Protesters attempted to shame journalists and politicos heading to the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday into skipping the event in solidarity with the many journalists who have lost their lives in Gaza since Israel began its war on the territory.
For some attendees, the protests on the way in may have been the only time they heard about those journalists killed in Gaza — unless they were listening very closely. The slain journalists in Gaza were mentioned one time on stage, according to transcripts of the event, when NBC News...
For some attendees, the protests on the way in may have been the only time they heard about those journalists killed in Gaza — unless they were listening very closely. The slain journalists in Gaza were mentioned one time on stage, according to transcripts of the event, when NBC News...
- 4/28/2024
- by Andrew Perez
- Rollingstone.com
Coleman Hough, who received solo screenplay credit on the quirky Steven Soderbergh-directed improvisational films Full Frontal and Bubble, has died. She was 62.
Hough died Feb. 24 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, her friend Jennifer Romine told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s when she was 42.
Full Frontal (2002), set in Hollywood and a film within a film, shot in 18 days using a consumer-grade digital camera and was the first produced screenplay by playwright and poet Hough.
Featuring Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny and Jeff Garlin as a Harvey Weinstein type, it marked an extreme change of pace for Soderbergh, who was coming off Erin Brockovich (2000), an Oscar win for Traffic (2000) and Ocean’s Eleven (2001).
Hough’s characters are “simultaneously self-absorbed and less introspective than they think they are,” Craig J. Clark...
Hough died Feb. 24 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, her friend Jennifer Romine told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s when she was 42.
Full Frontal (2002), set in Hollywood and a film within a film, shot in 18 days using a consumer-grade digital camera and was the first produced screenplay by playwright and poet Hough.
Featuring Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny and Jeff Garlin as a Harvey Weinstein type, it marked an extreme change of pace for Soderbergh, who was coming off Erin Brockovich (2000), an Oscar win for Traffic (2000) and Ocean’s Eleven (2001).
Hough’s characters are “simultaneously self-absorbed and less introspective than they think they are,” Craig J. Clark...
- 3/12/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ottessa Moshfegh may have been channeling Hitchcock for her screenplay for William Oldroyd’s “Eileen,” but star Marin Ireland turned to a much different filmmaker for creative inspiration on the 1960s-set noir. The film was co-written by Luke Goebel.
Ireland, nominated for Best Supporting Performance for “Eileen” opposite Anne Hathaway, who was also nominated, came by IndieWire’s spot at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards red carpet to talk the 2023 Neon release. In the film, Ireland plays the mother of a teenager who’s been arrested for his father’s murder, and she’s hiding a secret.
“I had read the book years earlier, and I was like, what are we doing? Where did this come from?” Ireland said of her first meeting with Moshfegh. “She told me about this documentary she had watched called ‘Lost for Life’ about teens who were convicted as adults, who were serving life sentences,...
Ireland, nominated for Best Supporting Performance for “Eileen” opposite Anne Hathaway, who was also nominated, came by IndieWire’s spot at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards red carpet to talk the 2023 Neon release. In the film, Ireland plays the mother of a teenager who’s been arrested for his father’s murder, and she’s hiding a secret.
“I had read the book years earlier, and I was like, what are we doing? Where did this come from?” Ireland said of her first meeting with Moshfegh. “She told me about this documentary she had watched called ‘Lost for Life’ about teens who were convicted as adults, who were serving life sentences,...
- 2/25/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio and Vincent Perella
- Indiewire
Meryl Streep has always been vocal about her struggle and fight against s*xism in Hollywood. The actress serves as a champion of women and has played numerous roles in films portraying strong and well-rounded characters.
Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post
The Oscar-winning star advocates gender and pay equality, women’s rights to education and suffrage, and level positions in high posts. In fact, she has talked about her campaigns in many interviews.
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Meryl Streep On Gender Inequality And The Language Of Men And Women
Meryl Streep was joined by Bradley Whitford, Bob Odenkirk, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Ann Hornaday in a discussion about the 2017 film The Post. The actress played former Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, and in the middle of the interview, she talked...
Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post
The Oscar-winning star advocates gender and pay equality, women’s rights to education and suffrage, and level positions in high posts. In fact, she has talked about her campaigns in many interviews.
SUGGESTEDMeryl Streep Nearly Starred in $1.6B Franchise That Revolutionized Feminism in Hollywood, Reportedly Dropped Out to Grieve Death of Boyfriend
Meryl Streep On Gender Inequality And The Language Of Men And Women
Meryl Streep was joined by Bradley Whitford, Bob Odenkirk, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Ann Hornaday in a discussion about the 2017 film The Post. The actress played former Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, and in the middle of the interview, she talked...
