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There’s “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” and then there’s “How to Sufficiently Interview Someone Whose Work You’ve Spent Countless Meaningful Hours with While Over Zoom to Promote a Film About Themselves, All Inside of Eight Minutes.” Who knows what number among the hundreds of thousands (millions?) that have attended U2 concerts in the last 45 years would sell an arm and leg for limited time of any kind with Bono, whose odd mixture of talent, sincerity, and absurdity have left an imprint on fans that goes well past the standard rockstar glitz and glamour.

My own opportunity arose via “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” Andrew Dominik’s cinematic rendition of a one-man stage show that itself condensed Bono’s compelling, self-effacing memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.” Those who read that book will recognize many stories captured herein, though they’ve been jumbled around, reanimated by Bono’s buoyant presence,...

Charles Strouse, the musical composer for such Broadway hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, films including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) and All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) and for the TV series All In The Family, died at his home in New York City on May 15. He was 96.

His death was announced by his children Benjamin, Nicholas, Victoria, and William Strouse., and was nominated for Golden Boy, Charlie & Algernon, Rags, and Nick & Nora.

Strouse was born on June 7, 1928 in New York City, the son of Ethel (Newman) and Ira Strouse. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 1947, he received two scholarships to Tanglewood, where he studied under composer Aaron Copland. Subsequently, Copland arranged for Strouse to get a scholarship with legendary teacher, Nadia Boulanger, in Paris.

Strouse met songwriting partner, lyricist Adams, at a party in 1949, and the duo began a longtime collaboration starting with writing songs for summer resorts in the Adirondacks. Strouse and Adams contributed material to numerous Off-Broadway musical revues, including Catch a Star, Shoestring Revue, The Littlest Revue and Kaleidoscope, and wrote specialty material for Kaye Ballard, Carol Burnett, Jane Morgan and Dick Shawn.

In 1958, Strouse and lyricist, Fred Tobias wrote the chart-topping pop song “Born Too Late” (recorded by The Poni-Tails), and it was in that same year that Strouse and Adams had their Broadway breakthrough. They were hired by producer Edward Padula to write a satirical musical about rock and roll and teen idol culture. The show, Bye Bye Birdie, became their first Tony Award-winning hit. The production starred Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke and won four 1961 Tony Awards including Best Musical, earning Strouse the first of his three Tony Awards.

The show introduced the world to such songs as “Put On A Happy Face,” and “A Lot of Livin’ to Do.” A 1962 movie version, starring Ann-Margret, was one of the top-grossing films of the year, and featured Margret’s now iconic performance of the film’s newly added title song, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Strouse would later win a 1996 Emmy Award for the new song, “Let’s Settle Down,” written with Adams and added for the musical’s 1995 TV adaptation, starring Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams.

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Additional collaborations with Adams include the Mel Brooks musical All American (1962) starring Ray Bolger. Though the show was not a commercial success, it featured what would become the popular American standard “Once Upon a Time”. Golden Boy (1963), a musical adaptation of the play by Clifford Odets starred Sammy Davis Jr., garnered Strouse his second Tony Award nomination. It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane… It’s Superman! gave audiences another popular Strouse & Adams song, “You’ve Got Possibilities” (first recorded by Linda Lavin). And in 1970, when the team wrote the score for Applause (based on the film All About Eve and Mary Orr’s The Wisdom of Eve and starring Lauren Bacall), Strouse would win his second Tony Award.

Strouse’s biggest Broadway success was with collaborators Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan on Annie (1977), based on the comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie,” by Harold Gray. The Depression-era musical about a plucky red-headed orphan girl who wins the heart of billionaire Oliver Warbucks, was one of Broadway’s biggest hits of the 1970s, winning seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and garnering Strouse his third Tony Award and a Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album. Strouse’s score included “Tomorrow,” “It’s the Hard–Knock Life,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” and “I Don’t Need Anything But You.” Annie ran for over 2,300 performances on Broadway, where it has been revived twice and has inspired hundreds of worldwide productions. It has also been adapted for two film and two television productions.

Strouse was passionate about collaboration and would earn Tony Award nominations for his scores with lyricists: David Rogers, Charlie & Algernon (1980), based on the novel Flowers for Algernon, Steven Schwartz, for Rags (1986), with book writer Joseph Stein starring Teresa Stratas, and Nick and Nora (1991), a musical based on Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man characters, written with Richard Maltby, Jr.

Strouse’s film scores include Bonnie and Clyde (1967) starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, There Was a Crooked Man (1970), with Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas, Sidney Lumet’s Just Tell Me What You Want, and the animated feature All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989).

