Fresh off a well-deserved, scare-the-money-out-your-pockets box office weekend for his horror film Us and a PaleyFest panel for his forthcoming revival of the iconic Twilight Zone, Jordan Peele scaled down the spectacle and participated in the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Q&A series in Los Angeles. In a conversation moderated by Ucb co-founder Ian Roberts in front of Ucb training center students, Peele talked about his career and his role as a black auteur in a renaissance for underrepresented voices in Hollywood.
Considering the audience was filled with Ucb improvisers and aspiring TV writers, producers and filmmakers, the majority of the conversation focused on Peele’s journey from aspiration to Sarah Lawrence College to Mad TV to Key & Peele to Get Out to Us. He even went into detail about the time he auditioned for Saturday Night Live during the 2008 writers strike with an impression of Barack Obama and then...
Considering the audience was filled with Ucb improvisers and aspiring TV writers, producers and filmmakers, the majority of the conversation focused on Peele’s journey from aspiration to Sarah Lawrence College to Mad TV to Key & Peele to Get Out to Us. He even went into detail about the time he auditioned for Saturday Night Live during the 2008 writers strike with an impression of Barack Obama and then...
- 3/26/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Emily Tremaine is an American actress. Primarily, she is known for her role as Natalie Atwood in Guilt as well as her role as Audrey Bidwell on The Blacklist. It is worth noting that in more recent times, she has been cast in a Syfy pilot called Tremors, though it remains to be seen what will come from that. Here are five things that you may or may not have known about Emily Tremaine: She Went to Sarah Lawrence College Tremaine went to Sarah Lawrence College. Like its name suggests, the school was named for a woman named Sarah Lawrence,
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Emily Tremaine...
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Emily Tremaine...
- 10/4/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Zack Snyder is stepping down from directing “Justice League.” The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, which comes for a very unfortunate reason: Snyder’s daughter committed suicide in March and he’s bowing out to deal with the loss. Joss Whedon is coming aboard to finish the film, which is still expected to hit its planned release date of November 17.
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Autumn Snyder was 20 at the time of her passing. Deborah Snyder, a producer on “Jusice League,” is likewise taking a step back from the superhero team-up film, which stars Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller. “In my mind, I thought it was a cathartic thing to go back to work, to just bury myself and see if that was way through it,” Snyder told THR alongside his wife.
“The demands of this job are pretty intense.
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Autumn Snyder was 20 at the time of her passing. Deborah Snyder, a producer on “Jusice League,” is likewise taking a step back from the superhero team-up film, which stars Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller. “In my mind, I thought it was a cathartic thing to go back to work, to just bury myself and see if that was way through it,” Snyder told THR alongside his wife.
“The demands of this job are pretty intense.
- 5/22/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
If we learned one thing from Chicago Med Season 2 Episode 19, it was to never cross Maggie. Oh, and the basic of locating a lost bullet without high tech help.
Okay, so the first lesson should have been a given. We should all be so lucky as to have a Maggie in our lives. Too bad she wasn't around for Nat during that passive aggressive territory marking by Nina. She might as well have peed on Will for all the subtlety she managed.
Which is interesting mostly because I'm still not getting the feeling that Nat is sitting around pining for Dr. Halstead. There's been maybe a moment or too or wondering what might have been, but nothing more.
At least on her side. If Nina's going to be paranoid, she needs to be asserting herself to her boyfriend, not his crush. Blaming another woman, especially not one who's actively seducing your beau,...
Okay, so the first lesson should have been a given. We should all be so lucky as to have a Maggie in our lives. Too bad she wasn't around for Nat during that passive aggressive territory marking by Nina. She might as well have peed on Will for all the subtlety she managed.
Which is interesting mostly because I'm still not getting the feeling that Nat is sitting around pining for Dr. Halstead. There's been maybe a moment or too or wondering what might have been, but nothing more.
At least on her side. If Nina's going to be paranoid, she needs to be asserting herself to her boyfriend, not his crush. Blaming another woman, especially not one who's actively seducing your beau,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Elizabeth Harlow
- TVfanatic
You began your career assisting Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull. How did you get that job?
There were three directors I wanted to work for when I came out of Sarah Lawrence College: Francis Coppola, Robert Altman and Marty Scorsese. I wrote a letter to Altman but never heard back. Francis had just come home from making Apocalypse Now and had gone a little off the rails, so I thought, "Hmm, that's a little too strange." So I'm down to one guy. Then I literally bumped into Robert De Niro in the dark at a screening. I tore a...
There were three directors I wanted to work for when I came out of Sarah Lawrence College: Francis Coppola, Robert Altman and Marty Scorsese. I wrote a letter to Altman but never heard back. Francis had just come home from making Apocalypse Now and had gone a little off the rails, so I thought, "Hmm, that's a little too strange." So I'm down to one guy. Then I literally bumped into Robert De Niro in the dark at a screening. I tore a...
- 1/10/2017
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Carrie Fisher, the iconic actress who portrayed Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, died Tuesday following a massive heart attack last week. She was 60.
"It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning," Simon Halls, a spokesperson for Fisher's family, said in a statement to People.
"Thank you to everyone who has embraced the gifts and talents of my beloved and amazing daughter," Fisher's mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, wrote on Facebook. "I am grateful for...
"It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning," Simon Halls, a spokesperson for Fisher's family, said in a statement to People.
"Thank you to everyone who has embraced the gifts and talents of my beloved and amazing daughter," Fisher's mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, wrote on Facebook. "I am grateful for...
- 12/27/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Leave it to Brian De Palma to turn one of the most traumatic events of his adolescence into a film school homework assignment.
Arguably the most personal entry in De Palma’s filmography, Home Movies began as a class project while he was teaching film production at his alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. Fresh off the supernatural successes of Carrie and The Fury, he tasked his students with the challenge of creating a low-budget film using highly personal stories from his own teenage years. As De Palma bluntly states in the documentary De Palma, “99% of film students are going nowhere” after graduation. At least these students would get hands-on training and earn a feature film credit. More importantly, De Palma would get the opportunity to revisit his early days of guerilla filmmaking and indulge some of his usual obsessions (erotic surveillance, films within films) while poking fun at some of...
Arguably the most personal entry in De Palma’s filmography, Home Movies began as a class project while he was teaching film production at his alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. Fresh off the supernatural successes of Carrie and The Fury, he tasked his students with the challenge of creating a low-budget film using highly personal stories from his own teenage years. As De Palma bluntly states in the documentary De Palma, “99% of film students are going nowhere” after graduation. At least these students would get hands-on training and earn a feature film credit. More importantly, De Palma would get the opportunity to revisit his early days of guerilla filmmaking and indulge some of his usual obsessions (erotic surveillance, films within films) while poking fun at some of...
- 9/19/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Manic, messy, and experimental, The Wedding Party serves as a 90-minute preamble, both technically and thematically, to the next decade of Brian De Palma’s young career. Co-directed with two others (Wilford Leach and Cynthia Munroe), the film was shot in 1963, only to be released in 1969, after both De Palma and Robert De Niro’s stars were on the rise. Leach was a theater professor at Sarah Lawrence, De Palma and Munroe two of his students. Fellow student Jill Clayburgh stars as Josephine, the bride-to-be, while Charles Pfluger plays Charlie, the impending groom. Jennifer Salt — who would go on to star in Murder à la Mod, Hi, Mom! and Sisters — also appears as Phoebe, friend of the bride.
Not too long after Charlie docks on the upscale island where the wedding is to take place and meets Josephine’s whole, judgmental family, his two groomsmen, Cecil (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley,...
Not too long after Charlie docks on the upscale island where the wedding is to take place and meets Josephine’s whole, judgmental family, his two groomsmen, Cecil (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Brian De Palma taught me the value of film criticism. The first time one of his films really registered for me actively was when Dressed To Kill was released in 1980. I was starting to get bit by the film bug at the time, still in the early days of the sickness, and there were many ways I would digest films beyond just seeing movies. For films I wasn’t allowed to see, there were still ways for me to get some sense of the movie. Mad magazine, for example. Undressed To Kill was one of the movie parodies that ran in 1980, and it was a beat for beat riff off of the real film. I knew the story and I even knew the twist, since Mad was not shy about spoilers. It was easy to feel like you’d seen the film after you read a Mad parody, and I...
- 6/8/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Late in the second season premiere of the outstanding Lifetime drama UnREAL, Rachel (Shiri Appleby), a top producer on Everlasting, the Bachelor-esque show-within-the-show, bullies naive young subordinate Madison (Genevieve Buechner) into behaving despicably with one of the Everlasting contestants, all for the sake of a sound byte they can put into a promo. As a tearful Madison struggles with her terrible assigned task, Rachel begins playing Cyrano into her earpiece, controlling one woman in order to manipulate another. Asked later how it felt, Rachel — who, in UnREAL's first season, was presented as a reluctant, if talented, piece of the Everlasting machinery — smiles and replies, "Are you kidding? I feel like God." And when she and Madison next interact, it's not so the younger woman can scold her or quit this awful job, but so she can ask Rachel to teach her how to feel like God herself. This is UnREAL,...
- 6/6/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Chicago – Holly Robinson Peete is a notable television actor (“21 Jump Street,” “Hanging with Mr. Cooper”), but her true life’s work is as a national spokesperson for autism. Currently, her family is featured on the reality show “For Peete’s Sake,” on the Own Network, and she has written a new book, “Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express.” She recently appeared at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Ill., to promote the book.
Holly Robinson Peete at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Ill
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Born in Pennsylvania, Holly Robinson made her debut as a child actor on the very first episode of “Sesame Street” in 1969. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in psychology and French – she is fluent in that language – she scored roles in consecutive TV series from 1987 through 2004, “21 Jump Street,” “Hanging with Mr. Cooper,” “For Your Love” and “Like Family.
Holly Robinson Peete at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Ill
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Born in Pennsylvania, Holly Robinson made her debut as a child actor on the very first episode of “Sesame Street” in 1969. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in psychology and French – she is fluent in that language – she scored roles in consecutive TV series from 1987 through 2004, “21 Jump Street,” “Hanging with Mr. Cooper,” “For Your Love” and “Like Family.
- 5/6/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Graham Phillips spent the better part of seven years playing Zach, the son of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) on The Good Wife, and during that time he developed a close mother-son dynamic with Margulies.
"Having Julianna as my fake mother for the last seven years was great," Phillips told People at Thursday's The Good Wife's series finale party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "She really was very maternal to me these last seven years."
In fact, Margulies was "instrumental" in convincing the young actor to attend college.
"She went to Sarah Lawrence, and her...
"Having Julianna as my fake mother for the last seven years was great," Phillips told People at Thursday's The Good Wife's series finale party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "She really was very maternal to me these last seven years."
In fact, Margulies was "instrumental" in convincing the young actor to attend college.
"She went to Sarah Lawrence, and her...
- 4/29/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- People.com - TV Watch
Why The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies Was 'Instrumental' in Her TV Son's Decision to Attend College
Graham Phillips spent the better part of seven years playing Zach, the son of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) on The Good Wife, and during that time he developed a close mother-son dynamic with Margulies. "Having Julianna as my fake mother for the last seven years was great," Phillips told People at Thursday's The Good Wife's series finale party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "She really was very maternal to me these last seven years." In fact, Margulies was "instrumental" in convincing the young actor to attend college. "She went to Sarah Lawrence, and her...
- 4/29/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- PEOPLE.com
They came via hyperdrive and warp speed, and even by New Jersey Transit, these devotees of Stars both Trek and Wars to mix with the high-rolling, arts-underwriting swells at a benefit performance for the Montclair Film Festival. But mostly, these disciples of sci-fi's top-shelf franchises made a pilgrimage to the Garden State to watch Stephen Colbert host a two-hour "celebrity nerd-off" with director J.J. Abrams, just three-and-a-half weeks before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you listened closely on Saturday night, you could hear a million-ish...
- 11/23/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Currently making the festival rounds, writer/director Peter Hearn’s Scrawl is a fascinating, micro-budget journey into the (dangerous) minds of a group of teenagers in England, including a pre-Star Wars: The Force Awakens Daisy Ridley. Daily Dead recently caught up with Peter for a chat about the film and the inspirational story behind its making.
Thanks for taking the time to talk to Daily Dead, Peter. As Scrawl is just starting to make its way around the festival circuit, could you give our readers an idea of what it’s about?
Peter Hearn: Gosh, where do I start? If I were to pitch it I would describe it as Big meets A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors by way of Phantasm and The Evil Dead. The story revolves around a boy who writes a comic book with his best friend, before finding situations depicted...
Thanks for taking the time to talk to Daily Dead, Peter. As Scrawl is just starting to make its way around the festival circuit, could you give our readers an idea of what it’s about?
Peter Hearn: Gosh, where do I start? If I were to pitch it I would describe it as Big meets A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors by way of Phantasm and The Evil Dead. The story revolves around a boy who writes a comic book with his best friend, before finding situations depicted...
- 11/20/2015
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
The American 1980s didn’t begin or end with Ingrid Sischy, but her tenure as editor-in-chief of Artforum — from 1980, when she was 27, to 1988 — made her a perpetual presence, lightning-rod gatekeeper, and immense id of artistic status, ambition, and fame. Friend of Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Nan Goldin, Francesco Clemente, Peter Hujar, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lil' Kim, Chloë Sevigny, Miuccia Prada, Sean Penn, Helmut Lang, Todd Solondz, k.d. lang, Valentino, and Veronica Webb, and nurturer and torturer of gifted writers like Rene Ricard and Lisa Liebmann, this Sarah Lawrence graduate was a poster child for the unbridled desire of the 1980s, its creative pretentiousness in its very best and most crazy forms, the one who helped integrate underground, mainstream, fashion, rock 'n' roll, and anyone who showed up and tried to make a connection. When The New Yorker called Sischy “Girl of the Zeitgeist” above an epic...
- 7/24/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
I am as liberal as a homosexual member of Occupy Wall Street playing hackey sack in an Elizabeth Warren T-shirt at a pro-choice rally on the campus of a Northeastern liberal-arts college that respects everyone’s personhood and demands trigger warnings. Because of that, I love when my politics are reflected in the television I watch. Heck, I still DVR reruns of blue-state nocturnal emission The West Wing just so I can pretend like every day is the Clinton administration. As much as I love my shows to be lefter than left, the only time I hate it is when the politics make for really sloppy storytelling, and that seems to be what happened with this episode of our favorite prison drama. Because Orange Is the New Black has the same political values of those at a vegan, organic Sarah Lawrence alumni pot luck, everything about this episode featuring Big Boo,...
- 6/15/2015
- by Brian Moylan
- Vulture
A few weeks ago, while working on my review of the “Parks and Recreation” episode “Save Jj’s,” I asked people on Twitter for the name of one of the show’s weirder recurring characters, the creepy, heavily-tattooed owner of Pawnee’s pawn shop. My followers identified him as Herman Lerpiss — and, better, pointed out that there have been a lot of characters named Lerpiss in Pawnee over the years, often with far more elaborate biographies than has ever been suggested on the show itself. This made me realize that, while I have interviewed “Parks” co-creator Mike Schur many times over the years about major developments for Leslie, Ron, April, Andy, and the rest of the show’s main characters (you can read some of those interviews here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here , here and here), I’d barely scratched the surface of all the crazy background characters...
- 2/18/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Lesley Gore, a pop singer who first entered the Am airwaves and the American consciousness in 1963, died of cancer Monday morning at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, People has confirmed. She was 68. At 17, the Brooklyn-born, Tenafly, New Jersey-raised former Lesley Sue Goldstein wailed in a hit single produced by Quincy Jones that "It's My Party" and she would cry if she wanted, whining of a rival, "She's a Fool," and declaiming, "You Don't Own Me." The catchy beat and voice led to four Top 5 singles in 1963 – and a 1965 smash by a then-brand-new composer enjoying his first hit: "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows," by Marvin Hamlisch.
- 2/16/2015
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
The New Republic’s new editor Gabriel Snyder announced four new hires on Wednesday, marking the political magazine’s first move to replenish its ranks since over a dozen staffers quit in December, which forced a suspension in publication.
“This is the first wave of new hires we’ll be making, including in the DC office, so I’ll have more exciting updates soon on the staffing front in addition to continuing to add to our roster of contributors,” said Snyder in his editor’s letter, which was obtained by TheWrap.
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“This is the first wave of new hires we’ll be making, including in the DC office, so I’ll have more exciting updates soon on the staffing front in addition to continuing to add to our roster of contributors,” said Snyder in his editor’s letter, which was obtained by TheWrap.
See Photos: The Scene at TheGrill 2014: TheWrap’s...
- 1/7/2015
- by Travis Reilly
- The Wrap
"That must be Nigel with the brie!" Julia Stiles' moody, Sarah Lawrence College-loving character Kat Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You resonated with audiences -- and casting directors. The Blue actress opened up about the 1999 classic that put her on the map to Us Weekly during the Orphaned Starfish Gala in NYC on Friday, Oct. 17. Eager to reflect back, Stiles, 33, revealed that her drunk house party table dance helped her land the role of Sara in 2001's Save the Last Dance. Plus, she [...]...
- 11/7/2014
- Us Weekly
While Catfish host Nev Schulman may spend his days unraveling the truth and lies of online dating, it seems that the MTV star has now found himself at the center of his own headline-making scandal following the release of his new book, In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age. In his tome, the self-professed "Dr. Drew of online relationships" details an incident which took place back in 2006 while he was attending college at Sarah Lawrence. During his junior year, Schulman describes how he accidentally "punched" a person in self-defense while serving as a photographer at the school's annual Sleaze Ball, a coming-out dance celebrating Lgbtq students, only to later...
- 9/10/2014
- E! Online
In his new book, In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age, Nev Schulman — the boyish host of the MTV show Catfish — writes about the time he was “tossed out” of Sarah Lawrence College for punching a girl in the face. In the passage, Schulman explains away his behavior by saying he “hadn’t been aware of” the fact that the person he punched was a woman, because she was “short, stocky, crew-cut-styled.” So it struck many former students at Sarah Lawrence as hypocritical when Schulman tweeted a selfie from an elevator on Monday night, condemning former Ravens running back Ray Rice for domestic abuse against his wife, with the message “Real men show strength through patience and honor. This elevator is abuse free.”The anecdote Schulman shares in the book is also strange, not just because of the casual tone in which it’s written, but...
- 9/10/2014
- by Jessica Roy
- Vulture
At Baltimore Comic Con, I got the opportunity to chat with up and coming comics writer Marguerite Bennett about her projects past, present, and future for companies including Marvel, DC, and Boom! We also discussed her mentor Scott Snyder (Batman, The Wake), Batman: The Animated Series, and her time at the University of Mary Washington, which happens to be the college I am currently attending.
SoS: What was the first comic you ever read? How old were you? What was the context?
Marguerite Bennett: This isn’t exactly a comic, but Batman: The Animated Series was my big hook into the Bat-universe. after that, my friend Travis Covey would show me single issues from things like X-Men and Spawn. They were always completely out of the arc they were a part of so I’d be six years old going through these pages with no concept of what was going on.
SoS: What was the first comic you ever read? How old were you? What was the context?
Marguerite Bennett: This isn’t exactly a comic, but Batman: The Animated Series was my big hook into the Bat-universe. after that, my friend Travis Covey would show me single issues from things like X-Men and Spawn. They were always completely out of the arc they were a part of so I’d be six years old going through these pages with no concept of what was going on.
- 9/7/2014
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
The contradiction in film criticism certainly does not go unnoticed. Sure, there are countless films that are praised and applauded for its excellence in quality and creativity. Unfortunately, the overlooked cinema fare that deserves just as much attention (more so than some of the recognized critically-acclaimed selections on an impressive selection of critics’ and moviegoers’ radars) get lost in the proverbial shuffle. It is simply the professional hazard of the movie industry because not every well-received and standout gem will get its rightful due come major awards season in Hollywood.
Just how many times have we as movie reviewers and/or movie fans become indignant when we realized that the special piece of entertainment we personally and critically cherished came up short and empty in expectations? Again, every smart kid in the classroom cannot get a gold star as we remain a competitive society in the world of celluloid superiority.
Just how many times have we as movie reviewers and/or movie fans become indignant when we realized that the special piece of entertainment we personally and critically cherished came up short and empty in expectations? Again, every smart kid in the classroom cannot get a gold star as we remain a competitive society in the world of celluloid superiority.
- 7/7/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Barbara Walters is giving a trove of tapes, papers and photos from her five decades in journalism to Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater. Walters made the announcement in a surprise appearance at the suburban New York college's commencement Friday. The Journal News says she told the graduates that her career benefited from going to what she called "a college where I was not afraid to ask questions." Photos: Barbara Walters' Career in Pictures College President Karen Lawrence says in a statement that the school is thrilled by the gift. Walters retired from daily television this month. Her final episode
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- 5/26/2014
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When I first saw the trailer for CBS' new fall show "Madam Secretary," my first thought was, hey, Tea Leoni! I love Tea Leoni! My second thought was, man, have not been seeing much of her in recent years. Sure, she was just in "Tower Heist" in 2011, but no one saw that, and it's been a whole lotta years since "Flirting with Disaster." There have been many projects in between, but not enough of them have been ideal showcases for Leoni's talent, plus movies like "Jurassic Park III" and "Deep Impact" weren't really about the actors, and plenty of other stars dominated hits like "A League of Their Own." Here are five reasons why I'm really hoping this is the hit Leoni has long deserved. 1) She's smart by any standard Yes, she dropped out of Sarah Lawrence, but let's remember that she got into Sarah Lawrence. Watching her on screen in any role,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Liane Bonin Starr
- Hitfix
Angela Dufresne was born in Connecticut and grew up in Kansas. She studied painting and video at the Kansas City Art Institute and painting at Tyler School of Art. She did residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2002–2004 and 2003–2004 and at Yaddo this year. She taught painting, and culture at large, in various places: Sarah Lawrence, Princeton University, and Rhode Island School of Design (Risd). Dufresne curated several show and video screenings nationally, including Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment: (Fuckheads); Negative Joy, a video screening at 443 Pas, New York; and Available, a show about still life at Monya Rowe Gallery. She has exhibited her work in various group shows in museums: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Rose Museum, Mills College Art Museum, Richmond University Museum of Art, and MoMA PS1. She has also had various solo shows nationally and internationally: a project at the Hammer Museum...
- 2/27/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Alice Walker knew that she had to do well to make her mother proud.
Imagine how proud she would have been when her daughter became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for "The Color Purple."
Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar draws from multiple interviews with Walker, historic documents, news footage and clips to create "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth," airing on PBS' "American Masters" Friday, Feb. 7 (check local listings).
Parmar met the activist and author of more than 30 books in 1991 and began interviewing her eight years later.
"I did an interview outside the shack in which her mother grew up out in the country," Parmar tells Zap2it.
Walker's voice-over explains how her mother made even this ramshackle shack a home. She bought scraps of wallpaper for the kids' room, but when she could get no more, she ironed brown paper bags to line the walls in other rooms.
Imagine how proud she would have been when her daughter became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for "The Color Purple."
Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar draws from multiple interviews with Walker, historic documents, news footage and clips to create "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth," airing on PBS' "American Masters" Friday, Feb. 7 (check local listings).
Parmar met the activist and author of more than 30 books in 1991 and began interviewing her eight years later.
"I did an interview outside the shack in which her mother grew up out in the country," Parmar tells Zap2it.
Walker's voice-over explains how her mother made even this ramshackle shack a home. She bought scraps of wallpaper for the kids' room, but when she could get no more, she ironed brown paper bags to line the walls in other rooms.
- 2/7/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Okay, a moment of Bluth: Last night’s Inside the Actors Studio, which featured much of Arrested Development’s cast and the show’s creator, wasn’t exactly essential viewing.
For starters, several key players were missing — including David Cross, Michael Cera, and Tony Hale. (A Bluth reunion with no Buster?! Sacrilege!) And secondly, even though the group was pared down, there were still so many talented people onstage that an hour was hardly long enough to give any of them a worthy spotlight — no matter how quickly the show’s editors cut from answer to answer. I almost wish...
For starters, several key players were missing — including David Cross, Michael Cera, and Tony Hale. (A Bluth reunion with no Buster?! Sacrilege!) And secondly, even though the group was pared down, there were still so many talented people onstage that an hour was hardly long enough to give any of them a worthy spotlight — no matter how quickly the show’s editors cut from answer to answer. I almost wish...
- 11/8/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Chicago – One of the grand entertainment events every summer in the Windy City is the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con. TV, movie and comic book celebrities populate the event – including last year’s attendees Lauren Holly (“Dumb and Dumber”) and Joey Lawrence (“Blossom”).
The 2013 edition of the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con kicks off on Thursday, August 8th and runs through Sunday, August 11th. Scheduled to appear is Zachary Quinto (Spock from the new Star Trek film series), the legendary Stan Lee (founder of Marvel Comics), Ralph Macchio (“The Karate Kid”), director Robert Rodriquez (“Machete Kills”), Brandon Routh (“Superman Returns”) and Wil Wheaton (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”), among other guests.
HollywoodChicago.com sat down with Lauren Holly and Joey Lawrence at the 2012 Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, with photographer Joe Arce providing the Exclusive Portraits.
Lauren Holly of “Dumb and Dumber,” “Picket Fences”
The red headed Lauren Holly is...
The 2013 edition of the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con kicks off on Thursday, August 8th and runs through Sunday, August 11th. Scheduled to appear is Zachary Quinto (Spock from the new Star Trek film series), the legendary Stan Lee (founder of Marvel Comics), Ralph Macchio (“The Karate Kid”), director Robert Rodriquez (“Machete Kills”), Brandon Routh (“Superman Returns”) and Wil Wheaton (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”), among other guests.
HollywoodChicago.com sat down with Lauren Holly and Joey Lawrence at the 2012 Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, with photographer Joe Arce providing the Exclusive Portraits.
Lauren Holly of “Dumb and Dumber,” “Picket Fences”
The red headed Lauren Holly is...
- 8/8/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans. Click on any of the following links to see the casting and job notices related to the dates and project titles highlighted below. Thu. July 11 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' 'An American in Paris' 'Chicago', National Tour, Dancers 'Crazy Horse & Custer' Donn Arden's 'Jubilee!' 'Final Analysis' 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change' 'Survive! Survive!' 'Taking Care of Baby' 'Advanced Access' NJ Fri. July 12 'A Christmas Carol' 'Awake & Sing!' 'Chicago', National Tour 'Colossal' Donn Arden's 'Jubilee!' 'Gypsy' 'I And You' Next Act 'The Book of Mormon' (Latter Day Tour) 'The God Game' 'The Phantom of the Opera', Broadway 'The Piano Lesson' 'Venus in Fur' 'Advanced Access' NY Sat.
- 7/9/2013
- backstage.com
Enjoying a couple's day out in the Big Apple, Emma Roberts and Evan Peters took at stroll through NYC's East Village neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon (May 21).
Seeming to be thoroughly enjoying each other's company, the pair walked hand in hand while sharing a few laughs along the way.
Last night, Emma took the stage for Glamour magazine's second-ever "These Girls" event, where the young starlet dished about wanting to exit Hollywood for a normal life.
"I was so busy pretending to experience everything [on-screen], I forgot to experience real life," Roberts said. The 22-year-old actress tried her hand at college when she enrolled at Sarah Lawrence, but things didn't go as planned.
After being the target of a nasty blog, the "Adult World" actress decided it was time to leave, "I wasn't getting what I wanted ... on my quest for real-life experience," she said.
"But I do have high hopes. When...
Seeming to be thoroughly enjoying each other's company, the pair walked hand in hand while sharing a few laughs along the way.
Last night, Emma took the stage for Glamour magazine's second-ever "These Girls" event, where the young starlet dished about wanting to exit Hollywood for a normal life.
"I was so busy pretending to experience everything [on-screen], I forgot to experience real life," Roberts said. The 22-year-old actress tried her hand at college when she enrolled at Sarah Lawrence, but things didn't go as planned.
After being the target of a nasty blog, the "Adult World" actress decided it was time to leave, "I wasn't getting what I wanted ... on my quest for real-life experience," she said.
"But I do have high hopes. When...
- 5/22/2013
- GossipCenter
Emma Roberts is figuring it out. Julia Roberts' niece, the daughter of actor Eric Roberts, the 22-year-old star of "Adult World" is grappling with living in the world as, well, an adult. When NextMovie caught up with Roberts at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City the day after the film's premiere, the actress was picking at a bunless burger and a heap of fries, bemoaning the blisters her heels had given her the night before. "Someone should do a shoe break-in service where they break in your shoes," she said.
Shoe problems aside, Roberts' career is standing tall: She's graduated from her "Nancy Drew" and "Aquamarine" kiddie film days to solidly received indies like "Adult World" and "It's Kind of a Funny Story," and a memorable supporting role as Ke$ha-like Riley in Rashida Jones' "Celeste and Jesse Forever." Her career is maturing as she does.
Shoe problems aside, Roberts' career is standing tall: She's graduated from her "Nancy Drew" and "Aquamarine" kiddie film days to solidly received indies like "Adult World" and "It's Kind of a Funny Story," and a memorable supporting role as Ke$ha-like Riley in Rashida Jones' "Celeste and Jesse Forever." Her career is maturing as she does.
- 4/22/2013
- by Kase Wickman
- NextMovie
The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans. Click on any of the following links to see the casting and job notices related to the dates and project titles highlighted below. Thu. April 11 'A Time to Kill', Broadway Documentary Feature, Singers 'Dysphoria''Ever After', Female Children 'Harmony', Ga & CA, Ensemble 'Play or Be Played' Sarah Lawrence, 'The Cheeseburger' 'Sleep No More' 'Superfly' Surflight 2013 Summer Season, Dancers 'Tempest', Tour Fri. April 12 Documentary Feature, Singers 'Dreamgirls', Ct Ct, 'Last Full Measure' Sat. April 13 'A Certain Romance' 'Counterfeit Unrealities: The Null Set' 'Footloose', Ct 'Woods Baseball', Ct Sun. April 14 Broken Box Dance Princess Events 'The Return' 'White Noise' Mon. April 15 Arkansas Repertory Theatre Season 'Can Can' Contemporary American Theater Festival Season, Wv 'Curtains', Co, Dancers 'Disney's Beauty and the Beast', Tour 'The Black Suits',...
- 4/9/2013
- backstage.com
The director has covered most genres in his wildly successful work in the cinema and on TV. But it is as king of the blockbuster that he will reign with the release of the new Star Trek, before he turns his talents to the latest Star Wars movie
Hollywood loves to categorise people. As every actor and director knows, it is all too easy to get pigeonholed on the back of a single successful film or an early role taken purely to pay the bills. Inside many daytime soap stars are Shakespeareans longing to play Hamlet. Perhaps some of the best action film directors, in their dark moments of the soul, will be kept awake at night by a gnawing urge to direct a low-budget independent film of deep artistic worth.
