The Elephant Whisperers
Kartiki Gonsalves’ documentary debut, “The Elephant Whisperers,” released on Netflix, shines a spotlight on the ways in which climate change and human encroachment are rapidly destroying the habitats of Asian elephants. The film’s dire warning is subtly woven into a heartfelt narrative about forging family in unlikely places with elephant caretakers Bomman and Bellie at its core. The duo raise an orphaned elephant named Raghu, whom they’ve cared for since infancy, as well as another calf named Ammu. “[Bomman and Bellie] are still understanding the process of what the Oscars exactly are, but they’re just overwhelmed with messages and calls and really happy to share their lives with such a large audience,” Helmer Kartiki Gonsalves told Variety. “I don’t think they’ve ever had this kind of recognition before.”
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For their documentary debut, Maxim Arbugaev and Evgenia Arbugaeva spent 3½ months in close quarters with Russian scientist Maxim Chakilev,...
Kartiki Gonsalves’ documentary debut, “The Elephant Whisperers,” released on Netflix, shines a spotlight on the ways in which climate change and human encroachment are rapidly destroying the habitats of Asian elephants. The film’s dire warning is subtly woven into a heartfelt narrative about forging family in unlikely places with elephant caretakers Bomman and Bellie at its core. The duo raise an orphaned elephant named Raghu, whom they’ve cared for since infancy, as well as another calf named Ammu. “[Bomman and Bellie] are still understanding the process of what the Oscars exactly are, but they’re just overwhelmed with messages and calls and really happy to share their lives with such a large audience,” Helmer Kartiki Gonsalves told Variety. “I don’t think they’ve ever had this kind of recognition before.”
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For their documentary debut, Maxim Arbugaev and Evgenia Arbugaeva spent 3½ months in close quarters with Russian scientist Maxim Chakilev,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
In the abysmal landscape of short film distribution, documentaries have had the easiest time translating to streaming and internet consumption. Often overlapping with hard-hitting video journalism, documentary shorts appeal to establishment news outlets like The New Yorker and The New York Times, and both outlets have funded numerous short documentaries over the last decade.
In its effort to earn industry clout by wracking up Oscar nominations, Netflix joined the fray, and its two nominations for Best Documentary Short this year are by far the most accessible.
This year’s nominees lean far lighter than in most years, which is somewhat surprising seeing as the terrible news just keeps piling up. Perhaps voters needed a little levity this year, or perhaps filmmakers themselves are seeking out more uplifting stories.
From saving baby elephants in India to a shocking tale of a changed perspective, the films in this category offer more than...
In its effort to earn industry clout by wracking up Oscar nominations, Netflix joined the fray, and its two nominations for Best Documentary Short this year are by far the most accessible.
This year’s nominees lean far lighter than in most years, which is somewhat surprising seeing as the terrible news just keeps piling up. Perhaps voters needed a little levity this year, or perhaps filmmakers themselves are seeking out more uplifting stories.
From saving baby elephants in India to a shocking tale of a changed perspective, the films in this category offer more than...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The sound department for the Starz limited series “Gaslit” earned a pair of Emmy nominations for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. It was the 24th nomination for re-recording mixer John W. Cook II and the second for co-supervising sound editor Kevin Buchholz. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Cook, who won an Emmy in 2007 for “Scrubs,” is thrilled to be a double nominee this year for “Gaslit” and the HBO Max comedy “Hacks.” He says, “We get so focused on the project that we’re currently working on. Consequently, the stuff that we did six months ago or a year ago tends to fall away in our memories. These moments of getting nominated, I really love the feeling of time to not let this experience go away so quickly. Let’s linger on it. Let’s remember some of the...
Cook, who won an Emmy in 2007 for “Scrubs,” is thrilled to be a double nominee this year for “Gaslit” and the HBO Max comedy “Hacks.” He says, “We get so focused on the project that we’re currently working on. Consequently, the stuff that we did six months ago or a year ago tends to fall away in our memories. These moments of getting nominated, I really love the feeling of time to not let this experience go away so quickly. Let’s linger on it. Let’s remember some of the...
