Peter Fonda, Easy Rider Actor and Counterculture Hero, Dead at 79

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Peter Fonda, the Oscar-nominated actor whose roles in Dennis Hoppers Easy Rider and Roger Cormans The Trip made him a counterculture hero in the late 1960s, died Friday at the age of 79. The cause of death was respiratory failure due to lung cancer, his family confirmed to People.

It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that Peter Fonda has passed away, the family said. [Peter] passed away peacefully on Friday morning, August 16 at 11:05am at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by family, they continued. The official cause of death was respiratory failure due to lung cancer. In one of the saddest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our hearts. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy.

And, while we mourn the loss of this sweet and gracious man, we also wish for all to celebrate his indomitable spirit and love of life, the family added. In honor of Peter, please raise a glass to freedom.

His sister Jane Fonda said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, I am very sad. He was my sweet-hearted baby brother. The talker of the family. I have had beautiful alone time with him these last days. He went out laughing.

Born February 23, 1940, in New York City, Fonda was the brother of Jane Fonda and son of actor Henry Fonda. He made his film debut in 1963, starring opposite Sandra Dee in the romantic comedy Tammy and the Doctor, but it was his appearance as a biker-club leader in B-movie director Roger Cormans The Wild Angels three years later that introduced him as a counterculture figure. Fonda furthered that reputation with the lead role in the 1967 LSD drama The Trip, written by Jack Nicholson and costarring Dennis Hopper, with whom hed re-team the following year for the seminal road film Easy Rider.

Directed by Hopper, the movie cast Fonda and Hopper as free-spirit bikers Wyatt and Billy, who are eager to experience all facets of American life in the Sixties the good, bad and ugly while on a mind-expanding road trip. Fonda, in his red, white, and, blue helmet, embodied the figure of Captain America and scored an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the script with Hopper and Terry Southern.

Fondas other notable roles included the 1971 Western The Hired Hand, which he directed, the 1975 heist film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, the 1975 horror classic Race With the Devil, Wanda Nevada with Brooke Shields in 1979 and 1997s Ulees Gold, a critical comeback for the actor. He earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his titular part as a widowed beekeeper with a problematic son. In 1999, Fonda won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the TV movie The Passion of Ayn Rand.

Still, it was Fondas Easy Rider role as a motorcyclist that became synonymous with his legacy, one he would later parody with cameos in 1981s Cannonball Run and 2007s road comedy Wild Hogs.

Blinded by the Light Director, Screenwriter Talk Bringing Springsteen to 80s England

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Rolling Stone, in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures, hosted a special screening and panel discussion for Blinded by the Light which opens in wide release in the U.K. on August 9th and in the U.S. on August 16th in New York City on Tuesday night. Following a screening the upcoming 1980s period drama featuring the music of Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt sat down with director Gurinder Chadha and screenwriter Sarfraz Manzoor. Hiatts book, Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs, tells the tales behind every officially released studio recording of Bruce Springsteens career so far.

Manzoor wrote Greetings from Bury Park, his 2008 memoir on which the film is based, and that detail his teenage years in the British small town of Luton. The movie follows 16-year-old Javed, son of Pakistani immigrants, who amid the political and economic turmoil of the U.K.s Thatcher era, discovers the music of Springsteen and feels a powerful connection to its lyrics. Chadha noted that, when production began on the film, most of its young cast members were unfamiliar with the rock & roll icons work.

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Theyd either never heard of Bruce Springsteen or theyd never listened to Bruce Springsteen, she said. A lot of people who Ive talked to say, I knew who Bruce Springsteen was, but I never really understood who he was.' Several key scenes in Blinded by the Light feature Springsteens lyrics being projected onto the background while his music soundtracks the characters lives; Chadha said that she hopes this will lead audiences to really note the themes of economic downturn, personal turmoil, and strained optimism that pervade Springsteens work.

In addition to its existence as a love letter to Springsteen, Blinded by the Light undeniably portrays the immigrant experience during a particularly tumultuous political era, punctured by widespread job losses at places like the factory where Javeds father works as well as rising white nationalist factions that the film doesnt hesitate to draw parallels to today. Chadha referred to the film as timely and talked extensively about a neo-Nazi march scene that occurs during the wedding of one of Javeds sisters. Springsteens Jungleland overlays the scene and, most heartbreakingly, the Clarence Clemons sax solo underscores the moment where Javeds father is attacked by a group of skinheads.

When I was shooting that scene, all I was hearing was that sax, Chadha explained. The sax is very spiritual, and transcending everything. When Chadha met with Springsteen before shooting started, she had the idea in her head and asked for his permission to use Jungleland over the scene. He looked at me and he went, I think Clarence would really like that.'

Trailers of the Week: Jojo Rabbit, Mister Rogers Biopic, Linda Ronstadt Doc

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On deck: Tom Hanks asks if you would be his neighbor; Cynthia Erivo goes underground; Helen Mirren gets regal, Russian style; Linda Ronstadt gets the documentary she deserves; Zombieland gets a sequel, for better or worse; and we get a second peek at two major upcoming awards-season movies. Behold, your trailers-of-the-week round-up.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Tom Hanks as the late, great Fred Rogers nuff said, right? Getting the movies modern incarnation of Jimmy Stewart to portray TVs personification of kindness is a casting coup, and it takes exactly three seconds of Hanks, clad in a red cardigan and singing the films title, to make your heart melt. Its based on Esquire journalist Tom Junods profile of the iconic PBS star, which ended up turning into a friendship between the two men. The Americans Matthew Rhys plays a character based on the writer; director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) is calling the shots behind the camera. Were already tearing up. Nov. 22nd.

Catherine the Great
Shes played a ton of queens, so why not an empress as well? Helen Mirren is the woman who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 (thanks, Wikipedia!) and turned the country into a force to be reckoned with. Judging from the teaser for this HBO miniseries, her story is getting the full lush-period-piece-epic treatment from the network. Expect lots of violence, gowns and scowling. Should we just hand Mirren the Emmy now? Fall 2019.

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Gemini Man
The rise of this de-aging technology in Hollywood still has us a little unnerved, to be honest, but look: If its going to give us a middle-aged Will Smith having to outfight and outwit a younger Will Smith, who are we to say its wrong? Ang Lees action film pits Smiths over-the-hill hit man against a killer clone who looks like he just stepped off the Fresh Prince of Bel Air set. Clive Owen shows up in this second official trailer to look sinister; Mary Elisabeth Winstead drops by for some gunfire and sympathy; at one point, somebody punches a person in the face with the back tire of a motorcycle while driving it. Sold! Oct. 11th.

The Goldfinch
Because its not a fall movie season unless theres an adaptation of a major literary work, and this tony take on Donna Tartts Pulitzer-prize-winning novel definitely fits the bill. This second trailer plays up the psychic angst of a young boy (Oakes Fegley) after he loses his mother in a terrorist attack at the Met, and the life-is-a-journey drama of his older self (Baby Drivers Anson Elgort). The trailer drops a National song Terrible Love, for those playing along at home just to emphasize that all the feels are going to be felt. Nicole Kidman and Jeffrey Wright costar. Sep. 13th.

Harriet
Frankly, Harriet Tubman has been long overdue for a prestige-filled, awards-season-style biopic, and who better to play her than Widows Cynthia Orivo? Everything about this trailer for the life-and-times retelling of the anti-slavery activist and Underground Railroad guide screams that This. Is. A Very. Important. Movie. The fact that Kasi Lemmons (Eves Bayou) is in the directors chair is a huge plus. Nov. 1st.

