One month ago today, the Netflix streaming service unveiled a batch of images that gave us our first look at the upcoming romantic comedy A Family Affair, which is scheduled to begin streaming on June 28th. With that date now just one month away, a trailer for A Family Affair has been released, and you can check that out in the embed above.
The film was directed by Richard Lagravenese, whose previous credits include Living Out Loud, A Decade Under the Influence, Freedom Writers, P.S. I Love You, Beautiful Creatures, and The Last Five Years. Speaking with the Netflix promotional website Tudum, Lagravenese said he was drawn to the material because, “I saw in it a coming of age story for three different characters at three different stages of their lives. I was going through my own sort of transition into what Gail Sheehy called Second Adulthood, where after you...
The film was directed by Richard Lagravenese, whose previous credits include Living Out Loud, A Decade Under the Influence, Freedom Writers, P.S. I Love You, Beautiful Creatures, and The Last Five Years. Speaking with the Netflix promotional website Tudum, Lagravenese said he was drawn to the material because, “I saw in it a coming of age story for three different characters at three different stages of their lives. I was going through my own sort of transition into what Gail Sheehy called Second Adulthood, where after you...
- 5/29/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Richard C. Wald, a former president at NBC News and a senior vice president at ABC News who worked behind the scenes with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Ted Koppel and Roone Arledge, died May 13 after suffering a stroke earlier in the month. He was 92.
Wald was involved with the creation of “Nightline,” the signature ABC News late-night program that grew out of special coverage in 1979 on the taking of U.S. embassy staff in Tehran by Iranian militants. Wald gave the show, which devoted itself to a single topic each night under the aegis of Koppel and remains on the air at ABC in modernized form, its name, trying to create an analogue to the “morning line” at a race track. He also put Brokaw on NBC’s “Today,” and hired Pauley, while working to modernize the format of “NBC Nightly News.”
His time in TV news, however, was preceded...
Wald was involved with the creation of “Nightline,” the signature ABC News late-night program that grew out of special coverage in 1979 on the taking of U.S. embassy staff in Tehran by Iranian militants. Wald gave the show, which devoted itself to a single topic each night under the aegis of Koppel and remains on the air at ABC in modernized form, its name, trying to create an analogue to the “morning line” at a race track. He also put Brokaw on NBC’s “Today,” and hired Pauley, while working to modernize the format of “NBC Nightly News.”
His time in TV news, however, was preceded...
- 5/13/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Gail Sheehy, a journalist and author whose work examined racism, menopause, drug addiction, and whose profiles ranged from fading high society doyennes to power brokers, died Monday from complications from pneumonia. She was 83.
As a reporter for New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other outlets, Sheehy profiled the likes of George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Anwar Sadat, Margaret Thatcher, and Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who were later featured in the famous documentary “Grey Gardens.” In a 2014 interview with Npp’s “All Things Considered,” Sheehy said she relied heavily on research when it came to writing about famous figures, and was less concerned with their seminal achievements than their personal struggles.
“I’m looking for their character, which is not about policy,” she said. “Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow. What I do is — or I did when...
As a reporter for New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other outlets, Sheehy profiled the likes of George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Anwar Sadat, Margaret Thatcher, and Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who were later featured in the famous documentary “Grey Gardens.” In a 2014 interview with Npp’s “All Things Considered,” Sheehy said she relied heavily on research when it came to writing about famous figures, and was less concerned with their seminal achievements than their personal struggles.
“I’m looking for their character, which is not about policy,” she said. “Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow. What I do is — or I did when...
- 8/25/2020
- by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Celebrated author Robert James Waller has died at the age of 77. Take a look back at People’s 1995 cover story on Meryl Streep and her emotional role in the film adaptation of Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County.
In the final days of the five-week shoot of The Bridges of Madison County last fall, Meryl Streep did one of the many things she does better onscreen than anyone else: she cried. Filming an emotional scene in which her character struggles to say goodbye to her lover, the actress would show up on the set in Winterset, Iowa, at 9 in...
In the final days of the five-week shoot of The Bridges of Madison County last fall, Meryl Streep did one of the many things she does better onscreen than anyone else: she cried. Filming an emotional scene in which her character struggles to say goodbye to her lover, the actress would show up on the set in Winterset, Iowa, at 9 in...
- 3/10/2017
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
From the cauldron of his childhood—the father who abandoned him, the manic-depressive mother who loved him too much, the stepfather whose anger shaped the family—Newt Gingrich emerged with a heroic need that became his mission. Talking to his inner circle of family, friends, and associates, and to the Speaker himself, Gail Sheehy learns the details of Newt’s wars, his women, and his contract with himself.
- 1/20/2012
- Vanity Fair
Women scared away from hormone replacement therapy with estrogen because of a possible breast cancer link, take note: A startling study, released Thursday, says certain women who take estrogen alone actually have a reduced risk of breast cancer. Gail Sheehy talks to researchers.
