Donald Trump is not only the 45th President of America, but he’s also throwing his hat into the ring once again to try and become the 47th President of the U.S.
A very polarizing political figure, in addition to being the leader of the free world, he also has real-estate mogul to his resume, as well as actor, appearing in many movies over the years.
But, why has he had so many cameos in the past? During a Hollywood Reporter interview, actor Matt Damon stated that Trump had a special requirement for filmmakers who wanted to use any of his properties in their films, and that was apparently to give him a small movie role in the flick.
Most of these movie appearances have caught fans completely off guard. Below is the top “unexpected” movie cameos Donald Trump has made.
Studio 54
Studio 54 was the biggest and hottest...
A very polarizing political figure, in addition to being the leader of the free world, he also has real-estate mogul to his resume, as well as actor, appearing in many movies over the years.
But, why has he had so many cameos in the past? During a Hollywood Reporter interview, actor Matt Damon stated that Trump had a special requirement for filmmakers who wanted to use any of his properties in their films, and that was apparently to give him a small movie role in the flick.
Most of these movie appearances have caught fans completely off guard. Below is the top “unexpected” movie cameos Donald Trump has made.
Studio 54
Studio 54 was the biggest and hottest...
- 4/5/2024
- by Dorathy Gass
- Celebrating The Soaps
Mayor Eric Adams (D-New York) has expressed his desire to end the city’s sanctuary city policy and suggests that migrants “suspected” of major crimes should be handed over to federal immigration officials.
This proposal represents a potential shift in New York’s approach to protecting undocumented individuals.
In a press conference at City Hall, Adams stated, “I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who I believe subscribe to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable.”
Adams emphasized the need to return to the standards set by previous mayors, such as Ed Koch and Michael Bloomberg, who allowed police to detain those arrested and charged for longer periods, which enabled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue detainers.
However, the current rules established under former Mayor Bill de Blasio provide a level of...
This proposal represents a potential shift in New York’s approach to protecting undocumented individuals.
In a press conference at City Hall, Adams stated, “I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who I believe subscribe to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable.”
Adams emphasized the need to return to the standards set by previous mayors, such as Ed Koch and Michael Bloomberg, who allowed police to detain those arrested and charged for longer periods, which enabled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue detainers.
However, the current rules established under former Mayor Bill de Blasio provide a level of...
- 3/1/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
The latest episode of "Futurama," the season 11 finale entitled "All The Way Down," covers a lot of territory. Professor Farnsworth (Billy West) devises a new machine called the Simputron, which is able to render a full-scale simulation of the known world. Only, because he hasn't tapped a reliable power source for the process, the simulated universe is at first rendered in 8-bit.
The main action of the episode spirals into Nolanesque territory, pondering the dread-filled existential quandary of whether by now it's pretty much certain we're living in a simulation and, if so, whether that even matters. The Planet Express crew decide to send Bender (John Dimaggio) down into the body of simulation Bender, "Inception" style, and reason with them not to blow up a magnetar and thus glitch out the coding of their "universe," thereby revealing the man behind the curtain, so to speak. The episode ends with a powerful moment of pathos,...
The main action of the episode spirals into Nolanesque territory, pondering the dread-filled existential quandary of whether by now it's pretty much certain we're living in a simulation and, if so, whether that even matters. The Planet Express crew decide to send Bender (John Dimaggio) down into the body of simulation Bender, "Inception" style, and reason with them not to blow up a magnetar and thus glitch out the coding of their "universe," thereby revealing the man behind the curtain, so to speak. The episode ends with a powerful moment of pathos,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slash Film
In 1995, brothers Albert and Allen Hughes followed their electrifying directorial debut “Menace II Society” with “Dead Presidents,” an ambitious crime film set in 1970s New York filled with specific political references to illustrate the shameful treatment of Black veterans returning to the U.S. after the Vietnam War. Albert returns to that era as the director of the first and final episodes of Peacock’s “The Continental: From the World of John Wick,” a three-part prequel to the “John Wick” universe set in the titular hotel during the 1970s in New York City. The episodes exhibit Hughes’ usual strengths, from a balletic interaction between blocking, music, and camera movement to a bold, expressive color palette, but “The Continental” is a vastly different take on ’70s NYC than what Hughes learned on “Dead Presidents” — and that’s just the way Hughes likes it.
“The wonderful thing about the ‘John Wick’ films...
“The wonderful thing about the ‘John Wick’ films...
- 9/22/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
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Hip-hop has transformed music, and the world at large, since it was conceived 50 years ago. In a relatively short time, it's made a massive impact on every aspect of pop culture - and fortunately, there are a lot of great documentaries that chronicle the unforgettable, twists, turns, and triumphs that made hip-hop what it is today.
Many of these documentaries offer fascinating insights into hip-hop's exponential growth, such as 1995's "The Show" and 2016's "Hip-Hop Evolution," which both examine exactly how the genre became a worldwide, multibillion-dollar industry. Some of them also focus on individual artists, like 2003's "Tupac: Resurrection," a documentary narrated entirely by Tupac Shakur himself. Others focus on specific music scenes, like Ava DuVernay's "This Is the Life," which centers Los Angeles's alternative rap scene in the 1990s, while others delve into the technical aspects of hip-hop and rap, like Ice-t's...
Hip-hop has transformed music, and the world at large, since it was conceived 50 years ago. In a relatively short time, it's made a massive impact on every aspect of pop culture - and fortunately, there are a lot of great documentaries that chronicle the unforgettable, twists, turns, and triumphs that made hip-hop what it is today.
Many of these documentaries offer fascinating insights into hip-hop's exponential growth, such as 1995's "The Show" and 2016's "Hip-Hop Evolution," which both examine exactly how the genre became a worldwide, multibillion-dollar industry. Some of them also focus on individual artists, like 2003's "Tupac: Resurrection," a documentary narrated entirely by Tupac Shakur himself. Others focus on specific music scenes, like Ava DuVernay's "This Is the Life," which centers Los Angeles's alternative rap scene in the 1990s, while others delve into the technical aspects of hip-hop and rap, like Ice-t's...
- 8/12/2023
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
Dolly Parton was ecstatic for her senior year of high school. She hated school and couldn’t wait to graduate so she could move on with her life and start chasing her dream of becoming a star. In addition to graduating, Parton’s final year of high school also included a senior trip she was looking forward to. She and her classmates boarded a bus headed for New York. The city dazzled the “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” singer and welcomed her with a premonition.
Dolly Parton graduated in 1964
1964 was a good year for Parton. It was the year she graduated high school. She was excited the moment the clock struck midnight on January 1.
“I remember New Year’s Eve 1964,” Parton wrote in her 1994 memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. “I was so excited that I waited up to welcome not only the New Year but the sunrise as well.