In addition to his awards, Strouse was the recipient of several honorary doctorates. He was a longtime member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, inducted in 1985, and the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Strouse also composed orchestral works, chamber music, piano concertos, and an opera. His original piano work, Concerto America, was composed in 2002 to commemorate 9/11 and premiered at The Boston Pops in 2004. His opera Nightingale (1982), starring Sarah Brightman, had a successful run in London, followed by many subsequent productions.

In 1977, Strouse founded the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, through which many young composers and lyricists honed their craft and developed their work. Strouse authored the autobiography Put on a Happy Face: A Broadway Memoir, published by Union Square Press in July 2008.

In addition to his four children, Strouse is survived by eight grandchildren, Sam and Arthur Strouse, Navah Strouse, Vivian, Weston and Ever Brush, and Owen and Theodore Strouse.

A private ceremony will be held at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in New York City.

Plot: After the loss of his mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with a group of local grandmothers as the chefs.

Review: What is more comforting than a home-cooked meal made by your grandmother? It is a cliche that holds in the hearts of countless people regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion. Good, heartwarming food can be as powerful an emotional trigger as anything. The new Netflix comedy, Nonnas, aims to hit you right in the feels with a sweet, family-friendly comedy about one man’s quest to open a restaurant in honor of his late mother by employing local Italian grandmothers, the titular nonnas, to be the chefs in his Staten Island establishment. With a cast of Italian-Americans evoking a story inspired by the real Enoteca Maria in New York, Nonnas is a safe and formulaic movie perfectly timed to Mother’s Day weekend.

Carolyn Raskin, the pioneering Emmy-winning producer who worked on four highly rated Frank Sinatra TV specials and the first four seasons of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, has died. She was 97.

She died Sept. 24 at her home in Sherman Oaks, her nephew Mark Raskin told The Hollywood Reporter. Her family chose not to announce her death until now.

Raskin also collaborated with Dinah Shore on NBC’s The Dinah Shore Chevy Show from 1959-63; on the singer’s 1969 NBC special, Like Hep; on her 1974-80 syndicated daytime talk show, Dinah!; and on her 1976 CBS summer replacement series, Dinah and Her New Best Friends.

In 1968, the Los Angeles Times named her a “Woman of the Year” for her accomplishments in television.

Raskin was born on Aug. 22, 1927, in Sioux City, Iowa. After attending the University of Iowa, she was a social worker but “found it terribly depressing to be exposed to such tremendous problems 10 hours a day,...

Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg retains its direct appeal to the eyes, ears, and tear ducts after more than 60 years, with an emotionalism that’s shameless but never crass. A melodrama about first love set in the French port city of the title, it stood as a bold reinvention of the movie musical in 1964, just as the genre was beginning a nosedive in its Hollywood birthplace.

It became an international hit celebrated for Michel Legrand’s sung-through score, a primary-color palette that gave its settings the aura of a fairy tale, and Demy’s success in getting audiences to blubber at the pathos of thwarted romance, decorously adding elements like teen pregnancy and prostitution that were unseen in the Hollywood musical. If the aesthetics of characters bursting into song was starting to meet with resistance as the Beatles prepared to storm the globe, Demy consciously upped the ante...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Colman Domingo‘s directorial debut Scandalous!, which is set to star Sydney Sweeney as Kim Novak and David Jonsson as Sammy Davis Jr., is heading to the Cannes market for international sales with Patrick Wachsberger’s 193.

193 is handling international sales for Miramax. The film will chart the clandestine love affair between film star Novak and singer/dancer and actor Davis Jr.

The movie will chart the explosive true story of a forbidden romance at the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In 1957, Novak (Sweeney), one of the biggest box office stars of her time and the luminous face of Vertigo, falls for Davis Jr. (Jonsson), the multi-talented Rat Pack sensation who defied boundaries of race and fame. Their affair, unfolding in the shadows of Jim Crow America, sparks a firestorm. With the Mafia circling, studio heads panicking, and even Frank Sinatra walking a tightrope between friendship and fallout,...

What do entertainers as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Rod Serling have in common? Each one adored The Andy Griffith Show. Serling, the brain behind The Twilight Zone, another enduring television classic, even described Andy Griffith as “one of the few genuinely funny comedies in the medium” in a 1963 TV Guide Magazine article that reported he often visited the nearby set. “What hits me is that the people are characters,” he added, “not caricatures.” That’s certainly been key to The Andy Griffith Show‘s longevity. The actor’s canny sheriff, Andy Taylor, and the other mildly eccentric and eminently lovable residents of the small Southern town of Mayberry have entertained generations for 65 years — even ones who weren’t yet born when the sitcom premiered on CBS on October 3, 1960. Viewers still laugh, cry, and empathize, which is why, each May, MeTV rolls out its annual “Month of...

What would Jesse Solomon do? Parlay his reality-tv stardom into a full-blown music career, of course.

