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Scott Bakula Remembers the Heart Behind ‘Quantum Leap’
Sitting down to watch Quantum Leap was just wonderful. You honestly had no idea where you were going to end up. One week you were laughing. The next week your heart was breaking. And somewhere in between, Scott Bakula was staring into a mirror trying to figure out what on earth had happened to…
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Téa Leoni and Tim Daly Find Their Comedy Rhythm in ‘Newlyweds’
>Most TV couples have to fake the chemistry. Téa Leoni and Tim Daly do not have that problem. They spent years playing husband and wife, they fell in love while doing it, and eventually they got married for real. Now they are doing the whole thing again. Except this time it is a comedy. The […]…
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Ben Stiller Said Friendship Led Him to ‘Mystery Men’
Some movies become hits the minute they arrive in theaters. Others need a little time for audiences to catch up with them. And then there’s Mystery Men, the wonderfully strange 1999 superhero comedy. Ben Stiller said his friendship with Janeane Garofalo helped draw him to the movie, but even its...
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Why Ella Stiller Loved Bringing Attitude to ‘Cupertino’
Robert and Michelle King making a legal drama worth watching? At this point, that is kind of their thing. This is the team behind The Good Wife, The Good Fight and Elsbeth. For years now, they have been handing TV audiences tangled cases, dialogue with some bite, and characters who are honestly...
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‘The Menu’ Gave Ralph Fiennes Food for Thought
Dinner at a fancy restaurant is supposed to be a treat. Unless Ralph Fiennes is the one running the kitchen. Then you might want to cancel that reservation. That is the fun of The Menu. It is funny and disturbing and deeply uncomfortable, sometimes all at once, in the same scene. When the movie...
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Anne Hathaway on Dakota Johnson’s Dark Turn in ‘Verity’
The movie takes its title from Anne Hathaway’s character, but she knows she is not the only actress with a big role in bringing this unsettling story to life. That distinction belongs to Dakota Johnson too, whose character ends up caught in a situation that just gets more disturbing the longer…
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Why Steven Spielberg Felt Lucky Casting ‘The Post’
It’s easy for a movie like The Post to get lost in Steven Spielberg’s filmography. After all, this is the director who gave us Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and a whole lot more. Most filmmakers would be thrilled to have even one of those…
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Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan Talk ‘MobLand’ Marriage
Few actors have earned the kind of respect and affection that Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan have enjoyed throughout their remarkable careers. She’s an Oscar-winning actress whose work has captivated audiences for decades. He’s a former James Bond who has successfully reinvented himself across...
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Barry Williams Knows Why ‘The Brady Bunch’ Still Connects
More than 50 years after The Brady Bunch left primetime television, somehow we are all still talking about Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy. Barry Williams knows there is something deeper behind the show’s staying power. That is pretty remarkable for a sitcom that originally ran from…
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‘Necessary Roughness’ Still Has Plenty of Game
Some movies become huge cultural landmarks. Others simply become really good movies to find on a lazy afternoon. Necessary Roughness falls nicely into that second category. Released in 1991, the football comedy starred Scott Bakula as Paul Blake, a former high school quarterback who never went to...
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Keri Russell Sees Diplomacy Differently After ‘The Diplomat’
Playing a U.S. ambassador on TV is one thing. Doing it for real, with actual international crises and messy political relationships and the odd diplomatic nightmare thrown in? Totally different job. And after four seasons of Netflix’s The Diplomat, Keri Russell has a whole new respect for the...
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‘Swingers’ 30th Anniversary: Why It’s Still Money
Back in 1996, this tiny independent movie about struggling actors, bad dates and a group of friends trying to make it in Hollywood landed in theaters. No big budget. No all-star cast. Just sharp dialogue, characters you actually remembered and a whole lot of laughs. It came out on October 18…
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‘Armageddon’: Michael Bay Knew the Science Was Wild
Back in 1998, Armageddon gave audiences a pretty simple plan for saving Earth from an asteroid: call Bruce Willis, grab a team of oil drillers, send them into space, put Aerosmith on the soundtrack and hope everything works out before the entire planet gets wiped out. That was Armageddon, and...
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‘Cocaine Bear’: How Elizabeth Banks Made Pure Chaos Work
There are movie titles that require a little explanation. Cocaine Bear was never one of them. When the movie arrived in theaters in 2023, audiences knew exactly what they were getting. There was a bear. There was cocaine. And director Elizabeth Banks was not particularly interested in pretending...
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‘Smallville’ at 25: Relive Clark Kent’s TV Journey
For many television viewers, Tuesday night was Smallville night. You could always count on Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor and plenty of strange things happening in that little Kansas town. After all, growing up knowing you’re going to become Superman isn’t exactly a normal childhood. October…
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Linda Cardellini Teases the Thrills in Peacock’s ‘Crystal Lake’
Friday the 13th arrived in 1980 and helped turn Jason Voorhees and Crystal Lake into permanent pieces of horror history. Now Crystal Lake is taking audiences back into that world, with Linda Cardellini stepping into the mythology for Peacock’s new series. And according to Cardellini, there may be…
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Helen Mirren’s Perfect ‘MobLand’ Relationship With Pierce Brosnan
Helen Mirren’s latest television role comes with a particularly entertaining bit of James Bond trivia. Hollywood has a funny way of bringing people back into each other’s orbit. On MobLand, Mirren shares the screen with another actor who once played 007. On 1923, Mirren worked alongside Timothy...
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Scott Caan: Dad James Caan Shaped ‘NCIS: New York’ Role
Scott Caan may have been born and raised in Hollywood, but New York was never exactly foreign territory. That matters now. The actor is back inside the NCIS universe with NCIS: New York, this time as a regular alongside LL Cool J. And while Caan is playing a brand-new character, there is…
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‘The Karate Kid’: Ralph Macchio on Pat Morita’s Magic
Some movie relationships become bigger than the story they started in. Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi definitely belong on that list. More than 40 years after The Karate Kid introduced Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita as the unlikely student and teacher, their relationship still sits at the heart of…
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’30 Rock’ Turns 20: Tina Fey on the Show’s Origins
Twenty years ago, Tina Fey introduced television audiences to Liz Lemon, Jack Donaghy, Tracy Jordan and one of the most wonderfully dysfunctional workplaces in television history. On October 11, 2006, 30 Rock premiered on NBC, bringing viewers behind the scenes of a fictional sketch comedy show...
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Why ‘A Few Good Men’ Still Holds Up
A Few Good Men has never really been one of them. More than three decades after Tom Cruise walked into a military courtroom and went toe-to-toe with Jack Nicholson, the 1992 drama keeps finding new viewers. Plenty of us remember seeing it when it was new, which makes watching another generation...
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‘Saturday Night’: Jason Reitman On Reliving The Very First SNL
Before Saturday Night Live became an institution, it was just a new television show trying to make it to air. Nobody knew what would come next. There would eventually be decades of sketches, breakout stars, catchphrases, movies and controversies. Generations of comedians would grow up dreaming...
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How Colin Farrell Built The Real-Time Tension In Phone Booth
How Colin Farrell built the real-time tension in Phone Booth is part of what makes the thriller still work so well. A phone rings. Most people would probably let it go. Unfortunately for Colin Farrell, answering that call is where everything starts going very, very wrong in Phone Booth. The...
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‘Cupertino’ Was An Easy Sell To Star Mike Colter
Mike Colter is no stranger to Robert King and Michelle King, or to fans of their television shows. From The Good Wife to starring for four seasons on the beloved series Evil, Colter has spent years working in the Kings’ television world. Now he is returning to it with their new legal drama,...
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How Michael Douglas’s ‘Helluva Ride’ Almost Never Started
How Michael Douglas ever wondered whether he had what it took to make it in Hollywood is hard to imagine. Almost 60 years later, we already know how that story turned out. He became a movie star, an Oscar-winning actor, an Oscar-winning producer and one of those performers whose career seems to...
