Ben Stiller prodělal rakovinu

Ben Stiller se léčil s nádorem prostaty a rozhodl se podělit o svou zkušenost. A v jakých filmech jej v nejbližší době uvidíme?

Letošní rok byl bohatý na nekrology známých filmových osobností. Je tedy jedině dobře, když v souvislosti se zdravím hollywoodských herců můžeme pro jednou přinést také dobrou zprávu. Ben Stiller v úterý veřejnosti oznámil, že před dvěma lety prodělal rakovinu prostaty. Nádor byl Stillerovi diagnostikován v červnu 2014 a po podstoupené léčbě byl už v září téhož roku vyléčený. Stiller se rozhodl využít vlastní zkušenosti a faktu, že je veřejně známá osobnost a snaží se teď přesvědčit muže, aby se nechali testovat unblocked games.

Testování na rakovinu prostaty je nicméně poněkud kontroverzní. Rakovina prostaty je v některých případech život ohrožující a bolestivá, v jiných případech nemá na život pacienta žádný viditelný vliv. Její odhalení tedy může přinést potenciálně zbytečnou léčbu, která je náročná a může mít závažné vedlejší účinky. Dle posledních studií nelze přitom jednoznačně říct, že by testování proti rakovině jakkoliv ovlivňovalo míru úmrtnosti na tuto chorobu.

Stiller se nicméně domnívá, že každý by měl mít možnost se informovat a následně se poučeně rozhodnout, jak se situací naloží. Unblocked games 77 Na svém Twitteru se postavil ke zprávě s humorem, když ji doplnil o fotku ze známé scény ze snímku Něco na té Mary je, kde si jeho hrdina přiskřípne pytlík do kalhot.

Pokud jde o Stillerovu kariéru, příští rok bychom jej měli vidět v komediálním dramatu Yeh Din Ka Kissa. Režisér Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, Svatba podle Margot) v něm vypráví příběh o odcizené rodině, která se schází v New Yorku, aby oslavila otcovo umělecké dílo. Krom Stillera hrají Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman a Emma Thompson. Ve snímku Brad's Status si potom zahraje otce, který vyrazí se synem na obhlídku vysokých škol a po letech potká starého přítele, vedle kterého mu začne jeho dosavadní dospělý život připadat dost nanicovatý. Režíruje Mike White, který napsal scénář Školy Rocku.

Stiller honors mother at memorial service

Actors Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller attend the 61st Annual Writers Guild Awards New York 

 

Ceremony at the Hudson Theatre inside the Millennium Broadway Hotel on February 7, 2009 in New 

 

Ben Stiller paid tribute to his late mother Anne Meara at a memorial service in New York City this week.

The actress died in May at the age of 85, prompting an outpouring of grief from across the Hollywood community.

Ben joined his comedian father Jerry Stiller to host a memorial event in her honor at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York on Monday, and it was attended by stars including Liam Neeson, Larry David and Bob Saget, who acted as host.

Bob reportedly stepped in at the last minute to replace actress Whoopi Goldberg, who had been due to host the event but pulled out after falling ill.

Actress Cynthia Nixon, who played Anne's onscreen daughter-in-law in hit TV show "Sex and the City" was also in attendance at the service.

During the memorial, Ben took to the stage to remember his mother, joking to the audience, "Ever since (Donald) Trump closed the 72nd Street ramp to the West Side Highway, the word she used the most was 'putz' (fool)."

Liam, who worked with Anne on 1992 Broadway production of "Anna Christie," also addressed the congregation during the service, which included a performance by singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow who led the crowd in a rendition of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," according to the New York Post.

Nick Grimshaw and Harry Styles attended London Fashion Week events separately and haven't been spotted together for months

Where were Grimmy and Harry at Fashion Week?

London Fashion Week brings with it some of the best events in the showbiz calendar and the people we most want to see on the FROW - Nick Grimshaw and Harry Styles (and Kate Moss, of course).
The pair are known for being BFFs but seem to have been keeping their distance from each other recently, attending LDW events separately as they juggle busy schedules.
One Direction star Harry, who is about to take a break from the band with the rest of the boys, attended a Love Magazine party at Loulou's in London last night, bumping into the likes of Cara Delevingne.

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Harry Styles at the Love Magazine party at Loulou's in London

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But pal Grimmy was nowhere to be seen after sitting on the FROW with Poppy Delevingne, Alexa Chung, Daisy Lowe, and Nicola Roberts a few days earlier.
The celebs were attending the House of Holland show for Spring Summer 2016 and although they looked like they were having a fab time - it just wasn't the same not seeing Hazza and Grimmy together.
With Nick doing his Radio 1 show and X Factor, while Harry is still performing with 1D, taking to the stage at the Roundhouse in Camden tonight for the Apple Music Festival, we imagine they just haven't been able to meet up.