Solomon, who made his debut on Bravo’s Summer House last year, has been open about his love for music from his first moment on the show, often showing off his vocal skills on camera. At the end of Season Eight, he even delivered a now-viral hit about his fellow housemates, “What Would Jesse Solomon Do?” But now, Solomon is getting serious about his future in music with the release of a new solo track,...

It's May, which means with the upcoming warmer months (north of the equator), we get more beachy films. Or, at least, a warmer and fluffier feel as far as the films we see on Netflix. The comedy will be fun, and the drama less emotionally upsetting. Well, maybe.

To be sure, we might get more Beach Bingo-type things than Ironweed. Both are fine films, though one is better suited for winter, while the other is more suitable for summer. We like both, but we need them at specific times of the year.

Which films and series should you stream on Netflix beginning May 1? Here are some suggestions. All will entertain you.

Four gems to stream on Netflix to begin May 2025Ocean's Eleven (2001)

While some might not remember it, this film is a remake of an original that featured Frank Sinatra and others of the Rat Pack. That 1960 film is fun,...

Marlon Brando As The Godfather’s Don Corleone(Photo Credit –Facebook)

It’s tough to picture anyone other than Marlon Brando as the infamous Don Corleone in The Godfather. His portrayal of the mob boss became legendary, with his iconic voice, physical transformation, and those unforgettable mannerisms. But, as with most things in Hollywood, The Godfather wasn’t without its behind-the-scenes drama.

Brando almost didn’t get the role, despite Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola fighting tooth and nail to get him in the part. Paramount Studios wanted someone else, and a slew of other stars, some of them not even actors, were considered for the role. Imagine The Godfather with a completely different Don! The fight for Corleone almost turned into a Hollywood showdown, but in the end, Brando’s test reel had everyone eating out of his hand, securing his place in cinematic history.

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Winning an Oscar can truly change the trajectory of an actor's career. Naturally, it isn't everything, and some performers do just fine without ever winning an Academy Award. However, taking home the trophy proves that an actor has earned the respect of their peers, and if they play their cards right and make smart business decisions, they can have a very bright future ahead of them. 

Jennifer Lawrence became a Hollywood darling in large part thanks to her Best Actress win for "Silver Linings Playbook," and Halle Berry made history as the first Black woman to win the Best Actress statue for her work in "Monster's Ball." It's fascinating to consider what opportunities would've been in store for them had those iconic roles gone to somebody else, and that was almost the case. For those performers and many others, they weren't the first pick for their Oscar-winning roles. Someone else...

The long-awaited trailer has arrived for A24’s The Smashing Machine, a prestige swing for Dwayne Johnson, one of the biggest movie stars in the world known for blockbusters and spectacle rather than (relatively) stripped down indies.

Johnson stars as Mark Kerr, the real-life two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion who was the subject of the 2002 HBO documentary of the same name that detailed Kerr’s journey and struggles with addiction to pain killers.

Set to Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” the trailer shows Johnson sporting prosthetics on his face to help him better resemble Kerr, as well as speaking with an Ohio-area accent rather than his trademark booming voice.

Benny Safdie wrote and directed the project, which stars frequent Johnson collaborator Emily Blunt as Kerr’s wife. Blunt played matchmaker between Johnson and Safdie, after appearing with him in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

The Smashing Machine is a career pendulum swing for Johnson,...

Mafia Word Omission From The Godfather(Photo Credit –Prime Video)

It turns out that The Godfather’s absence of a specific infamous word wasn’t an accident, nor was it a subtle nod to classier storytelling; it was merely a survival instinct. Fans are only now connecting the dots, realizing why that single term, so central to the story’s real-life inspiration, is nowhere to be found in the script.

The production wasn’t just navigating the usual Hollywood egos and budget constraints behind the scenes. They were toeing a line that most wouldn’t dare cross as it could have dealt directly with the real-life underworld.

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At the time, the Italian-American Civil Rights League, headed by none other than mob boss Joe Colombo, was up in arms. They claimed the term “mafia” was a slur against Italian-Americans, and they made their opposition known in a...

Cj Group vice chair Miky Lee, the power player behind Oscar history-maker “Parasite,” will add another honor to her collection when she receives the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

The executive, who has spent three decades as a driving force in elevating Korean entertainment to international prominence, joins an elite roster of 2025 honorees that includes Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Pfizer’s Albert Bourla and Nobel laureates Dr. James Patrick Allison and former Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu.

“We are thrilled to include Miky Lee as one of this year’s prestigious honorees,” the Ellis Island Honors Society said in announcing Lee’s selection. “Over the past three decades, Miky Lee, vice chair of Cj Group, has been instrumental in elevating Korean culture to the world stage. As the executive producer of groundbreaking films like ‘Parasite’ – the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for best picture – and ‘Decision to Leave,...

