‘Vice’ Enters The Oscar Race, Wins Praise For Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney,...
One of the last shoes to drop in this year’s Oscar race just dropped. Annapurna skipped the Fall Festival circuit and decided instead to take over the Bruin Theatre in Westwood today to put Adam...
View ArticleHow Adam McKay Literally Put His Heart Into His Dick Cheney Film ‘Vice’
EXCLUSIVE: Many directors can believe they put their hearts into their movies, but on Vice, Adam McKay came closer than most any of them. Similar to Dick Cheney — whose trouble with heart attacks...
View ArticleSacha Baron Cohen Invites Sarah Palin To Be Golden Globes Date Following His...
Sacha Baron Cohen has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy for the coterie of characters he played in the satirical interview series Who...
View ArticleGolden Globes: ‘Vice’ Producer On Dick Cheney Biopic & HBO Drama ‘Succession’
A day after the state funeral of President George H.W. Bush, the Dick Cheney biopic Vice leads all films with six nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. It was a jarring backdrop but Vice...
View ArticleWhy Adam McKay’s ‘Vice’ Shone Light On Shadowy Power Broker Dick Cheney: He...
Last time Adam McKay crashed the Oscar party with The Big Short, his inventive dissection of the meltdown of the global economy in 2008 got a Best Picture nomination and McKay’s first Oscar for script....
View ArticleSacha Baron Cohen On Unseen Shocking Scenes In Trump-Inspired Golden...
After honing the difficult craft of creating laughs with characters embedded in situations where only he is in a comedy in Da Ali G Show, Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen turned his skill toward...
View ArticleNotes On The Season: Gaga In Vegas; Richard E. Grant In Oscar Wonderland; Has...
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit As usual the town, joined this particular year by the US government, has shut down for the week between Christmas and New Year’s day,...
View ArticleWhat’s The Secret Sauce To ‘Vice’? For Adam McKay, It’s Lynne Cheney
When it came to constructing a biopic about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, “the lynchpin of the entire movie is Lynne Cheney” asserts Vice filmmaker Adam McKay. “One of the tricks we ran up...
View ArticleMakeup & Hairstyling Oscar Winner ‘Vice’ Turned Christian Bale Into The Many...
Hail to the almost chief. Vice, the film that transformed Christian Bale into various incarnations of George W. Bush’s former Veep Dick Cheney, scored the Oscar tonight for Best Makeup and Hairstyling....
View ArticleSacha Baron Cohen On Why Trump Prompted Him To Make ‘Who Is America?’ & How...
In the seven episodes of his Showtime series Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen played a series of characters thrown into meeting real people, and served up some of the year’s finest laughs, even as he...
View Article‘Vice’ Review: Christian Bale Brilliantly Channels Dick Cheney In Adam...
No one might have been asking for it, but Oscar winner Adam McKay has turned the season into a Dick Cheney Christmas. As he also showed with The Big Short, writer-director McKay has evolved into one of...
View ArticleDick Cheney Calls Donald Trump A “Coward” And “Threat To Our Republic” In New...
The reelection campaign of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) unveiled a new ad spot featuring her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in which he calls Donald Trump a “coward” and a threat to democracy....
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