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Deep Inside Hollywood: Jodie Foster fights for Prisoner 760
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Where Do I Begin? Stories (I Sort of Remember) from a Life Lived Out Loud” by Elvis Duran
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Jodie Foster fights for Prisoner 760 Deep Inside Hollywood by Romeo San Vicente
Jodie’s back, fighting for justice. She’s part of the cast of Prisoner 760, playing a lawyer defending a man who was detained at Guantanamo Bay detention facility without charges for over a decade. The true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (French actor Tahar Rahim, A Prophet), a man suspected of ties to al-Qaida, and his 10-plus year wait for charges or help, the film stars Foster and Shailene Woodley as lawyers working on his case, as well as Benedict Cumberbatch as a military prosecutor. Cumberbatch is executive producing the project, to be directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and written by acclaimed journalist and producer Michael Bronner (United 93, Captain Phillips). Following the initial rush of Bush-era narrative and documentary features about the so-called War on Terror, this project has the feeling of a next wave of stories, ones obscured during the chaos of the Trump era, where the legacy of America’s now seemingly endless wars is subject to renewed scrutiny. No word yet on when to expect this one, but it’s guaranteed to be heavy when it hits. Shonda Rhimes’ next one: Inventing Anna Anna Vadimovna Sorokina, aka Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, knew how to run the grift on rich people. The Russianborn trickster moved to New York City in 2013, assumed the identity of a fictitious German heiress, and began stealing in earnest. Her marks were high society types and fancy hotels, and she was good at it for a while. But then she got caught, was tried, was sentenced, and is currently serving 4 to 12 years. Meanwhile, though, Shonda Rhimes is bringing the story to Netflix with Emmy winner Julia Garner (Ozark) as Delvey, and a solid supporting cast, including Laverne Cox, Anna Deavere Smith and Anna Chlumsky (Veep) as journalist Jessica Pressler, who broke the story (unusual fun fact: this will be the second time Pressler as been portrayed on screen, after Julia Stiles played her in Hustlers). And because stories about robbing from the rich and giving to the poor – or whoever, really – are universally appealing (and because we stan Laverne Cox in anything, even TV commercials with Ted Danson) we’re more than ready to watch this one. Kate McKinnon hunts down Joe Exotic Kate McKinnon is working on another project based on a podcast. The Emmy Award-winning SNL star is already in production on The Dropout, based on ABC News/ABC Radio’s podcast about Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes (a no-brainer, really, since they look quite alike and McKinnon is a master at tackling the slightly “off” comedy of bizarrely delusional people). And now she’s joined production company UCP – who’ve already turned the podcasts Homecoming, Dirty John, and Dr. Death into TV projects – for Joe Exotic, based on the Wondery network’s podcast called Over My Dead Body. McKinnon will executive produce and star in this true story as Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who discovers that a man named Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding his own big cats for profit. She tries to shut him down, a rivalry develops, and the two engage in a battle that turns, well, you can listen to
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the podcast yourself, but it’s a doozy. No word on when this limited series will air, or where, but keep your cat eyes open for it down the road. Teen romance The Thing About Harry coming for Valentine’s Day Peter Paige, the Queer As Folk star-turned-production-mogul who created, wrote and produced shows like The Fosters and Good Trouble, has a new queer directing gig on the horizon. It’s called The Thing About Harry , a romantic comedy for the Freeform network. Starring Jake Borelli (Grey’s Anatomy) as a young man taking the yearning romantic’s path through life after coming out in high school, and newcomer Niko Terho as the no-strings player who complicates the lives of yearning romantic types, it’s a straightforward tale of young love and commitment that networks like Hallmark still refuse to touch (and let’s not call it heteronormative for now, let’s just call it sweetly traditional). The film co-stars Britt Baron (Glow) and Karamo Brown (Queer Eye) as friends, as well as Paige as an older mentor. It all sounds like the Love, Simon-ing of gay boy romances, and we are here for it. There’s still an absolute dearth of those, so we’re more than ready to watch come Valentine’s Day, 2020, when it drops. Romeo San Vicente starts buying Valentine’s Day candy for himself on December 26.
BOOK REVIEW Would you turn that up, please? You ask because that’s your favorite song, the one that makes you sing along as you seat-dance in the car. It’s the one that reminds you of the good times, of meeting your beloved, fun with friends, or One Special Night. Turn that up, please, it’s the perfect background music by which to read “Where Do I Begin?” by Elvis Duran. Nearly every child of the last century who owned a tape recorder spent time pretending to be a radio DJ, but Elvis Duran took it to another level: eight-year-old Duran had not only turntables and records, he also had a kit-transmitter that let him broadcast to the widow next door in his McKinney, Texas, neighborhood.
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As a teenager, Duran’s dream of being a radio DJ was finally fulfilled at a tiny McKinney radio station, which led to a gig at a larger station some distance away from the Dallas area, which led to another job and another, cross-state, cross-country, and back. He and his boyfriend – who’d patiently city-hopped with Duran – sometimes had no time to unpack before Duran was fired from one job and hired at another in a different city, something that was common in radio then. At one point, Duran lost not just a job, but he lost the boyfriend, too. That was regretful, but he moved on quickly. There was always another radio station, just as there were other men. He also sampled different formats in various cities before landing at the Holy Grail for Radio DJs: New York City, at Z100, then the Big Apple’s Number One station. There, he learned and grew, and honed his craft.
But like everything that’s good, radio evolved and Duran became itchy to move – right down the road, to the competition. His program director, however, had other thoughts: Duran had a contract and though he begged for release, he was given the morning slot at Z100. Little did he know then that it was a gig he’d have for more than two decades… These days, it seems like there are a dozen ways to get your tunes but radio still rules. After all, as author Elvis Duran points out in “Where Do I Begin?,” with radio, you feel as though you’re spending time with a friend. That’s also the general feeling you’ll take away from this book, too. Over and over again, Duran stresses his goal of authenticity for his syndicated show and that’s what fans get here, with the same freneticism of a radio show, the same wackiness. That means you get the good, including behind-the-scenes peeks, both instudio and onstage, and the kind of stories that can only come from behind a mic. It also means you’ll get the bad, including the ubiquitous name-dropping, tired tales of partying, and several urine bits. And yet, if you grew up listening to a local DJ and imagining his (or her!) life, you shouldn’t even try to resist this book. Funny, fast-paced, and fun, “Where Do I Begin?” reads at highvolume.
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Creep of the WEEK Alex Azar It was only months Cabin Republicans ago when the Log they were endorsi announced that ng 2020 reelection bid Donald Trump’s in a Washington Post opinion piece titled something lik “Well, at Least W e, e’r And ever since Tru e Not In Camps!” mp has been going out of his way to tre everyone who has at LCR like he does ev like garbage. It’s as er believed in him: to take back their en if he’s daring them dorsement. (Spoile alert: they won’t.) r
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