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April 15, 2009
DP/30 - Norman Jewison
Around the 20th anniversary of his founding of the Canadian Film Centre, director Norman Jewison is being feted north and south. This weekend, the party comes to a LA Contemporary Museum of Art event, which will be attended by many of the actors that shared some of the best moments of Jewison's career.
This gave us a chance to sit down with the director of five Oscar Best Picture nominees - In The Heat of The Night, Moonstruck, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, A Soldier's Story, and Fiddler On The Roof - not to mention The Thomas Crown Affair, The Cincinnati Kid, The Hurricane, ...And Justice for All, Rollerball, Jesus Christ Superstar, some good silly 50s/60s comedies with Tony Curtis, Doris Day and others amongst his 13 other feature films, plus a TV career as the guy who made Judy Garland look her best on the then-new medium.
The video interview with the 82-year-old legend is after the jump...
Posted by dpoland at April 15, 2009 01:06 PM
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And ROLLERBALL! He looks and sounds great.
Posted by: christian ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 15, 2009 01:11 PM
Free pass 4 life for
Rollerball
Send me no Flowers
Rollerball
the coolest casted Mary magdelene ever in JCS
having Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Lee Grant, Beah Richards and Warren oates all in the same movie
and...Rollerball
and I thought Robert Downey Jr and Billy Zane were hilarious in Only You.
romances/RC are hard to do without being sugary or cheesy...he did them well
Posted by: Lota at April 15, 2009 08:33 PM
amen to that.
(but geeze, how could you guys forget to mention the legend that is 'rollerball'!)
jewison is some class act. and what a switched-on cutie-pie at 82, kudos to him
Posted by: leahnz at April 15, 2009 09:17 PM
Lota: And Scott Wilson! Don't forget Scott Wilson!
Posted by: Joe Leydon at April 15, 2009 09:21 PM
Personally, I prefer Moonstruck...
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at April 16, 2009 12:29 AM
Joe: And William Schallert! The GOD that is William Schallert! And he's still working (saw him in the last couple of Desperate Housewives episodes).
Posted by: yancyskancy at April 16, 2009 08:25 AM
Jewison looks great for 82 years old. And sharp as a tack. Good for him.
Posted by: mysteryperfecta at April 16, 2009 10:31 AM
And Quentin Dean! That scene where she describes having sex on a tombstone still gives me the ol' tremor. Such a hottie; a shame her career never went anywhere.
Posted by: Cadavra at April 16, 2009 12:50 PM
William Schallert? Awesome! I love how Joe Dante used him!
Posted by: christian at April 16, 2009 01:56 PM
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