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Geraldine Chaplin One of a series of actors’ reminiscences edited by Jack Tewkesbury. GERALDINE CHAPLIN: My  father  Charlie Chaplin was  used  to  the  Southern California  climate  and  hated  the  cold.

arundel pc HFPA members had a busy time on a recent trip to London, visiting Pinewood Studios where they went on the set of Les Miserables and the following day taking a two-hour coach trip to Arundel in Sussex. There, Universal Studios had taken over the ancient Arundel Castle for TV, radio and print interviews with the cast of Snow White and the Huntsman.

WOODY HARRELSON One of a series of actors’ reminiscences researched by Jack Tewkesbury WOODY HARRELSON Look, I have no problem  with  twenty-five-year-old  virgins. In  another  twenty-five  years  they’ll  be  fifty.

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  Phil Berk with Jane Fonda Longtime HFPA member and former president Philip Berk (right with Jane Fonda) has been invited by Sight and Sound magazine to join a panel to decide the Ten Greatest Films of All Time. Phil, currently chairman of the HFPA board of directors, will be one of a group of world critics,  programmers, academics and curators who every ten years take part in the poll.

Sacha Baron The Honorable Supreme Leader of Wadiya, Shabazz Aladeen, met with members of the HFPA recently while promoting Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest – and most personal – film, The Dictator. Surrounded by two members of his Virgin Guards security team, the Admiral General praised the HFPA for having so many members representing countries that were once ruled by dictators: “Germany, the Philippines, Argentina … you are a true inspiration.

" I overheard  a  producer  say,  “If  you  kicked  an  Englishman  in  the  heart,  you’d  break  your  toes. ” Oh,  we  work  aplenty.

HFPA members attending the annual theater owners and exhibitors’ convention CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week were treated to good news about the health of the movie industry and some ground breaking previews of films to come like Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. Katzenberg According to John Fithian, President and CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) world wide box office was up 3% in 2011 and 6% in the last twelve months domestically.

The first in a series of actors’ reminiscences researched by Jack Tewkesbury: Harrison Ford HARRISON  FORD AT  FIRST,  ACTING  WAS ONLY  A  MENTAL  EXERCISE I  was  a  college  intellectual — you  know,  the  kind  of a  guy   who  can  write  in  three  languages  on  a  restroom wall. I  was  a  philosophy  major  in  college,  which  prepares  you to  do  nothing  but  teach  philosophy  or  write.

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