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Thursday 14 January 2016 07.34 EST Last modified on Thursday 14 January 2016 11.09 EST Alan Rickman in 1992, the year which saw him star in political satire Bob Roberts opposite Tim Robbins. Photograph: Didier Olivré/Corbis Share Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman at the premiere of A Little Chaos in 2015. Rickman directed and starred in the…
You pretty much know what you’re getting when an awards group can’t even spell the names of the actors correctly. This morning, the Golden Raspberry Awards (popularly known as “the Razzies”) announced their nominations—the movies, directors, screenwriters, and thespians singled out as the “worst” of the year. The list offers the Razzies’ signature mix of…
Little known fact about Alan Rickman in Die Hard: For his character’s death scene he agreed to fall onto an airbag 25 feet (7.62 meters) below on the count of three. Except the director and the stunt people thought they would get a better reaction if they dropped him on the count of “one.” They…
Al Jazeera America will close by April 30th, AJAM CEO Al Anstey announced Wednesday. The network said, “The decision by the AJAM board was driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace.” The network captured a lot of media attention…
paging_filter Less than three months after ESPN shut down Grantland for good, another TV channel has been filling its ranks with the sports and culture blog’s talent — MTV’s MTV News unit. At least five ex-Grantlanders have been tapped to contribute to MTV News, including Brian Phillips, Marcus Ellsworth, Holly Anderson, Molly Lambert and Mark…
“The journalistic orthodoxy” is how Jack Shafer, a media columnist for Politco, described the media establishment (when writing about the media furor over Rolling Stone’s story on El Chapo, interviewed by Sean Penn). It is a perfect phrase to describe the establishment, which is so busy nose-picking that it doesn’t see a steamroller barreling from…
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ADULT SWIM Let’s get the obvious out of the way. It’s been a long time since the last season of The Venture Bros. There was one special, “All This and Gargantua-2” (which was really, really good), in 2015, but Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer haven’t graced the world with a proper, full-length season since 2013….
Last week, with little fanfare, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York did something very few private companies would ever do to protect its users’ privacy: it quietly began to purge its interlibrary loan records. “This policy change is motivated by the idea that libraries should not keep more information about their…
Alan Rickman, who just passed away at the age of 69, leaves behind so many iconic performances that it’s impossible to pick out a favorite. Snape in Harry Potter, Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest—everyone’s done an impression of at least one of his roles. “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns…