Victor J. Kemper, the former president of the American Society of Cinematographers whose career spanned four decades and included films as diverse as Dog Day Afternoon and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, has died according to the ASC. He was 96.
Kemper made films with many of the greats of ’70s cinema, including John Cassavetes, Arthur Hiller, Michael Ritchie, Peter Yates, Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Robert Wise, Carl Reiner, Richard Attenborough and Norman Jewison.
His very first film was Cassavetes’ Husbands, and it was an education in itself.
“We shot more than a million-and-a-half feet of film during 10 weeks in New York and 12 weeks in London,” Kemper recalled. “That’s the way Cassavetes worked.”
He went on to make Mikey & Nicky with the director.
Subsequent work included The Candidate, And Justice for All, Audrey Rose, Slap Shot, Oh God!, The Gambler, The Jerk, The Four Seasons, Coma, Mr. Mom, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,...
Kemper made films with many of the greats of ’70s cinema, including John Cassavetes, Arthur Hiller, Michael Ritchie, Peter Yates, Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Robert Wise, Carl Reiner, Richard Attenborough and Norman Jewison.
His very first film was Cassavetes’ Husbands, and it was an education in itself.
“We shot more than a million-and-a-half feet of film during 10 weeks in New York and 12 weeks in London,” Kemper recalled. “That’s the way Cassavetes worked.”
He went on to make Mikey & Nicky with the director.
Subsequent work included The Candidate, And Justice for All, Audrey Rose, Slap Shot, Oh God!, The Gambler, The Jerk, The Four Seasons, Coma, Mr. Mom, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
With a longer Oscar season than ever before, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences had even more people to remember in the annual In Memoriam segment. But inevitably, there are complaints on social media that some people were omitted. This year, nether “Arrested Development” star Jessica Walter nor “Glee” star Naya Rivera was included, both of whom had careers primarily on television. Walter, however, was a Golden Globe nominee for “Play Misty for Me” and had many other film roles. Walter was included on the Academy’s In Memoriam website, while Rivera was not.
Those who were not included in previous years, such as Luke Perry and Cameron Boyce in 2020, also worked more often in television. In 2019, Carol Channing and Stanley Donen were among those omitted from the segment. This past year, several actors, musicians and craftspeople died of Covid-19, such as Broadway actor Nick Cordero and composer and musician Adam Schlesinger,...
Those who were not included in previous years, such as Luke Perry and Cameron Boyce in 2020, also worked more often in television. In 2019, Carol Channing and Stanley Donen were among those omitted from the segment. This past year, several actors, musicians and craftspeople died of Covid-19, such as Broadway actor Nick Cordero and composer and musician Adam Schlesinger,...
- 4/26/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, HBO announced the premiere date for “Lovecraft Country,” and Tubi announced it will add 30 seasons of Bob Ross’ “The Joy of Painting” to its streaming library.
Dates
HBO has announced its upcoming drama series “Lovecraft Country” will debut on Aug. 16 at 9 p.m. and be available to watch on HBO Max after airing. Based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, the series follows two childhood friends journey across a monster-packed 1950s Jim Crow America in search of a missing father. The series comes from afemme, Inc., Bad Robot Productions and Monkeypaw Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Misha Green, J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Bill Carraro, Yann Demange, Daniel Sackheim and David Knoller serve as executive producers.
CBS All Access has announced its new animated comedy series “Star Trek: Lower Decks” will premiere on the streamer on Aug. 6. New episodes...
Dates
HBO has announced its upcoming drama series “Lovecraft Country” will debut on Aug. 16 at 9 p.m. and be available to watch on HBO Max after airing. Based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, the series follows two childhood friends journey across a monster-packed 1950s Jim Crow America in search of a missing father. The series comes from afemme, Inc., Bad Robot Productions and Monkeypaw Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Misha Green, J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Bill Carraro, Yann Demange, Daniel Sackheim and David Knoller serve as executive producers.
