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Roberts Named Oscars' Most Stylish
25 February 2008 (WENN)
Julia Roberts has been named the Best-Dressed Oscar winner in a new online poll. The actress' look at the 2000 Academy Awards, where she was named Best Actress for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich, gave her the style edge over Halle Berry in Parade.com's Oscar Survey Spectacular. Roberts scooped up 25 percent of the vote with Berry's 2001 outfit trailing close behind with 24 percent. Hilary Swank came in third for her 2004 Million Dollar Baby outfit. Parade.com's in depth online survey also named Roberts' Pretty Woman co-star Richard Gere and Sandra Bullock as the Favorite Actor and Actress Never Nominated for an Oscar. Meanwhile, Sally Field's "You really like me!" speech was voted Oscars' most memorable. And, in a look back at the favorite Oscar-winning films of each decade, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest claimed the 1970s prize, Rain Man was voted the Favorite Oscar Winner of the 1980s, Forrest Gump beat Titanic for the 1990s honor, and The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King was named the Favorite Film of the new century so far.

Emotional DeVito Collects Film Honor
10 July 2007 (WENN)
Veteran actor Danny DeVito was honored for his contribution to cinema at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic on Saturday. The diminutive 62-year-old, whose film The Good Night was in competition at the festival, collected the Crystal Globe prize in person to a standing ovation. Fighting back tears, DeVito said, "Don't try to make me cry." In a career spanning nearly four decades, DeVito has starred in movie classics including One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and L.A. Confidential and has directed other hits such as The War Of The Roses and Matilda. He is also well known for his producing skills. Elsewhere, Icelandic sci-fi thriller Jar City, directed by Baltasar Kormakur, won the Crystal Glove award for best feature film.

Nicholson's Childhood Home Up for Sale
27 October 2006 (WENN)
Oscar winner Jack Nicholson's childhood home is up for sale on internet auction site eBay.com. The One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest actor was brought up by his grandparents John and Ethel Nicholson in the Neptune, New Jersey home, and spent the first 37 years of his life believing they were his parents, until it was revealed in 1974 that his "sister" June Frances was actually his mother. Real estate agency Remax has placed the five-bedroom 1920s home for auction on eBay.com at a starting bid of $449,000, which is set to end on November 18. The home is actually listed as the place of his birth on his birth certificate, however Bellevue Hospital Center in nearby New York City has also been named as such.

Nicholson in Hospital?
13 September 2006 (WENN)
Movie veteran Jack Nicholson is reportedly being treated in a Los Angeles hospital for a mystery illness. The About Schmidt star "checked into an LA-area hospital for an infection" on Monday, a source tells PageSix.com. The nature of the 69-year-old's illness is unknown. His agent Sandy Bresler tells the website, "I do not comment on Jack's personal life." Nicholson's new movie The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese, is due for release later this year. He is due to begin work on his next film, The Bucket List, next month. Nicholson has won three Academy Awards -- Best Actor for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and As Good As It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment.

Vincent Schiavelli Dies
28 December 2005 (WENN)
Character actor Vincent Schiavelli, best known for his role in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, has died of lung cancer. He was 57. Schiavelli, recognizable to movie fans around the globe for his hangdog looks, also starred in director Milos Forman's Amadeus and The People Vs. Larry Flint and blockbusters including Tomorrow Never Dies, Ghost and Batman Returns. The New York-born Schiavelli appeared in more than 150 film and TV productions, and also wrote three cookbooks. He died at his home in Generosa, Sicily, Monday and is survived by his wife Carol Mukhalian and two children.

Slater to Quit Los Angeles for London
6 December 2004 (WENN)
Christian Slater plans to leave his former wild Los Angeles lifestyle behind for good by making London his permanent home. The Hollywood star, 35, who has been appearing on the West End stage in a critically-acclaimed production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, has decided to quit the star-packed city to reside in the British capitol with his wife Ryan Haddon and their two children Jaden, five, and three-year-old Eliana. Slater's mother and Los Angeles casting agent Mary Jo Slater says, "I don't think he would ever go back if he could help it. "Life in Los Angeles is no fun. He was raised in New York and he finds London is more like that, only with more to do."

