Lynda Gravátt, the Harlem-born actress who starred on New York stages in such productions as 45 Seconds From Broadway, Doubt, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Old Settler and Intimate Apparel, has died. She was 76.
Gravátt died Friday at a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, her son David Gravátt told The Hollywood Reporter.
A founding member of Robert Alexander’s Living Stage at the famed Washington-based Arena Stage company, Gravátt received a 1999 Theatre World trophy for her performance as 1940s Harlem resident Quilly McGrath in The Old Settler and a Audelco prize in 2004 for her turn as the bossy landlady Mrs. Dickson in Intimate Apparel.
On Broadway in 2001, she stood by for Leslie Uggams as Ruby in August Wilson’s King Hedley II and portrayed Bessie James in Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds From Broadway, then appeared as Mrs. Muller in 2016 in the original Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt.
Gravátt died Friday at a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, her son David Gravátt told The Hollywood Reporter.
A founding member of Robert Alexander’s Living Stage at the famed Washington-based Arena Stage company, Gravátt received a 1999 Theatre World trophy for her performance as 1940s Harlem resident Quilly McGrath in The Old Settler and a Audelco prize in 2004 for her turn as the bossy landlady Mrs. Dickson in Intimate Apparel.
On Broadway in 2001, she stood by for Leslie Uggams as Ruby in August Wilson’s King Hedley II and portrayed Bessie James in Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds From Broadway, then appeared as Mrs. Muller in 2016 in the original Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt.
- 2/27/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gypsy Rose Blanchard‘s next move is the subject of an upcoming 20/20 episode, premiering Friday, Jan. 26. Anchor Deborah Roberts spoke with the 32-year-old one week after her release from prison, by which point she had already morphed into a viral star. Despite having been mostly out of the public eye while serving seven years of a 10-year prison sentence for orchestrating the murder of her allegedly abusive mother, Blanchard doesn’t mind the spotlight.
“Honestly, I’m a very shy person,” Blanchard says in an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode,...
“Honestly, I’m a very shy person,” Blanchard says in an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
On Monday, Sydney Sweeney made a glamorous entrance on the red carpet in Australia for the Sydney screening of her latest film Anyone but You.
She wore a white Grecian-inspired sheer dress by Givenchy which featured an open-back design, cinched fabric at the hip and a knee-high slit. Sweeney complemented her look with elegant diamond rings and earrings.
For the Australian screening of Anyone But You, Sweeney collaborated with stylist Molly Dickson. Dickson has previously dressed notable figures like Lucy Hale, Sadie Sink and Ariana Greenblatt.
Sydney’s choice to wear Givenchy is significant, as it marks one of the final collections by creative director Matthew Williams. News of Williams’ departure from Givenchy was reported by Wwd on December 1.
Sydney’s decision to embrace the sheer trend aligns with its growing popularity on front rows, runways and red carpets since 2022.
Notable celebrities like Ashley Graham and Lori Harvey have confidently...
She wore a white Grecian-inspired sheer dress by Givenchy which featured an open-back design, cinched fabric at the hip and a knee-high slit. Sweeney complemented her look with elegant diamond rings and earrings.
For the Australian screening of Anyone But You, Sweeney collaborated with stylist Molly Dickson. Dickson has previously dressed notable figures like Lucy Hale, Sadie Sink and Ariana Greenblatt.
Sydney’s choice to wear Givenchy is significant, as it marks one of the final collections by creative director Matthew Williams. News of Williams’ departure from Givenchy was reported by Wwd on December 1.
Sydney’s decision to embrace the sheer trend aligns with its growing popularity on front rows, runways and red carpets since 2022.
Notable celebrities like Ashley Graham and Lori Harvey have confidently...
- 12/19/2023
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Zac Efron has already earned the best reviews of his career for the dark new professional wrestling film "The Iron Claw," and now he and his co-stars are opening up about the intense process of making the movie. In this week's Variety cover story, the former teen idol spoke about what it was like to embody real-life athlete and performer Kevin Von Erich, whose pro wrestler family was torn apart by a string of accidents and tragedies in the '80s and '90s. While Efron's preparation for the role doesn't sound like it was dangerous (he says he "learned the hard way about not sacrificing [his] real health for a look on camera" from past roles), it does come across as a pretty isolating and all-consuming experience.
"Harris and I — we got dinner every once in a while, or we allowed ourselves a little bit of life outside of work during that time,...
"Harris and I — we got dinner every once in a while, or we allowed ourselves a little bit of life outside of work during that time,...
- 12/17/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Sure, 28 Oscar nominations and 17 wins aren’t to be sniffed at. But the remarkable thing about Peter Jackson‘s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy is that it should have been nominated for more. Only one of the cast was nominated for an Oscar across all three films — that was for Best Supporting Actor for Sir Ian McKellen in 2002 for “The Fellowship of the Ring” — while there were a few other curious snubs that, in hindsight, just don’t make sense. So, there was actually more room to nominate this rightly-heralded trilogy of astounding films. With that in mind, here are five more Oscar nominations “The Lord of the Rings” should have landed.
