Posted on April 4, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Washingtonian Magazine has a terrific behind-the-scenes round-up of comments to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Best Picture Oscar-winner All the President’s Men. Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Oscar-winner Jane Alexander, Robert Redford, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman and more give their candid recollections of what happened when Hollywood, politics, history, and journalism combined to create ones of …
Posted on April 3, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Tonight’s episode of “The Simpsons” was inspired by writer Rob LaZebnik’s son, who is gay. There have been indications over the years that Waylon Smithers, the loyal assistant to Homer’s boss Mr. Burns, is gay. The New York Post reports that the episode is inspired by the son of the man who wrote it. Smithers …
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Posted on April 3, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Happy 92nd birthday to one of my favorite movie stars, Doris Day!
Posted on April 3, 2016 at 9:37 am
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw writes: Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile – Garrone worked on the adaptation with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso. It is gloriously mad, rigorously …
Posted on April 3, 2016 at 8:00 am
Is there a better combination than Dame Judi Dench and William Shakespeare? In honor of the 400th anniversary of the death of the greatest writer in the history of the English language, one of the premiere actresses of our time is releasing a new CD called Exits & Entrances: Celebration of Shakespeare, featuring recitations of …
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