Five Easy Pieces News

In the 1970s film Five Easy Pieces, Toni Basil plays a hippie who is hitch-hiking to Alaska because it's the only place she can think of that is still clean.

No Subtitles Necessary , James Chressanthis ' No Subtitles Necessary premieres Tuesday night on PBS' "Independent Lens" series: it's an anecdote-rich documentary about lifelong friends, cinematographic greats Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, from their youthful escape from Hungary in 1956 with footage of the Russian invasion of Budapest to the ...

Acclaimed beauty and award winning actress, writer and musician Karen Black who rarely gives interviews spoke candidly this week with Canyon News about her life and career.

But there he was on a sunny June morning in New Smyrna Beach more than two years ago, pulling up to a spiffy new building, which housed, among other businesses, his shampoo company.

An esteemed, highly-charged and highly-talented player of stage, TV and film, Lois Smith has not always been regular in the visual media, but she has made the chances count.

A noted Hollywood film pianist, Pearl Kaufman, is scheduled to play in the University of Central Oklahoma's Broadway Tonight Series special event.

This red-haired stand-up comedienne and comedy actress honed her writing skills by creating her own original sketches, first as a determined contestant in the Miss Alabama contest and later in comedy clubs.

DUAL INTERVIEWS Cass McCombs and Karen Black - not exactly Marvin and Tammi, or Elton or Kiki, or Waylon or Tammy, but undeniably classic from the very first listen.

Like "Julie and Julia," there's an array of movies that use food for their story framework.

Like "Julie and Julia," there's an array of movies that use food for their story framework.

I used to get irritated by Jack Nicholson. I got tired of seeing his perennial Oscar nominations, his "I'm so cool" shades, his keenness to expose his endless sexual conquests and general hedonism.

Karen Black may just have to get her own residence in Macon, considering how often she keeps coming back.

Although she had few periods of unemployment in her three professional years before she landed the role of Gloria Stivic on CBS' "All in the Family" , Sally Struthers became a household name as the blonde,.... Although she had few periods of unemployment in her three professional years before she landed the role of Gloria Stivic on CBS' "All in the ...

A former art therapist, Laloux excelled at the same paper cutout animation techniques popularized by Terry Gilliam .

To be young, gifted and Black - audiences got a little insight into the performative character of Karen Black at the Gladstone Hotel's musical revue this weekend.

Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides to find anything worth tuning into this week.

Eric Veillette special to the star Karen Black's voice still sounds as vibrant as it did when she sang to Jack Nicholson in 1970's Five Easy Pieces ; her soft tremolo as fresh as when she hosted Saturday Night Live in 1976.

JACKIE Chan, nuns and murder at Highbury, in the film guide that keeps sending you those videos of the front of your house.

Karen Black: My Life for a Song Jul 25-26. 9pm . $20 . Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. Call 416-531-4635 for reservations.

There was nothing like the summer of 1969 in Hollywood, which is why I'm running a series of posts looking back at one of the most tumultuous and influential years in pop culture, based on acache of interviews I did 10 years ago for The Times' Sunday Calendar section.