Famed Casting Agent Lynn Stalmaster Credits Acting Background for Career Success
When it comes to the casting industry, no single individual has ever come close to surpassing the impact Lynn Stalmaster has had on film. As the first independent casting director in motion pictures,...
View Article‘Knight Rider,’‘Boy Meets World’ Actor William Daniels on His Early Career
You might not know the name William Daniels, but you probably know his face — and if not his face, certainly his voice. The actor made a name for himself in the 1960 Off Broadway premiere of Edward...
View Article‘The Graduate’ at 50: Sex, Alienation and Comedy Made Mike Nichols Film a...
June is graduation month, which means a long parade of commencement ceremonies and family parties celebrating the new graduate. And at many of those parties, someone will make a joke about Mrs....
View Article50 Years Later: Dustin Hoffman Recalls Mike Nichols’ Vision for ‘The Graduate’
Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate,” an adaptation of Charles Webb’s “novel of today’s youth unlike any you have read” (so boasted first-edition copies) hit theaters on Dec. 22, 1967. It received seven Oscar...
View Article‘The Graduate’ Soundtrack Turns 50: How ‘Mrs. Roosevelt’ Became No. 1 Hit...
After the soundtrack album for Mike Nichols’ comedy/drama “The Graduate” was released on Jan. 21, 1968, it quickly vaulted to No. 1 on the American LP charts, where it established itself as something...
View ArticleProlific Title Designer Wayne Fitzgerald Dies at 89
Wayne Fitzgerald, the main title designer of films and television shows including “Apocalypse Now,” “The Graduate,” “Chinatown,” “Dallas,” “The Searchers,” “The Godfather” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,”...
View ArticleBuck Henry, ‘Graduate’ Writer and ‘Get Smart’ Co-Creator, Dies at 89
Buck Henry, a writer, actor and director whose 1967 Oscar-nominated adapted screenplay for “The Graduate” captured a generation’s frustration with their parents’ conspicuous consumption and rigid...
View ArticleMike Nichols Got His Juiciest Backstage Stories From Broadway
There are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in “Mike Nichols: A Life,” the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of them, according...
View ArticleDustin Hoffman’s 13 Best Film Performances: From ‘The Graduate’ to ‘Tootsie’
Dustin Hoffman is one of the most versatile actors to ever grace the silver screen. Homegrown in Hollywood, the Los Angeles native has steered a career that has spanned over seven decades and brought...
View ArticleLawrence Turman, Oscar-Nommed for Producing ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 96
Lawrence Turman, producer of films including Oscar winner “The Graduate,” and longtime chair of the Peter Stark Producing program at USC, died Saturday at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills. He...
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