Actor James Tolkan, known for his role as the Hill Valley High principal in “Back to the Future” and the no-nonsense commanding officer in “Top Gun” has died. He was 94. Tolkan died Thursday in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he lived, his booking agent, John Alcantar, told the Associated Press on Saturday. In “Back to…
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The new play “Giant,” on Broadway, dramatizes the scandal around Roald Dahl, the beloved children’s-book author who, in the nineteen-eighties, began making antisemitic statements and invoking stereotypes about…
As “Project Hail Mary” takes off, Ryan Gosling has already set his sights on a new star vehicle. The actor will topline the next film from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, according to Deadline. The Universal Pictures movie will begin filming this summer in Los Angeles and hit theaters…
Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl turned Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing Lenny Bruce’s wayward wife Honey Harlow in “Lenny” and Lex Luthor’s secretary Eve Teschmacher in the 1978 and 1980 “Superman” films, died Monday morning. She was 82. Perrine’s death was confirmed by Stacey Souther, her close friend and the director of the…
Billy Porter says a poorly treated urinary infection nearly killed him. On Wednesday, the 56-year-old Broadway icon appeared on “Today” to promote his new children’s book, “Songbird in the Light,” and discussed a recent health scare that’s given the actor a new outlook on life. “I am on the road to complete recovery,” he said,…
Billy Crystal led honors for Rob Reiner onstage during the In Memoriam segment at the Academy Awards on Sunday. He was joined onstage by actors from Reiner’s films, including “This Is Spinal Tap,” “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally…” and “A Few Good Men.” Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Jerry O’Connell, Wil Wheaton, Fred Savage,…
Gender and racial representation on the big screen dipped once again in 2025, with the sharpest decline among women in lead roles, a new study found. The industry has failed “to better incorporate diversity,” according to the 2026 UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, released Thursday. The study, which analyzed 109 of the top English-language theatrical film…