Best Original Score: “The Two Towers”
The music of “The Lord of the Rings” has gone down as one of the best scores ever committed to film. Howard Shore‘s adored score is so top drawer it leaves you clamoring for more.
Best Original Score: “The Two Towers”
The music of “The Lord of the Rings” has gone down as one of the best scores ever committed to film. Howard Shore‘s adored score is so top drawer it leaves you clamoring for more.
- 11/15/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
In 2004, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” became the film with joint-most Oscar wins of all time with a whopping 11 victories, matching the total tallies of both “Titanic” and “Ben-Hur.” Those 11 Academy Awards capped off a hugely successful trilogy of movies that collectively snagged 28 Oscar nominations and 17 wins in total. But yet… Peter Jackson‘s film series, adapted from the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, is so, so good that, well, it could have won more. That sounds greedy and over the top, of course, but if you take a look at each film’s nominations, it’s actually very feasible that any one of the three films could have turned the bid into a win. So, with that in mind, here are five Oscar nominations that “The Lord of the Rings” films could and perhaps should have turned into victories.
Best Art Direction — “The Fellowship of the Ring...
Best Art Direction — “The Fellowship of the Ring...
- 11/13/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach got away with a lot of bite-the-hand humor towards Mattel in their script for the blockbuster “Barbie” film. But the company still had a lot of questions about the script for their satirical comedy — including one scene where an exec of the company gets shot.
Gerwig and Baumbach spoke about their process writing the script for the “Barbie” film during a Thursday Q&a with “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. At the Q&a, the two spoke about the notes they received during their first submitted draft of the script. One note they received comes in the film’s final act, where the Kens of Barbieland compete in a beach battle. During the chaos, Will Ferrell’s fictional Mattel CEO arrives with his mob of male executives, one of which gets shot with a fake arrow in the fray.
Gerwig and Baumbach spoke about their process writing the script for the “Barbie” film during a Thursday Q&a with “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. At the Q&a, the two spoke about the notes they received during their first submitted draft of the script. One note they received comes in the film’s final act, where the Kens of Barbieland compete in a beach battle. During the chaos, Will Ferrell’s fictional Mattel CEO arrives with his mob of male executives, one of which gets shot with a fake arrow in the fray.
- 11/4/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
“Barbie” screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach recently joined Tony Kushner for a discussion about the record-breaking Warner Bros. blockbuster and revealed one of the first notes Mattel gave them on the script: Please don’t have the Mattel exec stand-in characters be shot.
In the third act of “Barbie,” an all-out beach battle takes place between the warring Ken characters. It’s at this moment that Will Ferrell, playing the fictionalized CEO of Mattel, arrives in Barbieland along with his armada of nameless male Mattel execs. At one point one of these execs gets shot with a fake arrow during the ensuing, bloodless mayhem.
“There was a note when we first turned the script it,” Baumbach told Kusher. “On page 111: ‘Does a Mattel executive have to be shot?’ At the time we were like, that should just be on the ad!’
“But all the notes had a question mark at the end,...
In the third act of “Barbie,” an all-out beach battle takes place between the warring Ken characters. It’s at this moment that Will Ferrell, playing the fictionalized CEO of Mattel, arrives in Barbieland along with his armada of nameless male Mattel execs. At one point one of these execs gets shot with a fake arrow during the ensuing, bloodless mayhem.
“There was a note when we first turned the script it,” Baumbach told Kusher. “On page 111: ‘Does a Mattel executive have to be shot?’ At the time we were like, that should just be on the ad!’
“But all the notes had a question mark at the end,...
- 11/3/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Interstate 20, one of the nation’s major highways, stretches like a constellation across the South, connecting the cities of Columbia, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson, Shreveport, and Dallas-Fort Worth, before ending in a fork with Interstate 10 in West Texas, en route to New Mexico.
On its way through Texas, I-20 cuts straight across a small, sparsely populated square on the map: Mitchell County. On an average day, more than double the number of people who live in Mitchell County (population: 8,943) pass through it on the interstate. Two other thoroughfares — Route 84, which stretches from Georgia to Colorado,...
On its way through Texas, I-20 cuts straight across a small, sparsely populated square on the map: Mitchell County. On an average day, more than double the number of people who live in Mitchell County (population: 8,943) pass through it on the interstate. Two other thoroughfares — Route 84, which stretches from Georgia to Colorado,...
- 9/13/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire feels like a parody of sorts initially. The opening monologue has a lot of profanity, which you wouldn’t usually hear in the kind of war movies that go to the Oscars. Given that it was released directly on VOD, it is understandable that this one wouldn’t have the seriousness or technical brilliance of Jarhead (2005), which was directed by none other than Sam Mendes, or that of any other iconic war movie like Saving Private Ryan (1998).
However, as it moves forward, the movie takes itself seriously and actually makes it a point to tell a story that has merit. The tonal shift is sort of abrupt, but there is plenty of action, and the story is quite easy to grasp. With its arrival, Jarhead 2 has received a new surge in popularity, which is understandable. I wouldn’t call it a good movie, but I...
However, as it moves forward, the movie takes itself seriously and actually makes it a point to tell a story that has merit. The tonal shift is sort of abrupt, but there is plenty of action, and the story is quite easy to grasp. With its arrival, Jarhead 2 has received a new surge in popularity, which is understandable. I wouldn’t call it a good movie, but I...
