Apocalypse Now

...and barely educated, McQueen made bad career choices, turning down the leads in classic movies including One Flew Over The Cuckoo s Nest, Apocalypse Now, Play Misty For Me, The Wild Bunch and Ryan s Daughter. He dumped Butch Cassidy And The...

In this article: Steve McQueen, Neile Adams, Paul Newman, Henry Hathaway, James Coburn, Hollywood, and US Marines

...the virtues of Angus Young is bad enough; the scene where Fleur mourns Kurt Cobain, or the one in which a doctor waxes lyrical about Apocalypse Now, almost reach Richard Curtis levels of knuckle-gnawing awfulness. SOUTHERN SOFTIES (U)

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Mark Whitacre, FBI, Che, Lysine, and James Bond

The world has been ending since the beginning of time (Tom Long's Nov. 12 Think column "Apocalypse now"). Just as each second ticks off the clock, we grow ever closer to death and the world draws closer to ending. It makes for good movies,...

In this article: God, Jesus Christ, Compuware, IRS, FBI, and Kwame Kilpatrick

...to have." Maybe they should talk about poetry, too. In a recent issue of Playboy, King's poem "The Bone Church" does a free-verse Apocalypse Now-ish, gloriously profane horror number on Kipling. Poetry? "I do quite a lot of it and I...

In this article: Stephen King, Under the Dome, David Cronenberg, Robert Browning, The Stand, Suicide, God, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, and Catholic church

...short online films that could be easily viewed on cellphones or iPods. ``If you see Apocalypse Now on your iPod, you really don't see the film,'' said Rossellini, who was introduced by Miami filmmaker David Frankel [The Devil Wears...

In this article: Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, Hialeah High School, Blue Velvet, Barbara Pierce, IPod, Miami, Florida, and Richard Powers

...showing up uninvited at her husband's funeral dressed for a picnic. Foster, trying to be all Martin Sheen at the beginning of "Apocalypse Now" (lots of wall-punching and sleeping on floors -- he's miffed at his girlfriend for being...

In this article: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Stop-Loss, Flummery, The Messenger, Samantha Morton, Ryan Phillippe, Grace Is Gone, and Steve Buscemi

In this article: Fight Club, The Daily Beast, Laura Ziskin, Art Linson, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Capitalism, and Consumerism

...get everyone's prompt attention. This doesn't mean that if one didn't go to school with a famous comic actor or their father didn't direct Apocalypse Now that there's no hope. It also doesn't mean that an actor needs to harass famous people...

In this article: Hollywood, Malcolm Gladwell, Beneficiary, Pop Tarts, Screen Actor's Guild, and Will Ferrell

Apocalypse now: Armageddon scenarios reach fever pitch It's in your local bookstore, on DVD rentals, all over television, and it's coming to movie theaters -- first on Friday with the disaster blockbuster "2012" and then on Nov. 25 with...

In this article: Social anxiety

...the unit years after its inception, still operational if on the insane side. It's a little like stumbling into Brando's lair if "Apocalypse Now" had been a black comedy instead of just black. "Goats" is a lot of nonsensical fun and...

In this article: Ewan McGregor