Screen veteran Terry Moore, being honored with a lifetime achievement tonight during opening ceremonies at the Gasparilla International Film Festival, was interviewed by St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall for a piece appearing in today’s paper.
Persall, the last of the Tampa Bay area’s full-time film critics*, chats with Moore (Come Back, Little Sheba; Mighty Joe Young) about meeting Marilyn Monroe; working on 1956’s Beneath the 12-Mile Reef in Tarpon Springs; being (secretly) married to Howard Hughes; and advising Leo DiCaprio on his portrayal of Hughes in The Aviator.
“I remember getting very seasick,” Moore tells Persall about her experience during the Reef production. “Every day we’d go out in a sponge-fishing boat that was anchored, so it would just bob up and down like a cork. First I’d throw up over the side, then (Robert) Wagner would, then Gilbert Roland would, for that entire picture. But I loved the people of Tarpon Springs, the fishermen and those wonderful Greek restaurants.”
Persall also offers his picks of this weekend’s GIFF highlights.
See both stories here.
*(following the unceremonious departures of Bob Ross from the Tampa Tribune and Lance Goldenberg from Creative Loafing)
Slumdog Millionaire’s soundtrack, penned by renowned Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman, is an entrancing melange of styles, incorporating techno, punk-edged rock, and Indian music, including sitar solos.
“In India, I know people feel other film scores [of mine] are closer to their hearts,” he told Washington Post writer Emily Wax. “But when you are doing a film, it’s very important to make the film look like one full piece of artwork. I think scoring ‘Slumdog’ with every kind of music possible, from Chinese to hip-hop to M.I.A. . . . was really fresh ground for me.”