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Nick Grimshaw on the FROW with his celeb pals

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Grimmy and Harry at a previous London Fashion Week event

Meanwhile, Nick recently told the The Guardian's Weekend magazine that he thinks the band needed a break after five years in the spotlight.
He said: "People think being a pop star is glamorous but it's exhausting and disorienting at their level. They don't see the world, they just do press in different cities.
"They're men now and they need to experience some actual life. Everyone takes breaks. Katy Perry's off at the moment. No one's crying."

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Poppy Delevingne with Grimmy and pals

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Nick Grimshaw and Harry Styles in February

While he was happy to talk about his famous friends – he was quick to point out he didn't get a job because of them.
When asked if having friends in high places helps, he hit back: "That's ludicrous. I’ve worked so hard in music – all extracurricular since I was 15, through holidays, A-levels, university. Nobody gives you a job because you know Harry Styles; loads of people know him."

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Ben Stiller Directs

December 6 – 8

One of the biggest movie stars on the planet, Ben Stiller is also among our finest comic talents, a fearless performer with a gift for turning anxiety into comedy and back again. But what doesn’t get said often enough is that he is also an inventive, risk-taking filmmaker who has repeatedly demonstrated his versatility and ambition behind the camera. From the Generation X totem Reality Bites (1994) to the dark cult comedy The Cable Guy (1996) to the wild satires Zoolander (2001) and Tropic Thunder (2008), Stiller’s work as a director reveals a sharp and distinctive comic vision, not to mention an unparalleled eye for the giddy pleasures and dark absurdities of popular culture. Following the world premiere of his new film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, at the 51st New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates Stiller’s body of work as a director—one that happens also to include several of his greatest performances.

Ben Stiller's mom, actress Anne Meara, dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actress and comedian Anne Meara, whose comic work with husband Jerry Stiller helped launch a 60-year career in film and TV, has died. She was 85.

Jerry Stiller and son Ben Stiller say Meara died Saturday. No other details were provided.

The Stiller family released a statement to The Associated Press on Sunday describing Jerry Stiller as Meara's "husband and partner in life."

"The two were married for 61 years and worked together almost as long," the statement said.

The couple performed as Stiller & Meara on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and other programs in the 1960s and won awards for the radio and TV commercials they made together. Meara also appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, including a longtime role on "All My Children" and recurring appearances on "Rhoda," "Alf," "Sex and the City" and "The King of Queens." She shared the screen with her son in 2006's "Night at the Museum."

Meara was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for her supporting role on "Archie Bunker's Place," along with three other Emmy nods, most recently in 1997 for her guest-starring role on "Homicide." She won a Writers Guild Award for co-writing the 1983 TV movie "The Other Woman."

Besides her husband and son, Meara is survived by her daughter, Amy, and several grandchildren.

The family statement said: "Anne's memory lives on in the hearts of daughter Amy, son Ben, her grandchildren, her extended family and friends, and the millions she entertained as an actress, writer and comedienne."

Ben Stiller Mulls Giving Up Acting for Full-Time Directing After 'Walter Mitty'

The 47-year-old, best known for his work as an actor in blockbuster comedies, has directed five very different films over the past 20 years.

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Wilson Webb/Twentieth Century Fox

The 47-year-old, best known for his work as an actor in blockbuster comedies, has directed five very different films over the past 20 years.

"I'm not gonna be playing Lincoln in Lincoln 2," the actor-director Ben Stiller told me self-deprecatingly during a Q&A that followed a screening of his latest film, the $90 million dramedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a few days ago at the inaugural AARP Movies for Grownups Film Festival in Los Angeles. "But as a director I feel much more freedom," he continued, adding, "There are just so many different kinds of movies that I can make that aren't limited by who I am as an actor."

After three years of work on Walter Mitty, which he describes as "an incredible experience" and "a gift," Stiller now contemplates a different future for himself in the film industry. "I definitely could see myself just directing, for sure," he said. "In fact, I feel like that's sort of what will end up happening as the roles dry up," he added with a laugh. "That's where I'd love to end up."

Stiller's directorial skills have evolved over the past 20 years through five very different films -- Reality Bites (1994), The Cable Guy (1996), Zoolander (2001), Tropic Thunder (2008) and now Walter Mitty -- all of which the Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen from Dec. 6-8 as part of "Ben Stiller Directs," a retrospective of his work as a director. That high honor follows the famously elitist group's decision to host the world premiere of Walter Mitty as the centerpiece film at October's New York Film Festival. It's quite a pair of compliments for a man whom most members of the general public know as an actor in comedy blockbusters like There's Something About Mary (1998) and Meet the Parents (2000).

