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‘Naked Celebs’ star in political PSA about ‘naked ballots,’ following example of Allegheny County polsVideo
It’s not enough for Pennsylvania elected officials to get naked to promote proper voting procedures in the November election. Celebrities are getting in on the action, too. In a viral video released today, titled “These Naked Celebs Have an Important Message for Voters,” well-known comedians and actors are shown naked...
‘Dune’ ditches 2020, while AMC commits to staying open
The 2020 theatrical release calendar is getting even slimmer in the wake of the announcement that Regal cinemas are temporarily closing, although AMC, North America’s largest theater chain, says it will remain open. Warner Bros. said late Monday that its sci-fi pic “Dune” will now open in October 2021, instead...
8 times Pittsburgh played a role on ‘Saturday Night Live’Video
After Pittsburgh was the setting for a skit on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” we wanted to find the other times the city or its sports teams have been featured on the long-running NBC comedy show. Here’s a partial list of the times Pittsburgh was featured in skits....
Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker take over as CMA Awards hosts
Country stars Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker are promising laughs and good music when they co-host this year’s CMA Awards in November. McEntire, a Country Music Hall of Famer and veteran host of country music awards shows, returns after hosting last year with Carrie Underwood and Dolly Parton. It will...
Pittsburgh featured in ‘Saturday Night Live’ skitVideo
Pittsburgh TV news was featured on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live.” A local TV news report on a potential super-spreading event at the legal change of name office in the Pittsburgh federal building was the setting for a skit on “SNL” with a lot of sexual innuendo. The...
‘Saturday Night Live’ recreates debate in 46th season openerVideo
LOS ANGELES — “Saturday Night Live” went political with a parody of this week’s presidential debate, Chris Rock’s jab at President Donald Trump and Megan Thee Stallion’s message supporting Black people during her performance. The NBC late-night sketch series on Saturday night jumped into the reenactment of the recent debate...
Review: Sofia Coppola’s ‘On the Rocks’ is a modest delight
Few filmmakers can bring a rut to life like Sofia Coppola. When her characters are in a funk, whether it’s a Hollywood actor in between jobs, a few lost souls in a foreign place or a Queen, it’s never the stuff of melodrama. She has an eye for the comedic...
Row House Cinema hosting drive-in movies in Pittsburgh’s Strip District
Row House Cinema is teaming up with the Terminal in the Strip District for a month of drive-in movies. Row House Cinema will show a movie every Friday and Saturday in October — except for Oct. 30 — at the Terminal at 21st Street and Smallman Street. Doors will open...
Moderator Chris Wallace on the wild presidential debate: ‘It was revealing’
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace was surprised by the ugly contentiousness of the first 2020 debate between President Donald Trump and his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, on Tuesday, but he believes the clash still offered viewers plenty of insights about the two candidates. “Obviously it was not the...
Banff film festival adventure shorts to screen at Carrie FurnacesVideo
Venture Outdoors is taking its name literally for this year’s presentation of the world tour of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, a showcase of adventure films from around the globe. In previous years, the event was held in the Byham Theater in downtown Pittsburgh. On Oct. 15, this year’s...
Nearly a year after sudden exit, Shepard Smith returns to TV
NEW YORK — Two weeks shy of a year after abruptly quitting Fox News Channel with a declaration that “truth will always matter,” Shepard Smith returns to television this week at his unexpected new home. He begins a general interest nightly newscast Wednesday at 7 p.m. on the financial network...
Review: ‘Kajillionaire’ shows the pains of growing up a grifterVideo
We’ve been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gloriously heartfelt “Shoplifters,” about a makeshift clan of small-time thieves whose familial bonds run at least as deep as DNA. Bong Joon Ho’s diabolical Oscar-winner, “Parasite,” gave us a nuclear family of con artists...
Ellen DeGeneres makes on-air apology, vows a ‘new chapter’
Ellen DeGeneres used her opening monologue of the new season of her daytime talk show to address allegations of a toxic work environment, apologizing for things “that never should have happened.” “I know that I’m in a position of privilege and power and I realize that with that comes responsibility,...
