Louise Fletcher News

One can criticize Wes Craven's latest horror movie--a low-budget shocker that has already grossed $20 million worldwide--for a few unnecessary visual gimmicks, for a conclusion that departs from the writer-director's original scheme, and for Ronee Blakely's baroque hambone performance as a tremulous alcoholic who stresses each statement as if it ...

In 1975, Louise Fletcher provided one of the more memorable moments in Academy Awards history.

Emily Richett sits down with Oscar winning actress Louise Fletcher on the set of The Genesis Code at Calvin College.

Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, James Earl Jones, and Paul Henreid.

Nurses are suddenly hot - and not in a 1970s B-movie sexpot kind of way. Tonight on Showtime, Edie Falco returns as the tough-minded "Nurse Jackie" . And next week, Jada Pinkett Smith debuts as a head nurse in the TNT series "Hawthorne." Also in the works at NBC is "Mercy," a medical drama pegged to three nurses.

Is that crazy enough for ya? While the film adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" swept the 1975 Academy Awards - " and forever stamped Louise Fletcher's scary visage into the film-going public's consciousness - " Ken Kesey's 1962 novel was originally brought to life as a stage play just a year after its publication.

At performances of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by the Madison Theatre Guild , I imagine most audience members are ready to compare the efforts of the lead actors to those in the 1976 Milos Forman film, which garnered Academy Awards for Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.