Jennifer Love Hewitt Working Up The Client List by Jay S. Jacobs Jennifer Love Hewitt grew up on television, so you knew when her long-running series Ghost Whisperer was cancelled in 2010, it was only a matter of time before she returned to the spotlight. The return is coming with a sizzle, as she has agreed to … Continue reading
Greta Gerwig and Whit Stillman Sending Up a Signal for Damsels in Distress by Jay S. Jacobs In the 90s, Whit Stillman seemed to be the upcoming voice of indie comedy. His acclaimed and literate films Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco were critical favorites and art-house smashes, giving the writer/director the deserved … Continue reading
Raza Jaffrey Smashes Through to US Television Stardom by Jay S. Jacobs British actor Raza Jaffrey has spent much time on the stage, mostly in London’s West End, so it may be a certain amount of synchronicity that his American breakthrough role is on a TV series that revolves around the theater. Jaffrey is well-known in his native UK … Continue reading
Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader We’re Looking at Taxi Driver by Brad Balfour When directors-screenwriters Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese came to the Director’s Guild Theater in Manhattan recently to discuss their ride with the groundbreaking film, Taxi Driver, it was an incredible moment in cinematic history. Their story of how this film took form and … Continue reading
Melissa Manchester Think of Her as a Friend by Jay S. Jacobs “I think we can make it, one more time, if we try.” That line sort of sums up Melissa Manchester, and not just because it was a huge part of “Midnight Blue,” the songstress’ first huge hit single in 1975. In a career … Continue reading
Jennifer Westfeldt and Adam Scott That’s What Friends Are For by Jay S. Jacobs A while back actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt and her long-time boyfriend, Mad Men star Jon Hamm, noticed something odd happening in their lives. Many of their friends, people who they used to go out with all the time, were now parents. Slowly, … Continue reading
Joel McHale and Dan Harmon It Takes a Community by Jay S. Jacobs After an extended winter break, the crazy students and faculty at Greendale Community College are back on campus – and you know what that means, new episodes of the cult fave must-see sitcom Community. A few days before the show returned with a rash of new spring … Continue reading
Gillian Jacobs and Jim Rash Community Theater with a Surreal Bent by Jay S. Jacobs They call Community “the little show that could,” so it comes as little surprise that the cult-favorite series was renewed by NBC for at least 13 episodes in a fourth season. The wonderfully surreal situation comedy – which has made something of … Continue reading
Fernando Trueba Illustrates the History of Jazz with the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita by Jay S. Jacobs Spanish film director Fernando Trueba has had a long, fascinating career which has branched out in many directions. He started out as a movie critic in the 1970s for the newspaper El Pais. He has since worked as an … Continue reading
Rumer A Change of Seasons by Jay S. Jacobs The crazy thing about overnight success is that it always takes a hell of a long time to achieve. When retro-vibed and striking British singer Rumer released her debut album Seasons of My Soul in late 2010 in Europe, most of the stories pointed out that the singer … Continue reading