Jojo Rabbit
Most of us had imaginary friends at one time or another when we were kids. Most of them were probably not, yknow, Adolf Hitler. The latest from visionistical director Taika Waititi revolves a young kid named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) in Germany who finds himself in a moral dilemma involving his mom (Scarlet Johnasson), a Jewish refugee and a little thing called WWII. So he, er, turns to his new buddy for advice. Waititi himself plays the dictator. This looks insane. Oct. 18th

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
She was the queenshes like what Beyonc is now. Bonnie Raitt isnt wrong nor are all of the other talking heads who wax rhapsodic about the Seventies songbird in the trailer for biodoc. You get everything here: early days, big breaks, from-Sunset-Strip-to-superstardom trajectory, stadium concerts, industry sexism, creative risks that pay off big, late-act health problems, etc. And that voice. Good lord, that incredible voice. Sep. 6th.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Hes called the Jangly Man. Hes one of several terrifying creatures youll meet in this Guillermo Del Toro-produced take on the horror book series. Hes proof that you may want to wear an adult diaper when you go to see this thing. Aug. 9th.

Wu Assassins
A young man (The Raid star Iko Uwais) discovers that hes the Chosen One, i.e. the guy gets the mystical power of a thousand sacrificed monks in order to defeat the descendants of Wu warlords. Who, by the way, happen to be in modern-day San Francisco, currently planning some power moves as Triad leaders. So the new Wu Assassin numero uno has to get a team of martial artists together to take these bad guys down, one of whom is wait for it his father. Yeah, theres lots of ass-kicking. Aug. 8th.

Zombieland: Double Tap
Oh, a sequel to Zombieland. Ok then. Mahyem, wisecracks, the walking hungry dead, Woody Harrelson in Elvis cosplay, explosions, famous faces (hi Rosario Dawson), an AC/DC songyou know the drill. Oct. 18th.

Succession Recap: My Dad Told Me To

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The media industry, you may have heard, is a precarious place to make ones career. The digital advertising landscape has been fully devoured by the twin powers of Google and Facebook, private equity firms have made a cottage industry of stripping publications for spare parts, and venture capital has (mostly) caught on that the news business, at its most profitable, isnt going to get you 10x returns. Seemingly every other week another site or publisher some of which you grew up reading is set to be shuttered.

Enter Succession. Its no secret that Media Twitter, the loose conglomerate of writers and editors and readers that make up the most insufferable corner of the internet, is enamored with the HBO drama, but its not because the show is about the industry. Waystar Royco, the corporation the Roy family owns, is a media company, sure, but it could just as well be an oil company for all the characters care; the money, not the news business, is the animating force. But on Sunday night, Succession took a turn; suddenly it was very much about the media. Its depiction was painfully accurate.

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In the shows first season, occasionally wayward oldest son Kendall sticks his neck out to close what he believes is a bold business decision: purchasing Vaulter, a digital media company that splits the easily parodied distance between BuzzFeed and Vice. Fast forward a season, and Waystar Royco is against the ropes and looking to cut costs: How many skulls? is a question Tom, the new head of the companys news decision, would very much like answered. The bigger the number, the better. Quickly, Kendalls prized deal is on the chopping block.

Mass layoffs are often a surprise, and usually seem short-sighted. Succession, then, felt like a sort of wish fulfillment, if your wish is to see your worst professional fears confirmed and dramatized for the screen. If everyones sneaking suspicion is that people at the top of the chain make decisions not based on business savvy or a long-term vision, but instead capricious, self-serving sprints toward power, then Succession did an excellent job of making that feel real for media professionals, down to the inclusion of Chartbeat what editors look at all day to see how their stories are performing and oft-repeated phrases like Facebook changed the algorithm. It was as if the screenplay was cobbled together from leaked Slack chats.

Kendall, still dead-eyed and funneling cocaine, is a broken man. However, in his muted, pathetically humbled state, hes never been more useful to his father Logan. He loses the argument to keep Vaulter on the company roster, despite a spirited debate. However, once the decision is made, he goes about dismantling the company with a grim, straightforward satisfaction. Hes more brutal than he has to be (and gets more spit in the face for his efforts than your typical corporate raider), wringing everything he can from the company and knowingly torching any personal reputation in the process. Nothing matters more, it seems, than impressing his father. When the deed is done, and Vaulters young staff has cleared out their desks (except for the weed and food verticals, and the associated interns), hes rewarded with a seat in his fathers office. He takes his place with the energy of a beaten lap dog.

