Malachy McCourt, an Irish American author who also appeared on television as the bartender in “Ryan’s Hope,” died in Manhattan on March 11. He was 92.
The New York Times received confirmation of his death from his wife, Diana McCourt. He told the newspaper last year that he dealt with a myriad of ailments, including a heart condition, multiple forms of cancer and muscular degeneration.
McCourt appeared in soap operas including “Ryan’s Hope,” in which had a recurring role as a bartender. The show, which ran from 1975 to 1989, focused on an Irish American family living in Washington Heights. Some of McCourt’s film credits include “Reversal of Fortune,” “Bonfire of Vanities,” “The Other Guys,” “After.Life,” “The Devil’s Own” and “Q: The Winged Serpent.”
McCourt was born in Brooklyn to Irish parents on Sept. 20, 1931. His parents relocated the family to Limerick, Ireland, where he spent formative years alongside his older brother, Frank. He...
The New York Times received confirmation of his death from his wife, Diana McCourt. He told the newspaper last year that he dealt with a myriad of ailments, including a heart condition, multiple forms of cancer and muscular degeneration.
McCourt appeared in soap operas including “Ryan’s Hope,” in which had a recurring role as a bartender. The show, which ran from 1975 to 1989, focused on an Irish American family living in Washington Heights. Some of McCourt’s film credits include “Reversal of Fortune,” “Bonfire of Vanities,” “The Other Guys,” “After.Life,” “The Devil’s Own” and “Q: The Winged Serpent.”
McCourt was born in Brooklyn to Irish parents on Sept. 20, 1931. His parents relocated the family to Limerick, Ireland, where he spent formative years alongside his older brother, Frank. He...
- 3/11/2024
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
CNN’s Jake Tapper has been covering politics for almost three decades. He’s had a front-row, insider’s view of the events that have defined the modern political era. He’s charted the victories and downfalls of our leaders and experienced the successes and failures of the news media in their mission to hold power to account. He knows a thing or two about political scandals.
On Sunday, CNN will air the first two episodes of a new limited series hosted by Tapper, “United States of Scandal.” The series takes an in-depth,...
On Sunday, CNN will air the first two episodes of a new limited series hosted by Tapper, “United States of Scandal.” The series takes an in-depth,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Editor’s note: Running until the final general election results come in, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Washington bureau chief Ted Johnson and senior editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features commentary and interviews with top lawmakers and entertainment figures. At the same time, you can follow all the news in Biden & Trump rematch and more on the ElectionLine hub on Deadline.
Scandal and satire have been a significant part of political life in America since before George Washington crossed the Delaware. In that grand tradition, we tackle both topics today on the Deadline ElectionLine podcast – as you can hear above.
Breaking away from breaking news for a second, CNN’s Jake Tapper joins us today to talk about his upcoming United States of Scandal series, which debuts with two episodes on Sunday. Hosted by Tapper,...
Scandal and satire have been a significant part of political life in America since before George Washington crossed the Delaware. In that grand tradition, we tackle both topics today on the Deadline ElectionLine podcast – as you can hear above.
Breaking away from breaking news for a second, CNN’s Jake Tapper joins us today to talk about his upcoming United States of Scandal series, which debuts with two episodes on Sunday. Hosted by Tapper,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC and Hulu are teaming up this summer to provide true crime fans with some incredible docuseries, and the first to premiere is The Ashley Madison Affair, which does a deep dive into the controversial dating site Ashley Madison and its 2015 hack.
The Ashley Madison Affair is a three-part docuseries investigating how the dating website that allowed married people to have affairs experienced a scandalous hacking case that exposed its users’ private information. The docuseries interviews many of those at the heart of the scandal, and while it doesn’t add much to what those who have followed the scandal already know, it does make us wonder how this company managed to survive.
What Is Ashley Madison and How Did It Become Popular?
Ashley Madison, which got its name by combining the most popular girls names of 2001, is not like your casual Tinder or Bumble because, unlike most people on those sites,...
The Ashley Madison Affair is a three-part docuseries investigating how the dating website that allowed married people to have affairs experienced a scandalous hacking case that exposed its users’ private information. The docuseries interviews many of those at the heart of the scandal, and while it doesn’t add much to what those who have followed the scandal already know, it does make us wonder how this company managed to survive.
What Is Ashley Madison and How Did It Become Popular?
Ashley Madison, which got its name by combining the most popular girls names of 2001, is not like your casual Tinder or Bumble because, unlike most people on those sites,...
- 7/7/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
David Bohrman, the veteran news producer and executive who worked for ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Current TV, and most notably CNN, has died. He was 69.
Bohrman died Sunday after complications with hip surgery, his family told CNN.
Famed as a news innovator, Bohrman created dozens of programs over a career that spanned six decades and was widely credited with introducing cutting-edge technology into news broadcasts including interactive video walls, 3D holograms and real-time visualizations. Among the many news programs he created for CNN included State of the Union, Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, MoneyLine News Hour with Lou Dobbs and NewsNight with Aaron Brown.
Born in 1954 in Los Angeles, Bohrman was the son of Delle, a television writer and Stan, a TV news anchor on CBS Kpix in San Francisco. Stan Bohrman made his mark in television news through Kpix’s use of “Instant Eye” feature, the at-the-time...
Bohrman died Sunday after complications with hip surgery, his family told CNN.
Famed as a news innovator, Bohrman created dozens of programs over a career that spanned six decades and was widely credited with introducing cutting-edge technology into news broadcasts including interactive video walls, 3D holograms and real-time visualizations. Among the many news programs he created for CNN included State of the Union, Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, MoneyLine News Hour with Lou Dobbs and NewsNight with Aaron Brown.
Born in 1954 in Los Angeles, Bohrman was the son of Delle, a television writer and Stan, a TV news anchor on CBS Kpix in San Francisco. Stan Bohrman made his mark in television news through Kpix’s use of “Instant Eye” feature, the at-the-time...
- 6/26/2023
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In June 2019, Mitch Mills, a senior vice president of radio promotion at Elektra Records, sent an urgent text to Steve Zap, an independent radio promoter who works with a number of stations in the adult contemporary format. The pair are both longtime players in the music industry, and have texted each other periodically about Warner Music Group acts, including Panic! at the Disco, Twenty One Pilots, and Fitz and the Tantrums. The June 2019 text shows that Mills was worried because Panic! at the Disco were receiving fewer plays than they...
- 10/5/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Fox News Channel has tapped former ESPN radio host and commentator Will Cain as co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. Cain will join co-hosts Jedediah Bila and Pete Hegseth beginning Saturday, August 15.
Fox & Friends Weekend has featured a substitute rotating co-host since Tucker Carlson moved to early primetime in 2016 and eventually the 8 pm timeslot in 2017.
“I am excited to join the team at Fox & Friends Weekend and look forward to building upon my experience in sports, news and politics on the number one morning show in the country,” said Cain.
Fox & Friends Weekend, which airs Saturdays and Sundays from 6-10 Am Et, has consistently ranked number one in cable with both total viewers and the key 25-54 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research.
“Will has a unique ability to connect with an audience on a wide variety of topics and will make an excellent addition to the Fox & Friends franchise,” said Gavin Hadden,...
Fox & Friends Weekend has featured a substitute rotating co-host since Tucker Carlson moved to early primetime in 2016 and eventually the 8 pm timeslot in 2017.
“I am excited to join the team at Fox & Friends Weekend and look forward to building upon my experience in sports, news and politics on the number one morning show in the country,” said Cain.
Fox & Friends Weekend, which airs Saturdays and Sundays from 6-10 Am Et, has consistently ranked number one in cable with both total viewers and the key 25-54 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research.
“Will has a unique ability to connect with an audience on a wide variety of topics and will make an excellent addition to the Fox & Friends franchise,” said Gavin Hadden,...
- 6/29/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Listen to an audio version of this story below:
When Bob Donnelly entered the music business as a lawyer in 1976, payola, or pay-for-play, was standard in the radio industry.
“When I first started, it was hookers and blow [to help get songs on the air],” Donnelly says. “Then that disappeared and it became sports tickets, trips, sneakers and the like. It changed over time so that it became much more sophisticated. At the end of the day, the labels still wanted hit records and the radio stations wanted cash.”
While some radio promoters today liken those days...
When Bob Donnelly entered the music business as a lawyer in 1976, payola, or pay-for-play, was standard in the radio industry.
“When I first started, it was hookers and blow [to help get songs on the air],” Donnelly says. “Then that disappeared and it became sports tickets, trips, sneakers and the like. It changed over time so that it became much more sophisticated. At the end of the day, the labels still wanted hit records and the radio stations wanted cash.”
While some radio promoters today liken those days...
- 8/6/2019
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Daddy issues were front and center on tonight’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher as HBO’s Friday night franchise celebrated Father’s Day weekend by mocking the nation’s presidential papa as the antithesis of patriarchal integrity and parental responsibility. “Republicans really see Trump as a father figure,” Maher said with tongue firmly in cheek. “A strong-but-quiet, strict-but-fair man…who gets up in the morning, puts on two pounds of concealer, inflates his hair, and spends the day tweeting like a mean girl. Atticus Finch? Meet Fatticus Bitch.”
If that wasn’t enough birdshot to kill a mockingbird, Maher fired off a few more Elmer Fudd-like salvos in the direction of the West Wing. On the Trump’s failure to address a national infrastructure that’s falling into disrepair, for instance, the comedian asked: “What kind of dad dosen’t take care of simple repairs? You know...
If that wasn’t enough birdshot to kill a mockingbird, Maher fired off a few more Elmer Fudd-like salvos in the direction of the West Wing. On the Trump’s failure to address a national infrastructure that’s falling into disrepair, for instance, the comedian asked: “What kind of dad dosen’t take care of simple repairs? You know...
