After taking a look back at House II: The Second Story (a favorite of mine since childhood), House of 1000 Corpses (which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year), the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, and a memorable moment from The Crow, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is continuing his The Best Scene video series with a look at a scene from director David Lynch‘s 1997 cult classic Lost Highway (watch it Here). To find out which moment Lance chose to highlight, check out the video embedded above.
- 9/3/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Sunday’s SAG Awards ceremony will be a streaming event for the first time on the Netflix YouTube channel. One of the highlights each year is the special In Memoriam segment. It’s been a particularly rough year with over 100 deaths of prominent actors and actresses who were likely members of SAG/AFTRA. Show producers typically are able to include approximately 40-50 people in a tribute.
Among that group will certainly be Oscar winners Louise Fletcher, William Hurt and Irene Cara, plus nominees Angela Lansbury (a SAG life achievement recipient) and Melinda Dillon. Emmy champs Mary Alice, Kirstie Alley, Leslie Jordan, Ray Liotta, Stuart Margolin, Robert Morse and Barbara Walters.
SEECelebrity Deaths 2023: In Memoriam Gallery
Here is our expansive list of over 100 people who died since last year’s ceremony, several of whom will be honored on Sunday’s event:
Ralph Ahn
J. Grant Albrecht
Mary Alice
Rae Allen...
Among that group will certainly be Oscar winners Louise Fletcher, William Hurt and Irene Cara, plus nominees Angela Lansbury (a SAG life achievement recipient) and Melinda Dillon. Emmy champs Mary Alice, Kirstie Alley, Leslie Jordan, Ray Liotta, Stuart Margolin, Robert Morse and Barbara Walters.
SEECelebrity Deaths 2023: In Memoriam Gallery
Here is our expansive list of over 100 people who died since last year’s ceremony, several of whom will be honored on Sunday’s event:
Ralph Ahn
J. Grant Albrecht
Mary Alice
Rae Allen...
- 2/24/2023
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Jack Kehler, perhaps best known as The Dude (Jeff Bridges)’s landlord in “The Big Lebowski,” has died of complications from leukemia, according to his son Eddie Kehler. The lifetime member of the Actors Studio died May 7 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, just shy of his 76th birthday.
Besides his memorable performance as the stammering landlord in “The Big Lebowski,” Kehler’s other film appearances included “Pineapple Express, “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” “Lethal Weapon 4,” “Waterworld,” “Point Break,” and “Men in Black II.”
He made his feature film debut as a gas station attendant in 1983’s “Strange Invaders” and according to his IMDb profile, was filming Eric Fulford’s “The Platinum Loop” at the time of his death.
Kehler played Frank Szymanski on 1990s series “Murder One” and had recurring roles as Harlan Wyndam-Matson on “The Main in the High Castle” and in the 2003 Teri Polo Sitcom,...
Besides his memorable performance as the stammering landlord in “The Big Lebowski,” Kehler’s other film appearances included “Pineapple Express, “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” “Lethal Weapon 4,” “Waterworld,” “Point Break,” and “Men in Black II.”
He made his feature film debut as a gas station attendant in 1983’s “Strange Invaders” and according to his IMDb profile, was filming Eric Fulford’s “The Platinum Loop” at the time of his death.
Kehler played Frank Szymanski on 1990s series “Murder One” and had recurring roles as Harlan Wyndam-Matson on “The Main in the High Castle” and in the 2003 Teri Polo Sitcom,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Jack Kehler, a prolific character actor, died Saturday from complications due to leukemia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 75 years old.
Kehler’s death was confirmed by his son, Eddie Kehler.
Born May 22, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pa., Kehler set his career off in acting at the age of 24 by beginning to work in theater. In 1982, Kehler fell in with Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman, beginning his tenure as a lifelong member of the Actors Studio.
Soon after, Kehler relocated to Los Angeles where he began to accrue supporting roles in film and television. His first screen credit came in 1983 with Michael Laughlin’s sci-fi release “Strange Invaders,” starring Paul Le Mat and Nancy Allen. Kehler is credited as a gas station attendant in the film.
Kehler spent the remainder of the 1980’s primarily working in television, making appearances on “Hill Street Blues,” “Fresno,” “Cagney & Lacey” and “St. Elsewhere.
Kehler’s death was confirmed by his son, Eddie Kehler.
Born May 22, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pa., Kehler set his career off in acting at the age of 24 by beginning to work in theater. In 1982, Kehler fell in with Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman, beginning his tenure as a lifelong member of the Actors Studio.
