Writer-director Jonathan Kaufer, who helmed 1982’s “Soup for One,” starring Saul Rubinek, for Warner Bros., and the 1997 film “Bad Manners,” starring David Strathairn and Bonnie Bedelia, died Oct. 2 in a car accident en route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. He was 58.
Kaufer was still in his teens attending Sarah Lawrence College when he was hired onto the writing staff of “Mork & Mindy.” Director Howard Zieff brought him into the feature arena, and Kaufer did rewrites on Barbra Streisand starrer “The Main Event” and “Unfaithfully Yours,” starring Dudley Moore. Read More...
Spoilers follow for the first season of the Paramount+ series Special Ops: Lioness.
Taylor Sheridan’s preference for rah-rah Americana crossed with soapy melodrama can make for a short mental shelf life. Special Ops: Lioness — a mash-up of the Islamophobia of Sheridan’s Sicario: Day of the Soldado with the nearly fascist righteousness of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty — is so convolutedly plotted and politically cynical that little sticks. Read More...
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.”
After playing Randall Pearson on NBC’s “This Is Us” for six seasons, Sterling K. Brown was ready to play a completely different character. Read More...