How did Jeff Goldblum get one of the world’s biggest pop stars to sing on his new jazz album? As he explains on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Ariana Grande’s lovely take on “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)” on Goldblum’s Still Blooming, recorded with his band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, came down to sheer proximity and an unexpected musical kinship. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play below.

Clint Eastwood was the Man with no Name in the ‘60s, but in the ‘70s, everyone knew who Harry Callahan was. The no-nonsense cop from the Sfpd in Dirty Harry was known for his swift justice ways, which did not sit well with some of the sensibilities at the time. However, it did receive a lot of fanfare too, inspiring a bunch of cop films of a similar kind.

Eastwood was not the first actor to be approached to play Harry Callahan. The script reportedly went through several iterations before the Gran Torino star accepted the role. However, he was reportedly given multiple drafts of the script, which ranged from its original vision of a loose cannon cop to an action extravaganza much like the Fast and Furious films.

Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry almost became an over-the-top, pulpy action film Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry | Credits: Warner Bros.

The ‘70s were a tough decade,...

Followers of musicals will likely remember the 1955 Oscar-nominated classic Guys and Dolls, directed by legendary Hollywood director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Herman’s brother). The movie was a critical and commercial success at the time, and while it is not a top-tier musical, it is still a major classic.

Now, in an era when old movies are being remade, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a remake of Guys and Dolls is currently in pre-production and while it is still in very early phases of development, we have an interesting rumor related to it.

Namely, according to a new rumor, the movie is aiming to land a major A-list actress as its star!

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The rumor in question comes from DanielRPK via his Patreon account. As you know, DanielRPK is a popular Hollywood rumor mill who...

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In the latest season of Black Mirror, Issa Rae’s Hollywood A-list actor Brandy Friday is thrown into an immersive high-tech remake of a vintage romantic movie, “Hotel Reverie”. There’s sweeping shots of a grand lobby in black and white, lush gardens, grand pianos, wealthy octogenarians with tiny dogs — and all the glamour and nostalgia of the bygone Golden Era of Hollywood.

It’s hard to still...

Lorrie Morgan was one of the hottest country artists throughout the 1990s. She released a studio album in 2024 called Dead Girl Walking. The singer’s manager revealed that Lorrie Morgan’s tour for the foreseeable future was canceled after her husband’s emergency hospitalization. What happened?

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Lorrie Morgan had hit after hit in the 1990s. Her career kicked off in 1989 with her first single, “Trainwreck of Emotion,” from her debut album Leave A Light On. The album had several hits, including “Five Minutes,” which was her first number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart.

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Her follow up album in 1991, Something In Red, featured a cover of the George Jones classic, “A Picture of Me (Without You.)” During her long career, the singer sang with everyone from Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, and Dolly Parton.

At the height of her popularity,...

Johnny Carson met just about every famous person he could during his 30-year run as Tonight Show host. Yet one screen legend threw Carson off so much that he never quite understood why.

Carson welcomed icons like Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, and Muhammed Ali. In his signature style, the Tonight Show host played it cool and kept the laughs coming as millions tuned in to watch his interviews.

But Carson admitted that one guest threw him for a loop. He told Betty White during a 1987 Tonight Show episode (via YouTube) that screen legend Audrey Hepburn "bothered" him.

“Strangely enough, the one time I got bothered on this show was with the one night Audrey Hepburn was on,” Carson said. “And I don’t know why.”

Carson continued, trying to find the right way to describe Hepburn's personality and why that may not have translated to a good late-night TV show guest.

James Marsden is set to join season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple’s dark-comedy drama series starring Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, and Olivia Munn. Marsden will be a series regular in the new season, which has already started production.

Created by Jonathan Tropper, Your Friends & Neighbors revolves around Andrew ‘Coop’ Cooper (Hamm), “a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce who resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.” Marsden is believed to be playing a guy who comes from money and has a relationship with Munn’s character.

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Don Mischer, a director and producer whose six-decade career shaped some of the most-watched live broadcasts in American television history, died in his sleep on April 11 in Los Angeles. He was 85.

Mischer had just completed what he said would be his final production, the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Santa Monica. Hosted by James Corden with a performance by Katy Perry, the event featured a guest list of celebrities and tech figures and was streamed online.

From Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympic ceremonies to the Academy Awards and Kennedy Center Honors, Mischer built a reputation as one of the most trusted figures in live television. He won 15 Emmy Awards, 10 Directors Guild of America Awards, a Peabody, two NAACP Image Awards, and received lifetime achievement honors from both the DGA and PGA.

Donald Leo Mischer was born March 5, 1940, in San Antonio. His father worked in insurance, and his mother died of...

Don Mischer, one of the preeminent live-event directors of the past six decades, died peacefully in his sleep last night, April 11, in Los Angeles. The 15-time Emmy winner was 85.