Soon after, Kehler relocated to Los Angeles where he began to accrue supporting roles in film and television. His first screen credit came in 1983 with Michael Laughlin’s sci-fi release “Strange Invaders,” starring Paul Le Mat and Nancy Allen. Kehler is credited as a gas station attendant in the film.
Kehler spent the remainder of the 1980’s primarily working in television, making appearances on “Hill Street Blues,” “Fresno,” “Cagney & Lacey” and “St. Elsewhere.
- 5/10/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Jack Kehler, a character actor who had supporting roles in dozens of TV shows and films over four decades including the Dude’s landlord in The Big Lebowski, has died. He was 75.
Kehler’s son, Eddie Kehler told Deadline, that his father died Saturday of complications of leukemia at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born on May 22, 1946, in Philadelphia, the elder Kehler studied with Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman and was a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He was a regular on the short-lived ABC adventure series McKenna and in Season 2 of ABC’s Murder One. He recurred on such shows as The Man in the High Castle, mid-2000s ABC sitcom I’m with Her and the star-packed 1986 miniseries Fresno.
He also guested on dozens of popular series ranging from Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Cagney & Lacey, L.A. Law, Newhart...
Kehler’s son, Eddie Kehler told Deadline, that his father died Saturday of complications of leukemia at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born on May 22, 1946, in Philadelphia, the elder Kehler studied with Sanford Meisner and Wynn Handman and was a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He was a regular on the short-lived ABC adventure series McKenna and in Season 2 of ABC’s Murder One. He recurred on such shows as The Man in the High Castle, mid-2000s ABC sitcom I’m with Her and the star-packed 1986 miniseries Fresno.
He also guested on dozens of popular series ranging from Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Cagney & Lacey, L.A. Law, Newhart...
- 5/10/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Title: In Dubious Battle Director: James Franco Starring: Nat Wolff, James Franco, Vincent D’Onofrio, Selena Gomez, Ahna O’Reilly, Analeigh Tipton, Jack Kehler, Scott Haze, Sam Shepard, Joel Marsh Garland, John Savage, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris. ‘In Dubious Battle’ is a novel written by John Steinbeck in 1936, that recounts a fruit worker strike that occurred in Tulare County, California, in 1933. The central figure of the story is an activist who organises a major strike by fruit pickers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. “The Last Unicorn” (as Marina Abramovic defined polymath James Franco) has always had a passion for Steinbeck, interpreting ‘Of Mice And Men’ on Broadway [ Read More ]
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- 9/3/2016
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
From 1993 to 2005, David Milch and Steven Bochco’s cop drama NYPD Blue was the nakedest, swearing-est show on television. But as we see in this latest installment of Criminal Complex’s episode-by-episode recap of the series, just because there was a lot of sex, violence, and curse words, that doesn’t mean NYPD Blue was without depth, character, and cultural relevance.
Season 1, Episode 4
True Confessions
Original Air Date: October 12th, 1993
“If I had more bullets, I would have shot ‘em all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets.”
-Bernhard Goetz
“Don’t be angry.”
-Detective John Kelly, 15th squad
Anger is something I’ve had to deal with my entire life. Raised by an unrepentant hothead from a long line of unrepentant hotheads, I have had the emotional life of Bruce Banner, going from meekly brainy guy to raging monster at the drop of a hat,...
Season 1, Episode 4
True Confessions
Original Air Date: October 12th, 1993
“If I had more bullets, I would have shot ‘em all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets.”
-Bernhard Goetz
“Don’t be angry.”
-Detective John Kelly, 15th squad
Anger is something I’ve had to deal with my entire life. Raised by an unrepentant hothead from a long line of unrepentant hotheads, I have had the emotional life of Bruce Banner, going from meekly brainy guy to raging monster at the drop of a hat,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
Chicago – In our latest comedy/crime/cult classic edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Blu-ray, we have 5 Blu-rays up for grabs to the highly anticipated home entertainment release of “The Big Lebowski” starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Steve Buscemi! “The Big Lebowski” will be released on Blu-ray on Aug. 16, 2011.
“The Big Lebowski” also stars John Turturro, Tara Reid, David Huddleston, Philip Moon, Mark Pellegrino, Peter Stormare, Flea, Torsten Voges, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Jack Kehler from writers and directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
To win your free “The Big Lebowski” Blu-ray courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The Blu-ray for “The Big Lebowski” with Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Julianne Moore.
