Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1939 Guest Column: How Movies Can Broaden Cultural Education

Vanessa Bryant shared behind-the-scenes photos from her shoot for a Super Bowl LVI spot. The wife of the late Kobe Bryant posted a series of images on her Instagram on Wednesday, showing her sitting in a car parked in front of a mural dedicated to Kobe and their daughter, Gianna — who both died in a helicopter crash in 2020.

Bob Odenkirk) into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Season 6 follows Jimmy, Saul and Gene as well as Jimmy’s complex relationship with Kim (Seehorn), who is in the midst of her own existential crisis.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are moving forward with their wedding planning. The couple got engaged last month after more than a year together and are looking to tie the knot «sooner than later,» a source tells ET.

Ashley Graham's twin baby boys. A month after giving birth to twins, the supermodel has officially introduced the two newest members of her family with husband Justin Ervin. «Malachi & Roman 

“Mad Max: Fury Road.”But what would the post-apocalyptic flick have been like if Michael Fassbender, Jeremy Renner, Armie Hammer or Joel Kinnaman took on the part?Writer Kyle Buchanan’s new book, “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road,” is full of tidbits about the making of the film — including an allegation that when Hammer, 35, and Hardy, 44, auditioned for the role together, things got a little … wet. An excerpt was published by Vulture on Wednesday, in which Buchanan wrote that Hardy reportedly slobbered all over the embattled “Death on the Nile” star.“Near the end of the process, Hardy emerged as a front-runner alongside Jeremy Renner and Armie Hammer.

Julia Fox is not worried about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s divorce drama, revealing they are officially a couple and confessing she is not jealous about the rapper’s “residual feelings” for the famous Kardashian.And while the actress is not worried at all, Kanye has declared he has different priorities, taking to Instagram to beg God to bring his family back together.Julia was featured on Alex Cooper’s podcast ‘Call Her Daddy,’ and opened up about the media attention she is receiving and her relationship with Kanye. “Listen, I’m sure there’s still some sort of residual feelings, and it’s normal, it’s human,” she shared, adding that she also knows “that he’s with me now.”The star is confident of her romance with the singer, even explaining during the interview that she calls him “my boyfriend and he calls me his girlfriend”Julia recently responded to breakup rumors with Kanye, after she deleted photos with him on her Instagram account and unfollowed several Kardashian fan accounts.“I unfollowed the fan accounts because I was tired of seeing myself, OK?” she shared on her Instagram Stories, adding, “And I took the f–king photos down because I read the comments and everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, you clearly only posted photos where you looked good in.’”The former couple are currently in a social media back and forth, with the rapper posting photos of Kim with their children on his Instagram account with the intention of bringing their family back together, after Kim’s recent Vogue cover story where she revealed she is putting herself first, “I’m going to make myself happy.

Zoe Saldana is filming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and sharing with her legion of fans how she spends her free time in between takes.

The owners of popular Stockport tiki bar Tahiti are gutted after a burst pipe flooded all four floors of its premises, causing £75,000 worth of damage.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMK2 Films, the banner behind Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated “The Worst Person in the World,” has boarded “Nezouh,” from Syrian director Soudade Kaadan.The drama, set against the backdrop of the conflict in Damascus, marks Kaadan’s follow up to her 2018 feature debut, “The Day I Lost My Shadow,” which won the Lion of the Future prize at Venice. Her 2019 short “Aziza,” meanwhile, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.Co-financed by BFI, which awarded National Lottery funding, and Film4, “Nezouh” is an allegorical tale of female emancipation.The movie follows 14-year-old Zeina and her family, whose lives are shaken after a bomb rips a giant hole in the roof of their building, exposing them to the outside world.