Mischer did not stop working until the end and passed away just as he was finally planning to retire for good.

“I want you to know that, after more than six decades in television, I will be doing my last show tomorrow on Saturday, April 5th here in Los Angeles,” he told Deadline last week. “I started at the PBS station in Austin at the University of Texas campus in 1963, and I turned 85 last week. Man, it feels like time has just flown by.”

Mischer’s final show was the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, hosted by James Corden, which took place at Barker Hangar Santa Monica with tech titans and A-list celebrity attending and Katy Perry among those performing. The ceremony, nicknamed the Oscars of Science,...

For many people, the character of Lieutenant Columbo, the disheveled detective portrayed with a perfect mix of earnestness and deprecation by Peter Falk, is as comforting as a fictional character can be. He is the true ideal for justice, frequently taking down the rich and powerful through the sheer power of being an annoying little guy who pays close attention. Indeed, every episode of "Columbo" offers at least some kind of comfort for the audience. The show ran for decades, from 1968 to 2003 (though there were some gaps), with Columbo becoming a crucial part of pop culture along the way, being referenced in everything from "The Simpsons" to "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." 

One especially memorable "Columbo" reference, however, was created by Falk himself when he gave a truly hilarious performance as the titular character outside of the actual show. In 1978, the actor appeared in-character as Columbo on "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast,...

The first time Marilyn Monroe, as the perfectly named Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, walks onto the screen in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, even the train—with a whistle of steam—can’t resist catcalling her. Heading off to front the Sweet Sues, an all-girl brass band starting a residency as the house band at a posh Florida hotel, Sugar Kane has vowed to land a rich hubby, and the way she retrieves a flask of whiskey from her garter, it’s hard to imagine any man passing up the opportunity. And yet, most men that enter Wilder’s frame are far more interested in Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, dolled-up in drag to secure places in the Sweet Sues and hide out from the gangsters they witnessed mowing down a snitch and his associates in a garage—a recreation of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Even the gangsters,...

Martin Scorsese has never gone more than four years without releasing a movie, and it’s unlikely that will ever be the case. His planned Frank Sinatra biopic and The Life of Jesus are postponed indefinitely, but his next movie could be lined up at Disney. Considering how close Scorsese tends to release his movies, we do have to wonder: what’s next? But it’s not just us – it’s Marty himself.

Martin Scorsese, who is one of many of the Movie Brats in their 80s, knows that time is limited. But what will he have going for him in the near future? Speaking with USA Today, the director said, “I don’t know what’s next; I’ve got to get going here…I have some reading to do.” Since we do know that Scorsese’s next movie will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson (yeah…...

Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will reprise her role as movie star Ava Gardner in the play Ava: The Secret Conversations at New York City Center this summer. The play, written by McGovern, premiered in 2023 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

The New York production, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and produced by Karl Sydow, begins performances July 30, with an official opening on August 7. Ava, which will also feature Aaron Costa Ganis as writer Peter Evans, will play a strictly limited engagement through September 13.

The synopsis: “At the height of the Golden Age of Cinema, starlet Ava Gardner sat for a series of interviews with writer Peter Evans for him to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and her turbulent relationship to Howard Hughes. Initially barred from publication, Evans’ account of a bygone era was published twenty-five years...

What do The Fox and the Hound, Fantasia, and The Manchurian Candidate all have in common? They're all movies the cast and crew of Mufasa: The Lion King would place next to the Disney prequel's physical release on their shelves. Barry Jenkins's box-office-busting photorealistic animated musical drama is coming to store shelves on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on April 1, and to celebrate, Collider can share an exclusive video with the stars involved talking through what films deserve to sit with their creation. Whether for sentimental reasons, a Disney connection, or because they prefer to be neat and alphabetized, each person featured has a different answer for how they're displaying the new release with the movies they own.

The video opens with one of the film's two stars, Kelvin Harrison Jr., who plays Taka/Scar. Considering Mufasa is all about brothers, he thinks The Fox and the Hound...

Following the success of the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, many fans are surely discovering more details about the famed musician, and one of the shocking information they have certainly found out was his alleged beef with filmmaker Woody Allen.

It’s been a long time since Dylan made a startling statement about the veteran director, who was embroiled in a disgraceful controversy following his marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s former girlfriend.

Woody Allen / Credits: CBS Sunday Morning Bob Dylan allegedly hated Woody Allen so much that he vowed to smack him in the face

It’s no secret that Bob Dylan displayed bouts of aggression throughout his career. Whether this was something innate in him or a coping mechanism to deal with the pressure of Hollywood fame, we don’t know, but we do know that he had once threatened to...

