DiCaprio and Spielberg Save Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Steven Spielberg acted as a group of angel donors to save a pair of ruby slippers used in the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.
Paul Rudd on ‘Wanderlust’ Nudity: “Everyone was professional and no one wanted to stare, but I think we all kind of caught each other at different points staring”
Opening this weekend is the comedy Wanderlust, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, about a couple who decides to join a free love commune.
‘Shame’ Director Claims Academy Snubbed Michael Fassbender Because of America is “Too Scared of Sex”
One notable filmmaker speaking out is Steve McQueen (not the macho icon who himself was nominated for an Oscar), the British writer/director of Shame, who has a theory why his film’s lead actor, Michael Fassbender, was not nominated for Best Actor.
Alan Alda: “When you’re improvising, you have to pay attention to one another. That often leads to more intimate performances”
While he’ll always be best known as Hawkeye from the eleven-season run of TV’s M*A*S*H, Alan Alda has been appearing in films since the 1960s, and next appears in Wanderlust, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a couple who moves to a free-love commune.
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How Can Television Networks Fix the Broken ‘Pilot Season’ Production Schedule?
As anyone working in television can tell you, for every ultra-successful television series like Seinfeld, Friends, CSI, or NYPD Blue there are dozens of shows that don’t make it past their first seasons — and dozens more that never make it past their first pilot episode.
Dustin Hoffman: “With acting, I didn’t know if I was any good — for many years — but I knew that that’s what I wanted to do”
Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman has surprised many people by starring in the HBO series Luck. Many assume that Hoffman — star of such classic films as The Graduate and Rain Man — is somehow “above” weekly episodic television, or that he’s far too busy with his award-winning film roles to do a television series.
Greg Kinnear on ‘Thin Ice’ with Co-Star Alan Arkin: “I just basically steal from great actors like Alan”
It’s hard to believe that actor Greg Kinnear, who is best known for his roles in Little Miss Sunshine and As Good As It Gets, has never had any type of professional training when it comes to acting
Denzel Washington Was Actually Waterboarded During Filming of ‘Safe House’
We’re all aware that our favorite actors don’t usually do their own stunts — not always because of a lack of desire, but because of insurance purposes. Still, I doubt many A-list Hollywood actors would be willing to be actually waterboarded to prove their macho cred. Nonetheless, New York Magazine
New York Asian-American Actors Look to Increase Their Presence in Theater
The number of Asian-American actors in Broadway shows has actually declined since five years ago, the only minority group that has seen a decline.
Deaf Actor Russell Harvard Discusses Starring in the Off-Broadway Show, ‘Tribes’
In the off-Broadway show Tribes, a young deaf man, Billy, struggles with his relationship with his hearing parents who have difficulty accepting Billy’s disability.
Raza Jaffrey talks ‘Smash’: “I did Bombay Dreams on stage in London, a year’s worth of auditions and workshops for that, there’s an awful lot of similarities”
Jaffrey, who plays Katherine McPhee’s very likeable on screen boyfriend, Dev Sundaram, has plenty of experience when it comes to both Broadway and his latest role in the TV series that follows the glam, glitz, and the downfalls of working in theater.
Raquel Welch Thinks Mae West Was a Man: “She resembled a dock worker in drag”
Welch believes that her former co-star, Mae West, from 1970’s film Myra Breckinridge was a man.
Paul Dano on How He Prepared to Play Author Nick Flynn in ‘Being Flynn’
Paul Dano has a lot of expectations tied to his latest big movie role, Being Flynn, the adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.
Judi Dench does have Macular Degeneration but “it will not lead to blindness”
Acclaimed actress Dame Judi Dench revealed in an interview with the Daily Mirror that she has been diagnosed with macular degeneration, a condition that causes blindness.
Filmography: Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig made her mark starring in independent films such as HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS and NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS. In 2010 she appeared opposite Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach’s GREENBERG, for which she was nominated for both a Gotham and an Independent Spirit Award.
Filmography: Paul Dano
Paul Dano is one of today’s most acclaimed young actors, having made his mark on-screen and on stage.
Filmography: Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor next stars opposite James Franco in Stephen Elliott’s Cherry; and with Mickey Rourke and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Hany Abu-Assad’s The Courier.
Woody Harrelson Turned to Jack Nicholson to Learn How to Smoke Cigarettes for ‘Rampart’
In Rampart, his second film with director Oren Moverman, Woody Harrelson again appears as an authority figure, something that Harrelson is never completely comfortable with.