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Chicago Tribune
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: Bonnie and Clyde fatally shot
Today is Friday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2025. There are 222 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death during a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Also on this date: In 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, aligning with the Triple Entente of Russia, France and the United Kingdom. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler killed himself while in British custody in Lüneburg, Germany. In 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was 'very solid' evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers. In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America announced it would remove membership restrictions based on sexual orientation, while maintaining a ban on openly gay Scout leaders. (The ban on gay Scout leaders and organization employees was lifted two years later.) In 2015, supporters of marriage equality in Ireland celebrated as referendum results showed a constitutional amendment in favor of recognizing same-sex marriage passing by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. In 2018, NFL owners approved a new policy allowing players to protest during the national anthem by staying in the locker room but forbidding players from sitting or taking a knee if they're on the field. In 2021, a cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of northern Italy's Lake Maggiore plummeted to the ground when a cable snapped, killing 14 people. Today's Birthdays: Actor Joan Collins is 92. Tennis Hall of Famer John Newcombe is 81. Chess grand master Anatoly Karpov is 74. Comedian-TV host Drew Carey is 67. Comedian-actor Lea DeLaria is 67. Author Mitch Albom is 67. Actor Melissa McBride is 60. Singer-songwriter Maxwell is 52. 'Jeopardy!' host Ken Jennings is 51. Singer-songwriter Jewel is 51. Filmmaker Ryan Coogler is 39. Singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz is 34.
Boston Globe
23-05-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Today in History: May 23, outlaws Bonnie and Clyde killed in police ambush
In 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death during a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler killed himself while in British custody in Lüneburg, Germany. Advertisement In 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was 'very solid' evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers. In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America announced it would remove membership restrictions based on sexual orientation, while maintaining a ban on openly gay Scout leaders. (The ban on gay Scout leaders and organization employees was lifted two years later.) In 2015, supporters of marriage equality in Ireland celebrated as referendum results showed a constitutional amendment in favor of recognizing same-sex marriage, passing by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. In 2018, NFL owners approved a new policy allowing players to protest during the national anthem by staying in the locker room, but forbidding players from sitting or taking a knee if they are on the field. Advertisement In 2021, a cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of northern Italy's Lake Maggiore plummeted to the ground when a cable snapped, killing 14 people.
NBC News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker of ‘Kramer vs. Kramer,' dies at 92
NEW YORK — Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and 'Places in the Heart,' has died at age 92. Benton's son, John Benton, said that he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of 'natural causes.' During a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and for writing 'Places in the Heart.' He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and Richard Russo, among others. Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories (and news that a friend got $25,000 for a Doris Day screenplay) inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s rebels. Their project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. 'Bonnie and Clyde,' directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood. The original story by Benton and Newman was even more daring: they had made Clyde Barrow bisexual and involved in a 3-way relationship with Bonnie and their male getaway driver. Beatty and Penn both resisted, and Barrow instead was portrayed as impotent, with an uncredited Robert Towne making numerous other changes to the script. 'I honestly don't know who the 'auteur' of 'Bonnie and Clyde' was,' Benton later told Mark Harris, author of 'Pictures at a Revolution,' a book about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and four other movies from 1967. Oscar-winning triumphs Over the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included 'Superman' and 'What's Up, Doc?' He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as 'Bad Company,' a revisionist Western featuring Jeff Bridges, and 'The Late Show,' a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar nomination. His career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and received five Academy Awards, including best picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, would cite 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie acting. Five years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, 'Places in the Heart,' in which he drew upon family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Fields as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed. 'I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past,' Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of 'Kramer vs. Kramer.' A lifelong movie fan Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside of Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas area. Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the U.S. Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, Benton helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award and dated Gloria Steinem, then on staff at the humor magazine Help! He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one son. Between hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers 'Billy Bathgate,' 'The Human Stain' and 'Twilight.' He had much more success with 'Nobody's Fool,' a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for best adapted screenplay. 'Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I'd been nominated, 'What's the great thing about the Academy Awards?'' Benton told Venice magazine in 1998. 'I said 'When you go to the awards and you see people, some of whom you've had bitter fights with, some of whom you're close friends with, some people you haven't seen in ten years, some people you just saw two days before — it's your family.' It's home. And home is what I've spent my life looking for.'