Dolly Parton graduated in 1964
1964 was a good year for Parton. It was the year she graduated high school. She was excited the moment the clock struck midnight on January 1.
“I remember New Year’s Eve 1964,” Parton wrote in her 1994 memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. “I was so excited that I waited up to welcome not only the New Year but the sunrise as well.
- 7/7/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The People's Court has been cancelled, for the second time. The current incarnation of the daytime courtroom series will end with its current 26th season.
Debuting in first-run syndication in 1981, The People's Court was the first court show to use binding arbitration. It was presided over by former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Wapner. With the help of Rusty Burrell as his bailiff, Wapner's show ran for 12 seasons and 2,484 half-hour episodes.
The series was revived four years later, in 1997, with former lawyer and Mayor of New York Ed Koch as arbiter. After two years, he was succeeded by former New York State Supreme Court Judge Jerry Sheindlin (husband of Judge Judy).
Sheindlin lasted less than two seasons before being replaced by retired Florida Circuit Court Judge Marilyn Milian in 2001. Milian has...
Debuting in first-run syndication in 1981, The People's Court was the first court show to use binding arbitration. It was presided over by former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Wapner. With the help of Rusty Burrell as his bailiff, Wapner's show ran for 12 seasons and 2,484 half-hour episodes.
The series was revived four years later, in 1997, with former lawyer and Mayor of New York Ed Koch as arbiter. After two years, he was succeeded by former New York State Supreme Court Judge Jerry Sheindlin (husband of Judge Judy).
Sheindlin lasted less than two seasons before being replaced by retired Florida Circuit Court Judge Marilyn Milian in 2001. Milian has...
- 2/19/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Daytime TV is getting another major shake-up, which is a shocker.
Veteran syndication staples Judge Mathis and The People's Court have both been canceled.
The news will not be welcomed by fans, mainly because the shows will end fairly soon.
Variety first reported the news while revealing that the cancellations are "due to the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape."
TV ratings across the board are shrinking, thanks partly to the increased presence of streaming services.
Viewers are watching TV on their terms.
Warner Bros. Unscripted Television made both shows in association with Telepictures Productions.
The People's Court (in its current iteration) with Judge Marilyn Milian at the helm has aired since 2001.
Ed Koch served as the judge beginning in 1997, succeeded by Jerry Sheindlin.
The series previously aired with judge Joseph Wapner from 1981 to 1993.
Judge Mathis has been on the air since 1999, and with the cancellation, Greg Mathis will...
Veteran syndication staples Judge Mathis and The People's Court have both been canceled.
The news will not be welcomed by fans, mainly because the shows will end fairly soon.
Variety first reported the news while revealing that the cancellations are "due to the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape."
TV ratings across the board are shrinking, thanks partly to the increased presence of streaming services.
Viewers are watching TV on their terms.
Warner Bros. Unscripted Television made both shows in association with Telepictures Productions.
The People's Court (in its current iteration) with Judge Marilyn Milian at the helm has aired since 2001.
Ed Koch served as the judge beginning in 1997, succeeded by Jerry Sheindlin.
The series previously aired with judge Joseph Wapner from 1981 to 1993.
Judge Mathis has been on the air since 1999, and with the cancellation, Greg Mathis will...
- 2/18/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Court is adjourned: Daytime courtroom shows The People’s Court and Judge Mathis have both been cancelled after more than two decades on the air each, according to our sister site Variety.
The decision came down on Friday from producers Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Telepictures Productions, who cited “the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape” in making their decision, per Variety.
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The decision came down on Friday from producers Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Telepictures Productions, who cited “the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape” in making their decision, per Variety.
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- 2/18/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
The verdict is in: Syndicated court staples “Judge Mathis” and “The People’s Court” will both end their run at the end of this season, Variety has confirmed. “Judge Mathis” will wrap after 24 seasons, while this most recent iteration of “The People’s Court” wraps after its 26th season. Season 24 and Season 26, respectively.
Both shows come from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Telepictures Productions and are distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. According to insiders, the decision was made due to the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape. As local TV stations shrink their syndication dollars and the advertising marketplace shrinks for daytime syndication, first-run syndication has become a trickier landscape. At the same time, station groups have been expanding their local news broadcasts, also in a bid to save money.
“Judge Mathis” also comes from And Syndicated Productions, while “The People’s Court” is a Ralph Edwards/Stu Billett Production.
Both shows come from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Telepictures Productions and are distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. According to insiders, the decision was made due to the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape. As local TV stations shrink their syndication dollars and the advertising marketplace shrinks for daytime syndication, first-run syndication has become a trickier landscape. At the same time, station groups have been expanding their local news broadcasts, also in a bid to save money.
“Judge Mathis” also comes from And Syndicated Productions, while “The People’s Court” is a Ralph Edwards/Stu Billett Production.
- 2/18/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Drag queen Alyssa Edwards is back in “Alyssa’s Secret — The Reboot.”
The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5 contestant’s return is part of World of Wonder’s 2023 slate of original content for their SVOD service, Wow Presents Plus.
“Alyssa’s Secret,” which first began airing 10 years ago on the Wow Presents YouTube channel, is returning to Wow Presents Plus after four years. Since its inception, the series has been a fan-favorite as the charm of Season 5 breakout Alyssa Edwards has captivated viewers. With “Alyssa’s Secret – The Reboot,” Alyssa will be spilling tea and popping tongues alongside a sparkling lineup of guests in a fresh take on the original series. “Alyssa’s Secret – The Reboot” premieres exclusively on Wow Presents Plus on April 26.
Additional titles include brand-new originals and new seasons of beloved series.
Originals include “Click Boys,” a revealing docuseries exposing the real-life triumphs and struggles of today’s biggest Lgbtqia OnlyFans entertainers,...
The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5 contestant’s return is part of World of Wonder’s 2023 slate of original content for their SVOD service, Wow Presents Plus.
“Alyssa’s Secret,” which first began airing 10 years ago on the Wow Presents YouTube channel, is returning to Wow Presents Plus after four years. Since its inception, the series has been a fan-favorite as the charm of Season 5 breakout Alyssa Edwards has captivated viewers. With “Alyssa’s Secret – The Reboot,” Alyssa will be spilling tea and popping tongues alongside a sparkling lineup of guests in a fresh take on the original series. “Alyssa’s Secret – The Reboot” premieres exclusively on Wow Presents Plus on April 26.
Additional titles include brand-new originals and new seasons of beloved series.
Originals include “Click Boys,” a revealing docuseries exposing the real-life triumphs and struggles of today’s biggest Lgbtqia OnlyFans entertainers,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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Dismissed by some critics upon its initial release in 1979, The Warriors has only grown in admiration over the years, and is now considered one of the most imitated studio films of all time.
