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Docmaker Grant Gee Changes Tune for Berlin Competition Pic ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’

Director Grant Gee shifted his focus from rockers to a jazzman, and Berlin took notice. Gee is noted as a documentarian covering music acts; his 1998 doc “Meeting People Is Easy,”...

Stellan Skarsgård Crashes Two Alexander Skarsgård Sketches on ‘SNL,’ Playing a Screaming Dad and a Goofy Dramatic Actor

Alexander Skarsgård was joined, on his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut, by his father. Skarsgård had been stoic about what’s going on in his career: He didn’t mention his...

Tony Dokoupil Is Making ‘CBS Evening News’ All About Tony Dokoupil

On Thursday night’s “CBS Evening News” broadcast, its anchor, in his fifth night on the job, strained for a unifying moment of grace. Reporting from Minneapolis in the aftermath of an...

Tony Dokoupil’s ‘CBS Evening News’ Debut Is an Inauspicious Sign of Where CBS News Is Headed

Tony Dokoupil’s debut as the anchor of the “CBS Evening News” came widely heralded — by Tony Dokoupil. The broadcast journalist, who since 2019 had been CBS’ morning show co-anchor, came...

Why Will’s ‘Stranger Things’ Coming Out Speech Strikes an Emotional Chord

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. The biggest show of the streaming era is turning out to be, in large...

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