Though Kenny G is known primarily as a legendary sax player whose work has transcended into the pop-culture firmament, he is a man of many talents. He is a plus-0.6 handicap golfer, a licensed pilot, and by all accounts a seriously skilled baker. He was also one of the 10 earliest investors in Starbucks.
Now, apparently, he’s setting his sights on an even more ambitious goal: getting Kim Kardashian and Kanye West back together. You may recall that West hired Kenny G to serenade his then-wife on Valentine’s Day...
Now, apparently, he’s setting his sights on an even more ambitious goal: getting Kim Kardashian and Kanye West back together. You may recall that West hired Kenny G to serenade his then-wife on Valentine’s Day...
- 4/14/2022
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Rollingstone.com
We’re officially entering the final Doctor Who episodes with Jodie Whittaker as lead, with the first of three specials airing on January 1, 2022. And while we have until fall 2022 before the Doctor regenerates, we’re, of course, wondering who will be taking over as the alien. Whittaker has shared her pick on Radio 1’s Going Home with Vick and Jordan (via EW): It’s a Sin‘s Lydia West. But, as Russell T. Davies, returning and taking over as showrunner when Chris Chibnall leaves at the same time as Whittaker, told The Guardian recently, “we have genuinely not cast anyone yet. We’re just starting auditions.” He also shared that “the first [episode] will go out in November 2023 — that’s the 60th anniversary of the show,” meaning there’s quite a bit of time before we see the new Doctor full time. But when could we possibly get an announcement?...
- 12/31/2021
- TV Insider
“Is all or a portion of your spouse's income deposited in a checking account, joint checking account, your spouse's separate checking savings account, your separate checking and savings account…?” The administrator's tedious voice continues in this fashion, stern and unforgiving. More questions concerning money, welfare checks, and the daily American grind, asked by faceless system operators on the other end of a telephone line build layers of sound on top of metallic instruments, bells, and the buzzing of Los Angeles and the advertisements of an American dream. The dissonance of this swirling sound design, the intro of Haile Gerima’s Bush Mama (1979), takes one specifically to a place, a class, and a people: The Black working class experience, the sounds of a restless city. The opening of this mixtape encapsulates the vitality and experimentation of sound design and music in the films of the L.A. Rebellion, a film movement...
- 9/27/2020
- MUBI
Ram Dass — an early proponent of LSD and a spiritual icon of the Seventies who notably inspired George Harrison — died Sunday at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 88.
Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation confirmed his death in a statement, although did not reveal a cause. On Dass’ personal Instagram, it was revealed that a memorial service would be announced shortly.
Born Richard Alpert, Dass was a trained psychologist who taught at Harvard University in the Sixties, which is how he linked up with psychologist and writer Timothy Leary and...
Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation confirmed his death in a statement, although did not reveal a cause. On Dass’ personal Instagram, it was revealed that a memorial service would be announced shortly.
Born Richard Alpert, Dass was a trained psychologist who taught at Harvard University in the Sixties, which is how he linked up with psychologist and writer Timothy Leary and...
- 12/23/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The winners of the 50th NAACP Image Awards were announced last night during the live broadcast on TV One from The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The live special was hosted by Anthony Anderson, who also doubled as a nominee.
The big winner of the night was “Black Panther” which took home eight trophies, including Outstanding Motion Picture, Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture, and Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
In the television categories, “black-ish” topped all winners with five awards, including Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series.
Meanwhile, Beyoncé was honored as the NAACP Entertainer of the Year, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters was presented the NAACP Chairman’s Award.
Additional winners included radio host and personality Tom Joyner who was presented with the Vanguard Award, which recognizes an individual whose groundbreaking work increases our understanding and awareness of racial and social issues.
The big winner of the night was “Black Panther” which took home eight trophies, including Outstanding Motion Picture, Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture, and Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
In the television categories, “black-ish” topped all winners with five awards, including Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series.
Meanwhile, Beyoncé was honored as the NAACP Entertainer of the Year, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters was presented the NAACP Chairman’s Award.
Additional winners included radio host and personality Tom Joyner who was presented with the Vanguard Award, which recognizes an individual whose groundbreaking work increases our understanding and awareness of racial and social issues.
- 3/31/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Chicago – In one of Jan-Michael Vincent’s most recent photos, taken in 2016 by photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com, the ex-heart throb actor is revealed as a man who lived his life hard to the end. Vincent died last month in Asheville, North Carolina, on February 10th, 2019. He was 73.
Jan-Michael Vincent was born in Denver, and after high school in Washington state he bounced around with three years of college and a stint in the California National Guard. In 1966, he began to audition, and his rugged good looks landed him in a Robert Conrad film “The Bandits” (1967). After doing several TV and movie bit parts, he scored in the early 1970s with high profile roles in “Going Home” (1970), “The Mechanic” (1972) and in Walt Disney’s “The World’s Greatest Athlete” (1973) as the title character.
Jan-Michael Vincent in 2016
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
The hits continued...
Jan-Michael Vincent was born in Denver, and after high school in Washington state he bounced around with three years of college and a stint in the California National Guard. In 1966, he began to audition, and his rugged good looks landed him in a Robert Conrad film “The Bandits” (1967). After doing several TV and movie bit parts, he scored in the early 1970s with high profile roles in “Going Home” (1970), “The Mechanic” (1972) and in Walt Disney’s “The World’s Greatest Athlete” (1973) as the title character.
Jan-Michael Vincent in 2016
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
The hits continued...
- 3/12/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Joseph Baxter Mar 8, 2019
Former Hollywood heartthrob Jan-Michael Vincent, star the hit TV series, Airwolf, is revealed to have died last month.
Jan-Michael Vincent, former star of the smash 1980s TV series, Airwolf, has died, reportedly at the age of 73. It’s an occurrence that, in actuality, took place nearly a month ago – on February 10 – and we only just now learned.
According to Vincent’s death certificate, as obtained by THR, the actor passed away as a result of cardiac arrest at Mission Hospital's Memorial Campus in Asheville, North Carolina. His death caps off widely-reported struggles with drugs and alcohol, which led to a tumultuous personal life rife with permanent-injury-inducing accidents and shameful legal issues, notably connected to domestic violence. However, his downfall contrasts sharply with an auspicious early career.
Indeed, Vincent was essentially the Brad Pitt of the 1970s, bearing a name and chiseled-jawed countenance that was synonymous with the...
Former Hollywood heartthrob Jan-Michael Vincent, star the hit TV series, Airwolf, is revealed to have died last month.
Jan-Michael Vincent, former star of the smash 1980s TV series, Airwolf, has died, reportedly at the age of 73. It’s an occurrence that, in actuality, took place nearly a month ago – on February 10 – and we only just now learned.
According to Vincent’s death certificate, as obtained by THR, the actor passed away as a result of cardiac arrest at Mission Hospital's Memorial Campus in Asheville, North Carolina. His death caps off widely-reported struggles with drugs and alcohol, which led to a tumultuous personal life rife with permanent-injury-inducing accidents and shameful legal issues, notably connected to domestic violence. However, his downfall contrasts sharply with an auspicious early career.
Indeed, Vincent was essentially the Brad Pitt of the 1970s, bearing a name and chiseled-jawed countenance that was synonymous with the...
- 3/8/2019
- Den of Geek
Jan-Michael Vincent, who briefly rose to prominence as a young leading man in films in the 1970s and 1980s then became a TV star with CBS’ action series Airwolf in the mid-’80s, died February 10 in North Carolina. He was 73.
A death certificate obtained by TMZ noted Vincent died of cardiac arrest while a patient at an Asheville hospital. His death had not been previously reported.
Vincent started his career in the late 1960s with guest roles in TV series including Dragnet, Lassie, Bonanza and Gunsmoke before his first feature film, 1971’s Going Home opposite Robert Mitchum and Brenda Vaccaro. That led to a co-starring role opposite Charles Bronson in Michael Winner’s 1972 movie The Mechanic. He starred in several movies in rapid succession in the mid-’70s including trucker drama White Line Fever, World War II-set Baby Blue Marine, John Millius’ surfing pic Big Wednesday with Gary Busey and...
A death certificate obtained by TMZ noted Vincent died of cardiac arrest while a patient at an Asheville hospital. His death had not been previously reported.
Vincent started his career in the late 1960s with guest roles in TV series including Dragnet, Lassie, Bonanza and Gunsmoke before his first feature film, 1971’s Going Home opposite Robert Mitchum and Brenda Vaccaro. That led to a co-starring role opposite Charles Bronson in Michael Winner’s 1972 movie The Mechanic. He starred in several movies in rapid succession in the mid-’70s including trucker drama White Line Fever, World War II-set Baby Blue Marine, John Millius’ surfing pic Big Wednesday with Gary Busey and...
- 3/8/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for playing the lead role in the 1980s CBS series “Airwolf,” died on Feb. 10 after suffering cardiac arrest, according to a death certificate obtained by several outlets. His death, first reported by TMZ, has only now come to light. He was 73.
His image as a baby-faced blonde heartthrob was at odds with his history of violence and substance abuse. The troubled 1970s TV star had a long string of arrests and charges relating to domestic violence, drug possession, and alcohol abuse.
Vincent’s acting career began in 1967, when he was spotted by a talent scout just after finishing a stint in the California Army National Guard. His first film was the Robert Conrad movie “The Bandits.”
Born in Denver, he was signed to Universal Studios in the late ’60s by casting agent Dick Clayton, and in 1969, he appeared in the John Wayne and Rock Hudson Civil War pic “The Undefeated.
His image as a baby-faced blonde heartthrob was at odds with his history of violence and substance abuse. The troubled 1970s TV star had a long string of arrests and charges relating to domestic violence, drug possession, and alcohol abuse.
Vincent’s acting career began in 1967, when he was spotted by a talent scout just after finishing a stint in the California Army National Guard. His first film was the Robert Conrad movie “The Bandits.”
