Cue the Golden Girls gospel remix: "Thank you for being a friend." When Jordan Peele scooped up Get Out's Best Original Screenplay Oscar, no one was happier for Jordan Peele than his Key and…
Though it seems like only yesterday that songwriter Robert Lopez joined the EGOT club " because it was, in 2014, when he won the Oscar for Frozen's "Let It Go" " he's now in a league of his …
When Diane Lockhart returns for the second season of The Good Fight, she's not the buttoned-up lawyer she once was. She's still powerful, but thanks to the pressures of living under the Trum…
This was the best, most inspiring, and most sheerly likable Academy Awards telecast I've ever seen and I've seen 'em all. (Well, all since 1967, when I was seven years old.) It was also " in…
Frances McDormand started her acceptance speech for Best Actress at tonight's Oscars by letting everyone know she had "some things to say." Halfway through her remarks she asked every single…
Allison Janney has won almost every conceivable award for her performance as the misanthropic mother of Tonya Harding in the movie I, Tonya. And after a long season of thanking so many peopl…
Mary Poppins has finally returned from her sky kingdom/spacecraft/ wherever she lives her immortal life when not bringing stern joy and delight to children all over Britain. In a new teaser …
"The Academy, as you are no doubt aware, took action last year to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks," Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel said a few minutes into his monologue, causing jaws to cl…
An EGOT recipient can do whatever the hell an EGOT recipient wants. Waltzing down the red carpet at the 2018 Academy Awards, Rita Moreno defied the general human aging process by wearing the…
"Last year, everyone famous died. This year, everyone famous wishes they were dead." John Mulaney and Nick Kroll wasted almost no time before wading into Times Up territory in their Fil…
In five years when you're sobbing in the back row of Lin-Manuel Miranda's new polka pop musical, you'll remember when it all started. Okay, technically it started when the Hamilton creator g…
A handful of female nominees does not signal an end to Hollywood's history of exclusion. ... More »
Producer Samuel Goldwyn once said, "God makes the stars, it's up to us producers to find them." Goldwyn frames stardom as mythic, divine, a matter of unquestionable chemistry. History has pr…
"We did three movies [in the five years] when we lived together. ... I made 10 or 11 movies after that, too, as an actor and director. We had an incredibly deep and wonderful friendship in t…
"As one of the most unlikely Oscar Best Picture nominees in years, Get Out is being taught in courses on racism and Afro¬futurism. It began as an insight in the brain of creator Jordan Pe…
Lin-Manuel Miranda has been known to recount the advice Stephen Sondheim gave him while working on Hamilton. "I sent him early drafts of songs over the seven-year development of Hamilton, an…
Wait for it (Wait for it)Wait for it (Wait for it)Midnight... Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 2, 2018 ... More »
While 20th Century Fox reportedly negotiates with Rashida Jones about penning a 9 to 5 update with original writer Patricia Resnick, the 1980 film's iconic trio of working women has already …
After winning a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen, Ben Platt is continuing to book roles that will (probably, definitely) involve crying. Variety reports that Platt will star in the film Love & …
"Confronted with a crisis, what is the artistic impulse?" Jordan Harrison asks us two-thirds of the way through his new play, The Amateurs, now at the Vineyard Theatre under the direction of…
Wendell Pierce has a master plan: Each year he tries to shoot a film and a TV show, and also appear in a play. Even with training from Julliard, he's still interested in honing his skill as …
As Black Panther continues to break box-office numbers, famed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, who pens the current Black Panther comic-book series, sat down with the film's stars, Chadwick Boseman …
"What kind of effect are these new voters having on the films and artists that are ultimately chosen to contend for an Oscar? ... Of the 14 new members we talked to, who span several of the …
Both Keira Drank and her publisher thought that her novel The Continent would be well-received, and, at first, it was. Then came the tweetstorms accusing Drake of writing a white-savior stor…
Every episode of S-Town led to a new twist about the life of John B. McLemore, the charismatic, mercurial focus of the hit podcast. He had his hobbies and obsessions " repairing antique cloc…