Mandy Patinkin
‘Death and Other Details’ Review: Mandy Patinkin Stars in a Hulu Mystery Series That’s Too Much of a So-So Thing
Patinkin and Violett Beane star in a new 10-part locked-room murder mystery set on a luxury cruise ship.
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You Never Saw My …
CONTENTS You Never Saw My … Brilliant Star-Studded Marketing Blitz Paramount’s marketing boss had no access to talent and no footage to promote the PAW Patrol movie, so he let the dogs out — and set a world record in the process • By Pamela McClintock This past summer, Paramount president of global marketing and distribution […]
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Mandy Patinkin and Wife Kathryn Grody on their Insanely Intimate Family Dramedy That Showtime Shelved
As Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody’s son, Gideon, tells it, his parents’ social media stardom began rather innocently. Grody-Patinkin had moved in with his actor parents early in the pandemic and began interviewing them for what would be a family archive. “I thought they might die from COVID maybe soon-ish, so I was getting them […]
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Rose Gregorio, Tony Nominee for ‘The Shadow Box’ and Actress on ‘ER,’ Dies at 97
Rose Gregorio, who received a Tony nomination for her performance as the browbeaten daughter of Geraldine Fitzgerald’s declining old woman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Shadow Box, has died. She was 97. Gregorio died Aug. 17 of natural causes in her Greenwich Village home, her nephew Robert Grosbard told The Hollywood Reporter. Gregorio was […]
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‘Gattaca’ Reboot, Mandy Patinkin’s ‘Seasoned’ Among 4 Shows Dropped at Showtime
Chris McCarthy continues to slim down Showtime’s content pipeline. The premium cable network has passed on four projects: the reboot of Gattaca that would have brought Homeland duo Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa back to the Paramount Global outlet as well as Seasoned, the comedy inspired by the lives of married couple Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn […]
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“A Battle for Survival”: Mandy Patinkin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles Join Writers Strike Rally in N.Y.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles and members of the Broadway community serenaded Times Square Thursday in a show of solidarity with the Writers Guild of America. At the themed WGA Broadway Day Rally, performers belted out classic show tunes with nods to organizing such as “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from Les Misérables, “Ya Got […]
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Mandy Patinkin’s Writers Strike Rant With ‘Princess Bride’ Sign Goes Viral
Mandy Patinkin was trending on Twitter for a viral video (below) of the Homeland actor on the writers strike picket line, yelling his support for writers. The Emmy winner was outside Warner Bros. Discovery’s offices in New York and carrying a sign inspired by his beloved Princess Bride character, Inigo Montoya, that read: “You Killed […]
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Barbara Bryne, Actress in Sondheim Musicals on Broadway, Dies at 94
Barbara Bryne, the British actress who portrayed mothers in the original Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and Into the Woods, has died. She was 94. Bryne’s death Tuesday was announced by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The first of her more than 60 plays there was Arsenic and Old […]
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‘Ziwe’ Canceled as Showtime Orders Mandy Patinkin Comedy ‘Seasoned’
The Chris McCarthy era at Showtime has claimed another victim. The premium cable network, which was added to the Paramount Global exec’s purview last year, has canceled late night talk show Ziwe after two seasons. Additionally, Showtime has made decisions on two of its three comedy pilots, handing out a series order to Mandy Patinkin […]
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Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody Inspire Showtime Comedy ‘Seasoned’
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody’s lives and relationship have inspired a Showtime scripted comedy. The Paramount Global-backed premium cable network has handed out a pilot order to half-hour comedy Seasoned, starring the married actors and recent viral sensations. The couple’s son, Gideon Grody-Patinkin, and Ewen Wright co-created the series and co-write the pilot. Seasoned follows […]
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PBS’ ‘Benjamin Franklin’: TV Review
Ken Burns' latest offering is a four-hour look at the wide-ranging life of the Founding Father, inventor, diplomat and writer.
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William Hurt, Star of ‘Body Heat,’ ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and ‘Broadcast News,’ Dies at 71
William Hurt, the exacting Oscar winner who dominated a decade as few other actors have done with his turns in the 1980s classics Body Heat, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News, has died. He was 71. Hurt died Sunday morning at his home in Portland, Oregon, one of his three sons, […]
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