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Even though its moving at a slower pace than many would like, the vaccine rollout is starting to gain some traction and in turn, moviegoers are going to start setting foot in theaters — safely of course. That said, the specialty box office space might be hearing some more coin drop into its piggy bank in the forthcoming months. It’s been quite a journey, but we’ll get there slowly yet surely. Eddie Huang, who is best known for writing the best-selling Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir which was the inspiration for the popular ABC sitcom, makes his feature directorial debut with Boogie which Focus Features releases in theaters today. The story follows Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi) who goes by the name “Boogie”. He is a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York and dreams of one day playing in the NBA. However, his parents have other plans for him. They want him to put all of his focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college. Through it all, Boogie must find a … [Read more...] about Focus Features Releases ‘Boogie’ From Eddie Huang; ‘My Salinger Year’ And ‘Boss Level’ Debut – Specialty Preview

When Netflix suggested I might like to preside over a conversation between Sophia Loren and Frank Langella , two titans of the screen and stage, it felt churlish to turn the opportunity down. They both appear in films handled by the streamer this year; Loren makes her return to screens after more than a decade away in The Life Ahead , directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, and Frank Langella delivers a blistering turn as Judge Julius Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 . And what to say about two of the most accomplished actors of their generation that hasn’t been better spoken by the many decades of extraordinary work both of them have authored? Frank Langella, of course, made his name in the theater, where he has won no fewer than four Tony Awards for performances in plays by Peter Morgan, Florian Zeller, Edward Albee and Ivan Turgenev. He has brought some of those plays to the screen, notably reprising the roles of Dracula and Richard Nixon in … [Read more...] about In Conversation: Sophia Loren And Frank Langella, Two Titans Of Screen And Stage, Look Back On Their Predestined Drive To Perform

Todd Snider ’s live shows are unparalleled experiences. The folk singer delivers hilarious, heartbreaking songs about his life, punctuating them with stories that can stretch as long as 18 minutes — about everything from the time he joined a Memphis cover band called K.K. Rider to the time he took mushrooms and immediately quit his high school football team. “When people on the plane ask me what I do,” says Snider, “I say, ‘Pretty much just like “Alice’s Restaurant.”‘ I just talk. It’s a nervous tick.” When the pandemic hit, the crowds went away, but Snider didn’t. Beginning in late March, he started broadcasting on Sunday mornings from the Purple Building, a clubhouse/rehearsal space in East Nashville. Sitting alone in front of a purple tapestry, Snider took requests, played covers like “Ring Them Bells” and “Mr. Bojangles,” and eventually performed his own albums in full. The most poignant show happened in April, after the death of John Prine , who had given Snider his first … [Read more...] about Todd Snider’s New Concept Album is a Funky, Funny Tribute to Recently Departed Friends

Suits star Patrick J. Adams tore into Britain’s Royal Family today, calling its treatment of his former costar Meghan Markle “obscene,” shameless and an irrelevant institution that is “overdrawn on credibility and apparently bankrupt of decency.” Adams was just one of Markle’s Suits colleagues coming to the Duchess of Sussex’s defense today,  the smackdowns coming after this week’s news that the Royal Family had launched an investigation into complaints by former Kensington Palace staff that Markle had bullied and humiliated them. The charges have made international headlines in the lead-up to Sunday’s big Oprah with Meghan and Harry special on CBS. “Meghan Markle and I spent the better part of a decade working together on Suits ,” Adams writes in the first in a string of eight tweets (see them below). “ From day one she was an enthusiastic, kind, cooperative, giving, joyful and supportive member of our television family. She remained that person and … [Read more...] about ‘Suits’ Cast & Creatives Side With Meghan Markle: Co-Star Patrick J. Adams Rips Royal Family As “Shameless” And “Bankrupt Of Decency”