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RIP: Aaron Spelling
Filed under: Newsstand », Obits »
After suffering a stroke last week, legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling died last night; he was 83. Known primarily for his remarkably successful -- with audiences, if not critics -- escapist television shows, Spelling also produced a handful of movies over the course of his long career in Hollywood, including Soapdish and both Charlie's Angels films. Spelling served in the Army during World War II, and after returning home eventually headed to Hollywood where he worked briefly as an actor, playing bit parts on TV and in films like Three Young Texans and Wyoming Renegades. Shortly thereafter he began writing for television. Hired by friend and mentor Dick Powell to write for Zane Grey Theater, Spelling eventually became a producer on the show and, in 1959, branched off on his own for the first time with the short-lived Johnny Ringo.
Spelling's greatest success came in the 1970s and 80s, when he produced series such as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Starsky and Hutch, T.J. Hooker, Hart to Hart, Dynasty, and Charlie's Angels. That list amounts to about 5% of his total output, which runs to over 200 television shows and movies (including the much-loved The Boy in the Bubble); at one time, Spelling was personally responsible for fully 1/3 of ABC's prime time programming.
Two, two, two Hanks in one!
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Newsstand »
Well, this is odd - The
Prestige hasn't even hit theaters, and yet there's another magician movie about to go into production. Based
entirely on the news that The Great Buck
Howard was just fully financed, it would be appear that magicians just might be Hollywood's next penguins
(which works out remarkably well, given how similarly they dress and everything). Howard, based on a script by
the film's director, Sean McGinly, is a comedy about a fading
superstar magician who hires a new, eager assistant; understandably, the assistant's father is less than happy with his
son's career choice. Already cast as the assistant is Colin Hanks (who was inexplicably charming in the generally crappy Get Over It) and his father will be played by Forrest himself, Tom Hanks. Oh wait - I get it! It's his real dad! Playing his dad! Why, that's fantastically clever! Sigh. In negotiations to play the magician is Kevin Kline, whose presence would raise the film's potential rather dramatically - for some reason, the thought of him playing a washed-up and, presumably, grumpy magician makes me think of Soapdish, which is a very good thing.
The movie starts filming this summer in New York.
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