The film is credited with accelerating the rise of hip-hop culture, with its dialogue sampled by the likes of Ice Cube and Wu-Tang Clan. Its plot has inspired video games like Street Fighter. Its look has influenced everything from Michael Jackson videos to the movies of Jordan Peele.
But its writer-director Walter Hill says it could have been even more progressive and forward-looking had he included a group of gay gang members in the final cut.
The Warriors is based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name, but Hill took the material even further, applying a comic book sensibility to Yurick’s tale of New York tribalism, itself inspired by Xenophon’s Anabasis,...
Dismissed by some critics upon its initial release in 1979, The Warriors has only grown in admiration over the years, and is now considered one of the most imitated studio films of all time.
The film is credited with accelerating the rise of hip-hop culture, with its dialogue sampled by the likes of Ice Cube and Wu-Tang Clan. Its plot has inspired video games like Street Fighter. Its look has influenced everything from Michael Jackson videos to the movies of Jordan Peele.
But its writer-director Walter Hill says it could have been even more progressive and forward-looking had he included a group of gay gang members in the final cut.
The Warriors is based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name, but Hill took the material even further, applying a comic book sensibility to Yurick’s tale of New York tribalism, itself inspired by Xenophon’s Anabasis,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Nightclubbing,” the first-ever documentary about the legendary New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City, which from 1965 through 1981 was a hotbed for the city’s rock, glam, punk and new wave scenes, has announced a series of screenings across the globe in July and August.
The film — the full title of which is “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — will screen along with another doc from Chip Baker Films, “Sid: The Final Curtain,” which is a brief documentary about the late Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’ final concert, which took place at Max’s.
“Nightclubbing” is the sixth music documentary from Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia (others include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash” and “Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones” about the group’s founder and original leader). It premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain last month...
The film — the full title of which is “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — will screen along with another doc from Chip Baker Films, “Sid: The Final Curtain,” which is a brief documentary about the late Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’ final concert, which took place at Max’s.
“Nightclubbing” is the sixth music documentary from Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia (others include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash” and “Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones” about the group’s founder and original leader). It premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain last month...
- 6/22/2022
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Russian Doll was such a fizzy breath of fresh air when it premiered, with Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia getting stuck in a time loop and forced to relive her 36th birthday over and over again, that I wasn’t even sure I wanted it to come back for a second season. After all, TV shows that take a promising idea and run it into the ground can become like frustrating time loops themselves. But I’m happy to report that Season 2 of the Netflix comedy — premiering next Wednesday, April 20; I’ve seen all seven episodes — is a very worthy follow-up,...
- 4/13/2022
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
In the new Netflix series, Pretend It’s a City, longtime friends and collaborators Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz chat and kvetch and complain about New York City. Well, mostly it’s Lebowitz sharing her caustic wit and many ruminations on what’s wrong with people, busted with the world, and what she misses most about her beloved Manhattan while the famed director sits by her side laughing and egging her on.
In a new bit during Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update,” Bowen Yang channels his best irascible Lebowitz — frizzy mop of hair,...
In a new bit during Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update,” Bowen Yang channels his best irascible Lebowitz — frizzy mop of hair,...
- 1/31/2021
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Howard Rubenstein, the PR strategist who led a boutique firm favored by media moguls and other high-profile figures, died Dec. 29 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.
Rubenstein’s death was confirmed by his son, Steven Rubenstein, in an Instagram post. Steven Rubenstein now runs day-to-day operations at the firm, once known as Rubenstein Associates and now simply as Rubenstein.
“My dad saw himself as a kid from Bensonhurst, a Harvard Law School dropout who had been afforded enormous opportunity in and by New York City. But that narrative understates how hard he worked to become one of the most sought-after counsellors and advisors to leaders, businesses, and civic institutions,” Steven Rubenstein wrote. “He helped to invent contemporary public relations, and made it his life’s passion to elevate it into an ethical and honorable profession.”
Howard Rubenstein was known for being the antithesis of the pushy PR guy eager...
Rubenstein’s death was confirmed by his son, Steven Rubenstein, in an Instagram post. Steven Rubenstein now runs day-to-day operations at the firm, once known as Rubenstein Associates and now simply as Rubenstein.
“My dad saw himself as a kid from Bensonhurst, a Harvard Law School dropout who had been afforded enormous opportunity in and by New York City. But that narrative understates how hard he worked to become one of the most sought-after counsellors and advisors to leaders, businesses, and civic institutions,” Steven Rubenstein wrote. “He helped to invent contemporary public relations, and made it his life’s passion to elevate it into an ethical and honorable profession.”
Howard Rubenstein was known for being the antithesis of the pushy PR guy eager...
- 12/30/2020
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Lee Wallace, the Ed Koch look-alike who coincidentally or not played mayors in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Tim Burton’s Batman, died Sunday in New York after a long illness, his family announced. He was 90.
Wallace also appeared in other notable films including Klute (1971), The Hot Rock (1972), The Happy Hooker (1975), Thieves (1977), Private Benjamin (1980) and Used People (1992).
He was a regular performer with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts starting in the mid-1960s and appeared opposite Glenn Close in a Yale Repertory production of Uncle Vanya in 1981.
Wallace also worked in eight Broadway productions, from A Teaspoon Every ...
Wallace also appeared in other notable films including Klute (1971), The Hot Rock (1972), The Happy Hooker (1975), Thieves (1977), Private Benjamin (1980) and Used People (1992).
He was a regular performer with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts starting in the mid-1960s and appeared opposite Glenn Close in a Yale Repertory production of Uncle Vanya in 1981.
Wallace also worked in eight Broadway productions, from A Teaspoon Every ...
- 12/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lee Wallace, the Ed Koch look-alike who coincidentally or not played mayors in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Tim Burton’s Batman, died Sunday in New York after a long illness, his family announced. He was 90.
Wallace also appeared in other notable films including Klute (1971), The Hot Rock (1972), The Happy Hooker (1975), Thieves (1977), Private Benjamin (1980) and Used People (1992).
He was a regular performer with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts starting in the mid-1960s and appeared opposite Glenn Close in a Yale Repertory production of Uncle Vanya in 1981.
Wallace also worked in eight Broadway productions, from A Teaspoon Every ...
Wallace also appeared in other notable films including Klute (1971), The Hot Rock (1972), The Happy Hooker (1975), Thieves (1977), Private Benjamin (1980) and Used People (1992).
He was a regular performer with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts starting in the mid-1960s and appeared opposite Glenn Close in a Yale Repertory production of Uncle Vanya in 1981.
