In All the President’s Men, the iconic 1976 film about how reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal and brought down the entire Richard Nixon presidency, Woodward’s inside source, nicknamed Deep Throat, famously says, “Forget the myths the media’s created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
The new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers takes five hours conveying this idea that William Goldman’s Oscar-winning Atpm script got across in a couple of sentences.
The new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers takes five hours conveying this idea that William Goldman’s Oscar-winning Atpm script got across in a couple of sentences.
- 5/1/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Spoiler Alert: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10 episodes November 9 on Netflix.
“Don’t want to break any rules,” exclaims Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II about halfway through the fifth and penultimate season of The Crown. The latest incarnation of the now-deceased monarch in Peter Morgan’s Netflix drama uttered that, but when it comes to the rules, the latest run of The Crown has knocked down almost all the gilded guardrails this time around.
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A result that tilts unsteadily between the gelastic and the grubby.
For one thing, launching on...
“Don’t want to break any rules,” exclaims Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II about halfway through the fifth and penultimate season of The Crown. The latest incarnation of the now-deceased monarch in Peter Morgan’s Netflix drama uttered that, but when it comes to the rules, the latest run of The Crown has knocked down almost all the gilded guardrails this time around.
Related Story Netflix Adds "Fictional" Disclaimer To ‘The Crown’ Season Five Trailer Following Backlash Related Story Vinnie Jones, Kaya Scodelario & Giancarlo Esposito Among 6 Cast In Guy Ritchie's Netflix Series 'The Gentlemen' Related Story 'Call My Agent!' Star Thibault De Montalembert Boards 'Heartstopper' Season 2
A result that tilts unsteadily between the gelastic and the grubby.
For one thing, launching on...
- 11/5/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Hours after the January 6th Committee showed behind-the-scenes footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders calling and even begging federal officials and others for resources to stop the attack on the Capitol, CNN showed extended clips throughout much of Anderson Cooper’s AC360.
The clips were riveting, capturing Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell working in unison to try to secure federal and state law and enforcement to quell the violence. As the Capitol was breached, the congressional leaders were taken to a command center at Fort McNair, about two miles away, and it was from there that they called cabinet secretaries and Vice President Mike Pence. They also considered reconvening Congress at that location if the Capitol could not be secured.
In one moment, Schumer shouted into the phone at Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, as...
The clips were riveting, capturing Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell working in unison to try to secure federal and state law and enforcement to quell the violence. As the Capitol was breached, the congressional leaders were taken to a command center at Fort McNair, about two miles away, and it was from there that they called cabinet secretaries and Vice President Mike Pence. They also considered reconvening Congress at that location if the Capitol could not be secured.
In one moment, Schumer shouted into the phone at Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, as...
- 10/14/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The January 6th Committee holds what may be its last public hearing on Thursday, as it tries to present the public with a narrative of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
After a summer pause, the hearing is expected to be the final chance for the committee to lay out its findings in advance of the midterms elections, in which a number of Trump’s defenders are seeking offices that will oversee the next presidential vote. All indications are that the afternoon hearing will once again use TV-news style production techniques, briskly going through the evidence with the use of graphics, clips and succinct witness testimony.
Among those who have been covering the hearings — and the aftermath of January 6th — is Robert Costa, who joined CBS News early this year. He authored Peril with Bob Woodward and, in March, they broke the news that Ginni Thomas,...
After a summer pause, the hearing is expected to be the final chance for the committee to lay out its findings in advance of the midterms elections, in which a number of Trump’s defenders are seeking offices that will oversee the next presidential vote. All indications are that the afternoon hearing will once again use TV-news style production techniques, briskly going through the evidence with the use of graphics, clips and succinct witness testimony.
Among those who have been covering the hearings — and the aftermath of January 6th — is Robert Costa, who joined CBS News early this year. He authored Peril with Bob Woodward and, in March, they broke the news that Ginni Thomas,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Emmy best actress races are becoming increasingly competitive as big-name stars participate in creating shows, reclaiming the power to be leading ladies carrying an increasingly complex narrative. Take Julia Roberts and her role as the Washington socialite turned whistleblower Martha Mitchell in Starz’ limited-series Emmy contender “Gaslit.”
With Mitchell, the actress-producer explores a woman of contradictions: a stylish hostess who tipsily goes over the edge into drug and alcohol abuse; a political player on the arm of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), whose marriage crumbles under the weight of an administration in crisis; and a traumatized wife and mother experiencing Ptsd after repeatedly being roughly thrown under the bus by the powerful white men in the room.
What Roberts and her fellow producers have done here is to take the familiar narrative of the White House burglars first exposed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
With Mitchell, the actress-producer explores a woman of contradictions: a stylish hostess who tipsily goes over the edge into drug and alcohol abuse; a political player on the arm of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), whose marriage crumbles under the weight of an administration in crisis; and a traumatized wife and mother experiencing Ptsd after repeatedly being roughly thrown under the bus by the powerful white men in the room.
What Roberts and her fellow producers have done here is to take the familiar narrative of the White House burglars first exposed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
- 6/24/2022
- by Thelma Adams
- The Wrap
The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is today, the “third rate burglary” that ultimately brought down a presidency, and all this week Washington, D.C. has been in a bit of nostalgic mode.
At the DC/Dox Festival, producer Debra McClutchy and director Anne Alvergue screened their new Netflix documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, focusing on the life of the celebrity Nixon-era figure whose importance in blowing the whistle on the scandal has only recently gotten its due. At the National Portrait Gallery, there’s an exhibition of key portraiture and illustration from the scandal.
But it’s nearly impossible to flashback without comparing the scandal to what’s going on now, via the January 6th Committee hearings, and what may be ahead, as a conservative judge warned on Thursday of the ongoing “clear and present danger” to democracy.
On Friday, The Washington Post gathered Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
At the DC/Dox Festival, producer Debra McClutchy and director Anne Alvergue screened their new Netflix documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, focusing on the life of the celebrity Nixon-era figure whose importance in blowing the whistle on the scandal has only recently gotten its due. At the National Portrait Gallery, there’s an exhibition of key portraiture and illustration from the scandal.
But it’s nearly impossible to flashback without comparing the scandal to what’s going on now, via the January 6th Committee hearings, and what may be ahead, as a conservative judge warned on Thursday of the ongoing “clear and present danger” to democracy.
On Friday, The Washington Post gathered Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
- 6/17/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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Fascination over the mysterious identity of Deep Throat, the Watergate whistleblower, helped fuel the success of 1976’s Oscar-winning All the President’s Men, but it also led to another, far unlikelier project: 1999’s Dick, a bouncy comedy about two teen girls who unwittingly find themselves at the center of the scandal.
Dick focused on Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams), a pair of 15-year-old best friends who wind up as President Nixon’s dog walkers and, somehow, become famed informant Deep Throat for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Will Ferrell) and Carl Bernstein (Bruce McCulloch). (It wasn’t until 2005 that former FBI associate director Mark Felt revealed himself to have been the Post’s anonymous source.)
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972, which led to Nixon’s resignation following his administration’s efforts to cover up its involvement,...
Fascination over the mysterious identity of Deep Throat, the Watergate whistleblower, helped fuel the success of 1976’s Oscar-winning All the President’s Men, but it also led to another, far unlikelier project: 1999’s Dick, a bouncy comedy about two teen girls who unwittingly find themselves at the center of the scandal.
Dick focused on Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams), a pair of 15-year-old best friends who wind up as President Nixon’s dog walkers and, somehow, become famed informant Deep Throat for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Will Ferrell) and Carl Bernstein (Bruce McCulloch). (It wasn’t until 2005 that former FBI associate director Mark Felt revealed himself to have been the Post’s anonymous source.)
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972, which led to Nixon’s resignation following his administration’s efforts to cover up its involvement,...
- 6/17/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
4th Update: Even after the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, in which Mike Pence narrowly escaped a mob, the attorney advising Donald Trump made a last-ditch effort to convince the vice president to still reject the electoral vote results.
John Eastman, who helped hatch the plan to overturn he results in favor of Joe Biden, emailed Pence’s counsel just before midnight on January 6, urging him to consider delay the count. At the time, order had been restored at the ransacked Capitol, and Pence was preparing to resume the count.
“I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation and adjourn for 10 more days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations, as well as to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here,” Eastman wrote to Greg Jacob, Pence’s counsel, who testified before the January 6th Committee on Thursday.
John Eastman, who helped hatch the plan to overturn he results in favor of Joe Biden, emailed Pence’s counsel just before midnight on January 6, urging him to consider delay the count. At the time, order had been restored at the ransacked Capitol, and Pence was preparing to resume the count.
“I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation and adjourn for 10 more days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations, as well as to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here,” Eastman wrote to Greg Jacob, Pence’s counsel, who testified before the January 6th Committee on Thursday.
- 6/16/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Roku Channel is expanding its slate of original programming with a renewal for its adult-animated comedy “Doomlands” and the greenlight of two new unscripted series, “Survival From Above” and “Lincoln Log Project.”
Created by Josh O’Keefe, “Doomlands” is a workplace comedy that follows the staff of a mobile pub The Oasis as they travel across a post-apocalyptic world. Mark Little and Kayla Lorette voice the main characters Danny Doom and Lhandi, with Ashley Holliday Tavares and Roger Bainbridge rounding out the cast. The series is written by O’Keefe, Little, Lorette and Roger Bainbridge, and O’Keefe directs and co-showruns with Lee Porter. Look Mom! Productions produces the series.
“Survival From Above” and “Lincoln Log Project” are both expected to premiere on Roku in 2023. “Survival From Above” is a competition series set in the rainforests of Guyana, featuring 10 contestants who will compete in challenges that take place on platforms suspended...
Created by Josh O’Keefe, “Doomlands” is a workplace comedy that follows the staff of a mobile pub The Oasis as they travel across a post-apocalyptic world. Mark Little and Kayla Lorette voice the main characters Danny Doom and Lhandi, with Ashley Holliday Tavares and Roger Bainbridge rounding out the cast. The series is written by O’Keefe, Little, Lorette and Roger Bainbridge, and O’Keefe directs and co-showruns with Lee Porter. Look Mom! Productions produces the series.
“Survival From Above” and “Lincoln Log Project” are both expected to premiere on Roku in 2023. “Survival From Above” is a competition series set in the rainforests of Guyana, featuring 10 contestants who will compete in challenges that take place on platforms suspended...
- 6/14/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has signed a first look deal with The Washington Post to create scripted and unscripted film and TV content drawn from the legendary newspaper’s vast archives.
The deal, brokered by CAA, which represents both Imagine and the Post, will develop and produce projects inspired by current reporting and ongoing investigative journalism. Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan will oversee the deal with Imagine Entertainment executive chairman Brian Grazer and chief strategy officer Justin Wilkes.
“At The Post, we’re storytellers at heart. Whether it’s holding the powerful to account or shedding light on an exceptionally compelling narrative, we see tremendous untapped potential for extending the reach of our journalism,” said Ryan in a statement on Tuesday.
The Washington Post broke the 1970s Watergate scandal affair after an investigation by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has signed a first look deal with The Washington Post to create scripted and unscripted film and TV content drawn from the legendary newspaper’s vast archives.
The deal, brokered by CAA, which represents both Imagine and the Post, will develop and produce projects inspired by current reporting and ongoing investigative journalism. Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan will oversee the deal with Imagine Entertainment executive chairman Brian Grazer and chief strategy officer Justin Wilkes.
“At The Post, we’re storytellers at heart. Whether it’s holding the powerful to account or shedding light on an exceptionally compelling narrative, we see tremendous untapped potential for extending the reach of our journalism,” said Ryan in a statement on Tuesday.
The Washington Post broke the 1970s Watergate scandal affair after an investigation by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
- 6/14/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In honor of President’s Day, we thought we might take a look at the ten highest-grossing movies ever made on the topic of American presidents. This list was constructed using domestic box office totals that have also been adjusted for inflation (according to data procured from Box Office Mojo and The Numbers). So, without further adieu, here are the ten highest-grossing films about American presidents.
10. Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Original Domestic Gross: $98,927,592
Adjusted Domestic Gross: $111,460,849
Another one of those “Die Hard in …” movies that happened to be set in the White House. This one starred Gerard Butler as Mike Banning, a secret service agent who finds himself trapped along with the president (Aaron Eckhart) during a terrorist attack on the White House. As hinted earlier, it amounts to little more than an attempt to replicate Die Hard in the White House. But, despite failing miserably in living up to its inspiration,...
10. Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Original Domestic Gross: $98,927,592
Adjusted Domestic Gross: $111,460,849
Another one of those “Die Hard in …” movies that happened to be set in the White House. This one starred Gerard Butler as Mike Banning, a secret service agent who finds himself trapped along with the president (Aaron Eckhart) during a terrorist attack on the White House. As hinted earlier, it amounts to little more than an attempt to replicate Die Hard in the White House. But, despite failing miserably in living up to its inspiration,...
- 2/21/2022
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Mike Pence pushed back on Donald Trump’s claim that he could have overturned the election on Jan. 6, 2021, when as vice president he presided over the Electoral College count before a joint session of Congress.
“This week, I heard President Trump say I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election,” Pence said in a speech to the Federalist Society.
CNN carried Pence’s speech, and MSNBC had portions of it. Fox News did not have live coverage, but reported on his comments moments later.
Pence’s comments were a rare break from Trump, to whom he had been steadfastly loyal during the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s White House tenure.
In a statement he issued earlier this week, Trump railed against the January 6th Committee, which is investigating the attack on the Capitol that day, and said, that...
“This week, I heard President Trump say I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election,” Pence said in a speech to the Federalist Society.
CNN carried Pence’s speech, and MSNBC had portions of it. Fox News did not have live coverage, but reported on his comments moments later.
Pence’s comments were a rare break from Trump, to whom he had been steadfastly loyal during the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s White House tenure.
In a statement he issued earlier this week, Trump railed against the January 6th Committee, which is investigating the attack on the Capitol that day, and said, that...
