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The Guardian US today announced the hirings of Adria Walker and Melissa Hellman to the Guardian US’s Race and Equity team, which is led by deputy editor Lauren N. Williams, who joined the publication last spring to spearhead its coverage of race, identity, and inequality.
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Two-Lane Blacktop and Ride in the Whirlwind, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, after a fall in his home. His daughter, Melissa Hellman, confirmed his death to Hellman was well regarded for his genre films, such as his 1964 war drama Back Door to Hell, 1966’s pair of Westerns The Shooting and Two-Lane Blacktop starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. Born in New York City in 1932, Hellman relocated to Los Angeles with his family when he was five years old, and later got his start in the film and television business as an editor’s apprentice at ABC....
Print Monte Hellman, the director know for spare, probing genre movies such as “The Shooting,” “Two-Lane Blacktop” and “Road To Nowhere,” has died at age 91. Hellman died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, following a fall in his home, his daughter Melissa Hellman said. Writing about Hellman in 1970, The Times’ Kevin Thomas referred to the filmmaker as “just about the best-kept secret in Hollywood.” “When you see how great Monte’s films are, you’re amazed that he didn’t get to make three or four times as many, but then when you see how they did at t...
Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop director and Reservoir Dogs executive producer, dies at 91 Clark Collis © Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Monte Hellman made his directorial debut with the horror film 'Beast from Haunted Cave' (1959). Director Monte Hellman died Tuesday at the age of 91. The filmmaker's passing was confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by his daughter Melissa Hellman. The director died at Eisenhower Health hospital in Palm Desert a week after he had fallen in his home. © Provided by Entertainment Weekly Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Image...