Wallace also worked in eight Broadway productions, from A Teaspoon Every ...
- 12/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
John Mulaney will host and the Strokes will serve as musical guests on Saturday Night Live’s Halloween episode next week.
Both Mulaney and the Strokes will be making their fourth appearance on the long-running series; Mulaney, a former SNL writer, last hosted on February 29th, 2020 — the second-to-last pre-Covid episode — while the Strokes are returning to SNL for the first time since 2011, when they were musical guest on a Miley Cyrus-hosted episode.
“Three things define New York City: SNL, the Strokes, and Ed Koch. Koch is dead, so they got me,...
Both Mulaney and the Strokes will be making their fourth appearance on the long-running series; Mulaney, a former SNL writer, last hosted on February 29th, 2020 — the second-to-last pre-Covid episode — while the Strokes are returning to SNL for the first time since 2011, when they were musical guest on a Miley Cyrus-hosted episode.
“Three things define New York City: SNL, the Strokes, and Ed Koch. Koch is dead, so they got me,...
- 10/25/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Every once in awhile on “Saturday Night Live” somebody just can’t help themselves and breaks down laughing, breaking character. On this weekend’s episode it was the host herself, Adele, who had a laughing fit during a sketch spoofing international tourism in Africa and the kinds of exotic “Eat, Pray, Love” trips older women supposedly go on after a heartbreak. Adele especially can’t stop cracking up whenever co-star Kate McKinnon says “tribesmen,” for one. And the singer/songwriter all but loses it once Heidi Gardner joins the scene. Watch below.
“Witness the wonder, the escape, the story,” McKinnon says. “The sandy beaches, the massive bamboo,” Adele adds, as the two banter back and forth on what’s most to love about a trip to Africa. “The lush, dangling foliage! The history!” The sketch, however, was met with some controversy on social media, with viewers pointing out the potentially offensive portrayal of Africa.
“Witness the wonder, the escape, the story,” McKinnon says. “The sandy beaches, the massive bamboo,” Adele adds, as the two banter back and forth on what’s most to love about a trip to Africa. “The lush, dangling foliage! The history!” The sketch, however, was met with some controversy on social media, with viewers pointing out the potentially offensive portrayal of Africa.
- 10/25/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Those battling fatigue over “Saturday Night Live’s” portrayal of the election this season, and specifically the presidential debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, are in luck, as this weekend’s episode marked the last of such sketches. Alec Baldwin and Joe Biden reprised their roles as Trump and Joe Biden, respectively, for a debate moderated by Maya Rudolph, this time playing not Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, but White House correspondent and “Weekend Today” co-anchor Kristen Welker. Watch below.
The sketch is an especially raucous one, with Rudolph’s Welker turning the proceedings into a drinking game, and Baldwin and Carrey taking potshots at one another that are all but lifted straight from the actual debate that took place earlier this week. The host (and not the musical guest) this weekend was Adele, who did manage to perform excerpts from some of her hits in a sketch centered around “The Bachelor.
The sketch is an especially raucous one, with Rudolph’s Welker turning the proceedings into a drinking game, and Baldwin and Carrey taking potshots at one another that are all but lifted straight from the actual debate that took place earlier this week. The host (and not the musical guest) this weekend was Adele, who did manage to perform excerpts from some of her hits in a sketch centered around “The Bachelor.
- 10/25/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
You need only read the most potted of biographies to know that Luis Miranda is an accomplished man: a plucky, never-say-die Puerto Rican immigrant who arrived in New York as a teen and rose to become a major political consultant, acting as a special advisor to New York mayor Ed Koch, steering campaigns for the likes of Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, founding the Hispanic Federation and strategic consulting firm the MirRam Group, as well as heading up multiple charity initiatives to raise funds for his disaster-struck homeland. A devoted, misty-eyed documentary portrait of the 66-year-old, “Siempre, Luis” covers all this in brief, but is also aware that most regard its subject’s most notable accomplishment as a less direct one: namely, fathering a certain actor-composer-playwright named Lin-Manuel, and thus ensuring that outsize Broadway phenomenon “Hamilton” would eventually enter the world.
Across 94 minutes, “Siempre, Luis” attempts to accommodate both perceptions,...
Across 94 minutes, “Siempre, Luis” attempts to accommodate both perceptions,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
On the night of Aug. 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins went with his East New York friends to the predominantly Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, responding to a used car sales ad. After being misidentified as the boyfriend of a local girl, Hawkins was attacked by an angry mob of young white men, and was eventually shot dead. His death sparked outrage, bringing simmering racial tensions to a boil, leading to an aftermath that engulfed the city as Hawkins’ family demanded justice. Directed by Muta’Ali Muhammad (“Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee”) the HBO documentary, “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn,” relives that tragic night that exposed deep racial prejudices which continue to haunt the country today.
Ahead of the opening of Spike Lee’s incendiary ”Do the Right Thing” just a month prior on July 21, 1989, a few mostly white critics predicted that the film’s portrayal of racial divisions in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood might lead to riots.
Ahead of the opening of Spike Lee’s incendiary ”Do the Right Thing” just a month prior on July 21, 1989, a few mostly white critics predicted that the film’s portrayal of racial divisions in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood might lead to riots.
- 8/12/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
On August 23, 1989, teenage Yusuf Hawkins took the train into Bensonhurst, Brooklyn with a few of his friends to look at a car for sale. What they didn’t know, being young Black boys from East New York, was that tension was running high in that other pocket of town. A predominantly Italian American neighborhood at the time, Bensonhurst residents didn’t like outsiders, which they made clear on the night of August 23 when a mob of dozens of young white men surrounded Hawkins, wielding baseball bats and at least one firearm. Hawkins was shot, he succumbed to his injuries, and his death caught the attention of Reverend Al Sharpton, who led a wave of marches for justice well before there was social media on which Black Lives Matter could trend.
Now, just a little more than three decades after Hawkins’ murder, such marches and protests have expanded into national events.
Now, just a little more than three decades after Hawkins’ murder, such marches and protests have expanded into national events.
- 8/10/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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“Next Stop… Hijack!”
By Raymond Benson
There were many motion pictures made in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s that depict New York City as a less than desirable place to be. A hell on earth full of crime, grime, sin, debauchery, drugs, gangs, and corruption. You know the titles—The Out of Towners, Midnight Cowboy, Joe, Taxi Driver…
While the portrayal may very well have been true, to a certain extent, this reviewer lived in Manhattan over a decade during the relevant years and found it to be the most exciting, vibrant, culturally potent, and beautifully stimulating environment. Not only that, the #6 Irt train is one this reviewer rode almost daily, so the stops, the milieu, and the atmosphere were dead-on familiarities. As some of us like to say today in the age when 42nd Street and Times Square have been “Disney-ized,” we...
