Joshua Hall learned how to become a stepparent after he wed Christina Hall (née Haack), and isn’t afraid to be the disciplinarian.
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HBO documentary, would have taken to the grave if he could have.“Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” is in the vein of other prominent documentaries aimed at telling the real story behind the Old Hollywood façade, including HBO’s most recent “The Last Movie Stars.” The revelations within the documentary’s 104-minute runtime aren’t revolutionary, but seek to give viewers an authentic look at a man whose life so often was swathed in artifice. It’s impossible to underscore Hudson’s appeal to viewers when he burst onto the scene in 1948.
“Rock Hudson was everybody’s type,” a talking head explains. He conveyed all that was hyper masculine, from his name to the numerous beefcake pictures he took, often with him shirtless and swinging an axe.
Where so many stars were created by the studio system — often changing their name and appearance to suit a hungry audience — Hudson had an added layer of polish to him. Henry Willson is oft-considered the man who invented Hudson, changing the young actor’s name from Roy Fitzgerald and turning him into the ultimate man’s man and ladies man.
But, as the documentary explains, that success came with a price, though the film shies away from the claims that Willson tended to sexually exploit the men under his wing. It’s remarkable how little Willson seems to factor in Hudson’s story, at least as far as the doc is concerned, because he most certainly loomed large as a figure in the actor’s life.
Hudson’s life is very quickly summed up in the first few minutes before devoting most of its runtime to his Hollywood career. But “All That Heaven Allowed” tends to focus less on the creation of Hudson’s stardom and more the push-pull of the open secret of his homosexuality and the attempts, by Willson,
.Joshua Hall learned how to become a stepparent after he wed Christina Hall (née Haack), and isn’t afraid to be the disciplinarian.
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In the Ukraine-themed documentary In the Rearview, a young girl and her family ride in a van over bumpy roads, on their way – if all goes well – to safety across the Polish border. In her hand the girl grips a piece of paper bearing essential information: her name, age, and a phone number to call in case she falls victim to Russian bombing and her body is discovered in a pile of rubble.
Jessica Kiang It is a paradox worthy of Zeno himself that significant dumbing-down is necessary in order to make tales of extraordinary genius comprehensible to us lay audiences. But in her own attempt at grandly unifying these opposing poles, French director Anna Novion (“Grown Ups,” “Rendezvous in Kiruna”) splits the difference so often she delivers in “Marguerite’s Theorem,” a movie riddled with cliché that plunges right past comprehensible into painfully, pedantically predictable — even to those of us who stumble when subtracting one two-digit number from another. Its heroine loves math because through it she can “put order on infinity,” but “Marguerite’s Theorem” is proof as incontrovertible as Andrew Wiles’ 1994 Fermat solution, that one can have too much order.
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Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s latest pic La Chimera has inked a series of international deals for The Match Factory following its well-received debut at last month’s Cannes Film Festival.
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ITV confirmed Ruchee Gurung as the first contestant entering this year's Love Island villa and after taking a dive into her interesting life, we can see why! Speaking about being a cast member on the tenth season of the hit dating show, the TV star said: "I’m a relationship kind of girl, but so far it’s not worked out for me. So I’m looking forward to hopefully finding the right person in the Villa." "I’m single and looking for love, and it’s the perfect opportunity for me to find someone," she finished. So, one thing we do know is Ruchee is on the hunt for the one.
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A grandfather-of-five has told how he collapsed with a heart attack and almost died on a shopping aisle in Aldi.
opened this week at the Lyceum Theatre, attempts to be a new horror movie on an old Broadway.Such a merger sounds smart in theory, with the genre doing reliably big business at cinemas and boasting hoards of ready-made fans. Why not produce “M3GAN Live,” or “The Nun” in two acts?Well, for one simple reason: because the kind of paralyzing fear and gruesome death that fuels horror films is just about impossible to satisfyingly replicate at the theater. 1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission.