Naming a new royal baby is an incredibly important decision, especially if that baby is one day destined to become the future King or Queen.
31.08.2023 - 22:39 / deadline.com
George R.R. Martin may not be cranking out the novels, but his blog is thriving.
In a recent entry, the Game of Thrones mastermind commented on a Vanity Fair roundup of what that publication deemed “25 Perfect TV Episodes from the Last 25 Years.” Martin was on the list for his self-penned GoT episode, Blackwater.
“I have never claimed to be perfect… but if the good folks at VANITY FAIR want to say so, who I am to argue?,” he wrote on the blog.
“Of course, they are not actually saying I am perfect. They are talking about Blackwater, one of the episodes I wrote for GAME OF THRONES. (I scripted four. And yes, Blackwater is my own favorite of those, although I thought The Lion and the Rose turned out very well too, and I have a soft spot for that one).”
Martin admitted he hasn’t seen every TV episode on the Vanity Fair list. “But I have to say, the ones that I have watched were by and large extraordinary.”
Martin went on to give shout-outs to episodes from the Sopranos, Black Mirror, Mad Men, and the Wire, among others.
But there was one episode in particular that caught his eye.
“If I had to pick one episode that was even more perfect than all the others on the list, though, it would have to be the final episode of SIX FEET UNDER. I liked that series well enough, though I cannot say I loved it as much as I loved ROME or DEADWOOD or FARGO or a few other shows missing from the list, but that last episode was far and away the best finale in the entire history of television, and I cannot imagine how anyone could possibly do better.
“Anyway… I feel very pleased and flattered to be in such great company. No work of art is ever truly perfect, of course… but it is very gratifying to hear that maybe you achieved it, or at
Naming a new royal baby is an incredibly important decision, especially if that baby is one day destined to become the future King or Queen.
Steve Martin is responding to accusations from one-time co-star Miriam Magoyles that he was “horrid” to her while filming the musical comedy “Little Shop of Horrors”.
Little Shop Of Horrors.Margolyes, who played an assistant to Martin’s sadistic dentist character Orin Scrivello in the Frank Oz’s musical, shared her experience working with Martin in her new memoir, Oh Miriam! Stories From An Extraordinary Life.In the film, the pair appeared together in the musical number ‘Dentist!’, where Martin’s character slams a door in her face.“I was hit all day by doors opening in my face; repeatedly punched, slapped and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin – perhaps he was method acting – and came home grumpy with a splitting headache,” Margolyes wrote (via The Huffington Post).She later described Martin as “undeniably brilliant, but horrid to me”, adding: “Let it not be said that I have never suffered in the name of art.”Margolyes went on to compare him to her “unerringly sweet” Ed And His Dead Mother co-star Steve Buscemi, who she said “knocked spots off Steve Martin”.In recent years, Martin is best known for starring in Hulu series Only Murders In The Building opposite Martin Short and Selena Gomez. At the time of writing, he’s not responded to Margolyes’ claims.Recently, Margolyes expressed her disdain for Monty Python actor John Cleese, who she described as “poisonous” and “irrelevant”.“John was a brilliant comedian in his day, but something has turned,” she told the Guardian.
James Corden and Harry Styles are making the world a better place, for both their fans and the environment.
, the designer and founder of , an accessories brand known for its colorful, hand-woven bags that put you in a happy-go-lucky mood no matter the season. Vibrant and adorned with porcelain charms intended to help you manifest your deepest desires, Alvarez's creations don't look anything like the overflowing with baguettes and peonies—nor do they resemble the typical .
Spanish Screenings on Tour, which unspools at Rome’s MIA forum, taking place Oct. 9-13. A platform of market premieres, projects, pics in post and potential remake titles, the Spanish Screenings also underscore the ever stronger emergence in Spain of open arthouse titles – Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return,” Arantxa Echeverría “Chinas,” Benito Zambrano’s “Jumping the Fence” and Gerardo Herrero’s “Under Therapy,” which was one of the best-selling titles at March’s Malaga Spanish Screenings.
penned on Instagram on Monday.On Aug. 28, Guthrie and family took in a tennis match at the US Open.
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of TIFF, Concourse Media has sold North American and UK rights on the adventure comedy Good Egg, starring Jane The Virgin actor Yara Martinez, to Vertical.
Scots actor Martin Compston surprised crowds attending The View's gig at The Caves in Edinburgh on Wednesday night, as the band took to social media following their performance to thank the star for coming along.
Travis Barker is getting his daily caffeine fix.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Liam Neeson appeared on a recent episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” podcast (recorded prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike) and again shaded the “Star Wars” franchise for diluting itself with so many sequels and spinoffs. The actor, who played the Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas’ “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” (1999), was asked about how often “Star Wars” fans come up to him to ask for an autograph. “Not all the time,” Neeson answered.
Fans of Game Of Thrones and Succession are bound to love Sky original drama Domina , which returns for its second season this week. Set in Italy, the eight-part series continues the retelling of the power struggles for control of the Roman Empire from a female perspective. Polish-born actress Kasia Smutniak stars as leading lady Livia Drusilla who, after three years away, returns to Rome alongside her husband Augustus Caesar, known as Gaius (played by Matthew McNulty).
Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips,” the biographer, who collaborated with Princess Diana on 1992’s “Diana: Her True Story,” was asked about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex coming back to Britain.The couple stepped back as senior members of the royal family in 2020 and decamped to California.“What, and have Meghan Markle curtsying to Kate Middleton?” snarked Morton, 70. “I don’t think so. I don’t see that as a runner.
Despite its soft-sounding title, Stefano Sollima’s crime drama is a gripping call-back to the heyday of poliziotteschi movies, a peculiarly Italian genre that dealt with inter-gang wars in a country where the police were often more venal than the bad guys. Adagio, though, takes a unique tack, borrowing from Martin Scorsese’s fatalistic masterpiece The Irishman to portray to tell a story in which a trio of gangsters — one blind, one suffering early-onset dementia, and another with terminal cancer — are forced to reunite against a team of bent cops involved in an elaborate blackmail plan.
EXCLUSIVE: Emerald Fennell likened making Saltburn, her dangerously dark comedy of class and lack of manners, “to taking your clothes off and exposing yourself.”
Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin is responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed TV shows in recent memory, but he doesn’t think they’re the best of all time.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Harmony Korine used to be a movie junkie, someone who’d watch anything and everything. These days, when people recommend a movie, “I’ll look at it and I feel nothing, like dead inside,” says the guy whose own films, from “Spring Breakers” to the controversial screenplay for Larry Clark’s “Kids,” are nothing if not disruptive. “Watching a lot of this shit, you really feel the algorithms,” he says the day before receiving the Pardo d’onore Manor prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef have reached a settlement agreement in their divorce. According to new legal documents obtained by ET, the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer and Yosef sign
Ethan Shanfeld In the eyes of George R.R. Martin, HBO’s “Six Feet Under” sits atop the Iron Throne of television finales.
Megalopolis, the long-awaited passion project from Francis Ford Coppola, is the latest film to land an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA. The film finished production earlier this year so it is unknown what the agreement would be used for but with festival season ramping up it could potentially be getting one in order to be sold on one of the markets or potentially screen an upcoming festival and in need of one for publicity purposes.