Hollywood Flashback: Sydney Pollack's 1966 Emmy Win Was His Ticket Into Films

Zizi Jeanmaire was a French modernist ballerina who won international acclaim for her sexually suggestive dancing in the ballet “Carmen,” choreographed by her husband, Roland Petit. She later appeared in the Hollywood films “Hans Christian Andersen” (1952) with Danny Kaye, and “Anything Goes” (1956) with Bing Crosby.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In Ottawa. In July.

Also Read: Inside UTA's Writers Guild Deal: No Packaging Fees - But With a CatchStone started his career at UTA before moving to William Morris in 2007 where he has built a roster of some of the top TV showrunners in Hollywood.

Early in his career, Stan Winston had two major jobs on CBS TV movies that showcased his talents. One was for creating Satan's handymen in 1972's Gargoyles, the other for aging Cicely Tyson from 23 to 110 in 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Mark David “FBI” star Jeremy Sisto, whose many previous film and TV credits include “Clueless,” a recurring role on “Six Feet Under” and a starring role on the former sitcom “Suburgatory,” paid insanely prolific indie film producer Cassian Elwes $2.45 million in the fall of 2013 for a renovated 1940s traditional sequestered behind gates and all but hidden by mature trees and foliage along a winding road in a notoriously celeb-packed pocket of the Hollywood Hills.

Mark David It looks like English songwriter and pop star Natasha Bedingfield, who released her fourth, 18-track Linda Perry produced studio album (“Roll With Me”) last year, is rolling out of L.A.’s Hollywood Hills, putting an almost $2.25 million price tag on a canyon- and city-view Mediterranean villa on a high ridge above L.A.’s Beachwood Canyon and just below the Hollywood sign. The “Pocket Full of Sunshine” singer, scheduled to perform in the U.K.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerRonald Schwary, who won an Oscar as the producer of Ordinary People and whose other major film successes include A Soldier’s Story, Absence of Malice, Scent of a Woman and Tootsie, has died. He was 76.

Klaritza Rico When Tarell Alvin McCraney presented the world with his Oscar-winning film “Moonlight” in 2016, he gave viewers a depiction of the Black experience that had yet to be told on screen.

Livingston boss Gary Holt admits the excitement of preparing for the new season has to be tempered by ensuring his players aren't pushed too hard in training.The Lions are in their second week of pre-season and beginning to ramp up preparations for the new campaign but the gaffer is making sure the squad don't overdo it in training.He said: “With the fixtures coming out on Monday, that adds a wee bit of spice to things because it makes the new season real, in a sense, and it’s not that long

When Buck Henry and Mel Brooks created 1965's Get Smart, both were at peak points in their careers. In 1968, Henry would receive an Academy Award nomination for writing The Graduate; the next year, Brooks would win a screenwriting Oscar for The Producers.

Rebecca Davis editorLucy Liu opened up in a recent interview about the difficulties she faced earlier in her career due to racism in Hollywood.

Hamilton — the musical phenomenon set to premiere July 3 on Disney+ — began, humbly enough, in a hammock. That's where Lin-Manuel Miranda was lounging on a 2008 jaunt to Mexico, engrossed in Ron Chernow's 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton.

Bang Showbiz reported today that the cast and crew of the legendary TV series, Friends, will be tested for the coronavirus before the reunion’s filming in August. Reportedly, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, and Matt LeBlanc, will all get together next month for HBO Max’s one-episode reunion.

On the FX/Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, Rose Byrne portrays feminist activist Gloria Steinem, and the performance just might bring her an Emmy nomination.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIt’s not that often that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the GOP high command get a direct request from Hollywood, but the chaos, losses and wounds of the coronavirus pandemic have created a new normal in more ways than one.Looking for some significant measures to help the hobbled multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry get back on its feet from the once again rising public health crisis, the Motion Picture Association, the DGA,

Daveed Diggs and Emmy Raver-Lampman wear matching face masks while attending the red carpet premiere of her movie aTypical Wednesday on Wednesday (June 24) at The Montalban in Hollywood.

Three years after ABC's Roots proved in 1977 what a ratings bonanza the multi-night format could deliver, Shogun ruled the realm of miniseries. When its 12 hours aired over five nights in 1980, Shogun gave NBC the highest weekly ratings in the network's history.