“Next Stop… Hijack!”
By Raymond Benson
There were many motion pictures made in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s that depict New York City as a less than desirable place to be. A hell on earth full of crime, grime, sin, debauchery, drugs, gangs, and corruption. You know the titles—The Out of Towners, Midnight Cowboy, Joe, Taxi Driver…
While the portrayal may very well have been true, to a certain extent, this reviewer lived in Manhattan over a decade during the relevant years and found it to be the most exciting, vibrant, culturally potent, and beautifully stimulating environment. Not only that, the #6 Irt train is one this reviewer rode almost daily, so the stops, the milieu, and the atmosphere were dead-on familiarities. As some of us like to say today in the age when 42nd Street and Times Square have been “Disney-ized,” we...
- 7/25/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn all together in one movie — they just don’t make ’em like they used to. This delectable trio would have been plenty to float even a middling script, but no one does fabulous women of a certain age like “Steel Magnolias” and “Soapdish” scribe Robert Harling. Released in 1996, when mid-budget studio comedies were still commonplace, “The First Wives Club” delivered a surprise hit for Paramount while reigniting the careers of its “middle-aged” stars. Though it received mixed reviews at the time, “The First Wives Club” has found many fans over the years, and for good reason: Like its trio-of-women-led predecessor “9 to 5,” the movie delivers its message of women’s empowerment with old-school Hollywood farce and eminently quotable brash one-liners.
Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn all together in one movie — they just don’t make ’em like they used to. This delectable trio would have been plenty to float even a middling script, but no one does fabulous women of a certain age like “Steel Magnolias” and “Soapdish” scribe Robert Harling. Released in 1996, when mid-budget studio comedies were still commonplace, “The First Wives Club” delivered a surprise hit for Paramount while reigniting the careers of its “middle-aged” stars. Though it received mixed reviews at the time, “The First Wives Club” has found many fans over the years, and for good reason: Like its trio-of-women-led predecessor “9 to 5,” the movie delivers its message of women’s empowerment with old-school Hollywood farce and eminently quotable brash one-liners.
- 7/22/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Larry Kramer, the writer and influential gay activist who pressed the U.S. government and the medical establishment to respond to the AIDS epidemic, has died. He was 84.
Kramer died Wednesday from pneumonia, his husband David Webster told the New York Times.
Earlier in his life, Kramer was a screenwriter with credits including “Women in Love” and the 1973 musical “Lost Horizon.”
Spurred by the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, Kramer became a fierce activist and an impassioned writer, and one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for AIDS research, treatment access and institutional recognition of the gay community so hard-hit by the disease. He is best known not only as one of the founders of both Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up, but also as the writer of novels and plays including his 1985 work “The Normal Heart,” his urgent, agitprop depiction of the early days of the AIDS crisis.
Kramer died Wednesday from pneumonia, his husband David Webster told the New York Times.
Earlier in his life, Kramer was a screenwriter with credits including “Women in Love” and the 1973 musical “Lost Horizon.”
Spurred by the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, Kramer became a fierce activist and an impassioned writer, and one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for AIDS research, treatment access and institutional recognition of the gay community so hard-hit by the disease. He is best known not only as one of the founders of both Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up, but also as the writer of novels and plays including his 1985 work “The Normal Heart,” his urgent, agitprop depiction of the early days of the AIDS crisis.
- 5/27/2020
- by Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
In the mid-Eighties, Ricky Skaggs married his brand of bluegrass — a modernized version that included drums, piano, and electric guitar — to the burgeoning music video medium. The result was one of country music’s all-time great videos, an irreverent clip that shined a light not only on Skaggs’ vibrant new style of country-bluegrass but also on a pillar of the bluegrass genre, Bill Monroe.
The song and video was “Country Boy,” the title track of Skaggs’ 1984 album. Shot in New York City in early 1985, the clip casts Skaggs as a...
The song and video was “Country Boy,” the title track of Skaggs’ 1984 album. Shot in New York City in early 1985, the clip casts Skaggs as a...
- 9/24/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Is “Fredo” an ethnic slur? Was CNN’s defense of anchor Chris Cuomo sexist? Did Donald Trump Jr. just confess to being the Trump family’s Fredo?
Everyone from the Trump boys to Kiss’ Gene Simmons, Meghan McCain, Anthony Scaramucci, Tom Arnold and Alec Baldwin are weighing in on the viral video of Cuomo engaged in a loud, obscenity-filled argument with a bar patron. Tha man approached Cuomo and his family and called the CNN star “Fredo,” an apparent reference to The Godfather saga’s doomed, weakling brother (played to perfection by the late John Cazale).
After both Sean Hannity and Donald Trump tweeted about the incident — taking opposite sides, for once — other responses started flooding social media, including some unexpected Cuomo support from conservatives like Hannity, Corey Lewandowski and the Mooch.
And Trump was none too pleased with anyone defending the CNN anchor, even conservatives who complained when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was publicly harassed.
Everyone from the Trump boys to Kiss’ Gene Simmons, Meghan McCain, Anthony Scaramucci, Tom Arnold and Alec Baldwin are weighing in on the viral video of Cuomo engaged in a loud, obscenity-filled argument with a bar patron. Tha man approached Cuomo and his family and called the CNN star “Fredo,” an apparent reference to The Godfather saga’s doomed, weakling brother (played to perfection by the late John Cazale).
After both Sean Hannity and Donald Trump tweeted about the incident — taking opposite sides, for once — other responses started flooding social media, including some unexpected Cuomo support from conservatives like Hannity, Corey Lewandowski and the Mooch.
And Trump was none too pleased with anyone defending the CNN anchor, even conservatives who complained when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was publicly harassed.
- 8/13/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
If anything, Abel Ferrara’s lovingly crafted personal documentary The Projectionist answers a question has plagued many a hardcore New York-based cinephile at one point or another: how the hell does the Cinema Village on 12th street stay open? While Ferrara doesn’t audit the finances of his subject–life-long movie exhibitor and real estate developer Nicolas Nicolaou–he never the less crafts a portrait of a man who has kept neighborhood theaters alive in the city, fighting it out with the big guns like Regal, AMC, and Landmark Theaters (the de facto new proprietor of neighboring Quad Cinema) for first run product. Premiering in Tribeca’s programming lineup This Used To Be New York, The Projectionist provides a personal history of running movie theaters through the changing landscape.
The film starts with a friendship between Nicolaou and Ferrara–always a lively presence in festival Q&As, occasionally taking on the persona of host,...
The film starts with a friendship between Nicolaou and Ferrara–always a lively presence in festival Q&As, occasionally taking on the persona of host,...
- 5/3/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The Blue Card, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding Holocaust survivors, will host its 83rd benefit gala on Monday, April 8, 2019, at Center415..
The event will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Emmy Award-winning television producer and author best known as the host and executive producer of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”
The evening will include the presentation of awards to individuals and groups dedicated to supporting the needs of Holocaust survivors and advancing human rights worldwide. The honorees include: Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States; Stanley Bergman and Dr. Marion Bergman of Henry Schein, Inc. and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation; David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary; New York Foundation for Eldercare; and past participants in The Blue Card’s Bnei Mitzvah Project, a program where Bar and Bat Mitzvah students engage with...
The event will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Emmy Award-winning television producer and author best known as the host and executive producer of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”
The evening will include the presentation of awards to individuals and groups dedicated to supporting the needs of Holocaust survivors and advancing human rights worldwide. The honorees include: Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States; Stanley Bergman and Dr. Marion Bergman of Henry Schein, Inc. and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation; David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary; New York Foundation for Eldercare; and past participants in The Blue Card’s Bnei Mitzvah Project, a program where Bar and Bat Mitzvah students engage with...
- 3/20/2019
- Look to the Stars
Lori Sokol, Executive Director of Women’s eNews, today announced the Host, Honorary Gala Chair, and Honorary Gala Co-Chairs for the 19th annual ‘21 Leaders for the 21st Century’ Awards gala, which will take place on May 6th at Club 101 in New York City.
Tamsen Fadal, Pix 11 News Anchor, author and producer, will host the gala for the first time. Loreen Arbus, president of The Loreen Arbus Foundation, The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation, and Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc., is Honorary Gala Chair. Honorary Gala Co-Chairs include Abigail Disney, documentary filmmaker and co-founder, Level Forward; Lauren Embrey, president, Embrey Family Foundation; and Suzanne Lerner, co-founder and president, Michael Stars.
“All of these outstanding women have worked tirelessly for many years to make a difference in the lives of women and girls. Essentially, they have committed their work, and their lives, to advancing gender equality throughout the world,” says Lori Sokol, Ph.D. “They truly speak truth to power.
Tamsen Fadal, Pix 11 News Anchor, author and producer, will host the gala for the first time. Loreen Arbus, president of The Loreen Arbus Foundation, The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation, and Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc., is Honorary Gala Chair. Honorary Gala Co-Chairs include Abigail Disney, documentary filmmaker and co-founder, Level Forward; Lauren Embrey, president, Embrey Family Foundation; and Suzanne Lerner, co-founder and president, Michael Stars.
“All of these outstanding women have worked tirelessly for many years to make a difference in the lives of women and girls. Essentially, they have committed their work, and their lives, to advancing gender equality throughout the world,” says Lori Sokol, Ph.D. “They truly speak truth to power.
- 2/8/2019
- Look to the Stars
Spike Lee's Inside Man (2006) and Do the Right Thing (1989) are showing on Mubi in many countries around the world in January and February, 2019.Forty-five minutes into Spike Lee’s 2006 Inside Man, Clive Owen’s mysterious bank robber Dalton Russell negotiates with Denzel Washington’s detective Keith Frazier a food delivery for the 50 or so people he’s holding hostage inside the fictional Wall Street-headquartered Manhattan Trust Bank. The food smuggled through the horde of cops surrounding the building is pizza, and the boxes the slices come in read: Sal’s Famous Pizzeria. I wish I could say I spotted the intertextual connection right away, but it took Lee’s DVD commentary to illuminate the link between his 2006 star-studded thriller and the family-owned Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant that staged his 1989 Do the Right Thing. “Sal’s pizzeria,” Lee comments, somewhat sarcastically, “burned down in Brooklyn, and moved to Wall Street.”Revisiting the...
- 1/29/2019
- MUBI
The Deuce Season Two has come to an end. A review of the finale, “Inside the Pretend,” coming up just as soon as I want to see a gay hunchback…
“Feels like something’s turned.” -Vince
Midway through the finale, Abby and Loretta try to comfort each other about the murder of Dorothy. Abby blames herself for not doing more to protect Dorothy as she antagonized all the pimps, but Loretta insists that no one and nothing could have shaken their friend off this path, because “that damage don’t lie.
“Feels like something’s turned.” -Vince
Midway through the finale, Abby and Loretta try to comfort each other about the murder of Dorothy. Abby blames herself for not doing more to protect Dorothy as she antagonized all the pimps, but Loretta insists that no one and nothing could have shaken their friend off this path, because “that damage don’t lie.
- 11/5/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
A review of “We’re All Beasts,” this week’s The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I’m wearing two left shoes…
“I love this fuckin’ town.” -Candy
“We’re All Beasts” is as compact as a show with the narrative sprawl of The Deuce can get. We check in on most of the other characters, but the focus is on the production of Red Hot, which Candy opts to shoot guerilla-style on the streets she used to walk.
The filming is both mess and triumph, often within moments of one another.
“I love this fuckin’ town.” -Candy
“We’re All Beasts” is as compact as a show with the narrative sprawl of The Deuce can get. We check in on most of the other characters, but the focus is on the production of Red Hot, which Candy opts to shoot guerilla-style on the streets she used to walk.
The filming is both mess and triumph, often within moments of one another.
- 10/15/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
HBO has greenlit “Storm Over Brooklyn,” from Muta’Ali (pictured), and which was the winner of a new initiative to promote diversity in feature documentaries. The project will tell the story of Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager who was shot and murdered in 1989 after being trapped by a group of white youths in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Muta’Ali’s film will explore a crime that shocked New York and the wider U.S. Hawkins’ murder led to marches and protests that contributed to the ousting of New York City Mayor Ed Koch in favour of David Dinkins, who became the city’s first — and as of now, only — African American mayor.
“Yusuf Hawkins’ murder had a major effect on the public, and the locked away regret and sorrow questions a history that those involved have held onto for nearly 30 years,” Muta’Ali said. “We will finally see the light of day...
Muta’Ali’s film will explore a crime that shocked New York and the wider U.S. Hawkins’ murder led to marches and protests that contributed to the ousting of New York City Mayor Ed Koch in favour of David Dinkins, who became the city’s first — and as of now, only — African American mayor.
“Yusuf Hawkins’ murder had a major effect on the public, and the locked away regret and sorrow questions a history that those involved have held onto for nearly 30 years,” Muta’Ali said. “We will finally see the light of day...
- 6/18/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
HBO has come on board a feature documentary about a black American teenager shot to death by a group of white youths in 1989. The premium broadcaster has greenlit Storm Over Brooklyn, directed by Muta’Ali and produced by Lightbox, the U.S./UK firm behind Netflix series Captive.
