This intriguing and unusual play is held together by some great jokes, an outstanding cast and an intricate cascade of twists and turns. Ropable is a new play written by Court Theatre artistic director Ross Gumbley and dramaturge Allison Horsley.
Jennifer Beals , star of Flashdance, plays the mentor of a deadly CIA operative in Taken , a new TV series prequel to the Liam Neeson movie trilogy, which hits NBC on February 27. Beals, 53, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, also stars in the mystery, Before I Fall , opening March 3 in theaters, and is producing The Edge , a dance drama, for Fox.
Soft-spoken and demure, Molly Burch was a freshman in high school when she first performed in public. Her older sister Samy, a senior, recruited her for an experimental play, in which she had Molly sing a capella dressed as Divine, the drag queen from John Waters films like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble .
Geoffrey Rush lived up to his name on Saturday by swooping for just a few hours into the Berlin Film Festival, where he received an award for his contribution to film culture. The presentation of the award was followed by the world premiere of his new film Final Portrait , directed by Stanley Tucci, in which he plays the Swiss-Italian artist Alberto Giacometti.
Carpenter directed and co-wrote the original Halloween film in 1978 and co-produced Halloween II but has since had no involvement in the subsequent eight films of the franchise. Writing on Facebook, Carpenter revealed the director and writer of the upcoming movie, as well as teasing his involvement with the score.
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Let's call it the Ironside Moment. You're munching popcorn, 20 minutes into some Hollywood blockbuster.
Earlier this week, Beverley Mitchell took to Instagram to prove that she's still close with her 7th Heaven sisters, Jessica Biel and Mackenzie Rosman .
So many of the indelible moments from his film and TV work are accompanied by an unsettling or deeply affecting piece of music: the creepy "In Heaven " song from Eraserhead , the heartbreaking Spanish-language rendition of Roy Orbison's "Crying" that reflects the romantic agony of Rita and Betty in Mulholland Drive , the surreal synchronized dance to the Little Eva version of "The Loco-Motion" that arrives out of nowhere in the midst of Inland Empire . The peak of Lynch's ability to marry sight and sound remains his collaboration with composer Angelo Badalamenti on the soundtrack for the incomparable TV series Twin Peaks .