- 2/4/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Costa, who has been national political reporter at The Washington Post and was host of PBS’s Washington Week, is joining CBS News as chief election and campaign correspondent.
Costa will join the CBS News Washington bureau on Feb. 13, and will report for broadcast, streaming and digital platforms.
The announcement is a significant hire for CBS News, as Costa is among the most prominent political journalists. Costa and Bob Woodward co-authored Peril, about the final year of Donald Trump’s presidency and the early tenure of Joe Biden. Costa has been a national political reporter at the Post since January, 2014. Although he will be departing the post, Costa and CBS News plan to collaborate with the Post on special projects and investigations.
Costa also was moderator and managing editor of Washington Week from 2017 to 2020, and was a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC from 2015 to 2020. He also has...
Costa will join the CBS News Washington bureau on Feb. 13, and will report for broadcast, streaming and digital platforms.
The announcement is a significant hire for CBS News, as Costa is among the most prominent political journalists. Costa and Bob Woodward co-authored Peril, about the final year of Donald Trump’s presidency and the early tenure of Joe Biden. Costa has been a national political reporter at the Post since January, 2014. Although he will be departing the post, Costa and CBS News plan to collaborate with the Post on special projects and investigations.
Costa also was moderator and managing editor of Washington Week from 2017 to 2020, and was a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC from 2015 to 2020. He also has...
- 1/20/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated, with additional coverage details: The first anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will be marked by continuous coverage across the broadcast and cable news networks, as reporters and anchors recount the events of that day while sharing plenty of consternation over what has happened since.
The political polarization that has gripped Washington, and much of the country, will be evident by who is expected to participate in commemoration events. Few Republicans are expected, with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate and House Democratic leaders slated to speak at a ceremony Thursday morning.
Former President Donald Trump, whose false claims that the election was stolen from him led his supporters to storm the Capitol, nixed plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that would have been a kind of counterprogramming to the D.C. events. While there were reports that Trump’s...
The political polarization that has gripped Washington, and much of the country, will be evident by who is expected to participate in commemoration events. Few Republicans are expected, with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate and House Democratic leaders slated to speak at a ceremony Thursday morning.
Former President Donald Trump, whose false claims that the election was stolen from him led his supporters to storm the Capitol, nixed plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that would have been a kind of counterprogramming to the D.C. events. While there were reports that Trump’s...
- 1/6/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
In the week before the publication of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s Peril, many of its juiciest revelations already had made headlines.
Sans any kind of spoiler alert, there were the calls that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave to assure his Chinese counter part despite an erratic President Donald Trump. There also was former Vice President Dan Quayle counseling Vice President Mike Pence that no, he didn’t have the power to reject electors during the Jan. 6 vote count, despite Trump’s relentless pressure to do more.
But despite the pre-publication buzz surrounding Peril, fairly typical for a Woodward bombshell, some of the minor items still are revelatory.
One that stands out, oddly enough, is Trump’s apparently realization that his tweets weren’t necessarily helping him.
The scene in the book, which came out Tuesday, is a post-inauguration meeting at Mar-a-Lago...
Sans any kind of spoiler alert, there were the calls that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave to assure his Chinese counter part despite an erratic President Donald Trump. There also was former Vice President Dan Quayle counseling Vice President Mike Pence that no, he didn’t have the power to reject electors during the Jan. 6 vote count, despite Trump’s relentless pressure to do more.
But despite the pre-publication buzz surrounding Peril, fairly typical for a Woodward bombshell, some of the minor items still are revelatory.
One that stands out, oddly enough, is Trump’s apparently realization that his tweets weren’t necessarily helping him.
The scene in the book, which came out Tuesday, is a post-inauguration meeting at Mar-a-Lago...
- 9/23/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
As late night hosts fully get back in the swing of things from their normal studios, Bill Maher fans can rest easy knowing they’ve got a lot more “Real Time” ahead of them. HBO has renewed “Real Time With Bill Maher” for two more seasons, taking the Friday late-night talk show through 2024 and Season 21.
“After 19 seasons, ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ remains a Friday night destination for fresh perspectives and smart conversation about today’s most relevant issues,” Nina Rosenstein, executive vice president of HBO programming, said in a statement. “His weekly editorials are insightful, must-see viewing in his signature voice, and we’re proud to continue our relationship with Bill and the incredible team at ‘Real Time.’”
But before we get into future seasons and plans, we need to get through this week. So, is there a new episode of “Real Time” this Friday?
Indeed, there is a...
“After 19 seasons, ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ remains a Friday night destination for fresh perspectives and smart conversation about today’s most relevant issues,” Nina Rosenstein, executive vice president of HBO programming, said in a statement. “His weekly editorials are insightful, must-see viewing in his signature voice, and we’re proud to continue our relationship with Bill and the incredible team at ‘Real Time.’”
But before we get into future seasons and plans, we need to get through this week. So, is there a new episode of “Real Time” this Friday?
Indeed, there is a...
- 9/23/2021
- by Andi Ortiz and Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Steve Bannon, the White House adviser turned accused fraudster turned podcast host, admitted on Wednesday that he conferred with Trump ahead of the January 6th insurrection, with the intention of “kill[ing] the Biden presidency in its crib.”
Bannon’s activity anticipating January 6th has been well-documented, but the extent to which he spoke with Trump ahead of the insurrection was not known until Peril, a new book from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, was published on Tuesday. Bannon appeared to confirm Costa and Woodward’s reporting during a recording his War Room podcast on Wednesday.
Bannon’s activity anticipating January 6th has been well-documented, but the extent to which he spoke with Trump ahead of the insurrection was not known until Peril, a new book from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, was published on Tuesday. Bannon appeared to confirm Costa and Woodward’s reporting during a recording his War Room podcast on Wednesday.
- 9/22/2021
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Hal Holbrook, who died last month at 95, had so many memorable character roles, not the least of which was playing Deep Throat in the 1976 classic All The President’s Men.
At the time, the identity of Deep Throat was one of Washington’s best kept secrets — it wouldn’t be for another 30 years or so that Mark Felt would come forward and reveal himself.
In a 2015 interview with PopPolitics on SiriusXM, Holbrook said that the anonymity of Deep Throat at first made him think that there wasn’t too much to the role, and he turned it down.
Robert Redford, who had acquired the rights to the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein book, then came to Holbrook’s house to try to convince him otherwise.
Holbrook recalled, “I said, ‘Bob, there’s nothing here. It’s in the dark. There’s hardly anything to the role. …Nobody will see me.”
Redford,...
At the time, the identity of Deep Throat was one of Washington’s best kept secrets — it wouldn’t be for another 30 years or so that Mark Felt would come forward and reveal himself.
In a 2015 interview with PopPolitics on SiriusXM, Holbrook said that the anonymity of Deep Throat at first made him think that there wasn’t too much to the role, and he turned it down.
Robert Redford, who had acquired the rights to the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein book, then came to Holbrook’s house to try to convince him otherwise.
Holbrook recalled, “I said, ‘Bob, there’s nothing here. It’s in the dark. There’s hardly anything to the role. …Nobody will see me.”
Redford,...
- 2/2/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
“Forget money, I’m focused on dignity and loyalty.” Those were the disturbing words spoken the other day by my favorite agent who, alas, is facing the prospect of going out of business.
Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for Ask and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that began its fourth and final season on Netflix this week. Talent agents and their entourages have pitched and connived their way on TV before, but the French show has found a binge following, even among Hollywood’s besieged tenpercenters, as Variety used to call them.
Faced with strikes and streamers, the agenting community has had to make some bold moves, redefining corporate goals and expanding job descriptions. Agents are now even repping politicians and their causes as well as actors.
Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for Ask and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that began its fourth and final season on Netflix this week. Talent agents and their entourages have pitched and connived their way on TV before, but the French show has found a binge following, even among Hollywood’s besieged tenpercenters, as Variety used to call them.
Faced with strikes and streamers, the agenting community has had to make some bold moves, redefining corporate goals and expanding job descriptions. Agents are now even repping politicians and their causes as well as actors.
- 1/28/2021
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Bluto, the volcanic Samurai Futaba, “Joliet” Jake Blues, the Cheeseburger Man, a spasmodic Joe Cocker—the list of characters John Belushi brought to life in his all-too-brief but remarkable career only hints at his outsized role in American comedy.
“This guy was pure visionary,” marvels R.J. Cutler, director of the Showtime documentary Belushi about the late film star and original Saturday Night Live cast member. “[His] work remains vital to this very day.”
To make his biographical film Cutler initially reached out to many of Belushi’s famous contemporaries. But that only took him so far.
“I spent a fair amount of time [chatting] with folks who had known John, and I started to feel like the stories they were telling me were kind of lost in the foggy haze of memory. They felt a little like, ‘These are the stories I tell when I tell stories about John Belushi,’” Cutler recalls.
“This guy was pure visionary,” marvels R.J. Cutler, director of the Showtime documentary Belushi about the late film star and original Saturday Night Live cast member. “[His] work remains vital to this very day.”
To make his biographical film Cutler initially reached out to many of Belushi’s famous contemporaries. But that only took him so far.
“I spent a fair amount of time [chatting] with folks who had known John, and I started to feel like the stories they were telling me were kind of lost in the foggy haze of memory. They felt a little like, ‘These are the stories I tell when I tell stories about John Belushi,’” Cutler recalls.
- 1/26/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The world got to know John Belushi’s eyebrows before we got to know the man. They projected his innermost confusion, telegraphed his thought processes, and misdirected his most sincere intentions. Showtime’s heartfelt and intimate documentary, Belushi, opens with clips from the comic icon’s screen test for Saturday Night Live. Armed with just his face, he lets those eyebrows steal the scene. They cajole, caress, and careen across the bottom of his brow, culminating in a series of aerobic stretches with a gymnast’s flair. Belushi didn’t have to crack a joke, he barely had to say a word, and yet showed a world of possibilities within a few inches of cranial space. Belushi really was a lot like his decathlon character in the Little Chocolate Donuts skit. All he needed was some sugar to keep him going. The documentary shows Belushi really was born that way,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House and French conglom Vivendi have emerged as top contenders for Simon & Schuster with bids for the storied ViacomCBS publisher due in before Thanksgiving, according to a person familiar with the situation.
ViacomCBS put the company on the block in early March before the pandemic hit along with several other assets it considers non-core as looks to build up cash to invest in content and streaming. In late March, it said it had received several dozen inquiries. Those have now been narrowed down with three of the sector’s biggest strategic buyers in pole position. The sale could bring in as much as $1.7 billion, the person said.
The publisher’s revenue rose 20% last quarter on bestselling titles Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump and Bob Woodward’s Rage. On...
ViacomCBS put the company on the block in early March before the pandemic hit along with several other assets it considers non-core as looks to build up cash to invest in content and streaming. In late March, it said it had received several dozen inquiries. Those have now been narrowed down with three of the sector’s biggest strategic buyers in pole position. The sale could bring in as much as $1.7 billion, the person said.
The publisher’s revenue rose 20% last quarter on bestselling titles Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump and Bob Woodward’s Rage. On...
- 11/17/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Friday defended a strategy of licensing popular content to outside platforms even as it prepares to roll out streaming service Paramount+ in a fiercely competitive market.
The company inked of series of lucrative licensing deals with Netflix and Amazon as well as WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal in 2019 and 2020 as an influx of well-funded streaming rivals hit the market – rivals, Disney in particular, that are aggressive in clawing back streaming rights or withholding titles from third parties. As a result, some of the most-viewed shows on HBO Max and Peacock in the early going, South Park and Yellowstone, come from ViacomCBS.
Bakish and new CFO Naveen Chopra reiterated on a post-earnings call today with analysts — who continue to question the strategy — that they make scrupulous analytical decisions on each property – balancing profits from selling versus keeping rights.
“Content licensing is an important business but … our strategy is clearly evolving,...
The company inked of series of lucrative licensing deals with Netflix and Amazon as well as WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal in 2019 and 2020 as an influx of well-funded streaming rivals hit the market – rivals, Disney in particular, that are aggressive in clawing back streaming rights or withholding titles from third parties. As a result, some of the most-viewed shows on HBO Max and Peacock in the early going, South Park and Yellowstone, come from ViacomCBS.
Bakish and new CFO Naveen Chopra reiterated on a post-earnings call today with analysts — who continue to question the strategy — that they make scrupulous analytical decisions on each property – balancing profits from selling versus keeping rights.
“Content licensing is an important business but … our strategy is clearly evolving,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith and Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
ViacomCBS’s U.S. subscription streaming revenue jumped 78% in the third quarter of 2020, the company revealed in its Q3 earnings report Friday.
According to ViacomCBS, its domestic streaming subscriber count, which includes both CBS All Access (soon to be rebranded and relaunched as Paramount+ in early 2021) and Showtime Ott customers, reached 17.9 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2020, which is up 72% year-over-year.
On the free side, Pluto TV domestic monthly active users (MAUs) rose to 28.4 million, +57% from the same period last year.
Overall, ViacomCBS’s domestic streaming and digital video revenue rose 56% from the comparable 2019 quarter to $636 million, with the above-mentioned 78% spike for subscription streaming alone.
Sales for ViacomCBS’ publishing arm Simon & Schuster (which president and CEO Bob Bakish said in March the company was looking to sell off) were up 29% thanks to the releases of Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World...
According to ViacomCBS, its domestic streaming subscriber count, which includes both CBS All Access (soon to be rebranded and relaunched as Paramount+ in early 2021) and Showtime Ott customers, reached 17.9 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2020, which is up 72% year-over-year.
On the free side, Pluto TV domestic monthly active users (MAUs) rose to 28.4 million, +57% from the same period last year.
Overall, ViacomCBS’s domestic streaming and digital video revenue rose 56% from the comparable 2019 quarter to $636 million, with the above-mentioned 78% spike for subscription streaming alone.
Sales for ViacomCBS’ publishing arm Simon & Schuster (which president and CEO Bob Bakish said in March the company was looking to sell off) were up 29% thanks to the releases of Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World...
- 11/6/2020
- by Tony Maglio and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
ViacomCBS released solid third-quarter earnings on Friday that showed signs of improvement in advertising sales and affiliate revenue as well as strong growth in its streaming operations.
Paid subscribers for CBS All Access and Showtime standalone streaming services have climbed to 17.9 million, up from the 13.5 million subs disclosed earlier this year. The company also said its ad-supported Pluto TV service has reached 28.4 monthly active users. Total streaming and digital revenue reached $636 million, up 56% from the year-ago frame.
ViacomCBS previously set a goal of amassing 25 million subscribers for Showtime and CBS All Access by the end of 2022. The company has nearly reached its target of 18 million subscribers for 2022 that was offered with its second-quarter earnings report. The new sub target for year-end 2020 is 19 million, ViacomCBS chief financial officer Naveen Chopra said.
ViacomCBS hopes the focus on streaming metrics will help investors warm up to the company’s bifurcated strategy to build...
Paid subscribers for CBS All Access and Showtime standalone streaming services have climbed to 17.9 million, up from the 13.5 million subs disclosed earlier this year. The company also said its ad-supported Pluto TV service has reached 28.4 monthly active users. Total streaming and digital revenue reached $636 million, up 56% from the year-ago frame.
ViacomCBS previously set a goal of amassing 25 million subscribers for Showtime and CBS All Access by the end of 2022. The company has nearly reached its target of 18 million subscribers for 2022 that was offered with its second-quarter earnings report. The new sub target for year-end 2020 is 19 million, ViacomCBS chief financial officer Naveen Chopra said.
ViacomCBS hopes the focus on streaming metrics will help investors warm up to the company’s bifurcated strategy to build...
- 11/6/2020
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Neon is making “Totally Under Control,” its documentary about the White House’s response to Covid-19, available to stream on its website for free through Election Day on Nov. 3.
The company made the announcement Thursday and said it is also setting up Twitter watch parties throughout the week along with Q&As with directors Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger. The filmmakers will host a watch party on Friday at 4 p.m. Pt with Judd Apatow.
“Totally Under Control” was filmed secretly over the last few months and was completed just days prior to its launch on Oct. 13. The film, which debuted at No. 2 on Apple in its opening week, is currently streaming on Hulu.
The documentary was recently nominated for four Critic’s Choice Awards including best political documentary, along with an honor for most compelling living subjects for whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright.
”This…will give you an...
The company made the announcement Thursday and said it is also setting up Twitter watch parties throughout the week along with Q&As with directors Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger. The filmmakers will host a watch party on Friday at 4 p.m. Pt with Judd Apatow.
“Totally Under Control” was filmed secretly over the last few months and was completed just days prior to its launch on Oct. 13. The film, which debuted at No. 2 on Apple in its opening week, is currently streaming on Hulu.
The documentary was recently nominated for four Critic’s Choice Awards including best political documentary, along with an honor for most compelling living subjects for whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright.
”This…will give you an...
- 10/29/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Update, 9:26 Pm Pt: Miles Taylor appeared on Chris Cuomo’s CNN show and explained why he lied to Anderson Cooper in August about being Anonymous, the Trump administration figure who wrote a scathing New York Times op ed and book.
“Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, who has been a CNN contributor since August.
“It’s a great question, and I will just give you the blunt truth,” he said. “When I said in A Warning, I said in the book that if asked, I would strenuously deny it, that I was the author. And here’s the reason, because the things I said in that book were ideas that I wanted Donald Trump to challenge on their merits. We have seen over the course of four years that Donald Trump’s preference is to find personal attacks and distractions...
“Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, who has been a CNN contributor since August.
“It’s a great question, and I will just give you the blunt truth,” he said. “When I said in A Warning, I said in the book that if asked, I would strenuously deny it, that I was the author. And here’s the reason, because the things I said in that book were ideas that I wanted Donald Trump to challenge on their merits. We have seen over the course of four years that Donald Trump’s preference is to find personal attacks and distractions...
- 10/29/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
I admit I came late to the Borat 2 party. The film has been available on Amazon Prime Video since Friday, which may as well be five months ago in the realm of streaming discourse. Nevertheless, I sat down Monday evening to Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan expecting nothing would surprise me. I knew about, and had watched, the clip of Rudy Giuliani disgracing himself, and heard about Maria Bakalova surprising audiences as Borat’s daughter. I even knew Borat went to Cpac to bedevil Vice President Mike Pence.
Perhaps suspecting I’d heard all the “good bits” explains why I was so taken aback at the film’s interruption of the Conservative Political Action Conference. And no, it has nothing to do with what Sacha Baron Cohen did. To be sure, the subversive comedian goes all out with his shtick there,...
Perhaps suspecting I’d heard all the “good bits” explains why I was so taken aback at the film’s interruption of the Conservative Political Action Conference. And no, it has nothing to do with what Sacha Baron Cohen did. To be sure, the subversive comedian goes all out with his shtick there,...
- 10/27/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
R.J. Cutler’s “Belushi” charts the rise and fall of “Animal House” star John Belushi without dwelling on the particulars of his tragic death of a drug overdose at 33.
“Drugs and his overdose have become the thing that many people focus on in John’s story, but that’s not what I was interested in,” said Cutler. “I wasn’t interested in his death. I was interested in his life.”
Instead, the documentary is a celebration of Belushi’s anarchic spirit — the way he could commander an “SNL” skit with the cock of an eyebrow and send it spinning off in fresh and revolutionary directions. Chevy Chase may have been the late night show’s first breakout star, but it was Belushi who provided the sketch comedy program with its rebel yell.
Cutler relies heavily on footage of Belushi’s “SNL” tenure and work in films like “The Blues Brothers...
“Drugs and his overdose have become the thing that many people focus on in John’s story, but that’s not what I was interested in,” said Cutler. “I wasn’t interested in his death. I was interested in his life.”
Instead, the documentary is a celebration of Belushi’s anarchic spirit — the way he could commander an “SNL” skit with the cock of an eyebrow and send it spinning off in fresh and revolutionary directions. Chevy Chase may have been the late night show’s first breakout star, but it was Belushi who provided the sketch comedy program with its rebel yell.
Cutler relies heavily on footage of Belushi’s “SNL” tenure and work in films like “The Blues Brothers...
- 10/16/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Carl Bernstein called out NBC for agreeing to host President Trump’s town hall on Thursday at the same time as Joe Biden’s airs on ABC, criticizing the network for “allowing itself to get conned by Donald Trump.”
The respected investigative journalist and author, who himself was ABC’s Washington Bureau Cheif from 1980-81, detailed everything he found wrong with NBC’s decision in a seven-part Twitter thread on Wednesday.
“How is that NBC News has allowed itself to get conned by Donald Trump and (as of 11 pm Wednesday) continues to abrogate the public trust by not re-scheduling or taping-and-delaying broadcast, or canceling if Trump continues to demand the network’s obeisance?” he wrote. “First Trump evades debate commission rules and protocols; then NBC allows him a town hall on equal footing with Biden.”
Bernstein, who is also an alum of the Washington Post where he, along with Bob Woodward,...
The respected investigative journalist and author, who himself was ABC’s Washington Bureau Cheif from 1980-81, detailed everything he found wrong with NBC’s decision in a seven-part Twitter thread on Wednesday.
“How is that NBC News has allowed itself to get conned by Donald Trump and (as of 11 pm Wednesday) continues to abrogate the public trust by not re-scheduling or taping-and-delaying broadcast, or canceling if Trump continues to demand the network’s obeisance?” he wrote. “First Trump evades debate commission rules and protocols; then NBC allows him a town hall on equal footing with Biden.”
Bernstein, who is also an alum of the Washington Post where he, along with Bob Woodward,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
At the beginning of the documentary “Belushi,” author Tanner Colby is heard in a telephone conversation explaining to an interview subject that he’s talking to people about John Belushi because “No one’s ever done a real biography of John as a performer … I just want to give a full portrait of him as a human being.”
Those interviews from Colby, which were used for a 2005 book about the comedian and actor, are now at the heart of R.J. Cutler’s nonfiction film “Belushi,” which premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival on Wednesday and will also play at the AFI Fest before heading to Showtime on Nov. 22. And while you could say that the movie gets in the neighborhood of being a full portrait of the human being, it would be a stretch to call it a biography of John Belushi the performer – because at a certain point,...
Those interviews from Colby, which were used for a 2005 book about the comedian and actor, are now at the heart of R.J. Cutler’s nonfiction film “Belushi,” which premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival on Wednesday and will also play at the AFI Fest before heading to Showtime on Nov. 22. And while you could say that the movie gets in the neighborhood of being a full portrait of the human being, it would be a stretch to call it a biography of John Belushi the performer – because at a certain point,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
A wickedly industrious joke-machine intellect attached
to a pneumatic pair of eyebrows, John Belushi was the king of American
comedy in the mid-to-late 1970s. At the peak of his career, he could boast a
sinecure at “Saturday Night Live,” blockbuster movies, a hit band, and the
best Toshiro Mifune imitation ever to hit American TV. Nevertheless, as
related in R.J. Cutler’s tragic documentary “Belushi,” he
destroyed everything he had with the same abandon that John Landis wrecked
police cruisers in their movie “The Blues Brothers.”
Using heretofore-unheard interviews from an oral history project by Tanner Colby, “Belushi” can be seen as something of a riposte to Bob Woodward’s 1984 biography “Wired.” The book is seen by people in Belushi’s circle as a cold, scathing, and exploitative take on their friend’s drug-related death in 1982 that ignores his talent and warmth.
Continue reading ‘Belushi’: A Loving Look At...
to a pneumatic pair of eyebrows, John Belushi was the king of American
comedy in the mid-to-late 1970s. At the peak of his career, he could boast a
sinecure at “Saturday Night Live,” blockbuster movies, a hit band, and the
best Toshiro Mifune imitation ever to hit American TV. Nevertheless, as
related in R.J. Cutler’s tragic documentary “Belushi,” he
destroyed everything he had with the same abandon that John Landis wrecked
police cruisers in their movie “The Blues Brothers.”
Using heretofore-unheard interviews from an oral history project by Tanner Colby, “Belushi” can be seen as something of a riposte to Bob Woodward’s 1984 biography “Wired.” The book is seen by people in Belushi’s circle as a cold, scathing, and exploitative take on their friend’s drug-related death in 1982 that ignores his talent and warmth.
Continue reading ‘Belushi’: A Loving Look At...
- 10/13/2020
- by Chris Barsanti
- The Playlist
Whatever happens on November 3rd, science won. President Trump thought that he could bluff and spin his way through the pandemic. He thought he could hold big rallies and deride masks as gestures of political correctness. That he could ignore biology and create his own alternate world in the midst of a viral outbreak that, as of this writing, has killed some 215,000 Americans. But Trump was wrong. The virus got him too, and when it did, it exposed his lies and his disregard for the lives of his family and followers.
- 10/12/2020
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
Besides moderator Susan Page losing control early and that fly on Mike Pence’s head, if there is anything everyone can agree on about tonight’s first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 campaign, it is that the 2024 campaign has begun.
Between Sen. Kamala Harris and incumbent Mike Pence, one or both of them may very well be in the race for the White House in four years, regardless if Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins next month.
As for 2020, well, besides all the attention that the black fly on Pence’s white hair attracted online, tonight was another wasted opportunity of talking points and over talk in front of a nation that has seen over 210,000 Americans die from the coronavirus, a hobbled economy and partisan chaos in Washington, D.C.
Overall, the 90-minute showdown in Salt Lake City between the would-be VP and the pendulous current VP, who had an apparent eye ailment,...
Between Sen. Kamala Harris and incumbent Mike Pence, one or both of them may very well be in the race for the White House in four years, regardless if Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins next month.
As for 2020, well, besides all the attention that the black fly on Pence’s white hair attracted online, tonight was another wasted opportunity of talking points and over talk in front of a nation that has seen over 210,000 Americans die from the coronavirus, a hobbled economy and partisan chaos in Washington, D.C.
Overall, the 90-minute showdown in Salt Lake City between the would-be VP and the pendulous current VP, who had an apparent eye ailment,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Drama critics have a word for Covid-19, courtesy of the ancient Greeks: “nemesis.” In theater, this useful term applies to the inevitable downfall that awaits the wicked, the prideful and the overly confident. Decades from now, historians will look back on the coronavirus outbreak as the thing that derailed President Donald J. Trump, and perhaps the “re-greatening” America in the process.
Joining the situation in medias res, such dire predictions may seem premature — although that doesn’t stop investigative documentary superstar Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) from rushing his righteously compelling exposé “Totally Under Control” out before the election. That timing tells you everything about what Gibney hopes to achieve: The goal isn’t to be definitive so much as influential, without compromising the facts, which Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to obscure.
To get ’er done on schedule, Gibney enlisted co-directors Suzanne Hillinger and...
Joining the situation in medias res, such dire predictions may seem premature — although that doesn’t stop investigative documentary superstar Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) from rushing his righteously compelling exposé “Totally Under Control” out before the election. That timing tells you everything about what Gibney hopes to achieve: The goal isn’t to be definitive so much as influential, without compromising the facts, which Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to obscure.
To get ’er done on schedule, Gibney enlisted co-directors Suzanne Hillinger and...
- 10/7/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump tweeted early Friday.
“Tonight, @Flotus and I tested positive for Covid-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this Together!” Trump said on Twitter.
CNN reported that the president’s physician, Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, told reporters around 1 a.m. Et that he received confirmation of the positive tests on Thursday evening.
“The President and First Lady are both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence,” Conley wrote.
Conley added that he expected the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering.
Trump’s announcement came hours after Hope Hicks, one of the president’s senior advisors, tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday. During a Thursday interview with Fox News pundit Sean Hannity,...
“Tonight, @Flotus and I tested positive for Covid-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this Together!” Trump said on Twitter.
