HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, was among the worst Pulitzer Prize winners in recent memory, a geopolitical navel-gazer that “thrilled” flattering book critics’ voguish anti-Westernism. In the second, the show’s conceit has already been […]
An associate dean at NC State, he will take on his role at the UNC School of Social Work on July 1.
Durst (who died in 2022 following a 2021 conviction) was arrested the day before the riveting finale of HBO's true-crime docuseries. Nine years after that episode aired, the filmmakers return with 'The Jinx — Part Two.'
Many immigrants to America arrived with little but the clothes on their back; others arrived in chains. Even as our history bears witness to the horrors of slavery, it also records numerous men who reacted to enslavement with incredible feats of valor. One such man was Robert Smalls. A skilled boat pilot, the 23-year-old worked with six other enslaved men crewing the Confederate steamship Planter, docked in the Charleston harbor. It was just before dawn on May 13, 1862, and the white captain...
Former colleagues of NewsHour co-founder Robert MacNeil joined to reflect on his life and career after his death at the age of 93. Judy Woodruff, Jeffrey Brown and former executive producer Linda Winslow worked with MacNeil over many years and counted him as a dear friend.
MacNeil, a pioneer of public media journalism and a driving force behind the show that would become the PBS NewsHour, died Friday at the age of 93.
The Oscar winner takes on four different characters in the HBO limited series. Here, his wife and producing partner, Susan Downey, explains why.
It turns out that Matt Reeves' DCEU movie The Batman took some of its cues from '90s grunge music. In an interview with Empire Online, the director revealed that when writing his version of Gotham's caped crusader, portrayed by Robert Pattinson, he was inspired by none other than the legendary frontman of Nirvana Kurt Cobain. Continue reading Robert Pattinson’s Batman was inspired by Kurt Cobain MORE FROM THE DIGITAL FIX: DC...
Sister Kerry Kennedy joined "Good Morning America" to discuss brother
Sister Kerry Kennedy joined "Good Morning America" to discuss brother
Sister Kerry Kennedy joined "Good Morning America" to discuss brother
Robert Pattinson did, at least at one stage, want to branch out into food products, much as classic Hollywood star Paul Newman did with Newman's Own. You may remember, dear readers, that in May 2020, while promoting Tenet, Pattinson attempted to make an extremely unorthodox pasta 'dish' during a Zoom interview with GQ. Continue reading Robert Pattinson really wanted to sell his gross sounding pasta MORE FROM THE DIGITAL FIX: DC...