Not often produced by major theaters, a new production of “The Iceman Cometh” by Eugene O’Neill — a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature — ended its extended run last weekend at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. As this…
The Critics’ Choice Awards were an important bellwether of this past winter’s plethora of film awards, anointing early favorites like “The Help” and “The Artist” that went on to be big winners at guild awards and at the Oscars. So…
It was easily the most anticipated panel at this week’s 57th annual PromaxBDA international conference here in Los Angeles. PromaxBDA is the trade group for, primarily, those who have marketing and design-related positions in the TV industry. The Thursday afternoon…
When Meryl Streep is in the house, you know it’s going to be a night to remember. And so it was at the 2012 Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards, presented June 12 at a packed gala held at…
Ray Bradbury spent a lifetime in touch with his imagination — and encouraging others to get in touch with theirs. The renowned writer of fantasy and science fiction, who died this week at age 91, lived most of his life…
It’s a tribute to the influence of the MTV Movie Awards that so many A-listers show up for the annual kudo-fest. The 2012 edition, the cable net’s 21st, aired live Sunday, June 3, 2012, from a packed Gibson Amphitheater in…
In the last few days I’ve been asking a bunch of folks here in Los Angeles if they know what the Kings are about to do. Out of the dozen or so of my fellow Angelenos that I spoke to,…
The “fempire.” It’s a term we first heard Fox’s Kevin Reilly use at the network’s recent upfront presentation in New York, and it applies perfectly to the overarching theme of the 37th Annual Gracie Awards, handed out at a Beverly…
Like so many others in Hollywood and at TV stations around the country, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Jim Paratore yesterday, May 29, 2012, apparently due to a heart attack while on a bicycling…
I’m not sure what they were thinking at The New York Times in the way they revealed this week that Jim Parsons, star of the most popular sitcom on TV, “The Big Bang Theory," is gay. Here’s what we do…