Bette Midler Encourages You to Support the Costume Designers Who Make Her Look Fabulous

William Earl administratorHBO is bringing quarantined celebrities to the small screen with their new original film “Coastal Elites,” and the just-released trailer shows the lighter side of isolation. The film, the latest in a slew of pandemic programming, stars Issa Rae, Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy and Sarah Paulson as several people telling their socially-distanced stories from across the United States.

Also Read: 17 New Summer TV Shows Ranked by Premiere Viewers, From 'Tough as Nails' to 'United We Fall' (Photos)From playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick and directed by Jay Roach, the 1-hour, 30-minute social-distancing satire, which “tells contemporary stories of characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the pandemic,” will debut Saturday, Sept.

We’re on the precipice of a million different shows and films taking the COVID-19 pandemic and turning it into fodder for plot and entertainment. And though that’s to be expected whenever a major world event happens, it’s pretty insane that we’ve seen something like “Coastal Elites” not only be conceived, written, and produced in such a short time, but it will actually get released while the US is still dealing with the pandemic on a day-to-day basis.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhether it was the dystopian society of “The Handmaid’s Tale” or the alternate history of “Watchmen,” the Emmy nominated costume designers in the fantasy/sci-fi category sought to ground their looks in reality.

Bette Midler is using words and pictures to tell a New York story.

NEW YORK -- Bette Midler is using words and pictures to tell a New York story. Midler's picture book “The Tale of the Mandarin Duck” will be published Feb.

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Also Read: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton Comedy Pitch 'Family Jewels' Acquired by New Republic PicturesDugan also served as a producer along with Align’s Adrian Politowski and Martin Metz, and Fortitude International’s Nadine de Barros.“Dennis Dugan is one of the most successful comedy directors of our time and we have been huge fans of his work,” Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley said in a statement. “We knew we had to be a part of the newest addition to his collection.

Tomris Laffly “’You are one of the few designers that can open a movie,’” costumer Mona May recalls Happy Madison co-founder Jack Giarraputo once telling her. Perhaps no appraisal can sum up the fashion-design-trained May’s auteur-like contribution to cinema as succinctly. Her bold colors, unapologetically soft silhouettes and feathery boas — signature touches that at once highlight comedy, beauty and authenticity — helped define a genre of film.

In something of a surprise, “The Masked Singer” cracked the Competition Series field for the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards. Despite massive ratings for this era of broadcast television, the FOX network series wasn’t necessarily a favorite of the critics or industry.

plays a philanthropist who runs in the same circles as Ivanka Trump.“For me, this is kind of an education because I do tend to try to avoid as much of the Trump family as possible.

Peter White Television EditorHBO’s quarantine-produced comedy feature Coastal Elites, starring Bette Midler, is to launch on September 12 – six months after COVID-19 started to ravage the U.S.The show centers around five characters from New York and Los Angeles coping with politics and the pandemic.Midler plays Miriam Nessler, a long-time teacher in the New York City public school system, who loves her students, the New York Times and the theater, who finds herself in police custody.Speaking as

Coastal Elites transformed into a screen adaptation at the start of the pandemic and as the year unfolded.

Halsey, Bette Midler, Sara Bareilles, Gloria Estefan and more stars shared their thoughts on the massive explosion in Lebanon's capital of Beirut Tuesday (Aug. 4) that has killed nearly 80 people and injured 4,000.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the second season of “The Umbrella Academy,” streaming now on Netflix.The second season of “The Umbrella Academy” snaps its characters back in time to the 1960s — and yes, that includes Kate Walsh as the Handler, despite being shot and presumed dead in the first season of the Netflix adaptation of Gerard Way’s graphic novels.