Michael Keaton, born as Michael John Douglas on September 5, 1951, is an American actor well known for his versatile and compelling performances on both the big and small screens. With a career spanning more than four decades, Keaton has portrayed a variety of characters that have made a lasting impression on audiences worldwide. From his early comedic roles to his more recent dramatic turns, he has proven time and time again that he is a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment industry.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Michael Keaton’s life, career, and the iconic characters he has brought to life. We’ll also examine his acting style and techniques, his various awards and accolades, and the impact he has had on the film industry as a whole. By the end, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the man behind the masks of...
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Michael Keaton’s life, career, and the iconic characters he has brought to life. We’ll also examine his acting style and techniques, his various awards and accolades, and the impact he has had on the film industry as a whole. By the end, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the man behind the masks of...
- 4/26/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
In the new Hulu docuseries “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” the actress — who began modeling at 11 months and at age 12 and starred as a child prostitute in Louis Malle’s controversial film “Pretty Baby” — looks back on the pressures and insanity of being a worldwide sex symbol at such a young age.
Lana Wilson directed the two-part series, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival and will debut on Hulu on April 3. The film marks the debut project from BedBy8, the newly formed production company by Ali Wentworth, George Stephanopoulos and partner Alyssa Mastromonaco.
The trailer starts with a clip in which talk show host Mike Douglas makes the teenager visibly uncomfortable as he tells her, “You really are an exquisite-looking young lady.”
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Shields then says in voiceover, “The entirety of my life, it was, ‘She’s a pretty face.
Lana Wilson directed the two-part series, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival and will debut on Hulu on April 3. The film marks the debut project from BedBy8, the newly formed production company by Ali Wentworth, George Stephanopoulos and partner Alyssa Mastromonaco.
The trailer starts with a clip in which talk show host Mike Douglas makes the teenager visibly uncomfortable as he tells her, “You really are an exquisite-looking young lady.”
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Brooke Shields Calls Teenage Barbara Walters Interview ‘Practically Criminal’
Shields then says in voiceover, “The entirety of my life, it was, ‘She’s a pretty face.
- 3/21/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Georgia Holt, best known as Cher’s mother but an actress, model, and singer in her own right, has died. Cher confirmed the death on social media. Holt was 96 and no details on her death were given, although it was previously revealed she was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this year.
Cher said she had been “very careful” to avoid exposing her elderly mother to any potential illnesses during the pandemic.
“We have a little bubble that we’ve had all this time,” she said. “We wear masks, and there’s not very many of us. It’s my sister, my brother-in-law, my mom, my assistant. And we stay far apart from each other.”
She added: “I have to be careful too because I have asthma. … I have different health problems.”
Holt was born in Arkansas in 1926. She moved to Los Angeles and had roles in such shows as “I Love Lucy...
Cher said she had been “very careful” to avoid exposing her elderly mother to any potential illnesses during the pandemic.
“We have a little bubble that we’ve had all this time,” she said. “We wear masks, and there’s not very many of us. It’s my sister, my brother-in-law, my mom, my assistant. And we stay far apart from each other.”
She added: “I have to be careful too because I have asthma. … I have different health problems.”
Holt was born in Arkansas in 1926. She moved to Los Angeles and had roles in such shows as “I Love Lucy...
- 12/11/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Sacha Jenkins does the most important thing he could do in “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”: He lets Louis Armstrong be messy.
Armstrong is one of those legends about whom people have had strong, polarized opinions. He’s either the greatest artist of the 20th century, in the esteem of Robert Christgau or Wynton Marsalis. Or he’s an Uncle Tom, someone who sold out and pandered to white audiences, as Sammy Davis Jr. once thought. And of course there’s the third path of corporate America, to sand the edges of someone like Armstrong down until he’s a cuddly teddy bear whose “What a Wonderful World” stands ready to accompany any commercial.
Jenkins’ new documentary for Apple TV+ avoids those absolutes. He’s interested in the man who was Armstrong, and that means a more complete, nuanced picture — a portrait of a human not so easy to categorize.
Armstrong is one of those legends about whom people have had strong, polarized opinions. He’s either the greatest artist of the 20th century, in the esteem of Robert Christgau or Wynton Marsalis. Or he’s an Uncle Tom, someone who sold out and pandered to white audiences, as Sammy Davis Jr. once thought. And of course there’s the third path of corporate America, to sand the edges of someone like Armstrong down until he’s a cuddly teddy bear whose “What a Wonderful World” stands ready to accompany any commercial.
