As My So-Called Life nears its 30th anniversary, Executive Producer Ed Zwick took a walk down memory lane Saturday to remind folks about working on the before-its-time drama that starred Claire Danes.
In a long X thread, Zwick shared an “origin story” about how he was first drawn to the work of Winnie Holzman before he would end up co-EPing her script with longtime producing partner Marshall Herskovitz. Zwick chronicles his work on My So-Called Life, as well as thirtysomething, The Last Samurai and Glory in his upcoming book “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions,” out in February.
“Kristy McNichol played ‘Buddy,’ an adolescent girl on ABC-tv’s Family,” Zwick began. “I’d write surly teenage dialogue and get network notes on my scripts with the initials N.O.B. meaning “not our Buddy.” I vowed someday I’d get to portray real adolescence.”
“Marshall wrote a provocative pilot for Showtime called “Secret Seventeen” about unruly,...
In a long X thread, Zwick shared an “origin story” about how he was first drawn to the work of Winnie Holzman before he would end up co-EPing her script with longtime producing partner Marshall Herskovitz. Zwick chronicles his work on My So-Called Life, as well as thirtysomething, The Last Samurai and Glory in his upcoming book “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions,” out in February.
“Kristy McNichol played ‘Buddy,’ an adolescent girl on ABC-tv’s Family,” Zwick began. “I’d write surly teenage dialogue and get network notes on my scripts with the initials N.O.B. meaning “not our Buddy.” I vowed someday I’d get to portray real adolescence.”
“Marshall wrote a provocative pilot for Showtime called “Secret Seventeen” about unruly,...
- 12/23/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Hartford, Connecticut—Welcome to 90s Con, where the Nineties live on. The decade where all that glitters is gold. Fans of 1990s pop culture have made the pilgrimage here on an arctic March day for a weekend of time travel, transforming the Connecticut Convention Center into a pastel love-fest. Reality? Adulthood? The passage of time? As a great woman once said: As if.
Outside these walls, the years start coming, and they don’t stop coming. But in here, the Nineties dream lives forever. The place is packed with stars.
Outside these walls, the years start coming, and they don’t stop coming. But in here, the Nineties dream lives forever. The place is packed with stars.
- 3/25/2023
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
The Vampire Diaries joined the vampire romance genre launched by Twilight and True Blood in film and television. The love triangle between Elena (Nina Dobrev), Stefan (Paul Wesley), and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) kept viewers coming back for many seasons and helped launch two spinoffs. So why do women love vampires so much? The The Vampire Diaries cast and creators had some ideas.
L-r: Nina Dobrev, Kat Graham | Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Warner Bros
Dobrev, Katerina Graham, and Wesley were on a Television Critics Association panel with producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec in 2009. They all shared ideas about the romantic popularity of vampires. The Vampire Diaries is streaming on HBO Max and Peacock.
‘The Vampire Diaries’ cast loved vampires
Dobrev, Graham and Wesley spoke about the appeal of vampires. For The Vampire Diaries‘ female cast, vampires were mysterious.
“I think it is the mystery, right?” Graham said. “It’s the mystery.
L-r: Nina Dobrev, Kat Graham | Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Warner Bros
Dobrev, Katerina Graham, and Wesley were on a Television Critics Association panel with producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec in 2009. They all shared ideas about the romantic popularity of vampires. The Vampire Diaries is streaming on HBO Max and Peacock.
‘The Vampire Diaries’ cast loved vampires
Dobrev, Graham and Wesley spoke about the appeal of vampires. For The Vampire Diaries‘ female cast, vampires were mysterious.
“I think it is the mystery, right?” Graham said. “It’s the mystery.
- 2/3/2023
- by Fred Topel
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
[Editor’s note: The following story contains light spoilers for “Sharp Stick.”]
There’s been a lot of panic lately about whether or not Gen Z is having enough sex. Based on a few studies that first appeared in 2016, the handwringing headlines include BuzzFeed declaring Gen Z Is Having Less Sex Than Previous Generations, Newsweek asking What’s Driving Gen Z’s Aversion to Sex?, and The Guardian dubbing it Gen Z’s Sex Recession.
Gen Z encompasses those born between 1996 and 2012, making the youngest Zoomers 10 and the oldest 26 years old, which also means that the evolving reasons for this supposed downturn are mostly still conjecture. The Guardian suggests it’s a good thing, with a growing awareness around consent leading to a “quality over quantity” attitude. One study found a correlation between reduced alcohol consumption and reduced casual sex. Others have blamed helicopter parents.
As the unofficial documentarian of Millennial sexuality, especially as it pertained to young women with her hit HBO show “Girls,...
There’s been a lot of panic lately about whether or not Gen Z is having enough sex. Based on a few studies that first appeared in 2016, the handwringing headlines include BuzzFeed declaring Gen Z Is Having Less Sex Than Previous Generations, Newsweek asking What’s Driving Gen Z’s Aversion to Sex?, and The Guardian dubbing it Gen Z’s Sex Recession.
Gen Z encompasses those born between 1996 and 2012, making the youngest Zoomers 10 and the oldest 26 years old, which also means that the evolving reasons for this supposed downturn are mostly still conjecture. The Guardian suggests it’s a good thing, with a growing awareness around consent leading to a “quality over quantity” attitude. One study found a correlation between reduced alcohol consumption and reduced casual sex. Others have blamed helicopter parents.
As the unofficial documentarian of Millennial sexuality, especially as it pertained to young women with her hit HBO show “Girls,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
"Morbius" star Jared Leto is an enigma. The actor first broke into mainstream consciousness in 1994 as Jordan Catalano on "My So-Called Life," and has since gone on to become an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning performer. Leto prides himself on being a method actor, frequently staying in character during the entire duration of film production, much to the chagrin of his fellow cast and crew. If his on-set antics weren't "terrifying" enough, his real life history of predatory behavior makes it even harder to champion his work when he does deliver...
The post Jared Leto Thinks This Horror Movie is His Worst Film, and Here's Why He's Wrong appeared first on /Film.
The post Jared Leto Thinks This Horror Movie is His Worst Film, and Here's Why He's Wrong appeared first on /Film.
- 4/5/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Jared Leto has done the comic book thing before.
Playing the Joker in the 2016 film “Suicide Squad” and again in Zack Snyder’s “Justice League” is a memory the 50-year-old actor looks back on fondly. “That role was an opportunity of a lifetime,” he says. “And I got a chance to do it twice.”
Getting to dramatize a villain as ubiquitous as the Clown Prince of Crime is delicious, but it doesn’t always leave a lot of new ground to break. Leto’s turn as the Joker came after Heath Ledger (in 2008’s “The Dark Knight”) and before Joaquin Phoenix (in 2019’s “Joker”), who both won Oscars for their interpretations.
So Leto was eager to get an offer for the lead role in “Morbius,” a superhero tentpole set in Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters, whom no actor has ever played in a movie or a TV show. Channeling...
Playing the Joker in the 2016 film “Suicide Squad” and again in Zack Snyder’s “Justice League” is a memory the 50-year-old actor looks back on fondly. “That role was an opportunity of a lifetime,” he says. “And I got a chance to do it twice.”
Getting to dramatize a villain as ubiquitous as the Clown Prince of Crime is delicious, but it doesn’t always leave a lot of new ground to break. Leto’s turn as the Joker came after Heath Ledger (in 2008’s “The Dark Knight”) and before Joaquin Phoenix (in 2019’s “Joker”), who both won Oscars for their interpretations.
So Leto was eager to get an offer for the lead role in “Morbius,” a superhero tentpole set in Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters, whom no actor has ever played in a movie or a TV show. Channeling...
- 3/16/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Talk about a star-studded WeWorkplace: Apple TV+ has given a series order to WeCrashed, a limited series starring Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto.
Based on the podcast of the same name, the drama explores “the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world’s most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible,” per the official synopsis. Lee Eisenberg (Little America) and Drew Crevello (The Long Dark) will serve as showrunners, with John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (This Is Us) directing.
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Based on the podcast of the same name, the drama explores “the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world’s most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible,” per the official synopsis. Lee Eisenberg (Little America) and Drew Crevello (The Long Dark) will serve as showrunners, with John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (This Is Us) directing.
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- 1/29/2021
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
After 26 years, the cast of ABC’s mid-’90s cult drama series My So-Called Life (minus one) got together for a virtual reunion on Zoom.
“So…This happened the other night,” Wilson Cruz, who played Rickie Vasquez on the teen drama, wrote on Twitter with a photo of the cast. “Most of the #MySoCalledLife cast was available for what turned out to be a very comforting, sweet, heartfelt and overdue reunion. We all have such love for each other, even 26 years later. It was overwhelming to see all of those faces together.”
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“So…This happened the other night,” Wilson Cruz, who played Rickie Vasquez on the teen drama, wrote on Twitter with a photo of the cast. “Most of the #MySoCalledLife cast was available for what turned out to be a very comforting, sweet, heartfelt and overdue reunion. We all have such love for each other, even 26 years later. It was overwhelming to see all of those faces together.”
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There was one...
- 4/16/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
What’s more exciting than scoring last-minute tickets to the Buffalo Tom show? An impromptu My So-Called Life reunion, shared by one of the cult hit’s cast members via social media.
Members of the ABC drama’s ensemble recently met up via Zoom for a “sweet, heartfelt and overdue reunion,” Wilson Cruz tweeted Wednesday evening.
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Members of the ABC drama’s ensemble recently met up via Zoom for a “sweet, heartfelt and overdue reunion,” Wilson Cruz tweeted Wednesday evening.
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- 4/16/2020
- TVLine.com
Everyone remembers the scene in My So Called Life where Angela celebrates getting over Jordan Catalano by dancing to the Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun” in her bedroom, or when the song was prominently featured in Gross Pointe Blank. (The band even made a new video for the film that starred a puppet version of Bill Clinton’s cat, Socks.)
Now, in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The Breakdown” series, Femmes frontman Gordan Gano and bassist Brian Ritchie discuss the making of their 1983 hit — and its long misinterpreted meaning.
Now, in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The Breakdown” series, Femmes frontman Gordan Gano and bassist Brian Ritchie discuss the making of their 1983 hit — and its long misinterpreted meaning.
- 11/13/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Through the years, as the Batman legend has kept evolving, so has his arch-villain nemesis: the Clown Prince of Crime. Every era gets the Joker it deserves, and under the greasepaint, this most iconic of bad guys is a complex character: He needs to be funny to become truly terrifying. Joaquin Phoenix is primed to take on the role in Todd Phillips’ heavily anticipated new Joker, but the intense star is just the latest wild card in a stacked deck of you-know-whats. Here’s a breakdown of the actors who...
- 10/2/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
After another mini-break, “Saturday Night Live” is back with a new episode and another first-time host: Sandra Oh. Unfortunately, there is no “Killing Eve” sketch — though BBC America takes care of that series promotion during one of the first commercial breaks — but there is some unexpected insanity that gets the season back on track, heading into the closing stretch.
Host: Sandra Oh
Oh, Sandra. Sandra Oh’s monologue gets this episode off to a pretty good start, as she lets the whole world know she’s Canadian, she’s Asian, and she’s now a United States citizen… but she also has absolutely no idea how to be assertive and braggadocious, as she’s Canadian, and she’s Asian. This isn’t a Leslie Jones-heavy episode — in fact, the entire joke of the later sketch she’s “supposed” to figure into involves her not actually getting to do anything...
Host: Sandra Oh
Oh, Sandra. Sandra Oh’s monologue gets this episode off to a pretty good start, as she lets the whole world know she’s Canadian, she’s Asian, and she’s now a United States citizen… but she also has absolutely no idea how to be assertive and braggadocious, as she’s Canadian, and she’s Asian. This isn’t a Leslie Jones-heavy episode — in fact, the entire joke of the later sketch she’s “supposed” to figure into involves her not actually getting to do anything...
- 3/31/2019
- by LaToya Ferguson
- Indiewire
“The problems of living with other vampires are the vampires I’ve chosen to stay with,” explains Nadja, one of the three creatures of the undead at the heart of FX’s new comedy series, What We Do in the Shadows.
A spin-off of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waitii’s hilarious 2014 mockumentary about vampire housemates, it transplants the idea from Wellington, New Zealand, to Staten Island, New York, where Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), her husband Laszlo (Matt Berry) and former Ottoman Empire warrior Nandor (Kayvan Novak) have shared a house for several unpleasant centuries,...
