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Ben Stiller, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Cusack were among the many who paid tribute to director Alan Parker, who died Friday after a long illness.
July 31, 2020
Obituaries
Oscar-nominated English director Alan Parker, known for his work on ‘Evita,’ ‘Midnight Express’ and other memorable films, dies. He was 76.
Entertainment & Arts
Two very different Englishmen sit together on a sofa and discuss “Evita,” the $60-million film musical about Argentine first lady Eva Peron that brought them together in an unlikely partnership.
Dec. 24, 1996
Divorce Court: Film director Alan Parker, 47 (“Mississippi Burning,” “Bugsy Malone,” “Midnight Express”), was divorced Monday from his wife of 25 years.
Jan. 7, 1992
Director Alan Parker, who has two Golden Globe award nominations for “Mississippi Burning,” has signed a three-year production and development agreement with Tri-Star Pictures.
Jan. 19, 1989
Coming soon (well, in 1991 or so) from Tri-Star Pictures: A film version of the smash musical “Les Miserables,” to be directed by Alan Parker and produced by Cameron Mackintosh.
Dec. 13, 1988
Spacey, as a convicted murderer, and Winslet as a journalist are hindered by Alan Parker’s smash-em-up direction.
Feb. 21, 2003
The 100,000 Japanese Americans interned in American detention camps for most of World War II weren’t as unlucky as the Jews of Eastern Europe.
Dec. 22, 1990
Jan. 17, 1991
When it was announced that Alan Parker was going to follow his hotly debated “Mississippi Burning” with a story about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the general reaction among film journalists was: “Here we go again.”
May 15, 1990