“One of the mosquito-bite irritations of being on the left is finding your ideals represented in public by Michael Moore.” That quote from Vogue film critic John Powers, written about Moore’s Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, encapsulates all that’s great and troublesome about the celebrated, divisive filmmaker. More often than not,
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Big changes continue to rock the broadcast TV business: NBC Entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt is stepping down. The news comes nearly eight years after Greenblatt joined the network and just days after the Peacock marked its first full-year household ratings victory in 20 years. Word of Greenblatt’s departure began leaking
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As I sit down at Joshua’s Cafe in Woodstock with Eisner Award-winning artist Ramona Fradon, 91, I can see her sizing up our surroundings. The small, gray-haired comics legend is dressed in the relaxed, Bohemian-looking layers favored by Hudson Valley residents, but her eyes are on high alert, watching the
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It’s the end of a pop era: Céline Dion has announced she’s ending her Las Vegas residency after eight years, with her final show set for June 2019. “I definitely have mixed emotions about this final run. Las Vegas has become my home and performing at the Colosseum at Caesars
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“He is likely to re-offend,” said Kristen Dudley, a psychologist and member of the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board that conducted an evaluation on Cosby this summer. During Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing this morning at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia, Dudley testified about the 81-year-old comedian’s mental health.She
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“What in the world is the matter with Jane Fonda? I feel so sorry for Henry Fonda, who’s a nice man.”That’s Richard Nixon caught on White House tape in 1972, around the time that Jane Fonda, a movie star and Hollywood legacy in the process of reinventing herself as a
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Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s production company All Things Comedy is going into business with Comedy Central. The network announced today that it’s signed a production deal with All Things Comedy, which will include a half-hour stand-up series hosted by Burr, featuring some of his favorite comedians as well as
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Bill Cosby arrived at what’s expected to be a two-day sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia this morning. Rain didn’t deter onlookers from catching a glimpse of the disgraced 81-year-old entertainer, who smiled as he was led into the courthouse on the arm of his handlers.After
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