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First Post
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- First Post
Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker of ‘Kramer vs. Kramer,' dead at 92
Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and 'Places in the Heart,' has died at age 92. Benton's son, John Benton, said that he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of 'natural causes.' During a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and for writing 'Places in the Heart.' He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and Richard Russo, among others. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories (and news that a friend got $25,000 for a Doris Day screenplay) inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s rebels. Their project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. 'Bonnie and Clyde,' directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood. The original story by Benton and Newman was even more daring: they had made Clyde Barrow bisexual and involved in a 3-way relationship with Bonnie and their male getaway driver. Beatty and Penn both resisted, and Barrow instead was portrayed as impotent, with an uncredited Robert Towne making numerous other changes to the script. 'I honestly don't know who the 'auteur' of 'Bonnie and Clyde' was,' Benton later told Mark Harris, author of 'Pictures at a Revolution,' a book about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and four other movies from 1967. Over the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included 'Superman' and 'What's Up, Doc?' He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as 'Bad Company,' a revisionist Western featuring Jeff Bridges, and 'The Late Show,' a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar nomination. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD His career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and received five Academy Awards, including best picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, would cite 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie acting. Five years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, 'Places in the Heart,' in which he drew upon family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Fields as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed. 'I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past,' Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of 'Kramer vs. Kramer.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside of Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas area. Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the U.S. Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, Benton helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award and dated Gloria Steinem, then on staff at the humor magazine Help! He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one son. Between hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers 'Billy Bathgate,' 'The Human Stain' and 'Twilight.' He had much more success with 'Nobody's Fool,' a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for best adapted screenplay. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I'd been nominated, 'What's the great thing about the Academy Awards?'' Benton told Venice magazine in 1998. 'I said 'When you go to the awards and you see people, some of whom you've had bitter fights with, some of whom you're close friends with, some people you haven't seen in ten years, some people you just saw two days before — it's your family.' It's home. And home is what I've spent my life looking for.'
India Today
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Kramer vs. Kramer, dies at 92
Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and 'Places in the Heart,' has died at age son, John Benton, said that he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of 'natural causes.'During a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and for writing 'Places in the Heart.' He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and Richard Russo, among Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories (and news that a friend got $25,000 for a Doris Day screenplay) inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. 'Bonnie and Clyde,' directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in original story by Benton and Newman was even more daring: they had made Clyde Barrow bisexual and involved in a 3-way relationship with Bonnie and their male getaway driver. Beatty and Penn both resisted, and Barrow instead was portrayed as impotent, with an uncredited Robert Towne making numerous other changes to the script. 'I honestly don't know who the 'auteur' of 'Bonnie and Clyde' was,' Benton later told Mark Harris, author of 'Pictures at a Revolution,' a book about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and four other movies from TRIUMPHSOver the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included 'Superman' and 'What's Up, Doc?' He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as 'Bad Company,' a revisionist Western featuring Jeff Bridges, and 'The Late Show,' a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and received five Academy Awards, including best picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, would cite 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, 'Places in the Heart,' in which he drew upon family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Fields as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed.'I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past,' Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of 'Kramer vs. Kramer.'A LIFELONG MOVIE FANBenton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside of Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the US Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, Benton helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award and dated Gloria Steinem, then on staff at the humor magazine Help! He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers 'Billy Bathgate,' 'The Human Stain' and 'Twilight.' He had much more success with 'Nobody's Fool,' a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for best adapted screenplay.'Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I'd been nominated, 'What's the great thing about the Academy Awards?'' Benton told Venice magazine in 1998. 'I said 'When you go to the awards and you see people, some of whom you've had bitter fights with, some of whom you're close friends with, some people you haven't seen in ten years, some people you just saw two days before — it's your family.' It's home. And home is what I've spent my life looking for.' advertisement
