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☆ Tia Mowry says she and sister Tamera aren’t close anymore. Here are 9 other famous duos who prove relationships are hard
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“But that’s just not where we are right now.”The sisters aren’t alone in their status as dynamic duos turned dynamic uno. Hall & OatesDaryl Hall and John Oates of the band Hall and Oates performing in Minnesota in 2017. In May, Hall – who originally filed the lawsuit against Oates in 2023 – told Variety in an interview that that Hall & Oates were officially over. Zeppelin originally included Page, Plant, drummer John Bonham and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones. The band broke up in 1980 after Bonham’s death and Page and Plant went on to each have successful solo careers.

Persons: Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Housley, ”, Mowry, Cory Hardict, “, that’s, Keegan, Michael Key, Jordan Peele Keegan, Jordan Peele, Peele, Key, ” Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, Frazer Harrison, besties, Richie, they’re, Peacock, Liam, Noel Gallagher Liam, Noel Gallagher, they’ve, Stripes Jack, Meg White, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Alberto E, Rodriguez, Savage, Jon Lung, Brian Louden, ” Savage, Oates Daryl Hall, John Oates, Oates, Adam Bettcher, Daryl Hall, Hall –, –, Mero Desus, Kid Mero, Showtime’s, Mero, Carmelo Anthony, Nice, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Plant, “ He’s, ” Page, Simon, Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Kevin Winter, Art Garfunkel Organizations: CNN, Comedy, Paris, Getty, Hilton, Gallaghers, Oasis, Stripes, Oates, NBA, Zeppelin, New York Times Locations: Hollywood, “, Pasadena, Minnesota, Brooklyn, British, Culver City, Queens

☆ ‘Maestro’ review: Bradley Cooper picks up the tune he started in ‘A Star is Born’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —In hindsight, Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star is Born” served as the commercial tune-up that paved the way for “Maestro,” as both films deal with the price of art as well as loving an artist. Before getting to the movie itself, a word about the controversy it triggered over the prosthetic nose that Cooper donned to better resemble his Jewish character. Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper in "Maestro," which Cooper also directed. Still, watching Cooper and Mulligan portray their characters across decades, it’s hard not to be impressed, while nurturing a greater appreciation for why Cooper found Bernstein’s contributions and complications deserving of such a tribute. Cooper and Mulligan’s work should be very much in those conversations, if not the movie itself.

Persons: Bradley Cooper’s, ”, “ Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Bernstein, Matt Bomer, Felicia Montealegre, Mulligan, Sarah Silverman, Edward R, Murrow’s, ” Bernstein, Felicia, Bradley Cooper, Jason McDonald, Maestro ”, Josh Singer, aren’t, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, “ Maestro ” Organizations: CNN, Netflix Locations: “

☆ ‘The Curse’ Series Premiere Recap: The Cameras Are Rolling
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In his Comedy Central series, “Nathan for You,” he came up with outlandish ideas to promote small businesses, often capturing the surreality of human behavior as he instituted his plans. In his latest series, Showtime’s “The Curse,” created with the “Uncut Gems” filmmaker Benny Safdie, Fielder has stopped playing himself but has kept the same fascination. At the center of the first episode are two incidents that involve his character, Asher Siegel, caught in unflattering and uncomfortable situations on camera. Whitney is outraged — even if that outrage is performative, she has a reputation to maintain — but Asher is more comfortable with Dougie’s machinations. He wants to trust his childhood friend, even though from early on it seems clear that Dougie deserves no one’s trust.

Persons: Nathan Fielder’s, “ Nathan, ”, —, Benny Safdie, Fielder, Asher Siegel, Asher, Whitney, Emma Stone, “, Asher can’t, Dougie, Safdie Organizations: HBO, HGTV Locations: ‘

☆ ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Review: A Classic Redeployed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Lance Reddick, Dale Dye and Kiefer Sutherland Photo: Paramount+/SHOWTIMEThe strawberries are still missing; the steel balls continue rolling nervously around in Captain Queeg’s sea-weathered mitts. And Showtime’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is yet another revisiting of the Herman Wouk courtroom saga. A deliberately spare, stripped-down take on the stage adaptation of the novel, it is also the last directorial effort of William Friedkin , who died in August. Those looking to make absolute sense of Friedkin’s involvement might reflect not on the director’s more lavishly imagined and celebrated films—“The Exorcist” or “The French Connection”—but on those that dealt with gray areas of morality and law: “To Live and Die in L.A.,” “Rules of Engagement” and even “Cruising.”

Persons: Lance Reddick, Dale Dye, Kiefer Sutherland, “, ”, Herman Wouk, William Friedkin Organizations: Paramount Locations: Queeg’s, L.A

☆ Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber to Lead Broadway ‘Doubt’ Revival
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber will star in a revival of “Doubt: A Parable” on Broadway this season. The play, by John Patrick Shanley, is about a nun who suspects a priest has sexually abused a student at a Catholic school. (All Broadway theaters are planning to dim the lights of their marquees for one minute at 6:45 p.m. tonight in Haimes’s memory.) Daly, who will play the nun who serves as the school principal, and Schreiber, who will play the parish priest, are both Tony winners. “Doubt” will be one of three plays staged by Roundabout on Broadway this season.