Born in Denver, he was signed to Universal Studios in the late ’60s by casting agent Dick Clayton, and in 1969, he appeared in the John Wayne and Rock Hudson Civil War pic “The Undefeated.
- 3/8/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Golden Globe-nominated actor Jan-Michael Vincent, who starred in the 1980s series Airwolf, has died at the age of 74. Per TMZ, he passed away on Feb. 10 of cardiac arrest.
Vincent’s early television career included roles on Lassie, Bonanza and the one-season drama The Survivors, among other series. In 1983, he starred as Byron Henry in the ABC miniseries The Winds of War, a role that earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television.
On the small screen, though, Vincent was best known as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the CBS action-adventure series Airwolf,...
Vincent’s early television career included roles on Lassie, Bonanza and the one-season drama The Survivors, among other series. In 1983, he starred as Byron Henry in the ABC miniseries The Winds of War, a role that earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television.
On the small screen, though, Vincent was best known as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the CBS action-adventure series Airwolf,...
- 3/8/2019
- TVLine.com
Hirose Nanako was born 1987 in Kanagawa, Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University, Hirose joined the Kore-eda Hirokazu’s production company Bun-buku in 2011. She worked in Kore-eda’s TV drama Going Home (2012), long features Like Father, Like Son (2013), Our Little Sister (2015), After The Storm (2016), and Miwa Nishikawa’s The Long Excuse (2016). His Lost Name marks her feature film debut.
On the occasion of His Lost Name screening at the 25th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas, we speak with her about Koreeda, Yuya Yagira, Kaoru Kobayashi, her film, hypocrisy, patriarchy, Japanese cinema and many other topics. and also crashed the graduation moment. This, and the weeks that followed the earthquake and the consequences led me to not wanting to do any work, I was in a really strange “in-between” place. After the events, there was some kind of solidarity sentiment going on in Japan but I really felt that...
On the occasion of His Lost Name screening at the 25th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas, we speak with her about Koreeda, Yuya Yagira, Kaoru Kobayashi, her film, hypocrisy, patriarchy, Japanese cinema and many other topics. and also crashed the graduation moment. This, and the weeks that followed the earthquake and the consequences led me to not wanting to do any work, I was in a really strange “in-between” place. After the events, there was some kind of solidarity sentiment going on in Japan but I really felt that...
- 2/22/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Guin Records’ Surve has debuted the victorious new single “Going Home.” The track will appear on his forthcoming album Triumph, which is set to drop in early 2019.
The video for the powerful song which follows Surve’s journey features him literally driving home. The Louisiana rapper is seen pulling up to various neighborhood spots: a house, a gas station and a church, to name a few.
“’Going Home’ depicts why I left my hometown, Hammond in Louisiana, after the attempt on my life,” Surve said in a statement. Following disputes...
The video for the powerful song which follows Surve’s journey features him literally driving home. The Louisiana rapper is seen pulling up to various neighborhood spots: a house, a gas station and a church, to name a few.
“’Going Home’ depicts why I left my hometown, Hammond in Louisiana, after the attempt on my life,” Surve said in a statement. Following disputes...
- 11/9/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix unveiled its line-up of documentary shorts for its first quarter 2018 slate, which includes a doc on Ram Dass, a psychedelic pioneer and author of Be Here Now. Ram Dass, Going Home is about the cultural figure from the 1960s and ’70s who is considered a spiritual teacher as well as an outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness. Since suffering a life-changing stroke 20 years ago, Ram Dass has been living at his home on Maui and deepening his spiritual…...
- 12/11/2017
- Deadline
Before Shaun T took his twin boys home, there was one last thing he had to do.
On Wednesday, the celebrity fitness guru and husband Scott Blokker introduced their surrogate — and her own two children — to their sons after receiving news that Sander Vaughn and Silas Rhys, who arrived early at 32 weeks gestation, had finally been released from the hospital.
“Meet Our Surrogate, Ashley!” Shaun T, 39, wrote alongside a series of photos capturing the emotion-filled introduction, in which both their surrogate and her children held the newborn babies.
“First I wanna say, Its Unbelievable how one person can completely change the course of your life!
On Wednesday, the celebrity fitness guru and husband Scott Blokker introduced their surrogate — and her own two children — to their sons after receiving news that Sander Vaughn and Silas Rhys, who arrived early at 32 weeks gestation, had finally been released from the hospital.
“Meet Our Surrogate, Ashley!” Shaun T, 39, wrote alongside a series of photos capturing the emotion-filled introduction, in which both their surrogate and her children held the newborn babies.
“First I wanna say, Its Unbelievable how one person can completely change the course of your life!
- 12/8/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected 10 films as contenders for the documentary short subject category for the 90th Academy Awards.
The 10 titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary branch, who viewed this year’s 77 eligible entries and submitted ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation. Members of the branch will vote again to select five of the 10 films to be announced as nominees on Jan. 23.
Among the 10 is Ram Dass, Going Home, directed by Derek Peck and executive produced by Lucy Walker.
Ram Dass
Ram Dass, Going Home finds spiritual teacher and 60s icon, Ram Dass, at his home on Maui, twenty years after suffering a life-altering stroke. Psychedelic pioneer, author, and outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness, Ram Dass is now himself approaching the end of life. This is a meditation on life and death which begins with his exhortation to make friends with change; change with age,...
The 10 titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary branch, who viewed this year’s 77 eligible entries and submitted ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation. Members of the branch will vote again to select five of the 10 films to be announced as nominees on Jan. 23.
Among the 10 is Ram Dass, Going Home, directed by Derek Peck and executive produced by Lucy Walker.
Ram Dass
Ram Dass, Going Home finds spiritual teacher and 60s icon, Ram Dass, at his home on Maui, twenty years after suffering a life-altering stroke. Psychedelic pioneer, author, and outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness, Ram Dass is now himself approaching the end of life. This is a meditation on life and death which begins with his exhortation to make friends with change; change with age,...
- 12/7/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Academy Documentary branch has winnowed down the eligible Short Subject contenders from 77 to ten films vying for five Oscar nominations. They have played countless film festivals, but had to win an award at a qualifying festival to be eligible.
The New York Times Op-Docs scored three entries, all viewable in full below: moving “116 Cameras” introduces a holocaust survivor willing to give testimony; “Alone” tells the story of a woman left behind when her fiancé goes to prison; and “Ten Meter Tower” hilariously reveals the reactions of a series of people trying to make themselves jump.
Last year Netflix won the Oscar for Syria documentary “White Helmets,” which was easily viewed on the site. This year’s entry, opioid epidemic expose “Heroine(e),” is also strong enough to win. “Edith + Eddie” is a heart-tugger about a bi-racial elderly couple struggling to stay together.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title,...
The New York Times Op-Docs scored three entries, all viewable in full below: moving “116 Cameras” introduces a holocaust survivor willing to give testimony; “Alone” tells the story of a woman left behind when her fiancé goes to prison; and “Ten Meter Tower” hilariously reveals the reactions of a series of people trying to make themselves jump.
Last year Netflix won the Oscar for Syria documentary “White Helmets,” which was easily viewed on the site. This year’s entry, opioid epidemic expose “Heroine(e),” is also strong enough to win. “Edith + Eddie” is a heart-tugger about a bi-racial elderly couple struggling to stay together.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title,...
- 12/6/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Going home isn’t easy, and it’s a familiar storytelling device, but Clio Barnard (“The Arbor,” “The Selfish Giant“) gives the subject a gritty spin with “Dark River.”
The new film from the director stars Ruth Wilson and Mark Stanley, and follows a woman who returns to the family farm to run after her father passes away.
Continue reading ‘Dark River’ Trailer: Ruth Wilson Returns Home In Clio Barnard’s New Film at The Playlist.
The new film from the director stars Ruth Wilson and Mark Stanley, and follows a woman who returns to the family farm to run after her father passes away.
Continue reading ‘Dark River’ Trailer: Ruth Wilson Returns Home In Clio Barnard’s New Film at The Playlist.
- 11/27/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Okay, have you added your jack-o-latern to the compost heap and packed away all the cardboard witches, black cats, and ghosts? Good, cause it’s time to grab the decoration box for the next big holiday (sorry Thanksgiving, aside from the fold-out table top turkey, you’re mainly a big lavish meal followed by hours of football). December will be here before you know it, and this new release tries to add some laughs along with the wreaths. Plus it’s that rare two-for-one flick in that it’s a seasonal celebration and a sequel, just as with The Best Man Holiday from four years ago. And while the holiday is one for families to get together, this new movie is really aimed at the older revelers. It’s rated “R” for raw and rowdy, with jokes and gags much raunchier than the Parkers (from the classic A Christmas Story...
- 11/1/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As the world reeled at last month’s deadly mass shooting during Jason Aldean's performance in Las Vegas, Nevada, fellow country crooner Keith Urban remained in shock at the “indescribable” horror.
During an exclusive interview with Et in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, Urban opened up about how he reached out to Aldean in the wake of the tragedy and how he hopes to show support and solidarity as Aldean returns to the stage at Cmt’s Artist of the Year event on Wednesday.
“I texted him the day after Vegas and that's just an indescribable thing to go through for everybody,” Urban told Et’s Sophie Schillaci at Cmt rehearsals. “But to be on stage and sing now too ... we're going to all be joining him I think. So, solidarity. [Country music] is a community and you really feel it in times like this, whether it’s weather-related or just insanity in Vegas-related -- we really rally as a community...
During an exclusive interview with Et in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, Urban opened up about how he reached out to Aldean in the wake of the tragedy and how he hopes to show support and solidarity as Aldean returns to the stage at Cmt’s Artist of the Year event on Wednesday.
