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☆ John Goodman says he cringes looking back at his acting in 'Barton Fink'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

John Goodman's favorite Coen brothers movie is "Barton Fink" but he feels he could have done better in certain scenes. "A couple of things make me cringe," he told Business Insider. AdvertisementOf all the Coen brothers movies John Goodman has starred in, he says his favorite is 1991's "Barton Fink." In a recent chat for Business Insider's "Role Play" series, Goodman, 71, said he'd "love another shot" at "Barton Fink." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ There's still time to plan next weekend's travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I'm Joi-Marie McKenzie, the editor in chief of Life at Business Insider and your new Saturday anchor. Emily HartDispatchThere's still time to plan next weekend's travelRaise your hand if you're taking advantage of the upcoming Presidents’ Day weekend. If you’re like me and forgot to plan an amazing three-day vacation, don’t worry.

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☆ John Goodman says he was in a 'bad place' while making Martin Scorsese's 'Bringing Out the Dead': 'I wasted a great opportunity'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Out of the countless memorable movie roles John Goodman has had over his career, there's one where he feels he blew it. In Martin Scorsese's slow-burn 1999 drama "Bringing Out the Dead," Goodman and Nicolas Cage play paramedics working the night shift in New York City. "I was in a bad place," Goodman told Business Insider in his interview for our "Role Play" series. Goodman wouldn't go into specifics other than to say that he was "in a bad place mentally." Goodman added, "I wish I would have been present for the film because I feel I wasted a great opportunity."

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☆ John Goodman wants a do-over in his favorite Coen Brothers movie
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

When you think of John Goodman, you likely picture him as Walter Sobchak, the gun-toting bowling enthusiast from "The Big Lebowski." For the latest installment in BI's "Role Play" series, Goodman discusses his favorite Coen brothers movie, why "Bringing Out the Dead" was a hard movie to make, and the time he called 411 looking for Al Pacino. On his favorite Coen Brothers movie and faking it in his first movie roleYou made your movie debut in 1983 in "Eddie Macon's Run," which stars Kirk Douglas. [Laughs]On working with Al Pacino and the casting rumor about him he's never heard(L-R) John Goodman and Al Pacino in "The Sea of Love." [Laughs]On the movie that felt like he 'wasted a great opportunity'(L-R) John Goodman and Nicolas Cage in "Bringing Out the Dead."

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☆ ‘Fargo’ Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: Preparing for a Blood Bath
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Scott Tobias | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

We have seen these types in Noah Hawley’s TV “Fargo,” too, like David Thewlis as a mirthless, ruthless British business V.M. Varga in the third season or Billy Bob Thornton as the hit man Lorne Malvo in the first season, a satanic figure who believes people are primal beasts and acts accordingly. His clients are now his targets and it is safe to say they don’t know much about him. Neither do we, frankly, even after the episode makes an unexpected leap to early 16th-century Wales, when Munch or a Munch-like ancestor takes part in a sin-eating ritual. That has turned Munch into a 21st-century debt collector, owed much more than money.

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☆ H.B.O. Is Tackling Religion in the Most Remarkable Ways
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Elizabeth Nelson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Television’s depictions of religion have often leaned either toward po-faced dogma or scouring atheism, but here is one that dares to split the difference. The eldest, Jesse, is a pompous hothead whose default response to any insult is light violence and who, despite his persona as a family man, has enjoyed the sort of hard-partying lifestyle that would make early-1970s Led Zeppelin blush. His sister, Judy, is a flamethrowing libertine with a staggeringly foul mouth and a tendency to transgress against her lovingly milquetoast husband. Like a staging of “King Lear” at a monster-truck rally, the show has a loneliness that undergirds its berserk energy. This is not the only fascinating vision of the church on HBO these days.

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☆ MLB: London Series takes over the UK
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The Cubs dominated the London Series opener storming home to a 9-1 victory. Daniel ShireyMLB Photos/Getty ImagesA UK twist“It’s a thrill to be here,” Cardinals fan Karen Asher-Relf told CNN Sport. “I think it’s awesome [the London Series], I love baseball and I’m slowly converting him,” said Karen. DeCap, a Cardinals fan, and Crain, a Cubs fan, flew over to the UK for a vacation that incorporated watching the game. Since the last London Series event, the MLB has introduced a pitch clock designed to make matches shorter – a far cry from the mammoth four hour and 42-minute game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox during the 2019 London Series.

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☆ John Goodman shows off major weight loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —John Goodman is looking decidedly more svelte these days. “The Righteous Gemstones” star, who turns 71 on Tuesday, appeared at the 62nd Monte-Carlo TV festival Sunday in top form. Goodman reportedly started working on his health back in 2007, when he stopped drinking. Six years later, he told critic Peter Travers, “I just stopped eating all the time.”“I’d have a handful of food and it’d go to my mouth. And it gives me the energy to work, ‘cause work is very draining.”He served as jury president this year for the Monte-Carlo TV festival.

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☆ Arizona GOP governor candidate Kari Lake, who has spread election conspiracies, raises cash from business leaders
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Arizona republican candidate for governor Kari Lake greets the audience during a stop on the Truth and Courage PAC's Take Back America Bus Tour with U.S. Lake is endorsed by Trump, who spread false conspiracies that he lost that 2020 election because of widespread voter fraud. He helped to fuel the wave of GOP candidates who have run for office while casting doubts on the 2020 results. Ducey certified Arizona's 2020 election results. Hobbs, as the state's top election official, has denied any irregularities in the 2020 election.

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