Jim Post, who with then-wife Cathy under the band name Friend & Lover scored a Top 10 hit in 1968 with the enduring hippie anthem “Reach Out of the Darkness,” died of congestive heart failure Sept. 14 in Dubuque, Iowa. He was 82.
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confirmed the news Tuesday on her Instagram account.According to The New York Times, his wife, Susan Straub, said his death was caused by complications from breaking a hip. He died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Fellow writers and collaborators have been mourning the author’s death on social media, including Neil Gaiman, who was one of the first to express his sadness at Straub’s death (“Always kind, funny, irascible, brilliant,” Gaiman said). King, whose latest novel “Fairy Tale” debuts in bookstores Tuesday, wrote: “Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”Straub’s first horror novel, “Julia,” was published in 1975 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
It was adapted into a feature, known as either “Full Circle” or “The Haunting of Julia,” which starred Mia Farrow and Keir Dullea, that was released in 1977. By 1979, with the release of “Ghost Story,” Straub had become a bestselling novelist.
It too was adapted into a feature film, this time by Universal Pictures in 1981 (the adaptation starred Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and John Houseman).
King wrote favorably about “Ghost Story” and the two authors had become friends when King moved his family to London in 1977. King’s stay only lasted a few months, and when Straub moved back to the United States, the idle chatter about collaborating become much more concrete.The result of King and Straub’s collaboration was 1981’s “The Talisman,” a fantasy adventure that follows a young boy named Jack Sawyer who, in an effort to save his dying mother, travels to a parallel universe known as the Territories in search of a magical cure.“The Talisman” was a sensation and further cemented Straub’s place as one of horror and fantasy fiction’s
.Jim Post, who with then-wife Cathy under the band name Friend & Lover scored a Top 10 hit in 1968 with the enduring hippie anthem “Reach Out of the Darkness,” died of congestive heart failure Sept. 14 in Dubuque, Iowa. He was 82.
HBO has released the first trailer for The Last Of Us starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey – check it out above.Adapted from the 2013 action game by developer Naughty Dog, The Last Of Us follows Joel (Pascal) who is tasked with escorting teenager Ellie (Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States that’s been ravaged by a deadly disease.The series also stars Gabriel Luna as Joel’s younger brother Tommy, alongside Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce and Anna Torv. Guest stars in the series include Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Lamar Johnson and Storm Reid.Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, who portrayed Joel and Ellie in the original game, have also been cast in undisclosed roles.The Last Of Us consists of ten episodes and is written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann, who wrote and directed the game.The trailer was unveiled as part of The Last Of Us Day on September 26, which has taken place annually since 2013.A sequel to The Last Of Us was released in June 2020 on the PlayStation 4.
Whether it’s Netflix‘s “The Witcher” or Paramount+‘s “Halo,” it’s safe to say there’s a renaissance going on for videogame adaptations on TV and streaming. If two doesn’t cut it, well, another one is on the way soon: HBO‘s take on the hit game “The Last Of Us.” READ MORE: HBO First Look: Teaser Footage Of ‘The Last Of Us,’ ‘Succession’ S4, ‘White Lotus’ Season 2 & Many More Based on Naughty Dog‘s 2013 videogame of the same name, the new series follows Pedro Pascal as Joel, a survivor in the post-apocalyptic US tasked with smuggling a young girl across the country.
Rita Gardner, an original cast member of the long-running Off Broadway phenomenon The Fantasticks, died Saturday of leukemia at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. She was 87.
who passed away at 94 in January — was already at death’s door.“I was not expected to live,” says Poitier in the new documentary “Sidney,” which premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday. “I was born two months premature.”The film traces Poitier’s remarkable journey from his father tucking him into a shoebox as a sickly infant to growing into a screen icon and the first black man to win the Best Actor Oscar, with “Lilies of the Field” in 1964.“I remember thinking, ‘If he could do that, I wonder what I can do,’ ” says Oprah Winfrey, who produced the documentary, about how Poitier’s groundbreaking career inspired her.“It was the first time I’d seen a black man assert his power,” says Halle Berry — who became the first African-American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar in 2002 — of Poitier’s impact on her.
While the Emmys drew mixed reviews, the film festivals closed to strong applause this week, not only for their movies (we’d forgotten some) but for their star turnout (forgot a few of them, too).
Tim Gray Senior Vice President Richard Setlowe, a longtime entertainment journalist who transitioned from his Variety staff job to become a network exec and later a prolific novelist, died Aug. 25 at Kaiser Permanente in Panorama City, Calif. after long-term health issues. He was 89. Setlowe worked as a writer and editor at the San Francisco Examiner and contributed to Time, Life and TV Guide. He also wrote for Variety on film, music and drama, from 1962 through 1998. He was Variety‘s Bay Area correspondent for several years and became a full-time staffer in September 1969, including a stint as lead film reviewer. He left journalism to become VP of creative affairs at ABC Pictures in March 1971.
