Exclusive: If on MLK Day, you wanted to view a movie that breathes life into the struggles faced by Martin Luther King Jr and his Civil Rights movement cohorts, look no further than Rustin. Directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, the Netflix & Higher Ground drama tells of the title character’s unsung role in making possible the March on Washington D.C., the historical 1963 event where MLK became an icon following his “I have a dream” speech. The awards caliber film was a favorite on the fall festival circuit, and outside of Ava DuVernay’s Selma, it is perhaps the most penetrating look at Dr. King and his coterie of advisors, and the price they all paid in attacking racism and ending segregation in the South.
Deadline: In making Rustin, the story of how activist Bayard Rustin overcame racism and homophobia and organized the 1963 March on Washington where Dr.
Deadline: In making Rustin, the story of how activist Bayard Rustin overcame racism and homophobia and organized the 1963 March on Washington where Dr.
- 1/16/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Recently, I Googled a keyword associated with the media coverage of Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, the millennial power couple who recently announced they were ending their four-and-a-half-year marriage on Instagram following weeks of speculation.
There was a story attributing the split to the couple’s “very different lifestyles,” with a “source with direct knowledge” telling TMZ: “She likes to party, he likes to stay at home.” There was a story, also on TMZ, describing Jonas as being in “dad mode,” taking his two young daughters out to breakfast in L.
There was a story attributing the split to the couple’s “very different lifestyles,” with a “source with direct knowledge” telling TMZ: “She likes to party, he likes to stay at home.” There was a story, also on TMZ, describing Jonas as being in “dad mode,” taking his two young daughters out to breakfast in L.
- 9/7/2023
- by Ej Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – One of the peculiar secrets … since revealed … in the new Apple TV+ series “High Desert” is that the icon Bernadette Peters portrays two characters. One is the mother (Rosalyn) of main character Peggy, and the other is mysterious actor Ginger who somehow ended up in California desert country. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
“High Desert” features Peggy Newman (Patricia Arquette), an ex-heroin addict who lives in arid California and needs a life change. That is difficult, for besides her visits to a local methadone clinic she is just barely holding on as a performer in Pioneer Town, a rundown tourist attraction. The only thing she desperately wants to cling to is the house of her deceased mother (Bernadette Peters), but her sister Dianne (Christine Taylor) is intent on selling it. Peggy needs to raise some extra cash, so she comes up with a plan to become a private investigator,...
“High Desert” features Peggy Newman (Patricia Arquette), an ex-heroin addict who lives in arid California and needs a life change. That is difficult, for besides her visits to a local methadone clinic she is just barely holding on as a performer in Pioneer Town, a rundown tourist attraction. The only thing she desperately wants to cling to is the house of her deceased mother (Bernadette Peters), but her sister Dianne (Christine Taylor) is intent on selling it. Peggy needs to raise some extra cash, so she comes up with a plan to become a private investigator,...
- 5/29/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – How has actor/singer/Broadway icon Bernadette Peters ended up in the arid lands of California? She is featured in the new Apple TV+ series “High Desert.” It has an ensemble cast led by Patricia Arquette as Peggy Newman, a recovering human being in an odd and spiritual place. The series begins streaming on May 17th.
Newman is an ex-heroin addict who realizes her life needs to begin again. That is difficult, for besides her visits to a local methadone clinic, she is just barely holding on as a performer in Pioneertown, a rundown tourist attraction. The only thing she desperately wants to cling to is the house of her deceased mother (Bernadette Peters), but her sister Dianne (Christine Taylor) is intent on selling it. Peggy needs to raise some extra cash, so she comes up with a plan to become a private investigator, in the office of Bruce...
Newman is an ex-heroin addict who realizes her life needs to begin again. That is difficult, for besides her visits to a local methadone clinic, she is just barely holding on as a performer in Pioneertown, a rundown tourist attraction. The only thing she desperately wants to cling to is the house of her deceased mother (Bernadette Peters), but her sister Dianne (Christine Taylor) is intent on selling it. Peggy needs to raise some extra cash, so she comes up with a plan to become a private investigator, in the office of Bruce...
- 5/17/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Actress Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career encompassed triumphs on the big screen, in musical theater and on television, died at her Los Angeles home on Tuesday, her family announced in a statement obtained by Variety. She was 96 — five days shy of her 97th birthday.
Nominated for three Oscars, she won seven Tony Awards and holds the record for Emmy actress nods with 12 for her role on “Murder, She Wrote.”
As honored as she was in film and on stage, Lansbury achieved her greatest popularity on the small screen. In 1984 she stepped into a role originally offered to Jean Stapleton: the flinty crime-solving mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote.” The show became appointment TV for its fans on Sunday nights, and ran for 12 highly rated seasons. The actress captured four Golden Globe Awards for her turn. Between 1997 and 2003, she reprised the role in four telepics.
