Who is the tallest actor to win an Oscar?
Beating this gargantuan star’s record is going to be a tall order.
Author: Michael Gordon Archives: 02/2025
How Michael Caine really felt on the biggest night of his career: “It was terrible”
Caine learned the hard way about accepting a paycheque gig at a bad time.
Ayo Edebiri to write and potentially star in A24’s live-action ‘Barney’ movie
An interesting move for Edibiri.
Stephen King names his most overlooked adaptation: “I liked it a lot but nobody saw it”
A nail-biting show hampered by the network it aired on.
Oscars 2025: Karla Sofía Gascón to attend event
The controversial ‘Emilia Pérez’ star will be at the Academy Awards, after all.
The one role Jane Fonda hated playing: “I swore I’d never make another film in my life”
This experience almost put Fonda off acting for life.
The Paul Newman performance nobody understood but him: “I don’t know if they’ll be visible”
This performance clearly meant a lot to Newman on a personal level.
The horror icon who hates their most famous creation: “It’s a double-edged sword”
It cast an extremely long shadow.
When Dennis Hopper was convinced a hitman wanted to kill him: “Obviously, I was crazy”
Hopper did the only sensible thing: he confronted the mob about it.
When a director begged Sean Connery to smack him in the face: “I’m fed up with the idiots”
Connery and this director nearly came to blows.
Eddie Murphy on the influence of Elvis: “He had the strongest presence of anyone ever”
Murphy’s devotion to this superstar never waned, even when he caught flak for it.
The Harrison Ford movie Martin Scorsese refused to direct: “I didn’t want to make those”
Scorsese didn’t see what was special about this Ford classic.