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“The Big Lebowski” also stars John Turturro, Tara Reid, David Huddleston, Philip Moon, Mark Pellegrino, Peter Stormare, Flea, Torsten Voges, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Jack Kehler from writers and directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
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- 8/8/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Big Trouble
"Big Trouble" is a smorgasbord of comedy -- there's farce, slapstick, black humor, theater of cruelty, clever ripostes, non sequiturs, absurdity, romantic comedy and a toad that spits hallucinogenic juice. When everything is done, however, you have that bloated, overindulged feeling where too many good things got mixed up together and ingested all at once. Did you enjoy it? Well, for a while yes, and for much longer no.
There's no denying that "Trouble" contains a few spectacularly funny scenes. But the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart. You don't get casts much more talented than this one, and director Barry Sonnenfeld does a smooth job of keeping all the plates spinning as long as humanly possible. But the film implodes from excess long before a nuclear bomb -- yes, that's a nuclear bomb -- explodes for the "comic" finale. While perhaps not a boxoffice bomb for Disney, audiences may react negatively to the sheer strain of watching a film where people must work very hard at being lighthearted.
"Big Trouble", of course, ran into big trouble more than half a year ago when Sept. 11 forever changed our world. Its release was postponed because of the terrorist attacks, but it may be at least a generation before anyone finds funny the sight of characters running around airports with a nuclear device and lax security personnel waving a bomb through checkpoints. At best, the film has an extremely dated feel. At worst, the film is a serious misreading of its source material, a novel by humorist Dave Barry.
The renowned Miami Herald columnist is adept at seizing incidents from everyday life and reducing these to such absurdity a reader cannot contain his laughter. On paper, "Big Trouble" was, no doubt, hilarious. Onscreen, the novel's exaggeration takes on a flimsy silliness. Writers Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone aren't entirely to blame for rushing from one great gag to another. They are funny, but context is everything. The context of Dave Barry is a writer playing with a reader's mind, not a Hollywood production that reduces everything to unwanted literalness.
Trouble starts when a Miami arms dealer receives a nuclear bomb that everyone insists looks like a garbage disposal. At the same moment, a couple of hit men, Dennis Farina and Jack Kehler, arrive in Florida to eliminate Stanley Tucci, a corrupt businessman whose has embezzled money from his equally criminal employers.
Meanwhile, in a harmless game called "Killer", Tucci's daughter, Zooey Deschanel, is being "stalked" by schoolmate Ben Foster, the son of Tim Allen, a former Miami newspaper columnist. (Hmmm, who can that be?) So while Tucci is sexually harassing family maid Sofia Vergara and Allen is falling for Rene Russo, Tucci's wife, the kid "Killers" mess up an assassination attempt by the real killers, bringing police officers Janeane Garofalo and Patrick Warburton to the scene.
Further complicating the assassins' task are a couple of crooks who together do not possess the IQ of a single stupid person, Tom Sizemore and Johnny Knoxville; two of the strangest FBI agents in history, Omar Epps and Dwight "Heavy D" Myers; and Jason Lee, a fellow who lives in a tree and is often mistaken for Jesus.
This is not a plot you want to spend too much time describing or analyzing. The object is to deliver a series of gags such as guys robbing a bar in masks that render them virtually blind, or a retractable seat belt in their rental car that drives the hit men crazy.
But the movie all too swiftly abandons its characters and situations in favor of these gags. Since when are characters and comedy mutually exclusive?
The best thing about "Trouble" are its actors, who never abandon their characters even when the movie does. The below-the-line work is solid from James Newton Howard's pleasant, Latin-flavored musical score to Greg Gardiner's lensing, Garreth Stover's exaggerated Miami sets and Steven Weisberg's editing, which keeps things moving at a swift pace.
