Amanda Seyfried says Elizabeth Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence, after the disgraced former tech exec was convicted for overseeing a blood-testing hoax and defrauding investors at her start-up Theranos, is “fair.”
While appearing on Good Morning America to promote her upcoming Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room, Seyfried — who play Holmes in an Emmy-winning performance for The Dropout — responded briefly to the news that the convicted former CEO is reporting to a Texas prison on Tuesday.
“There’s two kids that are hanging in the balance here. As a parent — just as a mom,” Seyfried said before trailing off. “Life’s not fair, but in a lot of ways it’s fair. It’s fair for her, in particular.”
Holmes is reporting to Fpc Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp consisting of around 650 inmates and located nearly 100 miles northwest of Houston, according to the Associated Press.
Holmes, who went on trial two...
While appearing on Good Morning America to promote her upcoming Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room, Seyfried — who play Holmes in an Emmy-winning performance for The Dropout — responded briefly to the news that the convicted former CEO is reporting to a Texas prison on Tuesday.
“There’s two kids that are hanging in the balance here. As a parent — just as a mom,” Seyfried said before trailing off. “Life’s not fair, but in a lot of ways it’s fair. It’s fair for her, in particular.”
Holmes is reporting to Fpc Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp consisting of around 650 inmates and located nearly 100 miles northwest of Houston, according to the Associated Press.
Holmes, who went on trial two...
- 5/30/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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A federal judge on Friday sentenced disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but instead made her a symbol of Silicon Valley’s culture of audacious self-promotion.
The sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila was shorter than the 15-year penalty requested by federal prosecutors but far tougher than the leniency her legal team sought for the mother of a year-old son with another child on the way.
Holmes, who was CEO throughout the company’s turbulent 15-year history, was convicted in January in the scheme, which revolved around the company’s claims to have developed a medical device that could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. But the technology never worked.
The sentencing in the same San Jose,...
A federal judge on Friday sentenced disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but instead made her a symbol of Silicon Valley’s culture of audacious self-promotion.
The sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila was shorter than the 15-year penalty requested by federal prosecutors but far tougher than the leniency her legal team sought for the mother of a year-old son with another child on the way.
Holmes, who was CEO throughout the company’s turbulent 15-year history, was convicted in January in the scheme, which revolved around the company’s claims to have developed a medical device that could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. But the technology never worked.
The sentencing in the same San Jose,...
- 11/18/2022
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you've been waiting to see Jennifer Lawrence don Elizabeth Holmes' black turtleneck, it sounds like you're out of luck. The actress is no longer set to play the Theranos fraudster in Adam McKay's "Bad Blood," according to The New York Times' Kyle Buchanan. The writer revealed as much in a tweet today after sharing his Nyt profile about the "Don't Look Up" actress.
According to Buchanan, Lawrence had a change of heart about taking the role after witnessing Amanda Seyfried's Emmy-winning performance as the biotech star turned convicted criminal in Hulu's series "The Dropout." In a move that's rare in the era of competing true crime retellings, Lawrence conceded that her turn as Holmes wasn't needed after all. "I thought she was terrific," Buchanan quotes her as saying. "I was like, 'Yeah, we don't need to redo that.' She did it."
It's unclear as of...
According to Buchanan, Lawrence had a change of heart about taking the role after witnessing Amanda Seyfried's Emmy-winning performance as the biotech star turned convicted criminal in Hulu's series "The Dropout." In a move that's rare in the era of competing true crime retellings, Lawrence conceded that her turn as Holmes wasn't needed after all. "I thought she was terrific," Buchanan quotes her as saying. "I was like, 'Yeah, we don't need to redo that.' She did it."
It's unclear as of...
