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I just loved Peter Scolari, who died today at 66 of cancer.
10 posts categorized "TOM HANKS"
Jul
09
2021
When they go high, we go Momoa. (Images via Jimmy Kimmel Live!)
ABOVE: Just a reminder from Jason Momoa to keep it sexy.
Mar
11
2020
The worst is yet to come.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 12, 2020
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Trump just announced that no travel from Europe (not counting the U.K. — for some reason) will be allowed for 30 days, and is encouraging people to stay home from work.
This, after calling coronavirus a hoax and saying it would go away, and saying it had been contained.
Dr. Fauci — who knows a thing or two about viruses — stated plainly that the worst is yet to come.
Now, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have tested positive — the first famous folks to declare their status. More to come, I'm sure.
And yet my timeline is still filled with people pooh-poohing this.
— Tom Hanks (@tomhanks) March 12, 2020
This doctor, who tested positive after helping patients in Madrid, posted his experience with the virus on social media. His case was relatively mild, with little coughing, but he said he felt the worst about nine days (!) after he tested positive, and was not cleared for three weeks. Another man, this one in Wuhan, also wrote about his much worse experience, which also lasted three weeks — and included violent coughing and the need for antiviral treatments and lung scans.
Jul
22
2019
ABOVE: And I've yet to go to Fire Island!
BELOW: Keep reading for Insta-studs in heat, KJ Apa off the market and more ...
Jul
05
2018
Above: The beautiful Matthew Griffin, who I first fell for when he performed in Broadway Bares this year. His Insta here.
Jan
30
2018
(Image via Vogue)
In a brilliant PR gambit for her new movie, the Spielberg-directed The Post, Meryl Streep breezed into Vogue to have a chat with Anna Wintour, who she famously played in The Devil Wears Prada ...
Jonathan Demme: February 22, 1944—April 26, 2017 (Image via handout)
Jonathan Demme, who won the Oscar for directing The Silence of the Lambs (1991), has died of cancer at 73, Variety reports.
After a string of edgy, critically acclaimed films like the offbeat Howard Hughes buddy movie Melvin and Howard (1980), the much-loved Talking Heads doc Stop Making Sense (1984), the Melanie Griffith road movie Something Wild (1986) and the Michelle Pfeiffer mobster comedy Married to the Mob (1988), Demme broke into A-list director territory with Lambs, which became a rare film to win all of the Top 5 awards at the Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
Lambs, for which then-closeted actress Jodie Foster won the Oscar (giving a speech that obliquely referenced her choice to be a private person), contains — along with fine acting and memorable suspense — an arguably exploitative representation of a serial killer who is described as someone who thinks he is, and wants to be, “transsexual.” The script includes dialogue that attempts to argue that actual trans people are not prone to murder, but scenes of Buffalo Bill with his penis tucked between his legs and mugging in female garb seem unmistakably designed to creep out the audience.
It could be argued that Demme hadn't completely shaken off his early years working on unapologetically exploitative films for Roger Corman, including his directorial debut, Caged Heat (1974).
Buffalo Bill's shock value (Image via Orion)
Nonetheless, The Silence of the Lambs has since been called one of the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made by the AFI, and was an enormous international success.
In Demme's follow-up to Lambs, he took on the topic of AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), which won Tom Hanks his first Oscar. The film grossed nearly $80 million in the U.S., thanks to Demme's efforts to get it made, and thanks to his casting of movie stars Hanks and Denzel Washington.
His career took a swift dive thereafter, with the Oprah Winfrey-starring bomb Beloved (1998) and the poorly received remakes The Truth About Charlie (2002) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
Rachel Getting Married (2008), starring Anne Hathaway, represented a return to Demme's roots. His final narrative films, A Master Builder (2013) and the Meryl Streep vehicle Ricki and the Flash (2015) did not make a big impact.
In 2016, Demme directed Justin Timberlake's concert feature, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids, for Netflix.
Demme had been battling cancer at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife Joanne Howard and their three children.
