Did you know that there was a miniseries in the spring of 2022 about the Watergate scandal that starred Oscar winners Julia Roberts and Sean Penn? No? Okay, did you know that there was a miniseries last March about the WeWork scandal starring Oscar winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway? …
Read More »Annette Bening Is Ready to Finally Win Her First Oscar
A lot has changed in Hollywood since Annette Bening was nominated for her first Academy Award, for The Grifters in 1990. “I went to the Academy Awards with [actor] Ed Begley in his electric car. At the time, no one knew what an electric car was, basically. Ed was so …
Read More »'Nyad' Signals That We've Officially Entered Oscar Bait Season
Diana Nyad had been a world-class endurance athlete for years when, after swimming around Manhattan in a little under eight hours in 1975, she became a celebrity and a talk-show staple. At the age of 30, Nyad retired after breaking the open-ocean record by going from the Bahamas to Florida, …
Read More »Sarah Paulson, Star of Many Netflix Shows, Strikes Against Netflix
Members of the Screen Actors and Writers Guilds picketed outside of Netflix in Los Angeles on Tuesday in the hopes of sending an important message to the streaming giant: They think Netflix has the opportunity to lead other streaming services and studios toward reaching a deal with the writers (WGA) …
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