Sign up for Susan King’s weekly newsletter, Sean Connery dies at 90, Scottish actor played the original James Bond. Voters must chose among 33 candidates for four seats on the the Los Angeles Community College District’s seven-member board. Endorsement: Steve Morgan, David Berger, David Diamond for L.A. County Superior Court. You can’t have an $800 box of shoes showing.”. Ben Mankiewicz, second host on TCM, sits with his favorite dog, Bob, in front of an old stage prop sign at his home in Santa Monica.

For those of you who missed it: during an on-air introduction to the 1957 movie A Face in the Crowd, TCM host Ben Mankiewicz gave legions of conservative viewers a collective poke in the eye, by way of a not-so-veiled sneer at talk-show host Glenn Beck. Lee Russo is a freelance saxophonist in Albany, NY.

The TCM brass, presumably a bit more concerned with gauche ratings than the hired help, would be wise to heed the warning of the literary critic Francis Jeffrey, who wrote almost two centuries ago that, “Goodwill, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.”. What was important was knowing why George McGovern was a great man.”. Mankiewicz was born in Washington, D.C. to press secretary Frank Mankiewicz and Holly Mankiewicz (née Jolley), His cousin is screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, He is the grandson of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, and great-nephew of screenwriter, producer, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Big Hollywood readers have called him onto the carpet before for inserting needless political commentary into his TCM introductions for films like The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Capricorn One (1977).

That is what passes for good manners, charitable action, and noble sacrifice in today’s Hollywood. Ben has conducted long-form interviews with more than a hundred of the industry’s top talents, including Quentin Tarantino, Jodie Foster, Warren Beatty, Billy Bob Thornton, Faye Dunaway, Michael Douglas, Jerry Lewis, and Mel Brooks.

Get the Indie Focus newsletter, Mark Olsen's weekly guide to the world of cinema. That made it click with me.”, Though his schedule changes weekly on the network, Mankiewicz usually hosts TCM on Saturdays and Sundays during the day, Sunday evenings and Thursday nights. “Growing up in Washington, D.C.,” he says, “politics and sports were always a lot more important than movies. Mankiewicz lived in Washington, D.C. with his wife, novelist Patricia O'Brien, who also writes under the pseudonym of Kate Alcott. Remembering Sean Connery: Our critics discuss his finest roles and that infamous Playboy interview, Sean Connery, who died at 90, leaves behind a staggering body of work beyond James Bond, including “The Man Who Would Be King,” “Murder on the Orient Express” and “The Untouchables.”, Publicity executive Maurice Segal, who crafted campaigns for classic films, dies at 99. “So you have Robert in New York and Ben in Los Angeles. . We had him in a set that was a downtown loft, and his scripts were much less reverential.”, But now, Tabesh said, “he’s a beloved member of the family.”, “People grew to accept him and trust us that we weren’t changing the channel or getting rid of Robert,” he added. How to vote. Not long after arriving, Herman cabled his friend Ben Hecht back in New York, “There are millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Where to vote. But, in an era where the political commentators who shout the loudest — or (dramatic pause and sly smile) cry the most — generate the biggest ratings, the prophetic nature of this 1957 classic enhances its remarkable timeliness today. Walking upstairs to his den, I found the genial (and, for the record, fairly conservative) writer dressed in a rumpled shirt and boxer shorts, surrounded by a sea of awards and papers and memorabilia of every description, and happily watching Turner Classic Movies on a big-screen TV. On a recent sunny morning, Mankiewicz was holding court in his poster-filled office at the cozy Santa Monica house he shares with his wife, Lee Russo — he married her in 2013 on the TCM Cruise — their 2-year-old daughter, Josie, and three dogs.