David Handelman, a print journalist turned TV writer who worked on the Aaron Sorkin series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Newsroom, has died. He was 63.
Handelman died Aug. 15 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York from complications of Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a rare blood cancer, producer David Van Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter.
Handelman also wrote for the 2006 CBS series Love Monkey; for season six (2008-09) of The CW’s One Tree Hill; for season two (2013-14) of ABC’s Nashville; and for season three (2015) of DirecTV’s Rogue.
Most recently, he was a staff producer and writer for almost a decade on CNN’s Smerconish, which paid tribute to him on the air in the days after his death.
Before television, Handelman was a staff writer at Rolling Stone, covering everyone from Beastie Boys and Talking Heads to Sam Kinison, folk...
Handelman died Aug. 15 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York from complications of Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a rare blood cancer, producer David Van Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter.
Handelman also wrote for the 2006 CBS series Love Monkey; for season six (2008-09) of The CW’s One Tree Hill; for season two (2013-14) of ABC’s Nashville; and for season three (2015) of DirecTV’s Rogue.
Most recently, he was a staff producer and writer for almost a decade on CNN’s Smerconish, which paid tribute to him on the air in the days after his death.
Before television, Handelman was a staff writer at Rolling Stone, covering everyone from Beastie Boys and Talking Heads to Sam Kinison, folk...
- 9/17/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Conor Oberst praised the music and art of Daniel Johnston and remembered the unique spirit of the late outsider folk hero, who died Wednesday of natural causes at the age of 58.
Oberst said he was “lucky enough” to have played several shows with Johnston over the past two decades, but noted that prior to those gigs many people warned him that Johnston might “act ‘crazy’ or ‘off’ or something.” But, Oberst said, he never encountered that side of Johnston.
“When I locked eyes, and was talking with him, I felt...
Oberst said he was “lucky enough” to have played several shows with Johnston over the past two decades, but noted that prior to those gigs many people warned him that Johnston might “act ‘crazy’ or ‘off’ or something.” But, Oberst said, he never encountered that side of Johnston.
“When I locked eyes, and was talking with him, I felt...
- 9/12/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
True Stories
Blu ray
Criterion
1986 / 1.85:1 / 89 Min. / Street Date – November 27, 2018
Starring David Byrne, John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Pops Staples
Cinematography by Ed Lachman
Directed by David Byrne
A concert film filmed over four nights at the Pantages Theater in 1983, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense has the redemptive quality of a classic noir – as Talking Heads’ music churns from slow simmer to barn-burning tent-show revival, band leader David Byrne contends with his own Hollywood style character arc – at movie’s end the “tense and nervous” loner has reclaimed his soul in more ways than one.
The success of Demme’s film lead to Byrne’s next incarnation, as a movie director and oddball tour guide investigating a small southwestern town in 1986’s True Stories. Animated by unpredictable mood swings, quirky tempos and cosmopolitan naiveté, it’s the cinematic equivalent of a Talking Heads song.
After an introductory film within a...
Blu ray
Criterion
1986 / 1.85:1 / 89 Min. / Street Date – November 27, 2018
Starring David Byrne, John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Pops Staples
Cinematography by Ed Lachman
Directed by David Byrne
A concert film filmed over four nights at the Pantages Theater in 1983, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense has the redemptive quality of a classic noir – as Talking Heads’ music churns from slow simmer to barn-burning tent-show revival, band leader David Byrne contends with his own Hollywood style character arc – at movie’s end the “tense and nervous” loner has reclaimed his soul in more ways than one.
The success of Demme’s film lead to Byrne’s next incarnation, as a movie director and oddball tour guide investigating a small southwestern town in 1986’s True Stories. Animated by unpredictable mood swings, quirky tempos and cosmopolitan naiveté, it’s the cinematic equivalent of a Talking Heads song.
After an introductory film within a...
- 12/15/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
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