Married At First Sight UK has got us absolutely hooked at the moment as the trials and tribulations of eight couples who met for the first time when they walked down the aisle play out on our screens.Among this year’s couples are dental hygienist Jess Potter and her Dreamboys stripper husband Pjay Finch, who have been having a dramatic old time of it lately.Despite their mutual attraction and shared love of Harry Potter, Jess and Pjay hit the rocks when he revealed that he worked as a stripper and she stormed out of their wedding. Although she gave him another chance, Pjay then found himself firmly in the friend zone after their honeymoon.Whether Jess and Pjay remain in the experiment and find love or call it quits and leave before the show ends remains to be see, but it turns out that this isn’t the first time that Jess has appeared on a dating show.Jess has a reality TV past – much like her fellow bride April Banbury – after appearing on the second series of Netflix's, frankly, bizarre dating show Sexy Beasts.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's daughters Audrey and Gracie McGraw have shared their sadness following the death of French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard.MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter Gracie issues urgent warning to fans after alarming newsThe famous offspring took to their respective Instagram accounts on Tuesday shortly after Jean-Luc's passing was revealed to pay their respects to the filmmaker, who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe.WATCH: Faith Hill & Tim McGraw share story on meeting daughter's boyfriendAudrey was first to mark Jean-Luc's death, sharing an old black and white photo of him on her Instagram Stories which she captioned with a broken heart emoji.Gracie also took to her Stories and shared an image of Jean-Luc, but let the picture speak for itself as she left no comment.MORE: Faith Hill's lookalike daughter Audrey stuns in red lace in intimate bedroom selfieSEE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's mega-mansion is 10x bigger than average US homeJean-Luc passed away "peacefully at home" on Tuesday while surrounded by his loved ones, including his film-maker wife, Annie-Marie Miéville, in the Swiss town of Rolle. He was 91.His long-time legal adviser, Patrick Jeanneret, revealed he had chosen to end his life and died by assisted suicide, having suffered from "multiple disabling pathologies".
Watching Peter Farrelly’s new film, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, and knowing little about it going in, I kept thinking this would be a totally absurd, beyond belief story if it isn’t one that really happened. By the end I saw it is indeed 100% true, proving life can sometimes be stranger than fiction. As such it turns out to be one of the more memorable, and certainly heartfelt movies this year, as well as a Vietnam War movie that couldn’t be further from The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now, but a character-driven drama that defies logic but makes you believe once again in the power of the human spirit. This is the rare Vietnam film seen from the POV of a civilian, a key reason it works as well as it does.
Ken Starr, the prosecutor who led the relentless Whitewater investigation into then-President Bill Clinton and whose report on the case revealed intimate details of Clinton’s extramarital sexual relations, died Tuesday in Houston following complications from surgery. He was 76.
EXCLUSIVE: Jimmi Simpson (Pachinko) and Clancy Brown (Dexter: New Blood) have boarded Ami Canaan Mann’s biopic Audrey’s Children for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake), with Brandon Micheal Hall (Search Party), Julianna Layne (Prodigal Son), Ben Chase (The Thing About Pam) and Evelyn Giovine (The Crowded Room) also signing on for roles.
Peter Facinelli is planning to recruit his teenage daughter to babysit his newborn. 'The Twilight Saga' actor welcomed his fourth child - his first with partner Lily Anne Harrison - on Monday (05. 09.
Marsha Hunt, a veteran actress of the Golden Age of film, radio and Broadway who later saw her career wither over her protests against the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), died of natural causes on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.
Disney’s Pixar today named the lead voice actors for its upcoming animated feature, Elemental. The film’s director Peter Sohn and producer Denise Ream, who previously collaborated on The Good Dinosaur, announced the castings, as they brought to the stage actors Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World Dominion) and Leah Lewis (The Half of It).
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time since launching eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book five years ago, writer/director Peter Farrelly returns to the Toronto Film Festival with another drama built around an obscure and difficult to be believed but fact-based road trip set in the turbulent ‘60s.
You can read more here. Anyway, back to Kimmel. “Queen Elizabeth II passed away at the age of 96 today.
The rules of survival in Hollywood have always fascinated me. “Consistency is the key – always present yourself to studios as a total bitch,” Bette Davis once confided. “Never delude yourself into thinking that a star can become a loyal personal friend,” advised Billy Wilder. “Since studios always lie, a producer’s mandate is to come up with bigger lies,” said David O. Selznick.
Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, died of lung caner on Wednesday, the network announced.