Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke has made many a masterpiece – and his latest, Happy End, isn’t one of them. Yet this cinematic poke in the eye about an upper class family imploding still exerts a perverse fascination. From early provocations like The Seventh Continent (1989) through later boundary-pushing works like …
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Gene Wilder‘s widow, Karen Wilder, penned an emotional essay for ABC News about her late husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She praised ongoing efforts to fight the disease and also called for greater recognition of patient caregivers.Wilder died last August at 83. In her essay, Karen Wilder noted that one …
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Actress Rose Marie, best known for her role as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, died on Thursday in Van Nuys, CA, Variety reports. She was 94. Born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City on August 15th, 1923, Marie began her career as a child star at …
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Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon brought their fictional TV-host alter egos, Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan, to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday. The pair will provide live coverage of the upcoming New Year’s Day Rose Parade as it streams on Amazon for the first time. Speaking with Kimmel, Ferrell and …
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His name is Christopher Rainey, but you can call him “Quest” – that’s the nickname this North Philly resident is known by. Christine’a Rainey, his wife and a women’s shelter employee, is sometimes called “Ma Quest,” usually by the folks who drop by her spouse’s recording studio for his “Freestyle …
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Kristen Wiig butchered Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”during a duet with James Corden designed to bring world peace onThe Late Late ShowWednesday. The bit found Wiig and Corden easing through a soulful cover of the classic tune, though each time they arrived at the chorus, Wiig struggled to pronounce the song’s most …
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If you think it’s high time that Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro joined fellow Mexican auteurs Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) in the Oscar winners circle, The Shape of Water just may be the movie to do it. The Academy typically turns up its nose …
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The comedian Patton Oswalt returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday to perform Mike Huckabee’s Twitter jokes as if they were written for a stand-up routine. Oswalt stitched together Huckabee’s topical tweets – “zingers,” as Kimmel kindly put it – with cheerfully unimaginative segues. “You guys watch the news?” he …
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Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump made a secret visit to former campaign manager Paul Manafort in the Saturday Night Live cold open that focused on the first of Robert Mueller’s Team Trump arrests. After sending a life-size dummy on the president’s 13-day Asia trip, Trump popped into Manafort’s apartment to talk …
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A wrenching love story, set in Paris in the early 1990s, told against the background of HIV/AIDS activists battling against government and pharmaceutical indifference as they fight for their lives. The group is ACT UP-Paris and the movie is BPM (Beats Per Minute), an impassioned and incendiary cry from the …
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