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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 4:00PM Storify okay, this woman Nancy Wake needs a biopic. Amazing WW II story
Coming Soon production has started on Can You Ever Forgive Me, which sounds like an interesting vehicle for Melissa McCarthy to show her range. She'll play a celebrity biographer who made her name in the 70s and 80s but resorts to deception when her career tanks. It's directed by Marielle Heller who was behind Diary of a Teenage Girl
Vulture Which Sundance debuts will be Oscar contenders this time next year?
Comics Alliance Aubrey Joseph and Olivia Holt have been cast in the TV adaptation of the superhero comic Cloak & Dagger
Cigarettes & Red Vines photos from the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie which stars Daniel Day Lewis but has no title as of yet
Variety Remember when Viola Davis played best friend to Julia Roberts in a thankless part in Eat Pray Love? They'll co-star again in Small Great Things, a racially charged drama about a nurse who is sued by a white supremacist couple.
/Film James Cameron gets the rights to Terminator back soon and the franchise will be revived. AGAIN.
EW The Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton will perform at the Superbowl!
Slate A tribute to Mary Tyler Moore's feminist influence
Vice So as it turns out the Kevin Costner character in Hidden Figures was made into more of a 'white savior' in the narrative then he was in the real life story.
Playbill Clive Owen will return to Broadway in a revival of M. Butterfly - no word yet on who'll play the Chinese opera singer he doesn't realize is a man despite a long affair. B.D. Wong who works frequently on television these days instead of the stage won the Tony as the opera singer in the original production with John Lithgow originating the lead role that Clive Owen will now play
Jezebel on Ryan Gosling's cooking in La La Land
Interview has a gallery of the rising stars from Sundance 2017
Towleroad new clip from Call Me By Your Name in which Armie Hammer tries to massage the tension out of Timothee Chalamet
Reader Comments (9)
watch out for "Cloak and Dagger". Seriously.
I do remember Viola Davis in Eat Pray Love because she had the only line I remember from the whole damn thing, something like "Having a kid is like getting a tattoo on your face."
Viola Davis' role was so insignificant, I didn't even remember that she was *in* Eat, Pray, Love! Now that you mention it though, it was pretty much a carbon copy of her role in Nights in Rodanthe, wasn't it? Maybe that's why Meryl Streep exhorted Hollywood to give her a damn lead.
Anyway, no to "white saviors." No to Terminator reboots. Yes to a Nancy Wake biopic (starring...?).
Nancy Wake was the inspiration for 'Charlotte Grey': https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/11/ashes-charlotte-gray-heroine-france
Why isn't Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned in that Vulture article? The writer is obviously not Michellebrating the Repfeiffal.
there was the australian mini-series nancy wake back in 1987
Eat Pray Love is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
On Kevin Costner's character in Hidden Figures: the author of the article fails to mention the most important deviation from truth. And that is that Costner's character as such did not exist.
There is a very good website, www.historyvshollywood.com, that compares films based on true fact with the actual true facts. Here's the link to the website's treatment of Hidden Figures:
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hidden-figures/
This is the truth about the character: "In researching the Hidden Figures true story, we learned that Kevin Costner's character, Al Harrison, is based on three different directors at NASA Langley during Katherine Johnson's time at the research facility."
Regarding the Costner character in Hidden Figures... I was amazed that a white male boss would have been that supportive of a Black woman in that era. I think it would be rare to find that today without mitigating circumstances (e.g., Janelle Monae's character was encouraged to pursue an engineering degree by her boss, who was a Holocaust survivor). The movie did a great job of showing how members of disenfranchised groups have to rely on one another for support, but that's because those in power often will not stand up for them.