Discovered while...
Nominated for three Oscars, she won seven Tony Awards and holds the record for Emmy actress nods with 12 for her role on “Murder, She Wrote.”
As honored as she was in film and on stage, Lansbury achieved her greatest popularity on the small screen. In 1984 she stepped into a role originally offered to Jean Stapleton: the flinty crime-solving mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote.” The show became appointment TV for its fans on Sunday nights, and ran for 12 highly rated seasons. The actress captured four Golden Globe Awards for her turn. Between 1997 and 2003, she reprised the role in four telepics.
Discovered while...
- 10/11/2022
- by Chris Morris
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most anticipated honors to be handed out Sunday at the 75th annual Tony Awards is Angela Lansbury’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The big question is: Why did it take so long?
Now 96, the beloved Lansbury has won five competitive Tony and was nominated for two more. She’s also one of the leading interpreters of the work of composers Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman. Her Broadway career is best described with the lyric from Herman’s 1966 musical “Mame: “You came, you saw, your conquered and absolutely nothing is the same…we think you’re just sensational!”
In fact, she’s been sensational since making her film debut at 18 in 1944’s “Gaslight,” received her first of three Oscar nominations — she earned an Honorary Oscar in 2013 — and starred for 12 seasons as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on ‘Murder, She Wrote.” And she brought her musical talents to movie and TV...
Now 96, the beloved Lansbury has won five competitive Tony and was nominated for two more. She’s also one of the leading interpreters of the work of composers Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman. Her Broadway career is best described with the lyric from Herman’s 1966 musical “Mame: “You came, you saw, your conquered and absolutely nothing is the same…we think you’re just sensational!”
In fact, she’s been sensational since making her film debut at 18 in 1944’s “Gaslight,” received her first of three Oscar nominations — she earned an Honorary Oscar in 2013 — and starred for 12 seasons as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on ‘Murder, She Wrote.” And she brought her musical talents to movie and TV...
- 6/10/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s Season 8 and series finale of The Haves and the Have Nots. If you don’t already know how it ended, you might want to watch before beginning this article.
Tyler Perry, how could you? After eight seasons, each one more gleefully off the rails than the last, The Haves and the Have Nots’ creator wrapped his popular OWN soap Tuesday with not just one exclamation point after another but several big question marks. (Read the full recap here.)
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Tyler Perry, how could you? After eight seasons, each one more gleefully off the rails than the last, The Haves and the Have Nots’ creator wrapped his popular OWN soap Tuesday with not just one exclamation point after another but several big question marks. (Read the full recap here.)
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- 7/21/2021
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s bonkers episode of The Haves and the Have Nots. If you’d rather watch first, read later, avoid this recap like Candace might Conley. Actually, like anybody might Conley; he’s a lot!
If you thought that an episode of The Haves and the Have Nots in which Benny got it on with his realtor would make that the hour’s biggest twist of plot, first of all, you’re adorable. And second of all, you’re clearly new here. This show is way more bonkers than that! In fact, Benny and...
If you thought that an episode of The Haves and the Have Nots in which Benny got it on with his realtor would make that the hour’s biggest twist of plot, first of all, you’re adorable. And second of all, you’re clearly new here. This show is way more bonkers than that! In fact, Benny and...
- 7/7/2021
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Continuing to keep the insanity at what might just be an all-time high, even for The Haves and the Have Nots, Tuesday’s episode of Tyler Perry’s bonkers OWN soap landed Madison in an extremely compromising position, made fast friends of a couple of lowlifes and revealed after all this time that Amanda was killed by…
On second thought, keep reading. We’ll get to the big reveal when we get to it. For now, let’s start at the beginning, which was actually the ending of “Black Panther” (recapped in full here). After Benny beat the living daylights...
On second thought, keep reading. We’ll get to the big reveal when we get to it. For now, let’s start at the beginning, which was actually the ending of “Black Panther” (recapped in full here). After Benny beat the living daylights...
- 6/23/2021
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Even as we’re still looking forward to the back half of The Haves and the Have Nots’ eighth and final season, we’re also looking back at the OWN soap’s characters — and, while we’re at it, pulling a Hanna by judging the lot of ’em.
But unlike the pious housekeeper, we’re not deciding which of Savannah’s filthy-rich and upwardly-mobile ought to be wearing a halo and which ones’ ’dos needs to be able to accommodate devil’s horns. We’re merely evaluating which of them we’re likeliest to remember years after the doors have...
