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• John Frankenheimer: A Remembrance

  

  Director John Frankenheimer. I'm often asked which, out of the over 600 interviews I've logged with Hollywood's finest, is my favorite. It's not a tough... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gabriel Byrne: The Hollywood Flashback Interview

  

  I interviewed actor Gabriel Byrne by phone in 2009, my final interview for Venice Magazine. It was simultaneously one of the easiest and most difficult... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Robert Evans: The Hollywood Flashback Interview

  

  Producer Robert Evans, circa 1970s, in the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture. ROBERT EVANS: THE KID IS ALRIGHTByAlex SimonI interviewed legendary... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Ten Most Stylish Guys in Movie History

  

  By Alex SimonThey say that clothes make the man. They also make the man in the movie and, sometimes, even make the movie itself live on in the annals of... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mel Gibson: The Hollywood Flashback Interview

  

  Mel Gibson, whom I interviewed for Venice Magazine in late 2000, was my first real childhood hero I sat down with. If you were a Gen-X male, Mel Gibson was the... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cinema's Hidden Pearls -- Part II

  

  Cinema’s Hidden Pearls – Part IIBy Alex SimonOne of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cinema's Hidden Pearls -- Part I

  

  Cinema’s Hidden Pearls – Part IBy Alex SimonOne of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson: The Hollywood Interview

  

  Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson Find Paradise Lost in EscobarBy Alex SimonMost people know Paradise Lost as the title of John Milton’s epic poem, first... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pierce Brosnan: The Hollywood Flashback Interview

  

  I interviewed Pierce Brosnan in conjunction with his third outing as James Bond, in Michael Apted's The World Is Not Enough, in 1999. Brosnan was alternately... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Peter Joseph: The Hollywood Interview

  

  Awaiting Interreflections…Peter Joseph’s highly anticipated new film series inches towards its 2016 release. By Alex SimonIn a time of great social strife and... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Reda Kateb: The Hollywood Interview

  

  Reda Kateb Takes an Oath in HippocratesBy Alex SimonFrench actor Reda Kateb always knew he was a born actor. The son of an Algerian actor father and French... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ciara McAvoy: The Hollywood Interview

  

  Sweet Painting Lady: Ciara McAvoy Resurrects the Art of the Movie PosterBy Alex Simon“Art is not just a part of my life. It IS my life. It gives me breath. We... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• James Ellroy: The Hollywood Interview

  

  I interviewed James Ellroy, the great American noir novelist, at LA's venerable Pacific Dining Car in April 2001. We were there to discuss his latest book, The... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ciara McAvoy: The Hollywood Interview

  

  Sweet Painting Lady: Ciara McAvoy Resurrects the Art of the Movie PosterBy Alex Simon“Art is not just a part of my life. It IS my life. It gives me breath. We... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Top Ten Most Stressed-Out Characters in Movie History

  

  By Alex SimonStress kills, goes the old saying, and can cause a host of maladies before it does. Hypertension, heart disease and even Bruxism, otherwise known a... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten Weddings and No Funerals: The Greatest Cinematic Nuptials

  

  By Alex SimonThere are few rituals in life more chaotic, confounding and magical than the wedding. Appropriately, marriages have provided the backdrop for many ... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Brief (pun Intended) History of Lawyers in the Movies Part Ii

  

  Lawyers in motion pictures have been portrayed as one of two extremes, devils or angels, almost since celluloid was invented. The first film dealing specificall... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Flashback Interview

  

  It was August, 2005. I knocked on the double door at the Four Seasons. It opened almost immediately. "Hi, I'm Nic," he said, hand outstretched. Nicolas Cage... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Great Movie Characters: Frank Serpico in Serpico

  

  By Alex Simon“Trumpet in a herd of elephants; / Crow in the company of cocks; / Bleat in a flock of goats.”—Mayan proverb. “Frank, let's face it: who can trust ... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Great Movie Characters: Joe Leland in The Detective

  

  By Alex Simon By the mid-1960s, the notorious Hayes Code, the censorship standards begun in the 1930s, had begun to fall away. Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES