Steve Martin and Martin Short are not exactly new to the television business: Steve Martin won an Emmy Award back in 1969 for his work as a writer on “The Smothers Brothers...
Read moreLonghaired young men carrying surfboards toward the waves; girls in bikinis lolling on blankets; children digging in the shallows; clusters of bodies sunning on the sand.The coronavirus pandemic lockdown provided the prominent...
Read more“Squid Game,” from Netflix, has the most nominations ever for a foreign language show.Credit...Netflix“Succession,” the HBO dramedy about a feuding media dynasty, landed 25 nominations for this year’s Emmy Awards on Tuesday,...
Read moreAn outsize character, Earl McGrath had variously worked as a record company head, film executive, screenwriter and art dealer before he died in early 2016 at age 84. Afterward, the contents of...
Read moreThe same goes for Kim. She is never mentioned in “Breaking Bad.” But the names “Lalo” and “Ignacio” are, and both of those guys are dead. The fate of Kim is one...
Read morePamela Council set a deadline and said a prayer. It had been nearly seven months since the artist’s monument to survivors of the pandemic first appeared in Times Square, with its carapace...
Read moreIt is nice to dream of a time when disabled actors are employed so frequently, and in so many kinds of roles, that we need not discourage others from playing this one....
Read moreIn a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway, lies a Florentine cultural treasure: the Antico Setificio...
Read moreThe dance critic Edwin Denby once wrote, “Daily life is wonderfully full of things to see.” That observation came to mind on Thursday during Momix’s “Alice,” a banal and busy 85-minute spectacle...
Read moreWeinstein’s reputation for sexual trespass had started early, when he was a concert promoter in Buffalo. As he aged, his influence waned — the whole movie industry waned — just as he...
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