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Yahoo
15-07-2025
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- Yahoo
‘Matlock's Kathy Bates Makes History As Oldest Woman Nominated In Lead Drama Actress Category
Kathy Bates, 77, has become the oldest woman Nominated In the Lead Drama Actress category for playing the titular role in the CBS hit series Matlock. She beats the previous record set by Imelda Staunton, who was nominated in 2024 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix's The Crown. Carol Burnett, at 91 in 2024, became the oldest performer ever nominated for a Primetime Emmy, specifically for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. More from Deadline Debora Cahn Says It Is "More Important Than Ever" To Shed Light On Work Of Civil Servants As 'The Diplomat' Receives Outstanding Drama Emmy Nom 'The Daily Show' Nearly Doubles Its Own Emmy Record Emmys: Catherine O'Hara & Julianne Nicholson Score Double Acting Nominations From Jennie Snyder Urman, Matlock stars Bates as Madeline 'Matty' Matlock, a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases. Matty is assigned to Olympia (Skye P. Marshall), a senior attorney and key rainmaker with a thirst for justice. Olympia's ex-husband, Julian (Jason Ritter), the son of the firm's head (Beau Bridges), is intrigued by Matty and her clever skills. Bates has received two nominations in 2025 for her work on the series: a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award. She also won a Gotham TV Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama Series for her role as Madeline Matlock. Bates is a two-time Emmy winner with a total of 15 nominations across her career. She received her first in 2012 for a guest appearance in Two and a Half Men, and her second for playing Madame Delphine LaLaurie in American Horror Story: Coven's third season. She won an Academy Award for her work in the 1990 psychological thriller Misery, and has a total of four nominations. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far 'Street Fighter' Cast: Who's Who In The Live-Action Arcade Film Adaption 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More
CNN
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
‘Hacks' star and co-creator Paul W. Downs talks Season 4's ‘surreal' cameos
As the fourth season of 'Hacks' came to a wild end this week, one thing that really stood out was the show's impressive list of public personalities appearing as themselves over the season. From Jimmy Kimmel to Kristen Bell and Seth Rogen, the only other current comedy to rival the collection of cameos on HBO Max's 'Hacks' is Rogen's 'The Studio,' Apple TV's similarly industry-centric satirical show that features Hollywood heavyweights like Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard playing themselves in hilarious turns. 'Hacks' co-creator Paul W. Downs – who also figures in the regular cast as frazzled agent Jimmy LuSaque – focused in on one particular appearance from this season, that of Carol Burnett, calling it 'surreal' in a recent interview via email with CNN. 'When we conceived of 'Hacks' it was to tell the story of female comedians who had paved the way for the generations that followed them,' Downs said of his show, which follows fictional comedian Deborah Vance (played by Jean Smart) and her writer/protégée Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) as Vance vies to become to the first female host of a network late-night show. 'Carol is that for all of us,' he added. 'And we shot at Television City (in Los Angeles) steps away from the sound stage where 'The Carol Burnett Show' was filmed. It was such a full circle moment for all of us.' Downs – who counts 'Broad City,' which featured some fantastic cameos (here's looking at you, Kelly Ripa), among his earlier credits – pointed to surprise appearances in shows from years past as inspiration, like Harpo Marx in 'I Love Lucy.' 'With Deborah Vance finally getting her late night show, actors and musicians would inevitably be a part of that journey, but we tried to be selective and only employ them when the story demanded it,' he said. 'Like when Deborah experiences stage fright for the first time in her long career it was an opportunity for her to get some wisdom from someone she would look up to, and there was no one better than Carol Burnett,' Downs explained. 'And featuring Rosie O'Donnell at a moment when Deborah needed some perspective on what life would be like after her show was very special for us.' Downs said securing the cameos took some effort, such as Randy Newman, who appeared as himself in Episode 4 as one of Vance's first musical guests. '(He) doesn't play as much as he once did and 'I Love LA' is one of his more demanding songs to play, but we're so glad he got on board,' he said. Rogen, who co-created and stars in 'The Studio,' also referenced the inherent challenges of getting major stars to play themselves on his show, even briefly. 'It was a combination of (calling in) favors and people that we've never met before that I'm amazed came and did this, honestly,' he said on a recent episode of the Hollywood-focused podcast 'The Town' – whose host, Matt Belloni, funnily enough, also made a cameo as himself on the show. 'One of the hardest things was just conceptually, making these people understand what we were trying to do, and to sign onto it,' Rogen said on the podcast. He and his producing partner Evan Goldberg discussed how several of the stars they courted to appear as versions themselves on 'The Studio' – Zoë Kravitz, Charlize Theron and Zac Efron, to name only a few – wanted to know 'what their joke was,' and if it was something they found funny, they agreed to do it. In a very meta-moment, the creators and stars of 'Hacks' also made cameos this season on 'The Studio.' Both shows have been renewed for new seasons. Rogen's future cameo wishlist includes Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis. Season 1 of 'The Studio' is now streaming on Apple TV+. Seasons 1 through 4 of 'Hacks' stream on HBO Max, which like CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alan Alda's Favorite Memory of Shooting 1981's 'The Four Seasons' Involves Carol Burnett and Moo Shu Pork (Exclusive)
