NBC film “The Executioner’s Song,” which told the true story of Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) and his demands to be executed for committing double murder. Arquette played Nicole Baker, a young single mother who dated Gilmore shortly before the killings.
Arquette received her nomination five days before her 24th birthday, making her the fifth youngest woman to compete for the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress award at the time. In the nearly four decades since, she has dropped to 10th place on the list. Of the nine younger actresses who rank higher than her,...
Arquette received her nomination five days before her 24th birthday, making her the fifth youngest woman to compete for the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress award at the time. In the nearly four decades since, she has dropped to 10th place on the list. Of the nine younger actresses who rank higher than her,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
10 youngest Emmy nominees for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress: Four were recognized as children
In 1977, Lewis Arquette (41) and his daughter, Rosanna Arquette (18), both made their TV acting debuts, with him appearing on an episode of “Alice” and her playing a role in the movie “Having Babies II.” Six years later, she became the first member of her family to earn Emmy recognition with her lead performance in the NBC film “The Executioner’s Song,” which told the true story of Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) and his demands to be executed for committing double murder. Arquette played Nicole Baker, a young single mother who dated Gilmore shortly before the killings.
Arquette received her nomination five days before her 24th birthday, making her the fifth youngest woman to compete for the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress award at the time. In the nearly four decades since, she has dropped to 10th place on the list. Of the nine younger actresses who rank higher than her,...
Arquette received her nomination five days before her 24th birthday, making her the fifth youngest woman to compete for the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress award at the time. In the nearly four decades since, she has dropped to 10th place on the list. Of the nine younger actresses who rank higher than her,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Legendary Television is developing a true-crime drama series about the relationship between novelist Norman Mailer and killer Jack Henry Abbott, with Boyd Holbrook set to star.
Narcos star Holbrook will play convicted murderer Abbott in Executioner, which comes from Warrior writer Anthony Tambakis and Minamata filmmaker Andew Levitas.
Set in 1981, the series follows one of the most scandalous events in New York City history, when Mailer helped get Abbott paroled from prison, leading to Abbott killing again, a nationwide manhunt, and the trial of the century in New York.
Abbott, who was serving time in prison for forgery when he stabbed another inmate to death, wrote to Mailer, who was writing about convicted killer Gary Gilmore, alleging that Gilmore was embellishing his experiences in prison. Mailer helped Abbott write In the Belly of the Beast, about life in the prison system. The Executioner’s Song author subsequently endorsed Abbott’s attempts to gain parole.
Narcos star Holbrook will play convicted murderer Abbott in Executioner, which comes from Warrior writer Anthony Tambakis and Minamata filmmaker Andew Levitas.
Set in 1981, the series follows one of the most scandalous events in New York City history, when Mailer helped get Abbott paroled from prison, leading to Abbott killing again, a nationwide manhunt, and the trial of the century in New York.
Abbott, who was serving time in prison for forgery when he stabbed another inmate to death, wrote to Mailer, who was writing about convicted killer Gary Gilmore, alleging that Gilmore was embellishing his experiences in prison. Mailer helped Abbott write In the Belly of the Beast, about life in the prison system. The Executioner’s Song author subsequently endorsed Abbott’s attempts to gain parole.
- 10/28/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Town Bloody Hall
Blu ray
Criterion
1979 / 85 min.
Starring Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston
Cinematography by D.A. Pennebaker
Directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
No matter the subject, Norman Mailer was the star of whatever he produced—in Advertisements for Myself, a mix of self-criticism and self-congratulation—he could have been talking to himself. He took to using the third person in The Armies of the Night. He sometimes adopted a new name—in Of a Fire on the Moon he was “Aquarius.” He directed and acted in a handful of independently made films and plastered his mug on campaign posters that papered New York when he ran for mayor in 1969. His career was one big selfie. But what an ambitious self portrait it was—Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos—he tried to top them all.
He worked hard to be a new kind of empathetic writer, sinking into the psyche of all creatures bright,...
Blu ray
Criterion
1979 / 85 min.
Starring Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston
Cinematography by D.A. Pennebaker
Directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
No matter the subject, Norman Mailer was the star of whatever he produced—in Advertisements for Myself, a mix of self-criticism and self-congratulation—he could have been talking to himself. He took to using the third person in The Armies of the Night. He sometimes adopted a new name—in Of a Fire on the Moon he was “Aquarius.” He directed and acted in a handful of independently made films and plastered his mug on campaign posters that papered New York when he ran for mayor in 1969. His career was one big selfie. But what an ambitious self portrait it was—Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos—he tried to top them all.
He worked hard to be a new kind of empathetic writer, sinking into the psyche of all creatures bright,...
- 8/22/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment have optioned the rights to Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Executioner’s Song and have attached White Boy Rick screenwriters Logan and Noah Miller to adapt and produce a potential limited series, now in active development.
The groundbreaking book, likely Mailer’s best-known work and a central piece of the New Journalism movement in literature, centers on 35-year-old convicted killer Gary Gilmore, the first person in the U.S. to be executed following the restoration of the death penalty in 1976. It follows his turbulent final nine months of life, spanning his parole from maximum security prison, his ill-fated love affair with a divorced teenage single mother of two, his re-imprisonment for a pair of murders, and his firing-squad execution in Utah in January 1977.
The planned limited series aims to offer a fresh perspective on the events surrounding Gilmore’s trial, which made him...
The groundbreaking book, likely Mailer’s best-known work and a central piece of the New Journalism movement in literature, centers on 35-year-old convicted killer Gary Gilmore, the first person in the U.S. to be executed following the restoration of the death penalty in 1976. It follows his turbulent final nine months of life, spanning his parole from maximum security prison, his ill-fated love affair with a divorced teenage single mother of two, his re-imprisonment for a pair of murders, and his firing-squad execution in Utah in January 1977.
The planned limited series aims to offer a fresh perspective on the events surrounding Gilmore’s trial, which made him...
- 6/6/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Executioner’s Song
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
1982/ 1:33:1 /188/135 Min. / Street Date January 2, 2018
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanne Arquette
Cinematography by Freddie Francis
Written by Norman Mailer
Music by John Cacavas
Edited by Richard A. Harris, Tom Rolf
Produced by Lawrence Schiller
Directed by Lawrence Schiller
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, target for Saturday Night Live, punchline for Seinfeld and tagline for Nike, was already a pop-culture sensation when he sat down before a firing squad and proclaimed, “Let’s do this.” The surprising thing about The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer’s hardscrabble epic detailing Gilmore’s final months, was that it was decidedly unsensational, a close-to-the-vest yet wide-ranging narrative focused on the killer’s tragedy, not the writer’s ego.
Mailer saw in Gilmore, if not a kindred spirit, at least a rough sketch for one of the novelist’s own conflicted protagonists. Like Mailer, Gilmore had a poetic...
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
1982/ 1:33:1 /188/135 Min. / Street Date January 2, 2018
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanne Arquette
Cinematography by Freddie Francis
Written by Norman Mailer
Music by John Cacavas
Edited by Richard A. Harris, Tom Rolf
Produced by Lawrence Schiller
Directed by Lawrence Schiller
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, target for Saturday Night Live, punchline for Seinfeld and tagline for Nike, was already a pop-culture sensation when he sat down before a firing squad and proclaimed, “Let’s do this.” The surprising thing about The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer’s hardscrabble epic detailing Gilmore’s final months, was that it was decidedly unsensational, a close-to-the-vest yet wide-ranging narrative focused on the killer’s tragedy, not the writer’s ego.
Mailer saw in Gilmore, if not a kindred spirit, at least a rough sketch for one of the novelist’s own conflicted protagonists. Like Mailer, Gilmore had a poetic...
- 1/6/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
DVD Release Date: May 8, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Cinema Libre
The 2010 documentary film Norman Mailer: The American looks at the life and times of the late renowned writer, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was also recognized as a political candidate, journalist, movie director and social critic.
Over the course of his prolific career, Mailer wrote over 30 books and covered every major event in U.S. history including: the Apollo 11 launch, the deaths of John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, the 1968 Democratic National Convention and subsequent riot, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement march on the Pentagon, Muhammad Ali and George Forman’s “Rumble in the Jungle” and many more. His writings also covered the lives and psyches of the both famous and the infamous, from Marilyn Monroe to Hitler.
Directed by Joseph Mantegna, the film features such snippets and comments from Mailer, his family and such notables as Muhammad Ali,...
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Cinema Libre
The 2010 documentary film Norman Mailer: The American looks at the life and times of the late renowned writer, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was also recognized as a political candidate, journalist, movie director and social critic.
Over the course of his prolific career, Mailer wrote over 30 books and covered every major event in U.S. history including: the Apollo 11 launch, the deaths of John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, the 1968 Democratic National Convention and subsequent riot, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement march on the Pentagon, Muhammad Ali and George Forman’s “Rumble in the Jungle” and many more. His writings also covered the lives and psyches of the both famous and the infamous, from Marilyn Monroe to Hitler.
Directed by Joseph Mantegna, the film features such snippets and comments from Mailer, his family and such notables as Muhammad Ali,...
- 4/26/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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