Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
In the wake of Mary Tyler Moore’s death, numerous admirers, co-stars, and friends have come forward with their memories of working with the beloved star. Now, Moore’s first, most famous comedy teammate has offered up his own perspective, with Dick Van Dyke talking to The Hollywood Reporter about the ways she caused The
We have James L. Brooks to thank for many things: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons, Broadcast News, and one of the most iconic scenes in the history of teen movies. Brooks was an executive producer on Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything…, which gave us John Cusack holding a boom box aloft so the sounds of Peter…
This Sunday The Simpsons will reach another milestone, airing its 600th episode—“Treehouse Of Horror XXVII,” debuting this Sunday, October 16—complete with a virtual-reality couch gag made in collaboration with Google. Though news of the VR twist broke last week, The A.V. Club first learned about it at this year’s…
Depicting stupidity intelligently is a paradoxical nightmare. Movies rarely even attempt the feat, opting instead for caricature; well-meaning idiots get treated onscreen very much like drunks (their close cousins), with that one quality exaggerated to the point where it overwhelms everything else about them. While…
Prolific producer and director James L. Brooks is one of the most consistently honored people working in Hollywood. He’s won Oscars, Golden Globes, and numerous other plaudits from organizations spanning the globe. Just counting Primetime Emmy Awards, Brooks has something like 18 of the things, including 10 just from…
The ATX Television Festival borrows a vocabulary and a set of customs from its subject matter. Each edition of the festival is a new “season”; the biggest get of any season is usually a reunion of a TV show from days gone by, the live-and-in-person equivalent of ratings-grabbing primetime events like Mary And Rhoda, …
The Simpsons casting kerfuffle continues: Despite confirmation from showrunner Al Jean that Harry Shearer will not be returning to the show, it seems that the program’s top creative heads don’t have all their “Bort” license plates in a row. Shearer’s very public Twitter announcement that he is not coming back (and at…
The ATX Television Festival is returning to Austin, TX, for a celebration of all things television. The fourth annual ATX Television Festival is set for June 4-7, and they’ve announced the panels and programming that will kick off the opening night.