- 8/12/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
“It’s a great honor,” says two-time Oscar winner Kazu Hiro about receiving his first Emmy nomination. After taking home Academy Awards for “Darkest Hour” (2017) and “Bombshell” (2019), Hiro earned his first Emmy bid this year for Best Prosthetic Makeup on the Starz limited series “Gaslit.” “It is rare to work on TV shows. I’ve had some opportunities in the past, but this time it’s an honor because it was great to work with Sean.”Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Sean Penn had been soliciting Hiro’s makeup work for various projects throughout the years. Their schedules never seemed to line up until this program came along and Hiro was able to transform the Oscar winner into John Mitchell, President Richard Nixon’s former Campaign Chairman and Attorney General. “Sean contacted me for ‘Gaslit’ and it was good timing. It was during the pandemic. Right after the first...
Sean Penn had been soliciting Hiro’s makeup work for various projects throughout the years. Their schedules never seemed to line up until this program came along and Hiro was able to transform the Oscar winner into John Mitchell, President Richard Nixon’s former Campaign Chairman and Attorney General. “Sean contacted me for ‘Gaslit’ and it was good timing. It was during the pandemic. Right after the first...
- 8/11/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
“It was great!” exclaims director of photography Larkin Seiple, recalling the moment he discovered he was a first-time Emmy nominee for “Gaslit.” “I got a text from my agents and they just said, ‘Congrats,’ and I was confused because they didn’t say why. I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ and they were like, ‘You got nominated!’ I checked the roster and five of my other friends had gotten nominated, which is pretty surreal. It was fun to share it with a bunch of other nominees as well. It was a trip!” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Seiple is nominated for Best Cinematography for a Limited Series. “Gaslit” premiered on Starz on April 24 and shines its light most prominently on Martha Mitchell (played by Julia Roberts), a big personality and whistleblower who was the first to publicly expose President Richard Nixon’s involvement in Watergate. She was an...
Seiple is nominated for Best Cinematography for a Limited Series. “Gaslit” premiered on Starz on April 24 and shines its light most prominently on Martha Mitchell (played by Julia Roberts), a big personality and whistleblower who was the first to publicly expose President Richard Nixon’s involvement in Watergate. She was an...
- 8/10/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Emmy-nominated re-recording mixers John W. Cook II and Ben Wilkins layered in 16 different tracks of recording for a key courtroom moment in Starz’s “Gaslit.”
The political thriller takes a different look at the Watergate scandal. Rather than look at the infamous hotel break-in, the show examines the political relationships and the women — particularly Martha Mitchell, played by Julia Roberts.
It also looks at John Dean, President Nixon’s White House counsel (played by Dan Stevens), and his wife Maureen “Mo” Dean (Betty Gilpin).
In a key moment, John Dean is set to testify before the Senate committee.
The scene before shows John almost chickening out of his testimony. It’s a moment with Mo and the two are sitting outside an office. “He wants to give up and Mo says, ‘You are absolutely not going to give up. You think this is hard? This is not hard.’ Cook explains...
The political thriller takes a different look at the Watergate scandal. Rather than look at the infamous hotel break-in, the show examines the political relationships and the women — particularly Martha Mitchell, played by Julia Roberts.
It also looks at John Dean, President Nixon’s White House counsel (played by Dan Stevens), and his wife Maureen “Mo” Dean (Betty Gilpin).
In a key moment, John Dean is set to testify before the Senate committee.
The scene before shows John almost chickening out of his testimony. It’s a moment with Mo and the two are sitting outside an office. “He wants to give up and Mo says, ‘You are absolutely not going to give up. You think this is hard? This is not hard.’ Cook explains...
- 8/9/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In terms of surprises there were actually very few of them at the Emmy nomination announcement this morning. We still heard many of the same familiar names leading the charge, some from last year like Ted Lasso, Hacks, Saturday Night Live and others. Some back for another round from past seasons like Barry, Euphoria, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Succession, Better Call Saul, Atlanta, What We Do In The Shadows etc. And then thrown into the mix were some actual newcomers who managed to break through like Yellowjackets, Severance, Only Murders In The Building, the rare foreign language show Squid Game, and the even rarer (these days) broadcast network show, ABC’s Abbott Elementary. Popular tv staples like Yellowstone, NCIS, anything from Dick Wolf, were again completely ignored. Actually when I say there were no real surprises I have to mention I was a bit shocked that the Academy almost completely...
- 7/12/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
TV Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma said this morning that the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations would reflect only “a fraction” of the immense talent on the small screen this year.
He was so on the nose about that, sadly.
2022 Emmy Nominations: Deadline’s Complete Coverage
Yet again, TV Academy voters giveth and TV Academy voters taketh away, at least some of the hopes and dreams for the latter who didn’t make the cut this morning. Unveiled by Blockbuster co-stars Jb Smoove and Melissa Fumero early (but not too early) Tuesday, the nominations certainly put a spring in the step of Ted Lasso, Jon Stewart and Squid Game.
For Yellowstone and Reservation Dogs, however, not so much.
Why There Won’t Be Emmy Nominations This Year For Shows Like ‘The Crown’, ‘The Boys’ & ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
There’s no host yet, but the 74th Primetime Emmys will air live at 8 p.
He was so on the nose about that, sadly.
2022 Emmy Nominations: Deadline’s Complete Coverage
Yet again, TV Academy voters giveth and TV Academy voters taketh away, at least some of the hopes and dreams for the latter who didn’t make the cut this morning. Unveiled by Blockbuster co-stars Jb Smoove and Melissa Fumero early (but not too early) Tuesday, the nominations certainly put a spring in the step of Ted Lasso, Jon Stewart and Squid Game.
For Yellowstone and Reservation Dogs, however, not so much.
Why There Won’t Be Emmy Nominations This Year For Shows Like ‘The Crown’, ‘The Boys’ & ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
There’s no host yet, but the 74th Primetime Emmys will air live at 8 p.
- 7/12/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The buzz for the Starz limited series “Gaslit” began in early 2020, when it was announced that the first season of Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast was being adapted into a limited series. Since its final episode, which aired on June 12, many of Gold Derby’s Emmy Experts are speculating that the thrilling historical drama has the potential to earn multiple nominations in several above and below the line categories.
One of the most compelling narratives on the path to Emmy success is that the “Gaslit” cast is composed of A-list, award winning actors, as well as television and film standouts. The casting is so incredible that Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times television critic, markedly stated, ”Indeed, the series can be watched as dance, a pair of alternating actorly pas de deux, set off by ensemble pieces, and is completely enjoyable as such.”
SEEMaking of ‘Gaslit’: Lively roundtable with creator Robbie Pickering,...
One of the most compelling narratives on the path to Emmy success is that the “Gaslit” cast is composed of A-list, award winning actors, as well as television and film standouts. The casting is so incredible that Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times television critic, markedly stated, ”Indeed, the series can be watched as dance, a pair of alternating actorly pas de deux, set off by ensemble pieces, and is completely enjoyable as such.”
SEEMaking of ‘Gaslit’: Lively roundtable with creator Robbie Pickering,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Hunter K. Taylor
- Gold Derby
Outlanders, thy favorite show has cast two major players for Season 7 and beyond.
Izzy Meikle-Small and Joey Phillips have joined the Starz series as Rachel and Dr. Denzell Hunter, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Readers of Diana Gabaldon’s novel series, on which the show is based, will recognize the Hunters as a pair of siblings who become enmeshed in...
Izzy Meikle-Small and Joey Phillips have joined the Starz series as Rachel and Dr. Denzell Hunter, our sister site Deadline reports.
More from TVLineGarret Dillahunt Boards Hightown Season 3 as South Boston GangsterGaslit Creator Breaks Down Finale's 'Hopeful' Ending for Martha Mitchell: 'She Was F-king Right!' (Grade It!)Becoming Elizabeth Stars on Exploring Monarch's Teen Years, Inappropriate Thomas Seymour Romance
Readers of Diana Gabaldon’s novel series, on which the show is based, will recognize the Hunters as a pair of siblings who become enmeshed in...
- 6/27/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
There’s something comfortably distancing about history. Grainy black and white footage can look impossibly foreign, and even once something’s in color, the more limited options older film stocks worked with to recreate real life have this kind of patina to them in comparison to digital color. It is easy for a modern audience to use the look of something as an emotional off-ramp — this thing looks different from how the world is now, so it doesn’t apply to us. But “Gaslit,” Starz’s look into the Watergate scandal (adapted from the first season of the “Slow Burn” podcast), doesn’t want to provide viewers with any escape from how the hubris, incompetence, and immorality of men in power ripple outwards. This extends to the show’s visuals, which restore immediacy to an event that’s now considered settled history.
“We wanted it to feel like what you thought the ’70s felt like,...
“We wanted it to feel like what you thought the ’70s felt like,...
- 6/25/2022
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
The Emmy best actress races are becoming increasingly competitive as big-name stars participate in creating shows, reclaiming the power to be leading ladies carrying an increasingly complex narrative. Take Julia Roberts and her role as the Washington socialite turned whistleblower Martha Mitchell in Starz’ limited-series Emmy contender “Gaslit.”
With Mitchell, the actress-producer explores a woman of contradictions: a stylish hostess who tipsily goes over the edge into drug and alcohol abuse; a political player on the arm of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), whose marriage crumbles under the weight of an administration in crisis; and a traumatized wife and mother experiencing Ptsd after repeatedly being roughly thrown under the bus by the powerful white men in the room.
What Roberts and her fellow producers have done here is to take the familiar narrative of the White House burglars first exposed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
With Mitchell, the actress-producer explores a woman of contradictions: a stylish hostess who tipsily goes over the edge into drug and alcohol abuse; a political player on the arm of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), whose marriage crumbles under the weight of an administration in crisis; and a traumatized wife and mother experiencing Ptsd after repeatedly being roughly thrown under the bus by the powerful white men in the room.
What Roberts and her fellow producers have done here is to take the familiar narrative of the White House burglars first exposed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,...
- 6/24/2022
- by Thelma Adams
- The Wrap
As Emmy nominations voting comes to a close this Monday, UCP and Starz have found one more way to expose their limited series “Gaslit” to potential voters: Free, over-the-air broadcast TV.
The first episode of “Gaslit,” starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, will air on NBC-owned TV stations in key markets including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, this weekend in a final push to expose the series to as many people as possible.
Universal Studio Group’s UCP produces “Gaslit” for Starz. And in a case of Comcast/NBCUniversal synergy, Usg and UCP have turned to their sister NBC broadcast station unit for help. As a result, the first episode of “Gaslit” will air on Knbc/Channel 4 in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 25, at 8 p.m. — in primetime.
In New York (Wnbc), Philadelphia (Wcau), Washington D.C. (Wrc), Boston (Wbts) and Philadelphia (Wcau), the NBC stations will air “Gaslit” at 7 p.
The first episode of “Gaslit,” starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, will air on NBC-owned TV stations in key markets including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, this weekend in a final push to expose the series to as many people as possible.
Universal Studio Group’s UCP produces “Gaslit” for Starz. And in a case of Comcast/NBCUniversal synergy, Usg and UCP have turned to their sister NBC broadcast station unit for help. As a result, the first episode of “Gaslit” will air on Knbc/Channel 4 in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 25, at 8 p.m. — in primetime.
In New York (Wnbc), Philadelphia (Wcau), Washington D.C. (Wrc), Boston (Wbts) and Philadelphia (Wcau), the NBC stations will air “Gaslit” at 7 p.
- 6/21/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Fifty years ago, the Watergate scandal chewed up and spit out a lot of men in Richard Nixon's orbit. But there was also a woman who was unceremoniously thrown to the wolves as the walls started to close in around the 37th president of the United States. Martha Mitchell was the wife of former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, who left the Justice Department to manage Nixon's re-election campaign. Stylish, charming and more in demand for magazine covers and talk shows than first lady Pat Nixon, Martha was the irrepressible life of the party—until the outspokenness that made her a favorite of Washington society proved a little too unpredictable for Nixon...
- 6/17/2022
- E! Online
In the final episode of “Gaslit,” the Watergate hearings play in the background as socialite truth-teller Martha Mitchell languishes in the hospital, stricken with cancer and ridiculed as crazy by Republicans and members of the media. Five decades later, Wyoming legislator Liz Cheney is playing a similar straight shooter at the congressional hearings about the Trump White House’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. But the media is much more stratified than it was during Watergate, and the consequences for the former president and those political figures complicit with him that day are far from preordained.
Robbie Pickering, creator of the Starz series starring Julia Roberts as a boozy Mitchell, considers the Jan. 6 hearings “remarkably consequential” but questions the ultimate impact they will have. “The difference between this and Watergate is there’s no pretense to these crimes,” he says. “Everyone knows they occurred, especially Republicans.”
Pickering...
Robbie Pickering, creator of the Starz series starring Julia Roberts as a boozy Mitchell, considers the Jan. 6 hearings “remarkably consequential” but questions the ultimate impact they will have. “The difference between this and Watergate is there’s no pretense to these crimes,” he says. “Everyone knows they occurred, especially Republicans.”
Pickering...
- 6/15/2022
- by Diane Garrett
- Variety Film + TV
Garret Dillahunt is among a slew of new faces to populate Starz’s Hightown in Season 3.
Dillahunt, whose previous TV credits include (but are far from limited to!) Justified and Fear the Walking Dead, is set to recur on the Cape Cod crime drama as Shane Frawley, a charismatic and charming gangster from South Boston, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Dillahunt, whose previous TV credits include (but are far from limited to!) Justified and Fear the Walking Dead, is set to recur on the Cape Cod crime drama as Shane Frawley, a charismatic and charming gangster from South Boston, our sister site Deadline reports.
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- 6/15/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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When it comes to pop culture source material, the Watergate scandal is the gift that keeps on giving.
There have been countless books and movies based on different elements of that particularly surreal — at least when viewed through a pre-2016 election lens — moment in history, from All the President’s Men to Dick. And now, Gaslit enters the canon. The Starz series, which is based on the Slow Burn podcast, aims to document the fake robbery and ensuing political fallout through a new lens, forgoing the historically typical main characters like President Nixon for lesser known players like Martha Mitchell (played by Julia Roberts), wife of then-Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), who became a publicly outspoken critic of the administration. “I think the enduring quality of Watergate comes down to the fact that it is the last time that the powerful were really held to account,...
When it comes to pop culture source material, the Watergate scandal is the gift that keeps on giving.
There have been countless books and movies based on different elements of that particularly surreal — at least when viewed through a pre-2016 election lens — moment in history, from All the President’s Men to Dick. And now, Gaslit enters the canon. The Starz series, which is based on the Slow Burn podcast, aims to document the fake robbery and ensuing political fallout through a new lens, forgoing the historically typical main characters like President Nixon for lesser known players like Martha Mitchell (played by Julia Roberts), wife of then-Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), who became a publicly outspoken critic of the administration. “I think the enduring quality of Watergate comes down to the fact that it is the last time that the powerful were really held to account,...
- 6/15/2022
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“I’ve always been a huge Nixon geek, since I was very young,” admits Robbie Pickering, the creator and showrunner of the limited series “Gaslit” on Starz. “The culture around Nixon is kind of the locust point for our current malfeasance in politics and culture war. I grew up in a very Evangelical, Christian, conservative home. That probably has something to do with it. Simultaneously, I’ve always been fascinated with Southern conservative women.”
To celebrate the acclaimed series, watch our special “Making of” roundtable discussion with Pickering and four key players from “Gaslit” — writer Amelia Gray, cinematographer Larkin Seiple, production designer Daniel Novotny and actor Shea Whigham (who plays FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy). Together they are joined by Gold Derby senior editor Denton Davidson for a memorable Q&a. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“Gaslit” is a modern take on the Watergate scandal.
To celebrate the acclaimed series, watch our special “Making of” roundtable discussion with Pickering and four key players from “Gaslit” — writer Amelia Gray, cinematographer Larkin Seiple, production designer Daniel Novotny and actor Shea Whigham (who plays FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy). Together they are joined by Gold Derby senior editor Denton Davidson for a memorable Q&a. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“Gaslit” is a modern take on the Watergate scandal.
- 6/15/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Network: Starz
Episodes: Eight (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: April 24, 2022 -- June 12, 2022
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, Darby Camp, and Aleksandar Filimonovic.
TV show description:
A drama series based on the Watergate scandal, the Gaslit TV show is based on the Slow Burn podcast by Leon Neyfakh.
The story is told through the lens of the lesser-known but still key players involved in the downfall of America's 37th president. They include Richard Nixon’s subordinates, the zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, and the whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole enterprise crashing to the ground.
Martha Mitchell (Roberts) has a big personality and is a celebrity Arkansan socialite...
Episodes: Eight (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: April 24, 2022 -- June 12, 2022
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, Darby Camp, and Aleksandar Filimonovic.
TV show description:
A drama series based on the Watergate scandal, the Gaslit TV show is based on the Slow Burn podcast by Leon Neyfakh.
The story is told through the lens of the lesser-known but still key players involved in the downfall of America's 37th president. They include Richard Nixon’s subordinates, the zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, and the whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole enterprise crashing to the ground.
Martha Mitchell (Roberts) has a big personality and is a celebrity Arkansan socialite...
- 6/15/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
It’s been 50 years since the Watergate scandal broke — but thanks to today’s television landscape, it’s still part of the conversation. With a dozen films and TV shows made about the political scandal, writer Robbie Pickering set out to tell a different story with Starz’s “Gaslit” — the one of Martha Mitchell, the wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney general John N. Mitchell and the first person to publicly speak out about the former president’s role in Watergate.
But heading into the topic was a heavy lift. Pickering, who is part of Variety’s Virtual TV Fest taking place June 7-9, has been obsessed with the topic for years — even more so when he listened to Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast. Still, he felt there was still something new to tell.
“I think Martha’s story just needed to get heard. If you look at the variety...
But heading into the topic was a heavy lift. Pickering, who is part of Variety’s Virtual TV Fest taking place June 7-9, has been obsessed with the topic for years — even more so when he listened to Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast. Still, he felt there was still something new to tell.
“I think Martha’s story just needed to get heard. If you look at the variety...
- 6/2/2022
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
Movie icon Julia Roberts has been named the Godmother of the Trophée Chopard 2022 at Cannes Film Festival.
As Godmother, Roberts will present the award to both a male and female young actor on the rise. She follows Godmother Jessica Chastain, who presented the award to Jessie Buckley and Kingsley Ben-Adir at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Zhang Ziyi, Charlize Theron, Robert De Niro, Cate Blanchett, Elton John, Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Helen Mirren are among previous presenters. Previous recipients include Florence Pugh, Joe Alwyn, Marion Cotillard, Ezra Miller, Shailene Woodley, Logan Lerman, James McAvoy, John Boyega and Gael García Bernal, many of whom have gone on to extremely successful careers after receiving the award.
Roberts is known for her roles in “Pretty Woman” (1990), “Erin Brockovich” (2000), “Steel Magnolias” (1989) and a long list of other iconic films, including many romantic comedies in the ’90s and early 2000s. This year, she can...
As Godmother, Roberts will present the award to both a male and female young actor on the rise. She follows Godmother Jessica Chastain, who presented the award to Jessie Buckley and Kingsley Ben-Adir at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Zhang Ziyi, Charlize Theron, Robert De Niro, Cate Blanchett, Elton John, Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Helen Mirren are among previous presenters. Previous recipients include Florence Pugh, Joe Alwyn, Marion Cotillard, Ezra Miller, Shailene Woodley, Logan Lerman, James McAvoy, John Boyega and Gael García Bernal, many of whom have gone on to extremely successful careers after receiving the award.
Roberts is known for her roles in “Pretty Woman” (1990), “Erin Brockovich” (2000), “Steel Magnolias” (1989) and a long list of other iconic films, including many romantic comedies in the ’90s and early 2000s. This year, she can...
- 5/9/2022
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
Composer Mac Quayle has become the go-to music person for many of Ryan Murphy’s projects including “Impeachment: American Crime Story.” The working relationship started in 2014 after he did some work for “The Normal Heart.” “Through that process, I met one of Ryan’s producers and I didn’t really think much of it, you know,” he tells us during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above). Six months later he got an unexpected call from that producer about the latest installment of “American Horror Story.” “He said, ‘Would you be available to write a cue for us this afternoon?’ I happened to be free. I wrote the cue and the next day they hired me.”
Quayle has two prominent contenders in this year’s Emmy race that he’s provided the score for. FX’s “Impeachment” explores how Linda Tripp’s (Sarah Paulson) recording of conversations with Monica Lewinsky...
Quayle has two prominent contenders in this year’s Emmy race that he’s provided the score for. FX’s “Impeachment” explores how Linda Tripp’s (Sarah Paulson) recording of conversations with Monica Lewinsky...
- 5/2/2022
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
HollywoodNews.com: Mother and daughter Oscar nominees Diane Ladd and Laura Dern are working a lot together these days. They co-star in HBO’s new hit show, “Enlightened.” And now they tell our Leah Sydney that their long-awaited film about larger than life Nixon era Watergate character Martha Mitchell is finally coming together. Ladd said: “It’s written, and I’m going to direct it. I co-wrote it with Scott Alsop. We wrote 14 drafts of the script. Martin Scorcese is the Executive producer and he said it’s one of the ten best scripts he’s ever read in his life. ‘I’ve been working on this for over 25 years. I play Martha and Laura will play the younger Martha. A big star is going to play [Nixon attorney general] John Mitchell but I can’t tell you right now. Hopefully we’ll start shooting sometime in 2012.”
Did she and Martha ever meet?...
Did she and Martha ever meet?...
- 10/18/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Actress Diane Ladd has spent years and a small fortune on a campaign to find out the truth about apparent government whistle blower Martha Mitchell after the ghost of the former U.S. Attorney General's wife appeared to her minutes after she died in 1976.
The actress mother of Jurassic Park star Laura Dern had just visited the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. - one of the key locations in the burglary scandal that brought Richard Nixon's administration down - during the run of her Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander play at the nearby Kennedy Center, when she first encountered Mitchell's spirit.
She recalls, "It was Memorial Day weekend and I was in the apartment... It was exactly 4.45 in the morning and I was dead asleep. I felt someone shake my left arm. I was terrified.
"As I sat up, there was a gold vision... (and) I could see a person within the gold vision."
The spectre disappeared as Mitchell got out of bed, convinced there was an intruder in the house.
Then she was haunted by whispering voices throughout her performance onstage that night.
She adds, "The third act comes and I'm now on this huge stage alone... and just as I'm about to speak I feel someone walk up beside me and there's nobody there. I'm so thrown because I feel somebody's there... but I can't see anybody there.
"There's 1500 people there, waiting for me to speak my lines, so I take a breath and before I can speak, someone else speaks. She says, 'Chose you... Must... Martha...' Then silence, and everybody out there's waiting for me to speak so I had to go on with the play.
"I didn't deal with it and the very next morning I had to do a television show... The show went great and at the end of the show, for some reason, I say (to the host Maury Povich), 'Maury, do you know anybody named Martha?' He said, 'Oh my God, oh my God, you're the one. You'll tell the truth'.
"I said, 'Who's story?' 'Martha Mitchell'. I said, 'Martha Mitchell, Attorney nm0593461 autoJohn Mitchell[/link]'s wife, the crazy old alcoholic?' (Povich said), 'She's the one who brought them all down. She's the one who did it.'
"I'm going, 'Alright, Maury, Ok, I'll meet her.' (He said), 'You can't meet her; she died... yesterday morning at 4.30am.'"
The whole experience made Ladd compelled to find out more about Mitchell - and she told the whole story for a recent taping of U.S. TV show Celebrity Ghost Stories, insisting Mitchell was held captive by government officials after she threatened to go to the press with what she knew about the Watergate Scandal.
She adds, "Martha Mitchell was Watergate and she had something to tell us that hasn't been told. All the congressmen and representatives mocked her, called her a dirty, crazy alcoholic, called her insane, but she was a truth teller.
"Martha Mitchell, you were a great lady and I know you went through living hell, you were held down, you were kidnapped, you were given a shot against your will. That should not happen in my country."...
The actress mother of Jurassic Park star Laura Dern had just visited the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. - one of the key locations in the burglary scandal that brought Richard Nixon's administration down - during the run of her Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander play at the nearby Kennedy Center, when she first encountered Mitchell's spirit.
She recalls, "It was Memorial Day weekend and I was in the apartment... It was exactly 4.45 in the morning and I was dead asleep. I felt someone shake my left arm. I was terrified.
"As I sat up, there was a gold vision... (and) I could see a person within the gold vision."
The spectre disappeared as Mitchell got out of bed, convinced there was an intruder in the house.
Then she was haunted by whispering voices throughout her performance onstage that night.
She adds, "The third act comes and I'm now on this huge stage alone... and just as I'm about to speak I feel someone walk up beside me and there's nobody there. I'm so thrown because I feel somebody's there... but I can't see anybody there.
"There's 1500 people there, waiting for me to speak my lines, so I take a breath and before I can speak, someone else speaks. She says, 'Chose you... Must... Martha...' Then silence, and everybody out there's waiting for me to speak so I had to go on with the play.
"I didn't deal with it and the very next morning I had to do a television show... The show went great and at the end of the show, for some reason, I say (to the host Maury Povich), 'Maury, do you know anybody named Martha?' He said, 'Oh my God, oh my God, you're the one. You'll tell the truth'.
"I said, 'Who's story?' 'Martha Mitchell'. I said, 'Martha Mitchell, Attorney nm0593461 autoJohn Mitchell[/link]'s wife, the crazy old alcoholic?' (Povich said), 'She's the one who brought them all down. She's the one who did it.'
"I'm going, 'Alright, Maury, Ok, I'll meet her.' (He said), 'You can't meet her; she died... yesterday morning at 4.30am.'"
The whole experience made Ladd compelled to find out more about Mitchell - and she told the whole story for a recent taping of U.S. TV show Celebrity Ghost Stories, insisting Mitchell was held captive by government officials after she threatened to go to the press with what she knew about the Watergate Scandal.
She adds, "Martha Mitchell was Watergate and she had something to tell us that hasn't been told. All the congressmen and representatives mocked her, called her a dirty, crazy alcoholic, called her insane, but she was a truth teller.
"Martha Mitchell, you were a great lady and I know you went through living hell, you were held down, you were kidnapped, you were given a shot against your will. That should not happen in my country."...
- 8/23/2010
- WENN
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