- 2/17/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Based on Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women, the third episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, titled Masquerade 1966, is all about friendship. A friendship that is broken and betrayed, but where there remains a desire to mend it even though you know it is doomed already. In the previous two episodes, we have already seen how Truman Capote completely threw his best friendship with Babe Paley under the bus by writing an article on her scandalous marriage, but in this episode, we went back to 1966, when everything was fine between these two. At that time, they were the closest friends who seemed to be very genuine on camera, but no one knew at that point that their union would take a drastic turn.
Spoilers Ahead
What Happened In Masquerade 1966?
Episode 3 is all about a documentary shot by the Maysles brothers, Albert and David, who wanted to make a film on Truman’s life.
Spoilers Ahead
What Happened In Masquerade 1966?
Episode 3 is all about a documentary shot by the Maysles brothers, Albert and David, who wanted to make a film on Truman’s life.
- 2/8/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, “Masquerade 1966.”]
The catalyst for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans‘ third episode is absolutely true.
On Nov. 28, 1966, Truman Capote held the Black and White Ball at New York City’s Plaza Hotel — an event so lavish, boasting a guest list so carefully edited, that The New York Times dubbed it “the best party ever” on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. As for the rest of what was seen during Wednesday night’s “Masquerade 1966,” well… liberties were taken.
A stylistic departure from the rest of the series, the Gus Van Sant-helmed hour is largely presented as a black-and-white documentary of the party and Capote’s (Tom Hollander) weeks of preparations for his big night. At its heart, it’s a flashback episode, with the Swans seen in various states of anxious planning — most of them under the impression that they would be the event’s “guest of honor.
The catalyst for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans‘ third episode is absolutely true.
On Nov. 28, 1966, Truman Capote held the Black and White Ball at New York City’s Plaza Hotel — an event so lavish, boasting a guest list so carefully edited, that The New York Times dubbed it “the best party ever” on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. As for the rest of what was seen during Wednesday night’s “Masquerade 1966,” well… liberties were taken.
A stylistic departure from the rest of the series, the Gus Van Sant-helmed hour is largely presented as a black-and-white documentary of the party and Capote’s (Tom Hollander) weeks of preparations for his big night. At its heart, it’s a flashback episode, with the Swans seen in various states of anxious planning — most of them under the impression that they would be the event’s “guest of honor.
- 2/8/2024
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer have announced that they separated six years ago.
The three-time Oscar winner and her spouse of 45 years shared the news of their separation in a statement from a representative for Streep obtained by People.
“Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart,” it read.
The couple haven’t posed on a red carpet together since the 90th Academy Awards, where Streep was nominated for her role as Katharine Graham in The Post. However, at the Princesa de Asturias Awards in Asturias, Spain, on Friday, the Only Murders in the Building actress was wearing her wedding band in photographs.
Streep and Gummer met shortly after her longtime partner John Cazale died of lung cancer in 1978. They got married in September of that year after six months of...
The three-time Oscar winner and her spouse of 45 years shared the news of their separation in a statement from a representative for Streep obtained by People.
“Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart,” it read.
The couple haven’t posed on a red carpet together since the 90th Academy Awards, where Streep was nominated for her role as Katharine Graham in The Post. However, at the Princesa de Asturias Awards in Asturias, Spain, on Friday, the Only Murders in the Building actress was wearing her wedding band in photographs.
Streep and Gummer met shortly after her longtime partner John Cazale died of lung cancer in 1978. They got married in September of that year after six months of...
- 10/22/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92.
A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.
Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...
A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.
Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...
- 6/14/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
There are all kinds of strict rules regarding interacting with British royal family members. However, one royal expert recently revealed Princess Diana had the best reaction to not being properly greeted.
Sally Bedell Smith recently recalled what happened when her son ‘didn’t properly greet’ Princess Diana Princess Diana in April 1983 | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
Author Sally Bedell Smith is considered an expert on the British monarchy. She has written books such as Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, and Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess.
In a recent To Di for Daily podcast episode, Smith revealed she met Princess Diana in the 1990s on Martha’s Vineyard. Diana was visiting Katharine Graham, The Washington Post’s publisher.
“She was wearing a bikini. And my then-college-aged son — he practically just exploded when he saw her.
