It started with the publication of his 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, coauthored by TCM’s film noir aficionado and host, Eddie Muller. It quickly rose to the top of the […]
Uncoupled is a new Netflix romcom by Darren Star and Jeffery Richman starring Neil Patrick Harris as Michael, a high end New York City real estate broker, whose partner Colin (Tuc Watkins), […]
Along with Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton was seminal among silent film actors. What’s more, like Lloyd, Keaton was a courageous stunt performer. In 1996, “Entertainment Weekly” rated Keaton […]
What constitutes good acting? Honesty? Authenticity? Realism? Charisma? The culture critic Isaac Butler explores these questions as well as past as prologue in his absorbing new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. In this […]
It’s been two years since live theater closed curtains. During this period of no staged drama, musicals, or comedy, we were relegated to the confines of late-night television comedians, sans in-person audiences. During this time of quarantine and pandemic […]
With Aaron Sorkin’s drama exploring one challenging week in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos and the Amy Poehler directed documentary, Lucy and Desi (both currently streaming on Amazon Prime), the breakthrough […]
“A Bastard Immigrant, son of a whore” — this is the unflattering but accurate description of one of this country’s most brilliant founders, Alexander Hamilton, who became the nation’s first […]
We Need to Talk About Cosby is a four-part docuseries directed by W. Kamau Bell (who also proves to be a probing and effective interviewer); it’s currently streaming on Showtime. Early […]
It’s too easy to characterize women performers as sex objects rather than talented, charismatic people. Handsome men — such as Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tom Selleck, Brad Pitt, etc. — […]
Reopening Night, a documentary movie by filmmaker Rudy Valdez, gives an up close examination of the Public Theater’s 2021 summer reopening in New York City’s Central Park, subsequent to being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
