Cal and I are very similar in that we know what it's like to lead a double life. I've had experience with that with my battle with drugs and alcohol. I know what it is like to not have my insides match my outside.
His writing is incredible. The characters are real. There's so much for actors to dig into. To be able to write that way and to connect with people, you're operating on a higher plane.
A woman's relationship with Trader Joe's is abstract. It's like the way women see Trader Joe's, it's the way the aliens from 'Arrival' view time. Unlike most men—who make a beeline straight for the same blue-corn tortilla chips that have been there since pre-Obama—women swan dreamily through the store, guided by their foremothers toward the strangest possible products.
Here, a central character hides behind so many layers of deceit, he almost believes his own version of the truth while his wife refuses to believe their son died in the war. The pitfalls of capitalism and the hollowness of the American Dream certainly resonate today as they did after World War II.
In the fourth season of Industry, everyone has a story to sell: a neutered fund or loveless marriage, shamed husbands, a life aimless after retirement, a payment-processing firm hampered by its ties to porn and sex work. These labels seem to indicate mistaken priorities or misplaced trust. But they are just narratives to be refined or redefined. Everything is up for grabs if you tell the right story.
Hundreds of hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are gearing up to watch a rented groundhog whisper in the ear of ex-mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in McCarren Park on Saturday to see whether they'll be getting six more weeks of winter. The loopy local twist ahead of Feb. 2, Groundhog Day's official date, is the brainchild of 26-year-old event organizer Riley Callanan - who shelled out $2,250 to rent the varmint from an animal rental service.
He's a ubiquitous face, showing up regularly in all sorts of supporting parts (big ones as well as glorified cameos), but he so rarely gets the chance to carry a feature. In The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which world premiered at Sundance and is now playing at the Berlin Film Festival, he does exactly that, holding our attention with those sad, watchful eyes and his lanky determination.
Dexter star David Zayas is replacing Timothy Busfield in an upcoming Law & Order: Special Victims Unit guest role. NBC pulled the episode from its schedule last month following Busfield's arrest on child sexual abuse charges in New Mexico. Busfield an Emmy-winner known for TV and film roles like Thirtysomething, First Kid, and The West Wing was released from jail but is awaiting trial. Zayas was recast in the part and re-shot Busfield's scenes.