TV Guide: Melanie Griffith

Listing: Shining Through

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Listing: Bruce Willis

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Sun Oct 12 11:00 AM BIO A profile of Bruce Willis recalls his rise to fame on the TV series “Moonlighting” and his Hollywood stardom following the success of the film “Die Hard.” Also: his work as a musician; fatherhood; and Willis's political and philanthropic causes. Among those commenting: Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, John Travolta, Kevin Costner, M. Night Shyamalan, Cybill Shepherd and Sylvester Stallone.

Video: On This Day: August 9

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The Sistine Chapel first opened, and Melanie Griffith, Whitney Houston, an Gillian Anderson were born.

Photo: Jesse Johnson, Dakota Johnson, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and Tippi Hedren - attend the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival's "Una Noche con Antonio Banderas" screening, June 24, 2008

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Video: June 26, 1989

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Second time's a charm (almost) for Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith Milli Vanilli lip-synch their way to #1 Which Tim Burton film is #1 at the box office?

Video: Directors: Sidney Lumet, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:10:30 -0400

As a director, Sidney Lumet cut his teeth in live television during the 1950s, and moved up to the big screen with the screen adaptation of the TV play Twelve Angry Men. Since then, Lumet's lean, no-nonsense style and coolly intelligent New York attitude has helped him craft a number of classic motion pictures, including Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, Serpico, and Fail-Safe. The Directors: Sidney Lumet is a documentary which offers an in-depth look at Lumet's career in filmmaking; along with an interview with Lumet and clips from his films, this documentary includes contributions from a number of the actors who worked with him, including Jack Lemmon, Ossie Davis, Christopher Walken, Melanie Griffith, Dyan Cannon, and more. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Another Day In Paradise

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:42:37 -0400

Following the acclaim for his 1995 Kids debut, Larry Clark directed this drug-crime drama, set in the Midwest of the '70s. Teen junkie Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) shares an apartment with his girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and pal Danny (Branden Williams). Bobbie is injured during an encounter with a security guard but regains his health under the supervision of his dynamic drug-dealer uncle Mel (James Woods). After a successful robbery of speed from an out-of-town doctor's clinic, Bobby, Rosie, Mel, and Mel's melancholy gal Sid (Melanie Griffith) encounter gunplay in a drug deal gone sour. With Mel and Bobby both wounded, they retreat to the headquarters of a gun merchant known as the Reverend (James Otis). When Rosie loses her baby, she slips into a depression and more drug use. Mel recovers and begins planning another heist, but the group is beginning to unravel. Shown at 1998 film fests ({~Venice}, {~Toronto}). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide.

Video: Lolita

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:11:18 -0400

Adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (previously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962), Lolita stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, a college literature professor. In early adolescence, Humbert fell hopelessly and tragically in love with a girl his own age, and, as he grew into adulthood, he never lost his obsession with nymphets, teenagers who walk a fine line between being a girl and a woman. While looking for a place to live after securing a new teaching position, he meets Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), a pretentious and annoying woman who seems desperately lonely and is obviously attracted to Humbert. Humbert pays her little mind until he meets her 13-year-old daughter Lolita (Dominique Swain), the image of the girl that Humbert once loved. Humbert moves into the Haze home as a boarder and eventually marries Charlotte in order to be closer to Lolita. When Charlotte finds out about Humbert's attraction to her daughter, she flees the house in a rage, only to be killed in an auto accident. Without t

Video: Rko 281

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:52:14 -0400

When RKO Pictures began work on production number 281, no one could have imagined that they were making perhaps the greatest American film of all time. But the moment Orson Welles (played by Liev Schreiber) announced that he intended to make a film based on the life of tyranical multi-millionaire publisher William Randolph Hearst (James Cromwell), they knew that they had trouble on their hands. Welles, the enfant terrible of American theater and a household name thanks to his infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's {+The War Of The Worlds}, was signed to direct films for RKO, and he was given an unusually free hand to make whatever sort of film he wanted. But what Welles didn't count on was the power of Hearst to keep his film from being seen. RKO 281 is based on the true story of the making of Citizen Kane and the war of words between Welles and Hearst. It also stars Melanie Griffith as Hearst's mistress Marion Davies, John Malkovich as screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Brenda Blethyn as Hearst's movie colum

Video: Crazy In Alabama

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:09:59 -0400

Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially segregated municipal swimming pool, leading to a protest that explodes into deadly violence. But Peejoe has gotten a crash course in standing your ground and following your own path from his free-spirited Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who has killed her abusive husband and is headed for Hollywood, where she's convinced that television stardom awaits her. Crazy in Alabama marked the directorial debut of actor Antonio Banderas; his supporting cast includes Cathy Moriarty, Elizabeth Perkins, Rod Steiger, Fannie Flagg, and Meat Loaf Aday. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: All The Way

