Posted on September 1, 2013 at 8:00 am
It’s September. That means school and work and colder weather. We need to laugh. And tonight NBC is here to provide us with some of television’s funniest moments, assembled by The Paley Center for Media.
Posted on August 28, 2013 at 8:00 am
I loved the piece on the use of colors in Breaking Bad. And this IndieWire post on the look of the show, especially the use of light and dark, is, well, illuminating.
Posted on August 20, 2013 at 8:00 am
Oscar-winning writer Jim Rash (with Nat Faxon he co-wrote “The Descendants” and “The Way Way Back”) hosts one of the best new shows on television, “The Writer’s Room.” The writers and key cast members of Breaking Bad, Parks & Recreation, Dexter, New Girl, Game of Thrones and American Horror Story tell the stories behind the stories that keep us coming back week after week. Highly recommended.
And while we’re on the subject of writing, check out this interview with Marc Norman (“Shakespeare in Love”) from my friend Robert Elisberg.
Posted on July 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Are you a “Damages” fan? Fancy yourself one of Cruella DeVille’s furry fashions? Glenn Close is auctioning off the clothes she wore as Patty Hughes and many other characters to raise money for her charity combating the stigma of mental illness.
It’s a first for me. But I took this step as a means to fight for awareness of something from which millions suffer — the toxic stigma and discrimination around mental illness. It’s a story I know well because its pain has touched lives very close to me.
Over the past 30 years, I have built up a significant costume collection — from Jenny’s Field’s handmade nurses uniform from “The World According to Garp” (my first film) to the evening gown covered with 10 pounds of beads in which I swept down Norma Desmond’s staircase in “Sunset Boulevard;” from Alex Forrest’s black leather coat to Cruella DeVil’s astounding frivolities; from Albert Nobbs’s bowler hat to Patty Hewes’s brilliant reinvention of the power suit.
Bidding goes through July 19.
Posted on July 14, 2013 at 11:19 am
It is with special sadness that we bid farewell to the talented young actor who played Finn on “Glee,” Cory Monteith. The cause of death is not yet known but he struggled with substance abuse.
Here he tells Ellen Degeneres about his audition for “Glee.”
He had such a charming, unaffected presence and his portrayal of the gentle football player who loved to sing and struggled with his affection for the ambitious Rachel (sometime off-screen love Lea Michelle) and his gay step-brother Kurt (Chris Colfer) was in many ways the heart of the show. He will be missed.
