Writers flock to Woodstock festival
For royalists, William Shawcross will divulge colourful details from his long-anticipated biography of the Queen Mother; for those of a political bent, the Conservative leader David Cameron will outline his ambition for the next general election. Those hungry for old-style Hollywood glamour will be satiated with tales about Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire from Leslie Caron's autobiography. The return of The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival next month after its inaugural success last year...

Unrequited Academy Awards
You might be shocked to discover that every famous face included in this photo gallery dedicated to the upcoming Academy Awards is of an individual who has never won an Oscar. The illustrious careers enjoyed by these hardworking Hollywood fixtures hardly seem to have suffered from the lack of recognition, but still, it is puzzling. Featured in the gallery: Albert Finney, Richard Burton, Angela Lansbury, Peter O'Toole, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Alfred...

An American in Paris: Trailer: VIDEO
erry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam (Oscar Levant) is a struggling concert pianist who is a long time associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Gu

“Ah, Yes” the Academy Remembers it Well with Leslie Caron
Beverly Hills,CA(RUSHPRNEWS)09/20/2008– Traveling from her home in Paris, French actress and dancer Leslie Caron will be celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an evening of film and conversation, including the premiere of a new digital restoration of the 1958 Best Picture winner “Gigi,” on Friday, October 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Film critic Stephen Farber will host the onstage conversation.At the age of 19, Caron made h

ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
On this day in 1951, M-G-M released one of the greatest American movie musicals of all-time with AN AMERICAN IN Paris. Directed by Vincente Minnelli (Liza’s dad) from a story by ALAN JAY LERNER, this technicolor miracle starred Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, OSCAR LEVANT and NINA FOCH. Delightfully staged and acted, this film will always be considered a classic.

Birthday Sluts
Debbie Harry (64) Hilarie Burton (27) Liv Tyler (32) Sufjan Stevens (34) Claire Forlani (37) Missy Ellliot (38) Karen Mulder (39) Henry Simmons (39) Pamela Anderson (42) Andre Braugher (47) Carl Lewis (48) Evelyn "Champagne" King (49) Dan Aykroyd (57) Fred Schneider (58) Terrence Mann (58) Karen Black (70) Geneviève Bujold (67) Twyla Tharp (68) Leslie Caron (78) Olivia de Havilland (93)

New on Blu-ray: An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an ex-GI-turned-painter who fell in love with Paris and decided to live there after the war. One day he is “discovered” by an influential heiress (Milo Roberts) with an interest in more than just Jerry’s art. But Jerry almost simultaneously falls for Lise (Leslie Caron), a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer (Georges Guétary). And the only one who’s followed all the lines of complication is Jerry’s best friend and acerbic would-be...

Leslie Caron - Caron Lover Beatty Told Me I Was Too Old To Play His Bonnie: PHOTO
French movie icon Leslie Caron missed out on the lead in BONNIE & CLYDE because her real-life lover, Warren Beatty, thought she was too old. The GiGi star was five years older than Beatty when she left her husband to romance the Hollywood Lothario and when he started working on the classic heist movie, she felt sure she'd play his leading lady. In her new memoir, Thank Heaven, Caron recalls, "He told me bluntly, 'Let's face it, you're too old for me.' That hurt. "But now that 40-plus years have...

An American in Paris - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com
Gene Kelly just can't get enough of France in Vincente Minnelli's musical. Kelly's character, a young painter from the United States who lives above a sidewalk cafe, finds himself involved with two women: the young Leslie Caron and the sophiscated Nina Foch, who wants to be his patron and probably more. But who needs a plot? Kelly's and Caron's dance numbers, the scenery and that gorgeous Gershwin music are enough., The New York Times

Katie's musical theater dreams are one step closer! Someone write this girl a musical!
Katie on Eli StonePictures have come out of Katie upcoming guest role on the little-watched ABC series "Eli Stone." It is about a hot lawyer who has hallucinations, one of them being Katie, who plays another lawyer, in little musical vignettes. Looks like Katie has sortuv got a Leslie Caron meets Judy Garland look going on. That lighting is straight out of "An American in Paris." Hopefully we will get to see Katie sing and dance though you know what would make a song even better? Little Suri in her tap shoe

Mel Ferrer, once wed to Audrey Hepburn, dead at 90
Actor-filmmaker Mel Ferrer, the onetime husband of screen icon Audrey Hepburn who co-starred with her in "War and Peace" and directed her in "Green Mansions," has died at age 90, a family spokesman said on Tuesday. Ferrer died in his sleep surrounded by relatives and close friends at his home on his family's ranch in Carpenteria, California, near Santa Barbara, the spokesman, Mike Mena said. The lanky, gaunt Ferrer, first appeared on Broadway as a chorus dancer in 1938 and made his big-screen acting d

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY TO BE TOLD
The year’s most romantic documentary chronicles the three-decade-long relationship between Hollywood writer Christopher Isherwood (Cabaret) and artist Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. With an array of amazing interviews, archival footage, rare home movies (including such historical luminaries who the pair befriended as Tennessee Williams, W.H. Auden, and Igor Stravinksy), and sweet animations based on drawings the two used in their personal correspondence. “Tender, extremely touching...”