British actor Daniel Craig recently appeared on Broadway in "Macbeth" opposite Ruth Negga as his queen. He was first bitten by the acting bug at the age of six, when he made his debut in a p…
There is a long Oscar tradition of nominating lead actresses who bring singing legends to musical life over the years. The 2021 Best Actress race is no exception, what with Viola Davis b…
While Julie Andrews might have felt that the hills were alive in the "Sound of Music," it was Christopher Plummer's Captain von Trapp who swept her off her feet in the 1965 Best Picture Osca…
Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman's work ethic and versatility were only exceeded by her love of basking in the showbiz spotlight. The legacy she leaves her fans after dying this week at…
If 'Bohemian Rhapsody' were the cheeseburger of music icon biopics, then 'Rocketman' is the sirloin steak " with lobster on the side." " Dan Wooton, The Sun Judging from the dazzling recepti…
Jackson Maine and his lady love Ally will not be getting back together on the big-screen any time soon as those who have seen 'A Star Is Born' know all too well. But the actors who played th…
It's showtime again, folks! It is no secret that Bob Fosse, who won a directing Oscar for his 1972 film version of the musical "Cabaret" that collected a total of eight trophies but lost…
Can we agree that among the eight Oscar nominations granted “A Star Is Born,” its likeliest win will be Best Song for “Shallow”? That soaring ballad sold the music-pa…
“Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.” — Carol Channing If anyone has heard her share of both gaffaws and clappin…
I saw a star being born and it wasn't Lady Gaga. It happened on a dance floor early on in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" when Ron Stalling, an undercover cop who — with the help of a whi…
"A Star Is Born" zoomed to the top of the Oscar Best Picture list on Gold Derby's combined odds chart on Oct. 14, the week after it opened, pushing film fest fave "Roma" to No. 2. It has bee…
One of the oddities of this year's Golden Globes nominees? That Fox's Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Warner’s "A Star Is Born" requested to compete in the drama categor…
Oscar's favorite actress, Meryl Streep, reconnected to her Jersey roots this past weekend while chatting with Stephen Colbert onstage during the Montclair Film Festival. And it sounds as if …
The Best Actor Oscar race this year just might turn into the battle of the bulge, pitting a pot-bellied Dick Cheney against a chowhound Italian bodyguard going belly to belly. In this corner…
Remember Uggie, the super-talented Jack Russell  Terrier from "The Artist," a silent film that would claim 2011's Best Picture Oscar?  The pup sadly went to that big dog park in the sk…
Not only did "A Star Is Born" open to a healthy $42.6 million at the box-office this past weekend. But the fourth version of the musical showbiz staple originally done in 1937 has allowed fi…
Some singers turned film actors hit a high note by playing a version of themselves, such as Whitney Houston in "The Bodyguard," bolstered by a safety-net soundtrack of surefire hits. Then th…
The Marx Brothers " mustachioed, stogie-smoking ring-leader Groucho, chatty, Italian-accented con man Chico, silent skirt-chaser Harpo and, early on, relatively "normal" matinee idol Zeppo "…
Did you swoon when the 2018 Emmys were handed out on Monday as Glenn Weiss, who won for his directing of this year's Academy Awards ceremony, Â stopped the show and proposed to his girlfri…
Looking back on last year's Oscar race as this year's contest starts to heat up, it struck me that not enough was made of the fact that Greta Gerwig with "Lady Bird" and Jordan Peele with "G…
A serious Oscar contender was born on Friday as critics at the 75th Venice International Film Festival went, well, gaga over the latest version of "A Star Is Born." The tale as old as showbi…
Glenn Close got her start on Broadway in the '70s, appearing in such shows as "Barnum," and made-for-TV movies including "Too Far to Go" and "The Orphan Train." She was 35 at the time of her…