Alan Alda is looking back on his time making the 1981 film, The Four Seasons, in this week's issue of PEOPLE He recounts a time when he met with Carol Burnett for lunch at a Chinese restaurant while they were making the film — and the hilarity that ensued Alda says he and Burnett and the rest of the cast developed a real friendship ahead of filming the movieAlan Alda is recalling a memorable meal he once had with Carol Burnett. During a break in filming 1981's The Four Seasons together, the beloved M*A*S*H actor, 89, says he and Burnett, 92, met up for lunch at a Chinese restaurant. "There was a dish of moo shu pork on the table, and it had vegetables wrapped up in a pancake," Alda tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. "At one point Carol stood up, held the pancake up and let the whole thing unroll and said: 'It's a message from the king.'" Before filming began on the movie, which he also directed, Alda says he got to spend three weeks rehearsing and "trading stories" with Burnett and the rest of the cast, which also included Rita Moreno. "Most of that time was spent getting to know each other, having dinner together, having lunch together," he says. "There was a lot of laughing and admiring one another's work. When everybody really engages, the ease of real old friendship comes out [on screen], which is important for that story, because you have to believe that a friendship is being jeopardized. It was a very happy shoot." Alda similarly had a great experience shooting Tina Fey's new Netflix series adaption of The Four Seasons, in which he makes a surprise cameo. "I'm so happy for Tina," says Alda. "The movie meant a lot to me, and people are reacting to her work very much as they did to mine." In the original film Alda plays controlling lawyer Jack Burroughs. In Fey's series Will Forte plays a reimagined version of Alda's role, while Alda appears as one of the character's fathers. During a scene with Fey and Colman Domingo, his character offers them some hilarious marriage advice: 'Every once in a while ... [my wife would] say, 'Congratulations! Take off your pants, it's a sex day.' You might think of trying that with your spouse.' Like his character, Alda regularly calls upon advice from his own wife of 68 years, Arlene, 92. 'She always says, 'The secret to marriage is a short memory,'" he says. 'We both try to practice being there when we're there: listening, answering, taking an interest. You can get used to somebody no matter who it is. I've always thought if the Pope and Mother Teresa were a couple, after a few years, they'd have to work it out." The Four Seasons is streaming now on Netflix Read the original article on People
Yahoo
11-05-2025
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Carol Burnett reveals special gift she received from Lucille Ball on day comedian died
It was a bittersweet birthday for Carol Burnett. The comedy icon has spoken about her special relationship with Lucille Ball – and the touching birthday gift she received from the late 'I Love Lucy' legend on the day of her death. Burnett, 92, discusses Ball's impact on her Hollywood career in the upcoming Shout TV! special 'The Carol Burnett Show: Mother of all Marathons,' which premieres May 10. 'The woman who influenced me probably the most was Lucille Ball,' the Golden Globe-winning actress says in a preview of the special obtained by People. 'She came to see me in 'Once Upon a Mattress,' which was my first Broadway break,' Burnett continues, 'and she was there the second night, and I was more nervous that she was in the audience than I was the night before, when all the critics were.' The pair hit it off after Ball gave Burnett some supportive advice backstage. 'We sat and we talked for about a half-hour and she was so supportive and she said, 'Kid…' – she called me kid, she was 22 years older than I was – and she said, 'Kid, whenever you need me, give me a call,' ' Burnett says in the clip. The 'Palm Royale' actress later called in that favor when she was offered 'The Carol Burnett Show' in 1967. 'Just a few short years later, I was lucky enough to be given a special if I could get a major guest star,' the Emmy winner explains. 'And I got up the nerve and called her, and she said, 'Hey kid, you're doing great. What's happening?' 'And I was so nervous and I kind of flustered,' Burnett continues, 'and she said, 'When do you need me?' 'She came on the show, and then later on, years later, I did her show after 'I Love Lucy,'' she adds, 'and she was a guest on my show when I got my variety show.' Their friendship continued until Ball's death at 77 on April 26, 1989, which was also Burnett's 56th birthday. Despite the 'Here's Lucy' icon's passing, her birthday gift to Burnett was still delivered. 'We were very close, and she always sent me flowers on my birthday,' Burnett says. 'So this one morning I got up, turned on the television set – it was my birthday – and she had died that morning, on my birthday. 'And that afternoon, I got the flowers that said, 'Happy birthday, kid.' ' Since 'The Carol Burnett Show' ended in 1978 after 11 seasons, Burnett has starred in 'Annie,' 'All My Children' and 'Better Call Saul.' However, after winning seven Emmys, six Golden Globes, a Grammy and a Kennedy Center Honor throughout her impressive career, Burnett has teased that her latest project, the Apple TV+ series 'Palm Royale,' will likely be her last. 'Probably,' she said when asked about retirement in October. 'Unless there's a cameo or something fun!'
