Audiences love a bit of history. Kings, Queens, dates, battles, all of that stuff. And a big part of the fun in watching a historical drama is knowing that you are watching a version of events that have actually happened. Yes, there might not be any material evidence that J. Robert Oppenheimer’s wife was imagining him having sex with his mistress during his private security hearing, but enough of the other details are right that we don’t know for certain she didn’t.
We like learning about the small personal dramas behind the big events, and seeing how people lived and loved and worked in an age before laptops and phones. Audiences want to connect with something real. And if those historical dramas don’t get all of the details exactly right, then that’s fine too! Some people get annoyed at Neil DeGrasse Tyson-style pedantry, but...
We like learning about the small personal dramas behind the big events, and seeing how people lived and loved and worked in an age before laptops and phones. Audiences want to connect with something real. And if those historical dramas don’t get all of the details exactly right, then that’s fine too! Some people get annoyed at Neil DeGrasse Tyson-style pedantry, but...
- 3/22/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Emmy Award-winning actor Matthew Rhys has signed with CAA.
Rhys is best known for his leading role in FX’s The Americans, created by Joseph Weisberg and Joel Fields. He earned an Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for playing Kbg Agent Philip Jennings.
He most recently played the title role in HBO’s Perry Mason. He garnered an Emmy nomination for the role in 2021.
HBO last week opted not to renew the prequel for a third season. The news came a month and a half after the Season 2 finale debuted April 24.
Previous television credits for Rhys include his series regular stint on ABC’s Brothers and Sisters.
In film, Rhys starred opposite Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and in Steven Spielberg’s The Post opposite Hanks and Meryl Streep.
On stage, he has performed as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate and Edmund in King Lear on the West End.
Rhys is best known for his leading role in FX’s The Americans, created by Joseph Weisberg and Joel Fields. He earned an Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for playing Kbg Agent Philip Jennings.
He most recently played the title role in HBO’s Perry Mason. He garnered an Emmy nomination for the role in 2021.
HBO last week opted not to renew the prequel for a third season. The news came a month and a half after the Season 2 finale debuted April 24.
Previous television credits for Rhys include his series regular stint on ABC’s Brothers and Sisters.
In film, Rhys starred opposite Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and in Steven Spielberg’s The Post opposite Hanks and Meryl Streep.
On stage, he has performed as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate and Edmund in King Lear on the West End.
- 6/16/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Elvis Presley‘s Graceland home is the second-most visited private residence in the United States, behind the White House. The king of rock and roll’s mansion is beloved by fans of all ages. While the home remains in the Presley family, no one has lived there full-time for many years. Who was the last person to live at the king’s historic Memphis abode?
Elvis Presley poses outside of Graceland in Memphis, Tn | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Only one person in Elvis Presley’s immediate family lived in his home full-time after his death
When Elvis Presley purchased Graceland in 1957, he wanted the home to be a place for his extended family to feel welcome. He initially lived at the residence with his father, Vernon, his mother, Gladys, and grandmother, Minnie Mae.
Also, another member of the extended Presley clan who lived at the home was Delta Presley Biggs,...
Elvis Presley poses outside of Graceland in Memphis, Tn | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Only one person in Elvis Presley’s immediate family lived in his home full-time after his death
When Elvis Presley purchased Graceland in 1957, he wanted the home to be a place for his extended family to feel welcome. He initially lived at the residence with his father, Vernon, his mother, Gladys, and grandmother, Minnie Mae.
Also, another member of the extended Presley clan who lived at the home was Delta Presley Biggs,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bowen Yang is not only the breakout star of Saturday Night Live, where he’s hilariously embodied everything from a downed Chinese spy balloon to a Ron DeSantis-roasting gay Jafar, but he’s also one of the stars of Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, a Comedy Central series from Awkwafina (real name: Nora Lum) based on her life growing up as an Asian American in Queens, New York. Yang plays Edmund, Nora’s cousin who, like Nora, has been raised by her father (Bd Wong) and grandmother (Lori Tai Chinn). Edmund,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
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