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Jim McMullan, who portrayed one of Jimmy Stewart's six sons in Shenandoah and a top ski racer in the Robert Redford-starring Downhill Racer, has died. He was 82.

McMullan died May 31 of complications from Als at his home in Wofford Heights, California, his wife of 49 years, Helene McMullan, told The Hollywood Reporter.

McMullan and Dirk Benedict starred as police helicopter pilots on 1974's Chopper One, an ABC drama that was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, and he toplined the 1980 CBS series Beyond Westworld, based on the Michael Crichton movie. Both shows, however, were quickly canceled.

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Jim McMullan, who portrayed one of Jimmy Stewart's six sons in Shenandoah and a top ski racer in the Robert Redford-starring Downhill Racer, has died. He was 82.

McMullan died May 31 of complications from Als at his home in Wofford Heights, California, his wife of 49 years, Helene McMullan, told The Hollywood Reporter.

McMullan and Dirk Benedict starred as police helicopter pilots on 1974's Chopper One, an ABC drama that was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, and he toplined the 1980 CBS series Beyond Westworld, based on the Michael Crichton movie. Both shows, however, were quickly canceled.

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Amazon has renewed The Stinky & Dirty Show for a second season of 26 episodes. Based on the “I Stink!” book series by Kate and Jim McMullan, The Stinky & Dirty Show follows the adventures and mishaps faced by best friends and unlikely heroes, Stinky the garbage truck and Dirty, the backhoe loader.An animated TV series, The Stinky & Dirty Show is written and developed by Guy Toubes and animated by Brown Bag Films, Ltd. Season one of The Stinky & Dirty Show includes original music from folk singer and songwriter Dan Bern. Celebrity voice talent includes: Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Lynch, Andy Richter, Joan Cusack, and Wallace Shawn.Read More…...

Few ideas survive the times that spawned them, but Westworld, the 1973 Michael Crichton movie about an Old West amusement park populated by lifelike robots, is good enough that Hollywood's been coming back to it for more than 40 years. The original film, which was MGM's biggest box-office success of the year, spawned a sequel and a short-lived TV series; talk of a remake had been floated around for years, with everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Quentin Tarantino being namedropped around the project at various points. (There was even a porn version,...

The stylistics of documentary filmmaking helped wipe out the old Hollywood way of doing things, and this sharp look at Olympic skiing is a prime example. Michael Ritchie became a director to be watched filming a killer competitor (Robert Redford), a blaze on the ski slopes and an Sob in every other aspect of his life. The style still looks fresh, 36 years later. Downhill Racer Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 494 1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 101 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 1, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Dabney Coleman, Karl Michael Vogler, Jim McMullan, Kathleen Crowley, Carole Carle. Cinematography Brian Probyn Film Editor Richard A. Harris Original Music Kenyon Hopkins Written by James Salter from a book by Oakley Hall Produced by Richard Gregson Directed by Michael Ritchie

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In the late 1960s, when the standard Hollywood way of making movies began to fall apart,...

An intriguing tale about alternative history, a twisted story of friendship put to the ultimate test, a docu-series based on America’s most award-winning magazine, a kids series based on magic and another about being stinky and dirty—all are coming exclusively to Prime Instant Video later this year and in 2016.

Amazon today announced it has greenlit five new Amazon Original Series, including The Man in the High Castle, which is based on the Philip K. Dick alternative history novel; an hour-long dark comedy Mad Dogs; docu-series The New Yorker Presents; along with kids shows Just Add Magic, and The Stinky & Dirty Show.

The new Amazon Original Series come from an acclaimed creative roster including Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), Cris Cole (The Good Times Are Killing Me), Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie), Joe Nussbaum (George Lucas in Love, Awkward), and Kate & Jim McMullan (I’m Dirty!

Young Robert Redford and politics: 'The Candidate' and 'All the President's Men' (photo: Robert Redford as Bob Woodward in 'All the President's Men') A young Robert Redford can be seen The Candidate, All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, and Downhill Racer as Turner Classic Movies' Redford series comes to a close this evening. The world of politics is the focus of the first three films, each one of them well-regarded box-office hits. The last title, which shows that politics is part of life no matter what, is set in the world of competitive sports. 'The Candidate' In the Michael Ritichie-directed The Candidate (1972), Robert Redford plays idealistic liberal Democrat Bob McKay, who, with no chance of winning, is convinced to run against the Republican incumbent in a fight for a California seat in Congress. See, McKay is too handsome. Too young. Too liberal.

