One of the major arcs of Boardwalk Empire's second season involved a conspiracy, led by Dabney Coleman's the Commodore, to overthrow Nucky Thompson. The way the story shook out, of course, was that [first of many spoilers] the Commodore quickly becomes incapacitated with illness, leaving his conspirators to fend for themselves. But during an interview for an upcoming Random Roles with Coleman, our contributor Will Harris learned something that wasn't exactly public knowledge until now: The plotline changed as a direct result of Dabney Coleman's real-life diagnosis with throat cancer, which occasionally affected his ability to ...
- 10/8/2012
- avclub.com
It's Sunday afternoon, or: your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "David Cronenberg: How I seduced Rob Pattinson," by Andrew O'Hehir (Salon): In an interview about his new movie, Cosmopolis, the director talks about adapting Don DeLillo's book into a screenplay, and how he ended up casting R-Pat in the resulting film. "Nw," by Zadie Smith (Guardian): An excerpt from the author's forthcoming fourth novel, a "dazzling portrait of modern London" seven years in the making. "Global Stewarts," (Foreign Policy in Focus): A roundup of Jon Stewart's international counterparts, featuring political gadflies from China, Venezuela, France, India, Egypt, and pretty much everywhere in between. "Kelsey Grammer on Boss, Frasier, and Toy Story 2’s 'repressed little shit,'" by Will Harris (A.
- 8/19/2012
- by Andre Tartar,Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
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