INDEX
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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter 94
Academy Awards 1, 2, 9, 17–19, 24, 42, 52, 55, 66, 92, 97, 112, 114, 123
Alexander, Scott 36, 43–4
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life 88
Ali 9, 11, 16, 40, 73–4, 76–8, 87
Ali, Muhammed 6, 73–8
Amadeus 17
A Man For All Seasons 10
Amazing Grace 107
Amelia 81
American Hustle 2
American Splendor 12, 50, 52–5
Anschutz, Philip 22–3
Antoinette: The Journey 116
Apollo 13 97
Arquette, Patricia 38
Assange, Julian 88
Audience, The 79, 123
Audrey Hepburn Story, The 46, 57
Auto Focus 43–6
Aviator, The 18, 40–3
awards 1, 16–17, 42, 52, 32, 70, 91, 99, 103, 104, 112, 123
 
Bacon, Francis 13, 64, 71
Badalamenti, Angelo 45
BAFTA 52, 112, 114, 123
Bale, Christian 1, 2, 28, 30–1, 81
Bandit Queen, The 111
Barton Fink 49
Basquiat 64, 71
Bayley, John 50–2
Beautiful Mind, A 7, 17, 83–6
Beautiful Mind, A (Biography) 84–5
Beckinsale, Kate 40
Becoming Jane 61
Behind the Candelabra 2, 32
Benjamin, André (André 3000) 13
Bettany, Paul 84, 92
Beyond the Sea 21–2, 25–8
Bilcock, Gill 113
Bingham, Dennis 2–3
biographical 1, 15, 18, 120, 125
Bio/Pic 2, 109
Blair, Tony 79, 97, 120–3
Blanchett, Cate 8, 18, 28–30, 32, 40, 109–12, 114–15
Blind Side, The 18
Boden, Christina 45
Bonneville, Hugh 50–1
Bosworth, Kate 25, 27
box office 2–3, 6–7, 16, 24, 32, 38, 42, 46, 66, 73, 78, 81, 87, 91, 104, 106, 112, 115, 120, 123
Brabner, Joyce 52–5
Braveheart 17
Bright Star 61
Broadbent, Jim 50, 52, 78
budget 22, 37, 38, 40, 55, 66, 70, 75, 81, 87, 91, 96, 99, 103, 106, 113, 115, 120, 123
Bullock, Sandra 18–19, 56, 58
Burg, Michael J. 57
Burton, Tim 36–9
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 31
Butler, The 2, 107
 
Canoero, Milena 118
Capote 16, 50, 56–61
Capote (Biography) 57
Capote, Truman 16, 18, 50, 56–61
Captain Phillips 2, 4
Carlin, John 100–1, 103
Carpenter, John Henry 43–6
César Chávez 9, 107
Chadwick, Justin 100, 104
Che, parts 1 and 2 107
Churchill: The Hollywood Years 5
Cinderella Man 81, 96–7
Clarke, Gerald 57
Clough 81
Clough, Brian 73–4, 78–81, 97
Colick, Lewis 25
Condon, Bill 46, 88, 90–1
Connelly, Jennifer 84
Control 21, 32
Coppola, Sofia 109, 115–17, 119–20
Cossell, Howard 75–6
Crane, Anne 43
Crane, Bob 35, 43–5
Creation 11, 92
critically 4, 46, 91, 113, 123
critics 3, 17, 24, 27, 30, 52, 57, 79, 81, 87, 89, 96, 115, 119, 120, 123–4
Crowe, Russell 7, 66, 81, 84, 86,
Custen, George F. 2, 3, 109
Czapsky, Stefan 39
 
Dafoe, Willem 43
Dallas Buyers Club 2, 19
Dam Busters, The 83
Damned United, The 9, 73, 78–81, 97
Damned Utd, The (Novel) 78
Damon, Matt 100–1
Dangerous Method, A 9, 92
Darin, Bobby 21–2, 25–8
Davis, Bette 110
Davis, Hope 52, 54–6, 58
Day-Lewis, Daniel 8, 19, 94, 97–100
Deal, The 79, 121
Dee, Sandra 25–6, 27
Dench, Judi 50, 52, 18, 112
Depp, Johnny 18, 36, 37–8, 39
Diana 10
DiCaprio, Leonardo 18–19, 40, 41, 107
Dirty Filthy Love 79
Disraeli 18
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The 18, 61
D’Onofrio, Vincent 38
Dreamgirls 5
Dunst, Kirsten 110, 115, 118
Dylan, Bob 18, 22, 28–32
 
Eastwood, Clint 100–2, 107
Ed Wood 36–9
8 Mile 5
Elba, Idris 94, 100, 104–7
Elegy for Iris 50
Iris: A Memoir 50
Elizabeth 109–15
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 109–15
Emperor’s New Clothes 8
Emshwiller, Susan J. 63–4
Erin Brockovich 4, 7
Eyre, Richard 50–2
 
fan-base 8
Fantabulosa! 79
Farewell, My Queen 117
Field, Sally 97
Fiennes, Joseph 112
Fifth Estate, The 88
Fighter, The 81
Finding Neverland 18
Fire Over England 110
flashback 24–5, 41, 43, 66, 74, 80, 88, 89, 99, 103
Flynn, Errol 40, 110, 114
Foxx, Jamie 21–5, 118
Franklin, Marcus Carl 28, 30
Fraser, Antonia 116, 120
Frears, Stephen 79, 110, 120, 121, 123
Freeman, Morgan 18, 94, 100–2
Frida 67–70
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Biography) 67
Frost, David 79, 93–7
Frost/Nixon 18, 79, 93–7
Fuller, Delores 38
Furness, Mark 79
Futterman, Dan 56
 
