The Walt Disney Company is the latest Hollywood studio to reach out to its employees to express sympathy with those coping with this past weekend’s traumatic events in and around Israel and the Gaza Strip, although they did so in two parts. The company received a mass email from Chief Hr Officer Sonia COleman that offered a list of organizations like Unicef and Direct Relief for those wishing to help the victims and survivors. Meanwhile, Disney CEO Bob Iger sent out a separate and more specific email directed exclusively to members of the company’s internal Jewish employee organization “Shalom.”
“I’ve had the chance to speak with a number of our Jewish colleagues over the past few days about the horrific terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel, and I want to reach out to this group directly to express my shock and sadness,” Iger’s note reads in part.
“I’ve had the chance to speak with a number of our Jewish colleagues over the past few days about the horrific terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel, and I want to reach out to this group directly to express my shock and sadness,” Iger’s note reads in part.
- 10/12/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
André Bishop will conclude his 33-year leadership tenure at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2025 at the conclusion of the non-profit theater company’s 40th anniversary 2024-25 season.
Bishop, whose celebrated tenure as Lct’s Artistic Director and more recently Producing Artistic Director included the premieres of such acclaimed new works as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Arcadia, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, to name a very few, announced his intended departure today.
“My years at Lincoln Center Theater have been happy ones,” he said in a statement, “and I will miss working with all my friends and colleagues. But the time has come, as it inevitably does, for the next generation to step in and step up. I look forward to that. Lct has...
Bishop, whose celebrated tenure as Lct’s Artistic Director and more recently Producing Artistic Director included the premieres of such acclaimed new works as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Arcadia, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, to name a very few, announced his intended departure today.
“My years at Lincoln Center Theater have been happy ones,” he said in a statement, “and I will miss working with all my friends and colleagues. But the time has come, as it inevitably does, for the next generation to step in and step up. I look forward to that. Lct has...
- 9/22/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the most beautiful actresses of Bollywood, Madhuri Dixit, who graced the stage of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’, made ‘Ukadiche Modaks’ on the sets of the singing reality show. ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ features Himesh Reshammiya, Neeti Mohan, Anu Malik as judges, and Aditya Narayan as the host. This weekend, viewers will get to watch a ‘Ganeshotsav’ special episode with Madhuri.
During this episode, after contestant Sonia’s power-packed performance to ‘Tamma Tamma’ and ‘Ek Do Teen’ that had the studio audience tapping their feet, she tells Madhuri how much she loves the Maharashtrian-style Ukadiche Modaks.
Being quite the expert at making this delicacy at home, Madhuri decides that it’s time to show them how it’s done. To everyone’s delight, Madhuri goes on the stage and cooks Modaks live on stage.
While making modaks, Madhuri said: “We use saaran for the stuffing to make Modaks,...
During this episode, after contestant Sonia’s power-packed performance to ‘Tamma Tamma’ and ‘Ek Do Teen’ that had the studio audience tapping their feet, she tells Madhuri how much she loves the Maharashtrian-style Ukadiche Modaks.
Being quite the expert at making this delicacy at home, Madhuri decides that it’s time to show them how it’s done. To everyone’s delight, Madhuri goes on the stage and cooks Modaks live on stage.
While making modaks, Madhuri said: “We use saaran for the stuffing to make Modaks,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
One of the most beautiful actresses of Bollywood, Madhuri Dixit, who graced the stage of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’, made ‘Ukadiche Modaks’ on the sets of the singing reality show. ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ features Himesh Reshammiya, Neeti Mohan, Anu Malik as judges, and Aditya Narayan as the host. This weekend, viewers will get to watch a ‘Ganeshotsav’ special episode with Madhuri.
During this episode, after contestant Sonia’s power-packed performance to ‘Tamma Tamma’ and ‘Ek Do Teen’ that had the studio audience tapping their feet, she tells Madhuri how much she loves the Maharashtrian-style Ukadiche Modaks.
Being quite the expert at making this delicacy at home, Madhuri decides that it’s time to show them how it’s done. To everyone’s delight, Madhuri goes on the stage and cooks Modaks live on stage.
While making modaks, Madhuri said: “We use saaran for the stuffing to make Modaks,...
During this episode, after contestant Sonia’s power-packed performance to ‘Tamma Tamma’ and ‘Ek Do Teen’ that had the studio audience tapping their feet, she tells Madhuri how much she loves the Maharashtrian-style Ukadiche Modaks.
Being quite the expert at making this delicacy at home, Madhuri decides that it’s time to show them how it’s done. To everyone’s delight, Madhuri goes on the stage and cooks Modaks live on stage.
While making modaks, Madhuri said: “We use saaran for the stuffing to make Modaks,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Agency News Desk
We don’t question the Murphy-Falchuk universe over here. If Kim Kardashian has to invoke her inner Kris Jenner in order to play the hip publicist in charge of our crestfallen heroine’s all-around well-being, who are we to say no? If Emma Roberts is once again tasked with walking against the grain to play the soft meek damsel in distress, so be it. When you stick around long enough for a show to turn 12, you get the lay of the land. Even though Halley Feiffer now sports the showrunner’s hat and even though the show has ventured out of its comfort zone to base Delicate on a novel, the premiere of American Horror Story season 12 has us reaching for something to cling as we volunteer to be creeped out. Did we need a modern take on Rosemary’s Baby? You’d get mixed answers to that. But there must...
- 9/22/2023
- by Lopamudra Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
Spoiler Alert: The following contains details of the American Horror Story Season 12 premiere episode “Multiply Thy Pain,” directed by Jessica Yu and written by Halley Feiffer.
American Horror Story turns 12 this year and you’d never know it; it’s like the series from Ryan Murph and Brad Falchuk has never had any work done in the Nip/Tuck sense of the word. It’s as young and vibrant as it was back in 2011.
Just when you think the series is showing crow’s feet and has gone to loopy ends, i.e., clever-wielding pilgrims, Murphy and Falchuk glam it up with a curveball headlining star and a millennial take on Rosemary’s Baby. Yep, no guessing which horror film this season is based on. This season looks as posh, as cool, and as sexy as a Prada dress on Madison Ave and you wanna hang out with these New Yorkers despite how creepy and inappropriate they are.
However, instead of satanic neighbors hanging around Mia Farrow’s apartment building like in the 1968 Roman Polanski movie, we get cryptic high-class folk hanging around in public places in Manhattan.
Emma Roberts plays famed actress Anna Victoria Alcott, a Michelle Williams-type who has gone from being on a CW show to an indie movie that has morphed her into an Oscar-worthy actress. She’s trying to have a baby with her icy hubby, Dex Harding (played by Matt Czuchry). Note how she wears a pink winter cap (symbolism: girl!) and a baby blue wool coat (boy!). He may or may not still have something for the girl who literally got away in his life — his first wife Adeline, a James Beard-winning chef who died in a kitchen fire. “The way that she died, no one gets over that,” says Dex. Later on, an old friend of Dex and Adeline’s, Talia (Juliana Canfield), feels the latter’s spirit. That’s enough to make Anna run to the ladies’ room.
Anna is undergoing an embryo treatment from Dr. Hill (Dennis O’Hare), the best doctor in the city, who has a surgical staff clad in red like they’re fresh from David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. Outside of that bizarro, there’s a lot of other crazy stuff happening to Anna as her career is on the ascent (she just booked her first late-night gig on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen): for example, there’s a black-cloaked, feminine-looking figure who’s in bed with her. When Anna wakes, the figure flees the apartment. Also, Anna is left with blood on the carpet, as though she’s just had the baby.
There’s a smoking goth lady in red boots and gloves who follows Anna around in the city; near the onset of the episode, we find her looking into a nest outside Anna’s building that has an embryo in it. No big deal, per Dex. “Maybe she’s just trying to have a baby,” he tells Anna when freaky lady is outside Dr. Hill’s office building. Anna is, natch, wiser: “I don’t think she’d be smoking if she was trying to get pregnant.” Dummy!
And there’s old Mrs. Preecher, who also freaks out Anna in public. That’s a normal run-in, but old Mrs. Preecher winds up as one of the red-clad nurses toward the end when Anna is finishing up her embryo treatment. The elder reveals a long tongue and decides to kiss Anna.
Let’s not forget Sonia Shawcross (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), the artist who likes to come up from behind at her own gallery showings, specifically behind Anna. Sonia is oh, so humdrum: “I used my own menstrual blood in this one,” she says about her latest piece of art on the wall. ‘Does she look like Adeline?’ wonders Anna. “No, not at all,” says Dex.
There’s also other spooky stuff like Anna pulling endless strands of hair out of her head, a spider falling onto her head, and a Barbie reappearing in rando places around her. Despite all the gloom, Dr. Hill is optimistic about Anna’s chances to have a baby.
The only normal person in Anna’s life seems to be her publicist and confidante Siobhan, played by Kim Kardashian. How’s Kim’s acting? She plays a dead-on Type A entertainment industry type who boosts her self-doubting client, telling her that her life and career are great. You feel like Kim is channeling her mom-ager Kris Jenner in a homage. She’s perfect for the part — everyone calm down, it’s not like Kim is playing Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Siobhan has also battled with fertility issues, having met Anna in an IVF support group, but she’s not envious of Anna’s progress, saying, “Your joy is my joy.”
But gosh, Anna, what’s wrong with you? Why so freaked out?
As Siobhan tells her client, “You have a peculiar penchant for turning dreams into nightmares.”
Or maybe, per Siobhan’s advice, Anna just “needs a nap.”
Then again, perhaps it’s Anna who isn’t the freak in this freak show. The season has been billed to be a feminist take on Rosemary’s Baby. We’ll wait and see if Mama Anna lets it rip.
Mia in episode one are this season’s players Evan Peters, Cara Delevinge and Michaela Jae Rodriguez.
The season is based on Danielle Valentine’s thriller novel Delicate Condition, which follows a woman who is convinced that a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens. We get that gist when the cloaked figure appears at the end of the episode (or is it really the beginning? The entire episode takes place “a week earlier”), having written the cryptic message on Anna’s mirror in lipstick: “Don’t Do It Anna.”
Our advice this season when it comes to the 12th go-round of American Horror Story: “Do do it.”...
American Horror Story turns 12 this year and you’d never know it; it’s like the series from Ryan Murph and Brad Falchuk has never had any work done in the Nip/Tuck sense of the word. It’s as young and vibrant as it was back in 2011.
Just when you think the series is showing crow’s feet and has gone to loopy ends, i.e., clever-wielding pilgrims, Murphy and Falchuk glam it up with a curveball headlining star and a millennial take on Rosemary’s Baby. Yep, no guessing which horror film this season is based on. This season looks as posh, as cool, and as sexy as a Prada dress on Madison Ave and you wanna hang out with these New Yorkers despite how creepy and inappropriate they are.
However, instead of satanic neighbors hanging around Mia Farrow’s apartment building like in the 1968 Roman Polanski movie, we get cryptic high-class folk hanging around in public places in Manhattan.
Emma Roberts plays famed actress Anna Victoria Alcott, a Michelle Williams-type who has gone from being on a CW show to an indie movie that has morphed her into an Oscar-worthy actress. She’s trying to have a baby with her icy hubby, Dex Harding (played by Matt Czuchry). Note how she wears a pink winter cap (symbolism: girl!) and a baby blue wool coat (boy!). He may or may not still have something for the girl who literally got away in his life — his first wife Adeline, a James Beard-winning chef who died in a kitchen fire. “The way that she died, no one gets over that,” says Dex. Later on, an old friend of Dex and Adeline’s, Talia (Juliana Canfield), feels the latter’s spirit. That’s enough to make Anna run to the ladies’ room.
Anna is undergoing an embryo treatment from Dr. Hill (Dennis O’Hare), the best doctor in the city, who has a surgical staff clad in red like they’re fresh from David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. Outside of that bizarro, there’s a lot of other crazy stuff happening to Anna as her career is on the ascent (she just booked her first late-night gig on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen): for example, there’s a black-cloaked, feminine-looking figure who’s in bed with her. When Anna wakes, the figure flees the apartment. Also, Anna is left with blood on the carpet, as though she’s just had the baby.
There’s a smoking goth lady in red boots and gloves who follows Anna around in the city; near the onset of the episode, we find her looking into a nest outside Anna’s building that has an embryo in it. No big deal, per Dex. “Maybe she’s just trying to have a baby,” he tells Anna when freaky lady is outside Dr. Hill’s office building. Anna is, natch, wiser: “I don’t think she’d be smoking if she was trying to get pregnant.” Dummy!
And there’s old Mrs. Preecher, who also freaks out Anna in public. That’s a normal run-in, but old Mrs. Preecher winds up as one of the red-clad nurses toward the end when Anna is finishing up her embryo treatment. The elder reveals a long tongue and decides to kiss Anna.
Let’s not forget Sonia Shawcross (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), the artist who likes to come up from behind at her own gallery showings, specifically behind Anna. Sonia is oh, so humdrum: “I used my own menstrual blood in this one,” she says about her latest piece of art on the wall. ‘Does she look like Adeline?’ wonders Anna. “No, not at all,” says Dex.
There’s also other spooky stuff like Anna pulling endless strands of hair out of her head, a spider falling onto her head, and a Barbie reappearing in rando places around her. Despite all the gloom, Dr. Hill is optimistic about Anna’s chances to have a baby.
The only normal person in Anna’s life seems to be her publicist and confidante Siobhan, played by Kim Kardashian. How’s Kim’s acting? She plays a dead-on Type A entertainment industry type who boosts her self-doubting client, telling her that her life and career are great. You feel like Kim is channeling her mom-ager Kris Jenner in a homage. She’s perfect for the part — everyone calm down, it’s not like Kim is playing Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Siobhan has also battled with fertility issues, having met Anna in an IVF support group, but she’s not envious of Anna’s progress, saying, “Your joy is my joy.”
But gosh, Anna, what’s wrong with you? Why so freaked out?
As Siobhan tells her client, “You have a peculiar penchant for turning dreams into nightmares.”
Or maybe, per Siobhan’s advice, Anna just “needs a nap.”
Then again, perhaps it’s Anna who isn’t the freak in this freak show. The season has been billed to be a feminist take on Rosemary’s Baby. We’ll wait and see if Mama Anna lets it rip.
Mia in episode one are this season’s players Evan Peters, Cara Delevinge and Michaela Jae Rodriguez.
The season is based on Danielle Valentine’s thriller novel Delicate Condition, which follows a woman who is convinced that a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens. We get that gist when the cloaked figure appears at the end of the episode (or is it really the beginning? The entire episode takes place “a week earlier”), having written the cryptic message on Anna’s mirror in lipstick: “Don’t Do It Anna.”
Our advice this season when it comes to the 12th go-round of American Horror Story: “Do do it.”...
- 9/21/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Wednesday evening, we got our first hints as to whether American Horror Story was going to succeed with its mad experiment. As you’ve no doubt read, this season, the series’ 12th, is the first that isn’t born of an original idea but adapted from a book, Danielle Valentine’s Delicate Condition (which has been described as “the feminist update to Rosemary’s Baby”). Delicate also marks the first time that Ryan Murphy has handed over the showrunner’s reins (to Impeachment: American Crime Story vet Halley Feiffer). So, did the gambles pay off? Pregnant-pause for long enough to...
- 9/21/2023
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty (Now Running In Selected Theatres)
Starring Anushka Shetty, Naveen Polishetty
Written & Directed by Mahesh Babu Pachigolla
A heroine who has crossed the traditionally marriageable age, doesn’t want to marry , but wants to be a mother. A hero who is a standup comedian and doesn’t quite know how sperm donation works but is willing to learn.
This is not the first film on a sperm donor who in the words of the group Foreigner, wants to know what love is. But damn, the lady only wants his semen and love can go fly a kite.
This a strangely heady brew of unorthodox theme and conventional storytelling. There are doting mothers and supportive best friends. But they somehow seem so much more cuddlesome than usual. Veteran actress Jaya Sudha as the heroine’s mother leaves a lasting impact although she exeunts early.
And speaking of best friends,...
Starring Anushka Shetty, Naveen Polishetty
Written & Directed by Mahesh Babu Pachigolla
A heroine who has crossed the traditionally marriageable age, doesn’t want to marry , but wants to be a mother. A hero who is a standup comedian and doesn’t quite know how sperm donation works but is willing to learn.
This is not the first film on a sperm donor who in the words of the group Foreigner, wants to know what love is. But damn, the lady only wants his semen and love can go fly a kite.
This a strangely heady brew of unorthodox theme and conventional storytelling. There are doting mothers and supportive best friends. But they somehow seem so much more cuddlesome than usual. Veteran actress Jaya Sudha as the heroine’s mother leaves a lasting impact although she exeunts early.
And speaking of best friends,...
- 9/13/2023
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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