Martin Scorsese's near-$200 million historical epic is coming to streaming in April. The 2002 crime drama Gangs of New York started the filmmaker's long working relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Paramount+ subscribers will be able to stream Gangs of New York beginning on Tuesday, April 1 — though they might want to settle in because the sprawling period drama clocks in at 168 minutes. DiCaprio leads the movie as the vengeful son of an Irish gang leader who returns to New York City as an adult intent on revenge.

Gangs of New York Comes to Streaming on April 1

Daniel Day-Lewis delivers one of his most acclaimed performances in Gangs of New York as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, in a fictionalized portrayal of the real leader of the Washington Street Gang, William Poole. Scorsese's tense drama builds up a confrontation between Amsterdam (DiCaprio) and Bill the Butcher for nearly three hours before their...

Beginning in the 1920s and occurring almost annually since 1941, the White House Correspondents Association (the Whca) has held a fundraising dinner that brings together Republicans and Democrats for one evening, and features performers who traditionally lambaste both sides of the aisle. The dinner supports journalists and students, and has generally been the D.C. equivalent of the Met Gala or the Academy Awards. Many great comedians, musicians, and others have performed at the event, including Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, James Cagney, Duke Ellington, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Peter Sellers, Chevy Chase, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart, Ray Romano, Aretha Franklin, Cedric the Entertainer, Ray Charles, Drew Carey, Seth Meyers, and more. Amber Ruffin was supposed to perform at the April 26 dinner this year. That won't be happening, apparently.

Ruffin is an Emmy- and Tony-nominated comedian and writer known for writing and performing for Late Night with Seth Meyers,...

Leonardo DiCaprio is making his Paul Thomas Anderson debut with a trippy political satire film.

Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” which is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1997 novel “Vineland,” stars DiCaprio as a civil rights activist who joins an anti-government group to combat an “alt-right” white supremacist organization. Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, and Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” alum Alana Haim co-star as DiCaprio’s fellow activists; Sean Penn, who also had an iconic supporting role in “Licorice Pizza,” plays a white nationalist leader. Benicio del Toro, Shayna McHale, Wood Harris, and “Presumed Innocent” actress Chase Infiniti, who plays DiCaprio’s onscreen daughter, also star.

Anderson wrote the script and produced the film alongside Sara Murphy and the late Adam Somner. The feature, which was shot on 35mm film using VistaVision cameras, is getting an IMAX release from Warner Bros. This is Anderson’s first film since his 2021 feature “Licorice Pizza.

Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour premieres in theaters on March 28 before coming to Mubi on April 18.Grand Tour.Some years ago, I traveled nearly the length of Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. That winter was warm, as nearly all are now, but a Siberian winter is still winter by any definition, and for two weeks I shivered my way from Ulaanbaatar to Moscow. I slipped on the vast frozen expanse of Lake Baikal, visited a museum dedicated to the painter Nicholas Roerich where all the paintings were fakes, saw a cathedral built atop the merchant house where in one night the entire Romanov line had been eliminated. On the leg from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk I shared a cabin with three men. I do not speak Russian, and for twenty-eight hours we managed to communicate via gestures and photos and sentence fragments ventured in halting English. They wanted to know where I was coming from,...

Exclusive: After posting record box office figures in Greece, Stelios, a biopic of the revered Greek musician Stelios Kazantzidis, is heading stateside for a theatrical release via Firestorm Entertainment.

Firestorm will release the flick in theaters across the U.S. and Canada from May 9th.

Directed by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos and produced by Tanweer Productions, Stelios stars Christos Mastoras, lead singer of the band Melisses, as Kazantzidis. Since its release in Greece in December, Stelios has passed 920,000 admissions, quickly climbing the local charts to become the fourth highest-grossing Greek film of all time.

The film explores Kazantzidis’s unique life story, from his childhood as a Pontus refugee to his start in the music business and how he became one of Greece’s most beloved artists. Best known for his tunes which mixed Greek rebetiko and laïko traditions, Kazantzakis was regarded as the voice of the people. His songs often explored themes of love,...

I’ve got some cool news for movie fans today. The first teaser for ‘One Battle After Another’, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead, is out now, and it’s already got me hooked. Paul Thomas Anderson’s behind this crime thriller, and it’s heading to theaters on September 26. That little sneak peek has me counting the days.

The teaser gives us a quick taste of what’s coming. It’s got DiCaprio fronting a stacked cast—Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Benicio Del Toro, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, and Wood Harris all show up. Anderson’s directing and wrote the script, taking a modern stab at Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’. We’re talking ex-revolutionaries back together after 16 years, chasing down an old foe to save a friend’s daughter.

What I love about this teaser is the vibe. It’s got car chases, some dark laughs, and Sean Penn...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s mysterious film finally has a title — and a new release date. Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” which has been deemed his most “commercial” project yet, reunites him with Warner Bros. Pictures film chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, the executives who produced Anderson’s most recent film, his 2021 feature “Licorice Pizza.” De Luca also brought “Boogie Nights” to the screen during his New Line tenure.