CBS All Access has announced its new animated comedy series “Star Trek: Lower Decks” will premiere on the streamer on Aug. 6. New episodes...
- 7/1/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Carl Reiner had a particular genius for comedy. While some of his seminal works, The Dick Van Dyke Show and his directorial debut Enter Laughing, were autobiographical, Reiner was amazingly versatile. Two of his most contrasting pieces, Where’s Poppa? (1970) and Oh, God! (1977) will be included on the bill as Turner Classic Movies celebrates the life and career of the writer, director, actor, and author with TCM Remembers Carl Reiner. The Carl Reiner programming tribute will happen on Tuesday, July 28.
Where’s Poppa? is one of the darkest of comedies with the most devious sensitivity. It is intentionally in bad taste. George Segal wants to drive his own mother to suicide. And he’s a lawyer and knows how to get away with it. It is brilliant. Oh, God! is its polar opposite. George Burns is God, and it might not have been too much of a stretch for him. The ex-vaudevillian...
Where’s Poppa? is one of the darkest of comedies with the most devious sensitivity. It is intentionally in bad taste. George Segal wants to drive his own mother to suicide. And he’s a lawyer and knows how to get away with it. It is brilliant. Oh, God! is its polar opposite. George Burns is God, and it might not have been too much of a stretch for him. The ex-vaudevillian...
- 7/1/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
By Lee Pfeiffer
Carl Reiner has passed away at age 98. The New York native who served in WWII and then went on to become a comedy icon, had a varied career and many achievements that were often behind the cameras. He gained fame as a member of Sid Caesar's ensemble on his legendary 1950s TV series "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour". Reiner was usually happy to play the straight man in skits that help revolutionize the world of comedy. With his good friend Mel Brooks, who wrote for Caesar's shows, he created the concept of the 2,000 Year-Old Man, which found Reiner interviewing the elderly Jewish guy, played by Brooks. The concept started informally when the duo would improvise acts at social gatherings, but when they finally released the 2,000 Year-Old Man as a comedy album, it sold over a million copies and institutionalized Jewish humor for a generation of American comedians.
Carl Reiner has passed away at age 98. The New York native who served in WWII and then went on to become a comedy icon, had a varied career and many achievements that were often behind the cameras. He gained fame as a member of Sid Caesar's ensemble on his legendary 1950s TV series "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour". Reiner was usually happy to play the straight man in skits that help revolutionize the world of comedy. With his good friend Mel Brooks, who wrote for Caesar's shows, he created the concept of the 2,000 Year-Old Man, which found Reiner interviewing the elderly Jewish guy, played by Brooks. The concept started informally when the duo would improvise acts at social gatherings, but when they finally released the 2,000 Year-Old Man as a comedy album, it sold over a million copies and institutionalized Jewish humor for a generation of American comedians.
- 6/30/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Carl Reiner, the comedy legend who died Monday at age 98, boasted many awards and accomplishments in his storied career in film and television. But one personal goal eluded him.
Two years ago, Reiner said he hoped stay alive until November 2020 — just long enough to vote Donald Trump out of office. The creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” then 96, released a video in which he urged people to vote in the 2018 midterm elections while sharing his own “personal goal.”
“On Nov. 6, we can vote for elected officials who will hold this president accountable,” Reiner said in the video. “And after we’ve done that, my personal goal will be to stick around until 2020 and vote to make sure we have a decent, moral, law-abiding citizen in Washington who will make us all proud again to live in America.”
What is on my mind will be coming out of my mouth as you watch this: pic.
Two years ago, Reiner said he hoped stay alive until November 2020 — just long enough to vote Donald Trump out of office. The creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” then 96, released a video in which he urged people to vote in the 2018 midterm elections while sharing his own “personal goal.”
“On Nov. 6, we can vote for elected officials who will hold this president accountable,” Reiner said in the video. “And after we’ve done that, my personal goal will be to stick around until 2020 and vote to make sure we have a decent, moral, law-abiding citizen in Washington who will make us all proud again to live in America.”