CNN reported that the president’s physician, Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, told reporters around 1 a.m. Et that he received confirmation of the positive tests on Thursday evening.
“The President and First Lady are both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence,” Conley wrote.
Conley added that he expected the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering.
Trump’s announcement came hours after Hope Hicks, one of the president’s senior advisors, tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday. During a Thursday interview with Fox News pundit Sean Hannity,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Veteran journalist Bob Woodward expressed “embarrassment” over President Donald Trump’s performance during Tuesday’s debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden. “I don’t want to overstate this, but he is assassinating the presidency,” Woodward said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Woodward, who just published the best-selling book “Rage” based in part on 18 recorded interviews with Trump, expressed dismay at Trump’s hectoring interruptions and repetition of unsubstantiated claims throughout the debate — which has been widely derided for its lack of presidential decorum.
“I spent a lot of time talking to him … this year and he will give out words, but there’s nothing behind it, and that was revealed last night,” Woodward said. “Embarrassment, sadness and people who are going to have to unwind some of this and make sense of our democracy in the coming four months before the next president takes office — and it might be Trump.
Woodward, who just published the best-selling book “Rage” based in part on 18 recorded interviews with Trump, expressed dismay at Trump’s hectoring interruptions and repetition of unsubstantiated claims throughout the debate — which has been widely derided for its lack of presidential decorum.
“I spent a lot of time talking to him … this year and he will give out words, but there’s nothing behind it, and that was revealed last night,” Woodward said. “Embarrassment, sadness and people who are going to have to unwind some of this and make sense of our democracy in the coming four months before the next president takes office — and it might be Trump.
- 9/30/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
When Shepard Smith returns to the anchor chair Wednesday, he’ll be occupying one of his former time slots, 7 p.m. on weekdays, but in a very different environment, CNBC. He also wants The News with Shepard Smith to be a very different show than what you’d get on Fox News, his old employer, or any other cable news channel.
“There’s plenty of places for opinion, for telling you how to think, and I have nothing bad to say about any of them,” he said in an interview last week. “It’s just not what I want to do. What I want to do is this, and it just matched so perfectly.”
It’s been almost a year since Smith surprised many in the news business, and many of his colleagues, when he abruptly announced his departure at the end of his 3 p.m. newscast on Fox News,...
“There’s plenty of places for opinion, for telling you how to think, and I have nothing bad to say about any of them,” he said in an interview last week. “It’s just not what I want to do. What I want to do is this, and it just matched so perfectly.”
It’s been almost a year since Smith surprised many in the news business, and many of his colleagues, when he abruptly announced his departure at the end of his 3 p.m. newscast on Fox News,...
- 9/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
President Donald Trump said during an Ohio rally Monday night that the Covid-19 virus “affects virtually nobody.” But with more than 200,000 Americans dead due to the coronavirus, Seth Meyers questions the president’s lack of concern.
“I’m sure those people died just to make you look bad. I heard they were deep state Antifa terrorists paid for by George Soros to stop breathing. They’re probably not even dead they’re probably hanging out on Antifa Island talking about how much they love socialism and fake news,” the Late Night host said on Wednesday during his “A Closer Look” segment.
Meyers continued to take shots at Trump, his rally and the president’s Covid-19 response during the segment. He noted that with the United States having passed the grim milestone on Monday, Covid-19 is now the third highest cause of death in the nation.
He went on to criticize...
“I’m sure those people died just to make you look bad. I heard they were deep state Antifa terrorists paid for by George Soros to stop breathing. They’re probably not even dead they’re probably hanging out on Antifa Island talking about how much they love socialism and fake news,” the Late Night host said on Wednesday during his “A Closer Look” segment.
Meyers continued to take shots at Trump, his rally and the president’s Covid-19 response during the segment. He noted that with the United States having passed the grim milestone on Monday, Covid-19 is now the third highest cause of death in the nation.
He went on to criticize...
- 9/24/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Woodward’s Rage sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week of publication, continuing a yearlong wave of blockbuster books about President Donald Trump.
Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday that Woodward’s book will be going into its fourth printing, with total books in print to be 1.3 million copies. Featuring 18 interviews with President Trump, including one in which he acknowledges in February the potential severity of the coronavirus, Rage has topped Amazon.com and other bestseller lists since coming out Sept. 15. The first week sales include hardcovers, audiobooks and e-books.
Despite the ongoing publicity of ...
Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday that Woodward’s book will be going into its fourth printing, with total books in print to be 1.3 million copies. Featuring 18 interviews with President Trump, including one in which he acknowledges in February the potential severity of the coronavirus, Rage has topped Amazon.com and other bestseller lists since coming out Sept. 15. The first week sales include hardcovers, audiobooks and e-books.
Despite the ongoing publicity of ...
- 9/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bob Woodward’s Rage sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week of publication, continuing a yearlong wave of blockbuster books about President Donald Trump.
Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday that Woodward’s book will be going into its fourth printing, with total books in print to be 1.3 million copies. Featuring 18 interviews with President Trump, including one in which he acknowledges in February the potential severity of the coronavirus, Rage has topped Amazon.com and other bestseller lists since coming out Sept. 15. The first week sales include hardcovers, audiobooks and e-books.
Despite the ongoing publicity of ...
Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday that Woodward’s book will be going into its fourth printing, with total books in print to be 1.3 million copies. Featuring 18 interviews with President Trump, including one in which he acknowledges in February the potential severity of the coronavirus, Rage has topped Amazon.com and other bestseller lists since coming out Sept. 15. The first week sales include hardcovers, audiobooks and e-books.
Despite the ongoing publicity of ...
- 9/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joe Biden and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a meaningful disagreement back in 1993, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Biden chaired it at the time. They were discussing societal change, and specifically how it should come about. Should a court move ahead of a populace’s attitudes and its regressive laws to expand constitutional protections, or should it be more prudent?
Biden seemed perplexed by Ginsburg’s predilection for moderate judgment, which was understandable. Others have done far better than I could in eulogizing the late Supreme Court justice,...
Biden seemed perplexed by Ginsburg’s predilection for moderate judgment, which was understandable. Others have done far better than I could in eulogizing the late Supreme Court justice,...
- 9/22/2020
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
As the CNN graphic tabulating coronavirus dead neared 200,000, the news network’s White House reporter described to the audience how utterly removed from reality the president of the United States actually is.
“In a stunning departure from reality, President Trump is giving himself the best possible grade for his handling of the coronavirus,” Jim Acosta said before rolling audio of Trump telling Fox News on Monday that he would give himself an A+ on his management of the pandemic.
“In a stunning departure from reality, President Trump is giving himself...
“In a stunning departure from reality, President Trump is giving himself the best possible grade for his handling of the coronavirus,” Jim Acosta said before rolling audio of Trump telling Fox News on Monday that he would give himself an A+ on his management of the pandemic.
“In a stunning departure from reality, President Trump is giving himself...
- 9/22/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Fayetteville, N.C. — An old man ranting into the night.
