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Melissa Rivers is returning to the red carpet. Fashion expert and author Rivers — who rose to fame reporting outside awards-shows with her late mother, the comedian Joan Rivers — will be joining Variety co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh and CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister at the two brands’ Emmys pre-show broadcast. On “CNN Variety […]
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British writer-director Lakeem Rose, is developing his feature debut, a contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, with Canadian producers Plato Fountidakis and Paul Rapovski and Hong Kong-based producer and casting director Mike Leeder. In Rose’s version, the story shifts to a world just after a modern-day war, centering on four returning soldiers […]
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Celine Dion Returns to the Stage in Paris With Elegance and Emotion
After more than six years away from the concert stage, singer makes a long-awaited comeback in Paris, in an operatic celebration of voice, movement and the extraordinary bond with her audience
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Olivia Wilde Has Entered Her ‘Lack of F-cks Given’ Era
After a period of lying low, the actor and filmmaker returned to the public eye this summer with two hit movies, The Invite and I Want Your Sex . She talks about her creative and personal rebirth
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‘The Stunt Driver’ Review: Jay Baruchel Takes a Leap into Tepid Biopic Territory
In The Stunt Driver, Jay Baruchel reteams with his “Goon” director Michael Dowse and takes on a showy lead part as stunt driver Ken Carter, who’s best remembered for a jump he didn’t make: a proposed mile-long leap over the St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered car. The five years spent on that ill-fated project […]
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‘Girl Group’ Review: Rebel Wilson’s Bawdy Pop Comedy Is All Fizz and Little Substance
Toward the end of Rebel Wilson’s “Girl Group,” a fizzy, gaudy clone of “Pitch Perfect” sculpted from the mentor formula of “Bad News Bears,” the movie spirals into an interminable sequence of pop music performances. The song-and-dance numbers are so awkwardly endless that they call to mind the denouement of a very different pop spectacle: […]