Barry Levinson’s personal connection to his latest film ‘The Survivor’

As you’d expect, even the most acclaimed filmmakers slow down in their later years. Sure, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg are exceptions, but for the most part opportunities are fewer and farther between.

Opening his remarks to a crowd in the backyard of his Kalorama neighborhood home, Ireland’s Ambassador Daniel Mulhall quipped, “I’m kind of wondering: Is it legal to have so many people at a party?”

Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were set to host their first official film screening at the White House on Thursday.The Bidens will show HBO’s “The Survivor,” in honor of Yom HaShoah and Holocaust Remembrance Week, in the White House movie theater on the ground floor of the East Wing.The film tells the story of boxer Harry Haft, who put the lives of fellow concentration camp prisoners at risk to save his own. The movie dramatizes Haft’s experience in Auschwitz, a central part of the Nazi death camp system.An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland and at least 1.1 million died, according to its museum and memorial website.Director Barry Levinson, actor Ben Foster, who plays Haft, the film's producers and representatives of the American Jewish Community were expected to attend, the White House said.HBO debuted “The Survivor” on Wednesday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.

HBO’s The Survivor will be shown at the White House on Thursday, marking President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s first official screening since taking office.

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When it came time for director Barry Levinson to cast the role of famed boxing trainer Charlie Goldman in his new film “The Survivor,” he went straight to his friend Danny DeVito. “This was all Barry,” DeVito said about how he came to be a part of the HBO Holocaust film, telling TheWrap it was like no time had passed at all since he and Levinson first worked together on the 1987 film “Tin Men.”“The Survivor” tells the true story of Harry Haft, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who was forced to box other inmates to survive – sometimes to the death.

Sasha Urban editorIn the late 1940s, when Barry Levinson was a young boy, his family hosted a guest — his grandmother’s brother. The man’s name was Simka, and he shared a room with Levinson for a two-week period before moving away.

Barry Keoghan has been arrested.

Irish actor Barry Keoghan has quickly become a rising star after appearing in “The Green Knight,” “Eternals,” and having a brief cameo as the newest incarnation of DC Comics villain The Joker in Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman.” The young actor isn’t slowing down as he’s reuniting with Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of Inisherin” from writer-director Martin McDonagh and has now dished two more projects on the horizon.

Barry Manilow's musical, , has just been dealt a major setback. The 78-year-old singer revealed that he has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing him to cancel the show's opening night in New York City — something he said he's been waiting for for 25 years.«I am heartbroken to say that I have just tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t be able to attend tonight’s opening night performance of my new musical, ,» Manilow began in a statement shared with ET.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television, which launched the TV awards season this weekend with 48 series and almost 150 panelists converging at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles to discuss their buzzworthy shows in front of a full house of industry voters.

For their HBO Max film The Survivor, which chronicles the real-life journey of Harry Haft, a concentration camp prisoner forced to box to survive his internment, both director Barry Levinson and star Ben Foster found compelling connections to the story through their own families, as well as disturbing parallels to currently unfolding history.

Gerda Weissmann Klein, who as a teen survived the Holocaust before becoming an author, activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and subject of a 1995 Oscar-and-Emmy winning film, died yesterday according to that film’s director, Kary Antholis. She was 97.

Big Thief performed their recent single ‘Spud Infinity’ on US TV last week – check out the video below.The Brooklyn band appeared as the musical guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in support of their fifth studio album, ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’, which came out in February via 4AD.Big Theif didn’t appear in Fallon’s New York studio as is customary for the show’s live performers, but instead delivered a laid back rendition of ‘Spud Infinity’ from a bright living room.Tune in to the group’s recent Fallon appearance here:Big Thief are set to perform at a string of UK and European festivals this summer, including Glastonbury, Primavera Sound, Best Kept Secret and Tempelhof Sounds. You can find the band’s full live schedule here.Last month saw Big Thief wrap up a UK and Ireland headline tour, which included a four-night billing at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.

Barrie Youngfellow, who starred on the ’80s sitcom It’s a Living, died on Monday night, according to her family. She was 75.