Update : Nightclub and restaurant entrepreneur Harry Morton died of natural causes, “probably cardiac arrhythmia,” according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner, who issued a report today.
Morton died at age 38 in November. He was the former owner of the Viper Room nightclub and founder of the Pink Taco restaurant chain.
Earlier: Restaurant and nightclub entrepreneur Harry Morton, who owned the Pink Taco eateries and the famed Viper Room nightclub, has died at age 38. He was found unresponsive by his younger brother, Matthew, in his Beverly Hills home Saturday afternoon.
No cause of death has been determined. An autopsy will be performed to determine what happened, but authorities said foul play is not suspected.
Morton came from a restaurant family. His grandfather, Arnie Morton, co-founded the Morton’s Steakhouse chain. His father, Peter Morton, was the founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, and Harry worked for him for a number of years.
Morton died at age 38 in November. He was the former owner of the Viper Room nightclub and founder of the Pink Taco restaurant chain.
Earlier: Restaurant and nightclub entrepreneur Harry Morton, who owned the Pink Taco eateries and the famed Viper Room nightclub, has died at age 38. He was found unresponsive by his younger brother, Matthew, in his Beverly Hills home Saturday afternoon.
No cause of death has been determined. An autopsy will be performed to determine what happened, but authorities said foul play is not suspected.
Morton came from a restaurant family. His grandfather, Arnie Morton, co-founded the Morton’s Steakhouse chain. His father, Peter Morton, was the founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, and Harry worked for him for a number of years.
- 2/27/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to The Best Movie You Never Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was either before it’s time and/or has aged like a fine wine. This week we’ll be looking at Domino! The Story: The true(ish) story of bounty hunter Domino Harvey (Keira... Read More...
- 5/18/2018
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Last year marked the 15-year anniversary of Richard Kelly’s debut cult curio, Donnie Darko. On March 31st, the film will hit theaters once again in a brand-new, director-approved 4K restoration. While the film’s cult-status has elevated it into its own separate canon alongside other 21st-century indie-cult hits, Kelly’s two other films — the positively delirious and daring Southland Tales and the labyrinthine sci-fi period piece The Box — prove that he is a director deserving of much greater consideration. Sadly it’s been about eight years since a new film of his has been in theaters, but the time is surely ripe. Kelly’s visions of the end-times feel just as urgent now as they did when we were first introduced to them back in 2001. And since we’re living in a time when the formerly reclusive Terrence Malick is miraculously pumping out multiple films a year, there’s...
- 3/29/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Cast your minds back to 2002 - a time when Pop Idols didn't need to have The X Factor, Fifty Shades of Grey were just colours on a paint sampler chart and David Beckham was a mere international superstar rather than global megastar.
Bend It Like Beckham, with a modest estimated budget of £3.7 million, opened that same year and became a critical and commercial success - breaking box office records and scoring BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as making household names of many of its stars.
As the cast continues preparing for the West End stage adaptation of Gurinder Chadha's screen hit ahead of previews on May 15, find out what the movie's ensemble cast went on to achieve - including who is coming back for the musical...
Parminder Nagra (Jess Bhamra)
Nominated for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards on the back of the movie's success, Parminder went...
Bend It Like Beckham, with a modest estimated budget of £3.7 million, opened that same year and became a critical and commercial success - breaking box office records and scoring BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as making household names of many of its stars.
As the cast continues preparing for the West End stage adaptation of Gurinder Chadha's screen hit ahead of previews on May 15, find out what the movie's ensemble cast went on to achieve - including who is coming back for the musical...
Parminder Nagra (Jess Bhamra)
Nominated for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards on the back of the movie's success, Parminder went...
- 3/22/2015
- Digital Spy
In cinema, real, dangerous women have been a fascinating anomaly – rare invaders of the norm who arrive, surprise, and vanish. As stalwarts of diversity, they wait in the wings until they’re tapped for the next tale, used so often that their names become immortally infamous – like Bonnie Parker, who died eighty years ago today in an ambush alongside partner in crime, Clyde Barrow. If Hollywood was to be believed, history holds only a handful of badass women, but the repetitive nature of historical biographies isn’t a necessity, it’s a matter of habit. Hollywood opts for the familiar rather than mine the deep and plentiful repositories of women in history, save for the rare interludes that have brought women like Domino Harvey, Valerie Solanas, and Mary Surratt to the big screen. But they are a few of many more – tough heroines and villains whose lives are just asking for a film treatment. Here...
- 5/22/2014
- by Monika Bartyzel
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Christmas is almost upon us, and with the festive season already in full swing (since about October), settling down to a good Christmas movie at the end of the night is always a good way to celebrate.
Richard Curtis’ Love Actually is an undeniable classic of the niche genre. Curtis made one of the best directorial debuts in recent memory, marking an incredibly smooth transition from being a writer to a writer-director.
The film has everything you need for the perfect holiday: A lot of laughs, a little drama, and plenty of romance. Not to mention perhaps the greatest ensemble cast a British movie has ever had.
Whilst Love Actually 2 may not actually be on the cards for us, the good folks over at Official Comedy have made a brilliant parody trailer of what a sequel might offer, and if you haven’t already, it will make you want to...
Richard Curtis’ Love Actually is an undeniable classic of the niche genre. Curtis made one of the best directorial debuts in recent memory, marking an incredibly smooth transition from being a writer to a writer-director.
The film has everything you need for the perfect holiday: A lot of laughs, a little drama, and plenty of romance. Not to mention perhaps the greatest ensemble cast a British movie has ever had.
Whilst Love Actually 2 may not actually be on the cards for us, the good folks over at Official Comedy have made a brilliant parody trailer of what a sequel might offer, and if you haven’t already, it will make you want to...
- 12/13/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Part of the Tony Scott: A Moving Target critical project. Go here for the project's description, index and links to project's other movement.
To the overabundance of text, sounds, images—and moving images—in Tony Scott, we reply with something like our own. So let me (try to) keep this (almost as) short as a Tony Scott shot. Scott’s death this past summer would elicit film critics’ own counterpart to American politics: opinions and generalizations bandied between two camps who were, as always, preaching to their respective choirs. And needless to say, such discourses would be about as useful, informative, and interesting as American politics. For Scott’s work was hardly encamped: the outward liberalism of Enemy of the State, perhaps Hollywood’s most overt attack on our surveillance nation and the Nsa, possible only before 9/11, concludes that only Nsa aspirants can take down the Nsa, just as Man on Fire,...
To the overabundance of text, sounds, images—and moving images—in Tony Scott, we reply with something like our own. So let me (try to) keep this (almost as) short as a Tony Scott shot. Scott’s death this past summer would elicit film critics’ own counterpart to American politics: opinions and generalizations bandied between two camps who were, as always, preaching to their respective choirs. And needless to say, such discourses would be about as useful, informative, and interesting as American politics. For Scott’s work was hardly encamped: the outward liberalism of Enemy of the State, perhaps Hollywood’s most overt attack on our surveillance nation and the Nsa, possible only before 9/11, concludes that only Nsa aspirants can take down the Nsa, just as Man on Fire,...
- 12/3/2012
- by gina telaroli
- MUBI
This article is part of the critical project Tony Scott: A Moving Target in which an analysis of a scene from a Tony Scott film is passed anonymously to the next participant in the project to respond to with an analysis of his or her own.
<- the previous analysis | movement index | the next analysis ->
One of Tony Scott’s signature techniques for layering otherwise conventional shots and framing with aesthetic accents that can serve as metaphors for larger ideas is echoed in his use of moving image material imbedded in the movies themselves. He constructs his extraordinary thriller, Domino, as a feverish memory scape in which past and present overlaps, reverses, erases and recalls. Domino Harvey, the daughter of the great actor Laurence Harvey, has defined her life as a kind of antipodal existence to her father, leading her to the dubious and ultraviolent profession of bounty hunter. In a radical gesture because it lands on the...
<- the previous analysis | movement index | the next analysis ->
One of Tony Scott’s signature techniques for layering otherwise conventional shots and framing with aesthetic accents that can serve as metaphors for larger ideas is echoed in his use of moving image material imbedded in the movies themselves. He constructs his extraordinary thriller, Domino, as a feverish memory scape in which past and present overlaps, reverses, erases and recalls. Domino Harvey, the daughter of the great actor Laurence Harvey, has defined her life as a kind of antipodal existence to her father, leading her to the dubious and ultraviolent profession of bounty hunter. In a radical gesture because it lands on the...
- 12/3/2012
- by Robert Koehler
- MUBI
Part of the Tony Scott: A Moving Target critical project. Go here for the project's description, index and links to project's other movement.
This is one "movement" of our exquisite corpse-style critical project, Tony Scott: A Moving Target, which coincidentally begins with a look at Crimson Tide, the same movie that begins the other movement. As outlined in the introduction to the entire project, this project began in my mind, as something fairly simple: a snaking continuum of scene analysis. This is only in part what resulted.