There was no indication in last weeks premiere that Succession was interested in holding back any plot in order to have a stately second season. This episode proved that the pace is more breakneck than ever. Shiv is still the heir apparent to Logans throne, and adapting well to the role. Despite a potential White House Chief of Staff job on the horizon, she burns her day job as a political consultant almost immediately. Theres no waffling, just action. It leaves Tom, her new husband, watery-eyed at the prospect that she wont simply make him the CEO of the company after all. Its touching, in retrospect, to think that Tom has held on to that aspiration for their entire relationship, despite overwhelming evidence that he would never climb to the top of the Roy ladder. Regardless, Shiv crushes his dream in a moments notice, refusing to acknowledge his obvious surprise and hurt.

Similarly, Roman has also held on to improbable designs for the CEO role, despite moving through the world in a state of dazed, profane confusion. Hes responsible for the shuttering of Vaulter, but doesnt have the first idea of how to go about closing down a publication; he knows to throw a dinner party, but has no idea how to interact with anyone for more than a 15-second burst. He tells Shiv, stupidly, that he believes himself to be next in line for the big job, not knowing that his fate, for now, has already been sealed.

For an episode that moved fast and with the shows signature dedication to illustrating the creativity of cruelty, Cousin Greg was once again the sole ray of lightheartedness. The hapless, gangly scion is looking for an apartment now, and having some trouble finding a place in the Manhattan housing market with enough storage space for him. Of course, hes eventually gifted a multimillion-dollar condo/Kendall party location, and fails to stand up for being against racism when he begins a job on the shows Fox News stand-in. Even the good ones turn out to be disappointments.

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A Killer Invades an Eighties Summer Camp in American Horror Story: 1984 Trailer

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A group of counselors at a summer camp find themselves confronted with a killer in the trailer for American Horror Story: 1984. The ninth season of Ryan Murphys American Horror Story series premieres September 18th on FX.

Set in you guessed it 1984, the latest installment of the horror anthology is an homage to Eighties slasher flicks like the Friday the 13th franchise. The new series stars AHS regulars Emma Roberts, Billy Lourd, John Carroll Lynch, Leslie Grossman and Cody Fern as counselors who venture to the woodsy, lakeside camp to make a quick buck, but soon find themselves confronted with dead bodies in the road, a suspicious chef, an escapee from a psychiatric hospital and a knife-wielding slasher on the loose.

In addition to the returning cast, Murphy also brought on two of his recurrent actors, Matthew Morrison(Glee) and Angelica Ross (Pose), in main roles, while Olympic freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy was cast as the boyfriend to Roberts character. Noted AHSstars Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and Billy Eichner will not be returning this season.

Flashback: The Beverly Hills 90210 Gang Mashes Up Neil Sedaka With Robert Palmer

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Unlike many teen shows of its era, Beverly Hills 90210 never had an episode where the gang formed a band. But in the critical second-season episode Wildfire that introduced the agent of chaos known as Emily Valentine, there was a talent show in which the power trio of Brenda Walsh, Kelly Taylor, and Donna Martin dressed up like Robert Palmers video backup singers to perform Neil Sedakas 1962 hit Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. The whole thing is even weirder than it sounds, but you can see the video right here.

For some context, the episode takes place during the first day of school after a summer break that everyone spent at the Beverly Hills Beach Club. A new girl name Emily Valentine catches everyones eye by pulling into the parking lot on a motorcycle with a guitar strapped to her back. Brenda and Dylan are on a break after her pregnancy scare earlier in the season, so Dylan asks her out. He doesnt realize that Brandon is also interested in this mysterious newcomer. Both eventually take her out on dates, not realizing that shes completely insane and will wreak havoc in their lives for years to come.

