Robin Williams
‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Review: An Emotional Tribute to a Big-Screen Hero Who Became a Real-Life Inspiration
Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui trace their subject’s Hollywood and personal history alongside the tireless activism for disability awareness that followed his paralysis.
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‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Director Says He Has “972 Boxes of Footage” Ready for a Doc on Robin Williams and the Film
Chris Columbus says he has 972 boxes of footage ready to be used for a documentary about filming Mrs. Doubtfire with Robin Williams. The film’s director opened up about his doc dreams, along with those scrapped sequel plans and the two million feet of film he amassed while shooting Williams in a 30th anniversary piece published […]
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Ryan Reynolds Says He Misses Robin Williams: “Pretty Sure Everyone Does”
Ryan Reynolds shared a sweet message about the late Robin Williams and the legacy he left behind. A week after being awarded the Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter award from Bring Change to Mind, the Deadpool actor expressed how much it meant to him to be honored in that way. “I miss Robin Williams. Pretty […]
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Robin Williams’ Daughter Zelda Criticizes Use of AI to Re-create His Voice: “I Find It Personally Disturbing”
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda is speaking out against the use of artificial intelligence to re-create the sound of her father’s voice. “I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI. I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/re-create actors who cannot consent, like Dad,” she wrote on […]
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Dana Carvey Reveals Why He Wouldn’t Let Robin Williams Make an Appearance in Iconic Church Lady ‘SNL’ Sketch
Dana Carvey is opening up about why he wouldn’t allow the late Robin Williams to make an appearance in his popular “Church Lady” sketch on Saturday Night Live. During a recent episode of his Fly on the Wall podcast, which he co-hosts with David Spade, Carvey revealed that he was afraid that Williams’ energy would […]
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Master P, Carmela Wallace and Zak Williams Join Hollywood & Mind Summit to Raise Mental Health Awareness
Industry leaders gathered for the first-ever Hollywood & Mind Summit on Thursday afternoon, where several speakers and performers zeroed in on the intersection of mental health and entertainment. Hosted at UTA’s Beverly Hills campus, the daylong summit prompted conversations around how the film, TV, music and tech industries can work to break stigmas surrounding mental […]
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Chris Chesser, Producer on ‘Major League,’ Dies at 74
Chris Chesser, the film and documentary producer best known for bringing the iconic baseball comedy Major League to the big screen, has died. He was 74. Chesser died suddenly Feb. 2 at his Los Angeles home, his brothers, Alan and Steve Chesser, announced. No cause of death was revealed. As a production executive, Chesser supervised […]
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Bruce Gowers, Director on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Music Video and ‘American Idol,’ Dies at 82
Bruce Gowers, the Emmy and Grammy winner who directed nine-plus seasons of American Idol and hundreds of music videos, including the seminal “Bohemian Rhapsody” from Queen, has died. He was 82. Gowers died Sunday in Santa Monica of complications from an acute respiratory infection, his family announced. Gowers also directed and co-created the long-running series […]
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Rebel Wilson’s First Dramatic Role Delivered First Kiss With a Woman Months Before Coming Out
So much of Rebel Wilson’s life is brand-new. The comedy superstar has ventured into new territory by toplining her first dramatic feature, The Almond and the Seahorse, opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, Trine Dyrholm and Celyn Jones, the latter of whom co-wrote the script (with Kaite O’Reilly) and co-directed the film (with Tom Stern). Based on O’Reilly’s […]
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Budd Friedman, Founder of the Improv, Dies at 90
Budd Friedman, the comedy club pioneer who founded the original Improv in New York in 1963 and gave early career breaks to the likes of Jay Leno, Robert Klein, Bette Midler, Richard Pryor and Andy Kaufman, has died. He was 90. Friedman died Saturday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his […]
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‘White Oleander’ Star Alison Lohman Looks Back on Her Meteoric Rise and Why She Left Hollywood
Alison Lohman rarely gets recognized anymore, and that’s just the way she likes it. It helps that Lohman has long since left Hollywood, an industry that made anonymity impossible for her in the early aughts when the Palm Springs native was one of the most in-demand talents in town. A self-described shy child who was […]
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Dale McRaven, Creator of ‘Mork & Mindy’ and ‘Perfect Strangers,’ Dies at 83
Dale McRaven, the Emmy-nominated comedy writer and producer who created Mork & Mindy with Garry Marshall and then the long-running Perfect Strangers on his own, has died. He was 83. McRaven died Sept. 5 of complications from lung cancer at his Porter Ranch home in Los Angeles, his son, David McRaven, told The Hollywood Reporter. McRaven also served as a […]
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