Imagine you’re invited to some netherworld, Southern Gothic-themed cocktail party peopled with Tennessee Williams heroines. There’s Amanda Wingfield and Blanche DuBois competing for pity with wilted stories of glory days, Maggie the Cat in her slip, stalking waiters, and lusty Maxine walking a leashed iguana and a…
SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's  Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons on ABC. So, don’t be a meathead and read more if you don’t want to know what happened.
"It's live," Jamie Foxx told a suddenly wide awake America tonight after flubbing a…
Marisa Tomei will star in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, to be directed by Trip Cullman and set for a Roundabout Theatre Company production in September.
Tomei will play Serafina, the widow “who rekindles her desire for love, lust and life in the arms of a fiery suitor,” in the description…
EXCLUSIVE: The Cannes Film Festival is a couple weeks out, but Sony Pictures Classics has gotten on the board with a splashy deal. SPC is acquiring Frankie before the Ira Sachs-directed film makes its world premiere in competition on the Croisette. The deal is for North America, Eastern Europe (including CIS)…
EXCLUSIVE:Marisa Tomei has been set to star opposite Liev Schreiber in Human Capital, the adaptation of Stephen Amidon's 2005 novel about families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Marc Meyers (My Friend Dahmer) is directing the pic from Oren Moverman’s script, and production gets underway today in New…
Beloved by legions of fans for her turns in lighter fare—most notably, Gilmore Girls and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series—Alexis Bledel has broken new ground with Hulu's dystopian series The Handmaid's Tale, evoking the ferocity of an unwoman scorned.
In Season 1, Bledel's handmaid Emily displayed a…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
When he hopped on the phone with me from his East Coast home yesterday, I told Christopher Plummer that just three months ago, when he wasn’t even cast in his latest Oscar-nominated role for All the Money in the World, it would have been unimaginable…
“We are lucky enough to have Marisa Tomei in episode No. 2” of The Handmaid’s Tale second season, creator Bruce Miller announced Sunday at TCA.
“Someone’s excited,” series star Elisabeth Moss noted when a corner of the TV-critic-filled ballroom erupted with the announcement.
“I was excited,” Miller added.
“Academy…
Fans of the 1992 fish-out-of-water comedy My Cousin Vinny have always wondered what happened to the characters played by Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei when they rode off at the end of the film.
Author Lawrence Kelter is attempting to provide the answer. The Brooklyn attorney obtained the rights and absolution from…