Gandhi 17
García, Rodrigo 67
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan 88
Gay Harden, Marcia 63, 66
Gerbosi, Michael 43–4
Gere, Richard 28, 31
Giamatti, Paul 52–6
Giles, John 78–9, 81
Girl, The 14, 16, 46
Girl with a Pearl Earring, The 5, 6
Glover, Danny 94
Gods and Monsters 46, 88
Goldsman, Akiva 84–5, 87
Goodbye Bafana 94
Good Night, and Good Luck 12, 18, 46
Good Vibrations 2
Goya’s Ghosts 71
Graysmith, Robert 43
Grazer, Brian 84
Greatest, The 77
Grey, Rudolph 36
 
Hackford, Taylor 22–4
hagiography 13, 16, 103
Harewood, David 94, 107
Harris, Ed 63–6
Harris, Naomie 100
Hayek, Salma 63, 67–70
Haynes, Todd 28–9, 31–2
Haysbert, Dennis 94
Hendrix, Jimi 1, 13
Herrera, Hayden 67, 68
H.G. Wells: War with the World 79
Higham, Charles 40–1
Hirst, Michael 110, 114
Hitchcock 14, 16
Hitchcock, Alfred 14–16, 46, 47
Hoax, The 57
Hogan’s Heroes 43–4, 46
Hooper, Tom 78–9, 124
Hotel Rwanda 18
Hours, The 52, 61
Howard, Ron 79, 81–2, 84, 87, 93, 94, 96–7
Howard, Terrence 94, 107
Howl 61
Hudson, Jennifer 106–7
Hughes, Howard 18, 35, 40–2
Hugo 42, 47
Hurricane, The 81
 
Ian Hislop’s Olden Days 3
I’m Not There 12, 18, 22, 28–32
Impossible, The 4
In Cold Blood (Book) 16, 57, 59
Infamous 16, 50, 56–61
Invictus 9, 18, 94, 100–7
Invisible Woman, The 2
Iris 12, 18, 50–2
Iris and Her Friends (Memoir) 50
Iron Lady, The 9, 19
 
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (Biography) 64
Jones, James H. 88
Jones, Toby 16, 46, 56, 58, 59–61, 94
Julie & Julia 19
 
Kahlo, Frida 63, 67–70
Kani, Atandwa 105
Kapur, Shekhar 110–11, 113–15
Karaszewski, Larry 36, 43–4
Kearns Goodwin, Doris 98
Keener, Catherine 56, 58
Kill Your Darlings 61
King’s Speech, The 17, 19, 124
Kinnear, Greg 43–6
Kinsey 83–4, 88–90
Kinsey, Alfred 9, 83, 88–92
Klimt 71
Krasner, Lee 63–6
Kristofferson, Kris 29, 31
Kushner, Tony 97
 
Lachman, Edward 29
Lady Sings the Blues 8
Lake, Diane 67
Landau, Martin 36, 37
Langella, Frank 18, 94, 96–7
Last Days 5
Last Emperor, The 17
Last King of Scotland, The 18, 79, 107
Last Station, The 19, 61
Laughton, Charles 9
Law, Jude 40
Lawley, Lisa 64
Lawrence of Arabia 17
Lazar, Swifty 94
Ledger, Heath 28, 31
Lee, Harper 56–9, 62
Lehmann, Michael 36
Levinson, Barry 25
Lincoln 12, 19, 97–100
Lincoln, Abraham 8, 93–4, 97–100, 103
Lincoln, Mary Todd 97
Linney, Laura 88, 89
Lithgow, John 89
Logan, John 40–1, 98, 81
Longford 79
Longson, Sam 78
Louis XVI 115–16
Love is the Devil 13, 64, 71
Lovelace 47
Lugosi, Bela 36–7, 39
 
Madame Du Barry 117
Madigan, Amy 65
Madness of King George, The 124
Mandela 94
Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom 94, 100
Mandela and de Klerk 94
Mandela, Nelson 100–4
Mandela, Winnie 100, 106–7
Man for All Seasons, A 10, 17
Mann, Michael 40, 74–5, 77–8, 87
Man on the Moon 43
Marie Antoinette (1938) 117
Marie Antoinette (2006) 115–20
Mary Queen of Scots 114
Masters, Bill 79
Masters of Sex 79
Master, The 5
Maybury, John 13, 61, 71
McGrath, Douglas 56, 59
McMillen, Clara 88
Meaney, Colm 78
Melvin and Howard 42
Milk 4, 18, 107
Miller, Bennett 56, 81
Mirren, Helen 16, 18–19, 120–3
Molina, Alfred 67–8
Moneyball 19, 81
Monster 18
Morgan, Peter 78–9, 81, 93–7, 120, 121–3
Morton, Samantha 114
Motorcycle Diaries, The 11, 107
Moverman, Oren 28
Mrs Brown 5
Mrs Henderson Presents 18
Mrs Mandela (2009) 94
Mrs Mandela (2010) 106, 107
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest 77
Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan’s Heroes?, The (Biography) 43
Murdoch, Iris 50–2
Murphy, Fred 45
musicians 5, 8, 21, 49
Mutiny on the Bounty 10
My Left Foot 19
My Week with Marilyn 19, 47
 
