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In the HBO series "The Last of Us," a fungal infection has taken over Earth, rendering the United States an apocalyptic landscape protagonists Joel and Ellie need to traverse. Fans unfamiliar with the video game, from which the series was adapted, might assume this is just another zombie show...
For Alexandra Pelosi, the brutal attack on her father earlier this year was a culmination of vitriol that had been building for decades. Her family's name, she says, has been weaponized for years, turned into a curse word for Republicans.
Then, in October, a man broke into the family's...
Edward Buckles, Jr. was 13 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and completely upended his life. Buckles and his family moved from New Orleans to Lafayette, Louisiana for several months while their hometown began to recover from the catastrophic storm.
He doesn't remember much from...
Editor Nena Erb, ACE earned her third career Emmy nomination last week; it was for the “Choice, Okay?!” episode of Insecure (HBO) directed by Kevin Bray. This marks her second such nod for Insecure in the Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series category,...
For comedians of a certain age, there was one album that was worn out on the turntable, dutifully memorized and acted out. That was George Carlin's signature "Class Clown."
"The way George Carlin looked at the world and broke it down taught so many of us how to be comedians," said Judd...
While many of John Gallagher Jr.'s peers went to college, he didn't. His university became "Spring Awakening."
Gallagher spent much of what would have been his prime college years — from 20 to 23 — starring in the original, envelope-pushing Broadway show that musicalized teen angst....
In "The Survivor," filmmaker Barry Levinson reaches back 80 years to tell the grueling story of a boxer who put the lives of fellow concentration camp prisoners at risk to save his own.
The moral and psychological repercussions for Harry Haft are why Levinson, the Oscar-winning director...
John C. Reilly remembered being enthralled watching "Showtime" basketball with Magic Johnson's no-look passes and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's patented skyhook, but the actor never really knew the backstory behind the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty.
Reilly quickly found out after stepping into his...
Barry Levinson is an Oscar-winning director for Rain Man, has earned three Academy Award nominations as a screenwriter--for And Justice for All, Diner and Avalon--and garnered two more nods for Bugsy, one for directing, the other for Best Picture as a producer...
Ry Russo-Young knew she had a story worth hearing, but it was one she was struggling to tell.
As a youngster, Russo-Young was at the heart of a legal fight that drew headlines in 1990s America: The two mothers who raised her in New York, including one biological parent, were being sued by...