Craig Zadan and his producing partner, Neil Meron, are responsible for one of the most meaningful professional experiences in my career. They brought the magic of Broadway to primetime telev…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the arrogant surgeon Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on “MASH,” died Saturday. He was 75. His agent, Mitchell K. Stubbs, tweet…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:38PM[SHARE]With Fox and Disney announcing their anticipated multi-billion dollar mega-merger on Thursday, the movie industry is poised to experience the impact of consolidation and potential ripples to…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Movies weren’t yet talkies and the headquarters were located in New Jersey when Fox Film was founded in 1915. William Fox couldn’t have imagined that his modest film company woul…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM[SHARE]Before Disney's animated blockbuster "Aladdin" had its premiere in Japan, directors Ron Clements and John Musker were told not to worry if the audience didn’t laugh. And it wasn't beca…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Kevin Spacey’s apology to actor Anthony Rapp has unleashed a flood of negative reactions on Twitter. Spacey’s decision to combine a coming-out statement with an apology to Rapp, …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:11AM[SHARE]For Variety's latest issue, we asked Leslie Odom Jr. to write a tribute to Cynthia Erivo, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here's why Erivo represents a new generatio…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PM[SHARE]For Variety's latest issue, we asked Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a tribute to Oskar Eustis, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here's why Eustis, the artistic director …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PM[SHARE]In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting that killed at least 58 people in Las Vegas and injured hundreds more during a country music concert, entertainment figures are begging the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:56PM[SHARE]When Barbara Cook had been hired to play the lead in "She Loves Me," my image of her was based on the roles I had seen her play. I thought she was more or less an innocent ingénue. The firs…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Vice-president elect Mike Pence went to see the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” on Broadway Friday night, and the performance was disrupted when the audience wouldn’t stop booin…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PM[SHARE]A collection of awards season contenders including “Jackie,” “La La Land,” “Arrival” and “Manchester By the Sea” will screen at the Savannah F…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]Edward Albee, who shocked Broadway audiences with his play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1962, died Friday at his home in Montauk, Long Island in New York. He was 88…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PM[SHARE]"You are the writer, but I am the author!" When famed ghost-singer Marni Nixon said those words to me, her ghostwriter, I didn't quite understand how any of it would work. I had written prev…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54PM[SHARE]Controversy magnet Shia LaBeouf earned big laughs Thursday playing a demented military General whose fear of fluoride leads to armageddon in a raucous Live Read of the 1964 classic "Dr. Stra…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM[SHARE]Though much of Mickey Rooney’s most notable work appeared more than 70 years ago, the Hollywood community remembers him fondly as a hardworking actor who started his career as a child …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49AM[SHARE]Alec Baldwin says simply “I give up” on the cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine. But what’s he giving up? In a wide-ranging rant, he explains that he’s not…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58AM[SHARE]The last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers made famous in “The Sound of Music” died this week at her home in Vermont. Maria von Trapp, the second-oldest…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:21PM[SHARE]“August: Osage County” star Julia Roberts will be honored with the Palm Springs Film Festival’s Spotlight Award at the Jan. 4 awards gala. The festival runs Jan. 3-13. R…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]British theater director Matthew Warchus (“God of Carnage”) is set to direct “Pride,” an ensemble period dramedy toplined by Bill Nighy (“The Best Exotic Marigo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PM[SHARE]James Gandolfini, who won three Emmys for his portrayal of flawed antihero and conflicted mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos,” died in Italy at the age of 51 of a possible he…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:27PM[SHARE]Jean Stapleton, who won three Emmys and charmed audiences as the “dingbat” Edith Bunker on the groundbreaking TV show “All in the Family,” died Friday in New York of …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PM[SHARE]Film critic Roger Ebert was not only the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, but one of the only critics known to the general public, thanks to his long-running movie review shows suc…
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