This weekend would have been Bette Davis’s 100th birthday. In honor of the occasion, critic Terrence Rafferty has just published an appreciation (of sorts: he has a lamentable blind spot about “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?”); Turner Classic Movies is programming all sorts of Bette … Read more »
Never have I seen an episode of “Battlestar Galactica,” but the series, which returns this Friday, is a favorite of many of my friends. Here’s a precis of the new season:
Jumping back for its last batch of episodes, “Battlestar Galactica” continues its improbable ascent from … Read more »
According to Variety:
Ray Romano is plotting a return to the small screen via TNT.
Comic thesp has teamed with “Everybody Loves Raymond” scribe-producer Mike Royce to create “Men of a Certain Age,” a one-hour comedic drama in which Romano will also star. In a rare move, … Read more »
Madonna is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair. In the accompanying interview, the star slammed New York City’s creative community, griping that Gotham isn’t the same “happening” city it was when she first gained fame more than 20 years ago. “[New York City … Read more »
Here’s the news surprise of the day: According to the Telegraph, the late Australian actor Heath Ledger fathered a secret love child while still at school, members of his feuding family have claimed. Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment … Read more »
According to the Guardian:
Angus Fairhurst, one of the original Young British Artists who blazed such a trail through the 1990s, has taken his own life in a remote part of Scotland, it was announced today. He was 41.
Fairhurst was one of the 16 Goldsmiths College … Read more »
It’s now official: Kathie Lee Gifford will be joining the “Today” show. Does this mean that her long aborning musical about everyone’s favorite nymphomaniac evangelical — Aimee Semple McPherson — will never make it to Broadway?
A splashy musical version of the story known to operagoers as “La Traviata” and to movie buffs as “Camille” is about to open in London. Here’s what one of the musical’s heavyweight creators says unmincingly about the story: “Marguerite [Violetta in the opera] has made … Read more »