When Adam McKay hoisted his adapted screenplay Oscar back in February for "The Big Short," his excoriating dissection of Wall Street's deft and destructive thuggery, that sound you heard was the…
Amazon Studios rolled into Cannes with five major Festival titles: Woody Allen’s "Cafe Society," Nicolas Winding Refn’s "The Neon Demon," Jim Jarmusch’s "Paterson" and his Iggy Pop documentary "Gimme…
One of New York City and Los Angeles' most important real estate moguls, Charles Cohen also applies his decades of experience and business acumen to the independent film distribution business, an…
Country legend Merle Haggard, often called "the Poet of the Common Man," whose music reflected his hardscrabble roots and hard-living ways as well as a tenderness that made him a revered songwriter…
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…