Jenkins’ new documentary for Apple TV+ avoids those absolutes. He’s interested in the man who was Armstrong, and that means a more complete, nuanced picture — a portrait of a human not so easy to categorize.
- 9/9/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
George Carlin’s American Dream presents George Carlin as standup comedy’s greatest wordsmith. Seven of these words made him infamous and earned him a place in legal history. Directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio’s two-part documentary highlights how Carlin’s brain-droppings started conversations which carry on today.
The “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” bit defines Carlin in ways which go beyond comedy routines. The documentary shows how language, subterfuge, and identity are chosen, carefully selected to create a body of work which defies classification. Carlin had an elastic face and a knack for funny noises, but words are at the bottom of it all. When Carlin was a young comedian, he couldn’t embrace the counterculture commentator lurking beneath the surface on television. The documentary points out how he had to use code words. The Hippy Dippy Weatherman didn’t only forecast darkness at night,...
The “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” bit defines Carlin in ways which go beyond comedy routines. The documentary shows how language, subterfuge, and identity are chosen, carefully selected to create a body of work which defies classification. Carlin had an elastic face and a knack for funny noises, but words are at the bottom of it all. When Carlin was a young comedian, he couldn’t embrace the counterculture commentator lurking beneath the surface on television. The documentary points out how he had to use code words. The Hippy Dippy Weatherman didn’t only forecast darkness at night,...
- 5/18/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Mort Sahl, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, CA. He was 94.
A friend confirmed his death to The New York Times.
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Known for his topical social commentary, he boldly skewered politicians and others in a harsh but clean stand-up act. He hosted the first Grammy Awards in 1959, co-hosted the 1959 Academy Awards and a year later became the first comedian featured to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. He also guest-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson multiple times during the 1960s.
Born on May 11, 1927, in Montreal, Sahl’s family moved to Los Angeles when he was a child. After a stint in the Air Force, he graduated from USC in 1950. By the mid-’50s he was doing stand-up,...
A friend confirmed his death to The New York Times.
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Known for his topical social commentary, he boldly skewered politicians and others in a harsh but clean stand-up act. He hosted the first Grammy Awards in 1959, co-hosted the 1959 Academy Awards and a year later became the first comedian featured to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. He also guest-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson multiple times during the 1960s.
Born on May 11, 1927, in Montreal, Sahl’s family moved to Los Angeles when he was a child. After a stint in the Air Force, he graduated from USC in 1950. By the mid-’50s he was doing stand-up,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Erik Pedersen and Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Less than two weeks after the Rolling Stones arrived in America for the first time back in June 1964, they headed to The Mike Douglas Show to perform their cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” This was the pinnacle of Beatlemania, and the segment features predictable interview questions (“Do you know the Beatles, gentlemen?”), but it begins with Douglas shaking hands with each member of the band and asking for their names.
As always, Charlie Watts is the most impeccably dressed member of the band, since none of the...
As always, Charlie Watts is the most impeccably dressed member of the band, since none of the...
- 8/26/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob White was just starting to settle in to a quiet night with his family at his Nottingham, England home last Friday when his cell phone dinged. And dinged again. And again.
The affable, 77-year-old retiree was enjoying a cup of coffee and was barely used to two alerts in one night. But now, his phone started blowing up incessantly and he had no idea why. “My daughter said to me, ‘What’s that noise?’ I went to pick up [my phone], and it was just going ping, ping, ping, ping, ping,...
The affable, 77-year-old retiree was enjoying a cup of coffee and was barely used to two alerts in one night. But now, his phone started blowing up incessantly and he had no idea why. “My daughter said to me, ‘What’s that noise?’ I went to pick up [my phone], and it was just going ping, ping, ping, ping, ping,...
- 2/1/2021
- by Jason Newman
- Rollingstone.com
(Updated with Fox News & Ed Henry attorney statements on lawsuit) Tucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a short vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of alleged misconduct at the now Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace-run outlet.
“It is widely documented in the public record that Fox News has not only cultivated and fostered sexual harassment and misconduct, but has consistently accepted and rewarded it,” says a sex trafficking, sexual harassment, gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit from former Fox Business Network associate producer Jennifer Eckhart and former Fnc guest Cathy Areu filed today against the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet, its former reporter and some of its biggest and loudest primetime hosts.
“Nevertheless, Fox News would have the public believe that...
“It is widely documented in the public record that Fox News has not only cultivated and fostered sexual harassment and misconduct, but has consistently accepted and rewarded it,” says a sex trafficking, sexual harassment, gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit from former Fox Business Network associate producer Jennifer Eckhart and former Fnc guest Cathy Areu filed today against the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet, its former reporter and some of its biggest and loudest primetime hosts.
