Oh, to be part of Hollywood's Brat Pack. Not only were they the coolest people at the Hard Rock Cafe or anywhere in the '80s, they also once partied with a member of the famed Rat Pack: Sammy Davis Jr. himself. In his new Hulu documentary, Brats, available June 13 on Hulu, Pretty in Pink actor Andrew McCarthy, who wrote and directed the project, recounts a surreal night that began with him accepting his St.
It feels like Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are lifelong friends, even though they insist their bond formed while working together on All of Us Strangers, the new drama from Looking and Weekend filmmaker Andrew Haigh. On a Friday afternoon in Los Angeles in November, the pair remain in their own world. A cacophony of publicists and camera operators swirl around them, in the thick of a string of media interviews, but Scott, 47, and Mescal, 27, sit calmly shoulder-to-shoulder in a press room having their own private, whispered conversation.
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Everett Collection Andy Griffith played Larry Rhodes, a manipulative drifter with a dark side, in this Elia Kazan drama costarring Walter Matthau and Patrica Neal. Chronicling Rhodes' rise from jail to success as a radio and TV personality, the movie grapples with the intoxicating influence of fame. —Denise Warner No Time for Sergeants (1958) Everett Collection Griffith earned a Tony nomination for his role as a country boy on Broadway and brought the play to the silver screen with future Andy Griffith costar Don Knotts (who also appeared alongside him in the stage version).
For their new feature film, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the Lonely Island trio — the guys behind SNL viral hits like “D— in a Box” and “Lazy Sunday” — created a pop mockumentary, complete with their own hip-hop star: Conner4Real (Andy Samberg). “We decided early on that we wanted Conner to be the embodiment of that culture,” says Samberg, who wrote the script with codirectors Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer.
Seth Meyers found himself being interrupted by one very familiar heckler last night — and it wasn’t even during his own show. TheLate Night host appeared on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss the new podcast that he co-hosts with the Lonely Island comedy trio when someone suddenly shouted that “podcasts suck." The camera then panned over to reveal Lonely Island member Andy Samberg standing amongst host Jimmy Kimmel’s live band with a French horn in hand.
[SPOILER ALERT: This story contains sexy details about a scene in 7 Days in Hell, which aired July 11 on HBO.] 7 Days in Hell, a mockumentary that relives the longest tennis match ever played, aired Saturday night on HBO, and it featured an overhead smash of outrageousness: A computerized reenactment of a prison orgy-turned-escape. A line of underwear with a hole for the scrotum to dangle out of. An American badass, Aaron Williams (Andy Samberg), snorting coke right off the grass-court lines at Wimbledon.
Considering the way Supernatural ended season 14 — with God essentially ending the world and leaving the Winchesters to face a bunch of zombies — it’s safe to say that Sam and Dean can use all the friends they can get. EW can exclusively reveal that Christian Kane, a.k.a. Lindsey McDonald from the Buffy spin-off Angel, will guest star in an upcoming episode of the hit CW series. Kane is set to play Leo Webb, a former hunter and a friend of Dean Winchester.
Angelina Jolie is the ultimate diva in the first-look photos of Pablo Larraín's latest biopic about a woman in turmoil. The photos show Jolie embodying opera singer Maria Callas in the film, which per a release, "is based on true accounts, and tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world's greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970's Paris." Considered by many to be the original diva, Callas dealt with many personal and professional struggles over the years, and ultimately died at 53 of a heart attack.
Aura healers, ”young and chatty” UFO abductees, women who fly as angels through the Crystal Cathedral — such were travel writer Mary Morris’ new friends when, in 1988, she left Manhattan for Orange County, Calif., to start afresh as the 40ish single mother of a newborn daughter. In the quirky, calmly confessional memoir-cum-travelogue Angels & Aliens: A Journey West, Morris recalls how she distracted herself from the painful breakup with her baby’s commitment-phobic father by posing as a believer in a dizzying array of SoCal-style alternative faiths.
A version of this story appears in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands now or available here. Don’t forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. As you could probably guess by its subtitle, “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” Angels in America is a hard play to describe. At its most basic level, Tony Kushner’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning magnum opus is about two couples at a crossroads: Prior and Louis, who fall apart once Prior reveals that he has AIDS; and Harper and Joe, Mormons who’ve relocated to Brooklyn from Salt Lake City (she’s an agoraphobic Valium addict; he’s a closeted legal clerk).