For anyone who’s overdosing on U.S. politics, which is pretty much the entire world at this point, the idea of a film on the subject may give you pause.
However, Sony’s “The Front Runner,” which opens wide Nov. 21, is highly recommended because it offers a smart and important perspective on how we got to this point. It’s also entertaining.
“Front Runner” is the first produced screenplay for Matt Bai and Jay Carson, who together have 40 years of experience in politics, respectively as a reporter and a campaign consultant — i.e. operative.
“Whether you care about politics or not, this is a story of human beings struggling with extraordinary circumstances,” Carson says.
Bai adds that even for non-fans of U.S. politics, it’s a chance to see the work of expert filmmakers. “You’re also going to see an amazing ensemble of actors and great lead...
However, Sony’s “The Front Runner,” which opens wide Nov. 21, is highly recommended because it offers a smart and important perspective on how we got to this point. It’s also entertaining.
“Front Runner” is the first produced screenplay for Matt Bai and Jay Carson, who together have 40 years of experience in politics, respectively as a reporter and a campaign consultant — i.e. operative.
“Whether you care about politics or not, this is a story of human beings struggling with extraordinary circumstances,” Carson says.
Bai adds that even for non-fans of U.S. politics, it’s a chance to see the work of expert filmmakers. “You’re also going to see an amazing ensemble of actors and great lead...
- 11/8/2018
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Maureen O’ Boyle was getting ready to do a live tease for the afternoon news when she got the phone call she’d been nervously anticipating for weeks.
An anchor for Wbtv in Charlotte, North Carolina, O’Boyle had worked tirelessly to keep her rapist in prison and was in the makeup room when someone from the parole board called.
"He asked me if I was sitting down and I was thinking the worst when he said that," the 52-year-old tells People. "I said just tell me already!"
O’Boyle says she crumpled from relief and started hysterically crying when...
An anchor for Wbtv in Charlotte, North Carolina, O’Boyle had worked tirelessly to keep her rapist in prison and was in the makeup room when someone from the parole board called.
"He asked me if I was sitting down and I was thinking the worst when he said that," the 52-year-old tells People. "I said just tell me already!"
O’Boyle says she crumpled from relief and started hysterically crying when...
- 5/29/2016
- by Michelle Boudin, @michelleboudin
- People.com - TV Watch
Maureen O’ Boyle was getting ready to do a live tease for the afternoon news when she got the phone call she’d been nervously anticipating for weeks. An anchor for Wbtv in Charlotte, North Carolina, O’Boyle had worked tirelessly to keep her rapist in prison and was in the makeup room when someone from the parole board called. "He asked me if I was sitting down and I was thinking the worst when he said that," the 52-year-old tells People. "I said just tell me already!" O’Boyle says she crumpled from relief and started hysterically crying when...
- 5/29/2016
- by Michelle Boudin, @michelleboudin
- PEOPLE.com
Maureen O’ Boyle was getting ready to do a live tease for the afternoon news when she got the phone call she’d been nervously anticipating for weeks. An anchor for Wbtv in Charlotte, North Carolina, O’Boyle had worked tirelessly to keep her rapist in prison and was in the makeup room when someone from the parole board called. "He asked me if I was sitting down and I was thinking the worst when he said that," the 52-year-old tells People. "I said just tell me already!" O’Boyle says she crumpled from relief and started hysterically crying when...
- 5/29/2016
- by Michelle Boudin, @michelleboudin
- PEOPLE.com
Thirty years after she awakened to find a naked man pinning her down and holding a sharp and cold knife against her throat, news anchor Maureen O'Boyle is reliving the most terrifying day of her life with the realization that her rapist could soon be walking free.
James E. Starling, now 53, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1986 for the rape of O'Boyle and another woman in Macon, Georgia, and still has 20 years to serve in prison. So O'Boyle, a former host of A Current Affair and Extra, who now anchors the evening news for Wbtv in Charlotte, N.C.
James E. Starling, now 53, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1986 for the rape of O'Boyle and another woman in Macon, Georgia, and still has 20 years to serve in prison. So O'Boyle, a former host of A Current Affair and Extra, who now anchors the evening news for Wbtv in Charlotte, N.C.
- 3/24/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- People.com - TV Watch
Thirty years after she awakened to find a naked man pinning her down and holding a sharp and cold knife against her throat, news anchor Maureen O'Boyle is reliving the most terrifying day of her life with the realization that her rapist could soon be walking free. James E. Starling, now 53, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1986 for the rape of O'Boyle and another woman in Macon, Georgia, and still has 20 years to serve in prison. So O'Boyle, a former host of A Current Affair and Extra, who now anchors the evening news for Wbtv in Charlotte, N.C.
- 3/24/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
Thirty years after she awakened to find a naked man pinning her down and holding a sharp and cold knife against her throat, news anchor Maureen O'Boyle is reliving the most terrifying day of her life with the realization that her rapist could soon be walking free. James E. Starling, now 53, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1986 for the rape of O'Boyle and another woman in Macon, Georgia, and still has 20 years to serve in prison. So O'Boyle, a former host of A Current Affair and Extra, who now anchors the evening news for Wbtv in Charlotte, N.C.
- 3/24/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
Need a refresher on the first season of The Following before the show returns Jan. 19? You’re in luck.
The faux-news-magazine videos you see below are the first two installments of a six-part video series produced by Fox that re-tell the saga of famed serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy). Future installments of the videos will be presented exclusively here on EW in the coming weeks before they debut on an upcoming revamped version of the show’s e-book, out Dec. 16.
Check them out below and resist the urge to look up old episodes of A Current Affair.
The Following...
The faux-news-magazine videos you see below are the first two installments of a six-part video series produced by Fox that re-tell the saga of famed serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy). Future installments of the videos will be presented exclusively here on EW in the coming weeks before they debut on an upcoming revamped version of the show’s e-book, out Dec. 16.
Check them out below and resist the urge to look up old episodes of A Current Affair.
The Following...
- 11/27/2013
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW.com - PopWatch
This story first appeared in the Nov. 1 issue of The Hollywood Reporter Magazine. Outliving such competition as A Current Affair, Hard Copy and American Journal, Inside Edition will mark its hard-fought 25th anniversary in January. "We're almost like the royal family of television," jokes longtime executive producer Charles Lachman. "We just go on and on." With more than 8,000 episodes logged, the show has scored hot "gets" with such beleaguered subjects as Phil Spector and Paula Jones and still attracts 4.1 million viewers, consistently beating TMZ and Access Hollywood by more than 1 million
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- 10/23/2013
- by Sophie Schillaci
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What had Et readers buzzing this week?
1. N.M. Men Suspected of Plotting Bieber's Death
Police confirm to Et that two New Mexico men have been suspected of plotting to murder pop sensation Justin Bieber.
As first reported by Albuquerque news station Krqe, the plot was allegedly hatched by two prison inmates and one of their nephews to murder Bieber at a sold-out show at NYC's Madison Square Garden.
According to a police report obtained by Et, a New Mexico prisoner named Dana Martin, serving out two life sentences for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, enlisted the help of former fellow inmate Mark Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruane to carry out four murders. Two of the reported targets were Justin Bieber and his bodyguard.
The report continues to claim that Martin actually has a tattoo of Bieber on his leg.
The report also delves into the details of the planned murders, which involved...
1. N.M. Men Suspected of Plotting Bieber's Death
Police confirm to Et that two New Mexico men have been suspected of plotting to murder pop sensation Justin Bieber.
As first reported by Albuquerque news station Krqe, the plot was allegedly hatched by two prison inmates and one of their nephews to murder Bieber at a sold-out show at NYC's Madison Square Garden.
According to a police report obtained by Et, a New Mexico prisoner named Dana Martin, serving out two life sentences for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, enlisted the help of former fellow inmate Mark Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruane to carry out four murders. Two of the reported targets were Justin Bieber and his bodyguard.
The report continues to claim that Martin actually has a tattoo of Bieber on his leg.
The report also delves into the details of the planned murders, which involved...
- 12/15/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
WSJ Maury Povich, left, and Lee Hawkins.
Seventy-three-year-old Maury Povich has been in the broadcasting business for about 50 years, but his television audience has never been this huge or skewed so dramatically towards young people and women.
The host of the conflict-centered pop culture show, “Maury” has scored the highest TV ratings of any talk show on daytime television among key demographics for 40 straight weeks. His most faithful viewers are women ages 18 to 24.
“It goes against the grain of everything...
Seventy-three-year-old Maury Povich has been in the broadcasting business for about 50 years, but his television audience has never been this huge or skewed so dramatically towards young people and women.
The host of the conflict-centered pop culture show, “Maury” has scored the highest TV ratings of any talk show on daytime television among key demographics for 40 straight weeks. His most faithful viewers are women ages 18 to 24.
“It goes against the grain of everything...
- 3/22/2012
- by Lee Hawkins
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Happy Endings, as it’s entirely aware of itself, has plenty to thank Friends for. Especially that with no Fat Joey we’d have no Max, and with no Max we’d have no Bear Max. But the top-notch comedy has traces of another popular sitcom to it: How I Met Your Mother. Well, Himym during its heyday, anyway, and not this recent wave of weekly cliffhangers and melodrama. (When will it cease?!)
During last night’s episode of Happy Endings, titled “The Butterfly Effect Effect,” I couldn’t help but hope that their Spring Smackdown will become like the Himym equivalent of slap bet.
During last night’s episode of Happy Endings, titled “The Butterfly Effect Effect,” I couldn’t help but hope that their Spring Smackdown will become like the Himym equivalent of slap bet.
- 2/23/2012
- by Aly Semigran
- EW.com - PopWatch
By David Bauder, the Associated Press
Stamford, Conn. -- Behind a backstage door, Maury Povich leafs through papers and listens to his producers brief him on that day's paternity mysteries. He checks the pronunciation of a name or two, tries to get straight which man is claiming a childhood testicular injury. Then he's ready.
"Let's play the game," the veteran TV personality says as he rises and heads toward the door.
A couple of turns down a hallway later, he steps onto a stage filled with women dancing to "Sexy and I Know It" over the loudspeaker. A roar of recognition greets him. Maury's people.
In the post-Oprah Winfrey daytime world, these are good days to be Maury Povich, who shares with Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos a studio converted from a theater 45 miles northeast of New York. His show has its best ratings in five years. "Maury...
Stamford, Conn. -- Behind a backstage door, Maury Povich leafs through papers and listens to his producers brief him on that day's paternity mysteries. He checks the pronunciation of a name or two, tries to get straight which man is claiming a childhood testicular injury. Then he's ready.
"Let's play the game," the veteran TV personality says as he rises and heads toward the door.
A couple of turns down a hallway later, he steps onto a stage filled with women dancing to "Sexy and I Know It" over the loudspeaker. A roar of recognition greets him. Maury's people.
In the post-Oprah Winfrey daytime world, these are good days to be Maury Povich, who shares with Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos a studio converted from a theater 45 miles northeast of New York. His show has its best ratings in five years. "Maury...
- 2/16/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
During the pre-tmz era of tabloid newsmagazines like "A Current Affair" and "Inside Edition," one show rose higher in the depths of sleaze it was willing to sink to: "Hard Copy."
With its sensationalist slants on lurid stories, "Hard Copy" could be depended on to give us "the truth" re-enacted by sub-dinner theater thesps laced with scary music and a healthy dose of speculation. Now "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," one of the biggest movies of the year, has fabricated an episode of this show as a viral video that has to be seen to be believed:...
With its sensationalist slants on lurid stories, "Hard Copy" could be depended on to give us "the truth" re-enacted by sub-dinner theater thesps laced with scary music and a healthy dose of speculation. Now "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," one of the biggest movies of the year, has fabricated an episode of this show as a viral video that has to be seen to be believed:...
- 12/8/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
There are a few films that I could watch over and over again. One of them is Dumb And Dumber. When the prequel, Dumb And Dumberer came out I immediately decided to pass. I really didn't need to know the backstory of Harry and Lloyd. All I needed to know I got from the first film-- they're both dumbasses. It's also a film that I get something new out of every single time I watch. All I know is seeing that A Current Affair opening makes me feel old. Would a sequel interest me? I would be...
- 10/26/2011
- by Niki Stephens
- JoBlo.com
I’m not exactly a cultist for David Cronenberg — I didn’t think A History of Violence was very convincing, or even that The Fly was a great horror film — but I was primed, in Toronto, to see A Dangerous Method, in which Viggo Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender plays Carl Jung. Keira Knightley — yes, Keira Knightley — plays the sexed-up, tormented Russian Jewish hysteria patient-turned-psychoanalyst prodigy who comes between the two of them. When you consider that Freud and Jung, along with Einstein, were arguably the most influential thinkers of the last hundred years, there have been precious...
- 9/10/2011
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Twentieth Television on Tuesday confirmed that it is developing a "contemporary" version of the syndicated newsmagazine A Current Affair (HR 11/22). The distributor said the first-run strip is being targeted for a launch next year in syndication and that the updated version will be executive produced by Peter Brennan, who created the original Current Affair. Current Affair, which featured Maury Povich as its first host, launched in 1986 on several Fox O&O stations and began its eight-year run in national syndication two years later. The new version is set to launch on the Fox Television Stations group, representing nearly 45% of the country. "A Current Affair, one of television's most seminal programs, has shaped the television newsmagazine landscape with its cutting-edge approach," said Bob Cook, president and chief operating officer of Twentieth, in a statement. "This contemporary version of 'A Current Affair' for the new millennium will follow the same principles as its predecessor."...
- 12/8/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Rick Lazio, the former Republican legislator who lost to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2000 U.S. Senate race in New York now hopes to build a career on the talk show circuit. Lazio has signed with Ian Rae -- a former executive vp at Fox News Channel, news director of Fox-owned WNYW-TV in New York and creator of the seminal tabloid television newsmagazine series A Current Affair -- to develop projects and land him guest spots across all media, much of it on behalf of the Financial Services Forum, a nonprofit group he leads that represents banking, brokerage and insurance companies. "Rick is a very appealing guy, and we're indeed thinking about putting together a business show at some point with him," said Rae, who is now an independent New York-based consultant and producer. The forum pushes heavily for free trade and other issues involving regulation of the financial industries. Lazio was a member of the House Banking and House Commerce committees in Congress. But Rae hopes to book the former four-term U.S. representative from Long Island on talk shows to chat about any number of topics designed to heighten his visibility, including criminal justice issues. Before his stint in Congress, Lazio was district attorney for Suffolk County.[/link]...
- 1/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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