- 11/2/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
An exceptional and, one might venture, unprecedented group of politicians, diplomats, policy wonks, elected officials and veteran Washington insiders expound on the effectiveness of international military intervention—and the lack thereof—in The Corridors of Power. Israeli director Dror Moreh made one of the great political documentaries of recent times in The Gatekeepers (2012), as well as the excellent The Human Factor (2019), and this time he has assembled an all-star cast of more than 30 political heavyweights including Henry Kissinger, Hilary Clinton, George Shultz, Madeleine Albright and Condoleeza Rice, who in deep, original interviews, help to build a picture of how and why the best intentions can come unglued. The film deserves to be seen in any and all venues by audiences interested in the state of the world and clarity about how we got here.
“You will have to find a new enemy,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell...
“You will have to find a new enemy,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell...
- 9/16/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former president and chief operating officer of healthcare startup Theranos, was found guilty on Thursday of defrauding former investors and patients of the company.
As reported by AP News, Balwani was convicted by a San Jose, Calif. jury on all 12 charges brought against him. The verdict follows the Jan. 3 conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO and founder and Balwani’s former romantic partner, on four accounts of investor fraud and conspiracy during their time at Theranos.
During Holmes’ trial, she accused Balwani of sexual abuse throughout their relationship, which Balwani has repeatedly denied since his trial began in March.
Founded by Holmes in 2003 when she was 19-years-old, Theranos was a healthcare startup focused on creating blood tests that could be performed rapidly with extremely small amounts of blood. The company grew to a 10 billion valuation at its peak, developed a lucrative partnership with Walgreens and received...
As reported by AP News, Balwani was convicted by a San Jose, Calif. jury on all 12 charges brought against him. The verdict follows the Jan. 3 conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO and founder and Balwani’s former romantic partner, on four accounts of investor fraud and conspiracy during their time at Theranos.
During Holmes’ trial, she accused Balwani of sexual abuse throughout their relationship, which Balwani has repeatedly denied since his trial began in March.
Founded by Holmes in 2003 when she was 19-years-old, Theranos was a healthcare startup focused on creating blood tests that could be performed rapidly with extremely small amounts of blood. The company grew to a 10 billion valuation at its peak, developed a lucrative partnership with Walgreens and received...
- 7/7/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “The Dropout” Episode 8, “Lizzy.”]
Even for those unfamiliar with the overall arc of the Theranos saga, “The Dropout” made no secret about where its eight-episode version of the story was heading. From the outset, like the ABC News podcast the series is adapted from, there’s Elizabeth Holmes speaking with federal investigators about her role in the growth of the company that promised a medical revolution that never came.
But even with that heavy and frequent foreshadowing, by the time that “The Dropout” gets to Episode 8, “Lizzy,” and you get to see Elizabeth’s deposition without a consumer camcorder filter, this show offers a surprise. Even as Amanda Seyfried’s version of Elizabeth is answering questions about meetings with investors and the viability of certain tech products, “The Dropout” cuts away to Elizabeth and her new beau sharing a tender moment with barely a care in the world.
As directed by Erica Watson,...
Even for those unfamiliar with the overall arc of the Theranos saga, “The Dropout” made no secret about where its eight-episode version of the story was heading. From the outset, like the ABC News podcast the series is adapted from, there’s Elizabeth Holmes speaking with federal investigators about her role in the growth of the company that promised a medical revolution that never came.
But even with that heavy and frequent foreshadowing, by the time that “The Dropout” gets to Episode 8, “Lizzy,” and you get to see Elizabeth’s deposition without a consumer camcorder filter, this show offers a surprise. Even as Amanda Seyfried’s version of Elizabeth is answering questions about meetings with investors and the viability of certain tech products, “The Dropout” cuts away to Elizabeth and her new beau sharing a tender moment with barely a care in the world.
As directed by Erica Watson,...
- 4/7/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Bob Chapek, the Disney CEO who is under siege, hopefully does not watch much TV. If he does, he’ll see a succession of fellow CEOs who seem prone to self-destruction — Adam Neumann of WeWork, Travis Kalanick of Uber, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, etc. — portrayed on buzzy TV series. Viewing these shows back to back, the stolid Chapek might wonder whether the CEO is extinct as a folk hero.