But unlike the pious housekeeper, we’re not deciding which of Savannah’s filthy-rich and upwardly-mobile ought to be wearing a halo and which ones’ ’dos needs to be able to accommodate devil’s horns. We’re merely evaluating which of them we’re likeliest to remember years after the doors have...
- 1/23/2021
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
In Tuesday’s penultimate Season 7 episode of The Haves and the Have Nots, Colby refused to believe that he’d landed himself in hot water by going skinny-dipping in Veronica’s pool. Even as inside, the madwoman was telling Samuel, “If you hear gunshots, don’t be alarmed,” Colby was out there ignoring Jeffrey’s warnings and working on his backstroke. And though his pals were sensibly swift in bailing, lest they wind up in a watery grave, Colby refused to be intimidated — and even clapped back when Veronica called him an “it.” “Like you,” he replied. “You’re defined in the middle: not old,...
- 10/21/2020
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
On Aug. 11, 1943, Variety carried a story beginning “Angela Lansbury, 17-year-old English girl, is the colony’s latest Cinderella.” The story said she had gone from an unknown to movie star in only four days.
Since then, Lansbury has forged a career that defies all logic. She received supporting-actress Oscar nominations twice in her first two years of work. At age 41, she became a musical-comedy star with “Mame.” She became a TV star with “Murder, She Wrote” at age 59, an age when most actresses can’t find work. In the show’s 12-year run, she was one of the TV industry’s most powerful women. Maybe her biggest accomplishment: Though powerful women were sometimes maligned, it was thought you needed to be heartless to survive in showbiz, Lansbury has created a 77-year career and nobody has a bad word to say about her.
Lansbury, who turns 95 Friday, is best known for...
Since then, Lansbury has forged a career that defies all logic. She received supporting-actress Oscar nominations twice in her first two years of work. At age 41, she became a musical-comedy star with “Mame.” She became a TV star with “Murder, She Wrote” at age 59, an age when most actresses can’t find work. In the show’s 12-year run, she was one of the TV industry’s most powerful women. Maybe her biggest accomplishment: Though powerful women were sometimes maligned, it was thought you needed to be heartless to survive in showbiz, Lansbury has created a 77-year career and nobody has a bad word to say about her.
Lansbury, who turns 95 Friday, is best known for...
- 10/16/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s The Haves and the Have Nots. If you’d rather watch first, read later, make like Candace around a good decision and run the other way!
Love, lust and whatever comes in between was in the air in Tuesday’s randypants episode of The Haves and the Have Nots. Not only did Candace cop to her true feelings for Charles, a Machiavellian matchmaker seemed determined to re-set them up. Plus, Jeffrey came thisclose to having company in the shower — and it wasn’t Madison! — a pretty face caught Benny’s eye, and...
Love, lust and whatever comes in between was in the air in Tuesday’s randypants episode of The Haves and the Have Nots. Not only did Candace cop to her true feelings for Charles, a Machiavellian matchmaker seemed determined to re-set them up. Plus, Jeffrey came thisclose to having company in the shower — and it wasn’t Madison! — a pretty face caught Benny’s eye, and...
- 9/23/2020
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s The Haves and the Have Nots. If you’d rather watch first, read later, off you go.
In Tuesday’s The Haves and the Have Nots, Veronica set her sights (and paws!) on a muscle-bound new target, Vinny ordered Sandy to take aim at Wyatt, and holy crap! It looked like that dream Veronica had, in which David told her that he was in love with Hanna, wasn’t just a dream but foreshadowing! Read on, and I’ll explain why!
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In Tuesday’s The Haves and the Have Nots, Veronica set her sights (and paws!) on a muscle-bound new target, Vinny ordered Sandy to take aim at Wyatt, and holy crap! It looked like that dream Veronica had, in which David told her that he was in love with Hanna, wasn’t just a dream but foreshadowing! Read on, and I’ll explain why!
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Jason SudeikisThe Haves and the...
- 9/16/2020
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
A lot went down in Tuesday’s The Haves and the Have Nots, from a seismic power shift in the Malone family to Candace having a word — yes, just one — with her father. But the biggest shock of the hour had to be what went on in Veronica’s bedroom. With whom did she picture herself, and what “sweet nothing” did he whisper that damn near made us do a spit take? Read on and find out.
‘Relax… But Not Too Much’ | As “Someone Special” began, right where “Fine Together” left off, Derrick insisted that he was just at the...
‘Relax… But Not Too Much’ | As “Someone Special” began, right where “Fine Together” left off, Derrick insisted that he was just at the...
- 9/9/2020
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
The Haves and the Have Nots’ Benny said it for all of us in Tuesday’s episode when he suggested that Alissa “think about not being so thirsty all the time.” They’d only known each other for, like, an hour, tops, and still, he’d nailed it. Before they met, Erica’s old pal enticed David to let her into his house, at which point she suggested a threesome with his security guard, Leo. Instead, David, thinking that the hooker had been sent by Veronica, took her to his ex’s place… where they walked in on Benny coming...
