Not long after Chris Kattan joined Saturday Night Live in 1996, a rumor started circulating that he and fellow cast member Norm Macdonald didn’t get along. To be sure, their styles of comedy were wildly different: Kattan physical and wildly theatrical, Macdonald deadpan and droll. The pair fanned the flames of hatred in interviews, but Kattan says now that things were much different behind the scenes. In reality, they shared a “comedic love” like the faux frenemies Jack Benny and Fred Allen, one that continued beyond their time together on SNL.
- 9/16/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
The 31st Inside Out Toronto 2Slgbtq+ Film Festival this week unveiled its full lineup for its virtual edition, which will run May 27-June 6. A total of 143 films including 33 features and five episodic series will unspool, according to new executive director Lauren Howes and director of programming Andrew Murphy. A total of 70% of this year’s selected films are by women/trans/non-binary directors
Natalie Morales’ directorial debut Language Lessons, which won the audience award at this year’s SXSW, will open the festival, with the Charli Xcx documentary Alone Together set to close. Highlights of the slate include Sundance winner Ma Belle, My Beauty, Wes Hurley’s Potato Dreams of America and Mari Walker’s See You Then, along with the world premiere of Shelley Thompsons’ trans family drama Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor. Docs include the Zachary Quinto-narrated Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story and Drag Invasion,...
Natalie Morales’ directorial debut Language Lessons, which won the audience award at this year’s SXSW, will open the festival, with the Charli Xcx documentary Alone Together set to close. Highlights of the slate include Sundance winner Ma Belle, My Beauty, Wes Hurley’s Potato Dreams of America and Mari Walker’s See You Then, along with the world premiere of Shelley Thompsons’ trans family drama Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor. Docs include the Zachary Quinto-narrated Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story and Drag Invasion,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Ring them bells! Liza Minnelli will be celebrating her 75th birthday on March 12 with a dancing and singing streaming shindig.
The virtual “Love Letter to Liza: A 75th Birthday Tribute Celebration” will include appearances and performances by Joel Grey, Lily Tomlin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chita Rivera, Joan Collins, Harry Connick, Jr., Ben Vereen and the dancers from the Verdon-Fosse Legacy, Ute Lemper, Billy Stritch, Charles Busch, Kathie Lee Gifford, Lea Delaria, Jim Caruso, Jonathan Groff, Sandra Bernhard, Andrew Rannells, Nathan Lane, Mario Cantone, Tony Hale, Coco Peru, John Cameron Mitchell, Michele Lee, Andrea Martin, Seth Sikes and Neil Meron.
“Liza is a total entertainer, a show person the likes of which is hard to find these days. Liza’s talents have known no bounds, and her contribution to Broadway, film and even a hilarious stint on television’s ‘Arrested Development,’ make her so deserving of this, a glorious celebration of her 75 years on earth,...
The virtual “Love Letter to Liza: A 75th Birthday Tribute Celebration” will include appearances and performances by Joel Grey, Lily Tomlin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chita Rivera, Joan Collins, Harry Connick, Jr., Ben Vereen and the dancers from the Verdon-Fosse Legacy, Ute Lemper, Billy Stritch, Charles Busch, Kathie Lee Gifford, Lea Delaria, Jim Caruso, Jonathan Groff, Sandra Bernhard, Andrew Rannells, Nathan Lane, Mario Cantone, Tony Hale, Coco Peru, John Cameron Mitchell, Michele Lee, Andrea Martin, Seth Sikes and Neil Meron.
“Liza is a total entertainer, a show person the likes of which is hard to find these days. Liza’s talents have known no bounds, and her contribution to Broadway, film and even a hilarious stint on television’s ‘Arrested Development,’ make her so deserving of this, a glorious celebration of her 75 years on earth,...
- 2/18/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
When JFK Jr. secretly met Princess Diana in the summer of 1995, they were two of the most famous people on the planet.
At the time, John hoped to convince Diana to pose for the cover of his political magazine George.
“We had to draw all these cover ideas up, and he took the drawings over to the Carlyle Hotel to meet her,” George magazine creative director Matt Berman, who made the sketches, tells People.
The day of their meeting, RoseMarie Terenzio, John’s executive assistant and a close friend who recounted their years together in her 2012 memoir Fairy Tale Interrupted,...
At the time, John hoped to convince Diana to pose for the cover of his political magazine George.
“We had to draw all these cover ideas up, and he took the drawings over to the Carlyle Hotel to meet her,” George magazine creative director Matt Berman, who made the sketches, tells People.
The day of their meeting, RoseMarie Terenzio, John’s executive assistant and a close friend who recounted their years together in her 2012 memoir Fairy Tale Interrupted,...
- 6/29/2017
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
They met in 1994 at the Calvin Klein showroom in New York City. He was the world's most eligible bachelor, the only son of a revered President coming into his own as the founding editor of George Magazine. She was the stunning fashion publicist in charge of celebrity relations on hand to show him the new collection. "He was instantly attracted to her," recalls his friend and assistant RoseMarie Terenzio. Though she turned him down when he first asked her out, he eventually won her over. In her, his friends say, he met his match. "John and Carolyn were magic together,...
- 8/9/2014
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
He was the world's most eligible bachelor, the only son of our 35th President, with a world of possibility ahead. She was the impossibly chic Calvin Klein fashion publicist, so beautiful that her close friend Daniel Pfeffer says, "no photograph ever did her justice." In Carolyn Bessette, those closest to John F. Kennedy Jr. say he finally met his match. Still, she turned him down the first time he asked her out after meeting her at the Calvin Klein showroom in 1994. The first few times, in fact. "She didn't think he was serious," says their close friend Gustavo Paredes, son of Jackie's personal assistant,...
- 8/6/2014
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
On Monday night, September 23rd at 7pm, Broadway at Birdland will present a very unique event just look at the picture to the left, the return of Montgomery, Mayes amp Stritch. The vocal trio starring Sharon Montgomery, Sally Mayes and Billy Stritch will reunite for one night only in a special celebration and concert, produced by Matt Berman. Check out photos of the group below from the 'archives' and again today in rehearsal...
- 9/22/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Monday night, September 23rd at 7pm, Broadway at Birdland will present a very unique event just look at the picture to the left, the return of Montgomery, Mayes amp Stritch. The vocal trio starring Sharon Montgomery, Sally Mayes and Billy Stritch will reunite for one night only in a special celebration and concert, produced by Matt Berman. We checked in with Billy Stritch to get the scoop on what audiences can expect...
- 9/20/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
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