Hoda Kotb can't help but gush over her baby girl Haley Joy Kotb. Today's fourth hour co-anchor announced that she had adopted Haley Joy in Feb. 2017 and since then Kotb has documented her motherhood journey on social media. Kotb, a breast cancer survivor, attended the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's annual luncheon on Thursday in New York City and dished about her daughter in an exclusive interview with E! News. "I can't contain myself, she is everything...she's everything," Kotb told us about Haley Joy, adding that her baby girl is standing up now! Kotb continued, "The sweetest sound on the planet earth is her belly laughing to me. More than anything...
- 10/19/2017
- E! Online
In his introduction to Alan Berliner's film, "First Cousin Once Removed," which screened as part of the "Documentary Short List" program recently at Doc NYC, the festival's Artistic Director Thom Powers mentioned that most filmmakers he knows stop watching their films with audiences after the first few screenings, but Berliner is the exception. Berliner, whose experimental documentary films "Wide Awake," "The Sweetest Sound," "Nobody's Business," "Intimate Stranger" and "The Family Album" have been broadcast and screened at festivals all around the world, makes a point of watching his films along with an audience almost every chance he gets. "First Cousin Once Removed," which Eric Kohn called "equal parts psychological mystery and lyrical treatise on the passage of time," chronicles the late Edwin Honig, a poet and professor (as well as a cousin of Berliner's) and his life with Alzheimers. Below, Berliner explains why he relishes the opportunity to watch his films with an audience.
- 12/20/2013
- by Alan Berliner
- Indiewire
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Breaking Bad," "Boardwalk Empire," the returning "Homeland" and "Eastbound and Down" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "First Cousin Once Removed" Monday, September 23rd at 9pm on HBO Documentarian Alan Berliner ("Wide Awake," "The Sweetest Sound") turns his camera to his cousin Edwin Honig, an acclaimed poet and professor, in his latest film, which premiered at the New York Film Festival last year. Honig had begun experiencing signs of Alzheimer's when Berliner started shooting the film, and "First Cousin Once Removed" chronicles his decline due to the disease, becoming a tribute to a writer and intellectual as well as a film about memory and loss. In his review of the film from Nyff, Eric Kohn called it Berliner's "crowning achievement.
- 9/23/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
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