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:50:15 -0400

Australian filmmaker Paul Goldman directs the comedy The Night We Called It a Day, based on the actual events during Frank Sinatra's 1974 tour stop in Sydney. Joel Edgerton plays Rod Blue, a long-haired rock promoter in Australia during the '70s. He hopes to save his floundering career by spending all his money booking Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper). But when Sinatra arrives with his girlfriend Barbara Marx (Melanie Griffith), he insults the locals by calling reporter Hilary Hunter (Portia de Rossi) a two-dollar whore. Union leader and future Australian prime minister Bob Hawke (David Field) tries to cancel the tour unless he apologizes, and it's up to Rod and his assistant Audrey (Rose Byrne) to step in and save the tour. Tom Burlinson performs Sinatra's vocal parts. The Night We Called It a Day was shown at the {~2003 Cannes Film Festival}. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.

Video: Fear City

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:33:21 -0400

To paraphrase 1930s wit Wilson Mizner, Fear City is like a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. In exploitation-flick fashion, the film exposes the seedy nether world of contemporary Manhattan. Unsavory Matt (Tom Berenger) and Nick (Jack Scalia) run a topless bar/booking agency, in direct competition with equally scuzzy Goldstein (Jan Murray). It's hard to imagine anyone lower than these low-lives until we're apprised of a serial killer who dutifully keeps a record of his murders in a diary. The killer's victims are all exotic dancers and hookers, prompting Matt to suspect that Goldstein is behind the crimes, and vice versa. Once they've decided that it's better to unite against a common enemy than to throw volleys at each other, Matt and Goldstein arrange between themselves to insure the safety of the women in their employ. Meanwhile, Matt's ex-girlfriend Loretta (Melanie Griffith), saddened by the murder of her lesbian lover Leila (Rae Dawn Chong), resumes her drug habit, while a dispirited Matt beg

Video: Body Double

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:28:21 -0400

In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked out on him, so he has no place to sleep. His pal offers him the use of his apartment for the evening. The apartment happens to be equipped with a huge picture window and telescope, enabling him to spy on his beautiful neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) while she undresses. He also bears witness to her brutal murder. And then he meets a porn star (Melanie Griffith), who has just taken a job posing as the late Gloria. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Tempo

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:20:22 -0400

Love and larceny cross paths in an unexpected way in this direct-to-video thriller. Sarah (Melanie Griffith) is a U.S. expatriate living in Paris, where she makes a good living as a courier on the black market, smuggling for several clients including art collector Walter Shrenger (Malcolm McDowell). She is involved in a May-December romance with American Jack, but he betrays her by falling in love with Jenny (Rachael Leigh Cook), a beautiful American woman who works for an upscale jewelry store and knows how to access their safe. Jack begins an affair Jenny, setting up a dangerous and potentially explosive love triangle between the three; meanwhile, one of Sarah's smuggling jobs goes horribly wrong. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Pacific Heights

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:15:54 -0400

John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning to renovate it and rent it out. Unfortunately, they select as a tenant Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton), a psychotic real estate bargain hunter who plans to drive Patty and Drake into foreclosure proceedings and then buy the house cheap. Carter starts the ball rolling by refusing to pay his rent and driving out a couple who had rented the rear flat by hammering and sawing all night -- and then releasing a tidal wave of cockroaches. What follows is a psychological war between Carter and the Yuppie couple, with Carter succeeding not only in provoking Drake into more extreme means of eviction, but also causing a rift between Drake and Patty. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide.

Video: Shining Through

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:13:17 -0400

Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel {~Shining Through}. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with international lawyer Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). Ed hires her immediately when he finds out that she speaks German fluently. The reason Ed is so interested in Linda's language skills is because Ed is an undercover OSS officer who needs a German translator. Their business relationship translates into love, but when America enters the war, Ed abandons his law practice to become a full-time spy. Utilizing Linda's charms, she travels to Berlin and infiltrates the Nazis as a domestic to try to discover information about a bomb that can fly by itself. But Linda has personal as well as patriotic motives for agreeing to go undercover, since she has Jewish relatives in Berlin and wants to find out their whereabouts. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide.

Video: Shadow Of Doubt

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:12:36 -0400

In this taut thriller, a determined defense attorney (Melanie Griffith) launches an investigation to prove her latest client, a popular rap singer, is innocent of killing his girlfriend. Her search leads the lawyer to another murder victim, this time a member of a politically powerful family. Her discoveries put her life in grave danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Cecil B Demented

