From hollywood-elsewhere.com: “Slashfilm’s Peter Sciretta has posted two shots of Sean Penn (pictured, left) in bearded, early ’70s guise as the late, deeply mythologized San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk (pictured, right) in Gus Van Sant’s currently-rolling ‘Milk.’ It appears as if Penn is trying to … Read more »
How is the election like television’s most popular program? My friend David Ginn shares his thoughts for lemonwade:
For the Democrats, Election 2008 has been the most riveting reality show since season 2 of “American Idol,” Clay vs. Reuben. With the media constantly making Hillary … Read more »
I’ve been hearing a spectrum of responses to this week’s two performances of “Jerry Springer: The Opera” at Carnegie Hall. (See reviews here and here.) Richard Thomas (pictured), the show’s London-based creator, attended the New York show, and afterward said that his next project, workshopping … Read more »
The hit 2004 Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic play “A Raisin in the Sun” — starring Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (pictured)– has been made into a TV movie, to debut February 25 on ABC. I’ve been hearing mixed things about the small-screen adaptation, … Read more »
According to Variety:
Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form have been set by New Line to re-launch Freddy Krueger, the iconic psycho who haunts the subconscious dreams of teenagers and kills them in their sleep.
The trio will create a new franchise based on “A Nightmare … Read more »
Worldwide interest in Heath Ledger shows no sign of stopping. Ledger’s body is being flown to his home town of Perth, Western Australia, with the possibility that his funeral will be held in the chapel of his former grammar school.
Yeah, that’s him in the photo — Ryan Seacrest: a younger Ryan Seacrest. Why this pic? Because, after the recent successful launch of the new “American Gladiators” on NBC, MGM’s domestic TV distribution is digging into the archives to bring out the mid-’90s kids series … Read more »
According to ew.com:
Robert Redford is producing and starring in A Walk in the Woods, an adaptation of Bill Bryson’s best-selling 1998 travelogue. Barry Levinson (What Just Happened?, Wag the Dog) is in talks to direct the movie, which will adapt Bryson’s story about his attempt … Read more »