“Nevertheless, Fox News would have the public believe that...
- 7/20/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Kelly Clarkson built her career by blending country, pop, R&b and rock influences into a soulful sound all her own. As it turns out, the singer-songwriter has a touch of Dinah Shore in her as well.
Clarkson has delivered an impressive performance so far with her move into the daytime talk-show arena as host of “The Kelly Clarkson Show.” Since its September debut, the hourlong talk-variety show, distributed by NBCUniversal, has proven to be a ratings contender, ranking No. 4 among all syndicated daytime talkers, ahead of such veterans as “Maury,” “Rachael Ray” and “The Wendy Williams Show.”
The “American Idol” alum’s strong start is adding more fuel to the renewed fire in the first-run syndication business. After a few fallow years, distributors are slowly but surely taking bigger swings with boldface names in an effort to seed a new generation of personalities. Drew Barrymore and Nick Cannon are...
Clarkson has delivered an impressive performance so far with her move into the daytime talk-show arena as host of “The Kelly Clarkson Show.” Since its September debut, the hourlong talk-variety show, distributed by NBCUniversal, has proven to be a ratings contender, ranking No. 4 among all syndicated daytime talkers, ahead of such veterans as “Maury,” “Rachael Ray” and “The Wendy Williams Show.”
The “American Idol” alum’s strong start is adding more fuel to the renewed fire in the first-run syndication business. After a few fallow years, distributors are slowly but surely taking bigger swings with boldface names in an effort to seed a new generation of personalities. Drew Barrymore and Nick Cannon are...
- 11/27/2019
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
1986: Another World's Zane Lindquist died after being shot.
1998: Guiding Light's Dolly the clone after taking an aging formula.
1999: Sunset Beach's Ricardo vowed to get revenge.
2010: General Hospital's Brenda returned."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1967: ABC broadcast Dark Shadows in black and while for the final time. The episode was actually the first one taped in color but ABC aired it in black and white (a Friday episode). Having fainted at the sight of Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) began...
1998: Guiding Light's Dolly the clone after taking an aging formula.
1999: Sunset Beach's Ricardo vowed to get revenge.
2010: General Hospital's Brenda returned."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1967: ABC broadcast Dark Shadows in black and while for the final time. The episode was actually the first one taped in color but ABC aired it in black and white (a Friday episode). Having fainted at the sight of Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) began...
- 8/10/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
The journey of new daytime talk show Tamron Hall went through a lot before landing at ABC and as the titular host revealed at TCA, the show started with Harvey Weinstein and then came after her much-buzzed-about departure from Today where she was ousted and Megyn Kelly took over with a segment that eventually sank. Despite the obstacles, Hall came out on top with her new show and is very open about her exit.
Hall pointed out that she never measured herself by the success or failure of Kelly. “I already knew [NBC] made the wrong choice when I walked out the door,” she said. “It gave me the opportunity to meet these two people. I knew I was making the right decision.”
The two people she was referring to was Tamron Hall executive prodcuer Bill Geddie, who co-created The View and Talia Parkinson-Jones,...
Hall pointed out that she never measured herself by the success or failure of Kelly. “I already knew [NBC] made the wrong choice when I walked out the door,” she said. “It gave me the opportunity to meet these two people. I knew I was making the right decision.”
The two people she was referring to was Tamron Hall executive prodcuer Bill Geddie, who co-created The View and Talia Parkinson-Jones,...
- 8/5/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
One of Fox News Channel founder Roger Ailes’ obsession was ratings, and the former Mike Douglas Show producer would have cackled at how quiet the debut of Showtime’s Russell Crowe starring The Loudest Voice was.
With just 299,000 viewers for its 10 Pm opener on the CBS-owned premium cabler, the Gladiator actor and Naomi Watts, Seth McFarlane and Sienna Miller co-starrer looks to be one of the lowest non-broadcast debuts of the year so far. While the decades of antics and much alleged sexually harassing behavior of ex-Richard Nixon advisor Ailes was the subject of a forest full of coverage (including here on the digital only Deadline) especially once Gretchen Carlson sued her ex-boss in 2016, the initial numbers make it pretty clear there wasn’t much of a market for more outside of the media itself
Based on Gabriel Sherman’s 2014 bestseller The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant,...