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Meanwhile, David Silver informs the listeners of his radio show that some bizarre ceremony known as Hello Day is going to take place later that week. (The existence of this radio station begs many questions: Do high schools really have radio shows? Isnt everyone in class all day? How do they listen to it? Isnt David in class too? How does he have time to DJ it?) Donna, Kelly and Brenda decide to perform at Hello Day, but cant think of a song. Donnas idea that they sing an Addicted to Love parody called Addicted to Sex is rightly dismissed as wildly inappropriate. Emily Valentine then steps forward with the joke they do Addicted to Clothes. In the end, Emily sings Breaking Up Is Hard to Do at Hello Day while Donna, Brenda, and Kelly dance and sing in unison, Addicted to Lovestyle. The latter performance looked like it required a lot of rehearsal and does not seem like something the coolest kids in school would spend their time doing, but the world of Beverly Hills 90210 was a weird one.

Were resurrecting this vintage clip because 90210 came back on the air this week as a Curb Your Enthusiasmstyle comedy where the cast plays heightened versions of themselves trying to reboot Beverly Hills 90210. Emily Valentine didnt appear in the first episode, but there was a quick shot of her in an upcoming episode. If were lucky, theyll sing another song with her. The Neal Sedaka catalog is vast, so they have a lot of choices.

Blinded by the Light: Bruces Music Is a Gift for a British-Pakistani Teen

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For some people, Bruce Springsteen doesnt just write lyrics he sings words to live by. Thats the case for Javed (dynamite newcomer Viveik Kalra), a no-hope British-Pakistani teen feeling the financial squeeze of Thatcherism in 1987 Luton. Then he hears Springsteen for the first time, and the words of Dancing in the Dark jump out of his headphones and into his life. Hes exhilarated. Look for this exuberant gift of a movie to hit you the same way.

Directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) from a memoir by the Javed-like Springsteen fan Sarfraz Manzoor, Blinded by the Light is a joyous antidote to cynicism. Cynics, of course, will hate it. At first, Manzoor himself was a Springsteen skeptic, thinking of the Boss as the guy who makes millions out of pretending to be working class. But the pull of the music was irresistible for a boy battered by loneliness and alienation.

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Chadha, who wrote the script with her husband Paul Mayeda-Burges and Manzoor himself, is adept at laying the groundwork for why this kid from the mean streets of Luton he called his memoir Greetings From Bury Park was a natural fit with the bandana-wearing artist who dubbed his first album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.Chadha doesnt gloss over the darkness at the edge of town in the form of skinhead bullying and the anti-immigrant nationalism that raged then as it does now with the rise of hate-mongering. Its brutal intolerance and the need to transcend it that made Javed and Bruce kindred spirits.

And so we watch Javed, scribbling notes and attempts at poetry in his journal, speak Springsteen like his personal gospel, making him feel born to run against the strict rules of his wage-slave father Malik (a first-rate Kulvinder Ghir), devastated after being laid off by the local GM plant where hes worked for 16 years. Maliks son, refusing to go gentle into that bleak night, lives by the resistance of Thunder Road Its a town full of losers/Im pulling out of here to win.

By necessity, Javed develops his own support system. At school, he discovers a teacher, Ms. Clay (Hayley Atwell), who inspires without condescending to him. In Eliza (Nell Williams), he finds a girl to set his pulse racing and share his dreams. In Roops (a livewire Aaron Phagura), he finds a friend who knows just what Javed is missing. Its Roops who gives Javed that cassette of Born in the USA and lets the music work its magic. Javed, Roops, and Eliza literally dance in the streets with Springsteen lyrics popping up on screen to create a rock fantasia that also stands as a slashing rebuke to racism. Sure its cornball, but Chadha revels in it. You will, too, as the movie becomes an irresistible blast of pure feeling. Is the music of Springsteen, who gave the film 17 songs and his blessing, really a direct line to all thats true in this shitty world? Go ahead and argue. But from Thatchers England to Trumps America, it sure as hell couldnt hurt.