Daily Mail
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Oscar-winning actress ALLISON JANNEY on why she's given up on dating, what it's really like to work with Blake Lively and the pressure to stay young at 65
Allison Janney starts every day like a normal person: playing Wordle. But while I play alone, she dukes it out with 91-year-old Hollywood grandee Carol Burnett. 'My starting word is 'stale'', says Janney, who befriended Burnett through their Los Angeles-set TV show Palm Royale. 'Every day we play Wordle and Connections. Every day I get a text from Carol Burnett, and it makes my day.' Although, 'I just found out she plays with other people. She plays with Charlize Theron. I think there's many more. She's got a whole Wordle racket. And she's very good. She gets it in two too many times.' Janney, 65, hasn't done an in-person print interview in years, preferring the low-stakes venue of Zoom, and she's asked me to meet her at 10.45am for an equally low-stakes breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Here dogs sit politely at the heels of suburbanite owners sipping lattes at wooden tables. She's eight minutes early, which she says is a mark of someone trained in theatre acting, where if you're a minute late, your understudy takes your part. She orders an Arnold Palmer iced tea and lemonade, and skillet-baked eggs with avocado, tomato and feta. Though she admits coveting the mini pancakes the young girl next to us is having. If this isn't the biggest celebrity interview ever to take place at this Le Pain Quotidien, then it must come awfully close. It's near the Oscar-winner's house, and she comes in often, though she does look cooler than anyone else here. She's 6ft tall, and her blue eyes are highlighted by turquoise Monocle frames that she bought when shooting her new film Another Simple Favor, director Paul Feig's sequel to 2018 murder mystery A Simple Favor, in Rome. She's wearing R13 jeans, a white T-shirt under a vintage jacket and carries a pink Louis Vuitton bag. She looks like a gallerist who might sell me a Damien Hirst. It's a different look to the one Janney sports in Another Simple Favor, alongside Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick and Elizabeth Perkins. Janney plays Lively's psychotic aunt Linda, and dresses the part. Despite reports that Lively and Kendrick didn't get along, Janney says there was no tension on the set. 'Blake was so lovely. We would share where we found cool jewellery,' she says. 'I love this metal dress she wears in the movie. It weighed quite a lot and after every take she would take it off. But that's a woman who knows how to suffer for fashion.' She was impressed by Lively's acting in one mind-bending sex scene in which her character makes love to herself in the form of one of her identical sisters (also played by Lively). 'She seemed to be so effortless at it, just going back and forth.' Feig rearranged the shooting schedule to accommodate Janney's packed diary. Mostly, he says, because 'she's the most talented actor I know'. But also, if you're going to be in Italy for a couple of weeks, you want the person he calls 'Janney' to be there. 'She's a party in a box. If you want to get a party started, you have Allison Janney show up. She arrives with a playlist and tries to get the dancing started,' he says. 'She brings the fun.' Not that the shoot was wholly straightforward. It was swelteringly hot just outside Rome, where they filmed the bulk of Janney's scenes, and, 'I have this wig on and I'm sweating,' she recalls. 'The American assistant director looks to the Italian assistant director and says, 'Get Miss Janney a fan.' And the Italian assistant director comes back with two people – he thought that I needed to have fans of my work. I'm laughing, wondering how he tried to find fans of Allison Janney. 'Come on, has anyone seen her in The West Wing?' He's probably listing my credits and no one knows who I am.' I'm pretty sure everyone knows who Janney is. She's done comedies (two Emmys for Mom, a sitcom about addiction recovery), dramas (an Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for the film I, Tonya; four Emmys for The West Wing, one for Masters of Sex and musicals (a Tony nomination for 9 to 5). She's currently in two TV shows: Palm Royale and The Diplomat, from which she had to carve out time for Another Simple Favor. It's hard to believe she has as many credits as she has, since she certainly doesn't look 65. In real life her face looks more natural than it does in Another Simple Favor, which makes her look somehow younger in person. Though she stopped dyeing her hair years ago and promised to keep it grey, she's blonde again. 