‘Schitt’s Creek’ sweeps comedy categories at Emmy AwardsVideo
LOS ANGELES — “Schitt’s Creek,” the little Canadian show about a fish-out-of-water family, made history at Sunday’s Emmy Awards with a comedy awards sweep, something even TV greats including “Frasier” and “Modern Family” failed to achieve. The Pop TV show’s awards included best comedy series and awards for its stars,...
Outlook not improving for beleaguered U.S. movie theaters
About three quarters of the country’s movie theaters are open, but Americans are not going back in significant numbers in the covid-era, even with new films coming into the marketplace weekly. The biggest movies continue to limp along. According to studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros.’ “Tenet” earned $4.7 million in...
Fox News to feature Trib editor on ‘America’s News HQ’ on Saturday
The Fox News program “America’s News HQ,” with anchors Arthel Neville and Eric Shawn, will include a Tribune-Review editor as a guest on Saturday’s broadcast. John Allison, the Trib’s director of content, will appear on air in the 5 p.m. segment. The likely topics will be the swing-state role of...
Actor Masterson’s lawyer denies and denounces rape charges
LOS ANGELES — “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, charged with raping three women, made his first appearance Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where his attorney declared his innocence and denounced the charges against him as “politicized.” Masterson, 44, who has been free on bail since his June arrest,...
‘Today’ show heads to McKeesport where students get laptops from ComcastVideo
The band was playing, cheerleaders were chanting and football players were huddled on the football field when they heard the news. On national television via NBC’s “Today” show, students, teachers and staff members in the McKeesport Area School District found out they would receive free laptops. The McKeesport Tigers truly...
TV Talk: Pittsburgh-filmed ‘Manhunt’ chronicles Atlanta Olympics bombings
It’s a round-about way that “Manhunt: Deadly Games” came to film in Pittsburgh. The show’s first season, Discovery Channel’s “Manhunt: Unabomber,” was set to shoot in Western Pennsylvania in 2016 but initially couldn’t find a male lead. Once producers lined up a cast, there were no more Pennsylvania film tax...
Review: A provocative idea that doesn’t work in ‘Antebellum’Video
The new film ” Antebellum ” begins with a famous William Faulkner quote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This is a very literal introduction to a film about the evils of de facto and de jure oppression of Black people in America that’s crafted as a...
Jim Carrey selected to play Joe Biden in SNL’s 46th seasonVideo
NBC announced Wednesday that Jim Carrey will join “Saturday Night Live” to take on the role of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden when the show returns for its 46th season on Oct. 3, the start of five consecutive broadcasts of the program. According to the network, “SNL” is planning to...
Disney debuts ‘Mandalorian’ Season 2 trailerVideo
Just when we needed it most, Disney delivered a Season 2 trailer for its mega hit series “The Mandalorian” on Tuesday. Din Djarin (aka “Mando”) and The Child (aka “Baby Yoda”) are back — this time with the bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) getting his latest mission statement: Reunite the child...
Chadwick Boseman buried near South Carolina hometownVideo
LOS ANGELES — Chadwick Boseman was buried near his South Carolina hometown six days after he died at his home in Los Angeles, according to a death certificate obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The “Black Panther” star was laid to rest Sept. 3 at Welfare Baptist Church Cemetery in...
Here are the TV shows to watch this fall
Like zombies from “The Walking Dead,” the fall TV season will stagger to a start, particularly on broadcasters ABC, CBS and NBC, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Fox and The CW set pandemic-proof schedules in May, largely by holding back spring and summer programs. But in June, the Big Three...
Q&A: David Byrne on his festival hit ‘American Utopia’
NEW YORK — In a film festival season that’s been turned largely virtual, Spike Lee’s “American Utopia,” a documentary of David Byrne’s concert musical and the opening-night film of the Toronto International Film Festival, has nevertheless supplied the giddy rush of live performance in a packed house. The film was...