The varied responses I got back from my group—"mine" in the sense that it is the one I participated in, since Gina's contribution closes Movement B—seem to say as much about the participating critics as they do about Tony Scott's films and the overlap between the two: the perception of Scott's films and career. Thus many entries, including my own,...
This is one "movement" of our exquisite corpse-style critical project, Tony Scott: A Moving Target, which coincidentally begins with a look at Crimson Tide, the same movie that begins the other movement. As outlined in the introduction to the entire project, this project began in my mind, as something fairly simple: a snaking continuum of scene analysis. This is only in part what resulted.
The varied responses I got back from my group—"mine" in the sense that it is the one I participated in, since Gina's contribution closes Movement B—seem to say as much about the participating critics as they do about Tony Scott's films and the overlap between the two: the perception of Scott's films and career. Thus many entries, including my own,...
- 11/27/2012
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
This article is part of the critical project Tony Scott: A Moving Target in which an analysis of a scene from a Tony Scott film is passed anonymously to the next participant in the project to respond to with an analysis of his or her own.
<- the previous analysis | movement index | the next analysis ->
"Visually the film is quite impressive, something like a confetti storm in which the spectator never gets to rest."
–Manny Farber, 1968
Participating in this writing game is a little like being crossed between Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped (1956) and Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour (1950). Both prison films, both about Men on Fire. One implicitly gay, the other explicitly so. Alone in my cell, like in Bresson, I am doing my bit to chip my way through to collective freedom and enlightenment. And, meanwhile, I am being presented, like in Genet, with things—all kinds of things—to help me along,...
<- the previous analysis | movement index | the next analysis ->
"Visually the film is quite impressive, something like a confetti storm in which the spectator never gets to rest."
–Manny Farber, 1968
Participating in this writing game is a little like being crossed between Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped (1956) and Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour (1950). Both prison films, both about Men on Fire. One implicitly gay, the other explicitly so. Alone in my cell, like in Bresson, I am doing my bit to chip my way through to collective freedom and enlightenment. And, meanwhile, I am being presented, like in Genet, with things—all kinds of things—to help me along,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Adrian Martin
- MUBI
Domino is my least favourite Tony Scott movie for one singular reason: Keira Knightley.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of flaws in Scott’s “ode” to real-life model-turned-bounty-hunter, Domino Harvey. And he’s not successful in achieving the vibe and intent that he is aiming for. Yet, Scott’s unique visual eye and unarguable sense of pace (not to forget his brilliant casting ability) could’ve seen this film through as dispensable but watchable, at best.
However, by putting Knightley in the lead role, the film has no such chance. It becomes an out-and-out car-crash of epic proportions. Knightley is so miscast, so inconceivably not up to the task required of her and so absent of the level of talent required that she creates a vacuum around her into which she sucks the life from all the very talented cast members around her – and essentially the film itself too.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of flaws in Scott’s “ode” to real-life model-turned-bounty-hunter, Domino Harvey. And he’s not successful in achieving the vibe and intent that he is aiming for. Yet, Scott’s unique visual eye and unarguable sense of pace (not to forget his brilliant casting ability) could’ve seen this film through as dispensable but watchable, at best.
However, by putting Knightley in the lead role, the film has no such chance. It becomes an out-and-out car-crash of epic proportions. Knightley is so miscast, so inconceivably not up to the task required of her and so absent of the level of talent required that she creates a vacuum around her into which she sucks the life from all the very talented cast members around her – and essentially the film itself too.
- 10/22/2012
- by Gazz Howie
- We Got This Covered
Our friends at LOVEFiLM have been busy once again, this time compiling a Top 10 list of the deadliest Femme Fatales in film – the leading ladies who have racked up the highest body counts in their movies! LOVEFiLM asked a panel of its members to watch a selection of films featuring some of Hollywood’s most renowned lady killers, to establish which leading ladies have racked up the highest body counts. The panel were asked to record the total number of kills each fatal female was directly responsible for, forming a top ten list of film’s most lethal ladies…
Kill Bill‘s vengeful assassin The Bride managed to chalk up a body count worthy of first place, with an impressive tally of 76 gruesome kills, the fearless female beat nine other kick-ass chicks to the number one spot. Zombie victim and go-go dancer, Cherry Darling, put her prosthetic machine-gun leg to good use in Planet Terror,...