That’s how it looked out on the windswept patch of tarmac at the Fayetteville Regional Airport on Saturday night, the venue for President Trump’s latest rally. I had left the press pen behind the TV camera risers — you know, the spot Trump points to during the “fake news! Fake news!” portion of his stump speech — to stretch my legs and warm my bones. The temperatures at the airport had sunk into the 50s and I’d forgotten to bring a coat.
That’s how it looked out on the windswept patch of tarmac at the Fayetteville Regional Airport on Saturday night, the venue for President Trump’s latest rally. I had left the press pen behind the TV camera risers — you know, the spot Trump points to during the “fake news! Fake news!” portion of his stump speech — to stretch my legs and warm my bones. The temperatures at the airport had sunk into the 50s and I’d forgotten to bring a coat.
- 9/21/2020
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Tensions were high during Friday’s episode of The View, resulting in a swift end to the co-hosts’ interview with GOP candidate Kim Klacik.
As seen in the video below (with a slightly longer version here), Klacik, the current Republican nominee for Maryland’s 7th congressional district, had just finished addressing the coronavirus pandemic when the interview became heated. Klacik asserted that President Bill Clinton’s administration had been responsible for sending biotech and manufacturing jobs overseas years ago, resulting in a lack of preparedness to handle the pandemic in the United States this year.
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As seen in the video below (with a slightly longer version here), Klacik, the current Republican nominee for Maryland’s 7th congressional district, had just finished addressing the coronavirus pandemic when the interview became heated. Klacik asserted that President Bill Clinton’s administration had been responsible for sending biotech and manufacturing jobs overseas years ago, resulting in a lack of preparedness to handle the pandemic in the United States this year.
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- 9/18/2020
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
It might seem like a decade since the Covid-19 pandemic began, but it’s actually only been 7 months. You can be forgiven for thinking otherwise however, considering just how much has happened since the month Trump both publicly insisted Covid isn’t a real problem but privately admitted he knew good and well how dangerous the disease is.
So it’s pretty helpful that “The Daily Show” on Thursday reminded everyone of just how much of a fiasco America’s response has been with a gag parodying this week’s 2020 Emmy Awards: The Pandemmys. And though it is a big joke, it’s also something “The Daily Show Fans” can actually vote on.
And in a fun clip on Thursday’s episode promoting the awards, Trevor Noah broke down a few of the categories. Read on for a small sample.
Most Optimistic Performance.
Nominees:
Larry Kudlow, for falsely claiming “we...
So it’s pretty helpful that “The Daily Show” on Thursday reminded everyone of just how much of a fiasco America’s response has been with a gag parodying this week’s 2020 Emmy Awards: The Pandemmys. And though it is a big joke, it’s also something “The Daily Show Fans” can actually vote on.
And in a fun clip on Thursday’s episode promoting the awards, Trevor Noah broke down a few of the categories. Read on for a small sample.
Most Optimistic Performance.
Nominees:
Larry Kudlow, for falsely claiming “we...
- 9/18/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
“Yeah, well, I didn’t downplay it,” Donald Trump told an ABC News’ town hall tonight of his response to the deadly coronavirus. “I actually, in many ways, I up-played it, in terms of action,” the incumbent added, citing his bans on some travel to and from China and Europe this spring. “My action was very strong.”
“Whether you call it ‘talent’ or ‘luck,’ it was very important, so we saved a lot of lives when we did that,” the former Celebrity Apprentice host went on to boast at Tuesday’s socially-distanced event in Philadelphia with George Stephanopoulos – as you can see in the clip below:
In a special @ABC2020, Pres. Trump disputes uncommitted voter who asked why he downplayed a virus that has disproportionately affected communities of color: “I up-played it, in terms of action. My action was very strong.”
Watch tonight at 9|8c on @ABC: https://t.co/EET93N9suZ pic.
“Whether you call it ‘talent’ or ‘luck,’ it was very important, so we saved a lot of lives when we did that,” the former Celebrity Apprentice host went on to boast at Tuesday’s socially-distanced event in Philadelphia with George Stephanopoulos – as you can see in the clip below:
In a special @ABC2020, Pres. Trump disputes uncommitted voter who asked why he downplayed a virus that has disproportionately affected communities of color: “I up-played it, in terms of action. My action was very strong.”
Watch tonight at 9|8c on @ABC: https://t.co/EET93N9suZ pic.
- 9/16/2020
- by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, 9:45 Am: Sunday Night Football’s official season debut saw a win for the LA Rams against the always hyped Dallas Cowboys, but a loss for NBC and the NFL.
Actually, now the final numbers are in, make that a multi-year loss for the league and the Comcast-owned network.
With just 18.94 million viewers tuning in to watch the big game on NBC on September 13, Snf is down 15% from the 2019 opener of the flagship NFL show.
In fact, with no fans in the seats at the Rams’ high-tech stadium due to coronavirus safety protocols, the kickoff for Snf’s 2020-2021 season is at least a decade linear viewership low, according to Nielsen. The 6.2/33 rating the game drew among adults 18-49 easily won the night, but was also down double digits from early years.
Still, don’t sound the gridiron alarm yet.
Even with two teams with big national fanbases on the field,...
Actually, now the final numbers are in, make that a multi-year loss for the league and the Comcast-owned network.
With just 18.94 million viewers tuning in to watch the big game on NBC on September 13, Snf is down 15% from the 2019 opener of the flagship NFL show.
In fact, with no fans in the seats at the Rams’ high-tech stadium due to coronavirus safety protocols, the kickoff for Snf’s 2020-2021 season is at least a decade linear viewership low, according to Nielsen. The 6.2/33 rating the game drew among adults 18-49 easily won the night, but was also down double digits from early years.
Still, don’t sound the gridiron alarm yet.
Even with two teams with big national fanbases on the field,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Dominic Patten and Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Late Monday night, new damning audio was released of the president sharing what he actually thought about the dangers of the coronavirus to Bob Woodward, while at the same time Trump was sharing tweets that called for the firing of Anthony Fauci.
On April 13, according to new tapes from both CNN and from Woodward’s appearance on CBS’ late-night show with Stephen Colbert, Trump told the journalist and author of the soon to be released bombshell book Rage that the virus is a “killer” and called it “the plague.”
Trump...
On April 13, according to new tapes from both CNN and from Woodward’s appearance on CBS’ late-night show with Stephen Colbert, Trump told the journalist and author of the soon to be released bombshell book Rage that the virus is a “killer” and called it “the plague.”
Trump...
- 9/15/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
In a new audio clip from his interviews with President Donald Trump, Watergate journalist and Rage author Bob Woodward offered more evidence of how the U.S. leader knew about the dangers of the novel coronavirus earlier this year.
Played for the first time during Woodward’s appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the clip features audio from an interview completed with the president back in April. The audio highlights Trump knew how “easily transmissible” the coronavirus was, with the president admitting he cleared a room after someone sneezed.
“Bob, it’s so easily transmissible you wouldn’t ...
Played for the first time during Woodward’s appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the clip features audio from an interview completed with the president back in April. The audio highlights Trump knew how “easily transmissible” the coronavirus was, with the president admitting he cleared a room after someone sneezed.
“Bob, it’s so easily transmissible you wouldn’t ...
- 9/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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