When Variety began, the entertainment industry was mostly live theater, circuses and vaudeville — and minstrel shows. Later, blacks were at the forefront in demanding equality in the entertainment…
When you tally up the countless rules, assumptions and conventional wisdoms that accompany every year's Oscar selections, on its surface, 2015 appears to be the poster child for kudos consistency…
Jimmy Webb has been in the pantheon of American songwriters almost from the very beginning, competing with himself in the Grammy Awards nearly 50 years ago with "Up Up and Away" and "By the Time I…
Being one of the top character actors of American film and television must be the ultimate double-edged career sword. On the one hand, if you're good — and the late Ed Lauter was one of American…
Sandy Lieberson's career spans nearly 60 years and a wide range of activities, including producing films such as "Performance," attacked at the time of its 1970 release, but now regarded as a…
When actress Candy Clark talks about co-starring with David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg's 1976 sci-fi masterpiece "The Man Who Fell To Earth," the 40 years that have passed since the film's New Mexico…
David Bowie's relationship to cinema and acting was characteristically complex and knotty even before he started: He famously had to change his name from Davy Jones because there was already a…
The most fervent of the detractors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. prefer to obsess over the group's Golden Globes balloting lapses, while obstinately overlooking the org's real awards voting…
On the surface, the annual Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Film gala is meant to raise lots of money for the local arts org’s film programs while also providing the city with a world-class…
Since 2012, Toronto Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey has overseen the selection process for the sprawling fest that serves as an essential, if unofficial, market for U.S. indies and…
In her long and celebrated career, Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland has written films for legendary helmers such as Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieslowski, and garnered Oscar and Emmy…
