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Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Ron Simons dies at 63
Read full article: Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Ron Simons dies at 63Ron Simons, an actor who turned into a formidable screen and stage producer, winning four Tony Awards and having several films selected at the Sundance Film Festival, has died.
What's streaming now: '1989 (Taylorโs Version),' Emily Blunt and 'Five Nights at Freddyโs'
Read full article: What's streaming now: '1989 (Taylorโs Version),' Emily Blunt and 'Five Nights at Freddyโs'This weekโs new entertainment releases include Taylor Swift's โ1989 (Taylorโs Version),โ a glossy look at opioid addiction with the movie โPain Hustlersโ starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia, and the streaming horror flick โFive Nights at Freddyโs.โ.
What to stream this week: โGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,โ Quavo, โReservation Dogsโ and โMixtapeโ
Read full article: What to stream this week: โGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,โ Quavo, โReservation Dogsโ and โMixtapeโThis weekโs new entertainment releases include fresh tracks from Quavo, the arrival on Disney+ of James Gunnโs cornball finale โGuardians of the Galaxy Vol.
Aronofsky, Iรฑarritu films set for Venice Film Festival
Read full article: Aronofsky, Iรฑarritu films set for Venice Film FestivalDarren Aronofskyโs โThe Whale,โ the Marilyn Monroe drama โBlonde,โ Alejandro Gonzรกlez Iรฑรกrrituโs โBardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truthsโ and Guadagninoโs โBones and All,โ with Timothรฉe Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.
Dior does folklore in Paris couture, riffing on Ukraine art
Read full article: Dior does folklore in Paris couture, riffing on Ukraine artImages of traditional embroideries and floral paintings adorned the walls of Diorโs celebrity-laden runway homage to Ukraine on the first day of Paris Couture Week.
Sundance Film Fest unveils lineup for hybrid 2022 edition
Read full article: Sundance Film Fest unveils lineup for hybrid 2022 editionThe Sundance Film Festival is returning to the Utah mountains in January armed with documentaries about Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball as well as the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse Eisenberg.
Michael Apted, director of โUpโ documentary series, dies
Read full article: Michael Apted, director of โUpโ documentary series, diesA representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he passed Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the โUpโ documentary series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic โCoal Minerโs Daughterโ and the James Bond film โThe World Is Not Enough,โ has died. A representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he passed Thursday night. Apted served as a researcher on the first film and took over as director seven years later, continuing to check in with the subjects every seven years. โThe series was an attempt to do a long view of English society,โ Apted told Slant Magazine in 2019.
Lives Lost: Woman who performanced Shakespeare on the street
Read full article: Lives Lost: Woman who performanced Shakespeare on the streetHer performance of Shakespeare was her holding onto her substance, that last vestige of a healthy self, DiGennaro said. A Georgia native, she attended Bennington College in Vermont, where a classmate remembers a vivacious woman who loved soul music and the theater. She was truly gifted, said Laura Spector, a friend from Bennington who would later reconnect with her in New Haven. It was about this time Holloway embraced Shakespeare, possibly inspired by her days at Yale. They would leave and go across the street, said Nick Yorgakaros, who owns a pizzeria on the street where Holloway would often perform.
5 scariest inanimate movie objects
Read full article: 5 scariest inanimate movie objectsBut as these cinematic icons continue to etch out their place in Hollywood history as the scariest human killers of all time, there is another brand of killer that has proved it can be just as scary -- the inanimate object. The five inanimate objects we're highlighting here made us afraid of, well, just about any everyday item you could find in your house ...No. But at least the TV didn't move, unlike our next scary inanimate object ...No. A lot of people don't like talking on the phone, but this next inanimate object takes that fear to a new level ...No. 3: The Telephone from "Fatal Attraction"Not all terrifying inanimate objects have to come to life or have some supernatural force behind it to be terrifying.