Storm Over Brooklyn won the inaugural Feature Documentary Initiative, created by Lightbox and the American Black Film Festival (Abff), as part of a joint initiative to foster diversity in feature docs.
The doc tells the story of Yusuf Hawkins, a black American teenager who was shot and murdered after being trapped by a group of white youths in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on the evening of August 23, 1989. Sixteen-year- old Hawkins had come to Bensonhurst with three friends to look at a used car when they were attacked by the mob, whose members mistakenly believed that Hawkins was dating a neighbourhood girl who was white.
Storm Over Brooklyn won the inaugural Feature Documentary Initiative, created by Lightbox and the American Black Film Festival (Abff), as part of a joint initiative to foster diversity in feature docs.
The doc tells the story of Yusuf Hawkins, a black American teenager who was shot and murdered after being trapped by a group of white youths in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on the evening of August 23, 1989. Sixteen-year- old Hawkins had come to Bensonhurst with three friends to look at a used car when they were attacked by the mob, whose members mistakenly believed that Hawkins was dating a neighbourhood girl who was white.
- 6/18/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“…now, you can run, you can hide, or you can start to live like human beings again. This is our Waterloo, baby! You want your city back? You gotta take it.”—Fred Williamson, Vigilante Lynne Ramsay’s methods have become more concentrated, more specialized. When she began, her films found her gesturing at the edge of conventional psychology through lightly surreal abstraction. A rat tied to a balloon, a nocturnal supermarket bursting with song, her typical bricolage of light and found objects where every source feeds into a unified color scheme: all these elements say what her paralyzed or stunted protagonists could not. The world ironically reflected their darkness, their optimism, or their depression. Since 2002’s Morvern Callar she began a sort of narrowing of her emotional concern. Her characters wear masks of rage, of depression, of guilt, and fear. Music, color, light, objects and even people seem to reflect their inner turmoil.
- 4/3/2018
- MUBI
Embodying every cliché of the working class New York City loudmouth is long-time local legend Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, an organization of do-gooders who formed in 1977 in a McDonalds on Fordham Road in the Bronx. His new documentary Vigilante: The Incredible True Story of Curits Sliwa and the Guardian Angels, directed by David Wexler, is an entertaining yet one-sided look at the organization told mostly through an extended interview with Sliwa and archival footage of New York in the Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and Rudy Giuliani eras. The lattermost mayor would finally give credit to the Guardian Angels while Koch and the NYPD fought against the collective, which initially was founded as a neighborhood watch. Only later as crack rock hit the poorest neighborhoods of color would the Angels become more proactive, robbing crack dealers, throwing the product in the sewer, and giving the cash proceeds to soup kitchens.
- 11/25/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Emmy Rossum is officially off the market! The 30-year-old “Shameless” star married director Sam Esmail on May 28, according to People. On Saturday, the couple was spotted posing for pre-wedding rehearsal photos overlooking the Ed Koch bridge at Sutton Place Park. Pics: The Best Celebrity Wedding Dresses Rossum and 39-year-old Esmail — best known for creating […]...
- 5/29/2017
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
Emmy Rossum is officially off the market!
The 30-year-old Shameless star married director Sam Esmail on May 28, and shared a beautiful photo of the ceremony on Instagram.
On Saturday, the couple was spotted posing for pre-wedding rehearsal photos overlooking the Ed Koch bridge at Sutton Place Park.
Pics: The Best Celebrity Wedding Dresses
Rossum and 39-year-old Esmail -- best known for creating the critically acclaimed USA series Mr. Robot -- got engaged in August 2015 after dating for two years.The two met when he directed the actress in 2014's Comet, in which she starred opposite Justin Long.
Rossum celebrated her bridal shower in October, wearing a stunning red dress by British designer Preen.
In February, the brunette beauty dished on her Carolina Herrera wedding dress, and said she wasn't sweating her big day. "The only thing that's really important to me is that we get married and that there's some kind of party," Rossum told E...
The 30-year-old Shameless star married director Sam Esmail on May 28, and shared a beautiful photo of the ceremony on Instagram.
On Saturday, the couple was spotted posing for pre-wedding rehearsal photos overlooking the Ed Koch bridge at Sutton Place Park.
Pics: The Best Celebrity Wedding Dresses
Rossum and 39-year-old Esmail -- best known for creating the critically acclaimed USA series Mr. Robot -- got engaged in August 2015 after dating for two years.The two met when he directed the actress in 2014's Comet, in which she starred opposite Justin Long.
Rossum celebrated her bridal shower in October, wearing a stunning red dress by British designer Preen.
In February, the brunette beauty dished on her Carolina Herrera wedding dress, and said she wasn't sweating her big day. "The only thing that's really important to me is that we get married and that there's some kind of party," Rossum told E...
- 5/29/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
When “The Get Down” returns for the second half of its first season on Netflix, the year is 1978; one year after The Get Down Brothers defeated The Notorious Three. Despite that victory, Zeke (Justice Smith), aka Books, and the rest of the crew are still trying to make their mark with an emerging musical style.
In the trailer for the series’ return below, though, we can see Books in a stuffy blazer, and even though he can make anything look good, it’s so drab and dismal compared to the red he wears when he rhymes. Does that fact that Ed Koch is mayor have anything to do with it? Run, Zeke, run!
Read More: ‘The Get Down’: Netflix Releases New Music Video and Soundtrack Details Ahead of the Show’s Return — Watch
Unfortunately, Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) appears to have sunken even deeper into Fat Annie’s (Lillias White) clutches.
In the trailer for the series’ return below, though, we can see Books in a stuffy blazer, and even though he can make anything look good, it’s so drab and dismal compared to the red he wears when he rhymes. Does that fact that Ed Koch is mayor have anything to do with it? Run, Zeke, run!
Read More: ‘The Get Down’: Netflix Releases New Music Video and Soundtrack Details Ahead of the Show’s Return — Watch
Unfortunately, Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) appears to have sunken even deeper into Fat Annie’s (Lillias White) clutches.
- 3/9/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Joseph Wapner, the retired judge who starred on The People's Court for 12 years, died on Sunday morning. He was 97.
"As TV's first judge, Judge Wapner blazed the trail for a the genre of court shows still thriving and in the pop culture zeitgeist some three decades later," the show's producers and distributor, Warner Brothers, said in statement to Et. "We mourn his Honor's passing and celebrate his full life."
Watch: Actor Bill Paxton Dies at 61
David Wapner told The Associated Press that his father was hospitalized a week ago with breathing problems, and was then taken to his home in West Los Angeles where he was under hospice care. It was there that he died in his sleep.
Before becoming a TV judge when The People's Court premiered in September 1981, Wapner served as a L.A. Superior Court judge for 20 years. The People's Court -- which made Wapner an instant celebrity and earned him a star on...
