More from Stephen Galloway
The William Friedkin I Knew: Feisty, Opinionated and Exceptionally Open to Others
Sitting with William Friedkin a few years ago, I was suddenly caught by surprise. After taking out his iPad, the master filmmaker began to scroll through a series of photos, all taken inside a small room in Vatican City, where he’d been invited to attend a real-life exorcism. That might not seem so odd to […]
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William Friedkin, Acclaimed Director of ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Exorcist,’ Dies at 87
William Friedkin, the Oscar winner behind The French Connection and The Exorcist who was one of the most admired directors to emerge from a wave of brilliant filmmakers who made their mark in the 1970s, died Monday. He was 87. Friedkin died of heart failure and pneumonia at his home in Bel Air, his wife, […]
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Jerry Springer, Host of a Scandalous Talk Show, Dies at 79
The former Cincinnati politician remained defiantly unapologetic about what he did for a living.
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How ‘Streetcar Named Desire’ Drove Vivien Leigh to the Edge of Insanity
Fourteen years after Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh had embarked on an adulterous affair — leading them to abandon their spouses and children, unable to tear themselves apart, finally marrying in 1940 — their all-consuming love had begun to fray. The pressure of living under a glare of publicity, the microscopic attention paid to their […]
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Rush Limbaugh, Radio Talk Show Host and Conservative Firebrand, Dies at 70
He swayed the right and outraged the left in more than four divisive decades on the air.
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Disruption, Consolidation, Uncertainty: Welcome to Hollywood’s Age of Anxiety
Future of Netflix? Consolidation? Layoffs? Amid unprecedented tumult in entertainment (and the world), The Hollywood Reporter talks to execs and underlings struggling to cope in an age of anxiety, the experts soothing nerves and the fortunate few who are finding peace in troubled times: "You learn to not let your stress control you."
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Watch Out, Hollywood: Harvey’s Coming For You
As Harvey Weinstein mounts a defense, he's likely to implicate Hollywood for knowing what he was up to and doing nothing about it.
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TV’s Stormy Daniels Obsession Distorts What Really Matters
The sordid and the squalid are still given priority over anything that might shape actual lives.
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Lupita Nyong’o: From Political Exile to Oscar to Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’
The actress — who has an Academy Award, beauty megadeals and two Disney franchises — opens up about her globe-trotting childhood, lingering insecurities and why she went public on Weinstein: "I couldn't sleep. I needed to get it out."
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Harassment, Scandal and the Media: Is a Hollywood Witch Hunt Brewing?
Journalism is at its best exposing wrongdoing, and at its worst repeating unverified allegations.
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At Home With George Clooney in Italy: Amal, the Twins, Politics and an Incendiary New Movie
On Lake Como with the 'Suburbicon' director and his family as he revels in a new life off-camera ("I'm a very good diaper guy"), swaps texts with Obama, reveals how he'll spend a $200 million tequila windfall and grapples with restlessness about art, race and justice that may hold clues to a career after Hollywood.
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Why Any Movie About Trump Should Make Us Love the Man, Not Hate Him
Any filmmaker looking to explore the current president on screen needs to portray him as something more than just a pompadoured pinhead.
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