Left to Right: Roy Cohn, Donald Trump.
Photo by Sonia Moskowitz. Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” was the question asked of Sen. Joe McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings but right beside him was Roy Cohn. If the question instead had been asked of McCarthy’s young associate, the honest answer would have been no. A famously vicious lawyer and Donald Trump’s mentor. Roy Cohn is the subject of director Matt Tyrnauer’s fascinating documentary Where’S My Roy Cohn?
That question directed at Sen. McCarthy was asked by Sen. Joseph Welch, and brought an end to McCarthy’s reign of terror in the 1950s. The documentary takes a close look at the man sitting beside McCarthy, a ruthless lawyer and power broker who many have described as the embodiment of evil. With young attorney Roy Cohn whispering in his ear, Sen. Joe McCarthy...
Photo by Sonia Moskowitz. Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” was the question asked of Sen. Joe McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings but right beside him was Roy Cohn. If the question instead had been asked of McCarthy’s young associate, the honest answer would have been no. A famously vicious lawyer and Donald Trump’s mentor. Roy Cohn is the subject of director Matt Tyrnauer’s fascinating documentary Where’S My Roy Cohn?
That question directed at Sen. McCarthy was asked by Sen. Joseph Welch, and brought an end to McCarthy’s reign of terror in the 1950s. The documentary takes a close look at the man sitting beside McCarthy, a ruthless lawyer and power broker who many have described as the embodiment of evil. With young attorney Roy Cohn whispering in his ear, Sen. Joe McCarthy...
- 10/18/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The title of Matt Tyrnauer’s stone-the-bastard documentary about the corrupt lawyer, attack dog and inhuman being who everyone loved to hate comes from Donald Trump. “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” the President reportedly shouted in frustration when his attorney general Jeff Sessions dared to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Cohn died in 1986, leaving Trump without the mentor and fixer who helped make him the Donald what he is today. Enough said.
Or so you’d think . But in tracing the origins of a monster, Tyrnauer, known for docu-profiles...
Or so you’d think . But in tracing the origins of a monster, Tyrnauer, known for docu-profiles...
- 9/19/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Transport Group has announced that its annual A Toast to the Artist gala will honor Tony Award-winning orchestrator Michael Starboin and composer Carmel Dean with the Transporting American Theatre Award. The evening takes place Monday, March 11 at 630pm at The Current, Pier 59 Chelsea Piers, and includes a cocktail party, seated dinner, performances, dessert reception, and silent and live auctions. The Transporting American Theatre Award recognizes significant contributions to the American Theatre. Past recipients of the Transporting American Theatre Award include Dick Scanlan, Mary- Mitchell Campbell, Michael John Lachiusa, Gretchen Shugart, Barbara Whitman, Beth Williams, Sue Frost, Christian Borle, Paul Huntley, Douglas Carter Beane, Lewis Flinn, A.R. Gurney, Liz Smith, Barbara Frietag, Terrence McNally, and Joe Mantello among others. Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased at transportgroup.org.
- 2/13/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Amid the chaos that was 2018, the show business industry lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Burt Reynolds) and TV, along with such legends as Marvel hero Stan Lee, sportscaster Keith Jackson and singer Aretha Franklin, to name just a few of the year’s high-profile passings.
Hollywood also lost groundbreaking producers, unforgettable writers, and executives.
Familiar actors including Joseph Campanella, Sondra Locke, Tab Hunter, John Mahoney, Charlotte Rae, Harry Anderson, Jerry Van Dyke, David Ogden Stiers, Verne Troyer and R. Lee Ermey also left us this year.
We also said goodbye to such influential folks including physicist Stephen Hawking, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, editor Anne V. Coates, Bambi animator Don Lusk, gossip columnist Liz Smith, Blockbuster founder Wayne Huzienga,...
Hollywood also lost groundbreaking producers, unforgettable writers, and executives.
Familiar actors including Joseph Campanella, Sondra Locke, Tab Hunter, John Mahoney, Charlotte Rae, Harry Anderson, Jerry Van Dyke, David Ogden Stiers, Verne Troyer and R. Lee Ermey also left us this year.
We also said goodbye to such influential folks including physicist Stephen Hawking, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, editor Anne V. Coates, Bambi animator Don Lusk, gossip columnist Liz Smith, Blockbuster founder Wayne Huzienga,...
- 1/1/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Eerie and haunting … Unforgettable. See it.” – Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan Obsession De Palma’s Hitchcockian Thriller Comes to Blu-ray January 15th, 2019 from Scream Factory This riveting mystery thriller by Brian De Palma will leave you breathless. On January 15th, 2019, Shout! Factory will release this sinister melodrama as a Collector’s Edition …
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- 12/7/2018
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
As Matt Tyrnauer’s sexy documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” hits theaters in New York and L.A., returning gregarious 95-year-old Scotty Bowers to the Big Apple for the first time since the ’60s, documentarian Matt Tyrnauer and his producing partner Corey Reeser of Altimeter Films have pacted with Fox Searchlight to produce a biopic about the notorious gay matchmaker’s unique point-of-view on the sex life of Hollywood movie stars. No director or writer are yet attached.
Some would call the ex-Marine a pimp. The tousle-haired author of scandalous 2012 memoir “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars” put gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with celluloid luminaries, from Charles Laughton to Walter Pidgeon. Of course, Bowers wrote his Hollywood tell-all after the marquee names were all dead.
While it isn’t news that director George Cukor...
Some would call the ex-Marine a pimp. The tousle-haired author of scandalous 2012 memoir “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars” put gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with celluloid luminaries, from Charles Laughton to Walter Pidgeon. Of course, Bowers wrote his Hollywood tell-all after the marquee names were all dead.
While it isn’t news that director George Cukor...
- 8/7/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
As Matt Tyrnauer’s sexy documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” hits theaters in New York and L.A., returning gregarious 95-year-old Scotty Bowers to the Big Apple for the first time since the ’60s, documentarian Matt Tyrnauer and his producing partner Corey Reeser of Altimeter Films have pacted with Fox Searchlight to produce a biopic about the notorious gay matchmaker’s unique point-of-view on the sex life of Hollywood movie stars. No director or writer are yet attached.
Some would call the ex-Marine a pimp. The tousle-haired author of scandalous 2012 memoir “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars” put gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with celluloid luminaries, from Charles Laughton to Walter Pidgeon. Of course, Bowers wrote his Hollywood tell-all after the marquee names were all dead.
While it isn’t news that director George Cukor...
Some would call the ex-Marine a pimp. The tousle-haired author of scandalous 2012 memoir “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars” put gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with celluloid luminaries, from Charles Laughton to Walter Pidgeon. Of course, Bowers wrote his Hollywood tell-all after the marquee names were all dead.
While it isn’t news that director George Cukor...
- 8/7/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
At the opening-night party of Matt Tyrnauer’s hit documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” at Tim Burton’s Chateau Marmont apartment, Scotty Bowers, the tousle-haired author of 2012 tell-all “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” celebrated his 95th birthday.
“So how gay was Spencer Tracy?” I asked him.
“He got drunk and thanked the man beside him in the morning for taking care of him,” he said with a gap-toothed grin, taunting me with his next provocation: “He didn’t just suck cock, he crunched it!”
We laughed. “And how gay was Katharine Hepburn?”
“She loved one woman for 40 years who left her to marry a rich man,” he said. He claims to have arranged 150 get-togethers with women over five decades for Hepburn. That was his job — putting gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with movie stars,...
“So how gay was Spencer Tracy?” I asked him.
“He got drunk and thanked the man beside him in the morning for taking care of him,” he said with a gap-toothed grin, taunting me with his next provocation: “He didn’t just suck cock, he crunched it!”
We laughed. “And how gay was Katharine Hepburn?”
“She loved one woman for 40 years who left her to marry a rich man,” he said. He claims to have arranged 150 get-togethers with women over five decades for Hepburn. That was his job — putting gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with movie stars,...
- 8/2/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
At the opening-night party of Matt Tyrnauer’s hit documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” at Tim Burton’s Chateau Marmont apartment, Scotty Bowers, the tousle-haired author of 2012 tell-all “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” celebrated his 95th birthday.
“So how gay was Spencer Tracy?” I asked him.
“He got drunk and thanked the man beside him in the morning for taking care of him,” he said with a gap-toothed grin, taunting me with his next provocation: “He didn’t just suck cock, he crunched it!”
We laughed. “And how gay was Katharine Hepburn?”
“She loved one woman for 40 years who left her to marry a rich man,” he said. He claims to have arranged 150 get-togethers with women over five decades for Hepburn. That was his job — putting gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with movie stars,...
“So how gay was Spencer Tracy?” I asked him.
“He got drunk and thanked the man beside him in the morning for taking care of him,” he said with a gap-toothed grin, taunting me with his next provocation: “He didn’t just suck cock, he crunched it!”
We laughed. “And how gay was Katharine Hepburn?”
“She loved one woman for 40 years who left her to marry a rich man,” he said. He claims to have arranged 150 get-togethers with women over five decades for Hepburn. That was his job — putting gay people together via a Hollywood gas station for rendezvous with movie stars,...
- 8/2/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“I grew up in a small town in Scotland and the Spice Girls came along and said, ‘You can actually be anything you want to be. It’s alright to be different,’” says Alan Smith-Allison, curator of “Spice Up,” a new exhibition now on view at London’s Business Design Centre, which unveils the story of the world’s biggest girl group through their memorabilia and costumes. “They also represented that if you work hard enough and you try hard enough you can achieve anything you want to. That resonates with a lot of fans.
- 8/1/2018
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
With over 120 screen credits to his name, Henry Winkler returned to acting class this spring with HBO original comedy Barry, drawing on his own memorable class experiences to inform his take on sardonic Valley acting coach Gene Cousineau.
With Barry—the brainchild of Alec Berg and SNL alum Bill Hader—the veteran thesp’s task was simply to ground a heightened character in reality, delivering terrifically memorable one-liners without cracking a smile.
As he set out to teach Hader’s hitman how to act, Winkler had the good fortune of knowing exactly who his character was. “What’s interesting is no matter where you go to acting class, there is somebody like Gene Cousineau in there,” he says. “Everybody that I have talked to that has watched the show, or even over the years, talking about their drama teachers, they relate to the man or woman who just tries to annihilate you.
With Barry—the brainchild of Alec Berg and SNL alum Bill Hader—the veteran thesp’s task was simply to ground a heightened character in reality, delivering terrifically memorable one-liners without cracking a smile.
As he set out to teach Hader’s hitman how to act, Winkler had the good fortune of knowing exactly who his character was. “What’s interesting is no matter where you go to acting class, there is somebody like Gene Cousineau in there,” he says. “Everybody that I have talked to that has watched the show, or even over the years, talking about their drama teachers, they relate to the man or woman who just tries to annihilate you.
- 6/20/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor are getting cozy to combat the cold winter weather.
The couple smiled as they walked arm-in-arm down the street in New York City on Friday.
The American Horror Story star, 43, covered herself from the winter chill in a blue jacket that reached past her knees, finishing off her look with black gloves, boots and a clutch. She wore her chin-length hair in loose waves.
Taylor, 75, linked arms with her girlfriend, smiling in a long black coat, white globes and point-toe heels.
Taylor spoke at the memorial service for iconic gossip columnist Liz Smith in the city on Friday.
The couple smiled as they walked arm-in-arm down the street in New York City on Friday.
The American Horror Story star, 43, covered herself from the winter chill in a blue jacket that reached past her knees, finishing off her look with black gloves, boots and a clutch. She wore her chin-length hair in loose waves.
Taylor, 75, linked arms with her girlfriend, smiling in a long black coat, white globes and point-toe heels.
Taylor spoke at the memorial service for iconic gossip columnist Liz Smith in the city on Friday.
- 2/5/2018
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Celebrities and the grand dames of New York City’s society pages gathered in New York City Friday to offer their final goodbyes to Liz Smith. The empress of Big Apple gossip passed away on November 12, 2017 and was remembered at a star-studded memorial service on at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre. In a brief remembrance, “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl said it was impossible to hold a grudge against Smith — unless you were Donald Trump, whose 1992 divorce from first wife Ivana Zelníčková helped Smith make a name for herself. “Liz forgave everyone and everyone forgave her,” the CBS News veteran...
- 2/2/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
While 2017 was filled with so many theatrical highs Ben Platt, The Band's Visit, Spongebob, Bette Midler, etc, it was also a time to say good bye to some of the industry's most beloved artists whose work made the theatre, and our world, a better place. Rob and Kevin sit down with Broadway Royalty, Lee Roy Reams, and reflect on the passing of such legends as Barbara Cook, Mary Tyler Moore, Gemze de Lappe, Thomas Meehan, Liz Smith, Robert Guillame, and so many others.
- 1/1/2018
- by Behind the Curtain
- BroadwayWorld.com
What a year! We couldn’t stop listening to “Despacito,” watched daylight turn to darkness and stocked up on tissues for This is Us viewings. We welcomed Beyoncé’s twins and Serena Williams’ daughter (plus celebrated her wedding!). We were left heartbroken at Chris Pratt and Anna Faris’ split, and sat on the edge of our seats as Hollywood drama unfolded at the Oscars and Grammys. In this special edition of People, we revisit all that and more.
