It’s a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, and Paul Schrader is asking for forgiveness as an American flag flaps outside his window. If he appears distant, the 71-year-old filmmaker explains, he had a detached retina operation three weeks ago and his left eye is half-filled with blood. The screenwriter-turned-director who …
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Mike Myers played Dr. Harold Bornstein, President Trump‘s hirsute physician, in a hilarious sketch from Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bornstein first entered the public consciousness during the presidential election after signing off on a letter (allegedly Trump-dictated) proclaiming that the Republican candidate, if elected, “unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual …
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She’s been a Grammy nominee and a disco glamazon, a supermodel and a slave to the rhythm, a Bond femme fatale and Conan the Barbarian’s cohort, a style icon and a Studio 54 habitué. She is Grace Jones, and this tall, fearsome Jamaican remains an instantly recognizable celebrity and a …
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Forty years ago this week, Dallas premiered on CBS – and changed TV history forever. At a time when network television was staid and dull, this Lone Star Peyton Placecame on as a totally shameless melodrama full of sex, money, bad blood, family feuds, cowboy hats and shoulder pads – …
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Humans and hosts prepare for battle in the chilling new trailer for Season Two of Westworld. The hit HBO series returns on April 22nd. The clip picks up the various narrative threads left dangling at the end of Season One. Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) grapples with the knowledge that he is …
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O.J. Simpson recounted the “hypothetical” way he might have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, in a controversial two-hour special on Fox Sunday night, aptly titled, O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession? Over the course of the special, Simpson described to publisher Judith Regan, in increasing …
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Hours after “Weird Al” Yankovic unveiled “The Hamilton Polka” as part of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s “Hamildrops,” the duo appeared on The Tonight Show to lip-sync the medley with Jimmy Fallon. Earlier in the appearance, both Miranda – wearing a shirt that said “Close Personal Friend of Al” – and Fallon geeked …
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of HBO’s Game of Thrones, will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films. The movies will be separate from the franchise’s primary Skywalker saga, as well as the recently-announced trilogy that Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson will helm. A release …
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Super Bowl LII turned out to be a real barn-burner – and though fewer trailers ran during this year’s ad space than in past gridiron showdowns, those that showed up brought their A-game. The night’s MVP? Netflix, who blitzed everyone with an Internet connection courtesy of a surprise sequel release …
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Stephen Colbert delivered a derisive recap ofDonald Trump‘s first State of the Union address during a live Late Show that aired after the president’s startling speech. “Going into this evening, the bar for success was pretty low,” Colbert prefaced, “He just had to stay on script no matter what, and …
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