At the London Film School’s Annual Show on December 8, Mike Leigh, LFS Chairman and 1964 graduate, and new LFS director Jane Roscoe presented Honorary Associateships to director Richard Linklater, actor and director Ralph Fiennes, and Chief Executive of Women in Film and TV Kate Kinninmont MBE.
Showbiz Books: Amy Poehler, Neil Patrick Harris, Cary Elwes
November 13, 2014 by
Publishing is having a strong fall season, due to a whole cycle of books by showbiz personalities, from Amy Poehler to Neil Patrick Harris Bill O’Reilly‘s book, Killing Patton sold 169,000 first-week copies, which is tops in nonfiction. John Grisham‘s Gray Mountain is the fiction’s leader with 144,000 first-week units sold. Amy Poehler, Lena Dunham The big showdown […]
Streep, Meryl: Presidential Medal of Honor
November 10, 2014 by
The recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year will include Meryl Streep, Tom Brokaw, Stevie Wonder and Stephen Sondheim, the White House announced Monday.
Burns, Ken: Footage from his Docu Dust Bowl is in Nolan’s Interstellar
November 10, 2014 by
scar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has released footage from a documentary for use in a motion picture. Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” features interview footage from Burns’s two-part PBS miniseries The Dust Bowl that recounts the impact of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. during the Great Depression of the 1930s and served as inspiration for several of Nolan’s key scenes.
Gay America: Apple Chief Tim Cook Comes Out
October 30, 2014 by
I am proud to be gay–Apple chief Tim Cook, the most high-profile CEO to come out
