When Asia Argento released Scarlet Divaback in 2000, she didn’t think anyone would recognize the rotund Hollywood producer who tries to rape the main character, Anna Battista, as a character based on a real-life movie mogul. But it didn’t take long for others to figure it out. “I was asked …
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There are several Donald Sutherlands you’re likely to meet if you start spelunking through the nearly six decades of this Canadian actor’s screen career. There’s the sparkle-eyed Sixties hippie in he-man war films, the type of wonderfully anachronistic presence that enlivens movies like The Dirty Dozen (“Madison City, Missouri, sir!” …
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It all started with a podcast. For both Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams, a chance work meeting led to the latter appearing on the former’s Web-chat extension of her blog Blaria (“black Daria“). Cut to three years later: The duo have their own hit podcast2 Dope Queens, appear in sold …
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Early in the new documentary Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge, a 22-year-old Jann Wenner is seen sitting at his desk in the cramped San Francisco loft where he started the magazine 50 years ago. The Berkeley dropout is surrounded by a bulging Rolodex, a rotary telephone and a photo …
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Slobbering wasn’t originally part of the Pennywise plan. “This will sound really bizarre,” explains Bill Skarsgård, the gentleman behind the iconic razor-toothed clown in the new big-screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s It. “But I was just sitting there going through the scenes in different voices – and I was drooling …
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