Month: August 2020

Bryan Cranston has become one of the most respected actors we have because his name has become something of a Good Housekeeping seal of quality. If he’s in a movie or a TV show, chances are said movie or TV show will be worth the time.  Like most actors, Cranston spent years working up a strong resume before landing the role that truly breaks them big. And for Cranston, one of those roles was Walter White on Breaking Bad. But it was another well -known show that landed Cranston that gig. The truth is out there.  What did Bryan Cranston do before ‘Breaking Bad?’ Bryan Cranston | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty ImagesCranston got into acting partly because of his parents, Annalisa and Joseph Cranston, had both been performers, but for that very reason, the elder Cranst...

Debra Messing is admitting that she let her weight affect her psyche when she was an actress on the famed sitcom “Will & Grace” during the show’s initial eight-season run. The 51-year-old "Will & Grace" star said she was ‘too skinny’ while on shows and she went from a size 8 down to a size 2 when she started in the role of Grace Adler in 1998, telling late-night talk show host and podcaster Jameela Jamil that she “couldn’t fit into clothes” at the time and would leave fittings “hating my body and hating myself.” "I loved my costume designer, she would always say, 'Don't worry,' and she would talk to her assistant and say, 'OK, can you call over and get a larger size?' And that was sort of the thing that was always on repeat all the time,” Messing recalled on Jamil’s “I Weigh” ...

Debra Messing is admitting that she let her weight affect her psyche when she was an actress on the famed sitcom “Will & Grace” during the show’s initial eight-season run. The 51-year-old "Will & Grace" star said she was ‘too skinny’ while on shows and she went from a size 8 down to a size 2 when she started in the role of Grace Adler in 1998, telling late-night talk show host and podcaster Jameela Jamil that she “couldn’t fit into clothes” at the time and would leave fittings “hating my body and hating myself.” "I loved my costume designer, she would always say, 'Don't worry,' and she would talk to her assistant and say, 'OK, can you call over and get a larger size?' And that was sort of the thing that was always on repeat all the time,” Messing recalled on Jamil’s “I Weigh” ...

Debra Messing is admitting that she let her weight affect her psyche when she was an actress on the famed sitcom “Will & Grace” during the show’s initial eight-season run. The 51-year-old "Will & Grace" star said she was ‘too skinny’ while on shows and she went from a size 8 down to a size 2 when she started in the role of Grace Adler in 1998, telling late-night talk show host and podcaster Jameela Jamil that she “couldn’t fit into clothes” at the time and would leave fittings “hating my body and hating myself.” "I loved my costume designer, she would always say, 'Don't worry,' and she would talk to her assistant and say, 'OK, can you call over and get a larger size?' And that was sort of the thing that was always on repeat all the time,” Messing recalled on Jamil’s “I Weigh” ...

Photo: AFP/Stringer (Getty Images) Movie theaters have been royally screwed by the global pandemic, and in the latest blow, a federal judge has given the go-ahead to axe the 71-year-old Paramount Consent Decrees, which should elicit shrieks of horror for the four of you who have any idea what that is. For the rest of the class: what exactly are the Paramount Decrees? Well back in the golden days of Hollywood (1938, to be exact), the Department of Justice lobbed antitrust action against eight companies: Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Loew’s, Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO), Universal, Columbia Pictures, and United Artists. Of these eight companies, Paramount, Loew’s, Warner Brothers, RKO, and Fox effectively had a movie distribution cartel. Because they were studios tha...

WarnerMedia sprung the news Friday of a major internal reshuffling, which translated to the departures of WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt and HBO Max chief content officer Kevin Reilly, and the elevations of Warner Bros. chief Ann Sarnoff and HBO programming guru Casey Bloys. The company also created a new HBO Max operating business unit, and put general manager Andy Forssell — who worked alongside WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar after Kilar founded Hulu — at its helm. In a memo, Kilar emphasized the importance of newly launched direct-to-consumer platform HBO Max to the overall company and said the structural changes are designed to help WarnerMedia operate more efficiently and effectively. Below is a condensed conversation with Kilar, who spoke with Variet...

Debra Messing is admitting that she let her weight affect her psyche when she was an actress on the famed sitcom “Will & Grace” during the show’s initial eight-season run. The 51-year-old "Will & Grace" star said she was ‘too skinny’ while on shows and she went from a size 8 down to a size 2 when she started in the role of Grace Adler in 1998, telling late-night talk show host and podcaster Jameela Jamil that she “couldn’t fit into clothes” at the time and would leave fittings “hating my body and hating myself.” "I loved my costume designer, she would always say, 'Don't worry,' and she would talk to her assistant and say, 'OK, can you call over and get a larger size?' And that was sort of the thing that was always on repeat all the time,” Messing recalled on Jamil’s “I Weigh” ...