To be sure, the CEOs depicted in this cycle of streamers’ series are uniformly greedy and delusional, though gifted in the hyperbole of “technospeak.” In WeCrashed, Neumann, played by Jared Leto, re-imagines renting work space as a business that “will elevate the world’s consciousness.” In Super Pumped, Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) re-defines Uber as a “higher form of life.”
The cycle is easy to dismiss except that headlines tell us a surprising number of working CEOs seem to be falling on their swords.
To be sure, the CEOs depicted in this cycle of streamers’ series are uniformly greedy and delusional, though gifted in the hyperbole of “technospeak.” In WeCrashed, Neumann, played by Jared Leto, re-imagines renting work space as a business that “will elevate the world’s consciousness.” In Super Pumped, Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) re-defines Uber as a “higher form of life.”
The cycle is easy to dismiss except that headlines tell us a surprising number of working CEOs seem to be falling on their swords.
- 3/31/2022
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Theranos founder and self-made tech billionaire Elizabeth Holmes is the subject of Hulu's new limited series titled "The Dropout." The eight-part series recalls the rise and fall of Holmes and her company amid its massive fraud scandal. In the early 2000s, Theranos followed in the footsteps of revolutionary tech companies like Apple and Facebook. Holmes boosted it as a promising solution to transform blood testing and democratize healthcare as we know it. But by 2015, the Palo Alto company, along with its former CEO, was in hot water once inaccuracies in Theranos's technology were exposed as well as Holmes's cover-up.
Holmes's professional demise came shortly after when authorities caught onto her scandal. She stepped down from her role as Theranos's CEO in June 2018, and around the same time, a federal grand jury indicted her on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. So...
Holmes's professional demise came shortly after when authorities caught onto her scandal. She stepped down from her role as Theranos's CEO in June 2018, and around the same time, a federal grand jury indicted her on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. So...
- 3/2/2022
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Elizabeth Holmes's billion-dollar business failure is one of the most unbelievable fraud stories in recent years. The disgraced Theranos founder managed to deceive investors and scientists by overselling the capabilities of her blood-testing system, which she claimed could diagnose tens of diseases with a pinprick's worth of blood. An investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and an exposé from The Wall Street Journal revealed the device never worked and uncovered the web of lies Holmes weaved to keep investors in the dark, which ultimately led to her business's demise. However, one whistle-blower got the ball rolling in bringing Holmes's house of cards crashing down: Tyler Shultz. Here's what to know about the former Theranos employee and what he's up to now.
Who Is Tyler Shultz?
Shultz is among those affected by the Theranos scheme. He's the grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a member of Theranos's board of directors.
Who Is Tyler Shultz?
Shultz is among those affected by the Theranos scheme. He's the grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a member of Theranos's board of directors.
- 3/2/2022
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
“I believed in her,” chemist Ian Gibbons (Stephen Fry) says of tech mogul Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) midway through the Hulu docudrama The Dropout. “I looked in her eyes and I thought… I thought I could see the future.”
Ian is far from the only person to believe this of Holmes, whose company, Theranos, promised to revolutionize health care with a device, the Edison, that would run multiple tests from a single drop of blood. The cult of personality around the black-clad young woman helped attract heavyweights like former secretary...
Ian is far from the only person to believe this of Holmes, whose company, Theranos, promised to revolutionize health care with a device, the Edison, that would run multiple tests from a single drop of blood. The cult of personality around the black-clad young woman helped attract heavyweights like former secretary...
- 2/25/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
‘The Dropout’: Dylan Minnette, Bashir Salahuddin & Alan Ruck Among Nine Added To Hulu Limited Series
Hulu’s upcoming limited series The Dropout, about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, continues to expand its cast with the addition of Dylan Minnette, Alan Ruck, Bashir Salahuddin and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Also joining the cast are Hart Bochner, James Hiroyuki Liao, Nicky Endres, Camryn Mi-Young Kim and Andrew Leeds. They will appear opposite Amanda Seyfried in the series from Liz Meriwether, Seachlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television.
Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy.
Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy.
- 8/3/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Reagans” is an unavoidable mirror. Matt Tyrnauer’s four-part series profiles a couple that held sway over a state and then a party and then the world, but the timeline very purposefully stops with their White House exit in 1989.
Even still, it’s nearly impossible to see the stances, coalitions, and maneuvers that helped Ronald Reagan ascend to the presidency as a precursor to what the United States has experienced over the last four years. The central question becomes: Does “The Reagans” feel so familiar because it’s being pitched to an audience living through 2020? Or are the echoes so unavoidable that any examination of the 1980s and what led to them can’t help but remind us of the headlines of the more recent past?
In practice, it’s a bit of both. Start looking for parallels to the now-outgoing administration and you’ll see them everywhere: disgruntled former employees writing tell-all memoirs,...
Even still, it’s nearly impossible to see the stances, coalitions, and maneuvers that helped Ronald Reagan ascend to the presidency as a precursor to what the United States has experienced over the last four years. The central question becomes: Does “The Reagans” feel so familiar because it’s being pitched to an audience living through 2020? Or are the echoes so unavoidable that any examination of the 1980s and what led to them can’t help but remind us of the headlines of the more recent past?
In practice, it’s a bit of both. Start looking for parallels to the now-outgoing administration and you’ll see them everywhere: disgruntled former employees writing tell-all memoirs,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Silicon Valley entrepreneur once touted as the next Steve Jobs, will be portrayed in two upcoming fictionalized projects, one starring Jennifer Lawrence and the other with Kate McKinnon.
Lawrence’s big screen dramatization and McKinnon’s Hulu miniseries won’t be out for a while, but no waiting is required to see a nonfiction treatment of the Holmes story—The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is available right now on HBO on demand. It’s in contention for multiple Emmy nominations.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directed the documentary, about the Stanford University dropout who launched blood-testing company Theranos and became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever before the enterprise collapsed in a blizzard of fraud allegations. Gibney says he didn’t anticipate how much The Inventor would resonate with viewers.
“The way it broke through kind of surprised me in the sense that now...
Lawrence’s big screen dramatization and McKinnon’s Hulu miniseries won’t be out for a while, but no waiting is required to see a nonfiction treatment of the Holmes story—The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is available right now on HBO on demand. It’s in contention for multiple Emmy nominations.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directed the documentary, about the Stanford University dropout who launched blood-testing company Theranos and became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever before the enterprise collapsed in a blizzard of fraud allegations. Gibney says he didn’t anticipate how much The Inventor would resonate with viewers.
“The way it broke through kind of surprised me in the sense that now...
- 5/30/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Elizabeth Holmes first rose to prominence in 2014 as the CEO of healthcare start-up Theranos, but the entrepreneur became infamous about 20 months later, after being charged with an “elaborate years-long” fraud having duped millions.
Ahead of the release of HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley on Sunday, which traces the rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling, it was revealed that Holmes, 35, is currently engaged.
Vanity Fair was the first to break the news, reporting in a February story that Holmes is currently living in San Francisco, and “engaged to a younger hospitality heir, who...
Ahead of the release of HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley on Sunday, which traces the rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling, it was revealed that Holmes, 35, is currently engaged.
Vanity Fair was the first to break the news, reporting in a February story that Holmes is currently living in San Francisco, and “engaged to a younger hospitality heir, who...
- 3/21/2019
- by Maria Pasquini, Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
You probably think you already know all there is to know about Elizabeth Homes, CEO/Silicon Valley wunderkind/wolf-puppy-haver who fell from grace when she was accused of building her health care company Theranos on sham science. The story of Theranos has been adapted into a book (John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood), a podcast (ABC News’ The Dropout), and is even set to be adapted for the big screen (Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly playing Holmes, natch.)
Yet to paraphrase the opening to The Real World, you think you may know the story,...
Yet to paraphrase the opening to The Real World, you think you may know the story,...
- 3/19/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
In the fall of 2014, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was named one of Forbes’s richest women in America and her start-up company valued at $9 billion. Around 20 months later Holmes’ net worth was estimated at $0 and she was charged with an “elaborate years-long” fraud having duped millions.
The rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling is the subject of HBO’s documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, airing Monday night (March 18). Here are five things to know about Holmes and her elaborate scheme.
Holmes’s early beginnings
Holmes was born in Washington D.C. to father Christian Holmes,...
The rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling is the subject of HBO’s documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, airing Monday night (March 18). Here are five things to know about Holmes and her elaborate scheme.
Holmes’s early beginnings
Holmes was born in Washington D.C. to father Christian Holmes,...
- 3/19/2019
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
Kylie Jenner isn't the only young, female self-made billionaire who's ever made headlines. Before she fell from grace, Elizabeth Holmes was given the same title by Forbes for founding the health tech company Theranos at age 19 and hitting a 10-digit worth by age 30. She and her team developed a device that streamlined medical testing by requiring no more than a small amount of blood. The innovative technology didn't actually work, but Holmes deceived investors, journalists, and thousands of patients before her Silicon Valley legacy collapsed. HBO is bringing the story to the small screen with The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley, which premieres on March 18. Before you watch, here's the down-low on Holmes.
Born in Washington DC, Holmes grew up connected with high-profile names. Her father, Christian Holmes IV, was the vice president of Enron, and her mother, Noel Daoust, was a foreign policy and defense aide on Capitol Hill.
Born in Washington DC, Holmes grew up connected with high-profile names. Her father, Christian Holmes IV, was the vice president of Enron, and her mother, Noel Daoust, was a foreign policy and defense aide on Capitol Hill.
- 3/18/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
To put it mildly, Werner Herzog has his own take on things, so it comes as no surprise that one of the most recent projects by the prolific international director does not follow the rules of normal political biography. Over a six-month period, and without a prepared script, Herzog conducted three interviews with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that covered a multitude of topics, some of it geopolitical, much of it personal, and more than a little of it highly idiosyncratic. That’s not to say Herzog takes his subject lightly: Gorbachev was instrumental in German reunification in the late 1980s, a subject very close to the Munich-born director’s heart, and this issue is raised in a film that covers a lot of ground, from Gorbachev’s rise in the Communist Party, to dealing with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to negotiating with U.S. President Ronald Reagan over the nuclear arms race,...
- 10/27/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
The neuroscientist that brought us bestsellers “This is Your Brain on Music” and “The World in Six Songs” has turned his attention to the problem of organization. Dr. Daniel Levitin’s new nonfiction book, “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload,” combines scholarly research and interviews with people like Michael Bloomberg, George Shultz and Sting with practical tips on how to organize our homes, social lives, time and more.
- 8/18/2014
- by Lucy Feldman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Former CBS News correspondent Bill McLaughlin died this morning. The diplomatic and foreign correspondent, who headed bureaus in Germany and Lebanon for CBS News in the late 1960s and ‘70s, died from cardiac arrest in a Waterbury, Ct hospital. McLaughlin lived in France and was visiting friends in the U.S. at the time of his death. He was 76. McLaughlin’s television news career spanned 27 years, nearly all of it with CBS News; he left for two years in late 1979 to report for NBC News as its United Nations correspondent. He spent a decade overseas on his CBS news assignments, including the Paris bureau, where he met his wife, the former Huguette Cord’homme, who survives him. He covered the gamut of overseas events, from the Vietnam War, to terrorism to the conflicts in the war-torn Middle East, appearing on the CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, CBS Radio News and other CBS News broadcasts,...