Kill Bill‘s vengeful assassin The Bride managed to chalk up a body count worthy of first place, with an impressive tally of 76 gruesome kills, the fearless female beat nine other kick-ass chicks to the number one spot. Zombie victim and go-go dancer, Cherry Darling, put her prosthetic machine-gun leg to good use in Planet Terror,...
- 10/3/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Find out what this is all about with our introduction Here.
Domino is my least favourite Tony Scott movie for one singular reason:
Keira Knightley.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of flaws in Scott’s “ode” to real-life model-turned-bounty-hunter, Domino Harvey. And he’s not successful in achieving the vibe and intent that he is aiming for. Yet, Scott’s unique visual eye and unarguable sense of pace (not to forget his brilliant casting ability) could’ve seen this film through as dispensable but watchable, at best. Like the next film we’ll be covering on this list, for example.
However, by putting Knightley in the lead role, the film has no such chance. It becomes an out-and-out car-crash of epic proportions because here is an actress so miscast, so inconceivably not up to the task required of her and so absent of the level of...
Domino is my least favourite Tony Scott movie for one singular reason:
Keira Knightley.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of flaws in Scott’s “ode” to real-life model-turned-bounty-hunter, Domino Harvey. And he’s not successful in achieving the vibe and intent that he is aiming for. Yet, Scott’s unique visual eye and unarguable sense of pace (not to forget his brilliant casting ability) could’ve seen this film through as dispensable but watchable, at best. Like the next film we’ll be covering on this list, for example.
However, by putting Knightley in the lead role, the film has no such chance. It becomes an out-and-out car-crash of epic proportions because here is an actress so miscast, so inconceivably not up to the task required of her and so absent of the level of...
- 9/26/2012
- by Gareth Howie
- Obsessed with Film
Family-only ceremony to be followed after Us Labor Day by public event celebrating British director's life and work
A private memorial for the British film-maker Tony Scott, who leapt to his death from a Los Angeles bridge on Sunday, will take place this weekend. A spokesman said the ceremony for the director of Top Gun and True Romance would be followed by a public event at a later date to celebrate his life and work.
Scott jumped 185ft from the Vincent Thomas bridge near Long Beach, about 30 miles south of his Beverly Hills home. He left a suicide note at his office but its contents have not yet been made public.
"Tony Scott will be honoured at a private, family-only ceremony this weekend in Los Angeles," read the statement from the director's spokesperson. "The family will announce plans after Labor Day for a gathering to celebrate the life and work of Mr Scott.
A private memorial for the British film-maker Tony Scott, who leapt to his death from a Los Angeles bridge on Sunday, will take place this weekend. A spokesman said the ceremony for the director of Top Gun and True Romance would be followed by a public event at a later date to celebrate his life and work.
Scott jumped 185ft from the Vincent Thomas bridge near Long Beach, about 30 miles south of his Beverly Hills home. He left a suicide note at his office but its contents have not yet been made public.
"Tony Scott will be honoured at a private, family-only ceremony this weekend in Los Angeles," read the statement from the director's spokesperson. "The family will announce plans after Labor Day for a gathering to celebrate the life and work of Mr Scott.
- 8/23/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Tony Scott, one of Hollywood’s most marginalized auteurs and easily one of the most exciting presences in that market, died recently of suicide. But this particular obituary will be less a mourning and more a celebration of his artistry. This artistry sharply divided critics and audiences alike, more specifically in the last 10 years of his career where his editing became swifter, his colors more extreme and his camerawork more hectic and subjective.
Anthony D. L. Scott was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1944. Seven years the junior of more renowned director brother, Ridley, he attended the Royal College of Art in London, earning his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1972 with every intention to become a painter. Tempted by his brother, he soon entered the world of TV and film. His early TV work earned him accolades, but his first feature film did not. The Hunger was received poorly,...
Anthony D. L. Scott was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1944. Seven years the junior of more renowned director brother, Ridley, he attended the Royal College of Art in London, earning his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1972 with every intention to become a painter. Tempted by his brother, he soon entered the world of TV and film. His early TV work earned him accolades, but his first feature film did not. The Hunger was received poorly,...
- 8/20/2012
- by Chris Clark
- SoundOnSight
There is fuckall to report on today, folks. So little that I'm forced to take up the task of reporting on Rainbow Killer news. Yeah, that slow. I guess the entire entertainment industry is apparently just as paralyzed by the pending Snowpocalypse 2010 as Boston is. Of course, we're only supposed to get 8-10" of snow, which ain't shit around these parts. Apparently the lower East coast cities are gonna get the bear, to which I say: "Suck it, fools." It's about time someone other than New England got dickslapped by winter. I hope you never find your cars.
