Peter Bart: Today’s Movie Stars May Be Losing Their Aura, But Sinatra’s Mystique Survives

K.J. Yossman Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) has gone from Kazakh ingenue to a Cannes contender thanks to her new film, “Women Do Cry.”In the movie, Bakalova (pictured right), who scored Oscar, SAG, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for her breakout role last year as Borat’s unsophisticated teenage daughter, is almost unrecognizable.

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BritBox is ramping up its international manpower with the hire of Diederick Santer as its first Chief Creative Officer.

Gemma Atkinson opened up her home to throw an alfresco birthday bash to celebrate her daughter Mia’s second birthday – and it looked an absolute treat. The 36-year-old radio presenter and her partner, Strictly Come Dancing professional Gorka Marquez, decided to invite their friends, family and fellow Strictly stars over to celebrate their little girls special day.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig has officially signed on to direct the highly-anticipated Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie.

Greta Gerwig has officially signed on to direct the upcoming Barbie movie!

Burn Gorman (The Expanse) has been tapped to play the series regular role of Charles Bluhdorn opposite Miles Teller and Matthew Goode in Paramount+’s upcoming limited series The Offer, about the making of The Godfather.

Quentin Tarantino always has been the ultimate alpha director – a man who often likes to do things ass backwards. He depicts historic events in his movies, deliberately scrambling the dates. While many cinemas now stand empty, this week he defiantly purchased his second movie theater in Los Angeles.

Raffaella Carrá was an Italian pop star best known in the U.S. for co-starring with Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) in the 1965 film “Von Ryan’s Express.”Carrá began acting in films when she was a child, and she attended Italy’s national film school.

Raffaella Carrà, beloved Italian singer, dancer and actor, who starred with Frank Sinatra in 1965’s Von Ryan’s Express, died Monday. She was 78.

A man of formidable ego, Samuel Goldwyn once confided that, while he’d basically invented Hollywood, he disliked the word “movie.” It sounded “dopey and made-up,” he told me.

iconic resorts that once welcomed Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, among other stars, is set to be demolished after nearly 30 years of abandonment. Known as the Coco Palms Resort, it first opened in 1953 and shortly thereafter became very popular in the Hollywood community.

As “F9: The Fast Saga” is about to break a pandemic era box office record this weekend, Vin Diesel might already attempt to push Universal Pictures to new and strange places with the “Fast & Furious” franchise.

As bittwersweet as NBC’s cancellation of Good Girls may be, leading ladies Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman found some humor in the news by meme-ing their reactions to the news.

Jamie Lee Curtis is speaking out about being the daughter of showbiz parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

2021 Summer Games in Tokyo next month as the sport makes its Olympic debut. Only 20 women from 17 countries will compete — with their entry determined by scores in past surfing events and each country limited to a max of two athletes.