On a sunny, cool day late last month in post-quake Los Angeles, Meryl Streep, 44, Glenn Close, 46, and Winona Ryder, 22, gathered in armchairs around a roaring fire in a suite at the Hotel Bel-Air. The three star together in Bille August’s harrowing and majestic The House of the Spirits, which opens April 1, but their conversation proved to be a funny, fractious, and frank summit on life in Hollywood. Read More...
Adapted from Nicholas Sparks’ 1998 best-seller, ”Message in a Bottle” isn’t going to win any awards, but it’s a true all-stops-out gusher, the sort of solemn contemporary hankie-fest in which a sweet, smart, lonely-at-the-core professional woman takes a break from the big city, with its faxes and e-mails and corporate disloyalty, and travels to a small town straight out of the American past, where she proceeds to fall for the Last Romantic Man. Read More...
Stranger Things' Eddie Munson has now played Lollapalooza (sort of). On Thursday, Metallica closed out the first night of the Chicago festival with an electrifying performance of "Master of Puppets," where they projected the now-famous scene from the Stranger Things season 4 finale in which Eddie (Joseph Quinn) shreds their classic 1986 track in the Upside Down in order to attract Vecna's legion of minions. Naturally, the surprised crowd burst into cheers when they saw Eddie rocking out behind the heavy-metal band. Read More...