Tarantino's French Honor
20 May 2004 (WENN)
American director Quentin Tarantino has been made an Officer Of Arts And Letters by the French government. The Kill Bill filmmaker - who is currently acting as the head of the Cannes Film Festival jury - was presented with the honor by French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres. Tarantino, who was awarded the Palme D'Or in 1994 for Pulp Fiction, says, "I'm actually for the first time speechless." Oscar-winning One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman was also made a Knight Of The Legion Of Honour. He was told by De Vabres, who dubbed him "a master of world cinema", that, "Your cinema crosses borders and is a model for generations of filmmakers."

Nicholson Backs French Actors
11 July 2003 (WENN)
Legendary actor Jack Nicholson pledged his support to striking French actors when they interrupted his film shoot in Paris. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest star Nicholson was filming recently on a bridge over the river Seine when protestors walked on to the set and refused to leave. Nicholson, wearing his trademark dark glasses, picked up a loudhailer to address the group and ask what the problem was. When hit with response that artists' rights were being threatened, he sympathetically replied in broken French, "The struggle continues!" After discussions with the protesters, the production crew decided to call a halt to filming for the day. The protests are over government plans to change Gallic actors and other arts workers' unemployment benefits - a dispute which has already caused the cancellation of a string of events across the country.

AFI Picks Top Heroes, Villains
4 June 2003 (StudioBriefing)
At ceremonies Tuesday night, the American film Institute named the top 100 movie heroes and villains. The top ten on each list:

Heroes: 1. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), To Kill a Mockingbird; 2. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), Raiders of the Lost Ark; 3. James Bond (Sean Connery), Dr. No; 4. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca; 5. Will Kane (Gary Cooper), High Noon; 6. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), The Silence of the Lambs; 7. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), Rocky; 8. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Aliens; 9. George Bailey (James Stewart), It's a Wonderful Life; 10. T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), Lawrence of Arabia.

Villains: 1. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), The Silence of the Lambs; 2. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), Psycho; 3. Darth Vader (David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones), The Empire Strikes Back; 4. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), The Wizard of Oz; 5. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 6. Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), It's a Wonderful Life; 7. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), Fatal Attraction; 8. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), Double Indemnity; 9. Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair), The Exorcist; 10. The Queen (voiced by Lucille LaVerne), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Jack Seeks a Woman of Substance
21 May 2003 (WENN)
Triple Oscar winner Jack Nicholson has never settled down - because he is yet to find a woman who is his equal. The star of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is famed for partying and a lifelong string of romantic liaisons. And although Jack was involved with Angelica Huston for 17 years, he claims he has never found a woman who can handle his wild ways. Nicholson says, "A good-looking girl is one thing. For any sort of relationship, I need an intelligent woman who has her own independence. Otherwise there is no fun and there can't be any equality. I would say I have been lucky with women. There is a down side, though. Have I found true love - whatever that is? Can I honestly say that I have found true happiness with a variety of women? I envy those who have - good luck to them. I have stayed single so long because I have never had to explain. There's been nobody sneaking around me with a camera to make trouble with my wife, so I have never had to worry about going out. What is there to report if there are no scandals?"

Zeta-Jones To Put Oscar in Front of Michael's
25 March 2003 (WENN)
Oscar-winning beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones says she will place her award in front of the two her husband Michael Douglas has previously won. The Chicago actress - who is eight and a half months pregnant - says that she will be taking the statuette back to her homeland of Wales. And she vows it will stand ahead of Douglas' gongs for producing One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and acting in Wall Street. She says, "I'll be putting this one in the middle of my husband's two Oscars, but a little bit in front of his. I'm taking my Oscar home, to show everyone in Wales. And no, I'm not naming my child Oscar."

Jack Nicholson Lied About Huston To Bed '70s Supermodel
23 August 2002 (WENN)
Jack Nicholson told '70s supermodel Janice Dickinson he was single in a bid to bed her - even though he was dating Anjelica Huston at the time. But Dickinson has got her own back after telling all about her love affair with the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest star in a revealing new autobiography. The reformed hellraiser also brags about bedding leading men like Bruce Willis, Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger in her new book No Lifeguard On Duty, in which she also details her drug abuse and modeling career. And she admits some sexploits were earth-shattering, especially the magic moments she shared with Jagger. She reveals, "It was Greek gods in the skies exploding. There was lightning and thunder. It was cool." Nicholson was a great lover too - even though he lied about his relationship with then-girlfriend Huston: "I'm sorry Anjelica, but he made it very clear that they weren't together. It was a night of romance and he was Jack." Few stars come out of the memoirs favorably, but Dickinson still has a soft spot for Beatty: "He's a consummate gentleman, the smartest man I know." And she uses the book to apologize to Sylvester Stallone for dragging him through the law courts over the paternity of her son. She says, "There was a DNA test and it proved that Sylvester Stallone wasn't the father but according to when I ovulated I really thought he was. I made a mistake on that."