- 3/7/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
He's in Brazil with David Cameron; he's in London with Mikhail Gorbachev-wherever Schwarzenegger is, he's plotting his next move. In this week's Newsweek, the former governator tells Lloyd Grove about Arnold 4.0.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's two terms as California governor started strong, with a host of accomplishments and post-partisan goodwill, but then sputtered out three and a half months ago with the state in fiscal meltdown. Schwarzenegger left office with a job-approval rating in the low 20s. Now he's trying to figure out "Arnold 4.0," the next big thing in his implausible journey, Lloyd Grove writes in this week's Newsweek.
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"I feel terrific about where I am in my life, when I look back at what I've accomplished," Schwarzenegger says. "But I feel shitty when I look at myself in the mirror... I'm not ripping off my shirt and trying to sell the body,...
Arnold Schwarzenegger's two terms as California governor started strong, with a host of accomplishments and post-partisan goodwill, but then sputtered out three and a half months ago with the state in fiscal meltdown. Schwarzenegger left office with a job-approval rating in the low 20s. Now he's trying to figure out "Arnold 4.0," the next big thing in his implausible journey, Lloyd Grove writes in this week's Newsweek.
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"I feel terrific about where I am in my life, when I look back at what I've accomplished," Schwarzenegger says. "But I feel shitty when I look at myself in the mirror... I'm not ripping off my shirt and trying to sell the body,...
- 4/18/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
The former governor rails and confesses his way through Europe as he cavorts with world leaders. In this week's Newsweek, Lloyd Grove delves into what might be the former governor's next move.
Life at 63, for Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a titanic clash between human frailty and dazzling possibility.
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"I feel terrific about where I am in my life, when I look back at what I've accomplished," he says over a late lunch at London's Savoy Hotel, his much-mimicked Teutonic rumble competing with a teatime pianist. "But I feel shitty when I look at myself in the mirror."
It's a jolt to hear Schwarzenegger-a five-time Mr. Universe and seven-time Mr. Olympia before he was Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, and ultimately the Governator-musing about his own decay. Although his friend James Cameron, the director who cast him in True Lies and the Terminator movies,...
Life at 63, for Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a titanic clash between human frailty and dazzling possibility.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Patti Davis, Naked at 58
"I feel terrific about where I am in my life, when I look back at what I've accomplished," he says over a late lunch at London's Savoy Hotel, his much-mimicked Teutonic rumble competing with a teatime pianist. "But I feel shitty when I look at myself in the mirror."
It's a jolt to hear Schwarzenegger-a five-time Mr. Universe and seven-time Mr. Olympia before he was Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, and ultimately the Governator-musing about his own decay. Although his friend James Cameron, the director who cast him in True Lies and the Terminator movies,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
With his new memoir hitting bookstores, the former Defense secretary talked with John Barry about how great Gitmo is, his "parade of horribles" memo on Iraq, and the myths about Cheney.
The battle is joined. After a long silence, Donald Rumsfeld opened both barrels Tuesday, releasing his memoir, Known and Unknown . Early leaks of the book's defiant take on his life, times, and conduct of the Iraq War drew howls from some of the targets of his score-settling-notably John McCain, who proclaimed "Thank God he was relieved of his duties." But Rumsfeld battles on, taking his unapologetic account to the public in an interview with Newsweek's John Barry.
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Rumsfeld, Defense secretary during the 9/11 attacks and architect of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, takes the title of his memoir from one of Rumsfeld's most famous remarks, when...
The battle is joined. After a long silence, Donald Rumsfeld opened both barrels Tuesday, releasing his memoir, Known and Unknown . Early leaks of the book's defiant take on his life, times, and conduct of the Iraq War drew howls from some of the targets of his score-settling-notably John McCain, who proclaimed "Thank God he was relieved of his duties." But Rumsfeld battles on, taking his unapologetic account to the public in an interview with Newsweek's John Barry.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Sins of the First Gulf War
Rumsfeld, Defense secretary during the 9/11 attacks and architect of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, takes the title of his memoir from one of Rumsfeld's most famous remarks, when...
