For an authentic account of country-style holidays, check out Jimmy Carter’s Christmas in Plains, a sequel to his best-selling boyhood memoir, ”An Hour Before Daylight.” (Oddly, once-unpopular Presidents Carter and Nixon have enjoyed greater authorial success than the more widely approved Ronald Reagan, a fact that doesn’t bode well for Bill Clinton’s $10 million-plus book deal with Knopf.) In plainspoken prose, Carter recalls winters spent in his bucolic Georgia hometown, a beacon of calm that he finds himself drawn back to every December ”like the North Pole on a magnetic needle. Read More...
With the holidays lurking just around the bend, the elves at Hallmark’s North Pole HQ have been working overtime, packing up extra-long sleighs with Christmas TV movies. Last month, we told you about 22 original holiday films (with stars like Lacey Chabert and Lori Loughlin) that will start to pop up on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in early November. That list has grown again. EW has learned that Hallmark Channel is adding a trio of more movies to the slate, including Journey Back to Christmas, which features another Full House alumna (Candace Cameron Bure), and Broadcasting Christmas, which boasts Holiday in Handcuffs vet Melissa Joan Hart and Dean Cain, who’s been in so many Christmas TV movies, you could call him the Superman of the genre. Read More...
After David Bowie’s death on Jan. 10, many of his collaborators, friends, and peers spoke out about working with the legendary artist on films, albums, tours, and music videos. Christopher Nolan, who directed him in the 2006 film The Prestige, shared his memories of Bowie with EW and below, in his own words, Nolan describes what it was like to convince his childhood hero to work with him. When we were casting The Prestige, we had gotten very stuck on the character of Nikola Tesla. Read More...
