Tuesday, July 14, 2015
“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 09:45AMSunday, January 11, 2015
A 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 05:05PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
“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 09:00AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Is 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 09:19PMMonday, September 22, 2014
Four 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 10:00PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Though 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 01:53PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
In 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 01:00PMThursday, June 5, 2014
“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 05:59PMFriday, March 7, 2014
Emma 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 07:31PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
When 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 08:10PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
There 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 11:11AMMonday, July 22, 2013
“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 09:50PMSaturday, May 25, 2013
Roman 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 05:43PMSunday, April 28, 2013
A superior celebrity docu that finds the Broadway legend contemplating retirement as well as her own mortality.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:32PM 