- 6/15/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Long before the documentary became the hot film category, Alex Gibney directed one after another about a parade of flawed, scandalous people who go down in flames and disgrace. From Gotham governor Eliot Spitzer to the architects of the Enron scandal, to Lance Armstrong, Julian Assange to the recently indicted Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone, Gibney has covered them all. His docu brand is booming: his Netflix series Dirty Money, he reveals, just got renewed for a second season. Latest addition to his rogues gallery: Theranos’ architect Elizabeth Holmes, whose simple blood testing system made her a favorite of venture capitalists and briefly one of the world’s richest women, until the whole thing came crumbling down and left her facing prison. The result: The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley, a new film for HBO that he unveiled this weekend at Sundance. Here he tells great stories about...
- 1/27/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Two boxers. Two coasts. One message -- famous fighters get Really good seats at NBA games! Canelo Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather both sat courtside at NBA season openers on Wednesday night. Floyd was at Staples Center taking in the Clippers game while Canelo sat on the floor at Msg for the Knicks. Knicks beat the Hawks. Clippers lost to the Nuggets. Floyd was flossin' hard with multiple expensive diamond necklaces. Canelo had a big ol'...
- 10/18/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack, under fire for perceived inaction on certain NBC News activities, also protected a male employee who sexually harassed multiple women while he was in charge at Sony BMG Music Entertainment in 2004, according to a published report.
The Daily Beast today published a story largely quoting anonymous sources that made the allegations against Lack, who has been criticized for how incidents at NBC News have been handled, including the incidents that drove former Today show anchor Matt Lauer from the company and the stifling of Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein.
According to the Daily Beast story, Lack was chairman and CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment when executive Charlie Walk allegedly sent sexual messages to female employees using company email. The emails reportedly included graphic pornography, according to the sources cited.
Lack was told of the matter, but repeatedly declined to address Walk’s conduct.
The Daily Beast today published a story largely quoting anonymous sources that made the allegations against Lack, who has been criticized for how incidents at NBC News have been handled, including the incidents that drove former Today show anchor Matt Lauer from the company and the stifling of Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein.
According to the Daily Beast story, Lack was chairman and CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment when executive Charlie Walk allegedly sent sexual messages to female employees using company email. The emails reportedly included graphic pornography, according to the sources cited.
Lack was told of the matter, but repeatedly declined to address Walk’s conduct.
- 9/22/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam who went to prison and was connected to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is being subpoenaed in the Robert Mueller investigation ... TMZ has learned. Davis worked for former Trump aide Roger Stone for a decade, and had numerous interactions with Stone and Andrew Miller -- who ran Davis' campaign for Governor and who was subpoenaed by Mueller a month ago. Sources familiar with the matter tell us, Davis' lawyer...
- 7/20/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
I used to be married to Jason Sudeikis. At the time, he was writing on <em>Saturday Night Live</em>. I was in L.A. trying to make it as an actress and, like, doing the whole bicoastal thing. But once I got hired as a writer for <em>30 Rock</em>, I moved to New York proper. As it turns out, we didn’t actually work in 30 Rock. We were in Queens. But it was still an amazing experience. You know when you think you’re in show business? And then you get a job, and you’re like, “Oh, no — now ...
- 4/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
On tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the guests include comedians to former politicians — with Eliot Spitzer, Louie Anderson and Geraldo Rivera all taking part. Longtime journalist and TV personality Rivera is the top-of-show interview guest. He is a supporter of President Donald J. Trump and said Tuesday that the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Laura Ingraham, instigated by Parkland student activist David Hogg, is “an attack” on the First Amendment. He said on Twitter: “These political boycotts need to stop. They are an attack on the 1st Amendment & an infringement of free speech.” Media missed my point, […]
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- 4/6/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
[[tmz:video id="0_y7m5491m"]] Ex-ny Governor Eliot Spitzer threatened an ex-girlfriend and her family ... and unfortunately for him, she recorded the violent rant. Svetlana Zakharova Travis says she recorded the phone conversation shortly after a February 2016 incident where the disgraced politician allegedly choked her at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Spitzer barked at her, "Go to Siberia and f**king die, a**hole!" He continued, "F**king bitch. Get out of my life. If I ever hear from you again,...
- 1/24/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
His enemies have numerous names for him, but "dirty trickster" is what right-wing political consultant Roger Stone proudly calls himself. A former advisor to President Trump, Stone's influence in Republican politics dates to the campaign of Barry Goldwater, for whom he was a volunteer at the tender age of 12.
He has played major and minor roles in every Republican administration since then, whether it was tearing down liberal opponents (he claims to have been instrumental in the demise of disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer) or profanely attacking members of the media he deems unfriendly (Twitter suspended him last...
He has played major and minor roles in every Republican administration since then, whether it was tearing down liberal opponents (he claims to have been instrumental in the demise of disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer) or profanely attacking members of the media he deems unfriendly (Twitter suspended him last...
- 11/30/2017
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Would Cynthia Nixon run for office? @AlRoker asks! https://t.co/xi9Es5qAvy
— Today (@TODAYshow) August 8, 2017
Cynthia Nixon has “heard those rumors” that she’s running for New York State governor — and it sounds like she’s almost ready to officially respond.
The 51-year-old Sex and the City alum and native New Yorker stopped by Today on Tuesday to discuss her new movie, The Only Living Boy in New York, and although she said she couldn’t make an announcement about a potential gubernatorial run just yet, she spoke passionately about the topics she would address if she were elected.
— Today (@TODAYshow) August 8, 2017
Cynthia Nixon has “heard those rumors” that she’s running for New York State governor — and it sounds like she’s almost ready to officially respond.
The 51-year-old Sex and the City alum and native New Yorker stopped by Today on Tuesday to discuss her new movie, The Only Living Boy in New York, and although she said she couldn’t make an announcement about a potential gubernatorial run just yet, she spoke passionately about the topics she would address if she were elected.
- 8/8/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Eliot Spitzer When Spitzer was elected New York State Attorney General in 1999, he credited the win to his appearances on CNBC’s “Rivera Live.” Hosted by Geraldo Rivera, the show focused mostly on the Oj Simpson trial. Spitzer then went on to become Governor of the Empire State in 2007, a term that ended a year later when he found himself embroiled in a prostitution scandal. In 2010, Spitzer joined CNN where he anchored a short-lived talk show with journalist Kathleen Parker. Nancy Grace The host of Hln’s “Nancy Grace” got her big break doing commentary on legal shows just as the Oj Simpson trial.
- 7/19/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
You may not know Roger Stone’s name, but I absolutely guarantee that you’re familiar with his work. A self-described “agent provocateur” who’s dedicated his entire life to becoming (and remaining) the Machiavellian puppet-master of American politics, Stone is the closest thing that Washington D.C. has ever had to a genuine supervillain. Transformed by a chance encounter with a radioactive Barry Goldwater book when he was just a kid, Stone immediately began fashioning himself into a destructive force of nature. It would take a while before the body-building dandy started dressing like the Riddler, but in first grade he was already feeding his classmates disinformation about how a certain presidential candidate was in favor of school on Saturdays, and at 19 he became the youngest person named in the Watergate scandal (and he was proud of it).
In the ’80s, he practically invented the SuperPAC, supported dictators, and...
In the ’80s, he practically invented the SuperPAC, supported dictators, and...
- 4/23/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
John Oates — part of the Hall and Oates hit-making duo — had a panic attack so severe after he learned he was broke that he thought he was dying. The scene is highlighted in his new memoir, Change of Seasons, in which he also reveals how he eventually recouped some of that well-earned money.
“Daryl and I were always isolated from all that,” Oates writes of his knowledge of his band’s finances. “In a sense, the situation was not dissimilar to that of a dysfunctional family. We were the kids, encouraged to enjoy the wild, crazy, protracted-adolescence life of a rock star.
“Daryl and I were always isolated from all that,” Oates writes of his knowledge of his band’s finances. “In a sense, the situation was not dissimilar to that of a dysfunctional family. We were the kids, encouraged to enjoy the wild, crazy, protracted-adolescence life of a rock star.
- 4/4/2017
- by Sam Gillette
- PEOPLE.com
Last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher had no Hollywood celebrities, but Maher’s panel of pundits, reporters and environmentalist activists touched on major issues of substance that people are concerned about such as climate change. Yet it was Maher’s closing argument in his New Rules segment that made a point of urging Democrats to elevate some flawed but effective candidates to compete with the “pussy grabber” currently in office. Using some notable Democratic sexual scallywags like Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, and Anthony Weiner, Maher lauded some of their “alpha male” qualities and urged people to overlook their scandalous personal lives....read more...
- 3/4/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Bill Maher rallied the liberal troops Friday night, hoping to generate a little excitement on the left by summoning their own “loudmouth, kick ass New Yorker who is up all night on social media”… aka Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer. “If the new normal is a president who has bragged about sexual assault and walking in on naked teenage beauty pageant contestants and who has spoken lustfully about his own daughter and once said of a fifth grader, ‘I’m going to date her in 10 years,’ tell me again why someone like Eliot Spitzer is so terrible,” Maher said on.
- 3/4/2017
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Sex and politics are both immensely complicated topics. Combine the two into sexual politics, and you have something approaching psychological string theory. For seven solid seasons, The Good Wife, CBS's now-concluding dramatic series starring Julianna Margulies, 49, was the best series ever to tackle this tangled, inflammatory, of-the-moment topic. When the series premiered in 2009, its premise - the wife of a philandering Chicago politician decides to rebuild her life while negotiating with all the fallout - drew comparisons both to the sex scandal that had forced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer out of office and, of course, to the endless triumphs...
- 5/6/2016
- by Tom Gliatto
- PEOPLE.com
Sex and politics are both immensely complicated topics. Combine the two into sexual politics, and you have something approaching psychological string theory. For seven solid seasons, The Good Wife, CBS's now-concluding dramatic series starring Julianna Margulies, 49, was the best series ever to tackle this tangled, inflammatory, of-the-moment topic. When the series premiered in 2009, its premise - the wife of a philandering Chicago politician decides to rebuild her life while negotiating with all the fallout - drew comparisons both to the sex scandal that had forced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer out of office and, of course, to the endless triumphs...
- 5/6/2016
- by Tom Gliatto
- PEOPLE.com
Ted Cruz is not in Wisconsin anymore. Fresh off his Tuesday victory in the Midwestern state, the Gop hopeful held a campaign event in the Bronx on Wednesday, where he got the cold shoulder from voters still sore over his mocking of "New York values" in a January attack ad about rival Donald Trump. "Residents and leaders derided him for insulting the city and the borough, only to come crawling back for votes," The Daily News reports. Adds The Washington Post, Bronx voters still "haven't gotten over" Cruz's criticism of the borough during a 2014 lecture on immigration: "I understand Manhattan...
- 4/7/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
The woman who accused Eliot Spitzer of choking her at The Plaza Hotel in New York City on Saturday recanted and apologized in an email before flying back to her native Russia, according to the former governor’s lawyer. “There is no case here,” Spitzer’s attorney, Adam S. Kaufmann, told The New York Times on Monday. “There was no assault.” The former New York governor is accused of attacking Svetlana Travis on Saturday night after she apparently told him she was going back home. According to the Times, Spitzer was in the room when detectives arrived. The incident is...
- 2/17/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Eliot Spitzer is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a woman, who claims that she was the former New York governor’s girlfriend. Eliot Spitzer Assault Allegations Svetlana Zakharova Travis, 25, began seeing Spitzer a couple of years ago, according to the New York Post. Travis reportedly met with Spitzer on Saturday at The Plaza hotel, where […]
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- 2/16/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
The NYPD is investigating former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer after a 25-year-old woman alleged that he choked her inside the Plaza Hotel on Saturday. “The victim has indicated that the subject is Eliot Spitzer,” the New York Police Department said in a statement released on Sunday. “Through an ongoing investigation, we are attempting to further establish the identity of the subject and the nature of the incident.” Spitzer, who has also held TV gigs at MSNBC, CNN and Current, denied the allegation through spokeswoman Lisa Linden. Also Read: Alec Baldwin Calls TMZ's Harvey Levin a 'Festering Boil' on 'Anus of American.
- 2/15/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been accused of assaulting an unidentified victim in a New York City hotel, a source confirms to People. The source says that Manhattan detectives are currently investigating allegations of an assault that took place in a hotel in the Midtown neighborhood of NYC. The victim has identified Spitzer, 56, as the assailant, but authorities are still investigating the the incident and trying to establish the identity of the assailant. The New York Post was the first to report the news. No charges have been filed against Spitzer. In a statement to People, Spitzer's spokeswoman...
- 2/15/2016
- by Maria Mercedes Lara, @maria_mercedes
- PEOPLE.com
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been accused of assaulting an unidentified victim in a New York City hotel, a source confirms to People. The source says that Manhattan detectives are currently investigating allegations of an assault that took place in a hotel in the Midtown neighborhood of NYC. The victim has identified Spitzer, 56, as the assailant, but authorities are still investigating the the incident and trying to establish the identity of the assailant. The New York Post was the first to report the news. No charges have been filed against Spitzer. The former governor's rep did not immediately...
- 2/15/2016
- by Maria Mercedes Lara, @maria_mercedes
- PEOPLE.com
Toronto’s head documentary programmer has expressed surprise over the court ruling that led to the withdrawal from the festival of the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, saying, “I was left wondering what the judge was smoking.”
Thom Powers worked behind the scenes for four years to bring Amazing Grace to the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) after it looked like the producers were resolving the inevitable technical and rights issues that have kept the late Sydney Pollack’s film out of public view for more than four decades.
However what Powers had not anticipated was last Friday’s decision by Colorado judge John Kane to grant Franklin an injunction after the soul diva filed papers to say she never granted permission for commercial use of footage from the 1972 Los Angeles church concert.
That ruling blocked the film’s world premiere in Telluride and while there is no such ruling in Canada, producer Alan Elliot...
Thom Powers worked behind the scenes for four years to bring Amazing Grace to the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) after it looked like the producers were resolving the inevitable technical and rights issues that have kept the late Sydney Pollack’s film out of public view for more than four decades.
However what Powers had not anticipated was last Friday’s decision by Colorado judge John Kane to grant Franklin an injunction after the soul diva filed papers to say she never granted permission for commercial use of footage from the 1972 Los Angeles church concert.
That ruling blocked the film’s world premiere in Telluride and while there is no such ruling in Canada, producer Alan Elliot...
- 9/10/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Toronto’s head documentary programmer has expressed surprise over the court ruling that led to the withdrawal from the festival of the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, saying, “I was left wondering what the judge was smoking.”
Thom Powers worked behind the scenes for four years to bring Amazing Grace to the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) after it looked like the producers were resolving the inevitable technical and rights issues that have kept the late Sydney Pollack’s film out of public view for more than four decades.
However what Powers had not anticipated was last Friday’s decision by Colorado judge John Kane to grant Franklin an injunction after the soul diva filed papers to say she never granted permission for commercial use of footage from the 1972 Los Angeles church concert.
That ruling blocked the film’s world premiere in Telluride and while there is no such ruling in Canada, producer Alan Elliot...
Thom Powers worked behind the scenes for four years to bring Amazing Grace to the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) after it looked like the producers were resolving the inevitable technical and rights issues that have kept the late Sydney Pollack’s film out of public view for more than four decades.
However what Powers had not anticipated was last Friday’s decision by Colorado judge John Kane to grant Franklin an injunction after the soul diva filed papers to say she never granted permission for commercial use of footage from the 1972 Los Angeles church concert.
That ruling blocked the film’s world premiere in Telluride and while there is no such ruling in Canada, producer Alan Elliot...
- 9/10/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Just as sex scandals are pretty much as old as politics themselves, as long as we've had films, we've had cinematic depictions of sex scandals, usually serious and sometimes comedic. Whether filmmakers have had to be coy about the nature of the scandals -- see "The Best Man" or "Advise and Consent" -- or whether filmmakers have been able to directly tear sex scandals from the headlines -- see "Primary Colors" -- the ground has been fertile. Fortunately -- Unfortunately? -- sex scandals just keep coming along and we keep lapping them up, from Eliot Spitzer to John Edwards to Anthony Weiner. Bringing the genre to Sundance this year was "Zipper," a largely straight-faced approach to a plausibly finger-on-the-pulse topic, which falls flat because of a middle act in which the drama spirals into dated addiction craziness. When it's a political thriller, "Zipper" is respectably acted and presented and has some merit.
- 2/3/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Park City. We're so accustomed to politicians getting caught up in embarrassing sex scandals that it's tempting (or darned near inevitable) to compare Patrick Wilson's character in the Sundance drama "Zipper" to any of several real life kerfuffles. Chatting with the newly minted "Fargo" star on a balcony scenically overlooking Park City's Main Street, I asked Wilson if any of those famous examples informed his character here. "No, because I didn't want it to be 'Oh, it's the Eliot Spitzer story' or 'Oh, it's John Edwards,' because sadly, those are the few that we know about and I'm sure that there are many, many, many more," Wilson said, though he noted that his character's Southern accent will make Edwards comparisons easier. As he discusses in our interview, Wilson wanted his "Zipper" character to be more of a portrait of addiction, but not an obvious one. "What I didn't...
- 1/30/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Having already investigated Lance Armstrong, Enron, Eliot Spitzer, WikiLeaks, and the U.S. military, Alex Gibney is turning his attention to Scientology, the one subject that could get him sued more than he already has been. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gibney is currently working on an adaptation of Lawrence Wright's Going Clear for HBO; the director, whose process has been described as a documentary "factory," hopes to have the project done in time for Sundance in January. HBO says it has hired 160 lawyers in anticipation of a legal challenge, which means that Scientology, if it hopes to stop the film from airing, will have to get at least 161 lawyers. ...
- 11/24/2014
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
The fabulous "SNL" oral history "Live from New York," which was first published in 2002, is getting a 200-page update with plenty of inside scoops about Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, and the origins of Bill Hader's Eliot Spitzer impression. We can't wait for the new edition, and we hope we learn the answers to these 11 questions about the show's run from 2002 up until the present. 1. Did anyone else fear that Ashlee Simpson would flub on TV? How often do performers lip-sync? Lip-syncing on TV is no scandal, but it's rare that you see "SNL" artists attempt it. When Ashlee Simpson's "wrong tape" debacle foreshadowed by anyone in the studio? I remember watching her MTV docuseries where she seemed pretty sick before the performance. 2. How terrible was it dealing with Paris Hilton during her hosting stint? Tina Fey claimed on Howard Stern's show that Paris Hilton was a nightmare.
- 8/21/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
This week’s episode of Covert Affairs (Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Et on USA) continues the search for the Postman and puts Auggie (Chris Gorham), who’s in a new relationship with Hayley (Amy Jo Johnson), in the field in Paris to approach an asset with whom he has an emotional history. Annie (Piper Perabo), meanwhile, tags along as his handler and finds herself cozying up to someone as well for the sake of the mission.
Combine their efforts with the revelation that the woman Calder (Hill Harper) has been sleeping with is an escort, and it’s shaping up...
Combine their efforts with the revelation that the woman Calder (Hill Harper) has been sleeping with is an escort, and it’s shaping up...
- 7/22/2014
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Bill de Blasio appears ready for his close-up.
New York City’s new mayor will be making an appearance on the small screen. He has a guest appearance slated on the show The Good Wife. The episode is to air March 16.
De Blasio said he and his wife Chirlane McCray are “deeply obsessed” with the CBS political drama.
He said Tuesday that he was thrilled to meet the cast, which includes Julianna Margulies.
De Blasio’s predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, appeared on the show last year.
The series is loosely inspired by another New York political figure: Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer resigned...
New York City’s new mayor will be making an appearance on the small screen. He has a guest appearance slated on the show The Good Wife. The episode is to air March 16.
De Blasio said he and his wife Chirlane McCray are “deeply obsessed” with the CBS political drama.
He said Tuesday that he was thrilled to meet the cast, which includes Julianna Margulies.
De Blasio’s predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, appeared on the show last year.
The series is loosely inspired by another New York political figure: Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer resigned...
- 2/26/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Richard Dreyfuss has signed on to star opposite Patrick Wilson and Lena Headey in the indie political drama Zipper. Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures is producing the film, which currently is shooting in Baton Rouge, La. Mora Stephens is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joel Viertel. In a story that echoes the real-life scandals of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, Zipper centers on the life of Sam Ellis (Wilson), a successful family man who presumably has it all until he risks losing everything due to his inability to fight off his
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- 2/12/2014
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I have just about had it with this troll. Shia Labeouf — or as I find it easier and more reasonable to call him for some reason, Shia Beowulf — will not stop fake-apologizing on Twitter In The Words Of Other People. Since admitting he plagiarized Daniel Clowes’ comic Justin M. Damiano in a short film, Labeouf has been lifting his fake-apology language from Eliot Spitzer, Russell Crowe, Bp CEO Tony Hayward, Alec Baldwin, Shepard Fairey, Mark Zuckerberg, and perhaps the most trustworthy source of all: Yahoo Answers. And he’s at it again with three new snippets of terrible performance art today.
- 12/30/2013
- by Annie Barrett
- EW.com - PopWatch
DIsgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned from office in 2008 after it was revealed he was involved with prostitutes, announced in a joint statement with his wife late Tuesday that their 26-year marriage is over. "We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end, and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject," spokesperson Lisa Linden said in a statement released on behalf of Eliot and Silda Spitzer. The Park Avenue couple have three grown children - Elyssa, 24, Sarabeth, 21, and Jenna, 19 - but have been living apart for months. In the...
- 12/25/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
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“I’m not perfect,” Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told Matt Lauer on the Today show, with regard to his admission that he has smoked crack when in a “drunken stupor.” Perfection, maybe, is not a thing we look for in our leaders. But we do kinda like for them to stay away from illegal drugs, prostitutes, extramarital affairs and naughty sexts with underage employees. As we watch how our neighbors to the north handle this interesting development, we can’t help but be reminded of other powerful men (and yeah, it almost always is the men) in public office who were caught in similar nonpolitical quagmires. From JFK to Marion Barry, Bill Clinton to Anthony Weiner, there are a whole lot of them.
As we were compiling this list of 10 (any more and we would just feel too depressed), we began to wonder: What determines whether we...
“I’m not perfect,” Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told Matt Lauer on the Today show, with regard to his admission that he has smoked crack when in a “drunken stupor.” Perfection, maybe, is not a thing we look for in our leaders. But we do kinda like for them to stay away from illegal drugs, prostitutes, extramarital affairs and naughty sexts with underage employees. As we watch how our neighbors to the north handle this interesting development, we can’t help but be reminded of other powerful men (and yeah, it almost always is the men) in public office who were caught in similar nonpolitical quagmires. From JFK to Marion Barry, Bill Clinton to Anthony Weiner, there are a whole lot of them.
As we were compiling this list of 10 (any more and we would just feel too depressed), we began to wonder: What determines whether we...
- 11/19/2013
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
In 2009, cyclist Lance Armstrong wanted to prove his naysayers wrong. He came back from retirement, and touted that he’d win the Tour de France in order to prove to the world that his past seven wins were not boosted by any illegal enhancements. As with other chapters of his fascinating life, this comeback provided a great narrative, one made into a nearly-finished documentary project called “The Road Back,” which had director Alex Gibney and his crew following Armstrong around as he hustled for another Tour de France victory. Matt Damon was signed on to do voiceover, and the project was co-produced by Spielberg’s key producer Frank Marshall.
“The Road Back” was then remodeled into The Armstrong Lie when the truth about Armstrong’s doping began to make its way to the surface in 2012, both through teammate testimonies and a few select moments from Armstrong himself. Initially crafting what...
“The Road Back” was then remodeled into The Armstrong Lie when the truth about Armstrong’s doping began to make its way to the surface in 2012, both through teammate testimonies and a few select moments from Armstrong himself. Initially crafting what...
- 11/13/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
In 1988, television viewers first met Roseanne Conner and her decidedly blue-collar family.
Repeats have kept the sitcom "Roseanne" a home-screen staple pretty much ever since, and We marks its exact 25th-anniversary date Friday (Oct. 18) with a seven-hour marathon including episodes from each of the Roseanne Barr-starring show's nine ABC seasons.
Another beneficiary of the series' success has been stage and screen actress Laurie Metcalf, who earned three consecutive Emmy Awards (1992-94) for her portrayal of Roseanne's sister Jackie.
"It certainly doesn''t seem that long ago," Metcalf tells Zap2it. "During the run of the show, I wasn't able to watch it, because I would be self-conscious. I just couldn't. Now I'm a fan of it, and I see how forward-thinking the writing and some of the subject matter was.
"The thing I'm reminded of is how proud I am to have played a part in it, literally ... to...
Repeats have kept the sitcom "Roseanne" a home-screen staple pretty much ever since, and We marks its exact 25th-anniversary date Friday (Oct. 18) with a seven-hour marathon including episodes from each of the Roseanne Barr-starring show's nine ABC seasons.
Another beneficiary of the series' success has been stage and screen actress Laurie Metcalf, who earned three consecutive Emmy Awards (1992-94) for her portrayal of Roseanne's sister Jackie.
"It certainly doesn''t seem that long ago," Metcalf tells Zap2it. "During the run of the show, I wasn't able to watch it, because I would be self-conscious. I just couldn't. Now I'm a fan of it, and I see how forward-thinking the writing and some of the subject matter was.
"The thing I'm reminded of is how proud I am to have played a part in it, literally ... to...
- 10/18/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Not even the pope was immune Thursday night as Stephen Colbert cracked one-liners and took digs at luminaries from politics, finance and the media at a Roman Catholic charity dinner in New York City that’s perennially packed with big names.
Colbert, the satirical star of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, delivered his remarks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan, where he noted many great speakers — and probably a few bar mitzvah DJs — had appeared before him.
Over the course of 10 minutes, Colbert said New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan...
Colbert, the satirical star of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, delivered his remarks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan, where he noted many great speakers — and probably a few bar mitzvah DJs — had appeared before him.
Over the course of 10 minutes, Colbert said New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan...
- 10/18/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
The Good Wife lives to rip from the headlines (having itself been born from the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal). So when the news of Nsa leaker Edward Snowden broke in June, soon after the writers room had reconvened for season five, they instantly jumped on it, turning it into the framework for last Sunday’s episode. “It has a lot of elements we’re attracted to,” series executive producer Robert King told Vulture. “Top of the list is the lack of moral compass demonstrated by purveyors of new technologies. And also, the way social networking has invaded our lives, for good and bad.”The episode, titled “The Bit Bucket,” opened on a pair of Nsa employees listening in on the calls of Diane and Alicia. Two years ago, they represented terrorist sympathizer Danny Marwat, and they’ve been surveilled ever since. As depicted, the Nsa listeners are Big Bang Theory T-shirt wearing,...
- 10/11/2013
- by Denise Martin
- Vulture
Documentarian Alex Gibney, who’s done films on Enron and Eliot Spitzer, and won the 2007 Academy Award for his investigation into U.S. government-sanctioned torture in Afghanistan with Taxi to The Dark Side, knows a lot about liars. But he didn’t think that was going to come into play when he began his latest documentary, on Lance Armstrong’s unsuccessful 2009 comeback at the Tour de France, where he ended up placing third. Obviously, that all changed; after the doping revelations and Armstrong’s confession, Gibney overhauled the film, and it premiered this week at the Toronto Film Festival, its title changed from The Road Back to The Armstrong Lie.Gibney had completed The Road Back just before Armstrong’s former teammate, Floyd Landis, gave an interview accusing Armstrong of doping, prompting the investigation by the Usada that brought about Armstrong’s downfall. Armstrong actually called Gibney in December 2012 to...
- 9/12/2013
- by Jada Yuan
- Vulture
Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side, is not only the most prolific figure within American documentary but also always seems to tackle solely the most complex, fascinating subjects. In recent years, he has put his focus on jailed lobbyist and con artist Jack Abramoff, disgraced politician Eliot Spitzer, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Tea Party funders the Koch brothers, and Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. To this list can be now added fallen sports hero Lance Armstrong, the cancer survivor turned seven-time Tour de France winner who, after years of rumors, […]...
- 9/8/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side, is not only the most prolific figure within American documentary but also always seems to tackle solely the most complex, fascinating subjects. In recent years, he has put his focus on jailed lobbyist and con artist Jack Abramoff, disgraced politician Eliot Spitzer, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Tea Party funders the Koch brothers, and Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. To this list can be now added fallen sports hero Lance Armstrong, the cancer survivor turned seven-time Tour de France winner who, after years of rumors, […]...
- 9/8/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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