It's here! Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
It's the main Netflix Original movie pick for July. Of course. Because Eddie Murphy's back in this iconic role almost 30 years after...
Jul 2, 2024


You know, I have to agree.
Greta Gerwig’s Oscar ‘Barbie’ Snub Slammed: “How Is This Even Possible?” As writer James Hibberd puts it in The Hollywood Reporter: Greta...
Jan 24, 2024


NOW OR LATER Coming Soon!
It's SO good to be rehearsing on a stage again. Back in the early spring of 2020, the last time I was in rehearsal for a full production...
Jun 7, 2023


Women's History Month Grand Finale Quiz!
How much do YOU know about these groundbreaking women of the American theatre? Throughout our country's theatre history, there have been...
Mar 29, 2023


Magnum P.I. Gag Reel — and Premiere Date!
What fun to be featured in the hilarious Magnum P.I. Season 4 Gag Reel. Here's a clip of my final scene, followed by what really...
Nov 18, 2022

How Did I Miss This?
I recently stumbled on a wonderful thing: "Off Camera," with host Sam Jones. Now I'm obsessed. (If you already know all about this, then...
Jun 1, 2022


Signs of Life?
Many years in the making ... conceived by some of the world's foremost astronomers and scientists, created and executed by a team of...
May 18, 2022

The Adlon Effect
That oasis of television excellence called "Better Things," the FX series created by and starring Pamela Adlon (she originated it with...
Apr 27, 2022


Have you SEEN this show? If not, let me introduce you to "Abbott Elementary." And its creator.
I just discovered this series (I know, where have I been, under a rock?) after reading this great article in The New York Times about its...
Apr 13, 2022


It's Happening! Funny Girl's Back on B'Way
It's true. Beanie Feldstein, bless her heart, is taking the giant leap into musical theatre history as Fanny Brice, the role Barbra...
Mar 30, 2022


Long Live the King
In 1999, I read Year of the King, Anthony Sher's brilliant memoir about playing Richard III with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I'd been...
Dec 8, 2021

Shenanigans in Paradise?
Catch me as "Betty," a truly fun guest star role, on this Friday's episode of Magnum P.I. called "A New Lease on Death," which may or may...
Nov 16, 2021


I just flew in from the Internet and boy, are my arms tired!
Howdy! I'm on a month-long "virtual book tour" to promote the recent launch of the audiobook I narrated, my late mother's terrific...
Jul 15, 2021


Fran Lebowitz Strikes Again
Have you SEEN "Pretend It's a City" ??? If not, you are so lucky to have it to look forward to. And if you love NYC, you'll be in heaven....
Jun 22, 2021

Poetry for Pride Month
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by...
Jun 2, 2021


May is Kate Winslet Appreciation Month
At least it is for me. Exhibit A: her performance in the crazy-addictive Mare of Easttown. We all know she's adept, powerful, whip smart,...
May 26, 2021

The Hollywood air feels different
I swear it does. Maybe it's from hearing Fauci say (yesterday) that it's suddenly OK to not wear a mask outside, or knowing that millions...
Apr 28, 2021


Only Four More Days!
Now here’s a rare opportunity ~ to be swept away for 35 minutes by that tsunami of an actor who is Andrew Scott … … in the brilliant play...
May 21, 2020

Why The Good Fight is so damn, well … good.
Like many people, when I started watching the first season of The Good Fight on CBS All Access, waaay back in 2017, I was...
May 6, 2020

Need a fabulous escape from the dismal inanity of current events? This'll do it.
Fire up the time machine to August 27, 1953, sixty-six years ago yesterday. Eisenhower was President. The number one song on the radio...
Aug 28, 2019

How important are great new plays? Get this: they might save civilization.
"Amid the ongoing culture wars between urban-elite and blue-collar sensibilities, Melocchi’s period play slyly reminds us the division...
Aug 20, 2019

It's about freaking time: Casting Directors get BAFTA award category
It takes a special, very particular skillset to make a good CD: 1) encyclopedic knowledge and memory of the available casting pool --...
Aug 7, 2019


That Incredible Year Deserves This Series.
Starting tonight on ABC. A six-part docuseries about the year that made so much history. Watch the trailer here In case you weren't...
Apr 23, 2019


Film buffs rejoice. The new Criterion Channel is here.
Yesterday the highly anticipated new streaming channel finally launched, and it looks like it was worth the wait. Here's the skinny from...
Apr 9, 2019
