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Videos: TCM Celebrates ‘The Deep’
Turner Classic Movies [TCM] has recently been celebrating the underwater thriller “The Deep”, director Peter Yates’ cinematic adaptation of the Peter Benchley bestseller shot largely on location in Bermuda in the summer of 1976. In a long retrospective at the TCM website, film historian Andrea Passafiume — who works for the... Read more of this article
The Two Men In Oona O’Neill’s Life
The daughter of the 20th century’s greatest tragedian, Bermudian Oona O’Neill went on to marry its greatest comedian. Born in Bermuda in 1925, she was a beautiful, vivacious, intelligent girl who socialised in New York with Gloria Vanderbilt, dated “Catcher In The Rye” author J. D. Salinger and “Citizen Kane” director... Read more of this article
Videos: Exploring ‘The Bermuda Depths’
“The Bermuda Depths” is part ghost story and part love story with a touch of Japanese monster movie thrown in to the eerie proceedings for good measure. And this unlikely combination of elements has ensured the ABC TV movie — filmed completely on location on the island in 1978 — retains a worldwide cult following more than... Read more of this article
Film Company Files For Bankruptcy
A Bermuda company that owns rights to Morgan Creek’s international library has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Bermuda-based Inverness Distribution Ltd., filed papers in Bankruptcy Court in New York on December 30. It already had filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection. Under Chapter 15, Inverness was shielded from lawsuits... Read more of this article
1962 Cary Grant Movie Set In Bermuda
The 1962 romantic comedy “That Touch Of Mink” stars Cary Grant and Doris Day — but features Bermuda in an important supporting role. When Grant’s business tycoon character attempts to seduce the virginal object of his desire, unemployed computer operator Cathy Timberlake [Day], he whisks her off for a liasion in Bermuda —... Read more of this article
Historical Video: Mandrake’s Bermuda Adventure
A good magician never reveals his tricks — including the geographic sleight of hand which allowed the pilot episode of a proposed TV series based on comic strip conjurer/adventurer Mandrake to be filmed largely in Bermuda despite the fact the story takes place in the US. The 1954 “Mandrake The Magician” pilot starred professional stage... Read more of this article
Douglas Family Bermuda Thanksgiving
Former celebrity residents Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are spending US Thanksgiving in Bermuda this week — the first time the superstar couple will have been back on the island together since the actor/producer received the all-clear from throat cancer. Entertainment website Extra caught up with two-time Oscar winner Mr. Douglas... Read more of this article
Book Puts Bermuda Culture Into Sharp Focus
Offering an insider’s look into iconic Bermuda and its unique lifestyle, “Bermuda” is a new photography book which candidly showcases Bermudians, at work, at play, and in their own environments. Authors Georgia Crowe-Benevides and Kathryn M. Deane have amassed a collection of appealing portraits showcasing the island and the richly... Read more of this article
Bermuda Debunks Film’s Conspiracy Theory
The historical conspiracy theory offered up in a Hollywood blockbuster opening today [Oct.28] — namely, that William Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by the Earl of Oxford — can be disproved by one stubborn fact: the 1609 “Sea Venture” wreck in Bermuda. Director Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous” is... Read more of this article
London Film Series Features Earl Cameron
Veteran Bermudian actor Earl Cameron is appearing at a series of film screenings in London next month to discuss how the decline and fall of the British Empire was portrayed in UK cinema during the 1950s and ’60s. The British Film Institute [BFI} and political magazine “New Statesman” are partnering to present the “End of Empire”... Read more of this article
TV Academy Spotlights Arthur Rankin
He optimistically called his new animation technique “Animagic”. It’s been almost 50 years since writer/director/producer Arthur Rankin Jr. launched his improbably successful career with little more than the rights to a Christmas novelty song, a felt-covered, lightbulb-nosed reindeer puppet and the sort of boundless faith which marks... Read more of this article
Cilento’s Star-Making Bermuda Role
She arrived in Bermuda in 1956 as a virtual unknown to play a castaway Edwardian servant girl in a film being shot here and found stardom — and, indirectly, love with Sean Connery — as a result of her time on the island. Diane Cilento, the Australian actress who was propelled to international celebrity after appearing in the Bermuda-made... Read more of this article
