NEW YORK - Roger Ebert will be honored at the 17th annual Gotham Awards for a career of championing independent cinema.
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The 65-year-old film critic will receive the honor at the Nov. 27 event at Brooklyn's Steiner Studios. The Gotham Awards celebrate independent movies and films set in New York. An official announcement of the Ebert tribute was planned for Monday.
"Through his columns, books and television show, Roger Ebert has almost single-handedly introduced independent film to American moviegoers," said Michelle Byrd, executive director of the International Film Project, which presents The Gotham Awards. "His championing of high-quality, undiscovered films has put countless films, filmmakers and actors on the map."
Ebert is only the second film critic to receive the Gotham Awards Tribute. In 1995, Gotham honored Pauline Kael.
Ebert underwent a series of cancer surgeries, most recently in June 2006 when he had a growth on his salivary gland and part of his right jaw removed. Two weeks later, he had emergency surgery after a blood vessel burst near the site of the operation.
A tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, left him unable to speak, a condition he has said would have to be remedied by further surgery. But he is cancer-free, he told the AP in August.
He is expected to attend the Gotham Awards for the tribute.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Javier Bardem and director Mira Nair will also receive a Gotham Awards Tribute this year.
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NEW YORK - Roger Ebert will be honored at the 17th annual Gotham Awards for a career of championing independent cinema.
The 65-year-old film critic will receive the honor at the Nov. 27 event at Brooklyn's Steiner Studios. The Gotham Awards celebrate independent movies and films set in New York. An official announcement of the Ebert tribute was planned for Monday.
"Through his columns, books and television show, Roger Ebert has almost single-handedly introduced independent film to American moviegoers," said Michelle Byrd, executive director of the International Film Project, which presents The Gotham Awards. "His championing of high-quality, undiscovered films has put countless films, filmmakers and actors on the map."
Ebert is only the second film critic to receive the Gotham Awards Tribute. In 1995, Gotham honored Pauline Kael.
Ebert underwent a series of cancer surgeries, most recently in June 2006 when he had a growth on his salivary gland and part of his right jaw removed. Two weeks later, he had emergency surgery after a blood vessel burst near the site of the operation.
A tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, left him unable to speak, a condition he has said would have to be remedied by further surgery. But he is cancer-free, he told the AP in August.
He is expected to attend the Gotham Awards for the tribute.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Javier Bardem and director Mira Nair will also receive a Gotham Awards Tribute this year.
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On the Net:
http://market.ifp.org/newyork/gothams/2007/
NEW YORK - Everyone wants to work with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson — except Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola — who directed Pacino and De Niro in "The Godfather" trilogy — says the trio of Oscar-winning actors have become apathetic.
"I don't feel that kind of passion to do a role and be great coming from those guys, because if it was there, they would do it! I mean, they're all in a position to do it," the 68-year-old filmmaker tells GQ magazine in its November issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
"Pacino always wanted to do theater. He wanted to do `Peer Gynt.' He wanted to do Shakespeare. Pacino will say, `Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I'm never going to L.A.,' but they all live off the fat of the land," Coppola says.
He calls De Niro "wealthy and powerful" — and more ambitious than Nicholson.
"I think if there was a role that De Niro was hungry for, he would come after it. I don't think Jack would," he says. "Jack has money and influence and girls, and I think he's a little bit like (Marlon) Brando, except Brando went through some tough times."
Nicholson — a front-row regular at the Oscars and at Los Angeles Laker games — "was always kind of a joker" and a Hollywood schmooze, says Coppola.
"He's got a little bit of a mean streak," he says. "He's intelligent, always wired in with the big guys and the big bosses of the studios."
Adds Coppola: "I don't know what any of them want anymore."
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