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Even though more than $11 billion has been recovered for scammed investors who put their cash in Bernie Madoff's elaborate Ponzi scheme, and Madoff was sentenced to 150 years behind bars, the true drama behind this American saga has yet to be told on the small screen. And while hinted at, it certainly isn't told in ABC…

A new weekly column talking up the season with bits and pieces from the awards circuit. “I would love to do the Oscars again,” Chris Rock told me late last year when I asked if he thought he should have been chosen over Neil Patrick Harris to host the 2015 Oscarcast. “I think they got the right guy. Yeah, but it was…

EXCLUSIVE: New distributor, and brand new Oscar player, Bleecker Street is telling Academy voters ‘I’ll See You In Your Mailbox’ as their sleeper hit and summer indie success, I’ll See You In My Dreams,  has officially won the title as first DVD For Your Consideration screener sent to the entire Academy this season…

This weekend’s box office results may not have brought any good news to the by-the-numbers new studio releases, but in terms of the Best Actress Oscar race they added to the mix with some very reliable older stars who are helping to continue to define this nascent race with veteran actresses who could dominate the…

Here’s the first photo of Blythe Danner and Richard Dreyfuss as Ruth and Bernie Madoff in ABC’s Madoff miniseries (see above). Madoff follows the rise and spectacular fall of the former investment advisor and convicted felon, and the subsequent fallout on his family, associates and investors. Raymond De Felitta…

Blythe Danner (I’ll See You In My Dreams, Meet The Parents) and Lyne Renee (Strike Back) have joined the cast of ABC’s Madoff miniseries. City Island helmer Raymond De Felitta directs the project, which is currently in production. Inspired by ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross' reports and his book T…

Surprisingly, I’ll See You In My Dreams was a big hit with critics and audiences when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. I say surprising because this comedy-drama about an aging widow who tries to find renewed life 20 years after the death of her husband is at its heart an old-fashioned movie…

Like shiny new cars in showrooms, the latest Broadway models have begun to raise their curtains as the 2014-2015 season begins gathering steam, evidenced by a 12% rise in total grosses over last week. Steppenwolf Theatre’s revival of This Is Our Youth, starring Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin, opened to rapturous…

Related: Blythe Danner, Scott Foley And A Disinvited Guest At Geffen's 'Country House' Premiere…

I spent some time this week at the Geffen Playhouse seeing two much-talked about premieres. I’d been invited by the theater to see both shows — the first starring Orson Bean in marvelous form as a wise old professor in Steven Drukman’s twisty Death Of The Author and the world premiere of Donald Margulies’ <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/broadway/" id="auto-tag_broadway_2"…

Blythe Danner is joined by Scott Foley (Scandal), Eric Lange (Weeds), David Rasche (Speed-The-Plow Broadway, Lunch Hour), Emily Swallow (The Mentalist), and fast-rising star Sarah Steele (Lincoln Center Theater’s Slowgirl, CBS’ The Good Wife) for the world premiere of Donald Margulies' The Country House. It’s a…

Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker have officially been set to star in the world premiere of the first-ever play from Amanda Peet. The Commons Of Pensacola is set for a limited off-Broadway engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club, with previews starting October 22 at New York City Center’s Stage 1 and opening night…