'My hairdresser changed her mind. She's done my hair for over 20 years and I'm pretty much her puppet.' She has never admitted to having cosmetic work done but tells me that she feels pressure to look young. 'In Hollywood you definitely want to do what you can to make yourself look good,' she says. 'But I think I'd feel that whether I was an actress or not. Women naturally feel that pressure. Everyone always has something they don't like about themselves and it's great to do things that will help mitigate those feelings. I bought a Pilates machine that I have in my house, which I love. I have someone who comes over and works me out on that. I think that's the best exercise for me, being 6ft tall. It makes you stand up straight.' Janney grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where she lived with her dad Jervis, a real estate broker, mum Macy, a former actress, older brother Hal and younger brother Jay. After finishing boarding at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, she took a Quaalude at a party with other kids who were graduating – and ran straight through a glass door. Today she isn't wearing socks with her Golden Goose trainers, which allows her to point out a faint scar from which three-quarters of her blood once exited. 'I sort of hate that I wasted a Quaalude on that. They're hard to get now. That was a waste of a Quaalude and almost a waste of a life.' Hal made a tourniquet and raised her leg above her head, which probably saved her life. 'I definitely almost died,' she says of subsequently spending seven weeks in hospital, delaying her first year at Kenyon College, and giving up on her plan to become a professional figure skater. When she did arrive for her first year at Kenyon, a private liberal arts college in Ohio, she landed a part in a play directed by Paul Newman, who was christening the theatre he had donated to his alma mater. He liked her so much he granted her 'one favour' from him that she could cash in whenever she needed it. However Newman's wife, Joanne, then got her into New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, and she never did call in that favour. Janney subsequently spent years supported by her parents as she worked in New York theatre, almost giving up on a career in acting. At one point, she took a three-day-long series of tests to find out what career she should pursue. The result was 'systems analyst'. She still doesn't know what a systems analyst does. In 1994, she appeared in Nicky Silver's darkly comedic play Fat Men In Skirts, in which the first act ends with Janney being sodomised by her son. One night, she got no reaction from the audience and turned to co-star Stanley Tucci to ask what was going on. 'At the end I find out that Jackie Onassis, John F Kennedy Jr, Mike Nichols, Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino were in the audience. It was a benefit performance, but they didn't tell us who was going to be there. And Jackie O left at the intermission. She died a week later. I kept thinking about it. I was like, 'Oh my god, that poor woman, the last play she saw was half of Fat Men In Skirts.'' Her theatre contacts began paying off and she got roles in movies such as Big Night, Private Parts, The Ice Storm, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Primary Colors. In 1999 she landed the role of White House press secretary C. J. Cregg in The West Wing. But she would have to wait almost 20 years to win an Oscar in 2018 for playing figure skater Tonya Harding's mother in I, Tonya. Where does she keep it? 'He moves around a lot. Sometimes he's in the kitchen. Sometimes he's on the top of the bookshelf I have in the living room. Sometimes he's in my office. It depends where he is needed,' she says. 'I'm in the bedroom and sometimes I need to look at Oscar. I just look at it and go, 'That happened. That really happened.''' So how does it actually feel to win an Academy Award? Janney takes out her phone and pulls up the 1977 photo of Faye Dunaway lounging by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel next to her Oscar the morning after winning it, looking dreamily postcoital. This is not how it went for Janney. 'I had to go to work the next day at Mom. I went to bed at 2am, got up at 4.30am to do the TV talk show Live With Kelly And Ryan, then went to work. We did the read-through of the Mom script and then they said congratulations [for the Oscar win] and sent us all home.' After being offered mostly 'alien and lesbian' parts in her early career, she has carved out a career playing smart, powerful women. 