What is on my mind will be coming out of my mouth as you watch this: pic.
- 6/30/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Carl Reiner, actor, writer, director and one of the defining comedic talents of the 20th century, has died, Variety reports. He was 98.
Reiner’s assistant, Judy Nagy, confirmed his death. She said he died of natural causes on Monday night at his home in Beverly Hills. Reiner’s son, the actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner, posted on Twitter: “Last night my dad passed away. As I write this my heart is hurting. He was my guiding light.”
Reiner was a comedy stalwart for nearly seven decades, a ceaseless worker who...
Reiner’s assistant, Judy Nagy, confirmed his death. She said he died of natural causes on Monday night at his home in Beverly Hills. Reiner’s son, the actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner, posted on Twitter: “Last night my dad passed away. As I write this my heart is hurting. He was my guiding light.”
Reiner was a comedy stalwart for nearly seven decades, a ceaseless worker who...
- 6/30/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Carl Reiner, the comedian, writer, director and actor whose contributions to the development of television comedy are rivaled by few others, died Monday night of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 98.
Just three days before his passing, Reiner — the father of actor and director Rob Reiner — tweeted what now seems his public goodbye: “Nothing pleases me more than knowing that I have lived the best life possible by having met & marrying the gifted Estelle (Stella) Lebost – who partnered with me in bringing Rob, Annie & Lucas Reiner into this needy & evolving world.”
Reiner was among the pioneering comedic minds — along with Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, among others, who, in the 1950s, co-wrote and appeared on the Sid Caesar programs Caesar’s Hour and Your Show of Shows, setting the template for sketch comedy that endures today in Saturday Night Live and late-night talk show humor.
Just three days before his passing, Reiner — the father of actor and director Rob Reiner — tweeted what now seems his public goodbye: “Nothing pleases me more than knowing that I have lived the best life possible by having met & marrying the gifted Estelle (Stella) Lebost – who partnered with me in bringing Rob, Annie & Lucas Reiner into this needy & evolving world.”
Reiner was among the pioneering comedic minds — along with Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, among others, who, in the 1950s, co-wrote and appeared on the Sid Caesar programs Caesar’s Hour and Your Show of Shows, setting the template for sketch comedy that endures today in Saturday Night Live and late-night talk show humor.
- 6/30/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Warner Bros and producer Jerry Weintraub have tried long and hard to mount a remake of the 1977 George Burns comedy Oh, God! I'm told Weintraub just pitched the studio a new version of the film, with Hollywood's hottest octogenarian--Betty White,--as the title character. Paul Rudd was pitched for the role of the hapless mortal played by John Denver in the Carl Reiner-directed original. Weintraub, who produced the original, has been trying for years on the remake, most recently with Ellen Degeneres attached for the lead. This incarnation is nascent--the studio doesn't have a script it loves, and I'm not [...]...
- 7/12/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Bea Arthur, Larry Gelbart, Merv Griffin, Daniel Burke, Tom Murphy and Sherwood Schwartz have been chosen as the latest inductees into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame "is a special recognition for those who have made significant contributions and have left an indelible mark on the television business," ATAS chairman and CEO John Shaffner said.
Hall of Fame candidates are submitted from the academy's membership and the industry at large to the Hall of Fame selection committee, which votes upon the final decision. The committee comprises chairman Mark Itkin, Fred Silverman, Brian Graden, Mike Darnell, Courtney Cox and Anne Sweeney.
The inductees' "respective careers have stood the test of time, and their accomplishments extend over decades," Itkin said.
Arthur is a two-time Emmy-winning and a Tony-winning comedienne-actress-singer best known for her roles on the comedies Maude and The Golden Girls.
Comedy writer Gelbart, also an Emmy and Tony winner, has more than 60 years of credits, including M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God! and Blame It on Rio.
Emmy winner Griffin, who died in August, hosted the long-running talker The Merv Griffin Show and created the game shows "Jeopardy!" Wheel of Fortune and, most recently, Merv Griffin's Crosswords.
Burke was president of Capital Cities Communications for 22 years and CEO of Capital Cities/ABC until his retirement in 1994.
The Hall of Fame "is a special recognition for those who have made significant contributions and have left an indelible mark on the television business," ATAS chairman and CEO John Shaffner said.
Hall of Fame candidates are submitted from the academy's membership and the industry at large to the Hall of Fame selection committee, which votes upon the final decision. The committee comprises chairman Mark Itkin, Fred Silverman, Brian Graden, Mike Darnell, Courtney Cox and Anne Sweeney.
The inductees' "respective careers have stood the test of time, and their accomplishments extend over decades," Itkin said.
Arthur is a two-time Emmy-winning and a Tony-winning comedienne-actress-singer best known for her roles on the comedies Maude and The Golden Girls.
Comedy writer Gelbart, also an Emmy and Tony winner, has more than 60 years of credits, including M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God! and Blame It on Rio.
Emmy winner Griffin, who died in August, hosted the long-running talker The Merv Griffin Show and created the game shows "Jeopardy!" Wheel of Fortune and, most recently, Merv Griffin's Crosswords.
Burke was president of Capital Cities Communications for 22 years and CEO of Capital Cities/ABC until his retirement in 1994.
- 4/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jerry Weintraub will be honored as producer of the year at ShoWest, the annual film industry convention set for March 12-15 at the Bally's and Paris hotels in Las Vegas.
Weintraub, whose career ranges from 1975's Nashville through the Karate Kid series in the '80s to the current Ocean's Eleven franchise, will be recognized March 15 at ShoWest's closing-night ceremony.
"Jerry Weintraub has proven himself to be one of the most innovative and prolific producers of all time," ShoWest co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said. "From the groundbreaking 'Nashville' to the controversial 'Cruising' to the comedic 'Oh, God!' and 'Ocean's' series of films, Weintraub has exercised a masterful touch to everything he involves himself in and an instinct to discover exactly what audiences want to see."
Weintraub will be represented by two films in theaters in the summer.
On June 8, Warner Bros. Pictures will release Ocean's Thirteen, the third film in the franchise. The Warners/Village Roadshow Pictures production reunites the original cast of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould with director Steven Soderbergh.
Weintraub, whose career ranges from 1975's Nashville through the Karate Kid series in the '80s to the current Ocean's Eleven franchise, will be recognized March 15 at ShoWest's closing-night ceremony.
"Jerry Weintraub has proven himself to be one of the most innovative and prolific producers of all time," ShoWest co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said. "From the groundbreaking 'Nashville' to the controversial 'Cruising' to the comedic 'Oh, God!' and 'Ocean's' series of films, Weintraub has exercised a masterful touch to everything he involves himself in and an instinct to discover exactly what audiences want to see."
Weintraub will be represented by two films in theaters in the summer.
On June 8, Warner Bros. Pictures will release Ocean's Thirteen, the third film in the franchise. The Warners/Village Roadshow Pictures production reunites the original cast of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould with director Steven Soderbergh.
- 2/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Ion Media Networks Inc. announced Tuesday a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution that will give Ion broadcast rights to classic films like Superman and Amadeus and TV shows like Chico and the Man and The Wonder Years. The former Paxson network's deal starts Saturday, when Ion will air Superman III in a tie-in to the launch of the new movie Superman Returns. Other movies in the package include All the President's Men, Oh God!, Dog Day Afternoon and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The other movies will be scheduled in the future, though it wasn't clear immediately what the schedule would look like. CEO Brandon Burgess said Tuesday that it was likely that the movies would run in primetime on the weekends, while the TV shows would be aired in a strip schedule on the weekdays.
- 6/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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