Elliott Saiontz’s bedroom is crammed with collections. His walls are covered with stickers of football teams and players. There are also dozens of karate trophies, pottery projects and framed autographs of athletes, political figures, even the members of his favorite band, Train. There are a lot of autographs too. But in a corner of the…
When we last saw Larry David, who with Gal Gadot and Ruth Bader Ginsberg makes up the holy trinity for Jews, he was running from an assassin. The end of the long-awaited 9th season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” found our hero breaking with Lin Manuel Miranda over creative choices and being pursued by a would-be…
On Tuesday, HBO’s CEO Richard Plepler told Vanity Fair that they “screwed up” by introducing Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s project for the network, “Confederate,” in a short press release this summer. “Where we screwed up,” he admitted, “is we tried to announce a complicated subject in a press release.” Though…
He left…he did nothing…he returned. Cue the vaguely Italian clown music—”Curb Your Enthusiasm” is coming. Living legend/typical bus stop lunatic Larry David returns to HBO on October 1st with the long anticipated 9th season of his show. After a five year hiatus in which it feels safe to assume that the fictional David burned down…
Nine years ago, Mom and Dad lost their whole life savings to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. They never knew it, though. The good years of their lives were over before the bad year happened. Dad was a retired gastroenterologist in the thick of his dementia when Madoff was arrested, so he never took in that…
There is a major surprise in “The Wizard of Lies, Barry Levinson’s film about the Bernie Madoff scandal, which premieres on May 20 on HBO and is based on the reporting of Diana B. Henriques: It’s possible to feel a modicum of sympathy for a despicable human being. The film stars Robert DeNiro as Bernie…
The deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher over the past 48 hours have left the team behind the upcoming HBO documentary on the mother and daughter reeling from shock. “Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher” is a chronicle of the extraordinary bond that mother and daughter forged over six decades in the…
It’s ironic that “High Maintenance,” a new HBO series about a New York City pot dealer, appears just as its subject is about to become a thing of the past. As marijuana legalization spreads across the country, buying weed will soon be no sketchier than getting frozen yogurt. But even if “High Maintenance” is a…
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