More from Seth Abramovitch
Shelley Duvall and Me
Shelley Duvall and I crossed paths at the moment I needed her most. It was late 2020. COVID lockdowns, George Floyd, media layoffs — everything sucked, and it wasn’t getting better. I adopted a French Bulldog puppy to help me cope and named him Otto. Otto would scream every night until I brought him into […]
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J.K. Rowling Play ‘TERF’: How Controversial is the Buzzed-About Production?
It’s one of the most talked-about plays in years — and it hasn’t even had its first rehearsal. That’s because TERF, a new one-act production set to premiere Aug. 2 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, dares to take on one of the most powerful — and controversial — women on the planet. That would be […]
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‘Bound’ Stars Downed Tequila and Chocolates Before Filming Lesbian Love Scenes
What’s the secret to Bound‘s steamy, same-sex love scenes? Tequila and truffles, it turns out. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly joined The Hollywood Reporter’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast for an episode about the making of the 1996 noir — the pulpy, lesbian thriller that served as a debut for Lilly and Lana Wachowski, three years […]
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Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Jonestown Survivor: Trump Has “All the Trappings” of Being the Next Jim Jones
At a rally in scorching Las Vegas on June 9, Donald Trump pointed out one of his followers in the crowd — a particularly fervent Trump fan nicknamed “Front-Row Joe” who’d attended over 200 such events. “It would be suicide before Biden, right?” Trump asked him. The remark instantly evoked one of the most shocking […]
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Hollywood Flashback: Meet Drag King OG Gladys Bentley
Standing proud in tux and top hat, Gladys Bentley was a trailblazing blues singer and pianist who flouted gender conventions long before Janelle Monáe rocked a three-piece suit. At 16, Bentley ran away from her family home in Philadelphia — where her parents, worried about her masculine tendencies, were subjecting her to hormone treatments — […]
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Marlon Wayans on Standing Up to LGBTQ Hate: “The Worst People Now Have a Megaphone” (Exclusive)
Pride Month has an unofficial grand marshal this year: Marlon Wayans. The venerable comedy star (with sojourns into drama — remember Requiem for a Dream?), 51, did not expect to cause a stir when, draped in a rainbow flag, he posted an Instagram tribute to Kai, his gender nonbinary child. In it, he wished his […]
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John Mulaney on the Unpredictable Alchemy of ‘Everybody’s in LA’ — and Why He’s Not Ruling Out More
To break through an algorithmically generated streaming landscape, John Mulaney decided to do something different. And people noticed. It was a six-part talk show for Netflix, premiering May 3 and ending May 10, called John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA. The live format and unrehearsed, offbeat interactions produced something TV hadn’t seen in a while — […]
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Eddie Redmayne’s ‘Cabaret’ Emcee Divides Tonys Audience
On last night’s Tonys, the world outside the Kit Kat Club got its first glimpse at Eddie Redmayne’s take on the Emcee in the revival of Cabaret — dubbed Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club for its immersive elements — currently occupying Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre. Reaction to the interpretation has ranged from enraptured to bewildered. […]
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Scooter Braun on His Nova Music Festival Exhibition: “We’re Not Going to Stop, and We’re Going to Los Angeles Next”
The Nova: Oct. 7 6:29 am — The Moment Music Stood Still: The Nova Music Festival Exhibition went on as planned despite protests Monday from pro-Palestinian demonstrators, who lit smoke canisters and flares outside. They also reportedly chanted “antisemitic slogans” and waved flags for the terrorist group Hamas. The protests were condemned as “ugly” and […]
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Wanna Go Viral? Dare to Take a Seat on Shannon Sharpe’s Couch
Shannon Sharpe arrives promptly at noon at the South Beverly Grill, a short drive from his home in Holmby Hills. He is 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, a wall of muscle sheathed in black athleisure wear. He slides into his favorite booth, orders a cranberry ginger ale and offers a hello — friendly but guarded — […]
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Slaying of ‘General Hospital’ Star Johnny Wactor: Family Launches GoFundMe as Police Seek Tips
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched in support of the family of Johnny Wactor, the former General Hospital star fatally shot Saturday in downtown Los Angeles by a masked assailant as they attempted to steal his car’s catalytic converter. The GoFundMe page was set up by Michaelle Kind, Wactor’s godmother, and was endorsed by his […]
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How Michelle Rodriguez Foresaw Blockbuster Success for ‘Fast & Furious’ Franchise
With one movie, Michelle Rodriguez went from a Toys “R” Us employee with zero acting experience to a bona fide movie star. That movie was 2000’s Girlfight. Karyn Kusama, the writer-director of that indie — which tied for the grand jury prize at Sundance — joined The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast to […]
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