- 2/9/2011
- by John Barry
- The Daily Beast
Eugene Jarecki's documentary Reagan-debuting Monday on HBO-tries to illuminate the popular president. Lloyd Grove on whether there is anything left to say-or is Reagan just impossible to really know.
Ronald Reagan was plainspoken and sunny in public-a Great Communicator to hundreds of millions around the world. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he famously exhorted at the Brandenburg Gate-the battle cry of the Cold War that prefigured the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, in turn, Soviet Communism.
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But, at his private core, America's much-celebrated 40th president was unknowable and unreachable, even to his official biographer. After spending hours with the man, Edmund Morris was so perplexed by the impenetrability of his subject's inner life that felt forced to invent a fictional Reagan confidant in Dutch, his authorized biography, in a rash attempt to explain it. Morris...
Ronald Reagan was plainspoken and sunny in public-a Great Communicator to hundreds of millions around the world. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he famously exhorted at the Brandenburg Gate-the battle cry of the Cold War that prefigured the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, in turn, Soviet Communism.
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But, at his private core, America's much-celebrated 40th president was unknowable and unreachable, even to his official biographer. After spending hours with the man, Edmund Morris was so perplexed by the impenetrability of his subject's inner life that felt forced to invent a fictional Reagan confidant in Dutch, his authorized biography, in a rash attempt to explain it. Morris...
- 2/6/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
Filed under: TV Previews
Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
A surprisingly busy Thursday night with the return to the schedule of 'Bones,' 'Royal Pains' and the new Thursday night comedy lineup on NBC. Plus, the premiere of a new USA show -- 'Fairly Legal.' By the way, look for a number of new times for many of these returning shows.
8:00 to 9:00
ABC: 'Wipeout'
CBS: 'The Big Bang Theory' and '$--! My Dad Says'
Fox: 'American Idol'#
NBC: 'Community' and 'Perfect Couples'*
Hgtv: 'My First Place'
NatGeo: 'Naked Science'
And now the late night talk shows. Scheduled guests can change without notice.
9:00
'Piers Morgan Tonight'* (CNN): Condoleezza Rice...
Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
A surprisingly busy Thursday night with the return to the schedule of 'Bones,' 'Royal Pains' and the new Thursday night comedy lineup on NBC. Plus, the premiere of a new USA show -- 'Fairly Legal.' By the way, look for a number of new times for many of these returning shows.
8:00 to 9:00
ABC: 'Wipeout'
CBS: 'The Big Bang Theory' and '$--! My Dad Says'
Fox: 'American Idol'#
NBC: 'Community' and 'Perfect Couples'*
Hgtv: 'My First Place'
NatGeo: 'Naked Science'
And now the late night talk shows. Scheduled guests can change without notice.
9:00
'Piers Morgan Tonight'* (CNN): Condoleezza Rice...
- 1/20/2011
- by Rich Keller
- Aol TV.
Screening as a part of SnagFilm's streaming Midterm Madness series, Ben Goddard's "Nuclear Tipping Point" delves into the debate surrounding nuclear issues. Goddard sat down with indieWIRE to discuss the Wall Street Journal article that inspired him to document the controversial topic, and his background as a filmmaker. [Editor's Note: SnagFilms is the parent company of indieWIRE.] "Nuclear Tipping Point" is a conversation with former Secretary of State George Shultz, ...
- 10/19/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Screening as a part of SnagFilm's streaming Midterm Madness series, Ben Goddard's "Nuclear Tipping Point" delves into the debate surrounding nuclear issues. Goddard sat down with indieWIRE to discuss the Wall Street Journal article that inspired him to document the controversial topic, and his background as a filmmaker. [Editor's Note: SnagFilms is the parent company of indieWIRE.] "Nuclear Tipping Point" is a conversation with former Secretary of State George Shultz, former ...
- 10/19/2010
- Indiewire
We've reached the point in the summer where I get twitchy and restless with all the nothing and tend to start random projects just to keep myself busy. I'm assuming those of you with children of an age to be on summer vacation are beginning to encounter the same phenomena and from my own personal experiences and those of my siblings, I'm betting we're getting to the point where if your beloved offspring said to you "I'm gonna paint a target on the lawn and then try and jump my bike off the roof so I land on it" the immediate response would not be "Hell no" or "Why?" or even "Just remember to wear a helmet" but more along the lines of "If you land on my tomato plants I will finish whatever that fall starts." Here's what's available for distraction purposes this evening:
8:00pm: "The Bachelorette" on...
8:00pm: "The Bachelorette" on...
- 7/26/2010
- by Intern Rusty
It's hot. I think it's hot everywhere for the moment and it's only going to get worse through the rest of the summer and the thought of that is distressing. And at least here in Maryland, and most likely in Miami when I get back there in August, it's super humid too. On one hand, my clothes are never wrinkled; on the other hand it's impossible to go anywhere that's more than a five minute walk without showing up sweaty and miserable. With that lovely mental image in mind, here's tonight's TV:
8:00 p.m.: "The Bachelorette" on ABC.
"Behind the Music: Usher" on VH1. Second season finale. Having heard some of his latest contributions to music, I feel like Usher took some kind of dare about whether or not he could turn various inane phrases into actual hit songs and he's winning in a big way. All the rest of us,...
8:00 p.m.: "The Bachelorette" on ABC.
"Behind the Music: Usher" on VH1. Second season finale. Having heard some of his latest contributions to music, I feel like Usher took some kind of dare about whether or not he could turn various inane phrases into actual hit songs and he's winning in a big way. All the rest of us,...
- 7/19/2010
- by Intern Rusty
Since I'm working from home this summer, I've discovered a few benefits and pitfalls to not having to go somewhere to do my job. Benefit: Work appropriate dress is whatever I feel like wearing or not wearing on that particular day. Pitfall: With no hard and fast schedule I've found it's very easy for me to hit 2 p.m. and go "Why am I dizzy? Oh, right, I haven't eaten yet." Similarly, I have a tendency to forget what day of the week it is. During the school year I have class and the regular TV series I watch to keep me on track. Summertime though? I haven't really found anything that's worthy of being appointment TV other than "Friday Night Lights" which the DVR records for me because I keep forgetting it's on. Anyway, here's Monday's TV:
8:00 p.m.: "The Bachelorette" on ABC.
"Kid in a Candy Store" on Food Network.
8:00 p.m.: "The Bachelorette" on ABC.
"Kid in a Candy Store" on Food Network.
- 7/13/2010
- by Intern Rusty
For sheer theater, no one expected Arnold Schwarzenegger's first substantive news conference, at which he was to reveal his economic plan for the state, to trump his now-storied Tonight Show appearance -- but it sure came close. In front of a legion of international print and television journalists packed sardine-like inside the grand ballroom at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel, Schwarzenegger held an hourlong news conference and coolly fielded questions from reporters on his economic plan and other aspects of his overall agenda. With the co-chairs of his economic recovery council -- Warren Buffett and George Shultz -- strategically and perhaps symbolically standing to his left and right, respectively, at the podium, Schwarzenegger said he would not raise taxes and called for a constitutional cap on spending. However, the candidate seemingly punted on the issue of what programs and how much he would cut from the budget to deal with the state's $38 billion deficit.
- 8/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to beef up his recall campaign squad. On Tuesday, Schwarzenegger announced that former Secretary of State George Shultz has joined Warren Buffett as co-chair of his Economic Recovery Council, which will formulate the actor-turned-politico's agenda to rebuild the California economy. The news about Shultz, whose illustrious career includes service in both the Reagan and Nixon administrations, comes a day after news that billionaire investor Buffett had joined the Schwarzenegger team. "I am grateful George has agreed to serve his state yet again," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "His depth and breadth of experience will be invaluable to me. Warren and George Will be helping me to assemble a world-class team, and I look forward to our first meeting."...
- 8/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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