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‘The Departed’ at 20: Why Scorsese’s Hit Still Packs a Punch
Released on October 6, 2006, The Departed brought together one of the most impressive casts of its era and gave Martin Scorsese another shot at a world of crime, loyalty, betrayal, and people who are rarely what they seem. Two decades later, the movie has lost almost none of its punch. Even when...
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LL Cool J Isn’t Just Back On ‘NCIS,’ He’s Back In New York!
A pretty big one. LL Cool J is back in the NCIS world with NCIS: New York, bringing along the character he played for the entire run of NCIS: Los Angeles. Only now Sam is on the other side of the country. And there is something kind of fitting about that. Sam is a New […] The post LL Cool J Isn’t...
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‘MobLand’: Pierce Brosnan Praises Season 2 Growth
For Pierce Brosnan, life after James Bond has been anything but predictable. Since leaving 007 behind, he has spent years jumping between genres and clearly enjoying the freedom that comes with it. He sang his way through the Mamma Mia! movies, stepped into the superhero world with Black Adam and...
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Training Day At 25: Denzel Washington Classic
Twenty-five years after Training Day arrived in theaters on October 5, 2001, it is still difficult to watch Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris without getting pulled into his world. From the moment Alonzo sits down across from rookie officer Jake Hoyt, you know something is wrong. The question is...
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That Thing You Do! at 30: Tom Hanks’ Musical Gem
Tom Hanks has made the kind of career where picking a favorite movie can turn into a pretty long conversation. He won back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, became the face of classics ranging from Big and Sleepless in Seattle to Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan, and...
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Short Circuit at 40: Johnny 5 Is Still Alive
Forty years later, Johnny 5 is still alive. Okay, maybe not literally. But for anyone who grew up with Short Circuit, it probably takes only a few seconds of seeing that familiar robot rolling around on screen to bring back a whole lot of 1980s memories. Released in 1986, Short Circuit was…
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Bullock and Kidman on Why Practical Magic 2 Took Decades
It took nearly 28 years, but the Owens sisters are finally back. Fans have been asking for another Practical Magic movie almost since the original arrived in 1998, and Practical Magic 2 brings Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman together again as Sally and Gillian Owens. They aren’t the only…
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How Airplane! Became the Gold Standard for Spoof Movies
Airplane! arrived in theaters in 1980, and somehow the movie is still making people laugh more than four decades later. That alone is pretty remarkable. Part of understanding how Airplane! became such a lasting comedy is looking at just how quickly humor can age. Jokes that were huge at the time...
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How Iron Man & Robert Downey Jr. Built the MCU
It’s almost strange to watch Iron Man now and think about how Iron Man helped start the MCU, especially when you remember how little there was to keep track of back then. There was Tony Stark. There was the suit. And if you stuck around after the credits, Samuel L. Jackson showed up as Nick […]…
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How 9 to 5 Turned Dolly Parton into a Movie Star
There are plenty of ways to remember Dolly Parton, but how 9 to 5 turned her into a movie star is one of the most entertaining chapters of her remarkable career. You can put on “Jolene,” listen to “I Will Always Love You,” or revisit Steel Magnolias and spend some time with Truvy Jones. Or […]…
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Remembering Dolly Parton: What a Gift She Was to the World
The news hurts. There is simply no getting around that. Remembering Dolly Parton today comes with a sadness that is hard to put into words. Dolly Parton, one of the most beloved entertainers America has ever produced, has passed away at the age of 80. Her family announced the news Tuesday, while...
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How Josh Duhamel Landed Transformers Thanks To Spielberg
Sometimes the role that changes an actor’s career comes from a great audition. Sometimes it comes from knowing the right person. And every once in a while, apparently, it happens because Steven Spielberg happened to catch you on television. That’s pretty much how Josh Duhamel found himself on the...
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Why Columbo Remains The Ultimate Comfort TV Binge Watch
There are nights when you want to discover the newest television show everybody is talking about. Then there are nights when you just want to see a wrinkled raincoat, a cigar and a detective who looks like he may have wandered into the wrong house. Sometimes comfort wins, and that may be the...
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Lea Thompson Looks Back at Howard the Duck
Forty years ago, Lea Thompson stepped into one of the strangest movies of her career, and somehow that has become part of what makes Howard the Duck so much fun to talk about today. The 1986 Marvel movie arrived with some very big expectations. George Lucas was an executive producer, Thompson was...
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This Is Us Is The Perfect Emotional Summer Binge Watch
Some shows give you mysteries. Others give you villains, crimes or cliffhangers. This Is Us gave us the Pearsons. That was enough. When This Is Us premiered in 2016, we knew fast that NBC had something special. Hollywood Outbreak covered the series throughout its six season run, spoke with its...
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Melissa Benoist Still Feels The Love From Supergirl Fans
The cape has been retired for years. Melissa Benoist still feels that pull from Supergirl fans every time she steps into a room full of them. What she said at Steel City Con made that obvious. Six seasons of Kara Danvers. Benoist spent all of them turning a DC superhero into something bigger than...
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Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews: 25 Years of Princess Magic
Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews are the reason a small Disney comedy about a clumsy teenager became something people still quote a quarter century later. Before Hathaway was an Oscar winner and a fashion-movie icon, she was Mia Thermopolis, a painfully awkward San Francisco kid whose ordinary…
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Bones Is the Perfect Character-Driven Summer Binge Watch
Some shows drag you through a binge on cliffhangers alone. Bones is different. The murders and forensic puzzles keep things moving, but it’s the people who make it hard to close the laptop. Emily Deschanel plays forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. David Boreanaz plays FBI Special…
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Seabiscuit Legacy: Tobey Maguire On The Classic Underdog Story
When Seabiscuit galloped into theaters on July 25, 2003, it delivered a lot more than another inspirational sports movie. Indeed, it brought one of America’s great underdog stories to the screen and turned a legendary racehorse into a symbol of nerve, endurance and hope. Racing fans already knew...
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Henry Winkler Recalls Robin Williams’ Genius on Happy Days
Years before Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire and an Academy Award for Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams showed up on the set of Happy Days as nothing more than an unknown comedian. Henry Winkler Recalls sensing right away that television had found someone special, and…
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‘Aliens’ 40th Anniversary: Sigourney Weaver And Ripley’s Legacy
Here’s a thought as the Aliens 40th anniversary rolls around this month: no studio today would let a director swerve this hard. James Cameron took Ridley Scott’s slow-burn nightmare and answered it with a war movie, and forty years later that call still looks like genius. The film opened July 18,...
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‘24’ Is a Perfect High-Stakes Summer Binge Watch
Welcome back to Summer Binge Club, our seasonal excuse to revisit the shows that still deliver — or finally catch the ones you missed. Let’s not bury the lede: 24 is a perfect summer binge. Maybe too perfect. Some shows want you to relax by the pool with a cold drink. This one grabs you […] The...
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Gillian Anderson Says Scully Changed Her Life
Gillian Anderson says Dana Scully changed her life, and yes, you read that right. The skeptical FBI agent usually gets credit for changing everyone else. For three decades, fans have approached Anderson with stories about how Scully steered them into science, medicine, and law enforcement.…
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‘Weekend at Bernie’s’: Why This 1989 Cult Classic Still Rules
Released on July 5, 1989, Weekend at Bernie’s is one of those movies that could only have come from the late ’80s. Back then, Hollywood could look at a completely bananas idea and say yes. Two guys dragging their dead boss around a beach town for an entire weekend? Sure, that sounds like a comedy...
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‘Billions’ Is a Perfect Summer Binge-Watch
Billions is not your typical summer binge-watch, and that is the point. Not every great summer show needs a beach, a romance or an easygoing comedy. Sometimes you want private jets, sharp suits, backroom deals and outrageous conversations in rooms with million-dollar views. That is exactly where...
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