“I texted him the day after Vegas and that's just an indescribable thing to go through for everybody,” Urban told Et’s Sophie Schillaci at Cmt rehearsals. “But to be on stage and sing now too ... we're going to all be joining him I think. So, solidarity. [Country music] is a community and you really feel it in times like this, whether it’s weather-related or just insanity in Vegas-related -- we really rally as a community...
- 10/18/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Monday, we began the third and final week of the Blind Auditions for Season 13 of The Voice, and though I think we most of us can agree there are a few promising singers in the mix — including but not limited to Anthony Alexander, Moriah Formica and Chris Weaver — have we really heard The One yet? That, I’m not so sure about. (Then again, it wasn’t until the Battles that I realized Chris Blue was The One last season; I’m slow that way.) Are you zeroing in already on a likeliest candidate to take the title? Before you weigh in in the comments,...
- 10/10/2017
- TVLine.com
*Caution: Spoilers Ahead!*
Dancing With the Stars season 25 has axed its first contestant!
Following the season's second night of competition, Shark Tank star and businesswoman Barbara Corcoran was sent home.
The elimination comes after Corcoran, 68, and her pro partner, Keo Motsepe, found themselves at the bottom of the score board for the second week in a row.
Watch: Barbara Corcoran Says She 'Dreams' About Her Hunky 'DWTS' Season 25 Partner Keo Motsepe
In the season premiere, Corcoran and Motsepe performed a salsa set to "Money Maker" by Ludacris, which earned them a score of 14 out of 30.
This week, the pair performed a tango set to "Whatever Lola Wants" as performed by Sarah Vaughn, and they actually improved, earning a 17. However, the votes had already been cast.
After they were cut, hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews spoke with Corcoran, who opened up about how she felt now that her DWTS journey alongside Motsepe had come to an end...
Dancing With the Stars season 25 has axed its first contestant!
Following the season's second night of competition, Shark Tank star and businesswoman Barbara Corcoran was sent home.
The elimination comes after Corcoran, 68, and her pro partner, Keo Motsepe, found themselves at the bottom of the score board for the second week in a row.
Watch: Barbara Corcoran Says She 'Dreams' About Her Hunky 'DWTS' Season 25 Partner Keo Motsepe
In the season premiere, Corcoran and Motsepe performed a salsa set to "Money Maker" by Ludacris, which earned them a score of 14 out of 30.
This week, the pair performed a tango set to "Whatever Lola Wants" as performed by Sarah Vaughn, and they actually improved, earning a 17. However, the votes had already been cast.
After they were cut, hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews spoke with Corcoran, who opened up about how she felt now that her DWTS journey alongside Motsepe had come to an end...
- 9/26/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Staying 100 percent healthy is already proving to be a challenge for this season's Dancing With the Stars contestants.
During only the second week of official competition, both Drew Scott and Vanessa Lachey suffered painful dancing injuries during rehearsals, and both moments were caught on camera. In 39-year-old Scott's case, his injury occurred as he was swinging partner Emma Slater on the dance floor.
"I felt, like, a knot pop in my hamstring," he says as he abruptly stops the move and begins to limp. "It felt like a snap."
"Right now I can't bend my leg or put weight on it, so, I don't know what we're going to do for tomorrow," he later tells a clearly disappointed Slater. "So annoying!"
'Dancing With the Stars' Week 2 Preview: Who Are the Frontrunners? Who's Going Home?!
However, Scott seemed to take it all in stride in an Instagram post early Monday morning, hilariously sharing...
During only the second week of official competition, both Drew Scott and Vanessa Lachey suffered painful dancing injuries during rehearsals, and both moments were caught on camera. In 39-year-old Scott's case, his injury occurred as he was swinging partner Emma Slater on the dance floor.
"I felt, like, a knot pop in my hamstring," he says as he abruptly stops the move and begins to limp. "It felt like a snap."
"Right now I can't bend my leg or put weight on it, so, I don't know what we're going to do for tomorrow," he later tells a clearly disappointed Slater. "So annoying!"
'Dancing With the Stars' Week 2 Preview: Who Are the Frontrunners? Who's Going Home?!
However, Scott seemed to take it all in stride in an Instagram post early Monday morning, hilariously sharing...
- 9/25/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Nicole Kidman is an ethereal dream!
The 50-year-old actress stunned at the Australian premiere of her new movie, Top of the Lake: China Girl, at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday.
Watch: Nicole Kidman Says 'Big Little Lies' Season 2 Is 'Very Up in the Air'
Back in her hometown, Kidman stepped out in a playful long-sleeved, tea-length Zuhair Murad frock. The nude-hued tulle number featured floral embroidery and a silver belt.
She paired the look with strappy gold Jimmy Choo heels, drop-down earrings and bold red lips, and wore her hair in a loose updo with romantic spiral tendrils to best show off the delicate dress.
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Kidman stars in the limited series alongside Elisabeth Moss, Gwendoline Christie and Alice Englert, and she posed with Englert and creator-director Jane Campion on the red carpet down under.
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The blonde bombshell has used many of her Top of the Lake press appearances...
The 50-year-old actress stunned at the Australian premiere of her new movie, Top of the Lake: China Girl, at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday.
Watch: Nicole Kidman Says 'Big Little Lies' Season 2 Is 'Very Up in the Air'
Back in her hometown, Kidman stepped out in a playful long-sleeved, tea-length Zuhair Murad frock. The nude-hued tulle number featured floral embroidery and a silver belt.
She paired the look with strappy gold Jimmy Choo heels, drop-down earrings and bold red lips, and wore her hair in a loose updo with romantic spiral tendrils to best show off the delicate dress.
Getty Images
Kidman stars in the limited series alongside Elisabeth Moss, Gwendoline Christie and Alice Englert, and she posed with Englert and creator-director Jane Campion on the red carpet down under.
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The blonde bombshell has used many of her Top of the Lake press appearances...
- 8/1/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
It’s that time once again, rose aficionados: The Bachelorette is back… and Rachel has a whole lot of narrowing down to do.
RelatedThe Bachelorette Star Rachel Lindsay on Her Historic Casting, This Season’s ‘Bromance’ and Her Celebrity Crushes
One of the final contenders on Nick’s season, Rachel is now the first black Bachelor/ette in the franchise’s history, and on Monday’s season premiere, she got to choose from a highly diverse crop of 31 single guys. By “diverse,” I mean ethnically, but also maturity-wise… because some of these guys are straight-up clowns.
Let’s get...
RelatedThe Bachelorette Star Rachel Lindsay on Her Historic Casting, This Season’s ‘Bromance’ and Her Celebrity Crushes
One of the final contenders on Nick’s season, Rachel is now the first black Bachelor/ette in the franchise’s history, and on Monday’s season premiere, she got to choose from a highly diverse crop of 31 single guys. By “diverse,” I mean ethnically, but also maturity-wise… because some of these guys are straight-up clowns.
Let’s get...
- 5/23/2017
- TVLine.com
There is no filmmaker in the world more attuned to the complexities of family life than Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda. Consider the emotional upheaval that faces the parents and children of 2013’s Like Father, Like Son, or the relationship between the sisters of 2015’s Our Little Sister. Koreeda’s latest film following those two gems, After the Storm, continues his warm but ever-truthful gaze at what bonds people together. (Film Movement opens Storm on March 17 in New York and Los Angeles.)
Set against the backdrop of an approaching typhoon, Storm is the story of a failing author (Hiroshi Abe) struggling to pay his child support, and his attempts at rebuilding relationships with his son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) and ex-wife (Yoko Maki). As sweet and funny as the last two great Kore-eda films, Storm also has the sharp insight of earlier masterpieces like Nobody Knows and Still Walking.
Currently working on his next film,...
Set against the backdrop of an approaching typhoon, Storm is the story of a failing author (Hiroshi Abe) struggling to pay his child support, and his attempts at rebuilding relationships with his son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) and ex-wife (Yoko Maki). As sweet and funny as the last two great Kore-eda films, Storm also has the sharp insight of earlier masterpieces like Nobody Knows and Still Walking.
Currently working on his next film,...
- 3/16/2017
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights. So let's take a look at a few stories that will not only help spread women empowerment but also give them strength to stand against all odds. How much cleavage is good cleavage In this video, BookMyStyle has collaborated with Swara Bhaskar and Taapsee Pannu as they share their opinion about the dressing style of women. 'Who Says A Woman Can't Do Everything?' This Women's Day anthem narrated by Sonakshi Sinha reinforces the sentiment that women have been an equal and integral part in changing the world, and how they are...
- 3/8/2017
- FilmiPop
The premise of Groundhog Day, as well as some of its plot points and lessons are recycled for the chick-lit tear-jerker Before I Fall. Zoey Deutch plays Sam, a high schooler forced to relive the same day again and again but the new film has a more somber tone than the beloved Harold Ramis/Bill Murray classic, since what sets in motion Sam’s string of “daily do-overs” is her own death.
Sam is a 17-year-old girl who has it all: beauty, popularity, jock boyfriend Rob (Kian Lawley), a loving and wealthy family, and a trio of mean beauties as best friends (Halston Sage, Cynthy Wu, and Medalion Rahimi). Valentine’s Day is shaping up to be another perfect day in Sam’s perfect life. She plans to lose her virginity to Rob that night and has many roses get delivered to her in class, including one from Kent (Logan Miller...
Sam is a 17-year-old girl who has it all: beauty, popularity, jock boyfriend Rob (Kian Lawley), a loving and wealthy family, and a trio of mean beauties as best friends (Halston Sage, Cynthy Wu, and Medalion Rahimi). Valentine’s Day is shaping up to be another perfect day in Sam’s perfect life. She plans to lose her virginity to Rob that night and has many roses get delivered to her in class, including one from Kent (Logan Miller...
- 3/2/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Bella Hadid sure knows how to relax!
The 20-year-old model invited W Magazine into her New York City apartment and showed off her robust rubber ducky collection in a funny video released on Wednesday.
