According to Variety:
Martin Scorcese has committed to direct an untitled documentary about the life of George Harrison.
The docu is being constructed as a theatrical release, and the Harrison family, including his widow, Olivia, will supply materials from its extensive archive. Interviews and early production … Read more »
Wes Anderson’s new flick “The Darjeeling Limited,” which kicks off the New York Film Festival tomorrow, September 28, and which I saw at one of the festival’s press screenings, is a colorful trek onboard a train clattering through India. In fact, it’s a short course … Read more »
The actress Jane Alexander (pictured here) has experienced a wonderfully varied career, but she’s having an especially lively time of it lately. She portrays a couples therapist in the sexually bold new HBO series “Tell Me You Love Me,” and the wife of Morgan Freeman … Read more »
Complete casting has been announced for the upcoming La Jolla Playhouse stage debut of the new musical “Cry-Baby.” James Snyder and Tony Award winner Harriet Harris are among the stars of the Broadway-bound production.
The California run is slated for Nov. 6-Dec. 16 at the company’s … Read more »
Paris Hilton in Rwanda? Yes, it’s true, and she even knows the country has no resorts or high-end spas.In fact, Hilton says it’s all part of her new, postjail commitment to use her celebrity to bring the spotlight to what she feels are important causes … Read more »
English writer and comedienne Jennifer Saunders (pictured here), best known to American audiences from the classic 1990s series “Absolutely Fabulous,” has a new show about to premiere in Britain. Called “The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle,” the program stars Saunders as a television talk-show … Read more »
Funk songstress Chaka Khan will tell Broadway auds something good starting Jan. 9, when the multiple Grammy-winning singer takes over the role of Sofia in “The Color Purple.” R&B-gospel vocalist Benjamin “BeBe” Winans will step into the role of Harpo, opposite Khan, in the soulful … Read more »
According to Variety, Clint Eastwood may direct “The Human Factor,” a fact-based drama about the historic Rugby World Cup in 1995, the first year South Africa was permitted to rejoin the competition after the fall of apartheid. Matt Damon is in early talks to come … Read more »
