Posted on January 20, 2016 at 8:00 am
“How I Met Your Mother’s” Josh Radnor stars in the first full-scale PBS-produced miniseries in a long time, “Mercy Street,” the story of a Civil War hospital in Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia. As always happens in wartime, when there are vast numbers of injuries affecting young, healthy patients, there were enormous advances in medicine during the …
Posted on January 20, 2016 at 8:00 am
And here’s the real-life Eddie the Eagle in the 1988 Olympics.
Posted on January 19, 2016 at 6:49 pm
W asked Seth Rogen, Bradley Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Paul Dano to audition for the part of Cher in “Clueless,” reading her famous speech about the “Hate-ians.” While they make the mistake of pronouncing it correctly, I’d love to see them in some of the other scenes from the film. Or, let’s face it, in …
Posted on January 19, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Spike Lee, who accepted a special Oscar award just two months ago, has said he will boycott the award show this year in protest of yet another all-white list of nominees. He is right to be outraged. How could Sylvester Stallone be nominated for “Creed” while his co-star Michael B. Jordan and writer/director Ryan Coogler …
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Posted on January 19, 2016 at 9:22 am
Singer/songwriter/actress/businesswoman Dolly Parton turns 70 today! This song was inspired by her childhood, born the fourth child of 12, to mother, Avie Lee and father, Robert Lee, in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Here she sings one of her biggest hits with her goddaughter, Miley Cyrus. She contributed a classic song and a deft, …