'It's fun because that's so not who I am,' she says, claiming to be both shy and happiest at home, despite her reputation for bringing the party. She gets all her travel in when she's working – including a long stay in London for Netflix's The Diplomat, during which she fell for the famous chicken with morels dish at Noble Rot, the cosy, French-inflected wine bar on Greek Street in Soho. 'You have to order the minute you sit down. I dream about that, going back to London to get this chicken,' she says. She's never married (she was engaged to actor Richard Jenik for two years, but they broke it off in 2006) or had children and she hasn't dated in a while. 'I don't date any more. Dating sounds awful. I've only had long-term relationships. The people I wound up with were friends who slowly developed into something,' she says. 'I joined one of the dating apps once, Raya, but I didn't actually engage with it. That's on the backburner indefinitely.' She finds the older man at the next table, however, worth talking to. That's because his adorable dog is looking all over for food, and because it makes Janney wonder if she can bring her dogs here, too. She's recently down to two, one of which was abandoned and offered to her on the set of Palm Royale. 'I said, 'If no one will take him, I will.'' After the older one lives out his days, she plans to adopt a dog from her niece Petra Janney, a pilot and co-founder of Amelia Air, a nonprofit that rescues animals from kill shelters and flies them to areas with more demand. 'She's just a rock star,' says Janney of her niece. Janney also has a nephew, Niall; both he and Petra are her older brother Jay's children. Hal, Janney's younger brother, took his own life in 2011 after years of struggling with addiction, and Janney dedicated her 2018 Oscar speech to him. Talk turns to upcoming projects – Janney is hopefully going to be in a £75 million Ridley Scott-directed film also starring Margaret Qualley and Jacob Elordi, which isn't likely to be out until 2027 or 2028. 'It's based on a Peter Heller novel [The Dog Stars] about a post-apocalyptic world.' Oh, and she is in a band, The Broken Dolls, with Courteney Cox (who she befriended on the Hollywood circuit) and her West Wing co-star Mary McCormack (the show's cast are all still in touch with one another on a big text group, she says), although they haven't played anywhere yet. 'I'm the one who's holding us back. I need to learn how to play the guitar,' she laughs. 'It's really fun to do all the band things except play. We hang out, get drinks, have photo shoots, do all things that bands do, but we just don't play music.' As she's showing me many, many photos of her dogs – including one in which three of them are mounting each other in a non-PG-rated stack – she gets a text from Laurie Feig, the wife of the director of Another Simple Favor. She's inviting Janney to dinner next week, and Janney immediately accepts. She goes back to scrolling dog photos, but is distracted by a guy sitting at an outside table. His dog has a bad leg and she's worried that it's hurt itself and the owner doesn't know. But he assures her that the dog was injured when he adopted him. Pleased to have talked to a neighbour and fellow dog lover, Janney walks over to her black electric Audi, saying she needs to get rid of it because it's too low for her 6ft frame, although it looks a perfect fit to me. Then she slowly drives away, as if she's calmly heading off to another suburban appointment. Which I know is an act. Because while her days begin 'stale', the party in a box never lets them stay that way. A walk and talk with Allison Janney Go-to karaoke song 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.' Last piece of clothing you purchased The jacket that I'm wearing. I bought it two days ago. This is my first outing with it. It's already got dog hair all over it. Biggest Spotify song of last year 'Kill Bill' by SZA. [Singing] 'I just killed my ex…' The movie that makes you cry Terms Of Endearment. The last thing you took a photo of and sent to someone This one was sent to me: a photo of a finished New York Times crossword including the answer 'I, Tonya'. It's from my friend Steven [Rogers] who wrote the movie. Artificial intelligence: terrific or terrifying? Terrifying. Your idea of vacation hell Planes getting cancelled. Cars not being there. Hotel screw-up. The word you most overuse 'I don't know.' I overuse that phrase. I say it to myself. I wake up and I go, 'I don't know. I don't know.' And it drives me crazy. Your go-to breakfast I do intermittent fasting, so I usually don't eat at this time. I should wait till noon. The website you spend too much time on I'm on Instagram too much. Favourite swear word It's probably just 'f**k'. Styling: Tara Swennen at With Falcon. Picture director: Ester Malloy. Hair stylist and producer: Jill Crosby. Make-up: Marie DelPrete.
