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Amy Adams In Steve Martin Novel Adaptation ‘Object Of Beauty’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 12:24pm PSTTags: Amy Adams, Steve Martin
Mike Fleming

Maven Pictures’ Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray are teaming with Amy Adams to produce Object Of Beauty, based on the Steve Martin novel. Adams will star as Lacey Yeager, a clever art entrepreneur who climbs from gallery assistant to gallery owner, and from a tiny downtown studio to a posh uptown one-bedroom. Over a decade and a half, Lacey flies from New York to Russia to Washington D.C. to scout and buy art, steals a cherished family painting, and sleeps with and disposes of several men, including one who becomes a famous artist.

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HAMMOND: Gil Cates, A Man For All Oscars

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Academy Awards, Billy Crystal, David Letterman, DGA, Geffen Playhouse, Gil Cates, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg
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R.I.P. Oscar Producer Gilbert Cates

Among his many accomplishments, Gil Cates obviously will be known as the person who produced more Oscar shows than any one in the history of the Academy. Talk to any producer who has done it just once or twice and you will get this astonished look when you tell them Gil Cates did it 14 times in the last two decades. And with his always calm and cool manner, he made it look so easy. Perhaps that is why every producer doing the show in Gil’s off years always sought out his advice — and he always happily gave it as he told me when I interviewed him exactly one year ago about his memories on being the man behind so many Oscarcasts. “I’ve had lunch with each producer and producing team going back to my off years,”  he told me. “The one thing I’ve told everybody is the Oscars is such a big show that no matter what you do there are gonna be people who like it and people who don’t. The most important thing is to do a show you like. There’s no way to get out totally alive. Do a show they find unique and fun and special. That’s a victory.”

Gil Cates had a lot of victories in his long career. As a former president of the DGA, its current secretary/treasurer and its chief negotiator for the last four contracts; as founder of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television; founder and artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse; as director and producer of such multiple-Oscar-nominated films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and I Never Sang For My Father; as well as so many TV films that made a lasting mark on the medium. There’s so much more, but my own personal connection (aside from attending the great theater he oversaw at the Geffen) has always been with the Oscars, and on those occasions when I got to talk to him or interview him I was like a kid in a candy store listening to his stories (sorry, some I just can’t print — off the record). His last show aired in 2008, the year No Country For Old Men won Best Picture. But this was also the year of the writers strike that KO’d the Golden Globes and put a dark cloud over the Oscars until just 12 days before the show was to air, when it was settled. But Cates, with his usual calm of a master negotiator and problem solver, had a Plan A (with all the stars in a strike-free show) and a Plan B (with no stars but a heavy emphasis on history and clips) ready to go, essentially prepping two different shows simultaneously, depending on events out of his control. It’s a good thing he was in charge because a lesser or more inexperienced producer might have cracked under the pressure. Not Gil. In the end, he produced a classy, star-studded show as usual but was ready to deliver whatever cards were dealt. Read More »

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HAMMOND: TV Academy Salutes Legendary Carl Reiner

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday October 14, 2011 @ 6:21pm PDTTags: Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, George Clooney, Paul Reiser, Steve Martin, The Dick Van Dyke Show
Pete Hammond

Thursday night I had the honor of hosting the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tribute to the legendary Carl Reiner, which also featured a surprise appearance at the end of the two-hour show from Carl’s Ocean’s 11, 12 & 13 co-star George Clooney who presented him with the enormous crystal … Read More »

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Oscarcast Team Of Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Adam Shankman Plot Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 10:54am PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Gibgot, Meryl Streep, Steve Martin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema is in early talks to acquire a pitch for a comedy vehicle that would re-team 2010 Oscarcast hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin with Adam Shankman, who will direct and who produced the Oscars that year. … Read More »

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Former Oscar Host Steve Martin Gives Helpful Advice To Eddie Murphy

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 2:37pm PDTTags: Eddie Murphy, Oscars, Steve Martin

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Video: Letterman Sings For CBS Upfronts

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 19, 2011 @ 6:05am PDTTags: CBS, CBS Upfront Presentation, David Letterman, Leslie Moonves, Steve Martin

Did Dave and Steve Martin get to perform their big musical number? Here’s the video CBS honcho Les Moonves commissioned for the CBS upfronts:

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Spirit Awards Host Joel McHale Joins Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 9:37am PSTTags: Anna Faris, Jack Black, James Franco, Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Movie Deals, Movies, Owen Wilson, Robert Rodriguez, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Martin
Mike Fleming

James Franco isn’t the only awards show host this weekend who has bagged a big film role. Joel McHale, who tomorrow hosts the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, is in final negotiations to join Mark Walhberg, Mila Kunis and Seth … Read More »

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Steve Martin: The Wild And Crazy Juror?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 7:45am PSTTags: Blake Edwards, Steve landesberg, Steve Martin
Mike Fleming

Steve Martin is demonstrating the power of creativity on Twitter. In the past few days, he’s written short and sweet reminiscences on the passing of Blake Edwards and Steve Landesberg. But Martin has spent the better part of the last … Read More »

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R.I.P. Ed Limato

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday July 3, 2010 @ 11:08am PDTTags: Agent Ed Limato, Ari Emanuel, Bryan Lourd, CAA, Chris Silbermann, Denzel Washington, Ed Limato, Hollywood agencies, Hollywood agency, ICM, Jeff Berg, Jim Wiatt, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mike Ovitz, Richard Gere, Steve Martin, talent agency, Talent Agent, William Morris Agency, WMA, WME

limato_chair_300x4003RD UPDATE: Ed Limato’s clients  weigh in on his passing:

Richard Gere: “Ed was my dear friend and agent for 40 years. He was the best of the best. There will never be anyone like him. The mold has been … Read More »

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