Exclusive: The story of former First Daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a socialite, a writer and a force in 20th Century American politics, will be the subject of a half-hour comedy series in development at HBO Max.
Based on the book Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery, the project comes from the Santa Clarita Diet team of writer-producer Victor Fresco, Tracy Katsky’s KatCo and Aaron Kaplan Kapital Entertainment.
Co-written by Fresco and Alexandra Petri, a Washington Post columnist, Alice kicks off in 1901.
Teddy Roosevelt is suddenly thrust into the presidency, bringing his seventeen-year-old daughter into the spotlight. The country has never seen anyone like Alice Roosevelt in the White House: a whip-smart, out-of-control teenager who races cars, parties unchaperoned with boys, and dares to speak her mind. Teddy’s at wits’ end, “I can be Alice’s father, or I...
Based on the book Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery, the project comes from the Santa Clarita Diet team of writer-producer Victor Fresco, Tracy Katsky’s KatCo and Aaron Kaplan Kapital Entertainment.
Co-written by Fresco and Alexandra Petri, a Washington Post columnist, Alice kicks off in 1901.
Teddy Roosevelt is suddenly thrust into the presidency, bringing his seventeen-year-old daughter into the spotlight. The country has never seen anyone like Alice Roosevelt in the White House: a whip-smart, out-of-control teenager who races cars, parties unchaperoned with boys, and dares to speak her mind. Teddy’s at wits’ end, “I can be Alice’s father, or I...
- 2/25/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
As Alice Roosevelt Longworth — and Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias — once said, “If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
Some days, it feels like that quote could serve as Twitter’s official motto. Take Shia Labeouf, for instance. Since exiting the Broadway production of Orphans over “creative differences” with co-star Alec Baldwin, the two actors have waged a Cold War that is beginning to really heat up. One day after Baldwin responded to a Labeouf tweet about the nature of theater with a dismissive slam, Labeouf took to Twitter again to...
Some days, it feels like that quote could serve as Twitter’s official motto. Take Shia Labeouf, for instance. Since exiting the Broadway production of Orphans over “creative differences” with co-star Alec Baldwin, the two actors have waged a Cold War that is beginning to really heat up. One day after Baldwin responded to a Labeouf tweet about the nature of theater with a dismissive slam, Labeouf took to Twitter again to...
- 3/6/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
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