The ’90s sitcom starring Fran Drescher has caused a sartorial sensation since all six seasons arrived on HBO Max. It is also, the writer argues, a delightful show that unlike some of its contemporaries, still feels fresh.
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“About Endlessness”
Ah, the merry month of May perfect for Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s latest and perhaps final musings on what it means to live, suffer, endure. And it’s a comedy! Bone-dry, 76 minutes in length, it comprises meticulous vignettes ranging from young women dancing outside a roadside café to Hitler cowering in his bunker to a priest losing faith in his one true God: a bottle of spirits. A new documentary on Andersson, “Being a Human Person,” finds the ailing auteur struggling with alcoholism and its role in his creative life; all his films, Andersson says, are about self-confidence and humankind’s crippling deficit in that regard. Ashen-toned, dourly witty and visually singular in the moving-tableau design of al
N.J.’s Adam Schlesinger left out of Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ segment
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Adam Schlesinger in 2007. He was nominated for an Oscar for best original song for That Thing You Do from the Tom Hanks movie of the same name. Scott Gries | Getty Images
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On Sunday, fans and friends noticed that the Oscars telecast forgot Adam Schlesinger, the Oscar-nominated songwriter from New Jersey.
Schlesinger, a founding member of the band Fountains of Wayne, grew up in Montclair. He died of COVID-19 in April 2020, not long after the pandemic first reached the United States. He was 52.
Days of Our Lives or Max Sheffield on
The Nanny, if you were watching TV in the 90s, you knew Charles Shaughnessy. The British actor is one of ET’s
Iconic Leading Men of 90s TV alongside Mark Curry, Patrick Duffy, Jimmy Smits and Grant Show but as he sees it, a lot of his success came from his talented female co-stars. You know, chemistry is a mystery, he tells ET s Nischelle Turner. It s like jazz.
The son of a television writer and an actress, it was seemingly just a matter of time before Shaughnessy would enter the family business himself. It didn t take long for his career to take off, as in his late 20s, he landed a role opposite Patsy Pease on
There are certain shows, particularly older shows like âThe Golden Girlsâ and âThe Office,â that function almost like gif factories. A personal favorite: The shocked face of âThe Nannyâsâ buttoned up C.C. Babcock turning to the camera with her eyes wide in horror, as if to say, â
C.C. is the kind of supporting character who doesnât get talked about as much when the conversation turns to âThe Nanny,â which originally ran on CBS from 1993-1999. Played by Lauren Lane, C.C. rarely got to deliver a punchline â she was the punchline.
The sitcom recently joined the world of streaming earlier this month on HBO Max, and that ease of access has meant watching the show through new eyes. For me, anyway. Itâs so easy to be dazzled, legitimately, by Fran Drescherâs flashy girl from Flushing. Itâs a wonderfully confident damn-the-torpedoes performance (and wardrobe), and her cheeky repartee with Charles Shaughnessyâs