Editors note: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger , which his old Columbia University classmate Ramin Bahrani turned into the movie that has been generating awards buzz since its Netflix release in January. Adiga penned a guest column for Deadline about how the pair became fast friends by bonding over Scorsese films in Bahrani’s dorm room, a kinship that has lasted ever since. Back in 1993, the idea that any living writer could come near the Russian novelist Dostoevsky in greatness would have struck me and my undergraduate friends at Columbia University as blasphemy. But this was precisely the claim that a fellow student was making one night as we were studying at the library. Even more shockingly, he was claiming that a living American filmmaker named Scorsese was as good as Dostoevsky. He had a video back in his dorm room that would prove it. Anyone want to see it? He even had Iranian snacks in the freezer sent by his … [Read more...] about ‘The White Tiger’ Author Aravind Adiga On Director Ramin Bahrani And Their Celluloid Bond – Guest Column
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‘King Richard’: Tony Goldwyn Stepping In For Liev Schreiber In Will Smith Pic About Williams Sisters’ Father
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Goldwyn is taking over for Liev Schreiber in Warner Bros .’ King Richard which is set to return to production in Los Angeles next week after pausing due to the pandemic earlier this spring. Goldwyn is stepping in to play the role of Paul Cohen, a noted tennis coach whose clients included John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, and Venus and Serena Williams. I understand that Schreiber had to depart King Richard given a scheduling conflict. The Reinaldo Marcus Green directed, Zach Baylin written feature follows the true story of hardscrabble, but iron-willed father of Venus and Serena Williams, (played by Will Smith ) who had a plan to make his daughters the greatest tennis players in the world. This is how he pulled it off. The movie already logged three weeks of filming before stopping out of safety due to COVID-19. Related Story Paramount's Bob Marley Biopic Sets 'King Richard' Helmer Reinaldo Marcus Green To Direct Goldwyn joins the … [Read more...] about ‘King Richard’: Tony Goldwyn Stepping In For Liev Schreiber In Will Smith Pic About Williams Sisters’ Father
Hear Mike and the Moonpies’ Nostalgic Cover of Fastball’s Nineties Hit ‘The Way’
Alt-rock and country music may seem like strange bedfellows, but in the hands of Mike and the Moonpies they go together like chili and cornbread. In honor of the 45th anniversary of the Hole in the Wall, the Austin bar in which they got their start, the Texas-based road warriors recorded a breezy version of the 1998 hit “The Way” by Fastball, the alt-rock trio who also launched a career out of the long-running dive bar located near the University of Texas. The Moonpies stay mainly faithful to the original — there’s no two-stepping transformation of “The Way” here — but they do increase the tempo to give the loping modern-rock song a more urgent vibe. It’s all tied together by Zach Moulton’s dreamy pedal steel and singer Mike Harmeier’s upper-register vocal delivery. The rendition represents a return to the formative years for the Moonpies, who held down a weekly Monday-night residency at the Hole in the Wall for three years. “The Hole in the Wall gave us our start, as it did so … [Read more...] about Hear Mike and the Moonpies’ Nostalgic Cover of Fastball’s Nineties Hit ‘The Way’