Katharine Ross News

Share + Nov 7, 2009 1:00 am US/Mountain JOHN PEEL, The Durango Herald DURANGO, Colo.

Published Wednesday 4 November 2009 06:53pm EST. Though independent cinema often features women in complex leading roles, the majority of parts available for female actors in mainstream Hollywood movies are supporting roles, often accessories to strong male counterparts.

Taxi driver: Red West and Souleymane Sy Savane strike up an unusual friendship in 'Goodbye Solo' enlarge There was a time when a buddy film would have men being men and women, well, stuck at home doing the washing for all the interest that film-makers had in them.

Forty years ago, the world premiere screening of the western a oeButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,a starring Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, and Robert Redford, mobbed New Havena s bygone Roger Sherman Theater with thousands of actors and fans.

Storytelling, songwriting and singing came full circle Sunday evening at Buckskin Joe during the St.

'The Graduate' Before the word "cougar" ever entered the lexicon, people called older women who dated younger men "Mrs. Robinsons." And for good reason.

Katharine Ross, Robert Redford and Paul Newman will star on the State Theater's screen in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." It turns out this weekend's showing of "Food, Inc." is just a sampling of the tasty film fare being cooked up for the State Theater in the coming year.

The first time I saw 'The Graduate,' I was incredibly confused by the looks on the faces of Katharine Ross and Dustin Hoffman at the end.

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, Calif., on this date in 1944.

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, Calif., on this date in 1944.

Kismet Sunday, 17:25, TCM Howard Keel plays a poet-beggar with mystical powers in this lavish musical.

The true story of survival. With the exception of The Diary of Anne Frank and a few others, most WW2 films before Schindler's List focused on the battles.

It seems like an unnecessary task: to remake what was already one of the most beloved documentaries into a theatrical film.

Dustin Hoffman looks at the stockinged leg of actress Anne Bancroft, his seductress in this scene from the 1967 film "The Graduate." Stick around this evening for "The Graduate," which brought Nichols his only Academy Award .

Katharine Ross, circa 1967. She was America's answer to Julie Christie: sensual, intelligent, enigmatic.