This is, after all, the industry that developed the star system, whose scripts are ruthlessly fine-tuned to appeal to...
Hollywood loves to categorise people. As every actor and director knows, it is all too easy to get pigeonholed on the back of a single successful film or an early role taken purely to pay the bills. Inside many daytime soap stars are Shakespeareans longing to play Hamlet. Perhaps some of the best action film directors, in their dark moments of the soul, will be kept awake at night by a gnawing urge to direct a low-budget independent film of deep artistic worth.
This is, after all, the industry that developed the star system, whose scripts are ruthlessly fine-tuned to appeal to...
- 4/6/2013
- by Paul Harris
- The Guardian - Film News
Jessica Alba wore a Harry Winston necklace worth $5.8 million to the 70th Annual Golden Globes on Sunday night.The diamond cascading drop necklace, set in platinum, is one of the priciest pieces to ever walk the red carpet. We got to thinking ... what could you get for that type of money? Check out our list of 10 things that are also worth $5.8 million!1. This 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home off Hollywood's famous Sunset Strip.2. 36,250 bottles of Dom Perignon 2003 at the affordable wine.com price of $159.99 per bottle, not the inflated club price.3. 50 top-end Fisker Karmas (Justin Bieber's car) at $116,000 each.4. 1,396 cases of Osetra Karat Gold Russian Caviar from gourmetfoodstore.com at $4,135.75 per each 35.2 oz jar.5. 97 years of tuition at Sarah Lawrence College (the most expensive U.S. college) at approximately $60,000 a year.6. 23 bottles of Kelly Osbourne's black diamond manicure, at $250,000 each.7. 9,666 haircuts from celebrity hairstylist Frederic Fekkai (whose clients include Debra Messing...
- 1/14/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
You know those stars who blow up for all of about five minutes -- or five years, if they're lucky -- and then disappear into the ether? The ones whom you're reminded of only upon seeing a late-night commercial for "Totally R&B" or gasping with excitement as they pop up on the latest episode of "30 Rock"?
The Huffington Post has been scouring the Web for juice on some of your old favorites, from pop-music princess Mandy Moore to "Cruel Intentions" heartthrob Ryan Phillippe. Find out what these and plenty of other stars are actually up to. Believe it or not, most of them are in fact still working. (We didn't believe it either.)
Music:
Ginuwine
You might not be aware, but R&B slow-jam aficionado Ginuwine is still making music. He released a greatest hits album in 2006, and his most recent effort, 2011’s “Elgin,” debuted at a crisp No.
The Huffington Post has been scouring the Web for juice on some of your old favorites, from pop-music princess Mandy Moore to "Cruel Intentions" heartthrob Ryan Phillippe. Find out what these and plenty of other stars are actually up to. Believe it or not, most of them are in fact still working. (We didn't believe it either.)
Music:
Ginuwine
You might not be aware, but R&B slow-jam aficionado Ginuwine is still making music. He released a greatest hits album in 2006, and his most recent effort, 2011’s “Elgin,” debuted at a crisp No.
- 1/4/2013
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Huffington Post
Gerda Lerner, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin who is considered a pioneer in the study of women's history, has passed away at the age of 92, a university official said Thursday (Jan. 3). Her son tells the AP she died peacefully of natural causes at an assisted-living facility in Madison.
Lerner was born 1920 in Vienna, Austria, fleeing her home country to escape the Nazis in the late 1930s. She eventually immigrated to the United States, married filmmaker Carl Lerner and earned her doctorate from Columbia University in 1966. Lerner would then go on to found the women's studies program at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Lerner was also a founding member of the National Organization for Women and helped create Women's History Month. She retired from teaching at the University of Wisconsin in 1991. She is survived by daughter Stephanie, son Dan and four grandchildren.
Lerner was born 1920 in Vienna, Austria, fleeing her home country to escape the Nazis in the late 1930s. She eventually immigrated to the United States, married filmmaker Carl Lerner and earned her doctorate from Columbia University in 1966. Lerner would then go on to found the women's studies program at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Lerner was also a founding member of the National Organization for Women and helped create Women's History Month. She retired from teaching at the University of Wisconsin in 1991. She is survived by daughter Stephanie, son Dan and four grandchildren.
- 1/4/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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