Ringo Starr Takes Center Stage at Paley Center Honors
The Beatles 1964 appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” is unquestionably one of the greatest moments in television history, a performance that proclaimed a new era in music and shifted the culture for a new generation, one which reverberates to this day. So it was only fitting that one of the two surviving Beatles was in the spotlight at The Paley Honors: A Gala Tribute to Music on Television held Thursday night at the Beverly Wilshire...
Flashing Back 20 Years to the Bill Clinton Impeachment
The ugly, divisive partisan politics making headlines today may feel like something never before experienced, but one needs only to look back 20 years at the battle to impeach then-president Bill Clinton to realize that the more things change, the more they remain the same. That’s one of the insights from the latest chapter in the Smithsonian Channel’s Lost Tapes series, “Clinton Impeachment,” which aims to have viewers feel like they...
Freddy Krueger is The Goldbergs’ Worst Nightmare for Halloween
Flash back to 1984. Freddy Krueger, a serial killer with a gloved hand crowned with long, lethal razors made his first appearance in Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” one of the most successful horror franchises in film history. And then remember your worst nightmares. Did Freddy star in them? He did for Adam F. Goldberg, creator of the ABC series based on his childhood in the 1980s, now in its sixth season. That’s why it was...
A Very Funny Hugh Grant Dishes on ‘A Very English Scandal’
Here’s a self-professed admission from Hugh Grant, whose films over the past several decades have grossed more than $3 billion globally at the box office. Until just very, very recently, he was a snob about TV, even as his co-stars and colleagues long ago made the transition and continue to topline the small screen’s highest quality productions. But that’s all in the past now with his starring role in “A Very English Scandal,” a...
70th Annual Prime Emmy Awards Are ‘Marvelous’
It was a heady night at the Microsoft Theater for actress Rachel Brosnahan and Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” as the freshman 1950s-set comedy series dominated the comedy categories by picking up five golden statuettes at the 70th Prime Emmy Awards, televised on NBC and hosted by Michael Che and Colin Jost– known for their comedy on “Saturday Night Live.” The tale of a woman finding her voice on a standup comedy stage in...
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