Gena Rowlands Has Alzheimer’s Disease, Son Nick Cassavetes Says

Jared Padalecki is looking to join the cast of The Boys after his CW series Walker ended.

: the of all time and the anytime drops a new season (which literally happened today, June 27).But these two aren’t just casual acquaintances who enjoy a beach day together here and there; is literally the godmother of daughters, Ezer Billie and Dolores Wild. So, how are these two actors connected aside from their shared interests in acting and being hot? Johnson is “best friends” with Allen’s ex-wife , who has been sharing photos of Johnson on Instagram since 2016 (though their friendship likely dates back even further).The actors are longtime pals, actually.By “Happy birthday to my bright and shiny and to Ezer and Dolly’s godmother,” Timlin wrote in a to Johnson in 2021.

Gena Rowlands, the legendary actress known for her role as the dementia-stricken Allie in The Notebook, is now in the "full" grip of Alzheimer's disease. Her son, Nick Cassavetes, who directed the 2004 romantic drama and is himself a renowned filmmaker at 65, shared the heartbreaking health news with Entertainment Weekly during the film's 20th anniversary celebrations on Tuesday, 25 June.

Gena Rowlands was heartbreaking in the iconic 2004 romance film The Notebook — but there’s no way she could have known it was going to be her future. Fans will remember the legendary actress played the older version of Rachel McAdams’ character, Allie Hamilton. She was spending her elder years in a retirement home while dealing with Alzheimer’s. Now, a decade later, Gena herself is sadly living with the disease IRL — just like her character in the movie.

The Notebook and A Woman Under The Influence, is living with Alzheimer’s disease, her son Nick Cassavetes has confirmed.He revealed the news in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, where he discussed the particularly unusual situation he is in, having directed his mother as a woman with dementia in 2004’s The Notebook.Rowlands, who is considered a legend of screen acting, is now 94, and according to her son, she has been living with the condition for the last five years.Cassavetes was giving the interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the romantic drama, in which Rowlands plays the older version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie. James Garner and Ryan Gosling played the older and younger versions of her partner Noah.“I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” he said.

A double-digit slip in the Nielsen ratings notwithstanding, the Tony Awards worked their magic at the box office, with this year’s winners, contenders and show-stealers reporting big increases in attendance and receipts.

aspects of the beloved romantic drama The Notebook has seemingly come true. 93-year-old Gena Rowlands, who played the dementia-stricken older version of in the 2004 hit, is dealing with Alzheimer's disease, according to her son Nick Cassavetes, who also directed the film."I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's," Cassavetes told . "She's in full dementia.

Alzheimer’s disease. Her son Nick Cassavetes, who directed the beloved 2004 rom-com, revealed his mom’s diagnosis to Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday. Rowlands’ character in the film had dementia.

Actress Gena Rowlands has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her son, director Nick Cassavetes, has revealed.

The trailer for Red One is finally here!

Jack Dunn It’s Christmas in June! Amazon MGM Studios has released the trailer for the yuletide action-adventure “Red One,” starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans and J.K. Simmons as Saint Nick. Per the official synopsis, “After Santa Claus (Simmons) – Code Name: ‘Red One’ – is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security (Johnson) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.” In the trailer, Johnson takes an ordinary Hot Wheels car from a toy store and turns it into a full-sized Chevy Corvette using some space-aged Christmas technology.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Gena Rowlands is living with Alzheimer’s disease, her son Nick Cassavetes announced in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. Cassavetes, who directed his mother in 2004’s “The Notebook,” said Rowlands is “in full dementia.” A four-time Emmy winner and two-time Golden Globe winner, Rowlands is a screen icon best known for her acclaimed collaborations with husband John Cassavetes, including the films “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974) and “Gloria” (1980). Both performances earned her Oscar nominations for best actress.

Selome Hailu Season 4 of “The Boys” has made a strong debut, according to Amazon. The studio says that the new episodes achieved 21% more viewers in its first four days of streaming than Season 3’s launch reached in the same amount of time, though exact figures were not provided. Amazon also notes that this the series’ fourth consecutive season of growth, putting it among the streamer’s five biggest TV seasons ever when measuring four days of premiere viewership.

Mel Gibson, the long-gestating Lethal Weapon 5 is still happening.In 2020, producer Dan Lin confirmed that a fifth movie in the franchise was in the works with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover set to return, alongside franchise director Richard Donner. Later that year, Donner confirmed that Lethal Weapon 5 would be the final entry in the film franchise.Sadly, Richard Donner died in July 2021 at the age of 91. The film was put on hold for a short period of time, with Mel Gibson announcing in November 2021 that he had been told by Donner that he should direct the next film in the event of his death.Since then, little progress has been made on the film.

Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson is now the proud new owner of a Tony, too. The actress best known for her work in the American Horror Story franchise took home the gold Sunday for Best Actress in a Play for her work in Appropriate.“As a young actress I remember seeing Janet McTeer burst on the stage in A Doll’s House in the very theater I am currently living in,” said Paulson about doing Appropriate at the Belasco Theatre in NYC. “And some nights when I’m backstage I think about the indelible impact of her. I think about the walls of theaters all over this magical town holding the impact of each and every one of you in this room, and all of those who came before and I think how lucky those walls are to bear witness to the relentless interrogation of human experience that we endeavor to explore nightly for each other, to give back to one another with the hope of finding some shared path towards the truth about being alive. This is the heart and soul of what we do, and I am so honored to be amongst you.”

The best of Broadway was celebrated at the 2024 Tony Awards!

Broadway‘s busy, busy 2023-24 season has been building to Sunday night for months, with new show after new show crowding the spring and making for what promises to be — in some categories anyway — a race tighter than the rock band of Stereophonic. Ok, maybe not that tight, but what is?

House of the Dragon tonight for its second season as Westeros is on the brink of a bloody civil war with the Green and Black Councils fighting for King Aegon and Queen Rhaenyra. I hope that made it sound like I know what I'm talking about, because the truth is, I've never seen Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren will team up for the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s“The Last Five Years.” The musical, a look at the flowering and dissolution of a romantic relationship, was first produced at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre in 2001. It later mounted an Off Broadway show and inspired a 2014 film with Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan.

reported last June that Tony-winning “Shucked” actor Alex Newell strolled in at 6 a.m.“It was already ‘Last call.’ The hotel venue was officially shutting. And in flounces Alex,” Cindy wrote.Unhinged glamor is the vibe of the gathering, hosted by PR man Rick Miramontez and his husband, Jamie DuMont, since 2009, when it was a more intimate (and secret) affair in the Royal Suite with the ragtag hippies of “Hair.” Their 15-year-old soiree, which is also co-hosted by John Gore, was inspired by the wild dinners Joan Didion and her husband would throw in Malibu, Calif., during the 1960s and ’70s, when they’d make 2 a.m.