Sally Bedell Smith recently recalled what happened when her son ‘didn’t properly greet’ Princess Diana Princess Diana in April 1983 | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
Author Sally Bedell Smith is considered an expert on the British monarchy. She has written books such as Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, and Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess.
In a recent To Di for Daily podcast episode, Smith revealed she met Princess Diana in the 1990s on Martha’s Vineyard. Diana was visiting Katharine Graham, The Washington Post’s publisher.
“She was wearing a bikini. And my then-college-aged son — he practically just exploded when he saw her.
- 4/12/2023
- by India McCarty
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Steven Spielberg's film "The Post" might be considered part of a thematic series that will hereby be dubbed the Current Events Trilogy. In "Munich," "Lincoln," and "The Post," Spielberg took significant moments from the past — Operation Wrath of God, the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the publication of the Pentagon Papers — and used them as clear metaphors for the dark milieu of the present. Judging by their timing, "Munich" is very much a film about the post-9/11 world, "Lincoln" is about the legalization of same-sex marriage, and "The Post" is about the abiding corruption of the Trump administration and the role journalism has in confronting it. They are sophisticated works of a mature filmmaker and might be counted as Spielberg's best.
"The Post," released on December 22, 2017, might even be the first major studio release made in direct response to Trump's inauguration, 11 months before. Spielberg became involved in the project in February,...
"The Post," released on December 22, 2017, might even be the first major studio release made in direct response to Trump's inauguration, 11 months before. Spielberg became involved in the project in February,...
- 12/2/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Paul Bogaards, the storied publicity and marketing exec at Alfred A. Knopf, will step down from his job after a 32-year career with the publishing house.
His departure, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was announced today by Reagan Arthur, EVP, Publisher, at Knopf.
“Paul’s unparalleled impact on scores of best-selling and now-classic books cannot be overstated,” Arthur said in a statement. “His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large.”
Continued Arthur, “Paul has worked his one-of-a-kind magic on several of the biggest books of our time. Even just a partial list of authors is staggering and counts among them Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winners, celebrities, debut novelists, politicians, and chefs.” Among those authors: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, President Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis,...
His departure, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was announced today by Reagan Arthur, EVP, Publisher, at Knopf.
“Paul’s unparalleled impact on scores of best-selling and now-classic books cannot be overstated,” Arthur said in a statement. “His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large.”
Continued Arthur, “Paul has worked his one-of-a-kind magic on several of the biggest books of our time. Even just a partial list of authors is staggering and counts among them Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winners, celebrities, debut novelists, politicians, and chefs.” Among those authors: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, President Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis,...
- 11/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
While Meryl Streep has been nominated a record number of times at the Oscars, she’s only won three times with bids #2, #4 and #17. That track record mean she has had to endure a staggering amount of losses at the Academy Awards. Surely, Streep was deserving of at least one other win from among these. After reviewing the roster of her thwarted bids for Oscar glory, be sure to vote in our poll as to which of these was the most egregious loss.
Streep lost her first Best Supporting Actress race for “The Deer Hunter” (1978) to Maggie Smith (“California Suite”; her third, for “Adaptation” (2002) to Catherine Zeta-Jones (“Chicago”); and her fourth (and most recent) for “Into the Woods” (2015) to Patricia Arquette (“Boyhood”).
Streep lost the first of her Best Actress bids back in 1981 to Katharine Hepburn. She was up for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” but Hepburn won her record fourth Best...
Streep lost her first Best Supporting Actress race for “The Deer Hunter” (1978) to Maggie Smith (“California Suite”; her third, for “Adaptation” (2002) to Catherine Zeta-Jones (“Chicago”); and her fourth (and most recent) for “Into the Woods” (2015) to Patricia Arquette (“Boyhood”).
Streep lost the first of her Best Actress bids back in 1981 to Katharine Hepburn. She was up for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” but Hepburn won her record fourth Best...
- 9/4/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Costume designer Ann Roth has collaborated with actress Meryl Streep for four decades on films such as “Silkwood,” “Heartburn,” “The Post” and “Julie & Julia,” creating wardrobes that have helped the actor navigate a wide range of roles.
While Streep has been nominated for Academy Awards five times in their 13 films together, Roth notes that the costumes the actor wears do not wear her; it’s the other way around. “I’m just there to help her find the character,” she explains.
Here, Roth reflects on some of those costumes and how they came to be designed.
Silkwood
This was the film that began the pair’s partnership. The movie called for Streep, who stars as whistleblower Karen Silkwood, the real-life nuclear factory worker who witnesses unsafe practices at the plant, to wear denim jackets and cowboy boots with T-shirts — when she wasn’t in her hazmat suit at the factory.
