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Bravo Honors Late Screen Legend Anthony Quinn Sunday, June 10
NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)
June 5, 2001
On Sunday, June 10 beginning at 1:00PM/ET, Bravo pays tribute to the late
Actor/Director/Producer Anthony Quinn. At 1:00PM, Bravo will air
Quinn's 1994 appearance on Inside The Actors Studio, followed at 2:15PM/ET
by the 1954 Fellini film that sealed his place as an international star
- La Strada. Quinn died Sunday, June 3 at age 86.
Anthony Quinn was one of James Lipton's first guests on Inside The Actors
Studio. In this encore presentation, Quinn discusses his craft and shares
intimate memories from his life on stage and screen.
Quinn launched his film career playing character roles in several 1936
films after a brief stint in the theater. By 1947, he was a veteran of
over 50 films and had played everything from Indians to Mafia dons to
Hawaiian chiefs to Chinese guerillas to comical Arab sheiks, but he was
still not a major star. He then returned to the theater, where for three
years he found success on Broadway. Quinn returned to the screen in the
early 1950s and was cast in a series of B adventure movies. He got one
of his big breaks, and his first Oscar nomination playing opposite Marlon
Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952). Quinn was given larger roles
in a variety of features after that, and he ventured to Italy in 1953
to appear in several films, turning in one of his best performances as
a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La
Strada. Martin Scorsese re-released the film in 1994 and recalled in an
article for the New York Times, "I was enthralled by the film's resolution,
where the power of the spirit overwhelms brute force." The poetic
style of La Strada was the farewell to Italian after-war neorealism that
was the basis for Fellini's career. And as one critic wrote, even today
the simple melody of the trumpet will move people to tears. Bravo offers
viewers the chance to view Quinn at his best with their special presentation
of this highly acclaimed film.
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well as performing arts, including dance, theater, classical music and
jazz.
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