1981: General Hospital's Lesley had no shortage of admirers.
1985: Daniel confessed his love for Krystle on Dynasty.
1989: Gl's Reva and Sonni walked across a suspension bridge.
2009: The wedding of All My Children's Reese and Bianca began."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1939: Virgina Payne joined the cast of radio soap opera The Carters of Elm Street as Ms. Carter. Payne was best known for her 27-year run as "Ma Perkins".
1974: Joseph Gallison debuted on Days of our Lives as Neil Curtis, a role...
1985: Daniel confessed his love for Krystle on Dynasty.
1989: Gl's Reva and Sonni walked across a suspension bridge.
2009: The wedding of All My Children's Reese and Bianca began."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1939: Virgina Payne joined the cast of radio soap opera The Carters of Elm Street as Ms. Carter. Payne was best known for her 27-year run as "Ma Perkins".
1974: Joseph Gallison debuted on Days of our Lives as Neil Curtis, a role...
- 2/13/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Accused killer Archie Andrews’ chances of being acquitted just got a whole lot worse. Penelope Ann Miller has joined the Riverdale cast in the recurring role of Ms. Wright, the district attorney who will be prosecuting the ginger hunk in Season 3 for the murder of Shadow Lake denizen Cassidy, it was announced at the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel on Sunday.
According to the CW drama’s official description, Ms. Wright is “savvy and eloquent,” and “with a conviction in mind, she will weave together disparate moments of Archie’s young life to portray him as a dangerous, violent...
According to the CW drama’s official description, Ms. Wright is “savvy and eloquent,” and “with a conviction in mind, she will weave together disparate moments of Archie’s young life to portray him as a dangerous, violent...
- 7/22/2018
- TVLine.com
Master actor John Lithgow discusses his one-man show Stories by Heart, which he developed over 10 years touring the country and is now presenting on Broadway. The play is dedicated to his father, who was also an actordirector, and he talks about it with Jesse Green, Co-Chief Theater Critic of The New York Times, Donna Hanover of Arts in The City and Theater Talk producer Susan Haskins.
- 2/27/2018
- by Theater Talk
- BroadwayWorld.com
1981: General Hospital's Lesley had no shortage of admirers.
1985: Daniel confessed his love for Krystle on Dynasty.
1989: Gl's Reva and Sonni walked across a suspension bridge.
2009: The wedding of All My Children's Reese and Bianca began."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1939: Virgina Payne joined the cast of radio soap opera The...
1985: Daniel confessed his love for Krystle on Dynasty.
1989: Gl's Reva and Sonni walked across a suspension bridge.
2009: The wedding of All My Children's Reese and Bianca began."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1939: Virgina Payne joined the cast of radio soap opera The...
- 2/13/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Director Julie Taymor joins Susan Haskins-Doloff and guest co-host Donna Hanover of Arts in the City to look back at creating her masterpiece of musical theater, The Lion King the most lucrative production in history, and reflect on how she herself responds to the work now, 20 years after it opened. The three are then joined by writer David Henry Hwang to discuss Taymor's new production of Hwang's Tony Award-winning play, M. Butterfly, which he has significantly rewritten for this Broadway revival. Also on the show, Jelani Remy, now playing the adult Simba in the The Lion King on Broadway, performs Endless Night, a song from the show with lyrics by Taymor.
- 11/27/2017
- by Theater Talk
- BroadwayWorld.com
'Tiny Beautiful Things' writeractor Nia Vardalos and co-conceiver Marshall Heyman discuss their theatrical adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's bestselling book, with co-hosts Susan Haskins and Tony-winning playwright Warren Leight. Next, Scott Alan Evans, executive artistic director of The Actors Company Theatre Tact, Trustee at The No l Coward Foundation Geoffrey Johnson, and actress Kristine Nielsen discuss the never-produced No l Coward play 'Salute to the Brave,' with co-hosts Susan Haskins and Donna Hanover.
- 11/20/2017
- by Theater Talk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Politics and theater combined when the cast of the revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" met the press on Wednesday. Taking a note from Vidal's 1960 drama about a presidential convention, the event was held like a press conference with cast member Donna Hanover, a reporter and TV host as well as an actor, taking on moderator duties. "This is familiar territory for me," explained Angela Lansbury who will be playing a powerful delegate. "But I think this is the definitive depiction of life at a political convention." The five-time Tony winner has attended many fictional conventions in films, the most famous of which took place in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). Her character, a ruthless Senate wife plotting to overthrow the government, was assassinated at the end of the movie. Lansbury received an Oscar nomination for her work in the film. James Earl Jones will be playing president Art...
- 2/3/2012
- by help@backstage.com (David Sheward)
- backstage.com
By Samuel Negin
The revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man has some new cast members in their midst. Among the newly announced cast members are Donna Hanover, ex-wife of former New York City mayor Rudi Giuliani. She will play a journalist covering a presidential election. Also announced are Tony-winner Jefferson Mays and Dakin Matthews.
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The revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man has some new cast members in their midst. Among the newly announced cast members are Donna Hanover, ex-wife of former New York City mayor Rudi Giuliani. She will play a journalist covering a presidential election. Also announced are Tony-winner Jefferson Mays and Dakin Matthews.
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- 12/29/2011
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Caroline Giuliani, a Harvard senior whose father happens to be former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, was ordered on Tuesday to complete one day of community service with the Department of Sanitation - her penance for shoplifting about $100-worth of a Dior skin primer, Bliss moisturizer and a hair net from an Upper East Side Sephora store earlier this month. Her work cleaning the streets of the city needs to be completed before her next court date on Nov. 4, reports New York's Daily News, noting that the 21-year-old, who never uttered a word in the courtroom, appeared before Manhattan...
- 8/31/2010
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
AP (2)
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter was arrested yesterday at beauty store Sephora for supposedly stealing $100 worth of beauty products!
Rudy Giuliani, NYC’s former beloved mayor, has a little mess on his hands right now. Rudy’s 20-year-old daughter, Caroline Giuliani, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting at a Sephora on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Reports say Caroline, who currently is enrolled at Harvard University, was found with five “cosmetic items” in her purse worth about $100 — yet she allegedly had $300 in cash in her purse too. According to sources, Caroline’s possible shoplifting attempt was caught on Sephora’s security cameras, but the store might not even press charges!
This isn’t the first time one of Rudy’s kids has run afoul of the rules: His son Andrew, 21, was kicked off the golf team at Duke University reportedly for flouting the team’s “code of conduct.”
Caroline was...
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter was arrested yesterday at beauty store Sephora for supposedly stealing $100 worth of beauty products!
Rudy Giuliani, NYC’s former beloved mayor, has a little mess on his hands right now. Rudy’s 20-year-old daughter, Caroline Giuliani, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting at a Sephora on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Reports say Caroline, who currently is enrolled at Harvard University, was found with five “cosmetic items” in her purse worth about $100 — yet she allegedly had $300 in cash in her purse too. According to sources, Caroline’s possible shoplifting attempt was caught on Sephora’s security cameras, but the store might not even press charges!
This isn’t the first time one of Rudy’s kids has run afoul of the rules: His son Andrew, 21, was kicked off the golf team at Duke University reportedly for flouting the team’s “code of conduct.”
Caroline was...
- 8/5/2010
- by Chloe Melas
- HollywoodLife
Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was allegedly caught trying to leave an Upper East Side Sephora with $150 in unpaid cosmetics.
The 20-year-old Harvard student was arrested for petty larceny, taken out of the store in cuffs and escorted to a local precinct.
A law enforcement sources tells the New York Daily News, "she was stopped by store security and a salesperson who observed this. They called police."
The store apparently didn't wish to press charges, once they learned her identity, but that didn't stop the officers called from taking her in.
Giuliani left the precinct with a desk appearance ticket, reportedly after two hours, accompanied by her mother, Donna Hanover.
The Manhattan District Attorney Office declined to comment on whether she'd be prosecuted, but a representative for the former mayor issued this statement: "This is a personal matter and Mayor Giuliani asks the media...
The 20-year-old Harvard student was arrested for petty larceny, taken out of the store in cuffs and escorted to a local precinct.
A law enforcement sources tells the New York Daily News, "she was stopped by store security and a salesperson who observed this. They called police."
The store apparently didn't wish to press charges, once they learned her identity, but that didn't stop the officers called from taking her in.
Giuliani left the precinct with a desk appearance ticket, reportedly after two hours, accompanied by her mother, Donna Hanover.
The Manhattan District Attorney Office declined to comment on whether she'd be prosecuted, but a representative for the former mayor issued this statement: "This is a personal matter and Mayor Giuliani asks the media...
- 8/5/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's daughter was arrested for allegedly shoplifting Wednesday at a Manhattan beauty store. Caroline Giuliani, 20, a student at Harvard University who lives in N.Y.C. with her mother, was arrested at a Sephora shop on the Upper East Side after allegedly stealing makeup, the New York Post first reported. NYPD Detective Martin Speechley tells People that Caroline is expected to be charged with "petit larceny," which is a police term for shoplifting goods worth less than $500. The former mayor's daughter was taken to a local precinct stationhouse for processing, but is expected to be released Wednesday evening.
- 8/4/2010
- by Eunice Oh and Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
Veteran entertainment reporter and columnist Roger Friedman is joining The Hollywood Reporter as a senior correspondent.
Based in New York, Friedman brings with him more than two decades of experience -- including access to stars and the people who make them. He will continue his online 24/7 ShowBiz411 blog -- which will now move to THR's stable of blogs including The Live Feed, Risky Business and THR, Esq. In addition, he'll provide breaking news for THR.com and occasional longer pieces for the daily newspaper as well as appear in THR video products and at THR-branded events. He also will play a key role in THR's multiplatform coverage of the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys and the Grammys.
"To have such an experienced and respected journalist as part of our entertainment team will be a major asset for Nielsen Business Media," THR publisher Eric Mika said.
Added THR editor Elizabeth Guider: "For some time,...
Based in New York, Friedman brings with him more than two decades of experience -- including access to stars and the people who make them. He will continue his online 24/7 ShowBiz411 blog -- which will now move to THR's stable of blogs including The Live Feed, Risky Business and THR, Esq. In addition, he'll provide breaking news for THR.com and occasional longer pieces for the daily newspaper as well as appear in THR video products and at THR-branded events. He also will play a key role in THR's multiplatform coverage of the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys and the Grammys.
"To have such an experienced and respected journalist as part of our entertainment team will be a major asset for Nielsen Business Media," THR publisher Eric Mika said.
Added THR editor Elizabeth Guider: "For some time,...
- 5/18/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Sopranos star James Gandolfini is a single man again after a New York, judge granted him a divorce from his wife Marcy yesterday. The couple settled disputed issues without a trial and Judge Judith Gische, who presided over the high-profile splits of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Donna Hanover and Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower, granted the divorce in favour of Gandolfini's ex. The couple wed three years ago and have a three-year-old son. Friends expected the divorce to be among Hollywood's messiest, but the former couple's attorneys insist their clients were very friendly. Gandolfini's lawyer Robert Stephan Cohen says, "It was one of the friendliest divorces I've ever seen and it was done in almost record time."...
- 12/20/2002
- WENN
Penelope Ann Miller has been tapped to play Rudolph Giuliani's ex-wife, Donna Hanover, in Rudy! USA Network's upcoming biopic of the former New York mayor. She will star opposite James Woods, who will portray Giuliani in the project, which Robert Dornhelm (FX's RFK) has come aboard to direct. Based on Wayne Barrett's book of the same name, Rudy! looks at Giuliani's public and personal life. The script is by Stanley Weiser, who penned the first draft, and Lionel Chetwynd, who contributed significantly in the final stages.
- 10/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Patriotic American star James Woods is looking out for Rudy Giuliani - by making sure he's shown in the best possible light. The actor, due to play Giuliani in a cable TV movie, has demanded a rewrite of his script because it didn't make the ex-New York mayor look heroic enough. An insider says, "Woods wanted the movie to be more red, white and blue." The source explains that Woods and USA Networks execs thought the script dwelled too much on Giuliani's tortured relationships with his father and his ex-wife Donna Hanover. The original script was by Stanley Weiser, who wrote Wall Street. An ally of Weiser's says, "Stanley wrote the story the USA Network people said they wanted. But the network caved in to the whim of a right-wing actor." But Woods' rep says the actor remains a registered Democrat. Jeff Wachtel, executive producer, says "Stanley is a wonderful writer but we had some problems with his script." Weiser was replaced by Lionel Chetwynd, who penned the patriotic work To Heal A Nation. Chetwynd says he believes the story's fulcrum should be Giuliani's leadership after September 11, "when he became, like Churchill, the embodiment of his people."...
- 8/28/2002
- WENN
NEW YORK -- Making a long-overdue return to filmmaking, director Milos Forman scores a triumph with this bizarre biopic. One of the funniest and most provocative films of the year, "The People vs. Larry Flynt" harks back to "Lenny" in its depiction of an outrageous defender of the First Amendment battling the forces of censorship and his own self-destructiveness.
The difference is that Flynt ultimately wins in the end, and his story, while filled with tragic elements, is a whole lot funnier. Here is a big studio film that recalls the 1970s, both in its subject matter and in its willingness to take risks. After its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, it will be released this fall by Columbia. No doubt, it will reap scads of publicity.
Flynt, the outrageous publisher of one of the most reviled porno publications in history, Hustler magazine, is an unlikely hero for a movie, but screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who mined similarly strange territory in "Ed Wood", have done a superb job in telling his story without resorting to glorification or ridicule. Although necessarily episodic in its storytelling, the screenplay, which mostly stays true to the facts, cannily uses as its main focus the legal battle between Flynt and the Rev. Jerry Falwell that resulted in a victory for the publisher in the Supreme Court.
Woody Harrelson does his best screen work to date in the central role, which takes advantage of the actor's natural tendency for comic dangerousness. He is supported by an extremely interesting cast, including Courtney Love, who fairly burns up the screen as Flynt's stripper wife Althea; Edward Norton, excellent as Flynt's long-suffering attorney; James Cromwell as financier Charles Keating; and even real-life Democratic political consultant James Carville as prosecutor Simon Leis.
Brett Harrelson, Woody's brother, does an effective job playing Flynt's brother Larry, and Donna Hanover (the wife of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani) shows up as Ruth Carter Stapleton, Jimmy Carter's evangelist sister. Among those playing Flynt's cronies are several actors specializing in weirdness, including Crispin Glover and Vincent Schiavelli. Flynt himself plays a cameo, as the judge who sentenced him to 25 years.
The picture details Flynt's life, from his beginnings as a small-time strip-club owner with a propensity for bedding his employees to his starting up Hustler as a working man's alternative to the reigning sex magazine of the time, Playboy. This results in a series of legal and courtroom battles, many of which are played for laughs: Reacting to the judge's decision to lock him up, Flynt says incredulously, "Twenty-five years? All I'm guilty of is bad taste!"
The picture naturally takes a darker tone after Flynt is shot and rendered paralyzed below the waist by a would-be assassin's bullet. (The shooter was never captured.) He sinks into a morass of pain, drug addiction and ever-worsening legal and financial problems. In his later years, his mental state worsens and his increasingly bizarre behavior lands him in a mental hospital.
He bounces back to successfully fight the lawsuit filed against him by Falwell, who sued because of a liquor ad parody describing him as having had sex with his mother.
The film's mostly sympathetic tone doesn't ignore the fact that both Flynt and his magazine could be described as little better than sleazy, nor does it shy away from depicting his wanton and hedonistic lifestyle. But it also convincingly makes the argument that, whatever one may think of this controversial figure, he was an important if unlikely hero in the battle for freedom of speech.
The film also works as a compelling romance, detailing Larry and Althea's highly unconventional but, as depicted here, loving (if not monogamous) relationship. Harrelson and Love show great chemistry -- both of them radiate outrageousness -- and the latter, in her biggest screen role yet, is good enough to merit serious Oscar consideration.
In fact, if the Academy members can handle the controversial material, the film as a whole should score big with nominations. Forman's direction handles the challenging and difficult material with skill and ease, beautifully blending the tragic with the farcical. And the production design and costumes re-create the glory days of the 1970s in all their tacky splendor.
THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT
A Columbia Pictures release
Columbia Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Ixtlan Prods.
Director:Milos Forman
Producers:Oliver Stone, Janet Yang, Michael Hausman
Screenplay:Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Photography:Philippe Rousselot
Editor:Christopher Tellefsen
Production designer:Patrizia Von Brandenstein
Color/stereo
Cast:
Larry Flynt:Woody Harrelson
Althea Leasure Flynt:Courtney Love
Alan Isaacman:Edward Norton
Ruth Carter Stapleton:Donna Hanover
Jimmy Flynt:Brett Harrelson
Rev. Jerry Falwell:Richard Paul
Chester:Vincent Schiavelli
Arlo:Crispin Glover
Milo:Miles Chapin
Charles Keating:James Cromwell
Simon Leis:James Carville
Running time -- 129 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The difference is that Flynt ultimately wins in the end, and his story, while filled with tragic elements, is a whole lot funnier. Here is a big studio film that recalls the 1970s, both in its subject matter and in its willingness to take risks. After its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, it will be released this fall by Columbia. No doubt, it will reap scads of publicity.
