Article: Working with hubby a dream for Leigh.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Article: Leigh muses on `eXistenZ' // Actress finds her satisfaction on dark side of moviemaking
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 18, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the brilliant Allegra is a superstar. More appealing to Leigh is the fact that she's also a recluse, uncomfortable around...and uncomfortable around people she doesn't know," says Leigh. "Like, I love to act, but I don't really love talking...successful but mortally shy." For years, people who know Leigh ...

Article: It's the Movie of the Decade. No No, It's Just a Decadent Movie.; British Director Mike Leigh's `Naked' Take on His Latest Film.
The Washington Post;  January 30, 1994 ;     700+ words ......the main bone of contention. Leigh is angry at those who have concluded...quite possibly) of the decade." Leigh considers their reaction "the...film at all. There's another kind of reaction, which is annoyed...choice for whatever sad reasons." Leigh speaks with an almost professorial...

Article: INTERVIEW: Actors comment on Leigh's unconventional approach
University Wire;  October 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ......But no, because there is a kind of very clear discipline on...months and months working on. Leigh's original style of filmmaking...not going to cover it in any kind of rose-tinted glass. This...frailties as people. The people who Leigh is dealing with in this particular...said, But ... you get ...

Article: Leigh's characters work their magic.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  February 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......manifestation with Alison Steadman ( the one-time Mrs Mike Leigh ( splendidly awful as the domineering party hostess. In...audience, we are uneasy. What is he all about? Typically Leigh ( typically unconventional ( the traditional opening scene...old, tells it how it is and suddenly it's OK to laugh. ...

Article: Mike Leigh improvises on history
The Village Voice;  December 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ......contemporary director, Mike Leigh has made a foray into the...frailties, Topsy-Turvy is perhaps Leigh's finest film. Leigh and his two lead actors, Jim...York Film Festival screening. Leigh, who has a reputation for...set myself a hurdle of some kind, just as a kind of artistic...an ...

Article: British director Leigh promotes 'Topsy Turvy' at Dartmouth
University Wire;  October 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Award to British director Mike Leigh this past saturday. Leigh also presented an advance screening of his latest film...also been shown at the Venice and New York Film Festivals, Leigh said. While his career spans thirty years, Leigh may be most well-known in the United States for his 1996...went ...

Article: JANET LEIGH, 77; LEGEND OF SCREEN, SHOWER SCENE
The Boston Globe;  October 5, 2004 ;     638 words ......high-flying Soviet double agent in "Jet Pilot" (1951). Ms. Leigh, who'd been previously married and divorced twice, married...in 1962. "Tony and I had a wonderful time together," Ms. Leigh said in a 2003 interview with the Associated Press. "It...things happened, including two beautiful children." Ms. ...

Article: THE IoS PROFILE: Mike Leigh - Cruel chronicler of suburbia's nasty secrets and lies Snob or satirist? Wit or depressive? Team player or puppet-master? As his best-known work, `Abigail's Party', is revived, the playwright's inner contradictions are as evident as ever
The Independent - London;  July 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ......ground for a text, written by Leigh. In so many ways, this method...question: why do so many of Leigh's works sound as if done in...in Hampstead? Isn't there a kind of exploitation going on, a way in which, obliquely, Leigh is asking us to marvel at...legitimate wondering of whether Leigh ...

Article: His films are acclaimed around the world. So why do we find Mike Leigh so hard to love?
The Independent - London;  May 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...There is an unforgettable scene in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet where Aubrey, a posturing and overweight...Aubrey is almost certainly an indifferent cook and Mike Leigh a film- maker of genius, but there are parallels between the creator and his victim. For the 53-year-old Leigh approaches his work with an ...

Article: INTERVIEW: Chyler Leigh, Eric Jungmann talk about 1st leading roles
University Wire;  November 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Columbia-Tri Star Pictures' "Not Another Teen Movie," Chyler Leigh and Eric Jungmann are a far cry from their roles, but they said they enjoyed working on the set. To promote the movie, Leigh and Jungmann, who play Janey Briggs and her best friend...working on the movie and where they hope to go in the future. ...

Article: Jennifer Jason Leigh: Drawn to the Dysfunctional
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ......ANGELES - Jennifer Jason Leigh has the kind of career in which...She's suffered a kind of soul murder," the waifish, unassuming Leigh says with disturbing...Dolores mark her as a kind of sad monster, more like Leigh's needy "Single White...

Article: Local star's life brightened by season of glory; Mourners honor Charles Leigh, who went from Albany High to play for a team that made NFL history.(Capital Region)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  November 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ......from the Dolphins '72 squad to die. Following his career, Leigh settled down in the house he and wife Marie bought in Colonie...brother Chuck Palladino, lived two houses down from the Leigh's as a youth. She recalled the family rooting for Leigh on Sundays when he played pro football. There was one ...

Article: A STAR OF SELF-EFFACEMENT IN `RUSH,' JENNIFER JASON LEIGH GOES UNDERCOVER IN ANOTHER ROLE
The Boston Globe;  January 5, 1992 ;     700+ words ......to come up with a middle initial. "Every initial next to Leigh sounded really strange, so -- Jason Robards is a friend...complete invention." Having left high school for acting, Leigh treats her movie career as a school of sorts. "Acting for...up with on its own." To prepare for her role in "Rush," Leigh ...

Article: U.K. DIRECTOR'S BIG U.S. BREAK? : LEIGH MAY AVOID `BROKEN-GLASS PATH' WITH SUCCESS OF NEW `SECRETS & LIES'.(L.A. LIFE)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  October 5, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer If Mike Leigh ever doubted himself - and the prickly, proudly unconventional...he sure feels vindicated now. ``Secrets & Lies,'' Leigh's latest slice of not-so-quietly desperate English life...reviews. And some are even suggesting that this might be Leigh's ...