Meryl Streep flopped a pop quiz about her Academy Awards track record on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday. Streep has been nominated for a whopping 20 Oscars and host Jimmy Kimmel wanted to see how many of those films the actress could name in 60 seconds. If she got them all, …
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How did it take so long to get a Lifetime movie about the Coreys? A Tale of Two Coreys is a tragic Hollywood rise-and-fall saga: two teen actors who make it big in the Eighties, complete with fire-hazard hair, drugs, groupies and pastel blazers. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman first …
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Peter Jackson revealed in a recent interview that he was strongly urged, likely under false pretenses, to avoid casting Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino in his Lord of the Rings franchise by Harvey Weinstein and his brother, Bob, back in the late 1990s. “I recall Miramax telling us they were …
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This year, we’ve asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Scott Tobias onTwin Peaks: The Return‘s stunning, apocalyptic “Episode 8.” Cut to black. [Beat.] July 16th, …
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Days after Dustin Hoffman faced questioning regarding allegations of sexual harassment on the set of the 1985 TV adaptation of Death of a Salesman, an actress from that Broadway revival has penned a guest column describing the “horrific, demoralizing and abusive experience” she experienced while starring alongside Hoffman. Actress Kathryn …
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Jon Stewart continued to intrude on late-night television Tuesday as the former Daily Show host crashed both Late Night With Seth Meyers and the Tonight Show to promote his forthcoming HBO event,Night of Too Many Stars. On Late Night, Stewart made an unannounced visit to bang around on the studio …
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Netflix is prepping a Stranger Things aftershow to accompany the sci-fi series’ upcoming second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. All seven episodes of Beyond Stranger Things will premiere tomorrow, October 27th, along with Stranger Things. Viewers will be advised to not watch the spoiler-heavy talk show until after they …
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The buildup to the October 27th premiere of Stranger Things 2 is fraught with questions and mystery and, according to show director Shawn Levy, very high expectations. “It’s definitely daunting,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “The love for this show is so rabid.” According to show creators Matt and Ross Duffer, …
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Transparent star Alexandra Billings recognizes that television has come a long way in telling authentic transgender stories – but, she says, there is still a long way to go. “I think that we have taken a step in the right direction, though we’re at a pause right now with the …
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In the six years sinceCurb Your Enthusiasm‘s last episode,Larry David‘s distaste for everyday minutiae has only sharpened. The hilarious new Season Nine trailer unfolds like a greatest hits package. The famous crank angrily slaps an almost-empty shampoo bottle, becomes outraged over a broken shoelace, gets into a verbal altercation with …
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