Knots Landing hits episode 300 this month, a milestone for primetime’s last great soap. The secret of its success: a bewitching mixture of suburban hanky-panky and antics that set standards for TV weirdness. So how will this season end? Very Strangely. It’s the morning after the Academy Awards, and the sun has just risen in Los Angeles. ”This is the kind of street where hit men take a guy just before they kill him,” says a doleful visitor to a particularly barren stretch of North Hollywood pavement.
The British troubadour, 24, spent last year touring with Hozier and just released his acclaimed debut Stateside, “Chaos and the Calm.” He talks barkeeping, Beyonce, and hat habits with EW. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: “Hold Back The River” was a big hit for you in your native U.K. and across Europe, and it’s rising in the US. now too. Did you think it would be your breakout song when you wrote it? James Bay: I suppose I’ve never really known a feeling of writing something and going, “Oh!
Ah, siblinghood. It’s a complicated thing under the best of circumstances, but when motherly abandonment is at hand, well, the emotional impact is everlasting. Such is the case for sisters Regina and Zelena and twin brothers David and James, each of whom grew up in highly unequal circumstances and have been at odds with one another ever since. We open with Hades and Zelena going for a casual midnight cruise with a shovel in the back of the car (which isn’t too terribly odd, considering the company).
Operation Mincemeat cast members Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen have one very significant role in common: Mr. Darcy. Firth famously played Jane Austen's romantic hero in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (and spiritually reprised the role in the Bridget Jones franchise), while Macfadyen also impressed as the aloof Darcy in Joe Wright's 2005 film version of the Austen novel. So did director John Madden deliberately double-down Darcy-wise while casting the World War Two-set Operation Mincemeat?
I want to put “We Have Manners. We’re Polite” in a bottle—several bottles, actually—and send them to every showrunner on earth along with a message: “This is how you do a satisfying finale.” Last year, my initial reaction to season 1’s ending—a gloriously crazy bouquet that left several ginormous plot threads dangling, though news of Taryn Manning being promoted from guest star to series regular immediately put at least one of them to rest—was a sharp intake of breath, followed by an awed “Holy s%*#!
They say the devil you know is better than the one you don’t. So when it came time for the Hercules stage musical to cast its central devil, the creative team didn’t have to look far. More than 20 years ago, Roger Bart voiced the young hero in Disney’s Hercules, providing the singing voice for Herc’s big number, “Go the Distance.” Now, the Tony winner is returning to Mount Olympus, this time playing the flame-coiffed villain Hades on stage in the Public Theater’s new adaptation of the animated classic.
Following a deadly shooting early Sunday morning that claimed at least 50 lives at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, celebrities like Lady Gaga, Queen Latifah, Ellen Page, and Julianne Moore expressed their condolences for the victims while also pushing for social and political change in a series of posts on social media. President Barack Obama also addressed the nation from the White House on Sunday afternoon, calling the event an “act of terror and act of hate.
Fittingly, Oscar Isaac began his journey into Scenes From a Marriage with a proposal of sorts. After his very first meeting about potentially starring in a remake of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 miniseries, Isaac wrote to his friend Jessica Chastain and said, "I can't imagine doing this with anybody other than you." "This is someone that knows me," the Star Wars actor remembers thinking. "We have a similar language, and there's just total trust.
Dorothy Malone, an Oscar winner for her turn as a nymphomaniac heiress in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind and television star on the 1960s primetime soap Peyton Place, died Friday of natural causes, according to her manager Burt Shapiro. She was 92. After a steady career in bit parts and supporting roles, Malone rose to stardom in the 1950s, earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Marylee Hadley, daughter of a Texas oil tycoon with a vociferous appetite for the men in her town, in Sirk’s 1956 melodrama.
Lupita Nyong'o in Prada Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Nyong'o delivered on her reputation as this season's best-dressed new star, draped in a light blue, deep-necked, Grecian-style gown topped off by a thin gold headband. A+ Sandra Bullock in Alexander McQueen Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP The Gravity star donned a sleek midnight blue McQueen gown with a sweetheart neckline — a winning ensemble coupled with loose curls and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.