With “One Battle After Another,” auteur Anderson is working with both new and familiar faces, the biggest of whom is Leonardo DiCaprio, who is making his PTA debut with the comedy-thriller. It’s a “Licorice Pizza” reunion for Anderson with Alana Haim and Sean Penn; the cast also includes Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Shayna McHale, Wood Harris, and “Presumed Innocent” star Chase Infiniti, who plays DiCaprio’s onscreen daughter.

The teaser still leaves a lot of...

Joe McFadden, a music industry executive who had stints at Emi, Capitol Records and Better Noise Music and worked with acts including Merle Haggard, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, Bob Seger and Mötley Crüe, has died. He was 77.

McFadden died March 11 in Chatsworth, California, after a long illness, a publicist announced.

Born on Nov. 16, 1947, in Tracy, California, McFadden earned a degree in business administration and management from Fresno State University and worked with his father, Jack, in Bakersfield managing such notable artists as Haggard and Buck Owens.

He started out with Emi in 1975 before joining its label Capitol and serving as its senior vp sales and field marketing from 1985-2007. There, he worked with McCartney, Seger, Coldplay, Bonnie Raitt, Megadeth, Duran Duran, Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Iron Maiden and was involved in campaigns for The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and The Beach Boys.

McFadden left Capitol to open his own independent business,...

Picture the scene: You've been dating this great person for a while and it's time to find out whether they're a keeper. One night over cheeseburgers and vanilla Cokes you decide to pop the question: "Hey, do you like 'Rio Bravo?'" By his own admission, that was a criteria for a successful relationship in director Quentin Tarantino's younger years and he has called Howard Hawks' classic western of the greatest hang-out movies of all time. Depending on your point of view, spending two hours hanging out with John Wayne might not sound like the most appealing prospect, but there is little denying he was a screen icon despite his personal flaws. In "Rio Bravo," we find the Duke at his most engaging and charismatic, and the movie was so successful that it launched an unofficial trilogy.

Released in 1959, "Rio Bravo" was born out of Howard Hawks and...

British royal family news reveals that royalists the world over are familiar with King Charles, and the former reigning monarch, his mother the late Queen Elizabeth.

The family’s trials and travails are well chronicled each and every day, especially the tawdry antics of failed Prince Harry and his first wife Meghan Markle. But Monaco’s royal family takes the cake in the royal scandal sweepstakes.

Known as the House of Grimaldi, the family have been in power since 1297, operating from the Palais Princier, a lavish fortress that looks out over the Mediterranean sea and the gambling mecca of Monte Carlo. Here’s a who’s who of the ultra glam royals who have been making headlines for centuries. That Is the Polar Opposite Of King

Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene

Prince Albert is the reigning Prince of Monaco, born in 1958 to Prince Rainier and American movie star Grace Kelly.

Meghan Markle’s estranged father, Thomas Markle, has slammed his daughter’s new Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan” and claims, “Meghan has never been authentic” and is “out of touch with the real world.”

Mr. Markle Is Offended By Meghan Insisting She Is Called “Meghan Sussex”

Mr. Markle is also not too keen on Meghan, insisting that she be called “Meghan Sussex.” In what many viewers dubbed an “astonishingly rude moment,” Meghan corrected her celebrity friend, Mindy Kaling.

She said,

“It’s so funny you keep saying Meghan Markle, you know I’m a Sussex now.”

Meghan claimed that Sussex is a meaningful last name she shares with her kids. However, she’s still trying to capitalize on her royal title.

Mr. Markle explained,

“My mum loved Meghan very much but would be so disappointed to hear that Meghan no longer wants to use the name ‘Markle.’ My mother was proud to be a Markle.

After performing under the alter-ego of for years now, John C. Reilly has officially unveiled his debut single as Mister Romantic. To kick off this chapter ahead of the release of a full album, he’s shared a cover of the Johnny Mercer classic, “Dream.” Stream it below.

Originally released in 1944, “Dream” has been covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, and Roy Orbison. The song precedes an album of Great American Songbook favorites titled What’s Not To Love? For the project, due on June 13th, he’s recruited a number of musical colleagues to round out the LP, including award-winning producer and instrumentalist David Garza.

“I looked at our weary world a few years ago and tried to think of a way I could spread love and empathy,” Reilly said of the ongoing project. “I decided the most fun way to do that was through...

In case you didn’t know: John C. Reilly is a vaudeville guy. Not only did the beloved character actor star as half of the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in the emotionally affecting biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018), but since then he’s created a throwback stage persona of his own, the lovelorn and musically inclined Mister Romantic, who has sold out concerts across Los Angeles since 2022.