Watch: Bella Hadid Flashes Major Side Boob After Her Ex, The Weeknd, Is Spotted With Selena Gomez
"I've been collecting rubber duckies probably like since I was 19," Hadid jokes, while enjoying a bubble bath.
The video, titled "Going Home with Bella Hadid," also shows Hadid's lavish candle collection, her "genius" Jenga moves, and her chic decorations.
Hadid recently stepped out with her sister, Gigi Hadid, and mom Yolanda in NYC for a family dinner. But, she's been staying pretty quiet on social media, after her ex, The Weeknd, was spotted kissing Selena Gomez.
Watch: Did Bella Hadid Just Reveal How She's Feeling About The Weeknd and Selena Gomez?
Though, she did retweet a photo of herself flipping off the NYC paparazzi on Friday...
The 20-year-old model invited W Magazine into her New York City apartment and showed off her robust rubber ducky collection in a funny video released on Wednesday.
Watch: Bella Hadid Flashes Major Side Boob After Her Ex, The Weeknd, Is Spotted With Selena Gomez
"I've been collecting rubber duckies probably like since I was 19," Hadid jokes, while enjoying a bubble bath.
The video, titled "Going Home with Bella Hadid," also shows Hadid's lavish candle collection, her "genius" Jenga moves, and her chic decorations.
Hadid recently stepped out with her sister, Gigi Hadid, and mom Yolanda in NYC for a family dinner. But, she's been staying pretty quiet on social media, after her ex, The Weeknd, was spotted kissing Selena Gomez.
Watch: Did Bella Hadid Just Reveal How She's Feeling About The Weeknd and Selena Gomez?
Though, she did retweet a photo of herself flipping off the NYC paparazzi on Friday...
- 1/19/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
What were the most popular TV quotes of the year?
We scoured through our top 100 most visited quotes, and these are the ones from 2016 you guys visited most often.
It's clear Westworld, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones were very quotable shows and we're doing our best to capture the most memorable moments for you.
Did your favorite lines of the year make the cut? Scroll through and find out! Are you surprised at number one?
14. A Mother's Influence - Criminal Minds Lewis: The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation - James E. Faust 13. Flix and Chill - Days of our Lives Rafe: Looks like it's gonna be a night of flicks and chill. 12. Correcting Mistakes - Westworld Ford: Wasn't it Oppenheimer who said any man whose mistakes take 10 years to correct is quite the man? Well, mine took 35. 11. Thank You? -...
We scoured through our top 100 most visited quotes, and these are the ones from 2016 you guys visited most often.
It's clear Westworld, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones were very quotable shows and we're doing our best to capture the most memorable moments for you.
Did your favorite lines of the year make the cut? Scroll through and find out! Are you surprised at number one?
14. A Mother's Influence - Criminal Minds Lewis: The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation - James E. Faust 13. Flix and Chill - Days of our Lives Rafe: Looks like it's gonna be a night of flicks and chill. 12. Correcting Mistakes - Westworld Ford: Wasn't it Oppenheimer who said any man whose mistakes take 10 years to correct is quite the man? Well, mine took 35. 11. Thank You? -...
- 12/29/2016
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Dvbbs are back today with their most mesmerizing material to date with the new Beautiful Disaster Ep. Despite making their name in the big room arena, the Canadian DJ duo have steadily been changing their image in recent memory with songs like “La La Land” with Shaun Frank and Delaney Jane, and the new collection sees them delivering their most diverse offering yet. Released via their own Kanary imprint, the Beautiful Disaster Ep features a number of collaborators, most notably rapper Juicy J.
Over the span of six tracks, Dvbbs offer up a genre bending collection of songs that touch on trap, house and future pop. Tracks like the Juicy J collab “Moonrock” and “24K” serve as the Ep’s more energetic moments as they deliver hard hitting trap beats and blaring bass.
The Ep really shines on its softer material though, with tracks like “Doja” and “Not Going Home...
Over the span of six tracks, Dvbbs offer up a genre bending collection of songs that touch on trap, house and future pop. Tracks like the Juicy J collab “Moonrock” and “24K” serve as the Ep’s more energetic moments as they deliver hard hitting trap beats and blaring bass.
The Ep really shines on its softer material though, with tracks like “Doja” and “Not Going Home...
- 12/2/2016
- by Connor Jones
- We Got This Covered
Dvbbs are back this week with a new release, teaming up with Cmc$ and singer Gia Koka for their latest effort “Not Going Home.” The new song serves as the lead single for the forthcoming Beautiful Disaster Ep, which is set to arrive early next month.
“Not Going Home” is in the same vein as Dvbbs’ recent efforts like “La La Land” and “Ur On My Mind,” which have seen the DJ duo branching out with a more mainstream friendly sound. A mellow synth pluck kicks things off with a soothing chord progression alongside minimal beats, before the pace picks up in the drops with staccato bass stabs and upbeat rhythms. The song balances some catchy female vocal hooks courtesy of Gia Koka, layered over an uplifting dance backdrop.
With some irresistible melodies and a solid dance meets pop production, “Not Going Home” ranks as another strong single for Dvbbs...
“Not Going Home” is in the same vein as Dvbbs’ recent efforts like “La La Land” and “Ur On My Mind,” which have seen the DJ duo branching out with a more mainstream friendly sound. A mellow synth pluck kicks things off with a soothing chord progression alongside minimal beats, before the pace picks up in the drops with staccato bass stabs and upbeat rhythms. The song balances some catchy female vocal hooks courtesy of Gia Koka, layered over an uplifting dance backdrop.
With some irresistible melodies and a solid dance meets pop production, “Not Going Home” ranks as another strong single for Dvbbs...
- 11/23/2016
- by Connor Jones
- We Got This Covered
Going home for the holidays? This, you'll want to read. As if packing for any trip isn't hard enough, going back to the old stompin' grounds adds another layer of stress. Why? Well, it's inevitable you'll have a run-in with at least one ex, and when that time comes you want to be ready (a.k.a. look bangin' in a killer new outfit). Looking for an ensemble that says, "I'm sexy and powerful?" Gigi Hadid has some great advice. Start with something uber-fitted underneath, like her cute black midi bodycon (pro tip: Stick to darker colors because they're always more slimming), then top off your look with a flowing duster coat—preferably one that goes as close to the...
- 11/16/2016
- E! Online
When Lou Adler, producer of the original Rocky Horror Picture Show, began work on a TV remake of the film, he wasn't quite sure what would fly on a major TV network. Neither were fans of the 1975 original, some of whom wrote him to say they were worried the whole thing would be ruined by censorship. This was one of the most beloved cult movies of all time, one which featured Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick prancing around in their underwear and sleeping with its murderous protagonist Dr. Frank-n-Furter, a...
- 10/18/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Going home to make peace with your past isn't always a good idea, as evidenced in the official trailer for Trash Fire, the latest film from Richard Bates Jr. (Excision, Suburban Gothic).
Synopsis: "When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be scarred for life."
Written and directed by Richard Bates Jr., Trash Fire stars Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan, AnnaLynne McCord, and Matthew Gray Gubler. Vertical Entertainment and Orion Releasing will release Trash Fire in theaters on November 4th.
Trailer via New Trailer Buzz:
The post Watch the Official Trailer for Trash Fire appeared first on Daily Dead.
Synopsis: "When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be scarred for life."
Written and directed by Richard Bates Jr., Trash Fire stars Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan, AnnaLynne McCord, and Matthew Gray Gubler. Vertical Entertainment and Orion Releasing will release Trash Fire in theaters on November 4th.
Trailer via New Trailer Buzz:
The post Watch the Official Trailer for Trash Fire appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 10/12/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
American Housewife was originally called The Second-Fattest Housewife in Westport. It’s a title that perfectly represents Tuesday’s series premiere, assuming you can get past the fact that its central character isn’t actually fat.
Of course, that’s part of the alleged joke in this mean-spirited sitcom that, having changed its title, is hopefully planning to throw out its premise and start fresh in Week 2.
PhotosNathan Fillion on Modern Family: The Forecast Calls for Rainer Shine
The series centers on Katie Otto (Mike & Molly‘s Katy Mixon), a mother of three with serious body-image issues. When...
Of course, that’s part of the alleged joke in this mean-spirited sitcom that, having changed its title, is hopefully planning to throw out its premise and start fresh in Week 2.
PhotosNathan Fillion on Modern Family: The Forecast Calls for Rainer Shine
The series centers on Katie Otto (Mike & Molly‘s Katy Mixon), a mother of three with serious body-image issues. When...
- 10/12/2016
- TVLine.com
Nathan Fillion is poised to make lightning strike twice at ABC.
This Wednesday, the ex-Castle actor begins a three-episode arc on Modern Family playing a hilariously-named weatherman — and we have an exclusive first look (above and below) at his debut.
VideosExclusive: Castle‘s Nathan Fillion on Not Saying a ‘Proper’ Goodbye, the Season 9 Plan
Here’s the setup: When Phil (Ty Burrell) gets invited to appear in a real-estate news segment for the local news, he has an unexpected run-in with his weatherman hero, Rainer Shine. However, storm clouds quickly roll in when he introduces him to Hayley (Sarah Hyland) and,...
This Wednesday, the ex-Castle actor begins a three-episode arc on Modern Family playing a hilariously-named weatherman — and we have an exclusive first look (above and below) at his debut.
VideosExclusive: Castle‘s Nathan Fillion on Not Saying a ‘Proper’ Goodbye, the Season 9 Plan
Here’s the setup: When Phil (Ty Burrell) gets invited to appear in a real-estate news segment for the local news, he has an unexpected run-in with his weatherman hero, Rainer Shine. However, storm clouds quickly roll in when he introduces him to Hayley (Sarah Hyland) and,...
- 10/11/2016
- TVLine.com
It turns out Jasmine and Snow White have more in common than just being famous princesses. They’re also… co-workers?
RelatedOnce Upon a Time Recap: Twisted (Step)sister
Sunday’s Once Upon a Time finds Snow returning to Storybrooke Elementary School, where Jasmine — or whatever she’s going by these days — is also working as a teacher. TVLine has exclusive photos of the ladies working together, and it seems like Jasmine (played by Galavant‘s Karen David) is getting a few much-needed pointers from an old pro.
RelatedGrey’s Anatomy: Tessa Ferrer Returns as Arizona’s Once (and Future?) Love
Of course,...
RelatedOnce Upon a Time Recap: Twisted (Step)sister
Sunday’s Once Upon a Time finds Snow returning to Storybrooke Elementary School, where Jasmine — or whatever she’s going by these days — is also working as a teacher. TVLine has exclusive photos of the ladies working together, and it seems like Jasmine (played by Galavant‘s Karen David) is getting a few much-needed pointers from an old pro.
RelatedGrey’s Anatomy: Tessa Ferrer Returns as Arizona’s Once (and Future?) Love
Of course,...
- 10/10/2016
- TVLine.com
The mystery surrounding Arizona’s next Grey’s Anatomy love interest may be solved.
TVLine has learned that Tessa Ferrer is set to reprise her role as former surgical resident Leah Murphy for an unspecified number of Season 13 episodes. As you’ll recall, Leah — who appeared in Seasons 9 and 10 — was involved in a somewhat rocky romantic relationship with Arizona. The character last appeared in the Season 10 finale when Richard fired her for being a lousy surgeon.
The timing of Ferrer’s return is… interesting. Last month, series creator Shonda Rhimes confirmed that Jessica Capshaw’s Arizona would be involved in...
TVLine has learned that Tessa Ferrer is set to reprise her role as former surgical resident Leah Murphy for an unspecified number of Season 13 episodes. As you’ll recall, Leah — who appeared in Seasons 9 and 10 — was involved in a somewhat rocky romantic relationship with Arizona. The character last appeared in the Season 10 finale when Richard fired her for being a lousy surgeon.
The timing of Ferrer’s return is… interesting. Last month, series creator Shonda Rhimes confirmed that Jessica Capshaw’s Arizona would be involved in...
- 10/10/2016
- TVLine.com
Axl’s new squeeze is going to have Frankie longing for the days of Morgan Edwards.
RelatedThe Gong Show Reboot a Go at ABC
In TVLine’s exclusive clip from The Middle‘s Season 8 premiere (Tuesday, 8/7c), the Hecks meet April (Awkward‘s Greer Grammer), who could definitely benefit from taking a public speaking class — or perhaps by going back to kindergarten and starting over from there.
Simply put, April is… kind of an idiot. I mean, she’s lovely and charming and seems to make Axl very happy — but you can practically hear the wind whistling through her...
RelatedThe Gong Show Reboot a Go at ABC
In TVLine’s exclusive clip from The Middle‘s Season 8 premiere (Tuesday, 8/7c), the Hecks meet April (Awkward‘s Greer Grammer), who could definitely benefit from taking a public speaking class — or perhaps by going back to kindergarten and starting over from there.
Simply put, April is… kind of an idiot. I mean, she’s lovely and charming and seems to make Axl very happy — but you can practically hear the wind whistling through her...
- 10/10/2016
- TVLine.com
Warning – the below contains spoilers for the plot of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Fans of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” may be nearly as excited as Laverne Cox that she stars in Fox’s upcoming remake as the iconic Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Cox told IndieWire that in taking on the role, she was surprisingly affected by Frank-n-Furter’s sad fate: “So this man, you make him, and the first day out he cheats on you with this random chick! It’s catastrophic and devastating and maddening! Then, to be killed by your staff; it’s horribly tragic.”
Read More: ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’: First Look at Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-n-Furter in Fox’s TV Adaptation
There are connections to be made between the iconic character of Dr. Frank-n-Furter and Cox’s Emmy-nominated work on “Orange is the New Black.” Playing Sophia on “Orange” helped Cox become one of television’s most notable stars and break down boundaries for trans performers — but while the character has her own innate tragedy, the role originated on the screen by Tim Curry has a very different, sexual energy to it.
“Masculine, feminine, let me just accept all of these things about myself,” Cox said during our interview this January, just before she was set to begin rehearsals for “Rocky.” An edited transcript follows.
It seems like exciting things are happening for you.
It’s a good time. I’m about to start “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” I’m just excited and anxious to get going and get started with it. I’ve been preparing since I found out that I was cast. I’m just ready to do it with everybody.
Very apropo for “Rocky Horror Picture Show” — “doing it” with everybody.
[laughs] It’s “Rocky.”
Was this ever something you imagined happening?
I never thought it was possible. Years ago, I became obsessed with “Rocky” in college. I remember I did a cabaret and I sang “Going Home.” I was just obsessed! I transitioned and as a trans-woman and I never thought that I should sing a song about a transvestite. I loved it but I never thought it was an option to do. From my understanding, white men have played Dr. Frank-n-Furter for 40 years. So I never thought it was an option. So when they approached me I thought, “I want this. I want to do this.” I tested and they offered it.
It’s a really exciting choice for them.
I’m just really excited about the challenge. It’s completely different from anything I’ve done before. There’s so many elements. I’ve just been preparing a lot. I’ve learned a lot about the nuances of the music and the character. The fact that Richard O’Brien was inspired by an homage to old Hollywood and scream queens and this whole diva worship underlies how Frank-n-Furter has constructed her persona, her personality. That seemed to influence Tim Curry’s performance. It’s camp. I think it was Susan Sontag who said, “Camp is the light that tells the truth.” Camp as in invisible wink. Also looking for those truthful moments, where the veneer comes off and we see the truth of who this woman is.
It’s a really sad story, at the end of it.
There’s something very catastrophic about finding the technology to create human life and to create the perfect man. I think a lot of women would love to be able to do that — heterosexual women, that is. So this man, you make him, and the first day out he cheats on you with this random chick! It’s catastrophic and devastating and maddening! Then, to be killed by your staff; it’s horribly tragic.
Riff Raff talks to Frank-n-Furter about her excess, because there is something very extravagant and excessive about her. She freezes everyone and then creates a floor show. At the end of it, I feel like she’s longing for love and attention and acceptance. I think we all want that at the end of the day. We just want love and a space to be fully who you are. I often like to think about this place where she’s from: Transexual, Transylvania. There’s not that much about that place in the script but I often like to imagine that it’s a place where you can create yourself in terms of gender and race, where you can be in this completely free space. I suspect even in Transexual, Transylvania, there’s even some pushback. I think Riff Raff sort of epitomizes that: “You can choose your gender but you can only go so far.” Frank, she doesn’t want it to be that there are limits. She doesn’t want limits. That’s just a wonderful thing to play.
Read More: Laverne Cox Toplining New CBS Series ‘Doubt,’ Marking a First for Transgender Actresses on TV
Compared to Sophia, [“Rocky’s”] completely different. So much of how Sophia’s been constructed, there’s a little bit of Laverne sass in her — but I think, for me, Sophia was always one of those people who before she transitioned tried to overcompensate and be masculine. So that sort of predates the way I think about her gender performance.
I think there’s a little performance in gender, this innate authenticity. That’s very different and she’s incarcerated and she doesn’t have any freedom. Frank-n-Furter is this person who is in complete control of everything around her and is probably a person who is abusive. She’s a murderer. She’s fun, but she does some reprehensible things. Sophia does too. Those are the similarities, but the singing and dancing and sexuality is different. I think Frank-n-Furter is sexualized in a way that Sophia never has been. That’s the way she’s been written and her relationship with [wife] Crystal; she’s just not a sexual being. Frank-n-Furter is all sex. That’s wonderful.
What’s always been such a profoundly beautiful and sad part of Sophia’s backstory is the fact that the reason for the credit card fraud [which landed her in prison] was to finance her transition. She lost her freedom for her transition — which is in complete contrast to Frank-n-Furter.
Absolutely. There have been so many moments where Sophia’s discovering her womanhood and able to be herself finally. She can just let go of everything. For me, I had a period — I was never good at being butch, but I had a period where I tried to. When I finally just transitioned and was able to let go of that, just sit the way that I felt like sitting… I’ll sit in some ways that people perceive as being masculine, but I’m in the stage about everything. Masculine, feminine, let me just accept all of these things about myself. Sophia is in this place where she doesn’t have to pretend, which is wonderful. Whether you’re trans or not, if you can get to that place where you don’t have to pretend, it’s a wonderful place to be in.
“Orange is the New Black” Season 4 premieres tomorrow on Netflix.
[Editor’s Note: Indiewire’s Consider This campaign is an ongoing series meant to raise awareness for Emmy contenders our editorial staff and readership find compelling, fascinating and deserving. Running throughout awards season, Consider This contenders may be underdogs, frontrunners or somewhere in between. More importantly, they’re making damn good television we all should be watching, whether they’re nominated or not.]
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Fans of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” may be nearly as excited as Laverne Cox that she stars in Fox’s upcoming remake as the iconic Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Cox told IndieWire that in taking on the role, she was surprisingly affected by Frank-n-Furter’s sad fate: “So this man, you make him, and the first day out he cheats on you with this random chick! It’s catastrophic and devastating and maddening! Then, to be killed by your staff; it’s horribly tragic.”
Read More: ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’: First Look at Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-n-Furter in Fox’s TV Adaptation
There are connections to be made between the iconic character of Dr. Frank-n-Furter and Cox’s Emmy-nominated work on “Orange is the New Black.” Playing Sophia on “Orange” helped Cox become one of television’s most notable stars and break down boundaries for trans performers — but while the character has her own innate tragedy, the role originated on the screen by Tim Curry has a very different, sexual energy to it.
“Masculine, feminine, let me just accept all of these things about myself,” Cox said during our interview this January, just before she was set to begin rehearsals for “Rocky.” An edited transcript follows.
It seems like exciting things are happening for you.
It’s a good time. I’m about to start “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” I’m just excited and anxious to get going and get started with it. I’ve been preparing since I found out that I was cast. I’m just ready to do it with everybody.
Very apropo for “Rocky Horror Picture Show” — “doing it” with everybody.
[laughs] It’s “Rocky.”
Was this ever something you imagined happening?
I never thought it was possible. Years ago, I became obsessed with “Rocky” in college. I remember I did a cabaret and I sang “Going Home.” I was just obsessed! I transitioned and as a trans-woman and I never thought that I should sing a song about a transvestite. I loved it but I never thought it was an option to do. From my understanding, white men have played Dr. Frank-n-Furter for 40 years. So I never thought it was an option. So when they approached me I thought, “I want this. I want to do this.” I tested and they offered it.
It’s a really exciting choice for them.
I’m just really excited about the challenge. It’s completely different from anything I’ve done before. There’s so many elements. I’ve just been preparing a lot. I’ve learned a lot about the nuances of the music and the character. The fact that Richard O’Brien was inspired by an homage to old Hollywood and scream queens and this whole diva worship underlies how Frank-n-Furter has constructed her persona, her personality. That seemed to influence Tim Curry’s performance. It’s camp. I think it was Susan Sontag who said, “Camp is the light that tells the truth.” Camp as in invisible wink. Also looking for those truthful moments, where the veneer comes off and we see the truth of who this woman is.
It’s a really sad story, at the end of it.
There’s something very catastrophic about finding the technology to create human life and to create the perfect man. I think a lot of women would love to be able to do that — heterosexual women, that is. So this man, you make him, and the first day out he cheats on you with this random chick! It’s catastrophic and devastating and maddening! Then, to be killed by your staff; it’s horribly tragic.
Riff Raff talks to Frank-n-Furter about her excess, because there is something very extravagant and excessive about her. She freezes everyone and then creates a floor show. At the end of it, I feel like she’s longing for love and attention and acceptance. I think we all want that at the end of the day. We just want love and a space to be fully who you are. I often like to think about this place where she’s from: Transexual, Transylvania. There’s not that much about that place in the script but I often like to imagine that it’s a place where you can create yourself in terms of gender and race, where you can be in this completely free space. I suspect even in Transexual, Transylvania, there’s even some pushback. I think Riff Raff sort of epitomizes that: “You can choose your gender but you can only go so far.” Frank, she doesn’t want it to be that there are limits. She doesn’t want limits. That’s just a wonderful thing to play.
Read More: Laverne Cox Toplining New CBS Series ‘Doubt,’ Marking a First for Transgender Actresses on TV
Compared to Sophia, [“Rocky’s”] completely different. So much of how Sophia’s been constructed, there’s a little bit of Laverne sass in her — but I think, for me, Sophia was always one of those people who before she transitioned tried to overcompensate and be masculine. So that sort of predates the way I think about her gender performance.
I think there’s a little performance in gender, this innate authenticity. That’s very different and she’s incarcerated and she doesn’t have any freedom. Frank-n-Furter is this person who is in complete control of everything around her and is probably a person who is abusive. She’s a murderer. She’s fun, but she does some reprehensible things. Sophia does too. Those are the similarities, but the singing and dancing and sexuality is different. I think Frank-n-Furter is sexualized in a way that Sophia never has been. That’s the way she’s been written and her relationship with [wife] Crystal; she’s just not a sexual being. Frank-n-Furter is all sex. That’s wonderful.
What’s always been such a profoundly beautiful and sad part of Sophia’s backstory is the fact that the reason for the credit card fraud [which landed her in prison] was to finance her transition. She lost her freedom for her transition — which is in complete contrast to Frank-n-Furter.
Absolutely. There have been so many moments where Sophia’s discovering her womanhood and able to be herself finally. She can just let go of everything. For me, I had a period — I was never good at being butch, but I had a period where I tried to. When I finally just transitioned and was able to let go of that, just sit the way that I felt like sitting… I’ll sit in some ways that people perceive as being masculine, but I’m in the stage about everything. Masculine, feminine, let me just accept all of these things about myself. Sophia is in this place where she doesn’t have to pretend, which is wonderful. Whether you’re trans or not, if you can get to that place where you don’t have to pretend, it’s a wonderful place to be in.
“Orange is the New Black” Season 4 premieres tomorrow on Netflix.
[Editor’s Note: Indiewire’s Consider This campaign is an ongoing series meant to raise awareness for Emmy contenders our editorial staff and readership find compelling, fascinating and deserving. Running throughout awards season, Consider This contenders may be underdogs, frontrunners or somewhere in between. More importantly, they’re making damn good television we all should be watching, whether they’re nominated or not.]
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- 6/16/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Words can’t accurately convey the horror and heartbreak of The Voice alum Christina Grimmie‘s senseless shooting death Friday night while signing autographs after a concert in Florida.
The world lost a creative, charismatic, ridiculously talented artist who had decades of musical memory-making in front of her. Even worse, Grimmie’s friends and family now have to contemplate a future without the bubbly, driven and by-all-accounts infectiously positive 22-year-old in their lives.
Thirty-six hours after the tragedy occurred, there’s still no making sense of it. I suspect there’ll never never any making sense of it.
For those...
The world lost a creative, charismatic, ridiculously talented artist who had decades of musical memory-making in front of her. Even worse, Grimmie’s friends and family now have to contemplate a future without the bubbly, driven and by-all-accounts infectiously positive 22-year-old in their lives.
Thirty-six hours after the tragedy occurred, there’s still no making sense of it. I suspect there’ll never never any making sense of it.
For those...
- 6/12/2016
- TVLine.com
The Voice Top 9 results telecast (tonight, 8/7c on NBC) should be as predictable as Pharrell sporting a knit cap — if the contestants’ iTunes rankings are to be believed.
RelatedThe Voice Top 9 Performance Recap: The Front-Runner Takes a Tumble
Indeed, two artists are straggling like elderly impala at the back of the sales pack — and seem most likely to fall into the cruel and unforgiving jaws of elimination. But then again, we can’t forget about the all-powerful Blake Multiplier*. (*By which the country coach’s rabid fans vote for his artists regardless of performance quality.)
Granted, downloads are only one...
RelatedThe Voice Top 9 Performance Recap: The Front-Runner Takes a Tumble
Indeed, two artists are straggling like elderly impala at the back of the sales pack — and seem most likely to fall into the cruel and unforgiving jaws of elimination. But then again, we can’t forget about the all-powerful Blake Multiplier*. (*By which the country coach’s rabid fans vote for his artists regardless of performance quality.)
Granted, downloads are only one...
- 5/10/2016
- TVLine.com
Thou shalt not take the name of thy diva Beyoncé in vain.
On tonight’s Top 9 performance episode of The Voice, however, Christina Aguilera righteously name-checked Ms. Knowles — calling on the “Formation” singer to perform a duet with her protégé Bryan Bautista after his fantastic performance of “1 + 1.”
RelatedThe Good Wife: Why Alicia’s Ending Was a Triumph of Structure Over Truth
Smart move, really, promoting a #BryanAndBeyonce hashtag. After all, the ridiculously handsome crooner had his best week just as his teammate, season-long front-runner Alisan Porter, self-immolated in the blazing heat of an overbaked performance of Aerosmith’s...
On tonight’s Top 9 performance episode of The Voice, however, Christina Aguilera righteously name-checked Ms. Knowles — calling on the “Formation” singer to perform a duet with her protégé Bryan Bautista after his fantastic performance of “1 + 1.”
RelatedThe Good Wife: Why Alicia’s Ending Was a Triumph of Structure Over Truth
Smart move, really, promoting a #BryanAndBeyonce hashtag. After all, the ridiculously handsome crooner had his best week just as his teammate, season-long front-runner Alisan Porter, self-immolated in the blazing heat of an overbaked performance of Aerosmith’s...
- 5/10/2016
- TVLine.com
There is no such thing as “too cruel” in television.
That’s a lesson How to Get Away With Murder creator Pete Nowalk learned from his boss Shonda Rhimes — and applied to his own ABC drama’s Season 2 finale.
RelatedHtgawm Promotes Conrad Ricamora to Series Regular in Season 3
“Look at poor Meredith Grey [on Grey’s Anatomy] and what she’s been through — and they’ve made it to Season 13,” Nowalk says, when asked about the new layer of tragedy piled onto law student Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch) at the end of this week’s episode. “Sometimes you just have to put your characters through hell.
That’s a lesson How to Get Away With Murder creator Pete Nowalk learned from his boss Shonda Rhimes — and applied to his own ABC drama’s Season 2 finale.
RelatedHtgawm Promotes Conrad Ricamora to Series Regular in Season 3
“Look at poor Meredith Grey [on Grey’s Anatomy] and what she’s been through — and they’ve made it to Season 13,” Nowalk says, when asked about the new layer of tragedy piled onto law student Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch) at the end of this week’s episode. “Sometimes you just have to put your characters through hell.
- 3/18/2016
- TVLine.com
Bob Hawk is the Pierre Rissient of American Independent Films. Pierre was for French cinema what Bob is to American independent cinema. When he discovered a film and told Cannes about it, Cannes programmed it. Those who know Pierre and those who know Bob know that their influence cannot be quantified by the number of films they have fostered in one way or another. Bob’s influence extends in innumerable ways throughout the independent film world. Independent films are Bob Hawk's life, and now his life is an independent film.
After the thrill of watching the documentary “Film Hawk” by Jj Garvine and Tai Parquet whose first, ever-so-shocking film “Keeping the Peace” in 2009 was about the brutal and first such beheading in Iraq, I was whisked off to lunch with Bob and the filmmakers Jj Garvine and Tai Parquet. It seemed as if our lunch were a continuation of the film, so alive and vivid was the film and so full of references and ideas was our conversation.
We immediately began a non-stop talk of passionate love for movies. Bob showed me the tee shirt he wore just for our lunch, a Filmmaker Magazine tee from the early days when Indiewire’s offices were upstairs in the Filmmaker offices. In all the scenes of this film, his tee shirts are remarkable for titles he primarily has worked on or been somehow attached to. He must have hundreds of such mementos of his life.
So how did you make this film? I finally asked, because even if this is “the usual sort of question we get” according to Jj, it is really of interest to me.
Jj and Tai ‘s first film, “Keeping The Peace”, premiered and won the Audience Award at the 2009 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and went on to be selected for the PBS Pov "United States of Documentaries” series. They are often indistinguishable themselves in their simultaneously answering questions or commenting on the talk. “We decided to make this movie on the day before his 74th birthday when we all went to the IFC Center in New York to see the Spalding Gray movie by Steven Soderbergh. We had a three hour dinner and learned so much about Bob. We then met Soderbergh. Going home we thought his life would make a great story. We knew him because he helped us with our film ‘Keeping the Peace’ but we had never talked about anything but the movie at that time. We said to him, ‘What if we made a short about your life?’ He said ‘What?’ And that was it.
“Film Hawk” itself is a broad swatch of a life well-lived with honesty and integrity. Surrounded by loving family and friends – although he and his brother as boys fought hard and often with each other as they grew up in very different ways. Bob veered toward art and his brother toward sports. Bob knew at an early age he was gay but his brother was strictly sports and girls. They were the sons of a minister, a minister who preached love. Their mother was a copy editor and proofreader – initially of insurance documents -- and Bob credits her with his own love for editing and proofreading. He proofread auction catalogs and the Sharper Image catalog at one point in his life.
Bob: “My mother, who lived to be 97, was a proofreader to the end. She edited and proofed the monthly newsletter of the home in which she lived in good health until she died. In fact, she proofread the April edition of the home’s newsletter, the very month she died.”
He did not like having to be the exemplary son of a minister and he had a stutter. At one point, hearing his father’s oratorical voice in the church, he realized there was a thin line between the church and theater and he choose theater as a young child and he credits his father for his love of dramaturgy and theater.
When he acted, his stutter disappeared and so he acted, though he much preferred working behind the scenes.
Our conversation switched between talk of film and talk of Bob the man. For he is incredibly full of love and life, a man whose boundaries include public and private love and film in one full embrace.
Bob grew up loud and proud, working as a techie Off Broadway in New York City. Even as a high school student he often went to New York City and explored both live theater and underground movies like Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour” and Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising”. Those were the predecessors to independent movies, he says.
Eventually he moved to stage managing in San Francisco where he met filmmaker Rob Epstein and contributed his thoughts to the seminal gay-themed documentary “Word Is Out”, made by a film collective that included Rob.
Tai: “Bob was an activist and that led him to film. In 1976 ,when the five hour rough cut of “Word is Out” was previewed for the public in a work-in-progress screening, Bob’s notes as a member of the audience were volumes of comments. In 1978 when Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed by another supervisor, he and Rob, with whom he had become friends, both knew a film had to be made, but it took five years of grassroots fundraising.
Bob: “Rob and producer Richard Schmiechen initially went to Kqed, San Francisco’s public television station, but they turned it down, saying the story was too local. So they went to Wnet in New York, who provided funding for a one hour version. Then we realized that ‘The Times of Harvey Milk’ needed to be a feature, so we went again to Wnet and they gave us the additional money. This was the first film I worked on, as print media researcher and archivist.”
Jj: “Bob researched not only Harvey Milk but the whole era.”
Bob: “I had volumes -- over 600 news and magazine articles -- all organized by 20 main topics like Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Trial, Verdict, Riot, Gay Climate, Dan White and they were cross referenced, so when we had to speak about any subject, we had it ready.”
Says Tai , “Bob’s emphasis is always on storytelling. He even has a sense of arc in his copy editing.”
Tai thought he was a great writer, but Bob is not so sure.
Says Jj : “Bob is not good at original copy because he’s such an editor himself.”
Bob: “Yes, when I write, I feel my editor self looking over my shoulder.”
“The weakness of some narrative indies is that the filmmakers are so eager to shoot that they do not fully develop the script beforehand.”
So Bob is the articulate but silent spokesman for indies, always behind the scenes, editing and tightening scripts, reading copy and imperceptibly influencing a vast body of independent film today.
Tai: “He is like a drop of water in a small stream which he knows runs to the sea and which affects the very water of the ocean.
“Bob is not about connections. He’s about connection.”
There was so much research done for Film Hawk, you must have worked very hard.
Jj: We just listened to Bob and followed all the leads he gave us.
Tai: “Bob is not associated as strictly ‘gay’ or for gay films only. You can see that in his long term relationship to ‘Brothers McMullen’ in the film, but homosexuality is as intrinsic to him as is his whole childhood. He is secure in himself as a person”.
Bob Hawk’s keen insights and feedback became the precious wind that provided flight for many filmmakers. This fiery, eccentric fairy Godfather of indie film not only battled depression, but was the first to discover and champion the talents of Kevin Smith (“Clerks”, “Chasing Amy”), Edward Burns (“The Brothers McMullen”, “Purple Violets”), Ira Sachs (“Keep The Lights On”, “Love Is Strange”) and Scott McGehee and David Siegel (“The Deep End”, “What Maisie Knew”).
Here are what a few have to say about him:
"I didn't ever consider myself an artist, I was just a guy who wanted to make ‘Clerks’, until Bob Hawk started talking about it."
- Kevin Smith
"Bob was always there to encourage me. Bob is a friend and a mentor"
- Ed Burns
With his 30+ year Sundance presence - including work as consultant, programmer, moderator, juror, and impassioned viewer - usually seated front-row and often asking the first question (as in the case of the “Sex, Lies and Videotape” world premiere) Bob deserves kudos and honors and yet has never sought the spotlight for himself.
Not only is this a film about film, but about a man who is as intrinsic to indie films as is the drop of water in a stream that goes into the ocean, but this film should also stand up in educational venues – whether about filmmaking or about standing proud as a gay man in the world.
In many ways this film recalls the classic “Bill Cunningham” that Zeitgeist had such success with in that both films are quintessentially New York films about men whose calling is their life-long love; each is a living example of the importance of love for one’s self and for one’s life lived with passion. “Film Hawk” deserves to be seen at the IFC Center, in the center of New York.
Bob grew up in that time in the 50s when to be gay meant very little to society. Gay men married, had children and if they were lucky they did not find their dual role in life unsettling. He was just at the edge and realized he did not have to go the marriage route and have children, and so he went the art route and his children are numerous.
Bob will be speaking at the Berlinale Queer Academy during the 30th Anniversary of the Teddy Awards and a clip of the film will accompany him. He is also receiving a Maverick of the Year Award from Cinequest this month.
After the thrill of watching the documentary “Film Hawk” by Jj Garvine and Tai Parquet whose first, ever-so-shocking film “Keeping the Peace” in 2009 was about the brutal and first such beheading in Iraq, I was whisked off to lunch with Bob and the filmmakers Jj Garvine and Tai Parquet. It seemed as if our lunch were a continuation of the film, so alive and vivid was the film and so full of references and ideas was our conversation.
We immediately began a non-stop talk of passionate love for movies. Bob showed me the tee shirt he wore just for our lunch, a Filmmaker Magazine tee from the early days when Indiewire’s offices were upstairs in the Filmmaker offices. In all the scenes of this film, his tee shirts are remarkable for titles he primarily has worked on or been somehow attached to. He must have hundreds of such mementos of his life.
So how did you make this film? I finally asked, because even if this is “the usual sort of question we get” according to Jj, it is really of interest to me.
Jj and Tai ‘s first film, “Keeping The Peace”, premiered and won the Audience Award at the 2009 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and went on to be selected for the PBS Pov "United States of Documentaries” series. They are often indistinguishable themselves in their simultaneously answering questions or commenting on the talk. “We decided to make this movie on the day before his 74th birthday when we all went to the IFC Center in New York to see the Spalding Gray movie by Steven Soderbergh. We had a three hour dinner and learned so much about Bob. We then met Soderbergh. Going home we thought his life would make a great story. We knew him because he helped us with our film ‘Keeping the Peace’ but we had never talked about anything but the movie at that time. We said to him, ‘What if we made a short about your life?’ He said ‘What?’ And that was it.
“Film Hawk” itself is a broad swatch of a life well-lived with honesty and integrity. Surrounded by loving family and friends – although he and his brother as boys fought hard and often with each other as they grew up in very different ways. Bob veered toward art and his brother toward sports. Bob knew at an early age he was gay but his brother was strictly sports and girls. They were the sons of a minister, a minister who preached love. Their mother was a copy editor and proofreader – initially of insurance documents -- and Bob credits her with his own love for editing and proofreading. He proofread auction catalogs and the Sharper Image catalog at one point in his life.
Bob: “My mother, who lived to be 97, was a proofreader to the end. She edited and proofed the monthly newsletter of the home in which she lived in good health until she died. In fact, she proofread the April edition of the home’s newsletter, the very month she died.”
He did not like having to be the exemplary son of a minister and he had a stutter. At one point, hearing his father’s oratorical voice in the church, he realized there was a thin line between the church and theater and he choose theater as a young child and he credits his father for his love of dramaturgy and theater.
When he acted, his stutter disappeared and so he acted, though he much preferred working behind the scenes.
Our conversation switched between talk of film and talk of Bob the man. For he is incredibly full of love and life, a man whose boundaries include public and private love and film in one full embrace.
Bob grew up loud and proud, working as a techie Off Broadway in New York City. Even as a high school student he often went to New York City and explored both live theater and underground movies like Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour” and Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising”. Those were the predecessors to independent movies, he says.
