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Bill Newcott

So, how did your Oscar Night Predictions go? I'm happy to say I set a new personal record this year: I got fewer winners correct than ever.
Political junkies have election night. Sports nuts have the Super Bowl. Sunday is Oscar Night, the best of both worlds for movie fans since, like politics and football, it involves a full body contact, endless speeches, and tasteless production numbers.
It's not really a problem; more of a curiosity, really. But for the past few years people all over the place have been mistaking me for Steve Martin.
Oh, sorry, please don't hurt yourself on the way out, old timers, but the organizers of this year's Oscars show would really, really appreciate it if you'd just, well, you know, get lost.
I turned 56 yesterday, and I celebrated by visiting an old friend who was, like me, also established in 1955: Disneyland. In some ways my life can be divided into two eras, the first being from birth to 1976, during which my single enduring ambition in life was to get to Disneyland (at age 3, I'm…
I awoke this morning to read in LA Times.com's very cool Ministry of Gossip column that our little Movies for Grownups Awards is one of it's "favorite ceremonies of award season."
I just got an e-mail from one of the more prominent guests attending our Movies for Grownups® Awards banquet here at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel tonight, and he wanted to know what kind of "dress" the affair is for men and women. I answered that I'm wearing a tuxedo, but that's mostly because my…
Your intrepid AARP the Magazine Task Force is here in Southern California making final preparations for Monday's Movies for Grownups® Awards Banquet at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. We have spread out all over the Southland-some are up at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, schmoozing with Hollywood…
It's just three days until our big annual AARP Movies for Grownups® awards banquet in Beverly Hills, and the women are all having their hair done, and the guys are picking out shiny new cummerbunds for their tuxedos...and I've been at the oral surgeon, having my number three molar yanked out by a…
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