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Friday, September 25, 2020 at 10:00PM • ET Sex and the City thinking of recasting Samantha? Terrible terrible idea.
• Vanity Fair Elle Fanning is this month's covergirl
• The Guardian profiles Sophia Loren
Greatest Albums, Aldis Hodge casting, the would-be Baroness Von Trapp, Samuel L Jackson up for more Nick Fury, and mSarah Jessica Parker's hustling after the jump...
Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 7:00AM 13 random things that happened on this day, September 20th, in showbiz history...
1941 The Porky Pig short "Notes to You" was released. It's sometimes credited with introducing Sylvester the Cat but that's erroneous. The confusion probably stems from the fact that this short was remade as "Back Alley Uproar" seven years later with Sylvester, by then an official character who looks not unlike this cat, and Elmer Fudd in the roles.
1975 "Fame" hits #1 in the US, the first David Bowie record to do so...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 1:17PM by Eric Blume
Variety recently announced that Netflix has acquired rights to an Italian remake of the 1977 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa. Now titled The Life Ahead, it stars Sophia Loren in the Simone Signoret role, who this time "forges a bond with a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant boy named Momo."
There's a lot to unpack here. The original Madame Rosa movie is notoriously one of the worst winners of that Oscar category, and for good reason: the movie is sentimental garbage. This French film won over, among others, Luis Bunuel's challenging The Obscure Object of Desire and Ettore Scola's A Special Day, starring Marcello Mastroianni and...Sophia Loren...
Monday, September 17, 2018 at 8:37AM 7 random things that happened on this day, September 17th, in showbiz history...
1931 Anna Maria Louisa Italiano born in The Bronx. She's goes on to become Anne Bancroft, one of the all time greats of stage and screen.
← 1957 Here's a truly odd bit of trivia. Sophia Loren was married by proxy on this day. Two male attorneys stood in for her and producer Carlo Ponti (who gave her stage name and groomed her public image -- they first met in 1950 when Sophia was only 16). Ponti was not legally divorced from his previous wife so the marriage was annulled to escape bigamy charges and then they married again in 1966, but legally this time; they remained married for the rest of his life! But how crazy, right?
1963 The Fugitive premieres on ABC...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 5:19PM A key "on this day" we forgot this morning. March 7th was the date, way back in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell got his patent for the telephone. So let's gawk at sexy photos of movie stars with telephones. It's really the only appropriate way to celebrate because who talks on the telephone anymore? Movie stars don't employ them much in photoshoots anymore either.
