Jul 2, 2024
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...
Jan 24, 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...
Jun 7, 2023
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...
Mar 29, 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...
Nov 18, 2022
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...
Jun 1, 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...
May 18, 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...
Apr 27, 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 13, 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...
Mar 30, 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...
Dec 8, 2021
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...
Nov 16, 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...
Jul 15, 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...
Jun 22, 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 2, 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...
May 26, 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,...
Apr 28, 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...
May 21, 2020
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 6, 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...
Aug 28, 2019
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 20, 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 7, 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 --...
Apr 23, 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 9, 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...