The celebrity moments of 2017 weren’t limited to the red carpet: much of the year was focused on the new political climate.
The celebrity moments of 2017 weren’t limited to the red carpet: much of the year was focused on the new political climate.
- 12/22/2017
- by Christina Butan
- PEOPLE.com
DVD Playhouse December 2010
By
Allen Gardner
America Lost And Found: The Bbs Story (Criterion) Perhaps the best DVD box set released this year, this ultimate cinefile stocking stuffer offered up by Criterion, the Rolls-Royce of home video labels, features seven seminal works from the late ‘60s-early ‘70s that were brought to life by cutting edge producers Bert Schneider, Steve Blauner and director/producer Bob Rafelson, the principals of Bbs Productions. In chronological order: Head (1968) star the Monkees, the manufactured (by Rafelson, et al), American answer to the Beatles who, like it or not, did make an impact on popular culture, particularly in this utterly surreal piece of cinematic anarchy (co-written by Jack Nicholson, who has a cameo), which was largely dismissed upon its initial release, but is now regarded as a counterculture classic. Easy Rider (1969) is arguably regarded as the seminal ‘60s picture, about two hippie drug dealers (director Dennis Hopper...
By
Allen Gardner
America Lost And Found: The Bbs Story (Criterion) Perhaps the best DVD box set released this year, this ultimate cinefile stocking stuffer offered up by Criterion, the Rolls-Royce of home video labels, features seven seminal works from the late ‘60s-early ‘70s that were brought to life by cutting edge producers Bert Schneider, Steve Blauner and director/producer Bob Rafelson, the principals of Bbs Productions. In chronological order: Head (1968) star the Monkees, the manufactured (by Rafelson, et al), American answer to the Beatles who, like it or not, did make an impact on popular culture, particularly in this utterly surreal piece of cinematic anarchy (co-written by Jack Nicholson, who has a cameo), which was largely dismissed upon its initial release, but is now regarded as a counterculture classic. Easy Rider (1969) is arguably regarded as the seminal ‘60s picture, about two hippie drug dealers (director Dennis Hopper...
- 12/20/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The Royle Family's Smith To Retire
Veteran British actress Liz Smith is retiring from the entertainment industry because a recent stroke has left her "exhausted".
The 87 year old, famous for her role as Nana in U.K. TV show The Royle Family, has spent the last few months in recovery after suffering a stroke earlier this year.
Smith admits she is no longer able to handle the pressure of showbusiness, and instead will try her hand at being an author once she regains her health.
She says, "I get exhausted and have to take it easy... I do get muddled and sometimes feel I have to reach for words that elude me.
"I was getting terribly tired anyway, although I'd like to think I could eventually write again. I've got stories in my head, but I'm nearly 90, so if I don't do much now at least I've earned a rest."...
The 87 year old, famous for her role as Nana in U.K. TV show The Royle Family, has spent the last few months in recovery after suffering a stroke earlier this year.
Smith admits she is no longer able to handle the pressure of showbusiness, and instead will try her hand at being an author once she regains her health.
She says, "I get exhausted and have to take it easy... I do get muddled and sometimes feel I have to reach for words that elude me.
"I was getting terribly tired anyway, although I'd like to think I could eventually write again. I've got stories in my head, but I'm nearly 90, so if I don't do much now at least I've earned a rest."...
- 7/6/2009
- WENN
British Star Smith Recovering From Stroke
Beloved British actress Liz Smith is recovering from a stroke.
The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory star suffered the stroke earlier this year and spent two months under doctor's care - but she's now recuperating at home in London.
She tells Britain's Daily Express, "I was in hospital for about two months and have been very gradually getting better. I get exhausted and have to take it easy."
And the 87 year old is determined to get well by next month - so she can receive her Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) honour from a British royal.
Smith jokes, "I'll be going in a pushchair. I don't know who will be doing the presentation but it will be a good day."...
The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory star suffered the stroke earlier this year and spent two months under doctor's care - but she's now recuperating at home in London.
She tells Britain's Daily Express, "I was in hospital for about two months and have been very gradually getting better. I get exhausted and have to take it easy."
And the 87 year old is determined to get well by next month - so she can receive her Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) honour from a British royal.
Smith jokes, "I'll be going in a pushchair. I don't know who will be doing the presentation but it will be a good day."...
- 6/30/2009
- WENN
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