“I feel like I have enough work now that, if I died, my ‘in memorium’ reel would be impressive,” joked Judd Apatow as he took to the stage of the Film Society of Lincoln Center Monda…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMA longtime champion of social and political freedoms, onscreen and off, Oscar-winning producer/distributor Harvey Weinstein has written articles on our industry and world events for many le…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:05PM“Be careful what you wish for” warn the ads for “Into the Woods” — an apt summary of the movie’s theme, and also the mindset of many a Stephen Sondheim fan ever since it was anno…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMIs there a more enduring image in American movies of youthful idealism giving the finger to “plastic” adult conformity than the final moments of “The Graduate?” And yet, as the weddi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19PMFour characters dangle precariously from their respective perches on the Hollywood power ladder in Neil LaBute’s “The Money Shot,” an acid-tongued showbiz satire that makes up in belly…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThough she paused for only one costume change, Idina Menzel was an even greater study in multiple personalities during her solo Radio City Music Hall debut than in her current dual role in t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMIn 1962, the same year that a quartet of working-class New Jersey youths called the Four Seasons shot to the top of the pop charts with the irresistible doo-wop single “Sherry,” a solo a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“When you look at the roles she’s played, they’re so diverse it can blow your mind,” observed Robert Redford of Glenn Close in a videotaped message screened at Wednesday night’s Ce…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PMEmma Thompson makes a smashing Gotham stage debut as the meat-pie maven Mrs. Lovett in the New York Philharmonic’s splendid staging of “Sweeney Todd,” more than holding her own in a ca…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PMWhen it comes to awards-season stumping, you won’t catch Woody Allen making the rounds of the guild and Academy screening circuit, showing up at cocktail receptions in his honor, or otherw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMThere are no surprises — just lots of good, old-fashioned scenery chewing — in John Wells’ splendid film version of Tracy Letts’ acid-tongued Broadway triumph.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:11AM“Here’s the thing: I’ve always been a hybrid,” a jovial Spike Lee said on Monday afternoon in his office at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, hours after the launch of his Kickstarte…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50PMRoman Polanski once again transfers a New York stage hit to the screen with maximum fidelity and facility, and a minimum of fuss.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMA superior celebrity docu that finds the Broadway legend contemplating retirement as well as her own mortality.
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