Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: The purge of immigration judges; seeking accountability in trucking accidents; Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri on Broadway; portraitist Michael Shane Neal; the legacy of woodworker George Nakashima; an operatic car salesman; and Earth Day stories of advances in sustainability. Source: Read Full Article
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” easily retained its box office crown in its third weekend of release, topping the charts with $35 million. The Universal and and Illumination release is already the year’s highest-grossing film, having earned $355.2 million domestically and $747.5 million globally, and seems destined to eclipse the $1 billion mark worldwide. At…
The Strokes ended their performance on weekend 2 of Coachella on a note of political protest, capping the set with a video montage that accused the CIA of enacting regime change in foreign countries over the decades, finally concluding with footage of Israel bombing Gaza and the United States bombing Iran. These several minutes of…
Michael Shane Neal, perhaps America’s greatest living portraitist, recently fulfilled a long-held ambition: to paint a living president. He talks with correspondent Martha Teichner about producing a portrait of former President Joe Biden. He also discusses “being in the zone” while painting a portrait; following in the footsteps of famed artists Everett Raymond Kinstler and…
Test Your ’90s Movie Knowledge With This Screenshot Quiz We recently challenged film fans to name the correct ’80s movie from its final line alone. Now we want to see how you’ll do with ’90s films! We’re going to show you the opening scenes from 10 different movies, and all you have to do is…
“Matarifes,” picked up for worldwide sales by Germany’s Picture Tree, features at this year’s Guadalajara Construye, one of the industry centerpieces at Latin America’s biggest film festival. It is joined by the next from “Yesterday Wonder I Was” director Gabriel Marino and buzz title “Poor Daniel.” Shown just to the section’s jury, “Matarifes” marks…
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Murphy took a moment to look out at the star-studded room at the American Film Institute ceremony — at his family, his peers, the people who have shared his journey — and let it all sink in. “Seeing all of my family, all my kids, my beautiful…
You changed your name professionally in 2018 or 2019. What led to that decision, and why did you put your last name first? It actually might have been earlier, because I did it on “Tuca & Bertie.” I was born in Korea, went to elementary school there, then moved to Minnesota [for sixth grade]. And…
Justin Bieber brought out the big guns during his Coachella weekend two headlining set, tapping Sexyy Red, Billie Eilish and SZA as he took a trip down memory lane through his discography. He began by running through the lot of the “Swag” songs that dominated his weekend one set, including “Go Baby” and “All I…
In some vault, somewhere, are a couple of unreleased “rough tracks” featuring two-time Emmy-nominated actor Matt Bomer and 17-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren. In a conversation with Josh Horowitz for Happy Sad Confused, the Fellow Travelers star revealed that he has an unreleased EP of songs tied to 2015’s Magic Mike XXL. The idea came…
