The music portion of SXSW 2023 kicked off with wild parties, quietly powerful songwriting, new artists making an impression, and one surprise pop-up from an A-list act — all the things that make this a great festival. Here are the best things we saw on Monday, March 13 and Tuesday, March 14 (the music festival’s first full day).
Surprise! It’s Boygenius
“Phoebe’s got a plane to catch in 20 minutes,” Lucy Dacus tells me, nodding at her boygenius bandmate, last name Bridgers. We’re at a bar in the Austin airport. And the group has,...
Surprise! It’s Boygenius
“Phoebe’s got a plane to catch in 20 minutes,” Lucy Dacus tells me, nodding at her boygenius bandmate, last name Bridgers. We’re at a bar in the Austin airport. And the group has,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Cat Cardenas, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Angie Martoccio, Noah Shachtman and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Abby Dalton, an Emmy-nominated actress known for her early roles on such series as comedy-drama Hennessey and The Joey Bishop Show who reenergized her career in the 1980s as a star of the primetime hit soap Falcon Crest, died November 23 in Los Angeles following a long illness. She was 88.
Her death was announced by her spokesperson Sue Procko.
Born in Las Vegas, Dalton began her acting career with writer-producer Roger Corman in 1957, debuting in the beatnik film Rock All Night. During the next few years, she appeared in numerous Corman films including Teenage Doll, Carnival Rock, Stakeout on Dope Street and more.
Dalton landed a role in 1959 on Jackie Cooper’s Hennesey series, playing Cooper’s girlfriend on the comedy-drama set at a naval hospital. The role earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 1961.
In 1962, she was cast a Joey Bishop’s wife on The Joey Bishop Show.
Her death was announced by her spokesperson Sue Procko.
Born in Las Vegas, Dalton began her acting career with writer-producer Roger Corman in 1957, debuting in the beatnik film Rock All Night. During the next few years, she appeared in numerous Corman films including Teenage Doll, Carnival Rock, Stakeout on Dope Street and more.
Dalton landed a role in 1959 on Jackie Cooper’s Hennesey series, playing Cooper’s girlfriend on the comedy-drama set at a naval hospital. The role earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 1961.
In 1962, she was cast a Joey Bishop’s wife on The Joey Bishop Show.
- 11/30/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
World, meet Devin Kirtz: The Argentinian-American pop-soul artist whose unconventional start as a professional soccer player led to a bustling career in music. Fresh off the release of his solo debut single "Hennessy" featuring P. Diddy's son Quincy, Kirtz is about to drop his second single "Best Friends" and E! News has the exclusive first listen. The track is an upbeat pop anthem that will not get you dancing, but also sends a powerful message about self-love and self-care. "The easiest way I can put it is, take it easy on yourself and just love yourself as much as you can," Kirtz exclusively told E! News. "Even when things in life are bad, life is still good....
- 8/20/2020
- E! Online
"In 1962," begins Ronald Bergan in the Guardian, "Don Sharp was a minor ex-actor, hack writer and jobbing director of British B-films, when he was offered the chance to make a gothic horror movie for Hammer, 'the studio that dripped blood.' In the event, The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) rescued both Sharp, who has died aged 89, and Hammer from the doldrums. The studio, which had suffered several expensive flops, turned to Sharp due to his experience in low-budget filmmaking. Sharp, who claimed to have never watched a horror movie, let alone directed one, quickly steeped himself in the Hammer style by spending a week or so watching past successes, principally those directed by Terence Fisher and Freddie Francis. The Kiss of the Vampire, made with a smaller budget and an unstarry cast, recruited mostly from television, scored at the box office, and Sharp became associated with horror movies thereafter."
The Kiss of the Vampire...
The Kiss of the Vampire...
- 12/20/2011
- MUBI
According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died. He was 89.
A former small-time actor (The Planter's Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in Hobart) is best remembered for several low-budget thrillers he directed in the 1960s, such as Hammer's The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), the sci-fier Curse of the Fly (1965), and the The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), starring Christopher Lee as the East Asian fiend.
Sharp's other notable efforts include The Death Wheelers / Psychomania (1973), about a youth gang terrorizing a small town; the Ira drama Hennessy (1975), with A-listers Rod Steiger and Lee Remick; The Thirty Nine Steps, an underrated remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic starring Robert Powell in Robert Donat's old man-on-the-run role; and the slow-moving adventure drama Bear Island, featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sutherland.
Sharp also worked on British television, directing several episodes from The Avengers. Other notable television efforts were a...
A former small-time actor (The Planter's Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in Hobart) is best remembered for several low-budget thrillers he directed in the 1960s, such as Hammer's The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), the sci-fier Curse of the Fly (1965), and the The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), starring Christopher Lee as the East Asian fiend.
Sharp's other notable efforts include The Death Wheelers / Psychomania (1973), about a youth gang terrorizing a small town; the Ira drama Hennessy (1975), with A-listers Rod Steiger and Lee Remick; The Thirty Nine Steps, an underrated remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic starring Robert Powell in Robert Donat's old man-on-the-run role; and the slow-moving adventure drama Bear Island, featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sutherland.
Sharp also worked on British television, directing several episodes from The Avengers. Other notable television efforts were a...
- 12/19/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
DVD Review
Hennessy
Directed by: Don Sharp
Cast: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Rating: PG
Due Out: June 6, 2011
Plot: A former member of the NRA (Rod Steiger) loses his wife and daughter to sectarian violence. In revenge, he decides to blow up British Parliament on the opening day, when Queen Elizabeth II will be in attendance.
Who’S It For? Fans of ’70s thrillers like The French Connection who won’t mind this inferior take.
Movie:
The film has a really exciting premise but it becomes bogged down by a dull delivery. Steiger’s Niall Hennessy is a man of few words and occasionally muddled action. The initial scene where his wife and child are gunned down on accident by a British soldier left me with more compassion for the soldier than the family members. Steiger gives about as much as he can for an underwritten character,...
Hennessy
Directed by: Don Sharp
Cast: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Rating: PG
Due Out: June 6, 2011
Plot: A former member of the NRA (Rod Steiger) loses his wife and daughter to sectarian violence. In revenge, he decides to blow up British Parliament on the opening day, when Queen Elizabeth II will be in attendance.
Who’S It For? Fans of ’70s thrillers like The French Connection who won’t mind this inferior take.
Movie:
The film has a really exciting premise but it becomes bogged down by a dull delivery. Steiger’s Niall Hennessy is a man of few words and occasionally muddled action. The initial scene where his wife and child are gunned down on accident by a British soldier left me with more compassion for the soldier than the family members. Steiger gives about as much as he can for an underwritten character,...
- 6/27/2011
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM’s "Summer Under the Stars" series. [Lee Remick schedule.] I’ve been a major Lee Remick fan since I saw this pretty, talented blonde with the bluest of blue eyes in two movies: Otto Preminger‘s courtroom comedy-drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and, in a supporting role, Martin Ritt‘s The Long, Hot Summer (1958). Her movies have ranged from the excellent (the aforementioned Anatomy of a Murder) to the exceedingly awful (The Medusa Touch), but no matter how atrocious the screenplay Remick has always brought honesty, intelligence, and a cool sensuality to her roles. There are four TCM premieres on Lee Remick Day: Robert Mulligan‘s drama Baby, the Rain Must Fall (1965), co-starring Steve McQueen and Don Murray; Don Sharp‘s Ira thriller Hennessy (1975), with Rod Steiger...
- 8/26/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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