With just 299,000 viewers for its 10 Pm opener on the CBS-owned premium cabler, the Gladiator actor and Naomi Watts, Seth McFarlane and Sienna Miller co-starrer looks to be one of the lowest non-broadcast debuts of the year so far. While the decades of antics and much alleged sexually harassing behavior of ex-Richard Nixon advisor Ailes was the subject of a forest full of coverage (including here on the digital only Deadline) especially once Gretchen Carlson sued her ex-boss in 2016, the initial numbers make it pretty clear there wasn’t much of a market for more outside of the media itself
Based on Gabriel Sherman’s 2014 bestseller The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant,...
- 7/2/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice & HBO’s Years And Years. The former premieres on June 30 & the latter debuts tonight.
The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO in less than an hour and the premiere of Showtime’s Roger Ailes bioseries The Loudest Voice on June 30.
Near certain to be prime contenders in the Limited Series category next year, the often excellent Emma Thompson-led British dystopian family drama and the often engrossing Russell Crowe-fronted offering will see Rupert Murdoch as the real winner no matter who takes home the winged trophy at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
In unintentional flattery to the ruthless media mogul, both the partially Tom McCarthy-penned Loudest Voice and the Russell T. Davies-created and -written Years and Years...
The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO in less than an hour and the premiere of Showtime’s Roger Ailes bioseries The Loudest Voice on June 30.
Near certain to be prime contenders in the Limited Series category next year, the often excellent Emma Thompson-led British dystopian family drama and the often engrossing Russell Crowe-fronted offering will see Rupert Murdoch as the real winner no matter who takes home the winged trophy at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
In unintentional flattery to the ruthless media mogul, both the partially Tom McCarthy-penned Loudest Voice and the Russell T. Davies-created and -written Years and Years...
- 6/25/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Would you like to blame Bill Gates for Roger Ailes creating Fox News? You could harbor that grudge if you so desired after watching Alexis Bloom’s bracing biopic documentary “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes,” because it’s one of the fascinating tidbits of speculative psychology in the grand narrative of a dark-hearted, power-thirsty mogul’s stranglehold on our divisive political discourse.
It seems that in the mid-90s, flush from his many years helping Republican candidates like Mitch McConnell get elected, Ailes was content to be a talk-show magnate, running his brainchild America’s Talking, a CNBC spinoff network that was the first real attempt to launch an all-chat-show channel with a wide audience reach.
But when NBC partnered with Bill Gates to start MSNBC, they gave the software billionaire the transponder used for America’s Talking, effectively ending Ailes’ baby. Steamed and spiteful, according to the documentary,...
It seems that in the mid-90s, flush from his many years helping Republican candidates like Mitch McConnell get elected, Ailes was content to be a talk-show magnate, running his brainchild America’s Talking, a CNBC spinoff network that was the first real attempt to launch an all-chat-show channel with a wide audience reach.
But when NBC partnered with Bill Gates to start MSNBC, they gave the software billionaire the transponder used for America’s Talking, effectively ending Ailes’ baby. Steamed and spiteful, according to the documentary,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
1986: Another World's Zane Lindquist died after being shot.
1998: Guiding Light's Dolly the clone after taking an aging formula.
1999: Sunset Beach's Ricardo vowed to get revenge.
2010: General Hospital's Brenda returned."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1967: ABC broadcast Dark Shadows in black and while for the final time. The episode was actually the first one taped in color but ABC aired it in black and white (a Friday episode). Having fainted at the sight of Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) began to remember what happened to her. Before she could reveal Barnabas' vampiric activity,...
1998: Guiding Light's Dolly the clone after taking an aging formula.
1999: Sunset Beach's Ricardo vowed to get revenge.
2010: General Hospital's Brenda returned."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1967: ABC broadcast Dark Shadows in black and while for the final time. The episode was actually the first one taped in color but ABC aired it in black and white (a Friday episode). Having fainted at the sight of Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) began to remember what happened to her. Before she could reveal Barnabas' vampiric activity,...
- 8/11/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Once Upon a Time, Riverdale, Will & Grace and Grey’s Anatomy!
1 | Did Once Upon a Time‘s Wish Hook seem more distinct a Killian Jones than ever once he was teamed with Zelena — to great comedic effect — in the other realm? (Speaking of which, are there “Zook” ‘shippers?)
2 | Given what we now know about when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Yo-Yo suffered her double amputation, did you go back...
1 | Did Once Upon a Time‘s Wish Hook seem more distinct a Killian Jones than ever once he was teamed with Zelena — to great comedic effect — in the other realm? (Speaking of which, are there “Zook” ‘shippers?)
2 | Given what we now know about when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Yo-Yo suffered her double amputation, did you go back...
- 3/9/2018
- TVLine.com
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