A preschool whodunit. A hilarious friendship between dirty trucks. An epic quest to defeat darkness. An ousted crowd who navigates middle school cafeteria dynamics. And a trio who discover the power of magic.

These are the five kids’ stories Amazon Studios has ordered to pilot, officially announced today. Early next year, all five will showcase their first episodes for viewer feedback on Amazon Instant Video.

During the last kids’ pilot season, one of the highest-rated pilots was Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, which was created by pre-school teacher David Anaxagoras, a first-time writer who was discovered through Amazon Studios’ open-door submission process. In November, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street will launch as a full series on Amazon Prime.

In a few months, viewers will have the chance to discover the next hit kids show. “We’re very excited to be working with such talented creative minds...

School of Visual Arts Sva honors James McMullanone of Americas foremost illustratorswith the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. Best known for his Lincoln Center Theater posters and his psychologically intense style of realism, he has also designed and illustrated many magazine articles, book and album covers, and advertisements. The Masters Series James McMullan is on view from today, November 26 through December 15 at Sva Gallery, 209 East 23 Street, New York City.

New Zealand agency Colenso Bbdo has created a new campaign for human rights group Amnesty International to back its ‘protect the human’ positioning.

The campaign aims to show kiwis what it’s like to live without basic human rights and centres on a Facebook app that scans a user’s timeline for comments and behaviour that would be condemned in different countries.

It also includes punishments that might result, including lashing, torture, beating and death.

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Rebecca Emery deputy director for Amnesty International’s said: “These are issues that Amnesty International deals with everyday and are a reality for so many people around the world. Trial by Timeline is a fantastic opportunity for us to bring a greater understanding of human rights issues to New Zealanders in an accessible and creative way.”

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School of Visual Arts Sva will honor James McMullanone of Americas foremost illustratorswith the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. Best known for his Lincoln Center theater posters and his psychologically intense style of realism, he has also designed and illustrated many magazine articles, book and album covers, and advertisements. The Masters Series James McMullan is on view from November 26 through December 15 at Sva Gallery, 209 East 23 Street, New York City.

Bearing the titles of a series of children’s books by husband-and-wife team Kate and Jim Mcmullan, this double DVD pack features 12 stories by a variety of authors: “I’m Dirty!”, “Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man”, “The Paperboy”, “Stars! Stars! Stars!”, “Fletcher and the Falling Leaves”, “Johnny Appleseed”, “I Stink!”, “Trashy Town”, “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel”, “The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle”, “The Beast of Monsieur Racine”, and “Arnie the Doughnut” (a personal favorite). The pack consists of two DVDs with a read-along feature, which functions something like a karaoke track, allowing children to follow the narration by reading the subtitles that light up in time with it.

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If you’ve seen a performance at Lincoln Center in the past 25 years—and shame on New Yorkers who haven’t—then you’ve probably taken home a Playbill with a cover by artist James McMullan. McMullan’s theater posters are striking in color, his figures rendered in mid-movement. The characters’ gestures, the use of shadow, and even the lettering of the play’s title all combine under McMullan’s paintbrush to capture the underlying themes of the play. On the 2008 poster for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, McMullan spotlighted the racial prejudices that the musical is famous for confronting: the sailors are shirtless, smiling, and brawny, but beneath them are the natives, almost blending in with the landscape. The female lead, Nellie Forbush, dances into the center of the scene in a billowing white sailor suit.

At the age of 26, graphic novelist Dash Shaw has already delivered a genuine masterpiece. And not just any masterpiece: Bottomless Belly Button (EW's #5 book of 2008) is the kind of delicately observed, funny-sad multi-generational family saga that you expect from a maestro in the full flowering of their late-life artistic powers. Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander, say, or Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Shaw's nimble skill for storytelling and characterization is more than matched by his eclectic drawing style, which is simultaneously cartoonish, realistic, and impressionistic. Every page, every panel of his work combines the composed photographic detail of an...

On Thursday June 18 James McMullan is in the hot seat with Mr. Davis. Mr. McMullan is known as the man behind the ?look of Lincoln Center theatre.? His theatrical posters are renowned and his 1976 New York Magazine cover illustration inspired the imagery for the film Saturday Night Fever. His work has appeared in numerous books?some with his wife Kate McMullan who is a renowned children?s author. Come hear about McMullan?s work, his process, and his passion.