- 9/2/2020
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
The Haves and Have Nots Midseason Premiere Recap: Night Shaft — Plus, [Spoiler] Goes Out With a Bang
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s midseason premiere of The Haves and the Have Nots. If you’d rather watch first, read later, do what Veronica tells so many of her boy toys to do and amscray!
Seriously, though, if The Haves and the Have Nots had stuffed anything more into its two-episode return, the midseason premiere would’ve burst at the seams. We got father/son “bonding” at gunpoint, a supervillain’s arrest, too many idle threats to catalog, a tryst that turned out to be, er, no big deal, and by the time we were done,...
Seriously, though, if The Haves and the Have Nots had stuffed anything more into its two-episode return, the midseason premiere would’ve burst at the seams. We got father/son “bonding” at gunpoint, a supervillain’s arrest, too many idle threats to catalog, a tryst that turned out to be, er, no big deal, and by the time we were done,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Most fans of film (especially comedies) may recall this quick three or four-second gag from that iconic 1980 comic smash Airplane. The stewardess is walking up the center aisle, clutching a load of magazines. Spotting a white-haired grandmotherly-type she asks, “Would you care for something to read?” “Do you have anything light?” “How about ‘Famous Jewish Sports Legends’?”. Then Julie Haggerty hands the elderly passenger a very thin (maybe a folded page) leaflet. Got a pretty good chuckle back then. Well, the subject of this new documentary feature is worthy of a thick book (and he has). It’s a life full of drama and danger, about a man of such varied interests, he could be the hero of a thriller. And he was, in last year’s The Catcher Was A Spy, played by Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd, no less. So many historical figures and celebrities crossed path with this man,...
- 6/28/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and showrunner of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” is in talks to direct a remake of “Gypsy.”
New Regency is on board to finance with Joel Silver producing. Stx Entertainment had agreed in 2016 to finance Barbra Streisand’s proposed remake of “Gypsy,” but backed out a few months later.
“Gypsy” tells the story of the burlesque legend Gypsy Rose Lee, based on her 1957 memoir about her career and hard-as-nails stage mother. That book served as the inspiration for the highly successful 1959 musical, starring Ethel Merman, with popular songs including “Everything’s Coming up Roses,” “Small World,” “Let Me Entertain You” and “All I Need Is the Girl.”
The 1962 movie, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, was a financial success with $11 million in box office revenue and nabbed three Academy Award nominations, plus a Golden Globe for Russell. Bette Midler starred in a 1993 TV adaptation directed by Emile Ardolino.
New Regency is on board to finance with Joel Silver producing. Stx Entertainment had agreed in 2016 to finance Barbra Streisand’s proposed remake of “Gypsy,” but backed out a few months later.
“Gypsy” tells the story of the burlesque legend Gypsy Rose Lee, based on her 1957 memoir about her career and hard-as-nails stage mother. That book served as the inspiration for the highly successful 1959 musical, starring Ethel Merman, with popular songs including “Everything’s Coming up Roses,” “Small World,” “Let Me Entertain You” and “All I Need Is the Girl.”
The 1962 movie, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, was a financial success with $11 million in box office revenue and nabbed three Academy Award nominations, plus a Golden Globe for Russell. Bette Midler starred in a 1993 TV adaptation directed by Emile Ardolino.
- 2/7/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Gypsy is coming back together. New Regency has come aboard to finance, and negotiating to direct is Amy Sherman-Palladino, who is coming off winning four Emmy Awards for writing, creating, exec producing and directing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Joel Silver is producing.
Barbra Streisand has exited the previous incarnation of the project, where Barry Levinson was going to direct at Stx with a script by Richard Lagravanese, and Streisand was going to play the iconic Mama Rose. This plan cratered when Stx exited in 2016. This is a plum role and I am hearing names that include Melissa McCarthy, who is Oscar nominated for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and who worked with Sherman-Palladino on Gilmore Girls, but I am told that no casting decisions have been set and that call will be made by Sherman-Palladino once her deal is closed.
Based on the classic musical from Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim,...
Barbra Streisand has exited the previous incarnation of the project, where Barry Levinson was going to direct at Stx with a script by Richard Lagravanese, and Streisand was going to play the iconic Mama Rose. This plan cratered when Stx exited in 2016. This is a plum role and I am hearing names that include Melissa McCarthy, who is Oscar nominated for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and who worked with Sherman-Palladino on Gilmore Girls, but I am told that no casting decisions have been set and that call will be made by Sherman-Palladino once her deal is closed.
Based on the classic musical from Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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