Hamlet Is Mine, Too

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2918 words  |  Sherie Connelly

James Ijames’s Fat Ham doesn’t just break the fourth wall — it bulldozes it. Fat Ham is now playing at the American Airlines Theatre. Photo: Joan Marcus/all rights reserved Fat Ham is now playing at the American Airlines Theatre. Fat Ham wants you to talk. It begins abruptly, and sans disclaimer, with a character watching OnlyFans on his phone. From that point on, the audience is aware: This is not the space for inhibition. [Read More]

Hank Azaria on Crying After Sex, Going Topless, and Playing a Simpsons Character on His New Show, Fr

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1027 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Hank Azaria is getting out from behind his cartoon bodies on The Simpsons to play a real-life, leading-man character on the new NBC sitcom Free Agents (premiering tonight at 10:30 p.m.). The show, created by Party Down’s Jon Enbom, follows a sad-sack divorcé (Azaria) who cries often and seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA lyrics, and his PR-firm co-worker (Kathryn Hahn), who recently lost her fiancé. We spoke with Azaria about starring in a rom-com, running out of Simpsons voices, and being a funnyman sex symbol. [Read More]

Hannah Dodds Bridgerton Love Story Is Erotically Quiet

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1502 words  |  Elina Uphoff

“She’s an intelligent girl, and she understands that she has a duty — she has to go and marry someone.” As a very hot and talented band once reminded us: Words are very unnecessary. Such is the crux of Francesca Bridgerton’s pursuit of love in Bridgerton’s third season, with the six-oldest sibling (played by Hannah Dodd, who replaces Ruby Stokes in a recast) returning from her perpetual piano lessons in Bath to debut into society as an eligible woman looking for marriage. [Read More]

Hannah Gadsby Decided to Quit Comedy, and Then Her Career Blew Up

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2682 words  |  Elina Uphoff

A year and a half ago, Hannah Gadsby started work on a show that she thought would “seal me off into the margins both as a human and as a performer.” In the show, titled Nanette, she announces she is quitting comedy, rails against the structures of the genre, and unravels stories about her life that involve sexual violence and homophobia — the kind she endured for years growing up in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. [Read More]

Harvey Weinstein Will Not Testify in His Rape and Sexual-Assault Trial

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  587 words  |  Janel Helmers

Harvey Weinstein, who is on trial in Manhattan for rape and sexual assault, will not testify, his defense attorney said in court on Tuesday. “Your honor, we discussed it. Mr. Weinstein has obviously pled not guilty,” said Damon Cheronis. “The state has not met their burden, and he’s not going to be testifying.” “Mr. Weinstein, is that accurate?” Justice James Burke asked. “Yes, that’s accurate,” Weinstein said in a hushed voice. [Read More]

Harvey Weinsteins Accusers React to His Overturned Rape Conviction

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  693 words  |  Zora Stowers

Ashley Judd is among multiple Harvey Weinstein accusers who are expressing disappointment with the overturning of the movie mogul’s 2020 rape conviction. Judd, who was the first actress to publicly come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein, shared her reaction to the news during a press conference. “This is what it’s like to be a woman in America, living with male entitlement to our bodies,” Judd said, per Entertainment Weekly. [Read More]

Have You Tried the Score Cry?

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1285 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Weep Week No, you’re crying. Weep Week No, you’re crying. It’s like watching a movie on a speedrun, except I don’t even need to keep my eyes open. I’ve been crying to film scores for as long as I can remember. At least, as long as I’ve had access to money that I could take to Borders to rifle through the music section. I wasn’t a big crier outside of scores then, and I’m not a big crier now, but when I put my Lord of the Rings soundtrack into my personal CD player, I knew that I would shed a few tears — for the hobbits on their little journey, and for me on mine. [Read More]

HBO in Talks for a Shutter Island Series

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  157 words  |  Sherie Connelly

HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 06: Director Martin Scorsese attends the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Mel Brooks at Dolby Theatre on June 6, 2013 in Hollywood, California. Special Broadcast will air Saturday, June 15 at 9:00 P.M. ET/PT on TNT and Wednesday, July 24 on TCM as part of an All-Night Tribute to Brooks. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI) Deadline reports that HBO is working on a Shutter Island prequel series called Ashecliffe, with a pilot episode directed by film helmer (and friend of HBO) Martin Scorsese, and a script by Dennis Lehane, who wrote the original novel as well as the film. [Read More]

Heidi Klum and Seal to Divorce

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  96 words  |  Zora Stowers

TMZ reports that Project Runway hostess Heidi Klum and her singer husband Seal will be divorcing. (Did she say “Auf Wiedersehen” to him? Expect a thousand gossip headlines today to ask!) The couple had been married for over six years and renewed their vows back in May; they also have three children together (plus Klum’s daughter from a previous relationship), which doesn’t quite jibe with our remembrance that Seal kept Klum pregnant for at least 31 separate seasons of Project Runway, but these are the facts, nevertheless. [Read More]