Putin Star-struck By Nicholson
29 June 2001 (WENN)
Russian President Valdimir Putin was lost for words when he encountered Hollywood idol Jack Nicholson in Moscow. Since Mikhail Gorbachev, it has become common practice for Russia's leader to invite a Hollywood star to the country that banned American movies for 70 years. Putin's first attempts at communicating with the star were best desribed as feeble, finally managing to break the ice by announcing that One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - the Oscar-winning movie starring Nicholson - was his favorite film. That was banned, incidentally, because the Communist regime refused to acknowledge its director, Czech dissident Milos Forman. However, Putin, then a 22-year-old St. Petersburg University student, would have had no trouble seeing it. It was a huge underground success in the Soviet Union, because viewers saw it as an allegory for the individual's fight for survival in a suppresive Stalinist regime.

On Broadway, It Looks Like Hollywood
21 March 2001 (StudioBriefing)
Broadway is increasingly turning to Hollywood for source material as stage producers attempt to reduce their risks, the New York Daily News observed today (Wednesday). By the end of the 2001-02 season, nine Broadway shows will have opened that were based on movies. Besides the currently running hits, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and The Full Monty, the others include The Producers, The Sweet Smell of Success, Summer of '42, Moonstruck, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. In addition, productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Judgment at Nuremberg, while not based originally on movies, would not have made it to Broadway had it not been for the films, the NYDN observed. Marty Bell, co-producer of Sweet Smell of Success, told the newspaper: "Everybody's trying to find a way to be safe in a business you can't be safe in."

Kesey Makes Sundance Appearance
28 January 1999 (StudioBriefing)
Ken Kesey attracted a big crowd at the Sundance Film Festival Wednesday as he appeared at a screening of Chuck Workman's documentary about the Beat generation, The Source, in which he is featured along with such other cultural heretics of the '50s and '60s as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Timothy Leary and William Burroughs. The writer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and the subject of Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test brought down the house when he told the audience that had gathered to see the film, "What a pleasure to be in this century with those people."

Raising Kane To The Top
17 June 1998 (StudioBriefing)
Orson Welles' critically acclaimed 1941 film Citizen Kane (1941), purportedly based on the life of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst has been selected as the best American film of all time by a vote of 1, 500 persons selected by the American Film Institute. Their list of the top-100 films was unveiled during a three-hour CBS television special that aired Tuesday night. The top 25 films:1. Citizen Kane (1941); 2. Casablanca (1942); 3. Godfather, The (1972); 4. Gone with the Wind (1939); 5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962); 6. Wizard of Oz, The (1939); 7. Graduate, The (1967); 8. On the Waterfront (1954); 9. Schindler's List (1993); 10. Singin' in the Rain (1952); 11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946); 12. Sunset Boulevard (1950); 13. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957); 14. Some Like It Hot (1959); 15. Star Wars (1977); 16. All About Eve (1950); 17. African Queen, The (1951); 18. Psycho (1960); 19. Chinatown (1974); 20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); 21. Grapes of Wrath, The (1940); 22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 23. Maltese Falcon, The (1941); 24. Raging Bull (1980); 25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Zaentz Urges Indie Filmmakers To Stand Firm
21 May 1998 (StudioBriefing)
Veteran producer Saul Zaentz (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), English Patient, The (1996)) has urged independent producers to resist the temptation of joining the studio system. During a panel discussion in Cannes, Zaentz remarked (as quoted by the online newsletter IndieWIRE): "Once you give up control, then people tell you how to cast your film and rewrite your script for you and will control distribution and advertising. And the most important thing is final cut -- who's going to make the picture, you or Mr. Scissorhands. ... Even though you promise the studios everything, you're still going to get screwed. ... Unless you have a very, very good lawyer, it's going to be very tough to get the money back you earned."