Now, Reilly is set to introduce Mister Romantic to the rest of the world with a full-fledged album that arrives on June 13. His charming debut,...

Martin Scorsese and Apple are reportedly adapting the Gilead novels with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. The legendary director teamed up with Apple for his latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which starred DiCaprio in the lead role and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Since its release in October 2023, the 82-year-old director has floated many options for his next film, including multiple projects that would reunite him with one of his most frequent collaborators, DiCaprio.

Now, another project has been added to that list. Per Publishers Weekly, Apple Original Films has reportedly struck a deal to develop Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels with Martin Scorsese attached to write, direct, and produce, and Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star, starting with Home, the second of four novels in the series. There are no details on the plans to adapt the remaining novels. The six-time Oscar-nominated...

Discovery Channel is bringing viewers another side of law enforcement through Constables on Patrol. The new Discovery Channel special, which premieres Tuesday, March 11, follows elected officers in Pennsylvania as they take on intense and often risky undercover schemes to serve warrants and get paid. As seen in the exclusive teaser shown above, these “people’s cops” use unique tactics to get the job done, including using a pizza delivery guy and Frank Sinatra lookalike as bait to help them serve warrants. It’s the latest project from Magilla Entertainment, which has given us shows including Theresa Caputo Raising Spirits and Moonshiners, Here EP Matthew Ostrom, company co-founder, gives us intel on the project and his hopes for it leading to a series. I know you’ve worked an eclectic mix of shows in the past. How did this special come together? Matthew Ostrom: We’re always looking for worlds people...

Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Apple Original Films again after “Killers of the Flower Moon.” His next project is “Home,” based on a novel by Marilynne Robinson. Scorsese will write, direct, and produce the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio, a frequent collaborator, will star in it. This marks their seventh film together, following hits like “The Departed” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

The story comes from Robinson’s Gilead series, set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa. It explores themes of faith and rural life. “Home” focuses on a family dealing with tough pasts. Glory Boughton returns to care for her dying father, a reverend.

Her brother Jack, the family’s troubled son, also comes back after 20 years away. Jack struggles with alcohol and a difficult history but remains his father’s favorite. The novel shows Jack trying to reconnect with his sister Glory and facing tension with his traditionalist father and godfather,...

Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been mulling over a bunch of potential next movie projects since finishing up “Killers of The Flower Moon”, and the latest one, “Home,” is set to see him reunite with his modern muse, Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”).

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There is something very nostalgic about some of those big old Hollywood war movies from the 1960s. They may appear to offer a simplistic Boys' Own view of World War II, but my granddad, who served in the Royal Air Force, couldn't get enough of films like "The Great Escape" and "Where Eagles Dare." Perhaps it is because such rousing crowd-pleasers reassured war heroes like him that they were the good guys and could take pride in their victory over the Axis Powers. Stars were queuing up to appear in these adventures, and even Ol' Blue Eyes got in on the action in "Von Ryan's Express," an underrated escape thriller that is a must-see for fans of Old Hollywood.

Apart from establishing himself as one of the most popular musical performers of the 20th Century, Frank Sinatra also had a long and varied acting career. The legendary crooner starred in...

There was an all-too-brief time in the 1990s when films dealing with Cold War subject matter felt antiquated. With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the spread of democracy throughout Eastern Europe, we had good reason to believe that the West's steadfast example of representative government had won out in the global marketplace of ideas. Countries that had been driven into financial misery by corrupt authoritarian leaders were suddenly eager to get in on the capitalism game. Alas, as most of us already knew, there's not a more corruptible game in town when laws aren't enforced. One look at the daily headlines makes it clear that these Cold War movies aren't just relevant again -- they're grim dispatches from a bizarro world where the West came out on top of this chilling conflict.

It's a hard pill to swallow, and I wouldn't blame you if you're not in the...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. The venue originally announced plans for the yearlong celebration in July 2024, noting the return of Hamilton to the prestigious stage. But that was before Donald Trump was elected for a second term as president and decided to gut the Kennedy Center in favor of declaring himself chairman. Not wanting his story to be part of this narrative, Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the scheduled Hamilton run.

“This latest action by Trump...

Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer... that's a robust list of directors who've created certain films that frighten the living daylights out of us all. But there's one classic psychedelic feature that a rather special candidate made. Trailblazing graphic designer Saul Bass designed the posters and title sequences for films by those three directors and countless others, and he also released a few short films in his lifetime. However, his sole feature film is a horror offering, Phase IV, released in 1974. It grew to have a legion of fans, not only for its striking sci-fi plot about super-intelligent ants in the Arizona desert, but also for its haunting visual style and score, and its meticulous use of macro-photography.

Although this was the only feature-length film from Saul Bass, he was still a key figure in Hollywood with instantly recognizable work, famous for his distinguished posters and title sequences. Far more than a designer,...