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Emmys: HBO Regains Lead in Nominations Over Netflix, 137-117, with “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” “Barry,” “Succession”

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Emmys: HBO Regains Lead in Nominations Over Netflix, 137-117, with “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” “Barry,” “Succession”

HBO toppled Netflix today with the most Emmy nominations.

The cable service took a record 137 nominations with shows like “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” “Succession,” and “Barry.”

Netflix came in second with 117. Netflix would have had more but their “Grace and Frankie” wasn’t included. Instead they at least picked up acting nominations for Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in “The Kominsky Method.”

HBO is in the middle a huge seachange. But their seniorest VP of Publicity, Nancy Lesser, pulled off a coup amid all the chaos. She deserves the thanks of the new HBO execs.

The “Veep” nominations are particularly impressive since the show took a big break, and now it’s over.

Next year, HBO will have “Big Little Lies,””Euphoria,” and many other new shows as well as “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” The party isn’t over yet!

Amazon keeps its toe in the game with “Mrs. Maisel.”

Emmy Snubs: “The Conners,” Julia Roberts, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, “Billions,” Almost Anything on Showtime, Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin

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Emmy Snubs: “The Conners,” Julia Roberts, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, “Billions,” Almost Anything on Showtime, Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin

The Emmy nominations are here, and so are the snubs.

Both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are routinely excluded from the Emmys. Do the Emmys hate Lorne Michaels? They do give nods to “SNL.” But these two guys are out in the cold again, and it’s so wrong.

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and their Netflix show “Grace and Frankie” got nada.

Showtime received almost nothing except for “Escape at Dannemora.” The Emmys don’t even acknowledge the existence of “Billions,” a favorite show with an all star cast. Showtime is also almost non existent. Sad!

Also, I’m kind of shocked that Tracee Ellis Ross wasn’t nominated for “Blackish.” She should be top of the heap. The result is six white women, no color. Not very imaginative. Tracee rocks!

Julia Roberts didn’t make the cut for her series, “Homecoming.”

Also completely shut out after years of winning massive numbers of awards: “Modern Family.” Plus ABC’s second season of “The Conners” garnered nothing for the show or its actors.

 

Sacha Baron Cohen Wins 3 Emmy Noms, Laments that Co-Star Dick Cheney Wasn’t Recognized “For Sending People to their Deaths”

 

 

 

2019 Emmy Nominations: “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” “Mrs. Maisel,” “Killing Eve” Lead the Pack, Showtime Shut Out, Nothing for “Billions”

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2019 Emmy Nominations: “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” “Mrs. Maisel,” “Killing Eve” Lead the Pack, Showtime Shut Out, Nothing for “Billions”

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Showtime managed to get almost nothing. Just nods for “Escape from Dannemora,” nothing for their regular series including “Billions.” It’s unbelievable.

HBO racked up lots of noms for “Veep,” “Barry,” “Succession,” and “Game of Thrones.”

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Sharon Osbourne Reveals Why Ozzy Wasn’t at Grammy Lifetime Achievement Concert to Induct Black Sabbath

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Sharon Osbourne Reveals Why Ozzy Wasn’t at Grammy Lifetime Achievement Concert to Induct Black Sabbath

In a really terrific and candid interview with Larry LeBlanc, Sharon Osbourne has revealed hubby Ozzy was the only member of Black Sabbath to skip the Grammy Lifetime Achievement concert this past May in Los Angeles.

Ozzy wasn’t alone. Julio Iglesias also didn’t show up, and it was for the same reason. In February, on the actual Grammy show, the Lifetime Achievement winners were basically ignored. They had to pay their own expenses, got no attention Grammy weekend, and were allowed to wave from the audience on the Grammy broadcast.

In exchange, there was the taping of the PBS broadcast in May, which will air sometime this fall (no one knows when). Many showed up and performed including Sam Moore, Valerie Simpson, and Dionne Warwick. But there was no reception, no red carpet, no dinner after the show.