Winchester School of Art, who, realising she did not have enough to say to become an artist, had tried and failed to monetise her near 6ft height and remarkable bones in modelling. She had had a unique look since childhood – chopped her own black hair urchin-tousled, flaunted the punk clothes her older sister forwarded from London and wore a nose ring.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s prominent far-right political party AFD (Alternative for Germany) is not impressed by the country’s International Oscar entry this year, And Tomorrow The Entire World.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentVariety is celebrating its 115th birthday and, amid all the upheaval of 2020, it’s good to remember that the entertainment industry has survived constant change and adaptation. That’s reassuring.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe entertainment industry had been under fire for irresponsible depictions of violence from the early days, including 1930s gangster movies and the glut of 1950s TV Westerns. Decision-makers in Hollywood always gave lip service to the idea of responsibility, but as long as violence earned a lot of money, nobody changed.After the Sandy Hook school shootings in December 2012, Vince Gilligan wrote a thoughtful guest column about Hollywood’s depictions of violence, including the responsibility of showing its aftereffects, which are usually glossed over.He wrote that “depictions of violence in entertainment seem to exist in two basic forms.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe public often assumes that if celebrities are rich and famous, their lives must be trouble-free. Actually, lots of showbiz horror stories negate that, but they’re usually about addiction and/or self-destruction.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAs a long-delayed sequel to Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1939 guest column, Variety invited First Lady Michelle Obama to write about showbiz. The item ran on the front page on Oct.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOne of the many upheavals created by World War II was the method of news reporting. In May 1939, for example, Variety carried a story about an exciting system that allowed newsreel footage from Europe to be seen in the U.S.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentFor cinema owners, 2020 was clearly a watershed year, with many wondering about the long-term future of moviegoing. So a Nov.

More than 200 independent cinemas across England are set to receive grant awards totaling £16 million ($21.6 million) to help see them through the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The grants —ranging from £7,000 ($9,500) to £564,000 ($763,000) and spanning sites of all sizes the length and breadth of the country —will come as a major relief to a beleaguered exhibition industry, with most cinemas now closed once again after authorities placed much of England under the strictest tier of pandemic restrictions as it grapples with a deadly second spike in infections.

Colin Jost found himself in an awkward spot when he was forced to tell a joke about wife Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live.The comedian, 38, and his “Weekend Update” cohost, Michael Che, wrote jokes for each other to tell during the Saturday, December 19, episode. “We’re making each other read jokes live on air that the other person has never seen before,” the 37-year-old Daily Show alum explained of their Christmas tradition.For the final joke of the roundup, Che tricked Jost into poking fun at Johansson, 36.

Eddie Izzard is being celebrated for a recent television appearance.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, Canada's entry for best international feature Oscar consideration, for having too much dialogue in English. "Although we were disappointed when informed by the Academy, we are excited to extend our ongoing support for Funny Boy as the journey to the Oscars continues,” Christa Dickenson, executive director of Telefilm Canada, said in a statement on Friday.

Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.

The Mindy Project alum Utkarsh Ambudkar and P.J. Byrne (The Boys, The Wolf of Wall Street) have joined the second season of Mindy Kaling’s coming-of-age comedy series Never Have I Ever in recurring roles.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine. Read more from the archives here.Ava DuVernay is a force of nature.

A Promised Land, and he's revealed —including how the former first family spent the early days of quarantine. During an appearance on , Obama spilled even more tea, namely that his oldest daughter boyfriend actually quarantined with the family for a while. Can you imagine?!“I think, [like] a lot of families, we went through that first month where we were playing games every night and doing little arts and crafts projects and then slowly they started to get a little bored with us," Obama said.

Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.A West Lothian Primary School will be renovated as part of an £800 million project, John Swinney has announced.The secretary for education announced this morning that East Calder Primary School is one of the schools selected across Scotland for the Learning Estate Investment Programme.All in 25 new schools and campuses are to be constructed or refurbished to provide modern, state of the art learning facilities for approximately 21,000 children and young people across Scotland.John Swinney said: “I am pleased to confirm that the projects to benefit from the second phase of the Learning Estate Investment Programme (LEIP) will be announced

Retired tennis star Maria Sharapova is engaged. The former Russian athlete, who bowed out of the sport in February this year, has accepted a proposal from British art dealer Alexander Gilkes after two years of dating.

It’s nothing but bliss ahead for Alexander Gilkes and Maria Sharapova. The couple, who began dating two years ago, are about to tie the knot, they announced on Instagram! Alexander, the dashing British art dealer tight with the entire royal family, swept the tennis pro off her feet. Here’s what else you should know about him:

London will add another studio to its growing library of film and TV facilities. Garden Studios —announced by the Arts Alliance investment group —is a new 62,000-square-foot hub in Park Royal in the northwest of the British capital, more central than others and just 7 miles from Soho.

Garden Studios, a 62,000 sq ft film and TV production site, is set to open in London in early 2021.