“I wanted to be on that show for as long as I could remember,” she told The Guardian. So she made an action plan, researching how other cast members made the cut. She followed their paths, going to improv school in Philadelphia and later joined the Upright Citizens Brigade, putting ...
BeforeBilly Crudupbrought Stillwater singerRussell Hammondto life in the 2000 music drama, directorCameron Crowehad his eye onBrad Pitt, who was “just starting out” in his now-legendary career. “He just really had something,” Crowe gushed during the premiere episode of the“Origins: Alm...
Both films starred Hammer Studios veteran Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, an eccentric human inventor who created Tardis, which only resembled the ship on the outside, the inside looking like an indoor lab. The two films took Terry Nation’s first two Dalek stories from the original series and ...
She starred in dozens of films in the 1950s and ‘60s, including “The Tender Trap” and “Tammy and the Bachelor”; had her own sitcom, “The Debbie Reynolds Show”; and became a bright light on the Vegas Strip. Her personal life also dominated headlines; her highly-publicized breakup ...
Before he was a Guardian, Peter Quill starred in his own series of black-and-white features. He was created by Steve Englehart but when the writer left Marvel, the character was taken in a new and more space opera like direction by legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont. In fact, the ...
Cesar Romero, who'sbest knownasthe Joker in the classicBatmanTV series, was undeniably tall, dark, and handsome. What else would you expect from a person who starred in a film calledTall, Dark, and Handsome? For one generation, he was a comic book villain, but for another, he was a...
"We were getting the information in drips, but we knew that whatever we had accomplished in 2001, we probably wouldn’t be able to continue with those guys another year," says Pablo Mastroeni, who starred for the Fusion during its year on the brink. "We had no idea if the league was...
“Jackie’s a photographer,” said the fellow fromThe Guardian, and Tom tried to see her more clearly through the perspective of her profession, but she was too green, too studied in her wrinkled clothes, baggy, many-pocketed khaki pants and immaculate V-neck T-shirt. . . . “Who do ...
Mirren also has a damehood from the queen herself. Kristin Scott Thomas, “The Audience” Helen Mirren and Kristin Scott Thomas both starred in the stage play “The Audience,” respectively each playing the queen. Thomas took over the role in 2015 at London’s Apollo Theatre and was ...
Fred Willard, great comic and character actor, died on May 15, 2020 at 86 years old,The Guardianreported. Willard served in the Army before studying drama in New York. He and pal Vic Grecco performed comedy and sketches together as Willard & Grecco. His first big break was the talk show...