But I digress. Variety is reporting that Heigl, fresh off the mega-successes of such poignant, stunning films as The Ugly Truth and 27 Dresses, where she portrayed a shining archetype of independent womanhood and a beacon of light for feminism everywhere, will next be starring in Columbia Pictures' One for the Money,...
But I digress. Variety is reporting that Heigl, fresh off the mega-successes of such poignant, stunning films as The Ugly Truth and 27 Dresses, where she portrayed a shining archetype of independent womanhood and a beacon of light for feminism everywhere, will next be starring in Columbia Pictures' One for the Money,...
- 2/10/2010
- by TK
Loosely based on the true life story of Domino Harvey (daughter of actor Laurence Harvey), this film takes the viewer on an acid trip into the crazy underworld of Los Angeles. Bored with her spoiled-rotten lifestyle, Domino decides to get some kicks by joining a league of bounty hunters. It's all fun and games until mafia money goes missing from an armoured car. This film was almost over-stimulating when it came to some of the visuals. The fast-paced non-linear cutting style that seems to pervade the world of modern film today is exaggerated a hundredfold in Domino to the point where at times ...
- 3/16/2009
- MoviesOnline.ca
- Tony Scott & Fox 2000 are teaming up for a new biopic about Don Aronow, the inventor of the cigarette boat. Scott will helm from a script by Michael A.M Lerner. Scott's own Scott Free (his production company with brother Ridley) will produce. Scott will first helm The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3- a remake of the 1974 classic, starring frequent collaborator Denzel Washington for Columbia Pictures.For those not in the know, Aronow's cigarette boats- immortalized on the TV series Miami Vice were a favorite of Columbian drug runners, who used them to import coke into Miami during the eighties. Aronow eventually got a $20 Million contract to build boats for U.S customs officers which were used to catch the drug runners. In 1987 Aronow was gunned down in a mob style hit. Two men, including Ben Kramer a suspected drug runner who had once tried to buy Aronow's powerboat racing team,
- 10/17/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Hollywood adored her - the beautiful daughter of an English actor who went on to become a gun-toting, La bounty hunter. Later this year, a major film based on her life and starring Keira Knightley will be released. But Domino Harvey will never see it: earlier this week she was found dead in her bathtub. Aida Edemariam on the strange life and sorry death of a wild child
They've already had to re-shoot the ending once. They may have to do it again - not to mention reconsider such cod-profound, Hollywood-judgment lines as "There's only one conclusion to every story. We all fall down." On Monday night the makers of Domino, a new film starring Keira Knightley scheduled for release in the autumn, must have been somewhat discomfited to find that the 35-year-old inspiration for their $30m action flick - about a beautiful, public school-educated English girl turned gun-toting La...
They've already had to re-shoot the ending once. They may have to do it again - not to mention reconsider such cod-profound, Hollywood-judgment lines as "There's only one conclusion to every story. We all fall down." On Monday night the makers of Domino, a new film starring Keira Knightley scheduled for release in the autumn, must have been somewhat discomfited to find that the 35-year-old inspiration for their $30m action flick - about a beautiful, public school-educated English girl turned gun-toting La...
- 6/30/2005
- by Aida Edemariam
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywood adored her - the beautiful daughter of an English actor who went on to become a gun-toting, La bounty hunter. Later this year, a major film based on her life and starring Keira Knightley will be released. But Domino Harvey will never see it: earlier this week she was found dead in her bathtub. Aida Edemariam on the strange life and sorry death of a wild child
They've already had to re-shoot the ending once. They may have to do it again - not to mention reconsider such cod-profound, Hollywood-judgment lines as "There's only one conclusion to every story. We all fall down." On Monday night the makers of Domino, a new film starring Keira Knightley scheduled for release in the autumn, must have been somewhat discomfited to find that the 35-year-old inspiration for their $30m action flick - about a beautiful, public school-educated English girl turned gun-toting La...
They've already had to re-shoot the ending once. They may have to do it again - not to mention reconsider such cod-profound, Hollywood-judgment lines as "There's only one conclusion to every story. We all fall down." On Monday night the makers of Domino, a new film starring Keira Knightley scheduled for release in the autumn, must have been somewhat discomfited to find that the 35-year-old inspiration for their $30m action flick - about a beautiful, public school-educated English girl turned gun-toting La...
- 6/30/2005
- by Aida Edemariam
- The Guardian - Film News
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