"As TV's first judge, Judge Wapner blazed the trail for a the genre of court shows still thriving and in the pop culture zeitgeist some three decades later," the show's producers and distributor, Warner Brothers, said in statement to Et. "We mourn his Honor's passing and celebrate his full life."
Watch: Actor Bill Paxton Dies at 61
David Wapner told The Associated Press that his father was hospitalized a week ago with breathing problems, and was then taken to his home in West Los Angeles where he was under hospice care. It was there that he died in his sleep.
Before becoming a TV judge when The People's Court premiered in September 1981, Wapner served as a L.A. Superior Court judge for 20 years. The People's Court -- which made Wapner an instant celebrity and earned him a star on...
- 2/26/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Judge Joseph Wapner, who famously presided over The People’s Court, has died. He was 97.
Wapner was first hospitalized last week complaining of breathing problems. He was eventually relocated to his Los Angeles residence on Friday as his condition worsened, where he remained under hospice care until his death on Sunday morning.
The People’s Court first launched in September 1981 and became an instant TV phenomenon, paving the way for a slew of daytime courtroom dramas. Wapner was eventually let go from the series amid a potential revamp in 1993, and the show was ultimately cancelled. It returned in 1997, with former...
Wapner was first hospitalized last week complaining of breathing problems. He was eventually relocated to his Los Angeles residence on Friday as his condition worsened, where he remained under hospice care until his death on Sunday morning.
The People’s Court first launched in September 1981 and became an instant TV phenomenon, paving the way for a slew of daytime courtroom dramas. Wapner was eventually let go from the series amid a potential revamp in 1993, and the show was ultimately cancelled. It returned in 1997, with former...
- 2/26/2017
- TVLine.com
Midway through the initial run of Netflix's new '70s hip-hop drama The Get Down, one of the show's young heroes makes a new friend who wants to hear his group's emerging sound. "Not yet," he's told. "We're still decoding it." For a bunch of black and Puerto Rican teenagers in the Bronx in the summer of '77 with precious little money or experience, taking a while to decode the next big thing is totally reasonable. For a $120 million behemoth of a television show, with all of Netflix's seemingly infinite resources thrown at bringing co-creator Baz Luhrmann's vision to life, the fact that The Get Down isn't even close to decoded through the end of its first six-episode batch (debuting a week from today; the other half of the first season will drop early next year) is more troubling. The Get Down is a mess. At times, it's a thrilling mess,...
- 8/5/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The chain of events that led to the death of the Cincinnati Zoo's western lowland gorilla was, like many zoo accidents, an avoidable one. Four-year-old Isaiah Gregg reportedly escaped from his mother's supervision, crawled between gaps in the zoo's fence, through a set of bushes and over another barrier before he dropped into the gorilla enclosure. Zoos work to make sure visitors are educated about the specifics of their safety measures, but the best rules are often the simplest, most common-sense ones. People spoke to Zoological Association of America board member and zoo consultant Alan Sironen about the safety measures...
- 5/31/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Johnny Depp is known for his transformative performances, from his swashbuckling pirate Jack Sparrow to his chilling Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Now, Depp is equal parts hilarious and terrifying as business mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a new 50-minute movie biopic from Funny Or Die. “Funny Or Die Presents Donald Trump’s The Art Of The Deal: The Movie” is a fictional television movie based on Trump’s best-selling autobiography of the same name. Director Ron Howard introduces the film he “picked up at a yard sale just outside Phoenix, Arizona,” which was originally “thought to be lost in the Cybil Shepherd blouse fire of 1989.” Between the cheesy, techno music and over-the-top graphics, the satire is a relic straight out of the 1980s. The movie riotously depicts Trump’s quest to acquire the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City from Merv Griffin (Patton Oswalt). The movie is littered with cameos,...
- 2/10/2016
- backstage.com
Well, Funny or Die has done it. The site made a movie about Donald Trump, and it's starring Johnny Freaking Depp as Trump (if you thought Depp's Whitey Bulger impression was good, wait until you see his Trump. Just awesome), based on Trump's best-selling book Art of the Deal, and done in the style of an 80s TV movie that never aired, as, Ron Howard explains, it was pre-empted by a Monday Night Football game. Besides Depp and Howard, the film stars Jack McBrayer, Alfred Molina, Patton Oswalt, Kristen Schaal, and Henry Winkler as Mayor Ed Koch. Plus a ton of other familiar faces. Like Alf. Funny Or Die Presents Donald Trump's The Art Of The Deal: The Movie from Funny Or Die...
- 2/10/2016
- by Sara Morrison
- Hitfix
David Margulies, a veteran stage and screen actor who memorably played the Mayor of New York in the Ghostbusters movies, has died, his longtime agent, Mary Harden, confirmed to Deadline. He was 78. Aside from his role as Lenny Clotch - a take-off on real-life New York Mayor Ed Koch - Margulies starred in many films and theater productions. Other recognizable parts included Tony Soprano's lawyer Neil Mink on The Sopranos and the doctor in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. On Broadway, Margulies - a New York native - appeared in Comedians, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Angels In America, to name a few.
- 1/12/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Rocket Girl #7
Written by Brandon Montclare
Art by Amy Reeder
Published by Image Comics
Oh Rocket Girl, how we have missed you between issues.
Leaving up where issue 6 left off, Dayoung is confronting Annie about where she placed the jetpack, further continuing their argument from the last issue about who actually knows best for Dayoung. This leads to a rather humorous sequence as the titular Rocket Girl dressed in a Les Mis shirt forces a woman ten years older than her to show her where her jetpack is while looking like more of an adult than Annie does.
Which is ironic, because this is the first issue we actually see Dayoung act like an actual teenager in that she completely has a huffy angst attack over how her guardian is treating her. Granted, this angry teenager also happens to be a cop from the future with a jetpack, so it goes how you’d expect.
Written by Brandon Montclare
Art by Amy Reeder
Published by Image Comics
Oh Rocket Girl, how we have missed you between issues.
Leaving up where issue 6 left off, Dayoung is confronting Annie about where she placed the jetpack, further continuing their argument from the last issue about who actually knows best for Dayoung. This leads to a rather humorous sequence as the titular Rocket Girl dressed in a Les Mis shirt forces a woman ten years older than her to show her where her jetpack is while looking like more of an adult than Annie does.
Which is ironic, because this is the first issue we actually see Dayoung act like an actual teenager in that she completely has a huffy angst attack over how her guardian is treating her. Granted, this angry teenager also happens to be a cop from the future with a jetpack, so it goes how you’d expect.
- 12/3/2015
- by Ashley Leckwold
- SoundOnSight
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