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Palm Springs Weekend is a 1963 Warner Bros. bedroom comedy film directed by Norman Taurog. [2] It has elements of the beach party genre (AIP's Beach Party became a smash hit in July, while Warner Bros. was still putting this film together [3]) and has been called "a sort of Westernized version of Where the Boys Are" by Billboard magazine. [4]
It stars Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke and Jack Weston. In the film, Vicki Anderson (Dunaway) is hired to investigate the culprits of a multi-million dollar bank heist, orchestrated by Thomas Crown (McQueen). The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind".
A stage play based on the scandal, Box Thirteen by Jack Westin, was performed at the College of the Mainland Community Theatre during the 1998–1999 season. [8] In 2023, Associated Press reporter James Mangan donated taped interviews to the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum which confirmed the story that he recorded in 1977.
Weston's second marriage was to Laurie Gilkes, and they had one child together. They were married until his death from lymphoma on May 3, 1996, after a six-year struggle. He was 71 years old. [14] Jack was the older brother of Anthony Spinelli, whose birth name was Sam Weinstein and whose first stage name was Sam Weston. The Westons were Jewish.
The Ritz is a 1976 British-American comedy farce film directed by Richard Lester based on the 1975 play of the same name by Terrence McNally.Actress Rita Moreno – who had won a Tony Award for her performance as Googie Gomez in the Broadway production – and many others from the 1975 original cast, such as Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, and F. Murray Abraham, reprised their stage roles in the ...
During World War II, Jack Weston is an army private in prime physical condition who dons a patriotic costume and becomes the Minute-Man, a "One Man Army" who combats enemy agents. [2] His double identity is known to his superior officer, General Milton, who sends the Minute-Man on unsanctioned missions behind enemy lines.
A YouTube star crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car while livestreaming — and a clip of the incident has gone viral. During a livestream on the platform Kick on the morning of Saturday, Oct ...
The Counterfeit Killer is a 1968 American crime film directed by Józef Lejtes and written by Steven Bochco and Harold Clements. The film stars Jack Lord, Shirley Knight, Jack Weston, Charles Drake, Joseph Wiseman and Don Hanmer.