While Streep has been nominated for Academy Awards five times in their 13 films together, Roth notes that the costumes the actor wears do not wear her; it’s the other way around. “I’m just there to help her find the character,” she explains.
Here, Roth reflects on some of those costumes and how they came to be designed.
Silkwood
This was the film that began the pair’s partnership. The movie called for Streep, who stars as whistleblower Karen Silkwood, the real-life nuclear factory worker who witnesses unsafe practices at the plant, to wear denim jackets and cowboy boots with T-shirts — when she wasn’t in her hazmat suit at the factory.
- 6/18/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Hollywood has been rewarding portrayals of real people ever since George Arliss won the best actor Oscar for 1929’s “Disraeli,” but lately, it has been handing out the statuettes like swag bags.
In the 18 years since the clock struck 2000, 18 actors and actresses have won Oscars for portraying real people. In the preceding seven decades, the Academy Awards for lead performances in biographical films went to a total of just 25 actors — 17 men and eight women. The math underscores the contrast: 50 percent of Academy Awards for leading roles in this century have gone to actors for biographical portrayals compared to just 17 percent in all of the last one.
The gender gap has closed dramatically, too, with 10 wins for men and eight for women, with solid opportunities for more this year. Certainly, there will be many nominees, as many as four on the Best Actor ballot and three among women.
The Screen Actors...
In the 18 years since the clock struck 2000, 18 actors and actresses have won Oscars for portraying real people. In the preceding seven decades, the Academy Awards for lead performances in biographical films went to a total of just 25 actors — 17 men and eight women. The math underscores the contrast: 50 percent of Academy Awards for leading roles in this century have gone to actors for biographical portrayals compared to just 17 percent in all of the last one.
The gender gap has closed dramatically, too, with 10 wins for men and eight for women, with solid opportunities for more this year. Certainly, there will be many nominees, as many as four on the Best Actor ballot and three among women.
The Screen Actors...
- 12/26/2018
- by Jack Mathews
- Gold Derby
Meryl Streep is head-over-heels for ‘A Star Is Born’ — as well as her latest, ‘Mary Poppins Returns’
Oscar’s favorite actress, Meryl Streep, reconnected to her Jersey roots this past weekend while chatting with Stephen Colbert onstage during the Montclair Film Festival. And it sounds as if she might have given a sneak preview of some of the titles that might make the cut on her Academy Award ballot, which are due on Feb.19 next year.
According to accounts of the event, Streep, who collected her 21st nomination earlier this year as newspaper publisher Katharine Graham in “The Post,” gave shout-outs to “A Star Is Born,” Chloe Zao’s “The Rider,” Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” and the Laurel and Hardy biopic, “Stan & Ollie.”
While reminiscing about her early career onstage at the fundraiser held at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Streep mentioned she never thought she would be a movie star because “my nose was too big.” That was the perfect opening for...
According to accounts of the event, Streep, who collected her 21st nomination earlier this year as newspaper publisher Katharine Graham in “The Post,” gave shout-outs to “A Star Is Born,” Chloe Zao’s “The Rider,” Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” and the Laurel and Hardy biopic, “Stan & Ollie.”
While reminiscing about her early career onstage at the fundraiser held at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Streep mentioned she never thought she would be a movie star because “my nose was too big.” That was the perfect opening for...
- 12/3/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the role of Anita in 1961’s West Side Story, Egot winner Rita Moreno will return to the next big-screen adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim lyric musical that Oscar winner Steven Spielberg is directing. In addition, Moreno will also be an executive producer of the film.
In the new West Side Story, Moreno will be playing Valentina, a reconceived and expanded version of the character of Doc, the owner of the corner store in which Tony works. Filming for West Side Story is set to begin in the summer of 2019.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” says Moreno. “And to be asked by Steven Spielberg to participate is simply thrilling! Then to work together with the brilliant playwright, Tony Kushner – what a glorious stew! I am tingling!”
In the original movie,...
In the new West Side Story, Moreno will be playing Valentina, a reconceived and expanded version of the character of Doc, the owner of the corner store in which Tony works. Filming for West Side Story is set to begin in the summer of 2019.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” says Moreno. “And to be asked by Steven Spielberg to participate is simply thrilling! Then to work together with the brilliant playwright, Tony Kushner – what a glorious stew! I am tingling!”
In the original movie,...
- 11/27/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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