It’s not over till he says it’s over. Earlier this week, Hannibal’s executive producer Bryan Fuller got news that NBC had decided not to continue airing his series because the ratings weren’t high enough to make it worth their while.
This decision was widely described as a “cancellation,” but the horrible finality of that word is misleading. Hannibal wasn’t funded and produced in-house by NBC, which means they didn’t decide to stop the show from existing; they just decided not to air it on NBC anymore.
When the first season of Curb Your Enthusiasm aired in 2000, Larry David was 54 years old. For comparison, that is how old Paul Rudd is right now. But the benefit of looking older when you’re young is that it’s hard for others to tell the difference when you age. To the untrained eye, once a man is bald, he is sorted into the category of “old.” As a result, when fans picture Larry David on Curb, they see the same person during the final season as they did for the first, 24 years ago.
Diddy. R&B singer Cassie filed a lawsuit against Diddy on November 16, accusing the hip-hop mogul of a pattern of control and sexual abuse, per the New York Times. The suit, filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, alleges that Diddy, real name Sean Combs, subjected her to beatings, coercive drug use, and forced intercourse with sex workers while he filmed the encounters, arguing she is a victim of sex trafficking, sexual battery, sexual assault, and violations of New York City’s gender-motivated violence law.
Actors You Already Knew Weren’t Asian: Emma Stone. Over the weekend, I watched with a growing sense of dread as people on Facebook and Twitter debated whether or not people of mixed Asian descent could look like Emma Stone. One woman even posted photos of a child that she knew who had Asian ancestry, but still had blonde hair and light eyes. See? Just like Emma Stone. The occasion for all this phenotypic scrutiny was Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, in which his female protagonist, Allison Ng (“ing like ring,” she explains) is played by Emma Stone.
Claire, our time-traveling heroine on Outlander, is on a very serious mission to change history. And because that’s not enough, she takes on some additional work, starting in Saturday’s episode. With husband Jamie off making headway with various princes and ministers of finance, Claire starts to volunteer at a local hospital in 1740s Paris. Given her background as a WWII combat nurse with modern medical knowledge, Claire has a distinct advantage over the hospital’s official employees, save one.
Dane DeHaan. If you haven’t been introduced to Dane DeHaan on In Treatment or True Blood, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to see the 24-year-old up-and-comer on the big screen this year. He has three meaty movies on the docket (The Road’s John Hillcoat and Blue Valentine’s Derek Cianfrance directed two of them), and starting today you can see him in the supernatural, found-footage thriller Chronicle. He plays a brooding teenager who acquires supernatural powers.
This week, we finally get to see the Jay Z/Will Smith–produced reboot of Annie that we did not ask for but will take anyway, because of our plucky, can-do spirit. (But, you know, we will take it cautiously. Cameron Diaz? No “We’d Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover”? Will Stacks? It’s a tense time to be a fan of Annie.) So how’s about you and your loyal dog hop in my DeLorean GIF for a trip back to the week of May 19, 1982, when the original Aileen Quinn/Albert Finney film adaptation had its U.
Bob and David may be coming to a town near you. We reported last month that Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are releasing a book together called Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show this fall, and this week, Cross revealed that he and Odenkirk will be doing a book tour with some stand-up mixed in to promote the book’s release. Cross announced the tour during a live conversation with Michael Cera at NYC’s 92nd Street Y Wednesday night, adding that his Mr.
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Adam Rich for Eight Is Enough in 1979. Adam Rich’s died from an accidental fentanyl overdose, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office has now confirmed in an autopsy report. Rich, who starred in all 112 episodes of the popular ABC dramedy Eight Is Enough, died at age 54 at his home in Los Angeles on January 8. A family member confirmed the news to TMZ, but no cause of death was initially shared.