A controversial study is adding new fuel to the debate raging over breast cancer and estrogen.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Female Jocks Rule the World
In recent years, thousands of menopausal women have been scared off hormone replacement therapy with estrogen because of its possible links to breast cancer, heart attacks, and strokes. But the startling new study, released Thursday by a Canadian research team, says certain women who take estrogen alone actually have a reduced risk of breast cancer.
"Our analysis suggests that, contrary to previous thinking, the data show that...for selected women [hormone replacement therapy] with estrogen alone it is not only safe, but potentially beneficial for breast cancer,...
A controversial study is adding new fuel to the debate raging over breast cancer and estrogen.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Female Jocks Rule the World
In recent years, thousands of menopausal women have been scared off hormone replacement therapy with estrogen because of its possible links to breast cancer, heart attacks, and strokes. But the startling new study, released Thursday by a Canadian research team, says certain women who take estrogen alone actually have a reduced risk of breast cancer.
"Our analysis suggests that, contrary to previous thinking, the data show that...for selected women [hormone replacement therapy] with estrogen alone it is not only safe, but potentially beneficial for breast cancer,...
- 12/9/2010
- by Gail Sheehy
- The Daily Beast
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina claimed they wanted to help the world by dipping their toes into politics-but their failed races were mostly about ego. How could they have better spent a combined $217 million? How about college tuition for 23,000? Or school lunches for 15 million? The Daily Beast's Gail Sheehy crunches the numbers.
In a year that broke all the records for money spent on campaigns, some candidates threw away enough of their own wealth to make even Mayor Bloomberg blush. Take Jeff Greene, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Florida, who spent $23,808,789, with only about $4,000 coming from outside contributions. Each of the 284,948 votes cast in his favor cost $83.55.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin's Media Strategy
Then there are the women. This election was really a tale of three little girls who grew up to make so much money, they didn't know what to do with it.
In a year that broke all the records for money spent on campaigns, some candidates threw away enough of their own wealth to make even Mayor Bloomberg blush. Take Jeff Greene, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Florida, who spent $23,808,789, with only about $4,000 coming from outside contributions. Each of the 284,948 votes cast in his favor cost $83.55.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin's Media Strategy
Then there are the women. This election was really a tale of three little girls who grew up to make so much money, they didn't know what to do with it.
- 11/13/2010
- by Gail Sheehy
- The Daily Beast
Jill Clayburgh, who embodied hopeful and determined women in such '70s and '80s movies as An Unmarried Woman, Starting Over and It's My Turn, died at her Connecticut home on Friday from chronic leukemia, a disease she quietly battled for 21 years, her husband, playwright David Rabe, told The New York Times. She was 66. Earlier this week, the couple's daughter, actress Lily Rabe, took a temporary leave of absence from the Broadway show in which she is about to open, Shakespeare's A Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino. A spokesperson for the show said only that it was a...
- 11/6/2010
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
The Woody Hoodie? Photo illustration by Hamish Robertson. • Woody Allen is suing American Apparel for $10 million, claiming that the clothing chain used his image in an ad campaign without his consent. Now the label has come out swinging, arguing that it could use Allen's picture because the director "has no reputation left to ruin." Ouch. The trial is set for May 18 in New York City. [Guardian] • Snakes! On a plane! Need we say more? [BBC News] • As if pirates on the high seas in 2009 aren’t bizarre enough: Pirates thwarted by dolphins? Only in China. [Nyt] • New York magazine raids the archives to post Gail Sheehy's 1972 classic "The Secret of Grey Gardens," which inspired the movie which inspired the musical which inspired the new movie. [New York] • Speaking of the hoopla over H.B.O.'s well-publicized remake of Grey Gardens, check out the real thing. [Life • Time Warner has started ditching its own broadband-capping plan—before the cable company even rolled it out. Why? Because it's a terrible idea. [Engadget] • Is insect art is the new outsider art? [Boing Boing]...
- 4/16/2009
- Vanity Fair
'I Can sing better than she can. If Madonna gets it [the lead role in 'Evita'] I'll rip her throat out!" said Meryl Streep back in 1996.
Speaking Of singing, this very Sun day the actress supreme, Christine Baranski, will depart the Longacre Theatre after the matinee of "Boeing Boeing" and step onto Jeff Zucker's Ge helicopter. That will land her in Southampton in time for the gala Hamptons premiere of the new big hit movie musical "Mamma Mia!"
Although she's the star of the film, Meryl Streep, won't be attending - her co-star, the handsome Pierce Brosnan,...
Speaking Of singing, this very Sun day the actress supreme, Christine Baranski, will depart the Longacre Theatre after the matinee of "Boeing Boeing" and step onto Jeff Zucker's Ge helicopter. That will land her in Southampton in time for the gala Hamptons premiere of the new big hit movie musical "Mamma Mia!"
Although she's the star of the film, Meryl Streep, won't be attending - her co-star, the handsome Pierce Brosnan,...
- 7/10/2008
- by By LIZ SMITH
- NYPost.com
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