The other members of Black Sabbath showed up, but Ozzy and Sharon skipped the proceedings entirely– and it was just at Hollywood and Highland, a stone’s throw from their house.

Here’s what Sharon told Larry:

“…they wanted to give it (the Lifetime Achievement award) to them in some pissy fucking ceremony that they had. Listen there were artists there (George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sam and Dave, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias* Donny Hathaway*, and Billy Eckstine*) that got awards that deserved it too. But I just thought because Sabbath– their career spanned 50 years and they are still selling records today–their catalog still sells and their last record that was out 6 years ago was #1 in many countries worldwide–so the other artists they were honoring had great careers and deserved to be honored but they still didn’t have the careers that Sabbath had. So not to put them on the proper (TV) show, it was like, “How dare you?” I was so angry. I just thought, “Fuck you. I am not going to give you the honor of having Ozzy at your shitty ceremony.”

Fans of “The Talk” know that Sharon tells like it is. The Grammys have a funny relationship to older artists. Now I’m hearing talk of potential Album of the Year nominees, as the Grammy deadline is drawing closer (September 30th). I’m not seeing Bruce Springsteen’s “Western Stars,” which means they’re thinking of sticking him in Best Pop, or Traditional, instead of in the main album category where he belongs. “Western Stars” should be Album of the Year, period.

 

(*) asterisk for people who didn’t show because they didn’t want to (Julio) or sent family members because they are in heaven (Hathaway, Eckstine).

“Big Little Lies,” The Perfect Summer Series, Owes a Lot to Real Soaps like “Knots Landing” and “The Young and the Restless”

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“Big Little Lies,” The Perfect Summer Series, Owes a Lot to Real Soaps like “Knots Landing” and “The Young and the Restless”

It was April 2017 when Nicole Kidman, as the much upon Celeste, helped push her abusive husband Perry (Alex Skarsgaard) down a flight of steps at the end of “Big Little Lies.” Her posse of pals helped, particularly Zoe Kravitz. They claimed Perry slipped, and fell. They got away with it. Fade to black. The good guys won.

A year later, in April 2018, on CBS’s much less respected, much more low budget soap, “The Young and the Restless,” a group of ladies killed the domestic abuser husband of one of the main characters. Because daytime soaps never fade to black– they produce 285 episodes a year– something had to happen. So they rolled the guy up in a rug and buried him under a gazebo in a public park. Later, it all came out, the women were exonerated because somehow the guy escaped and was really crazy.

So now the women on “Big Little Lies” are at the end of their sort of unexpected second season, they’ve spent 7 episodes wringing their hands over what’s already been wrapped up on “Y&R.” The daytime soap has named a new character Celeste.

Outside of that budget, there’s not much difference between the two shows. The only difference is “Big Little Lies” took it very seriously, whereas the daytime soap breezed onto the next scandal. That’s what “Big Little Lies” will have to do for their sort of unexpected season 3 (you wonder did they sign up for 5? 7? but just took an oath to pretend they hadn’t).

“Big Little Lies” owes nothing to the daytime show, but tons to the nighttime soaps of the 80s, particularly “Knots Landing.” You think because movie stars are here, this is More Important. Also, it’s 30 years later, so abuse is viewed differently. But it’s all the same. A bunch of heroines trapped in a cul de sac, afraid to let the others see their wounds. And then, just for kicks, Laura Dern plays an outrageous over the top rich woman– she was Donna Mills on “Knots Landing” — who you love to hate because she’s so much fun. (A couple of weeks ago she told her kid, “It’s not about the money– well, yes, it is about the money.”) Summer needs her as it drags out.

If “Big Little Lies” aired weekly on a network, I’d definitely show it on a Sunday at 9pm. It feels like a CBS show. Even though it’s on HBO, it’s pretty tame. There’s an occasional F word. But nothing like HBO’s “Euphoria.” Still, the fun is in the getting there. On Sunday there was a courtroom scene worthy of any good soap, that ended with the revelation that Celeste– who drinks, sleeps around, and has never seemed to work at anything —  is also a lawyer! And she — in the form of the exquisite Nicole Kidman– will examine a buck toothed Meryl Streep as her crazy mother in law next week on the stand! Who’s gonna miss that? That will be better than Lannisters vs. the Starks!

