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Nothing against Seattle’s most famous fictional therapist, but Frasier Crane isn’t Kelsey Grammer’s best TV role. That title belongs to premium cable’s scariest (and on occasion campiest) mayor of Chicago, Tom Kane: the menacing title character in Starz’s gone-to-soon political drama “Boss.”
“I knew Kelsey’s work through ‘Cheers’ and ‘Frasier,’ but he was playing a really different character here,” said Gus Van Sant, who directed the first episode and recalled working with Grammer in a recent phone interview for IndieWire.
“He had played so many different parts in his career on stage that it wasn’t something he hadn’t played before,” the Oscar-nominated director said. “But he wasn’t nearly as lighthearted or as humorous as he...
Nothing against Seattle’s most famous fictional therapist, but Frasier Crane isn’t Kelsey Grammer’s best TV role. That title belongs to premium cable’s scariest (and on occasion campiest) mayor of Chicago, Tom Kane: the menacing title character in Starz’s gone-to-soon political drama “Boss.”
“I knew Kelsey’s work through ‘Cheers’ and ‘Frasier,’ but he was playing a really different character here,” said Gus Van Sant, who directed the first episode and recalled working with Grammer in a recent phone interview for IndieWire.
“He had played so many different parts in his career on stage that it wasn’t something he hadn’t played before,” the Oscar-nominated director said. “But he wasn’t nearly as lighthearted or as humorous as he...
- 10/10/2023
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
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1341 Frames of Love and War (Yes Docu)
In celebrating the work of acclaimed Israeli war photographer Micha Bar-Am, director Ran Tal’s 1341 Frames of Love and War offers a meditation on photography, political violence and identity through an exclusive (and exhaustive) deep dive into Bar-Am’s expansive artistic archives over the past five decades.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Neon)
Laura Poitras (an Oscar winner for 2014’s Citizenfour) directs this portrait of renowned photographer Nan Goldin, one that offers intimate access to her suburban upbringing and experiences living among marginalized communities and artistic scenes in New York City. It also depicts the downfall of the Sackler family, a target of Goldin’s activism and whose company Purdue Pharma created and marketed OxyContin — the root cause of the American opioid epidemic.
Art & Krimes by Krimes (MTV Documentary Films)
While serving a six-year prison sentence for drug possession,...
Art
1341 Frames of Love and War (Yes Docu)
In celebrating the work of acclaimed Israeli war photographer Micha Bar-Am, director Ran Tal’s 1341 Frames of Love and War offers a meditation on photography, political violence and identity through an exclusive (and exhaustive) deep dive into Bar-Am’s expansive artistic archives over the past five decades.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Neon)
Laura Poitras (an Oscar winner for 2014’s Citizenfour) directs this portrait of renowned photographer Nan Goldin, one that offers intimate access to her suburban upbringing and experiences living among marginalized communities and artistic scenes in New York City. It also depicts the downfall of the Sackler family, a target of Goldin’s activism and whose company Purdue Pharma created and marketed OxyContin — the root cause of the American opioid epidemic.
Art & Krimes by Krimes (MTV Documentary Films)
While serving a six-year prison sentence for drug possession,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Tyler Coates, Beatrice Verhoeven and Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marilyn Miglin, the Chicago beauty mogul who rose to fame as a host of the Home Shopping Network and was thrust into the national limelight again in 1997 when her husband Lee Miglin was murdered by Gianni Versace killer Andrew Cunanan, died in Chicago Monday. She was 83.
Her death was reported by Chicago’s CBS affiliate CBS2 last night. TMZ reports that Miglin died from complications of a stroke.
Miglin was portrayed by actress Judith Light in the 2018 FX series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
Miglin, who started her beauty company and boutique in Chicago in 1963, went on to found the cosmetics powerhouse Marilyn Miglin Cosmetics, and hosted her program on the Home Shopping Network for more than 25 years. As a leading entrepreneur among Chicago’s business establishment, she served on Mayor Richard M. Daley’s special committee on tourism, was an officer of the Chicago Convention, the...
Her death was reported by Chicago’s CBS affiliate CBS2 last night. TMZ reports that Miglin died from complications of a stroke.
Miglin was portrayed by actress Judith Light in the 2018 FX series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
Miglin, who started her beauty company and boutique in Chicago in 1963, went on to found the cosmetics powerhouse Marilyn Miglin Cosmetics, and hosted her program on the Home Shopping Network for more than 25 years. As a leading entrepreneur among Chicago’s business establishment, she served on Mayor Richard M. Daley’s special committee on tourism, was an officer of the Chicago Convention, the...
- 3/16/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero … Tax credits!
The 2002 film “Chicago” brought the stage musical and the song “Cell Block Tango” to the big screen.
It also helped revolutionize the industry. When the Rob Marshall-directed movie debuted to critical and commercial success, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley expressed dismay that it was shot in Toronto rather than in his city — shining a light on the reasons major motion pictures choose where to film.
After Nafta was ratified in 1993 and came into force in 1994, Canada enacted tax incentives for productions on both the federal and provincial level.
“The tax incentive in Canada was reported on, and there was national press. It raised the question ‘How do we do this?’” Vans Stevenson of the Motion Picture Assn. tells Variety.
Stevenson has led the MPA’s state-government lobbying efforts since 1995, but Daley’s comments shifted his workflow.
“For the first couple of years,...
The 2002 film “Chicago” brought the stage musical and the song “Cell Block Tango” to the big screen.
It also helped revolutionize the industry. When the Rob Marshall-directed movie debuted to critical and commercial success, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley expressed dismay that it was shot in Toronto rather than in his city — shining a light on the reasons major motion pictures choose where to film.
After Nafta was ratified in 1993 and came into force in 1994, Canada enacted tax incentives for productions on both the federal and provincial level.
“The tax incentive in Canada was reported on, and there was national press. It raised the question ‘How do we do this?’” Vans Stevenson of the Motion Picture Assn. tells Variety.
Stevenson has led the MPA’s state-government lobbying efforts since 1995, but Daley’s comments shifted his workflow.
“For the first couple of years,...
- 3/9/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Even though Lynda La Plante’s original “Widows” TV show was set in London, Steve McQueen knew he needed Chicago to bring his 2018 adaptation to life. “London wasn’t it. London had moved on,” McQueen said. “I wanted a contemporary place, a modern city, and Chicago seemed to be that place. Politics, race, corruption, policing, gender, all those things, it was all there, in Chicago.”
Between McQueen’s new film and “The Chi,” Lena Waithe’s award-winning Showtime drama, the Windy City is having a moment. Both utilize the city’s history and personality in ways that speak directly to its struggles and distinctions, and remind us just how relevant Chicago is to the country and beyond.
“From microscope to telescope,” McQueen said. “You’re focusing on Chicago, but really, you’re telling a story about where we are in the world. You could be talking about, to a certain extent,...
Between McQueen’s new film and “The Chi,” Lena Waithe’s award-winning Showtime drama, the Windy City is having a moment. Both utilize the city’s history and personality in ways that speak directly to its struggles and distinctions, and remind us just how relevant Chicago is to the country and beyond.
“From microscope to telescope,” McQueen said. “You’re focusing on Chicago, but really, you’re telling a story about where we are in the world. You could be talking about, to a certain extent,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Keanu Reeves' latest movie has been slammed by city officials in Chicago for its portrayal of local children as foul-mouthed delinquents. In Hardball (2001) Reeves plays a baseball team coach dealing with primarily black youngsters from tough urban housing projects. But Mayor Richard Daley and schools chief Paul Vallas say the movie is "overly negative" and are angered by the constant bad language. A small protest, organized by local real life coaches, was staged on the set of the movie maintaining that none of the children in the team on which the film was based cursed so much. One coach says, "We are kind of broken-hearted. They have come to our town and taken a wonderful story about kids wanting to play baseball and dirtied it up because they think this is how black kids act. They are wrong."...
- 9/12/2000
- WENN
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