A spin-off of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waitii’s hilarious 2014 mockumentary about vampire housemates, it transplants the idea from Wellington, New Zealand, to Staten Island, New York, where Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), her husband Laszlo (Matt Berry) and former Ottoman Empire warrior Nandor (Kayvan Novak) have shared a house for several unpleasant centuries,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Rest in peace, Luke Perry — you walked so Jordan Catalano could run. The first time most of us saw him, he was bad boy Dylan McKay on the Nineties hit Beverly Hills, 90210, easily the best TV teen drama ever. He was the new kid in town, all smoldering eyebrows and Elvis sideburns. The first time he meets his best friend, Jason Priestley’s Brandon Walsh, he picks him up in his convertible. Brandon finds a book on the passenger seat — “Ah, a little leisure reading.” He’s shocked by the...
- 3/4/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Gifted, Good Trouble, Criminal Minds and Brooklyn Nine-Nine!
1 | In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, how is there no option to choose a pronunciation of “Stefan” that the characters can agree to all use?
2 | For what was dubbed “an Expendables episode,” was last week’s Hawaii Five-0 a bit light on firepower/pyrotechnics? As if they (ahem) expended it all in the fall finale face-off, in which Joe died?
3 | Is there any better feeling than...
1 | In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, how is there no option to choose a pronunciation of “Stefan” that the characters can agree to all use?
2 | For what was dubbed “an Expendables episode,” was last week’s Hawaii Five-0 a bit light on firepower/pyrotechnics? As if they (ahem) expended it all in the fall finale face-off, in which Joe died?
3 | Is there any better feeling than...
- 1/11/2019
- TVLine.com
Get ready to swoon over Peter Kavinsky all over again: Netflix is officially developing a sequel to its beloved original movie To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
The streaming giant announced its plans for the follow-up film with the following letter to fans, inspired by the love notes of protagonist Lara Jean Covey:
To All the Fans I’ve Loved Before — I miss you. I know it’s only been a few months and I swear I wasn’t trying to avoid you; I just didn’t know how to answer your question without lying to you. The...
The streaming giant announced its plans for the follow-up film with the following letter to fans, inspired by the love notes of protagonist Lara Jean Covey:
To All the Fans I’ve Loved Before — I miss you. I know it’s only been a few months and I swear I wasn’t trying to avoid you; I just didn’t know how to answer your question without lying to you. The...
- 12/19/2018
- TVLine.com
Receiving a superlative isn’t always super.
As TVLine’s 2018 in Review heads into its second half, Part 2 of our Best, Worst & Most roundup celebrates several couplings, toasts the loveliest wedding and hails TV’s No. 1 Mom and Dad — but we also cast some serious side-eye at the less-than-dynamic duos, hijacked nuptials and subpar parents.
Also singled out in this gallery (click here for direct access) are the year’s best and worst baddies, the guest stars that were criminally underused, (on-screen) deaths both pointless and humorous, the “super” couple we can only wish comes true, and this year’s...
As TVLine’s 2018 in Review heads into its second half, Part 2 of our Best, Worst & Most roundup celebrates several couplings, toasts the loveliest wedding and hails TV’s No. 1 Mom and Dad — but we also cast some serious side-eye at the less-than-dynamic duos, hijacked nuptials and subpar parents.
Also singled out in this gallery (click here for direct access) are the year’s best and worst baddies, the guest stars that were criminally underused, (on-screen) deaths both pointless and humorous, the “super” couple we can only wish comes true, and this year’s...
- 12/14/2018
- TVLine.com
Charlie Puth released the music video for his latest single, "The Way I Am," which shows that he's not afraid to be vulnerable on camera. The video shows Puth at his broodiest during a raging house party, and gives us major My So-Called Life's Jordan Catalano vibes in the process, to be honest. While everyone around him seems to have a great time dancing and socializing, the singer moves from room to room, lamenting the shallowness of it all and promises whether we love or hate him, he's just going to keep being the way he is. And still get the girl, of course.
- 7/13/2018
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
In the '90s, were there three letters dreamier than J-t-t? Maybe you say, indeed there were. Thanks to the popularity of Home Improvement, Jonathan Taylor Thomas became one of the most popular heartthrobs during that decade, adorning many teenagers' walls and now-defunct teen magazines with his smiling presence. Joining him were the likes of Jared Leto, who played bad boy Jordan Catalano on MTV's short-lived cult teen series My So-Called Life. He was so good at staring. And his fans loved—and many still do love—to stare right back at him. And Leonardo DiCaprio...yup, an Og '90s heartthrob. Speaking of bad boys, Ryan Phillippe's...
- 4/10/2018
- E! Online
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