Sadly, “Big Little Lies” came out too late to qualify for the Emmys in September. So we’ll have to wait til January and the Golden Globes for some gold statues. Everyone involved deserves one. And we– the press– will be asking about Season 3. All involved will claim how “hard” it is to do. No one will know if it’s possible! But it is, and will be, and let’s hope they hurry. There’s plenty of life left in these characters if we just drop the pretense that this is Ibsen. It’s just a damn good time!  (PS in the old days, the late Richard Dawson would have had the women from “BLL” vs. the gals from “KL” on “Family Feud.” Kids today don’t what they’re missing!)

Rupert Murdoch is Back in the Movie Business as He Funds a New Division at Sony Pictures Created from What Disney Didn’t Want of Fox

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Rupert Murdoch is Back in the Movie Business as He Funds a New Division at Sony Pictures Created from What Disney Didn’t Want of Fox

I’ve been reading and re-reading the announcements today about Elizabeth Gabler taking her Fox 2000 staff to Sony Pictures. Everyone’s very happy because Gabler was a popular and smart leader at 20th Century Fox. She made very good movies. When Disney shut Fox2000 down, the movie world was very upset.

But did no one read the fine print? The new deal is being funded by Harper Collins Publishers, which is owned by News Corp, aka Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, who is the cleverest Machiavellian of all, will not go away. He’s also brilliant. So he’s taken a piece of his old company which Disney didn’t want, and he’s used it to invade another movie company. This could just be the beginning, too. There’s been talk of Sony Pictures being for sale for years. Could Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch have an eye on the whole prize?

The announcements say that Gabler will turn Harper Collins releases into movies. True, Fox 2000’s “Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly was a Harper Collins/William Morrow release. And “The Hate U Give” was expanded from a book by the same name, also from Harper Collins.

But Harper Collins doesn’t have a better batting average of books into movies than any other big publisher. Indeed, Fox 200o’s movies came from all over publishing. “Breakthrough,” their Christian faith movie with “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz, was not from HC, but a Christian publisher. John Green, who’s had his young adult movies like “The Fault in our Stars” and “Paper Houses” with Fox 2000, is published by Dutton, not a part of Harper Collins but an imprint of Penguin-Random House.

And the ones from HC are not sure shots. Disney just pulled “The Woman in the Window” with Amy Adams from the 2019 release schedule because it wasn’t ready and needs a lot of retooling. And that’s from Harper Collins’ William Morrow label.

No, Harper Collins isn’t funding this deal for Gabler with Sony. It’s News Corp doing the funding. And it’s a slick way for Murdoch to come back into the movie business, through Sony’s back door. Sony’s Tom Rothman helped run Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox, so he knows his way around News Corp. What comes next should be pretty interesting.

New Broadway Version of “West Side Story” Will Replace Classic Soaring Dances With Moves from Avant Garde Choreographer Who Accused Beyonce of Plagiarism

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New Broadway Version of “West Side Story” Will Replace Classic Soaring Dances With Moves from Avant Garde Choreographer Who Accused Beyonce of Plagiarism

When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. That is unless you’re Dieter from “Sprockets.” Or Bill Hader’s Stefon from “Weekend Update.”

Next February, the producers of the new “West Side Story” will replace this

with this

Yes, that’s right. Buried in this week’s announcement that the cast coming to Broadway will be all unknowns was this tidbit: Scott Rudin is letting painfully avant garde director Ivo van Hove throw out Jerome Robbins’s award winning, classic choreography that has always been integral to “West Side Story.” von Hove is replacing Robbins’ work with that of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

All of Robbins’s beautiful ballet, in which the dancers always looked like they were flying, will be replaced by flailing, herky jerky movements. Like this

It’s unclear how Rudin managed to separate the Robbins choreography from the show, but he’s also the guy who had Aaron Sorkin re-write “To Kill a Mockingbird.” A financial hit, it was not nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His partners in this endeavor are Barry Diller and David Geffen. van Hove just wrapped his “Network” on Broadway. Bryan Cranston won Best Actor but the play didn’t win a Tony and neither did the production.