Naifeh, Stephen 64
Nasar, Sylvia 84–5, 87
Nash, Alicia 84
Nash, John 7, 83–7
Nava, Gregory 67
Neeson, Liam 88, 90, 98
Nicholson, William 100, 104, 110, 115
Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Biography) 36
Nixon 11, 18, 79, 93, 94–7
Nixon, Richard 18, 93, 94–7
North Country 18
Norton, Edward 67–8
 
October Sky 92
Okonedo, Sophie 106
127 Hours 19
Oscars See Academy Awards
Out of Africa 17
Owen, Alison 113, 115
Owen, Clive 114
 
Paradise Found 71
Parker, Sarah Jessica 38
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 31
Patton 10
Peace, David 78, 81
Pekar, Harvey 50, 52–6
Pennebaker, D.A. 29, 31
People vs Larry Flynt, The 43
Pianist, The 4
Pienaar, Francois 100–3
Pini, Sizi 105
Playing the Enemy: Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation (Book) 100
Plimpton, George 57
Poitier, Sidney 94
politicians 5, 19, 93, 132
Pollock 12, 63–4, 66
Pollock, Jackson 63–8
Prieto, Rodrigo 68
Private Life of Henry VIII, The 10
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The 110
Pulcici, Robert 52
 
Quay Brothers, The 70
Queen Elizabeth 110
Queen, The 4, 11–12, 18, 79, 110, 120–4
 
Radloff, Toby 54
Raging Bull 73, 77
Railway Man, The 4
Raleigh, Walter 110, 112, 114
Rasputin and the Empress 13
Ray 8, 11, 12, 18, 21–5, 66
Ray Charles 18, 21–5
representation 3, 4, 9, 12–15, 16, 53, 79
Revie, Don 78, 80–1
Riesman, Judith 90
Rivele, Stephen J. 11, 74
Rivera, Diego 67–70
Roberts, Julia 7
Robson, Flora 110
Rocchetti & Rocchetti 118
Rosken, Todd 43
Roth, Eric 74
royalty 8, 9–10, 13, 18, 19, 104, 109–11, 113–16, 117, 118–24
Rush 2, 4, 9, 79, 82
Rush, Geoffrey 33, 47, 110–12
 
Scarface 40
Schama, Simon 119
Schindler’s List 17
Schrader, Paul 43–4, 46
Schwartzman, Jason 115–16
Scofield, Paul 10
Scorsese, Martin 1, 14, 40, 42, 47, 77
Scott, George C. 10
Seabiscuit 82
Sea Hawk, The 110
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 33
Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey (Biography) 88
Seymour Hoffman, Philip 16, 18, 56, 58, 60–1
Shadow of a Vampire 5
Shakespeare in Love 50, 112
Sheen, Michael 78–80, 94, 97, 120–1, 123
Shine 33
Sigal, Clancy 67
Smith, Gregory White 64
Smith, Will 9, 16, 74–7
Social Network, The 19
Soul Surfer 82
Spacey, Kevin 21, 25–8
Spall, Timothy 78
Special Relationship, The 79, 121
Spielberg, Steven 97–100
Springer Berman, Shari 52–4
Stefani, Gwen 40
Story of Louis Pasteur, The 83
Surviving Picasso 64, 71
Sylvia 52
 
Taylor, Peter 78, 80–1
Taymor, Julie 67–70
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Biography) 98
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story 33
Terminal, The 5
Thomas, Anna 67
Todd, Richard 110
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (Memoir) 57
Turner, Barbara 63–4
12 Years a Slave 2, 17, 19
 
Vie en Rose, La 8, 18, 21, 32
Vincent 37
Virgin Queen, The 110, 114
Voight, Jon 75
 
W 9
Walk the Line 8, 12, 18, 21, 33
Watergate scandal 93
Watts, Naomi 10, 124
Welles, Orson 38
Wells, H.G. 79
Whale, James 46, 88, 91
What’s Love Got to Do with It? 8
White, James L. 22
Wilde 62
Wilkinson, Christopher 11, 74
Williams, Kenneth 79, 97
Wilson, Rita 43, 45
Winnie 106–7
Winslet, Kate 50–1
Wishaw, Ben 28, 31, 61
Wolf of Wall Street, The 2, 19
Wood, Charles 50
Wood, Ed 35, 36–9, 43
writers 5, 9, 19, 49–52, 63, 78
 
Young Bess 110
Young Mr Lincoln 93
Young Victoria 4, 124