Warning: This article contains minor spoilers for Haunted Mansion. Former Disneyland employee (and current Hollywood director) Justin Simien made sure every crypt door creaked and every tombstone quaked in Haunted Mansion, his spirited movie adaptation of the beloved Disney parks attractions operating at several resorts around the world. While he tells an original story that sees a single mother (Rosario Dawson) tapping a team of supernatural experts (LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis) to help rid her New Orleans manor of grim, grinning ghosts, Simien's happily haunted big-screen outing hones in on numerous references to the original California-based resort's version of the ride — the last major attraction Walt Disney oversaw development of before his death in 1966. Read More...
After 30 Golden Globe nominations in 38 years, Meryl Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s 74th annual Golden Globes. In what has become the biggest moment from the show’s broadcast, Streep used her acceptance speech as an opportunity to criticize eople’resident-elect Donald Trump, singling out his mockery of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who is disabled, during a 2015 rally. According to Viola Davis, who presented Streep with the honor on Sunday, the world sees Streep for what she is: “a muse” whose “artistry reminds us the impact of what it means to be an artist, which is to make us feel less alone. Read More...
Doris Roberts, the Emmy-winning actress who played the overbearing but well-intentioned matriarch Marie Barone on the long-running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 90. Her manager Sandra L. Joseph confirmed the news to EW. A veteran character actress on stage and screen, Roberts was best known for her work opposite Ray Romano on the eponymous show he created with Phil Rosenthal, about the favored son (Romano) of a multigenerational family on Long Island. Read More...
