Alan Eisenberg Dies: Longtime Exec Director Of Actors’ Equity Was 88

In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled to steer the country — and especially the South — forward in the wake of Jim Crow laws and racial violence.

Kerry Washington is getting vulnerable about sharing pieces of her personal life with the world and engaging in activism.

Brent Lang Executive Editor FilmNation Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Sean Baker’s new romantic dramedy film “Anora.” Following the acquisition, FilmNation sold rights internationally to Le Pacte in France, Lev in Israel, Kismet in Australia and New Zealand and Focus Features and Universal Pictures International in the rest of the world, excluding North America. The film was written and directed by Baker, who is best known for directing “Tangerine” and “The Florida Project.” It shot on location at the beginning of the year in Brooklyn and stars Mikey Madison, who appeared as Manson Family follower Susan “Sadie” Atkins in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Plot details are being kept under wraps.

Sam Heughan appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote his new book with Graham McTavish.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The version of “Killers of the Flower Moon” that is opening in theaters this weekend is far different from the “Killers of the Flower Moon” that director Martin Scorsese first attempted to bring to the big screen. Originally, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth planned to more faithfully adapt David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name and wrote a script from the perspective of the FBI agents who investigated a string of murders among the Osage Nation in the 1920s. Scorsese recently told BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine that this first script “was going to take four-and-a-half hours just to read it.” “Our script was over two hundred pages,” he also confirmed to The New Yorker about the original “Flower Moon” screenplay.

Halle Berry was reportedly misled about the scope of her role within 2006′s X-Men: The Last Stand, according to director Matthew Vaughn.

Joanna Merlin, whose acting career stretched from Broadway (she was the original Tzeitel in Fiddler On The Roof), film (she played the dance teacher Miss Berg in Alan Parker’s 1980 film Fame) and TV (Law & Order: SVU‘s Judge Lena Petrovsky on dozens of episodes) died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92.

Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74.

The Washington Post is planning to offer staff buyouts as part of a plan to reduce their overall staff by 240.

Valerie Wu Intern Alan Eisenberg, leader of American labor union Actors’ Equity Assocation for 25 years, died Saturday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 88. Eisenberg was the longest-serving executive director for Equity, with a tenure from 1981 to 2006.

Nick Wilkinson, a casting director for ABC Television and Theatre Communications Group, died Sept. 29 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai from a heart attack at age 69. His death was confirmed by his husband, Jamie Wooten,

Kerry Washington is spill all the tea!

Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn are teaming up for an epic reunion!

After acting with Meg Ryan in 2004’s “Against The Ropes,” Kerry Washington explained in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” why she declined to play the “white girl’s best friend” role.

, you're incorrect. If you don't believe me, just watch this 20-second clip of the two of them interacting, which is going viral on social media for, ahem, obvious reasons.In the clip, which Washington posted to Twitter and Instagram, , dressed in a sultry red ensemble of sheer lace top and matching trousers, walks down a hotel hallway and knocks on a door.

Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained in her new memoir.The actor, who starred alongside Jamie Foxx in the 2012 movie which focused on slavery in the American South, claims in excerpts from her book Thicker Than Water via The Daily Beast that the original script included a scene where she “escaped abuse running naked down the street” and a “terrifyingly brutal rape scene” which she had reservations about being part of.In the end neither scene was filmed and Washington says she still doesn’t know exactly why the latter in particular never went ahead.She wrote: “Jamie and Quentin stood in the corner. Both men were looking down at the dirt floor, and as I walked toward them, Tarantino announced that we were all going home.”Washington went on: “The scene would be cut from the script.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kerry Washington explains in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” that she actively rejected playing the “white girl’s best friend” after starring in “Against the Ropes,” the 2004 boxing drama headlined by Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. The film starred Ryan as Jackie Kallen, the first woman to achieve success as a boxing manager.

Kerry Washington continues to revisit some of the darkest moments of her life in her new memoir, Thicker Than Water, which is currently available wherever books are sold.

The bombshells are exploding in Kerry Washington’s new memoir, Thicker Than Water, available now on bookshelves and digital platforms.

Kerry Washington is opening up even more.