Flynt, the outrageous publisher of one of the most reviled porno publications in history, Hustler magazine, is an unlikely hero for a movie, but screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who mined similarly strange territory in "Ed Wood", have done a superb job in telling his story without resorting to glorification or ridicule. Although necessarily episodic in its storytelling, the screenplay, which mostly stays true to the facts, cannily uses as its main focus the legal battle between Flynt and the Rev. Jerry Falwell that resulted in a victory for the publisher in the Supreme Court.
Woody Harrelson does his best screen work to date in the central role, which takes advantage of the actor's natural tendency for comic dangerousness. He is supported by an extremely interesting cast, including Courtney Love, who fairly burns up the screen as Flynt's stripper wife Althea; Edward Norton, excellent as Flynt's long-suffering attorney; James Cromwell as financier Charles Keating; and even real-life Democratic political consultant James Carville as prosecutor Simon Leis.
Brett Harrelson, Woody's brother, does an effective job playing Flynt's brother Larry, and Donna Hanover (the wife of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani) shows up as Ruth Carter Stapleton, Jimmy Carter's evangelist sister. Among those playing Flynt's cronies are several actors specializing in weirdness, including Crispin Glover and Vincent Schiavelli. Flynt himself plays a cameo, as the judge who sentenced him to 25 years.
The picture details Flynt's life, from his beginnings as a small-time strip-club owner with a propensity for bedding his employees to his starting up Hustler as a working man's alternative to the reigning sex magazine of the time, Playboy. This results in a series of legal and courtroom battles, many of which are played for laughs: Reacting to the judge's decision to lock him up, Flynt says incredulously, "Twenty-five years? All I'm guilty of is bad taste!"
The picture naturally takes a darker tone after Flynt is shot and rendered paralyzed below the waist by a would-be assassin's bullet. (The shooter was never captured.) He sinks into a morass of pain, drug addiction and ever-worsening legal and financial problems. In his later years, his mental state worsens and his increasingly bizarre behavior lands him in a mental hospital.
He bounces back to successfully fight the lawsuit filed against him by Falwell, who sued because of a liquor ad parody describing him as having had sex with his mother.
The film's mostly sympathetic tone doesn't ignore the fact that both Flynt and his magazine could be described as little better than sleazy, nor does it shy away from depicting his wanton and hedonistic lifestyle. But it also convincingly makes the argument that, whatever one may think of this controversial figure, he was an important if unlikely hero in the battle for freedom of speech.
The film also works as a compelling romance, detailing Larry and Althea's highly unconventional but, as depicted here, loving (if not monogamous) relationship. Harrelson and Love show great chemistry -- both of them radiate outrageousness -- and the latter, in her biggest screen role yet, is good enough to merit serious Oscar consideration.
In fact, if the Academy members can handle the controversial material, the film as a whole should score big with nominations. Forman's direction handles the challenging and difficult material with skill and ease, beautifully blending the tragic with the farcical. And the production design and costumes re-create the glory days of the 1970s in all their tacky splendor.
THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT
A Columbia Pictures release
Columbia Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Ixtlan Prods.
Director:Milos Forman
Producers:Oliver Stone, Janet Yang, Michael Hausman
Screenplay:Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Photography:Philippe Rousselot
Editor:Christopher Tellefsen
Production designer:Patrizia Von Brandenstein
Color/stereo
Cast:
Larry Flynt:Woody Harrelson
Althea Leasure Flynt:Courtney Love
Alan Isaacman:Edward Norton
Ruth Carter Stapleton:Donna Hanover
Jimmy Flynt:Brett Harrelson
Rev. Jerry Falwell:Richard Paul
Chester:Vincent Schiavelli
Arlo:Crispin Glover
Milo:Miles Chapin
Charles Keating:James Cromwell
Simon Leis:James Carville
Running time -- 129 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/14/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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