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 Rustin and A Man In Full star Aml Ameen is leading feature thriller Killing of a Nation, about political unrest and crime in Haiti. Also starring are Jimmy Jean-Louis (Heroes), Aïssa Maïga (Russian Dolls), O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale), Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break), Ayoola Ayolola (The Chosen), Jairo Ordoñez (Sound of Freedom), Grainger Hines (Dr. Death) and Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things).

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Muzzle (2023)

Muzzle (2023) #JohnStalbergJr #AaronEckhart #StephenLang #NickSearcy #PenelopeMitchell #DiegoTinoco Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (September) Genre: Action Regie: John Stalberg Jr. Hauptrollen: Aaron Eckhart, Stephen Lang, Nick Searcy, Penelope Mitchell, Diego Tinoco, Grainger Hines, Luis Chávez, Eddie Perez, Dori Lucas, Neftali Hernandez, Delissa Reynolds, Gonzalo Robles … Filmbeschreibung: Hundestaffel-Cop Jake Rosser (Aaron Eckhart) und sein vierbeiniger Partner Ace sind für die Polizei von Los Angeles auf…

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Adrienne Barbeau and Lauren Hutton in Someone's Watching Me! (John Carpenter, 1978)

Cast: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, Grainger Hines, Len Lesser, John Mahon, James Murtaugh, George Skaff. Screenplay: John Carpenter. Cinematography: Robert B. Hauser. Art direction: Philip Barber. Film editing: Jerry Taylor. Music: Harry Sukman. 

The hysterically titled Someone's Watching Me! (the working title was High Rise) was made for TV, and it's not up to John Carpenter's usual standards. But it's still a watchable thriller with a good performance by Lauren Hutton and some moments of genuine suspense. Hutton plays Leigh Michaels, a director of live television who comes to LA for a new job and takes an apartment in a newly built high rise that the leasing agent assures her has state-of-the-art computer-controlled amenities. She quickly makes a new friend in coworker Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau), who lets her know that she's a lesbian but that Leigh "isn't her type." She also lands a new boyfriend, Paul Winkless (David Birney), by hitting on him in a bar -- a spur-of-the-moment thing after she gets tired of being hit on herself. He's a philosophy professor at USC, of all things. But then creepy things start to happen to Leigh, and she realizes she's in some kind of danger. Sophie and Paul urge her to call the police, but when she does they say they can't help her until she's got better evidence that something truly criminal is going on. So everything is set up for a solid woman-in-jeopardy tale. The only thing that struck me as novel about the movie was that the introduction of a queer character in a strong second role was unusual for a major network like NBC as early as 1978. And then when we had a second scene in which Leigh shows her comfort with Sophie's sexual identity I realized what was going on: Sophie was being set up as the sacrificial character, the one who would fall victim to the harasser, thereby heightening Leigh's peril. The Kill-the-Queers trope loomed its tired old head again. Too bad, because otherwise Someone's Watching Me! smartly displays its debt to Rear Window (1954) and to Hitchcock in general, and Hutton is an attractive heroine (though she smokes too much). 

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: Someone's Watching Me!

Año: 1978

Duración: 97 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: John Carpenter

Guion: John Carpenter

Música: Harry Sukman

Fotografía: Robert B. Hauser

Reparto: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, Grainger Hines, etc

Productora: Warner Bros. Television

Género: Thriller; Horror; Mystery

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What she didn’t say

December 21, 1985

MICHELLE PHILLIPS REVEALS WHAT SHE LEFT OUT OF BOOK

Marilyn Beck, Special to the News/Sun-SentinelSUN-SENTINEL

'Never in my wildest dreams would I ever consider it."

That is what Michelle Phillips has to say about writing an autobiography.

True, the dusty-rose blonde who sang her way to fame with the Mamas and the Papas in the '60s has California Dreamin' due to be published by Warner Books next May. But the tome is about the famed folk-rock group and that's all. It concludes in 1968.

We won't be reading any heart-stopping revelations, she says - although she does cover such subjects as the group's drug use. "We came in about the time the psychedelics were introduced ...

"I tried to tell a very '60s story with, hopefully, a very '60s backdrop. I tried to tell how it was then: the way people felt and the way they thought and the way they voted; where they lived and who they hung out with and what they wore. I tried to paint a picture," says Phillips, who worked out her story with the aid of writer and ex-Beatles publicist Derek Taylor.

As for the past 16 years, "writing about that is just not something any of the people in my life would want. I don't think it's really important for any reasons to tell stories about boyfriends. It's unfortunate," she says, laughing, "because I have some great stories. But it's bad taste - declasse."

There's no question that Phillips' life after '68 has been chock-full of the kind of drama that makes publishers drool.

Her various romances have made for plenty of tabloid fodder. Married thrice - to 

John Phillips, 

Robert Burch [radio exec], 

Dennis Hopper - for eight days

her celebrated liaisons have included Jack Nicholson as well as the  actor Grainger Hines, the father of her 3-year-old son.

PARTNERS:

Grainger Hines (1981–1984)

Geoffrey Tozer (1987–1996)

Steven Zax (1999–2017; his death)

(wedding to Robert Burch 1978)

1983, Grainger Hines & Michelle

Austin Hines, b 1982, son of Grainger & Michelle (Married to Lois Kessel, Film Crew — 2 kids)

Geoffrey Tozer (Actorb 1951: dated Michelle 1987 to 1996)

Steven Zax, as was.

Steven Zax (1938 - 2017, plastic surgeon, who in his youth was a music producer) — Lived with Michelle Phillips from 1999 until his death in 2017. They never married.  De-facto stepfather of Chynna Phillips, Austin Hines and Aron Wilson.