This new “West Side Story” is coming at a strangely inopportune time. Steven Spielberg is currently shooting an updated version of the famous movie, set for release in December 2020. He’s using the Robbins dances.  It doesn’t quite make sense to trot out a new Broadway production a year before a new movie. On the other hand, the Spielberg version may be a relief after this one comes and goes.

Robbins in his lifetime won five Tony Awards, two Academy Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors (1981), the National Medal of Arts (1988), the French Legion of Honor, and an Honorary Membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Every year, an award is given in his memory.

Are Broadway audiences ready for De Keersmaeker? She’s never worked on a Broadway show. Her work is usually for artsy dance audiences and museums. And if producers of “West Side Story” are allowed to jettison the music this time, what will they be allowed to do next time? No Sondheim-Bernstein music? No Jets and Sharks?

De Keersmaeker has been in the news, however, before: in 2011, she accused Beyonce of stealing her moves for a video.

This new edition of “West Side Story” may be brilliant. But I remember the last “West Side Story” on Broadway, when creator Arthur Laurents was turning 90, in 2009. It was so magnificent. And of course, we always have the original movie (buy it now before it gets pulled from streaming a la “Lion King”).

Watch what Robbin’s intentions were here:

Happy 94th Birthday to DA Pennebaker the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker, Lifetime Oscar Recipient

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Happy 94th Birthday to DA Pennebaker the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker, Lifetime Oscar Recipient

The man who helped to invent cinema verite, DA Pennebaker, turns 94 years young today.

Pennebaker — Penny, as we call him — created the cameras, and the ideas, that led to anything we call documentary filmmaking today. An Oscar nominee with his filmmaker wife Chris Hegedus for “The War Room,” (1994) Penny received a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 2013. His comrades in arms were Albert Maysles and Richard Leacock. With those guys and Bob Drew, Penny was invited into the JFK presidential campaign. They made four landmark films about JFK and Robert Kennedy, as well.

And yes, today we celebrate Penny– father of 8, grandfather of (who can count), mentor and friend to so many.

Penny’s great major film achievements came with Bob Dylan’s “Dont Look Back,” “Monterey Pop,” “The War Room,” and dozens more including the great Emmy nominated film about Elaine Stritch, “At Liberty,” for HBO. I was lucky to make a film with him and Chris in 2002 called “Only the Strong Survive.”

Right now on IFC you can see Seth Meyers and John Mulaney’s tribute to Penny, a parody of his famous film about Stephen Sondheim recording the cast of “Company” with Elaine Stritch. It’s in their “Documentary Now” series and it’s priceless.

Penny’s short film of “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” taken from “Dont Look Back,” is the most copied, most revered, music video of all time.

Yes, the credits and accolades are endless. But today we just give a nod to the whole Pennebaker oeuvre. And blow out the candles with a wish for many good years to come!

 

(Watch) Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Dodger Stadium Perform “Helter Skelter” in Los Angeles as 50th Anniversary Tribute to Charles Manson, Good Old Days

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(Watch) Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Dodger Stadium Perform “Helter Skelter” in Los Angeles as 50th Anniversary Tribute to Charles Manson, Good Old Days

It was just like 1969 again last night in Los Angeles. The Beatles’s Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr rocked the house at Dodger Stadium with a rendition of “Helter Skelter” just a few weeks shy of the song’s 50th anniversary association with Charles Manson. Good times!

Seriously, Manson appropriated the song from the 1968 White Album. McCartney didn’t play it live for a long, long time. So maybe this was his way of taking it back, in L.A., with Ringo banging those delicious drums. Good for them.

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