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“Shining” Producer To Hold Bermuda Workshop
The compelling opening sequence of the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic “The Shining” features what might be called a demon’s-eye-view of alcoholic school teacher Jack Torrance [Jack Nicholson] driving up into the Colorado mountains to meet his fate at an isolated hotel resort built on the site of an old Native American burial ground. The... Read more of this article
Freeman’s Bermuda Voyage Of Self-Discovery
All sailors have occasionally found themselves in peril on the sea — and Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman is no exception, revealing how a stormy passage from Bermuda to New York aboard a 30-foot sailboat proved to be a cathartic voyage of self-discovery. Mr. Freeman [pictured] — who won an Oscar for “Million Dollar Baby”... Read more of this article
Video: Michael Jackson Rocks Bermuda’s World
When self-styled Peter Pan Of Pop Michael Jackson descended on Bermuda in June, 1991 with 11-year-old child star Macaulay Culkin in tow, a media frenzy broke out at the Princess Hotel in Hamilton. The local press — which for decades has taken a hands-off approach to visiting celebrities, allowing them to enjoy their Bermuda vacations unmolested... Read more of this article
Island Ignited Bee Gees’ Musical “Fever”
The lyrics to one of their 1976 hits ran “What you doin’ on your back/You should be dancing, yeah/Dancing, yeah …” and the following year the entire world was doing just that when three songs written by the superstar Gibb brothers in Bermuda topped the international music charts. “Stayin’ Alive”, the Bee Gees’... Read more of this article
Shirley On The Good Ship “Queen Of Bermuda”
As a nine-year-old in July, 1938 she embarked for a holiday in Bermuda accompanied by her parents, two toy dolls, three armed bodyguards and a new insurance policy taken out by Hollywood studio Twentieth-Century Fox for $1,685,000. At the time she set sail for the island from New York aboard “The Queen of Bermuda”, Shirley Temple was the... Read more of this article
Michael Douglas’s Bermuda House “For Rent”
Entertainment website E! Online is reporting tonight [Mar.6] that the Warwick home of superstar couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones is for rent– at $28,000 a month. E! On-Line said the Longford Road property — featured in the July, 2002 edition of “Architectural Digest” — spans “across 7,381 square feet... Read more of this article
TV Star Visits Bermuda’s Broadway Actress
Pint-sized TV star Emma Kenney took a break from the rough-and-tumble world of the cable comedy “Shameless” to enjoy a weekend in New York, including a Broadway outing [Mar.2] to see “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — meeting friendly, neighbourhood Bermuda co-star Rebecca Faulkenberry after the curtain came down. After... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Role In “Gone With The Wind”
When Hollywood producer David O. Selznick flew to Bermuda for a two-month working holiday in the fall of 1938, his luggage reportedly consisted of four suitcases full of draft scripts of “Gone With The Wind”. Seen below at the Darrell’s Island flying boat station with wife Irene Mayer Selznick as they disembarked from one of the Bermuda... Read more of this article
Actress With Bermuda Links On “Law & Order”
Art imitates the seamier aspects of celebrity life on tomorrow night’s [Feb.27] episode of “Law & Order: SVU” when actress Tiffany Robinson — daughter of Bermudian Jackie Robinson — appears in an episode inspired by the star-crossed romance of Rihanna and Chris Brown. The NBC show’s signature ripped-from-the-headlines... Read more of this article
Video: Dancing In The Streets Of Hamilton, 1959
He was perhaps best known as the high-stepping lasso dancer Will Parker in the 1955 film version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” — but Hollywood and Broadway hoofer Gene Nelson also capered his way down the streets of Hamilton and onto the deck of the luxury liner “Queen of Bermuda” in a 1959 NBC... Read more of this article
Mr. Cooper Builds His Bermuda Dream House
One of his most acclaimed roles was playing individualistic architect Howard Roark who refuses to compromise his modernist building designs in the 1949 film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead.” But when actor Gary Cooper [1901-1961] built his dream house in real life he turned for inspiration to traditional Bermuda architecture... Read more of this article
David Niven On Bermuda’s “Golden Era”
David Niven, the actor whose pencil moustache, unflappable nature and effortless charm made him an emblem of British savoir-faire for more than four decades, took a roundabout route to Hollywood stardom — one which brought him through Bermuda in 1934. Resigning his commission in a Scottish regiment in 1933 and at a loose end, Mr. Niven [1910-1983]... Read more of this article
Superman’s Trip To Earth By Way Of Bermuda
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive — and able to rocket from Krypton to Earth through flaring clusters of microscopic Bermuda marine life. In the 1970s Bermuda’s waters stood in for the gulfs of interstellar space in the epic “Superman” movie starring Christopher Reeve [pictured], Marlon Brando and... Read more of this article
Vampirella: Blood And Pink Sand …
Some horror film fans still consider it the greatest vampire film never made — a proposed ’70s epic featuring an ageless and voluptuous comic book bloodsucker, alien invaders and James Bond-type action/adventure sequences all filmed against an incongruously sunny Bermuda backdrop. In 1975 Britain’s Hammer studios — best known... Read more of this article
BIFF To Screen ‘Silver Linings Playbook’
The Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] will be screening the quirky romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” on Sunday [Feb. 3] at the Liberty Theatre. Jennifer Lawrence has won the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild prize for Best Actress in the box office sensation which is nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards... Read more of this article
Actress, Mayor Discussed Role At Thanksgiving
Academy Award-winning actress Catherine Zeta Jones [pictured] has revealed how she compared notes on her current movie role as a ruthless politician’s wife with New York mayor and part-time Bermuda resident Michael Bloomberg over a Thanksgiving meal on the island. The former Bermuda resident has been busy promoting her new movie “Broken... Read more of this article