BIG TROUBLE
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures presents a Jacobson Co. and Sonnenfeld/Josephson Worldwide Entertainment production
Producers:Barry Sonnenfeld, Barry Josephson, Tom Jacobson
Director:Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriters:Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone
Based on the novel by:Dave Barry
Executive producer:Jim Wedaa
Director of photography:Greg Gardiner
Production designer:Garreth Stover
Music:James Newton Howard
Co-producer:Graham Place
Costume designer:Mary Vogt
Editor:Steven Weisberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Elliot Arnold:Tim Allen
Anna Herk:Rene Russo
Arthur Herk:Stanley Tucci
Snake:Tom Sizemore
Eddie:Johnny Knoxville
Henry:Dennis Farina
Leonard:Jack Kehler
Monica Romero:Janeane Garofalo
Walter Kramitz:Patrick Warburton
Matt Arnold:Ben Foster
Jenny Herk:Zooey Deschanel
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
There's no denying that "Trouble" contains a few spectacularly funny scenes. But the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart. You don't get casts much more talented than this one, and director Barry Sonnenfeld does a smooth job of keeping all the plates spinning as long as humanly possible. But the film implodes from excess long before a nuclear bomb -- yes, that's a nuclear bomb -- explodes for the "comic" finale. While perhaps not a boxoffice bomb for Disney, audiences may react negatively to the sheer strain of watching a film where people must work very hard at being lighthearted.
"Big Trouble", of course, ran into big trouble more than half a year ago when Sept. 11 forever changed our world. Its release was postponed because of the terrorist attacks, but it may be at least a generation before anyone finds funny the sight of characters running around airports with a nuclear device and lax security personnel waving a bomb through checkpoints. At best, the film has an extremely dated feel. At worst, the film is a serious misreading of its source material, a novel by humorist Dave Barry.
The renowned Miami Herald columnist is adept at seizing incidents from everyday life and reducing these to such absurdity a reader cannot contain his laughter. On paper, "Big Trouble" was, no doubt, hilarious. Onscreen, the novel's exaggeration takes on a flimsy silliness. Writers Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone aren't entirely to blame for rushing from one great gag to another. They are funny, but context is everything. The context of Dave Barry is a writer playing with a reader's mind, not a Hollywood production that reduces everything to unwanted literalness.
Trouble starts when a Miami arms dealer receives a nuclear bomb that everyone insists looks like a garbage disposal. At the same moment, a couple of hit men, Dennis Farina and Jack Kehler, arrive in Florida to eliminate Stanley Tucci, a corrupt businessman whose has embezzled money from his equally criminal employers.
Meanwhile, in a harmless game called "Killer", Tucci's daughter, Zooey Deschanel, is being "stalked" by schoolmate Ben Foster, the son of Tim Allen, a former Miami newspaper columnist. (Hmmm, who can that be?) So while Tucci is sexually harassing family maid Sofia Vergara and Allen is falling for Rene Russo, Tucci's wife, the kid "Killers" mess up an assassination attempt by the real killers, bringing police officers Janeane Garofalo and Patrick Warburton to the scene.
Further complicating the assassins' task are a couple of crooks who together do not possess the IQ of a single stupid person, Tom Sizemore and Johnny Knoxville; two of the strangest FBI agents in history, Omar Epps and Dwight "Heavy D" Myers; and Jason Lee, a fellow who lives in a tree and is often mistaken for Jesus.
This is not a plot you want to spend too much time describing or analyzing. The object is to deliver a series of gags such as guys robbing a bar in masks that render them virtually blind, or a retractable seat belt in their rental car that drives the hit men crazy.
But the movie all too swiftly abandons its characters and situations in favor of these gags. Since when are characters and comedy mutually exclusive?
The best thing about "Trouble" are its actors, who never abandon their characters even when the movie does. The below-the-line work is solid from James Newton Howard's pleasant, Latin-flavored musical score to Greg Gardiner's lensing, Garreth Stover's exaggerated Miami sets and Steven Weisberg's editing, which keeps things moving at a swift pace.
BIG TROUBLE
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures presents a Jacobson Co. and Sonnenfeld/Josephson Worldwide Entertainment production
Producers:Barry Sonnenfeld, Barry Josephson, Tom Jacobson
Director:Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriters:Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone
Based on the novel by:Dave Barry
Executive producer:Jim Wedaa
Director of photography:Greg Gardiner
Production designer:Garreth Stover
Music:James Newton Howard
Co-producer:Graham Place
Costume designer:Mary Vogt
Editor:Steven Weisberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Elliot Arnold:Tim Allen
Anna Herk:Rene Russo
Arthur Herk:Stanley Tucci
Snake:Tom Sizemore
Eddie:Johnny Knoxville
Henry:Dennis Farina
Leonard:Jack Kehler
Monica Romero:Janeane Garofalo
Walter Kramitz:Patrick Warburton
Matt Arnold:Ben Foster
Jenny Herk:Zooey Deschanel
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 4/3/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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