In Walter Mitty, Stiller portrays a good-hearted but sad-sack loner who has known sadness, sacrificed for others and toiled all but invisibly for 16 years in the photo processing department at waning Life magazine. A perpetual daydreamer prone to awkwardness, he develops a crush on a co-worker (Kristen Wiig), but before he can muster the courage to do anything about it, he loses a photo from a famous photographer (Sean Penn), prompting his new boss (a heavily bearded Adam Scott) to announce that he will lose his job if he doesn't find it. In order to track it down, Walter Mitty must finally go out and experience the world.

The same general story, under the same exact title, has previously been told in several incarnations. It first popped up in 1939 as a James Thurber short story in The New Yorker, which was then adapted into a 1947 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye. Stiller was already familiar with both when he first read the script of a proposed non-singing film version that was penned by Steve Conrad, a friend with whom he had once tried to get another project off the ground. "It moved me," Stiller told me of Conrad's take on the story -- especially the way he ended it. "I felt something," Stiller said.

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After nine months of finessing the script with Conrad and trying to convince 20th Century Fox to finance the project -- which would not be inexpensive, thanks to several big CGI sequences and location shooting in Iceland and other far-flung locations -- Stiller finally got his greenlight and began assembling his dream cast. Wiig, Penn, Scott and Shirley MacLaine, who cameos as Mitty's mother, were all his first choices for their respective parts. Patton Oswalt, whose voice plays a key part in the film, has been a pal for 20 years. Others who were cast from as far as Iceland became dear friends, as well.

The key to Walter Mitty, Stiller realized, was to keep a film that required big, fantastical moments of action-adventure in order to illustrate Mitty's vivid imagination grounded in a character study. The extent to which he accomplished that goal will be judged by critics and viewers. But the experience that Stiller had while trying to make that happen, both as a director and actor, is his alone, and is one that he says he will always treasure.

Going forward, though, he is categorically less interested in remaining a multi-hyphenate. "On Mitty, there weren't a lot of days when I wasn't acting and directing," he says. "But on Tropic Thunder the days when I wasn't acting were my favorite days, because I got to just be there and stand behind the monitor and work with the actors." If audiences turn out for Walter Mitty, as he hopes they will, he will get many more opportunities to do so in the future.

Ben Stiller's Mom Anne Meara Dies at Age 85; Ben Stiller Remembers Actress and Comedian Mother on Twitter

Ben Stiller and his mom Ann Meara.

Anne Meara passed away on April 23, 2015

Comedienne and actress Anne Meara passed away on May 23, 2015, the same day as the great mathematician John Nash.  Anne Meara is remembered as the part of the husband and wife comedy duo "Stiller and Meara", her extensive acting career, as well as being the mother of Ben Stiller, the actor/comedian.  Her son has recently tweeted about his late mother and her passing while in Rome filming Zoolander 2.

Meara began her career as one of the Compass Players, an improvisational theater troupe that eventually evolved into Second City.  It was here that she met her future husband Jerry Stiller and they married in 1953.  It would take a while before they formed a comic duo known as "Stiller and Meara". 

"Stiller and Meara" were regulars on The Ed Sullivan Show, and they also appeared on other variety shows at the time like Johnny Carson or Mike Douglas.  Meara was an Irish redhead that performed with her Jewish husband in many numbers, including one where she played Elizabeth Doyle and Jerry played Hershey Horowitz.  Elizabeth was Catholic and Hershey was Jewish, and the only thing that they seemed to have in common was their affection for each other. 

In addition to the comedy duo, Anne did many projects such as plays, and she even played a witch in Macbeth in 1957.   She appeared in the third season of Rhoda as Sally Gallagher, a wisecracking cook on Archie Bunker's Place, several episodes of ALF, as well as Sex and the City.  Though she was more cast for her comedic talents, she could do drama just as well.  The NY Times states that she said in an interview for the Archive of American Television that "Comedy, drama, it's the same deal.  You don't really act differently; you just make adjustments."  She is also well remembered for a part in the filmFame in 1980, as remarked by Judy Gold, an actress inspired by Meara that spoke of Anne highly on CNN.    

Anne's husband Jerry Stiller, now 87, is a comedian and actor who has been on many films and regular appareances on television, from playing George Costanza's father on Seinfeld to Arthur Spooner onKing of Queens. 

Meara and Stiller are also the parents of Ben Stiller, and actor who has had a lot of comedy hit movies like Meet The Parents, There's Something About Mary, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Night at the Museum.   According to E Online, the 49-year-old actor was seen walking the streets of Rome with his wife, Christine Taylor, a day after his mother's death.  According to Time.com, he has tweeted about her, saying:  "Thank you so much for all the kind words about Anne" and "All of us in our family feel so lucky to have had her in our lives". 

Stiller is in Rome to film Zoolander 2.  The original Zoolander movie featured both Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara in an uncredited role as a Protester.    

Anne Meara is also survived by a daughter Amy, as well as several grandchildren.  Her comedy, drama, and unique personality that inspired many actors and actresses after her will be missed.