Sunday, January 17, 2021
James Earl Jones, who turns 90 on Jan. 17, has one of the most famous voices of all time — not just as Darth Vader and Mufasa, but as the voice of CNN and hundreds of other programs. But t…
Linked From Variety at 10:30AMFriday, January 15, 2021
Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch and Alisha Weir will join Netflix’s musical adaptation of the beloved children’s story “Matilda,” directed by Matthew Warchus. Thompson will play Miss Tr…
Linked From Variety at 04:07AMPeter Mark Richman, who made numerous film and TV appearances including recurring roles in “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Three’s Company,” and toplined the early 1960s series “Cain…
Linked From Variety at 04:07AMBob Iger and Willow Bay will be donating $5 million to small businesses throughout Los Angeles that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday. “We…
Linked From Variety at 04:07AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
The 73rd Tony awards are under way in Manhattan. Winners in each category are bolded. Best Musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations Beetlejuice Hadestown The Prom …
Linked From Variety at 09:06AMFriday, April 19, 2019
Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam” in the 1942 Oscar-winning classic “Casablanca.” In fact, no one says it in the movie. And the mysterious voice in the adored 1989 fan…
Linked From Variety at 06:34PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Director Michael Lehmann was shocked when he looked at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times entertainment sections and saw there were no ads for the second week of dark high school comed…
Linked From Variety at 12:59PMFriday, March 22, 2019
Barbra Streisand only met Michael Jackson a few times, but she definitely has some opinions about his alleged molestation of several young boys. Streisand shared her thoughts with the Times …
Linked From Variety at 10:18PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
There was only one Carol Channing, and her outsize personality was a source of delight to many fans — and imitators. Gerard Alessandrini’s stage spoof “Forbidden Broadway” had ma…
Linked From Variety at 05:06PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Lady Gaga was among the many entertainment figures who had to evacuate during the catastrophic Woolsey fire a week ago, and she still hasn’t been able to return to her house. Though ev…
Linked From Variety at 11:35PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Craig Zadan and his producing partner, Neil Meron, are responsible for one of the most meaningful professional experiences in my career. They brought the magic of Broadway to primetime telev…
Linked From Variety at 01:15PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the arrogant surgeon Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on “MASH,” died Saturday. He was 75. His agent, Mitchell K. Stubbs, tweet…
Linked From Variety at 08:38PMFriday, December 15, 2017
With Fox and Disney announcing their anticipated multi-billion dollar mega-merger on Thursday, the movie industry is poised to experience the impact of consolidation and potential ripples to…
Linked From Variety at 12:30PMThursday, December 14, 2017
Movies weren’t yet talkies and the headquarters were located in New Jersey when Fox Film was founded in 1915. William Fox couldn’t have imagined that his modest film company woul…
Linked From Variety at 09:45AMFriday, November 24, 2017
Before Disney’s animated blockbuster “Aladdin” had its premiere in Japan, directors Ron Clements and John Musker were told not to worry if the audience didn’t laugh. And it wasn…
Linked From Variety at 11:00AMMonday, October 30, 2017
Kevin Spacey’s apology to actor Anthony Rapp has unleashed a flood of negative reactions on Twitter. Spacey’s decision to combine a coming-out statement with an apology to Rapp, …
Linked From Variety at 01:11AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
For Variety’s latest issue, we asked Leslie Odom Jr. to write a tribute to Cynthia Erivo, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here’s why Erivo represents a new gener…
Linked From Variety at 12:20PMFor Variety’s latest issue, we asked Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a tribute to Oskar Eustis, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here’s why Eustis, the artistic direc…
Linked From Variety at 12:10PMMonday, October 2, 2017
In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting that killed at least 58 people in Las Vegas and injured hundreds more during a country music concert, entertainment figures are begging the …
Linked From Variety at 03:56PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
When Barbara Cook had been hired to play the lead in “She Loves Me,” my image of her was based on the roles I had seen her play. I thought she was more or less an innocent ingénue. The …
Linked From Variety at 01:15PMFriday, November 18, 2016
Vice-president elect Mike Pence went to see the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” on Broadway Friday night, and the performance was disrupted when the audience wouldn’t stop booin…
Linked From Variety at 10:06PMFriday, September 30, 2016
A collection of awards season contenders including “Jackie,” “La La Land,” “Arrival” and “Manchester By the Sea” will screen at the Savannah F…
Linked From Variety at 05:57PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Edward Albee, who shocked Broadway audiences with his play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1962, died Friday at his home in Montauk, Long Island in New York. He was 88…
Linked From Variety at 08:16PMMonday, July 25, 2016
“You are the writer, but I am the author!” When famed ghost-singer Marni Nixon said those words to me, her ghostwriter, I didn’t quite understand how any of it would work. I had writte…
Linked From Variety at 09:54PMFriday, January 22, 2016
Controversy magnet Shia LaBeouf earned big laughs Thursday playing a demented military General whose fear of fluoride leads to armageddon in a raucous Live Read of the 1964 classic “Dr. St…
Linked From Variety at 02:48PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Though much of Mickey Rooney’s most notable work appeared more than 70 years ago, the Hollywood community remembers him fondly as a hardworking actor who started his career as a child …
Linked From Variety at 01:49AMMonday, February 24, 2014
Alec Baldwin says simply “I give up” on the cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine. But what’s he giving up? In a wide-ranging rant, he explains that he’s not…
Linked From Variety at 01:58AMSaturday, February 22, 2014
The last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers made famous in “The Sound of Music” died this week at her home in Vermont. Maria von Trapp, the second-oldest…
Linked From Variety at 08:21PMFriday, November 22, 2013
“August: Osage County” star Julia Roberts will be honored with the Palm Springs Film Festival’s Spotlight Award at the Jan. 4 awards gala. The festival runs Jan. 3-13. R…
Linked From Variety at 09:00AMThursday, September 5, 2013
British theater director Matthew Warchus (“God of Carnage”) is set to direct “Pride,” an ensemble period dramedy toplined by Bill Nighy (“The Best Exotic Marigo…
Linked From Variety at 02:57PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
James Gandolfini, who won three Emmys for his portrayal of flawed antihero and conflicted mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos,” died in Italy at the age of 51 of a possible he…
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