- 8/21/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is now playing in theaters nationwide, but one if its most emotional scenes might not have made it to the big screen had the filmmaker not held her ground against studio executives. In several interviews before the comedy’s theatrical release, Gerwig revealed that it was suggested she cut out the scene where Barbie (Margot Robbie) meets an elderly woman on a bench and tells her she’s beautiful.
“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I...
“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I...
- 7/21/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Some questions just can’t be asked.
Ben Platt, 29, is catching headlines after his team reportedly shut down a Rolling Stone interview after asking the Tony-award winner about a particularly sensitive topic.
The question journalist Ej Dickson asked the “Pitch Perfect” star was: “You were on the cover of New York Magazine‘s Nepo Baby issue. I’m curious, what was your response to that? And what do you make of that whole discourse?”
Read More: Noah Galvin ‘Proposed Back’ To Ben Platt With A Sapphire Sparkler; They’re Engaged — Again!
And just like that, the interview was allegedly cut short.
For context, Platt and several other celebs, including Lily-Rose Depp and Maude Apatow, were cover stars of New York Magazine‘s December 2022 issue about Hollywood’s “Nepo baby boom.” The cover went viral for portraying the star’s faces edited onto baby’s bodies.
Platt, whose father is a...
Ben Platt, 29, is catching headlines after his team reportedly shut down a Rolling Stone interview after asking the Tony-award winner about a particularly sensitive topic.
The question journalist Ej Dickson asked the “Pitch Perfect” star was: “You were on the cover of New York Magazine‘s Nepo Baby issue. I’m curious, what was your response to that? And what do you make of that whole discourse?”
Read More: Noah Galvin ‘Proposed Back’ To Ben Platt With A Sapphire Sparkler; They’re Engaged — Again!
And just like that, the interview was allegedly cut short.
For context, Platt and several other celebs, including Lily-Rose Depp and Maude Apatow, were cover stars of New York Magazine‘s December 2022 issue about Hollywood’s “Nepo baby boom.” The cover went viral for portraying the star’s faces edited onto baby’s bodies.
Platt, whose father is a...
- 7/15/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
Ben Platt has apparently decided he’s no longer going to speak about his mega-producer father Marc Platt — and the internet is so not here for it.
During the press tour for his new film “Theater Camp,” which Platt cowrote with Molly Gordon (who herself is born to director Bryan Gordon and writer-director Jessie Nelson), a reporter for Rolling Stone asked him about being featured on New York Magazine’s infamous nepo baby cover from December.
“You were on the cover of New York Magazine’s Nepo Baby Issue. I’m curious what was your response to that? And what do you make of that whole discourse?” journalist Ej Dickson asked.
“We’re going to skip right over that if we can,” Platt responded.
“No comment?” Dickson responds.
The feature then indicated that Platt’s publicist intervened, saying, “If we could just focus on ‘Theater Camp,’ that would be great.
During the press tour for his new film “Theater Camp,” which Platt cowrote with Molly Gordon (who herself is born to director Bryan Gordon and writer-director Jessie Nelson), a reporter for Rolling Stone asked him about being featured on New York Magazine’s infamous nepo baby cover from December.
“You were on the cover of New York Magazine’s Nepo Baby Issue. I’m curious what was your response to that? And what do you make of that whole discourse?” journalist Ej Dickson asked.
“We’re going to skip right over that if we can,” Platt responded.
“No comment?” Dickson responds.
The feature then indicated that Platt’s publicist intervened, saying, “If we could just focus on ‘Theater Camp,’ that would be great.
- 7/15/2023
- by Joseph Kapsch
- The Wrap
Sydney Sweeney might be known for her acting, but she’s gotten quite a bit of attention for her style as of late. Her fashion looks range from ballerina-inspired red-carpet looks to her ’90s-inspired outfit at the 2022 MTV movie awards. With each eclectic look, it seems that the Euphoria star is unwilling to be put into a box. Interestingly enough, Sweeney’s fashion decisions run counter to the advice that her stylist, Molly Dickson, initially gave her.
Sydney Sweeney | Rich Polk/Getty Images for MTV Sydney Sweeney wasn’t always interested in fashion
Because of her career, Sweeney is constantly exposed to high fashion. Just last year, The Handmaid’s Tale alum attended her first Met Gala. But in her day-to-day life, she likes to keep things casual. Originally hailing from Spokane, Washington, Sweeney’s style growing up was consistent with her active lifestyle. Now, however, she’s developed more of an appreciation for high fashion.
Sydney Sweeney | Rich Polk/Getty Images for MTV Sydney Sweeney wasn’t always interested in fashion
Because of her career, Sweeney is constantly exposed to high fashion. Just last year, The Handmaid’s Tale alum attended her first Met Gala. But in her day-to-day life, she likes to keep things casual. Originally hailing from Spokane, Washington, Sweeney’s style growing up was consistent with her active lifestyle. Now, however, she’s developed more of an appreciation for high fashion.
- 3/29/2023
- by Abeni Tinubu
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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