We’re in the middle of another dark pandemic winter, the U.S. is facing a massive COVID surge, and, impossibly, we’re at the start of a presidential election year. The time has never been better to make the beloved medical-drama “ER” your next comfort binge show. “ER,” which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is exactly…
But throughout his career Mr. Jewison was repeatedly drawn to more serious fare, in movies like “F.I.S.T.” (1978), a labor-union drama that starred Sylvester Stallone; “In Country” (1989), about the daughter of a Vietnam War casualty; and his last film, “The Statement” (2003), the story of a former Nazi collaborator, played by Michael Caine. Well…
The Q. and A.’s and cocktail parties are a wrap. The votes have been cast. And on Tuesday, we’ll find out which movies and artists will have a chance at Academy Awards when the Oscar nominations are announced. It was an unusually strong year for films, meaning that members of the Academy of Motion Picture…
The Orlando Museum of Art has rescinded legal claims of fraud and conspiracy against the five co-owners of a group of allegedly forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings at the center of a scandal that has all but exhausted the museum’s cash supply. According to a statement by the museum’s board chairman, Mark Elliott, released Friday and shared with…
Proceedings in the ongoing legal spat between Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and Sotheby’s have often been drawn out and detailed to the point of tedium, with hours-long questioning about the timing and content of emails seeming to fail to lead to even a substantive assertion, let alone wrongdoing. However, gems about the inner workings of…