Say what? Joaquin Phoenix dropped quite a shocker at a benefit for Paul Newman’s camps for kids Monday, announcing his plans to quit acting. 
“I want to take this opportunity … to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor,” the two-time [...]

Clint Eastwood has said Angelina Jolie’s career has been hampered because she is too beautiful.
Eastwood, 78, is the director of Jolie’s upcoming film Changeling.
The movie veteran said Jolie’s talents are easily overlooked because of her “gorgeous face” and a face he describes as “the most beautiful face on the planet.”
He said: “People sometimes can’t see [...]

Kirk Douglas knows all about “runaway production” to foreign locales.
Sitting on a striped couch in the living room of his Beverly Hills home, surrounded by paintings by Balthus, Vuillard and other modernist masters, the screen legend can still feel the sting of betrayal 50 years later.
After an arduous day of shooting boat-rowing scenes for “The [...]

James Franco may be best known for his acting, but fans will have to make do with him being behind the camera in the near future.
The Pineapple Express star picked up this year’s Breakthrough Actor Award at the Hollywood Film Festival’s Awards Gala held in Beverly Hills.
But James explained how he’s balancing working in movies [...]

Milton Katselas, the charismatic acting teacher to the stars who also directed for stage and screen, died of heart failure Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 75.
Katselas founded the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school in 1978 and coached actors including Michelle Pfeiffer, Gene Hackman and George Clooney.
(Variety)

Who’s her daddy? Lovable, leathery Robert Redford. His youngest child celebrates her directorial debut, recent marriage and new baby.
(New York Observer)

Ben Stiller is famous for his close-to-the-knuckle roles, but the star admits having two young kids does play a part in his choice of movies.
“You just become aware of movies that you can watch with your kids and if you have the option to do some, then that’s a good thing,” said Ben at the [...]

Non-fiction web series American Buffalo: Backstage gives fans a peek behind the scenes of the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet masterpiece American Buffalo. The play was originally produced in Chicago in 1976 and it won the Obie award as well as the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. 
(Tubefilter TV)

Much has been written about the late Paul Newman’s blue eyes. But it’s strange that his way of looking at people and things through the camera aroused so little interest during his lifetime. Newman directed officially six features from 1968 to 1987 (I suspect he also had a hand in James Goldstone’s Winning and Stuart Rosenberg’s WUSA), which [...]