Peter Bart: Forgotten Classics And Sixties Softies Revived Amid Pandemic Purgatory

Michelle Obama is opening up about

Trevor Noah has high hopes for this year’s very different Grammy Awards.

Even though Tom Selleck has had a long running CBS hit with the police and family drama Blue Bloods since 2010, he’s rarely seen out in public going about his daily life. The 76-year-old is an admittedly private person, but photographers caught up to the actor in what is his first Los Angeles sighting since the COVID-19 lockdown began a year ago in March 2020. The actor wore a navy t-shirt, black shorts and black trainers in the warm sun on Mar. 1. You can see the photos of Tom here.

“Since studios keep making remakes, why don’t they at least remake them better?” Billy Wilder had a right to ask me that question 20 years ago, since the many remakes of his movies (Sabrina, The Apartment, etc.) never matched the originals.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival said Thursday that its 2021 edition is being postponed until late August amid the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers said the new dates are Aug.

Love Island is returning this summer after it was scrapped last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.The hit dating show will return to our screens, with a host of sexy singletons setting up home in a villa in the quest of finding love. Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of Media and Entertainment at ITV, confirmed Love Island is returning this year – which will surely delight fans.

As Hollywood travels a long, bumpy road to recovery from pandemic lockdowns, Canada is raising its production game. On local soundstages and location sets, agile Canadian crews and talent have managed to keep cameras rolling through a combination of resourcefulness, careful planning and sheer will.

Jennifer Garner knows she and other moms have had a year of saying “No” to their kids amid the coronavirus pandemic — so she can’t wait to start saying “Yes.” In an interview with ET’s Kevin Frazier for her new movie, “Yes Day”, Garner opened up about the stress of raising kids in quarantine.

There are some scheduling changes happening amid the pandemic.

The Golden Globes ritual this Sunday may prompt the usual groans in some circles, but it will also trigger some elegant paydays.

Disney is providing an update.

Street food long has been a key part of Los Angeles culture, in the past decade or so manifesting in a boom of food trucks surrounding office buildings by day and spots like Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard by night. Kogi's Roy Choi often has been credited as a leader of the food truck revolution since launching his Korean-Mexican fusion operation in 2008; 12 years later, he has watched as the industry took a profound hit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TOKYO -- Japanese author Haruki Murakami has a remedy for those who need relaxation from stress and worries in time of a pandemic — Brazilian Bossa nova music.“As we are going through a time of anxiety, I hope to help you relax even just a little bit,” Murakami, 72, said as he hosted a live online show, “Murakami Jam — Blame it on the Bossa Nova,” bringing together renowned Japanese performers of Bossa nova and jazz.Despite the pandemic, Murakami — known for bestsellers including “A Wild Sheep

no reason bars cannot open in April, as its boss expressed exasperation at ministers “lack of interest”.The Young's brewing conglomerate today called on Boris Johnson to “do the right thing” and show strong leadership when the industry “needs it most”.Scotland's hospitality industry has been shut since December, with pubs in much of the central belt closed since October.Nicola Sturgeon will update MSPs on the Scottish Government lockdown strategy on Tuesday, but there is so far no indication of

The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday reported that it took a $2.6 billion hit this quarter due to the pandemic's impact on theme parks.

They fill the mailbox daily – the tightly packaged screeners that arrive like welcome anachronisms, some bearing familiar titles (Mank, Soul) but most as strangers (Wolfwalkers, Athlete A). Their sheer abundance reminds us of the creative energy out there; the “out there,” however, seems lost in the mist. “We need festivals and parties and hype,” observes Nick Jarecki, whose fast-paced thriller Crisis opens in March, searching for hype (he won the Kodak Auteur Award).

When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs square off at Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 7, there'll be no shortage of stars on the field thanks to A-list QBs Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes and an entertainment lineup that includes halftime performer The Weeknd, national anthem duet team Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church, poet Amanda Gorman and Miley Cyrus, who's headlining the NFL TikTok Tailgate event.