Innholdsfortegnelse for April 10, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

Just minutes before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was set to get underway in April 2023, New York Post editor-in-chief Keith Poole and star columnist Miranda Devine were on a mission to find an extra seat. Inside the Washington Hilton hotel, the pair had a very special guest that they needed to accommodate and their table was oversubscribed. After some musical chairs among staffers, Vivek Ramaswamy spent much of the evening talking with Poole, a Brit feted as a “boy wonder” in Murdoch circles. Poole, who like all Murdoch editors has a direct line to “the boss,” had already created waves in his handling of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential announcement. “Been There, Don That” was the headline that was tucked away on page 26 of the Nov. 22, 2022, edition…

Pulling a prized bottle out of the cellar to relish with friends can be thrilling. But think about the bragging rights of pouring your own blend, which you personally crafted at a famed winery. In The Vines — a private travel club dedicated to the art of winemaking — members have the opportunity to learn and craft wines alongside world-renowned virtuosos. There are two tiers of membership: Explorer requires a $100,000 initiation fee with annual dues of $6,000 (includes a $2,500 credit for the experience of choice), and Adventurer involves a $20,000 initiation fee with annual dues of $2,500. During three- or four-day “Blending Escapes,” members stroll vineyards, gain inside knowledge of the craft and sip treasured wines. They also have the option of creating a personal barrel (25 cases,…

Ed Ruscha, running late to class one day in 1950, accidentally stiff-armed a glass-panel door at his junior high in Oklahoma City. “My hand went right through that door, all the students looked up, and there I was just dripping with blood,” says Ruscha, sipping a macchiato while seated behind a marble-topped desk in the skylit library of his Culver City studio, a sprawling 9,000-square-foot affair that was previously a movie prop house and aerospace factory for Howard Hughes. “I had this scar on my wrist for years,” he explains, rolling up the sleeve of an indigo button-down to inspect his left forearm, a rakish smile curling over his lips at the prospect of unearthing some remnants of that lacerating memory. “It’s almost gone by now.” At 86, Ruscha —…

It’s not what people would expect, right?” Lily Collins jokes about her longstanding partnership with the Breakthrough Prize, which honors scientists for their contributions to areas like fundamental physics and mathematics. On April 13, she’ll return to present at the awards (cheekily referred to as the “Oscars of Science”). But in fact, Collins — who has been acting most of her life and first broke out playing Sandra Bullock’s daughter in 2009’s The Blind Side — was a bit of a science buff back in her school days. The star called THR from Paris, where she’s filming the fourth season of Emily in Paris, to chat about her not-so-secret-anymore love of the sciences. So, tell us how you got involved in the Breakthrough awards. To be honest, I don’t know…

Hermès Bag Stewart McGraw just got an “oversized” Hermès Voyage bag in bright blue. “I just love it.” A similar style, the Travel Bag Kelly Relax 50 ($20,000), available at Hermès stores Phoebe Philo Sunglasses “They’re so me in sunglasses; they’re bold. I love the shape. I usually buy sunglasses in pairs in two colors. I wear them for six months, then change them out.” Phoebe Philo Bombé Oversized Frame Sunglasses in caramel; $750, at phoebephilo.com Saint Laurent Leather Jacket “I feel like you can wear it to the movies with sweatpants, or you can wear it over black leather pants at night with a blouse. You can wear it on an airplane. It’s one of those cool pieces that just can go with whatever. You know what I mean?…

Tattoos are a relatively new obsession for Alan Ritchson. His collection is growing, and each piece is thoughtfully selected. There’s a lotus on his wrist to honor his wife of 17 years, Cat. “She’s the flower, I’m undoubtedly the mud,” he says. There are separate tattoos inspired by the couple’s three young boys — a peaceful dove for Calem, an abstract flame for Edan, and a crest with a shield and swords for Amory. But the newest one — finished during a 16-hour session in February in Toronto on a day off from filming Reacher, the Prime Video juggernaut that has made him one of Hollywood’s most in-demand leading men — is just for him. It serves as a permanent reminder of what happened during his darkest days and who…

Robert Downey Jr. will likely take home his first Emmy as best supporting actor in a limited series for HBO’s The Sympathizer. It will be the latest coronation in a year of coronations for one of our finest actors, and it will be difficult to begrudge; what Downey does in The Sympathizer hits that sweet intersection of “ridiculously entertaining” and “a whole lot of acting” that award-givers love. But two things can be true: Downey’s turn is both a feat of actorly gymnastics and the misplaced fulcrum that often causes this seven-episode adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to lose its tonal and narrative balance. This version of The Sympathizer is still substantive and audacious, a hefty slab of satire and deeply felt human tragedy that’s worthy of…

Jeanine Basinger, a veteran film professor, historian and author, helped build Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, into a film powerhouse during her 60 years at the institution. On April 20, the esteemed academic will receive the TCM Classic Film Festival’s Robert Osborne Award, which recognizes an individual who has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic film alive for future generations. Its four previous recipients were Martin Scorsese and film historians/authors Kevin Brownlow, Leonard Maltin and Donald Bogle. Basinger, a youthful 88, spoke with THR about her life and career. How did you fall in love with movies? I grew up in South Dakota, and at 11 I got a job as an usher at a local movie theater. My film school was watching movies — and how audiences reacted…

After merging Endeavor and William Morris to form WME in 2009, it took a decade of private equity-fueled deals (nabbing IMG for $2.4 billion; gaining control of UFC) to realize Ari Emanuel’s dream of leading a public company. It only took three years for it to end for Endeavor. Investors didn’t know how to value disparate assets (in a firm encompassing both Professional Bull Riders and Hollywood agents). Here’s a close read on how Emanuel’s IPO goal was reached and ultimately unwound. The Fine Print of the Go-Private Move … While the move to take Endeavor private is a reversal for Silver Lake and the executives running the company, Ari Emanuel, and Mark Shapiro will all be the beneficiaries of some generous deal-related bonuses. Other financial side effects: It Incentivizes…

NBCUniversal chief content officer Donna Langley was there. So was Sony head Tom Rothman. Bob Iger was one of the few Hollywood heavyweights who couldn’t make it, but at least he had a good excuse, still in the midst of a vicious proxy battle with investor Nelson Peltz. The event: The grand unveiling to the titans of the film industry of Megalopolis, the self-funded epic from Francis Ford Coppola, legendary director of the Godfather trilogy. The March 28 screening — held at 10 a.m. at the Universal CityWalk Imax theater — was also attended by such Coppola-verse luminaries as nephew Nicolas Cage, The Godfather series star Al Pacino and Spike Jonze, Coppola’s ex-son-in-law. Two of the film’s stars — Shia LaBeouf and Coppola’s sister, Talia Shire — were also on…

Beyoncé’s knack for dominating the music scene in multiple genres is nothing new. Months after the 2017 release of her flavorful Lemonade, she made history as the first artist to garner Grammy nominations in the rock, rap, R&B and pop fields in the same year. The only genre not to recognize her, despite the category-appropriate track “Daddy Lessons”? Country music. Beyoncé submitted the twangy song to the Grammys, and based on critical reception alone, it should have earned bids for best country song and/or best country solo performance. (Recording Academy members are directed to vote only in their areas of expertise.) But it was not a surprise that the Houston-born singer was rejected from the category, a decision that mirrored her awful experience at the Country Music Association Awards, where…

Cult wines are a very American and, more specifically, Californian phenomenon. The term rose in popularity in Napa Valley in the 1990s to describe flashy, meticulously crafted cabernet sauvignon blends with perfect scores by top wine critics, outrageous prices and insatiable demand. “Most of these wines were simply well-made, small-production wines and the owners had no intention of multiyear wait lists,” says master sommelier Vincent Morrow, wine director of Michelin-starred Press Restaurant in Napa’s St. Helena. “Given that a vineyard will take at least six to seven years before it’s producing optimum fruit, and it only bears fruit once a year, the economic nature of these small vineyards was that production could not scale at the pace of any rapid increase in demand. Thus, when the great reviews came out,…

After a particularly harrowing setback to his mission in Fallout, the new series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Westworld), The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) decides to change course entirely. “The wasteland’s got its own golden rule,” he snarls. “Thou shalt get side-tracked by bullshit every time.” That Prime Video’s Fallout often gets side-tracked by bullshit is simultaneously one of its main charms and one of its most frustrating flaws. At its liveliest, the sci-fi adventure captures the fun of simply getting to explore a strange new world. But a nagging lack of urgency means its eight hours take an awfully long time to get where the story’s going. Though the show is based on the video game franchise of the same name, writer-showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner have constructed…

The legacy of Good Times continues 50 years on, as Netflix rolls out an animated reboot of the series on April 12. The original CBS sitcom, created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by Norman Lear, offered a heartfelt focus on a working-class Black family and starred Esther Rolle as Florida Evans and John Amos as husband James, who were raising three kids in a Chicago public housing project. Rolle and Amos originated their characters on Maude, a spinoff of Lear’s seminal comedy All in the Family. BernNadette Stanis, who was a teen when she landed her first-ever role as middle child Thelma, tells THR that Lear let her improvise audition lines with Jimmie Walker, who was already cast as older bro J.J. “I started in on Jimmie…