There have also been traumatic times.

Six years ago, Phillips was trying to obtain legal custody of Tamerlane Phillips, the son of her ex-husband, John, and his (now ex) third wife, Genevieve Waite - and Michelle was accusing them of child-stealing. 

But she refused to say at the time why she was going to such extremes. John Phillips' drug-dependency problems were later made quite public by John himself, after he (and his daughter, Mackenzie) joined a rehabilitation program.

Now, "that's resolved, water under the bridge." Tamerlane, 15, "is at boarding school. He's a great kid.

"And John and I are -" She stops. "Genevieve and I are actually friends. She lives here in Beverly Hills."

A moment later, Phillips adds: "I would like to heal up any bad feelings that might still be harbored between any of us. It's just that it takes a long time to get over things."

John, Mackenzie, Denny Doherty and Spanky McFarlane are still touring clubs as the new Mamas and the Papas.

"Initially, I didn't like it at all," says Phillips of the group. "But then I went to see them in '83 in Las Vegas, and I was very impressed. I got up onstage and sang with them, and it was a very heartwarming experience.

"The music is still good."

(In fact, Phillips reports, "I still make fine royalties from the albums. If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years still, I wouldn't have believed you.")

Phillips is about as far away from '60s psychedelia this day as one could get. Dressed in an elegant soft pink designer slacks ensemble, she sits in the cool, rich atmosphere of Beverly Hills' Trumps restaurant enjoying afternoon tea.

The singer-cum-actress recently returned from Arizona and American Anthem production. Anthem - due for release next Fourth of July - marks the movie debut of Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Mitch Gaylord. Gymnastics competition serves as the vehicle through which is told a story of relationships, according to Phillips. It'll have the look and feel of rock videos, which is no surprise; American Anthem also marks filmmaker Albert Magnoli's follow-up to Prince's Purple Rain.

Phillips plays Gaylord's mother in the movie.

"Mitch is 24 years old," she notes. "But that's all right. I'm 41. If I'd had a child when I was 17, he'd be 24. It works for me."

She laughs. "And I couldn't have a cuter kid.

"You know, I am a proud mother," she adds, referring to her own progeny: 3-year-old Austin Hines and his 17-year-old half-sister, Chynna Phillips. Note: Grainger Hines has three sons Aron Hines, and Austin Hines, and Gray Hines. Aron and Austin's mother is Michelle Phillips.

Aron WILSON: Adopted son of Michelle Phillips & Geoffrey Tozer.

Followers of the saga of Michelle Phillips have become well-acquainted with her daughter by John Phillips over the years - despite Phillips' insistence that Chynna remain out of show business until reaching adulthood. 

Chynna auditioned for the '70s-updated edition of The Mickey Mouse Club before her mother put a stop to it.

Later, Chynna lined herself up with a top agent before Phillips heard of the goings-on. "I want her to have a normal childhood," Phillips said - and she promised Chynna she'd "make it up to her. I'm putting together a project for her to do when she's old enough."

Michelle with her grand-daughter & mini-me, Brooke (Chynna’s daughter)

Phillips grins when asked about casting of the her role should her California Dreamin' book be made into a movie. (Indeed, Phillips' plans to make a movie about the Mamas and the Papas predated writing of the text.)

"Isn't it obvious? Of course, I'd at least like my daughter to read for it. She's done a lot of acting. She's been in workshops since she was 12."

Chynna will be 18 in February. She's making plans to head to Japan to do some modeling.

Chynna’s husband Billy and their 3 kids

Mama Phillips is already gearing up for the next chapters of her life. She's plotting her book tour. Young Austin, she reports, will be staying home with her friend and nanny of 16 years, Rosa Garcia.

She also has rounded up celebrity women friends for a calendar to be published by Warner Books, the proceeds of which will go to charity.

She's building a getaway log house in Idlewild, Calif.

And there is a whirl of other projects, friends, ideas.

"I'm starting to amaze myself," she says, in one unguarded moment. "I'm looking at myself and thinking, 'Auntie Mame. Oh, no.' "

Copyright © 2018,  Sun Sentinel

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If I throw away my shot, is this how you’ll remember me?

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Dr. Death (2021)

Directed by Maggie Kiley, Jennifer Morrison & So Yong Kim, Cinematography by Kat Westergaard & Zachary Galler

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s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry The Ensigns of Command [s3ep2]

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: The Gal Who Got Rattled (2018) dir The Coen Bros.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - “The Gal Who Got Rattled” (2018) directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

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Weil der passendende Heimkehrfilm ja leider etwas unerträglich ist (vergleiche hier, außerdem hat ihn der Tobi gerade angeschaut), etwas ganz anderes: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs und andere Geschichten, eine reizende Western-Anthologie mit Gesangseinlagen von den Coen-Brüdern, die beherzt jedes Western-Klischée einschließlich Indianerangriff und Kutschfahrt bedient, aber jede Western-Regel mißachtet.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: Muzzle

Año: 2023

Duración: 100 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: John Stalberg

Guion: Carlyle Eubank. Historia: John Stalberg

Música: Paul Gallister

Fotografía: Pieter Vermeer

Reparto: Aaron Eckhart, Grainger Hines, Luis Chávez, Kyle Smithson, Neftali Hernandez, Leslie Black, Cliff Cash, Apollo Bacala, George Avgoustis, Nicole Cornelius

Productora: Slow Burn, Broken Open Pictures, Highland Film Group, Studio 507

Género: Action; Crime; Thriller

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