Persons: Tyne Daly, Liev Schreiber, John Patrick Shanley, Scott Ellis, Todd Haimes, Daly, Schreiber, Tony, “ Cagney, Lacey, ”, ” Schreiber, “ Ray Donovan, Glengarry Glen, Theresa Rebeck, Danny DeVito, Lucy, Kenny Leon, Williams Organizations: Broadway, Roundabout Theater Company, American Airlines Theater Locations: Glengarry Glen Ross

☆ Opinion | Can the Writers’ Strike Fix Hollywood?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A somewhat more pessimistic analysis, offered by writers like Sonny Bunch and Jessa Crispin, emphasizes that the superhero-sweatshop corporate strategy evolved because it’s giving audiences what they want. And so even if the strike is an opportunity for reconsiderations, it’s probably not a lever that can change the system as a whole. Personally I would like to see the strike lever a different Hollywood system into being. (HBO’s “Westworld,” for instance, or lately Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.”) Sometimes they play like thin imitations of the previous decade’s antihero dramas. Or they take on the character of the theatrical experience but somewhat worse — with too-big-to-fail franchises that nobody really enjoys.

☆ Showtime Reveals Plan to Expand ‘Billions,’ ‘Dexter’ With ‘Yellowstone’ Model
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( John Jurgensen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Spinoffs and expansions for ‘Billions’ and ‘Dexter’ are part of Showtime’s plans for an overhaul. Showtime is producing a wave of spinoffs and expansions for “Billions” and “Dexter,” two of its sturdiest hits, the network says. The premium cable brand is reshaping its TV slate with the same mold that turned “Yellowstone” into a sprawling franchise for parent company Paramount Global . Showtime says it’s planning up to four series connected to “Billions,” the network’s long-running high-finance drama, starting with a spinoff set in Miami, plus other iterations being developed under the titles “Millions” and “Trillions.”

☆ Paramount is integrating Showtime into its streaming service and giving the premium network a new name
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Hello, Paramount+ With Showtime. The premium television network is getting its first name change in the channel’s 47-year history, Paramount Global boss Bob Bakish announced to staffers Monday. Merging Showtime and Parmount+ on streaming will be a far more compelling offering to consumers versus trying to convince them to subscribe to each service separately. “With Showtime’s content integrated into our flagship streaming service … Paramount+ will become the definitive multiplatform brand in the streaming space — and the first of its kind to integrate streaming and linear content in this way,” Bakish wrote in his memo. Showtime canceled “Let the Right One In” and “American Gigolo,” while also choosing not to move forward with “Three Women.”

☆ 'Spector' review: A Showtime docuseries examines Phil Spector's legacy while giving Lana Clarkson near-equal time
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Perhaps most notably, this Showtime docuseries gives near-equal time to victim Lana Clarkson, including how the media posthumously denigrated her. “Phil Spector very much saw himself as a victim of all kinds of things,” says Vikram Jayanti, who interviewed the producer for a BBC documentary. Spector’s attorneys fueled that by playing a reel of her appearances in movies like “Barbarian Queen” in court, which, some observers noted, merely served to humanize her. “What a horrible fate for a legend,” says Paul Shaffer, David Letterman’s band leader and one of Spector’s friends. “Spector” premieres November 4 on Showtime’s streaming service and November 6 at 9 p.m.

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’Even before making its way to theaters, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — the long-awaited sequel to the 2018 film starring Chadwick Boseman — has birthed some of this fall’s biggest pop culture moments, including a Rihanna song drop. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 11. “The Inspection” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 18. “Bones and All” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 23. “Strange World” opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 23.

☆ ‘White Lotus’ Star F. Murray Abraham Traded Gang Life for a Career on Stage
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

F. Murray Abraham, 82, is an actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance as Antonio Salieri in “Amadeus.” He co-starred in “Scarface” and “Inside Llewyn Davis,” and on Showtime’s “Homeland.” He co-stars in season 2 of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” starting Oct. 30. He spoke with Marc Myers. In my early teens in El Paso, Texas, I was in a gang called the Rogues. We had knives and we did stupid things, but we weren’t as dangerous as other gangs in the area. We had fights, but everybody walked away.

☆ Showtime’s ‘Lincoln Project’ doc, like the super PAC, is noisy but not all that effective
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Michael Arceneaux | Michael Arceneaux Is The Author Of | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Showtime’s five-part docuseries about The Lincoln Project, the super PAC founded by multiple well-known Republican strategists and operatives with a shared contempt for Donald Trump, reminds me a lot of the organization’s work in 2020: noisy but not necessarily all that effective in realizing its stated goals. It’s not that The Lincoln Project founders shouldn’t be proud of the house they built. We also definitely didn’t need so much footage of various fans — including celebrities — and Lincoln Project members talking about how cool, popular and great the organization is. At the time of that revelation, not even The Lincoln Project disputed it. And while I won’t deny the coverage The Lincoln Project garnered during and after the 2020 election, is it all that hard to troll someone like Trump?

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