Scrubs is back. Malcolm in the Middle is back. Girls, Glee and Clueless are on the way, and Harry Potter starts all over again on Christmas Day. Has Hollywood run out of ideas, or just run out of nerve? Vlad and Kelly are breaking down reboots vs. revivals vs. spinoffs, the corporate strategy of nostalgia,…
Branson, Mo. — Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement….
The 64th New York Film Festival, one of the world’s most prestigious cinema events, opens Friday with the first of more than 70 fiction features and documentaries making their world or U.S. premieres, starring such luminaries as Pedro Pascal, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Godzilla. This year’s festival, which runs through October 12,…