Eventually he moved to stage managing in San Francisco where he met filmmaker Rob Epstein and contributed his thoughts to the seminal gay-themed documentary “Word Is Out”, made by a film collective that included Rob.
Tai: “Bob was an activist and that led him to film. In 1976 ,when the five hour rough cut of “Word is Out” was previewed for the public in a work-in-progress screening, Bob’s notes as a member of the audience were volumes of comments. In 1978 when Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed by another supervisor, he and Rob, with whom he had become friends, both knew a film had to be made, but it took five years of grassroots fundraising.
Bob: “Rob and producer Richard Schmiechen initially went to Kqed, San Francisco’s public television station, but they turned it down, saying the story was too local. So they went to Wnet in New York, who provided funding for a one hour version. Then we realized that ‘The Times of Harvey Milk’ needed to be a feature, so we went again to Wnet and they gave us the additional money. This was the first film I worked on, as print media researcher and archivist.”
Jj: “Bob researched not only Harvey Milk but the whole era.”
Bob: “I had volumes -- over 600 news and magazine articles -- all organized by 20 main topics like Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Trial, Verdict, Riot, Gay Climate, Dan White and they were cross referenced, so when we had to speak about any subject, we had it ready.”
Says Tai , “Bob’s emphasis is always on storytelling. He even has a sense of arc in his copy editing.”
Tai thought he was a great writer, but Bob is not so sure.
Says Jj : “Bob is not good at original copy because he’s such an editor himself.”
Bob: “Yes, when I write, I feel my editor self looking over my shoulder.”
“The weakness of some narrative indies is that the filmmakers are so eager to shoot that they do not fully develop the script beforehand.”
So Bob is the articulate but silent spokesman for indies, always behind the scenes, editing and tightening scripts, reading copy and imperceptibly influencing a vast body of independent film today.
Tai: “He is like a drop of water in a small stream which he knows runs to the sea and which affects the very water of the ocean.
“Bob is not about connections. He’s about connection.”
There was so much research done for Film Hawk, you must have worked very hard.
Jj: We just listened to Bob and followed all the leads he gave us.
Tai: “Bob is not associated as strictly ‘gay’ or for gay films only. You can see that in his long term relationship to ‘Brothers McMullen’ in the film, but homosexuality is as intrinsic to him as is his whole childhood. He is secure in himself as a person”.
Bob Hawk’s keen insights and feedback became the precious wind that provided flight for many filmmakers. This fiery, eccentric fairy Godfather of indie film not only battled depression, but was the first to discover and champion the talents of Kevin Smith (“Clerks”, “Chasing Amy”), Edward Burns (“The Brothers McMullen”, “Purple Violets”), Ira Sachs (“Keep The Lights On”, “Love Is Strange”) and Scott McGehee and David Siegel (“The Deep End”, “What Maisie Knew”).
Here are what a few have to say about him:
"I didn't ever consider myself an artist, I was just a guy who wanted to make ‘Clerks’, until Bob Hawk started talking about it."
- Kevin Smith
"Bob was always there to encourage me. Bob is a friend and a mentor"
- Ed Burns
With his 30+ year Sundance presence - including work as consultant, programmer, moderator, juror, and impassioned viewer - usually seated front-row and often asking the first question (as in the case of the “Sex, Lies and Videotape” world premiere) Bob deserves kudos and honors and yet has never sought the spotlight for himself.
Not only is this a film about film, but about a man who is as intrinsic to indie films as is the drop of water in a stream that goes into the ocean, but this film should also stand up in educational venues – whether about filmmaking or about standing proud as a gay man in the world.
In many ways this film recalls the classic “Bill Cunningham” that Zeitgeist had such success with in that both films are quintessentially New York films about men whose calling is their life-long love; each is a living example of the importance of love for one’s self and for one’s life lived with passion. “Film Hawk” deserves to be seen at the IFC Center, in the center of New York.
Bob grew up in that time in the 50s when to be gay meant very little to society. Gay men married, had children and if they were lucky they did not find their dual role in life unsettling. He was just at the edge and realized he did not have to go the marriage route and have children, and so he went the art route and his children are numerous.
Bob will be speaking at the Berlinale Queer Academy during the 30th Anniversary of the Teddy Awards and a clip of the film will accompany him. He is also receiving a Maverick of the Year Award from Cinequest this month.
- 2/16/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
It’s good to know that 15 seasons in, American Idol hasn’t lost its ability to send me into a teeth-gnashing, plate-smashing, imaginary mascara-running rage.
VideosReality Check: Who’s Getting a Winner’s Edit on Idol — and Do They Deserve It?
Ok, no fine china was harmed in the writing of my Top 24 Announcement Episode recap — decade-old Crate and Barrel still beats a Dixie paper plate — but still, that’s not to say the “Final Judgment”/”Green Mile” announcement didn’t make me fantasize about the satisfying shatter of ceramic against the living-room wall.
Watching Season 15 standout Jessica Cabral get...
VideosReality Check: Who’s Getting a Winner’s Edit on Idol — and Do They Deserve It?
Ok, no fine china was harmed in the writing of my Top 24 Announcement Episode recap — decade-old Crate and Barrel still beats a Dixie paper plate — but still, that’s not to say the “Final Judgment”/”Green Mile” announcement didn’t make me fantasize about the satisfying shatter of ceramic against the living-room wall.
Watching Season 15 standout Jessica Cabral get...
- 2/5/2016
- TVLine.com
It’s a big day for Armin Van Buuren fans today, as the trance legend has two big announcements for us.
The first comes in the form of the expected but still very pleasing Armin Only Embrace world tour, which is set to get underway in 2016. Dates and stops haven’t been announced just yet, but as you can see in the video above, the more people use the hashtag #Aoembrace, the more Armin will reveal. According to the official press release, every 5,000 uses of the hashtag will unlock a new clue, so start Tweeting!
In the second piece of Armin news, the producer has announced that pre-orders are now available for the highly anticipated A State of Trance Year Mix, which will drop on December 18th. Boasting some of trance music’s heaviest hitters, like Cosmic Gate, Andrew Rayel, Above & Beyond, Markus Schulz and more, the release is sure to be a big one,...
The first comes in the form of the expected but still very pleasing Armin Only Embrace world tour, which is set to get underway in 2016. Dates and stops haven’t been announced just yet, but as you can see in the video above, the more people use the hashtag #Aoembrace, the more Armin will reveal. According to the official press release, every 5,000 uses of the hashtag will unlock a new clue, so start Tweeting!
In the second piece of Armin news, the producer has announced that pre-orders are now available for the highly anticipated A State of Trance Year Mix, which will drop on December 18th. Boasting some of trance music’s heaviest hitters, like Cosmic Gate, Andrew Rayel, Above & Beyond, Markus Schulz and more, the release is sure to be a big one,...
- 12/4/2015
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
China's recent claiming of disputed territories and islands throughout the South China Sea was a topic of concern on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. The claiming of the islands represents a turf war over shipping lanes with other major nations, with the United States disputing China's tactics, which prompted one Chinese admiral to threaten war against America. Thankfully, John Oliver has uncovered a "secret weapon" in our war against China: Kenny G.
As Rolling Stone noted in May 2014, the smooth jazz saxophonist's "Going Home" has become the country's unofficial anthem for...
As Rolling Stone noted in May 2014, the smooth jazz saxophonist's "Going Home" has become the country's unofficial anthem for...
- 11/2/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Danny Moloshok/AP
Drake (born Aubrey Drake Graham) is quite an anomaly in the hip hop community. As a rapper, he’s experienced huge international success, with his albums selling an estimated 10 million copies. Singles such as “Hold On, We’re Going Home” and “Started From The Bottom” have topped charts around the world and confirmed him as a massive crossover star.
As a producer, he founded the successful label Ovo Sound and has worked with artists such as Alicia Keys and Trey Songz. His has the respect and support of hip hop luminaries Lil Wayne and Kanye West and has collaborated with almost every big name in the business.
Despite all this commercial success, Drake remains a deeply (and proudly) uncool pop culture figure. He’s one of the internet’s most meme-able celebrities- whole Tumblrs are devoted to his awkward dancing and overly enthusiastic reactions. His relationships with powerful women,...
Drake (born Aubrey Drake Graham) is quite an anomaly in the hip hop community. As a rapper, he’s experienced huge international success, with his albums selling an estimated 10 million copies. Singles such as “Hold On, We’re Going Home” and “Started From The Bottom” have topped charts around the world and confirmed him as a massive crossover star.
As a producer, he founded the successful label Ovo Sound and has worked with artists such as Alicia Keys and Trey Songz. His has the respect and support of hip hop luminaries Lil Wayne and Kanye West and has collaborated with almost every big name in the business.
Despite all this commercial success, Drake remains a deeply (and proudly) uncool pop culture figure. He’s one of the internet’s most meme-able celebrities- whole Tumblrs are devoted to his awkward dancing and overly enthusiastic reactions. His relationships with powerful women,...
- 10/27/2015
- by Brydie Lee Kennedy
- Obsessed with Film
Kaitlyn Bristowe charmed her way into the hearts of the Bachelor Nation – and nearly the Bachelor himself, Chris Soules, on season 19 of The Bachelor. Now Kaitlyn hopes to begin her own journey to love as the next Bachelorette.
Well … if you would have told this edgy little gal a year ago that I would be writing a blog for People as one of two Bachelorettes duking it out against each other for love, I would have done my fat man laugh. I would think you were nuts, but here I am!
When I was approached with the idea of two Bachelorettes,...
Well … if you would have told this edgy little gal a year ago that I would be writing a blog for People as one of two Bachelorettes duking it out against each other for love, I would have done my fat man laugh. I would think you were nuts, but here I am!
When I was approached with the idea of two Bachelorettes,...
- 5/19/2015
- by Kaitlyn Bristowe, @kaitlynbristowe
- People.com - TV Watch
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