Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage and screen died Thursday, Jan. 16, The Guardian reports. She was 95. Plowright’s family confirmed her death, saying she died at a care home in Northwood, England for people who’d worked in theater. A cause of death was …
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Established via a coup in 1964, the Fifth Brazilian Republic had been in place for close to seven years when government officials showed up at the house of Rubens Paiva. He had been a former Congressman who’d been vocal about the regime change back in the day, but Paiva was …
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With the wildfires still raging all across Los Angeles, State Farm – the largest property insurer in California – has decided to pull a commercial they were planning to broadcast during the Super Bowl on February 9. “State Farm, its agents, and employees are all focused on helping customers impacted …
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David Lynch, the singular American filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist who conjured dreams and nightmares of unsettling beauty and psychic horror, has died. He was 78. Lynch’s family confirmed his death on Facebook, writing, “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the …
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While the late David Lynch made an inimitable and indelible mark on cinema from the director’s chair, his final big-screen contribution came in front of the camera with an unforgettable cameo in The Fabelmans. In Steven Spielberg’s 2022 semi-autobiographical film, Lynch appears toward the end of the movie as another …
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Kyle MacLachlan‘s life was forever changed when David Lynch took a chance on the young, unknown actor and gave him the lead role in his 1984 film Dune. Undeterred by that box office disaster, Lynch turned to him again in 1986 for his psychological thriller Blue Velvet, where he played …
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Stephen King is not interested in submitting a ballot for this year’s Academy Awards and called for the whole event to be canceled amidst the ongoing devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires. On Blue Sky, King wrote, “Not voting in the Oscars this year. IMHO they should cancel them. No …
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“I love the logic of dreams… Anything can happen and it makes sense.”—David Lynch The first thing I thought of were the bugs. If you’ve seen Blue Velvet, then you remember the opening — and whether you love or hate David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece of curdled Americana, it’s not a …
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Brad Pitt (the real one) has issued a statement following news that a French woman was scammed out of $850,000 by someone pretending to be the actor. The 53-year-old interior designer, Anne, was contacted by a scammer disguised as Pitt’s mother, Jane, who told the woman Pitt needed kidney treatment. …
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When it debuted in the spring of 1990, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was inarguably the strangest show to have ever been made for American television. It was, simultaneously, a gothic horror story, a murder mystery, a supernatural thriller, a throwback to 1950s soap operas and movie melodramas, …
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