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:22:38 -0400

Iconoclastic satirist John Waters bites the hand that (periodically) feeds him in this humorous look at the underside of the film industry. Self-styled guerrilla filmmaker Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a Baltimore movie-making collective/street gang called the Sprocket Holes, which includes Cecil's girlfriend and frequent leading lady, a low-rent porn actress named Cherish Oh Lordy (Alicia Witt). Desperate for attention, they kidnap famous Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) during a Baltimore publicity stop and force her at gunpoint to star in their latest production, Raving Beauty. Before long, Honey comes down with a severe case of Stockholm syndrome and joins the Sprocket Holes in their bid to destroy the mainstream film industry. Waters regulars Ricki Lake, Patty Hearst, and Mink Stole highlight the supporting cast, and techno star Moby contributes to the soundtrack. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Bonfire Of The Vanities, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:19:42 -0400

Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the master of the universe, a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle golddigger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from the airport when Maria takes a wrong turn on the expressway and the two find themselves in the South Bronx. She sees a black youth approaching Sherman's car and Maria, frightened, guns the engine, running over the teenager and killing him. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police. Meanwhile, indigent alcoholic journalist Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), anxious for a story to make good with his editor, comes upon the hit-and-run tale through local black community activist, Reverend Bacon (John Hancock). Bacon plans to use the hit-and-run case as a rallying point for the black community, while Fallow recognizes the press coverage i

Video: Working Girl

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:12:21 -0400

Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is incapacitated, Griffith is compelled by circumstances to pose as her boss. Her inborn business acumen and common sense enable Griffith to rise to the top of New York's financial circles, and along the way she wins the love of executive (Harrison Ford). Things threaten to take a sorry turn when Weaver returns, but it is she who suffers from the consequences of her own past duplicity. Working Girl was Melanie Griffith's breakthrough film, proving than she was more than just the off-and-on significant other of Don Johnson. The film was later adapted into a brief TV series, starring a pre-Speed Sandra Bullock. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Something Wild

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:08:39 -0400

A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive lower-class woman named Lulu (Melanie Griffith). The sexy Louise Brooks lookalike doesn't take him home, but shanghais him for a bizarre roadtrip to Virginia that includes kinky bondage sex, destruction of property, and robbery. Things get stranger when Lulu tells Charlie that her real name is Audrey and takes him home to meet her mother, asking him to pose as her husband. The charade continues until her high-school reunion, where the roadtrip (and the entire film) takes a sharp U-turn into psycho-thriller territory. Audrey's dangerously psychotic ex-con husband, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta), shows up. What had been a liberating fling for Charlie turns into a bloody and vicious battle for survival. ~ Robert Firsching, All M

Video: Melanie Griffith

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Video: Blabber: Britney Spears's Topless Seduction

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What provoked K-Fed to file for primary custody? Plus, Mel B has a scary wedding secret, Amy Winehouse suffers from exhaustion , and Melanie Griffith celebrates the big 50!

Photo: Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas with children, and Tippi Hedren - "Shrek the Third" Los Angeles premiere - May 2007

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Photo: Brooke Shields, Joel Grey and Melanie Griffith - "Chicago" Tenth Anniversary - Nov. 2006

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Photo: Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera - Antonio Banderas Launches New Fragrance "Antonio" - June 2006

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Photo: Melanie Griffith, Dakota Johnson, Don Johnson, and guest - InStyle & Warner Bros. 2006 Golden Globes After Party - Jan. 2006

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Photo: Melanie Griffith - The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards - Jan. 2006

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Photo: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Stella Banderas and Dakota Johnson - Antonio Banderas Honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - Oct. 2005

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Photo: Melanie Griffith - Antonio Banderas Honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - Oct. 2005

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Photo: Melanie Griffith - 2005 WB Networks All Star Celebration - July 2005

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and daughter Dakota Johnson - Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party - Sept. 2004

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Photo: Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas and family - The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards - Jan. 2004

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and sister Traci - The 10th Annual Race to Erase MS - May 2003

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Photo: Dakota, Tippi Hedren, Stella and Melanie Griffith - Tippi Hedren Honored With a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - Jan. 2003

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Photo: Melanie Griffith - Oct. 2002

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and Donatella Versace - Versace Luncheon to Benefit Children's Action Network - May 2002

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Photo: Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith - Versace Luncheon to Benefit Children's Action Network - May 2002

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas - Cannes 2002 - "Femme Fatale" Dinner - May 2002

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Photo: Melanie Griffith - The 2002 ALMA Awards - May 2002

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and Alexander Bauer - Opening Night of "ART" - Jan. 1999

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and Dominique Swain - Premiere Magazine 5th Annual "Women in Hollywood" Luncheon - Jan. 1999

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Photo: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and family - Lion King II "Simba's Pride" Los Angeles Premiere - Oct. 1998

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Photo: Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith - "Desperado" Premiere - Aug. 1995

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Photo: TV Goes to the Movies

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Photo: Twins - Melanie Griffith as "Lee" and Sara Gilbert as "Mitchee"

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Photo: Melanie Griffith and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - Cannes 2002

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Photo: Tracey Ullman and Melanie Griffith - GLAAD Media Awards, March 2004

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Photo: Harry Connick Jr., Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas - Colon Cancer Benefit, April 2004

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