Theatre, Film & Broadcast

SNL Cold Open: The Perfect Choice For Trump DEA Chief

It’s not so easy for Saturday Night Live’s writers to satirize Donald Trump and the ultra-right government he is creating. The reality is more bizarre than any parody. This week’s SNL cold open began with CNN anchor Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) greeting Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) to discuss the president-elect’s latest cabinet choices: for EPA […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Donald Trump’s Saturday morning Twitter outburst could spell problems for his transition team

Hours after a report in the Washington Post said that the CIA had confirmed the 2016 presidential election had been influenced by Russia, Donald Trump took to Twitter to dispel some rumors. Despite how big of news the Russia story may have been, Trump focused on reports that he was still going to be involved

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

RIP to one of the most legendary faces in daytime soap opera history

  Joseph Mascolo, the actor who famously played “Days of Our Lives” villain Stefano DiMera since 1982, died at 87, Variety reported. He had Alzheimer’s disease. “It is with great sorrow that we share the news of the passing of our dear friend and beloved member of the ‘Days of our Lives’ family, Joseph Mascolo,”

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A rags to riches, real-life Hollywood legend: Kirk Douglas turns 100

He’s ruggedly handsome with his trademark cleft in his square chin, a Hollywood film legend: Issur Danielovitch Demsky. Who? The world knows him as Kirk Douglas. And on Friday he turns 100 years old. A look at Kirk Douglas and his only-in-America career Los Angeles (dpa) – At Thanksgiving, Kirk Douglas’s daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones posted

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Movie review: Natalie Portman embodies arresting portrait of a first lady in ‘Jackie’

The shock, grief and spotlight glare endured by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, in the days following her husband’s 1963 assassination, was there for all to see. Yet who knows what she was truly thinking, feeling, screaming inside while wiping her husband’s dried blood off her famous pink dress, or watching Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Mavis Staples, James Taylor, The Eagles, Al Pacino at a bittersweet Kennedy Center Honors 2016

WASHINGTON — Rocker Glenn Frey died before he could accept a Kennedy Center Honors award last year, but his Eagles bandmates and four other artists were feted Sunday at a bittersweet edition of the glitzy annual gala, the last of the Obama administration. Actor-director Al Pacino, singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer Mavis Staples and pianist Martha

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Trump, Baldwin Spar Again Over ‘SNL’ Treatment

Donald Trump really, really hates Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of him. The president-elect of the United States and the actor got into another tiff this weekend over Twitter after Trump again used his favorite micro-blogging site to criticize “Saturday Night Live’s” portrayal of him as a feckless, disinterested vulgarian. “Just tried watching Saturday Night Live—unwatchable! Totally

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘SNL’ skit continues pounding Trump with comedy

Alec Baldwin returned to “Saturday Night Live” to reprise his role as Donald Trump, mocking the president-elect’s prolific Twitter habits in the show’s opening skit. It took just 45 minutes for Trump, on Twitter, to respond. “Just tried watching Saturday Night Live — unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Another familiar Hollywood face of the ’70s and ’80s has passed away

Don Calfa, the film, stage and television actor whose credits included “The Return of the Living Dead,” ”Weekend at Bernie’s” and “Barney Miller,” has died. His publicist Michael Perez tells The Associated Press that Calfa died Thursday in Palm Springs of natural causes. Calfa died two days before his 77th birthday. Watch the video RELATED:

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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

How Jimmy Stewart’s war service affected ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

As we stare headlong into the approaching holiday season, the 1946 James Stewart classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” is set to make its annual television appearance Saturday on NBC. It was the first movie Stewart made when he returned home after serving as a pilot in World War II, an experience that left him adrift

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Chuck Schumer, Senate Democratic leader, calls for probe of China’s Dalian Wanda Group

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants the U.S. government to exert closer scrutiny of China’s Dalian Wanda Group, an entertainment conglomerate with ties to the Communist government in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Wanda Group has been on a buying binge in the past few years, snapping up American and European

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA