Actors and Actresses
Adam Rich, Child Star on ‘Eight Is Enough,’ Dies at 54
Adam Rich, a former child actor who starred in the hit television series “Eight Is Enough” in the 1970s and ’80s, then dropped out of show business, dealt with serious depression and later re-emerged as a commentator on mental health, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 54. Danny Deraney, Mr. […]
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Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection
Not that Nighy has seen any of those movies, or indeed any movie in which he appears. “Well, would you fancy sitting down and watching yourself for a couple of hours?” he asked. “I tried it when I was younger and less complicated to look at, and there’s nothing in it for me. I’m not […]
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Kevin Costner Couldn’t Get His Golden Globe Due to California Storms
When the Golden Globes returned to NBC on Tuesday night after last year’s telecast was canceled amid concerns about the organization that gives out the awards, it was an open question whether Hollywood’s biggest stars would come back. Plenty did, making the evening feel in many respects like a return to shows of the past. […]
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Jeremy Renner Was Run Over by 7-Ton Snow Plow, Authorities Say
The actor Jeremy Renner, who was critically injured on Sunday, was run over by a snow plow weighing more than 14,000 pounds that he had used to tow his car on a snowed-in private road near his home in Reno, Nev., the authorities said on Tuesday. Mr. Renner, 51, had been helping a family member […]
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Leslie Jordan, ‘Will & Grace’ Actor and Instagram Star, Dies at 67
“I decided I was going to make a real effort to ‘butch it up’ and hide any signs that I was a Big Homo,” he wrote. “The funny thing is, I am, without a doubt, the gayest man I know.” Once he began landing roles, they came quickly, but Mr. Jordan also had substance abuse […]
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B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America
A funny story that B.J. Novak likes to tell from the making of his new movie is about the day he thought he was having a stroke. Are you chuckling yet? At the start of 2020, Novak, a writer, comedian and alumnus of “The Office,” had finally gotten the green light to make “Vengeance,” a […]
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Why Brandon Perea’s ‘Nope’ Audition Made Jordan Peele Cry
And then you heard about “Nope”? I got an email for an untitled Jordan Peele project, my first big audition in a long time. I was assuming it’d be a one-liner or something because he’s at the point where he can get any actor in the world to be in his films, but then I […]
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With ‘Surface,’ Gugu Mbatha-Raw Steps Into New Territory
LONDON — A few minutes into “Surface,” a new eight-part series from Apple TV+, the central character, Sophie, played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, asks her therapist a question: “If my life was so perfect, why did I try to end it?” Sophie, who has amnesia after a suicide attempt, has a handsome, wealthy and devoted husband, […]
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Paul Sorvino: A Voluble Man Who Excelled as a Brick of a Mobster
When Paul Sorvino was offered the role of Paulie Cicero, the Queens-based mob underboss in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” (1990), he very much did not want to accept it. In the first place, he was a proud Italian American. A connoisseur of Italian culture, particularly food and music, he was not inclined to play a Mafioso. […]
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