Actors and Actresses

November 9, 2020

Want to Play La Parisienne? Here’s How

PARIS — France may have gone back into lockdown last month, but it still has an international ambassador on small screens everywhere thanks to the actress […]
November 6, 2020

Why I Love Women Who Wallop

For our film critic, watching actresses become action stars made her think differently about bodies and the meaning of representation.
September 30, 2020

Isabelle Huppert on the Transformational Power of Shoes

To channel an unhinged cat lady, Isabelle Huppert wears pointy mustard mules. To embody a diva courting eternal youth, she wears electric purple pumps embellished with […]
September 2, 2020

Jane Fonda, Star of Fire Drill Fridays, Has New Book Out

I wanted to be schooled by Jane Fonda. There was a decent chance that we would get into a Megyn Kelly-type dust-up, where I waded into […]
July 3, 2020

Don’t Call Him Machine Gun Kelly

A few days before Los Angeles announced a shelter-in-place order in March, Colson Baker, who raps under the name Machine Gun Kelly, sat down on a […]
June 29, 2020

Jim Carrey, Unmasked

Jim Carrey is not doing well at all. At the start of the novel “Memoirs and Misinformation,” we find Carrey, its protagonist, in the midst of […]
May 22, 2020

First Inklings of Fame

It is graduation season, and luminaries like Tina Fey, Oprah, Tom Hanks and Barack Obama are giving advice to graduates about starting their next chapter. Of […]
May 12, 2020

Lena Olin at Home

Lena Olin isn’t one for acting on impulse. “I normally will say, ‘I have to think it over, I have to think it through,’” said the […]
May 8, 2020

Laura Prepon Meditates on Motherhood and Clay

Laura Prepon had already planned on spending the spring indoors. Ms. Prepon, who gave birth to her second child with her husband, the actor Ben Foster, […]
March 6, 2020

J.B. Smoove of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Shops the Diamond District

On HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David plays himself. Ted Danson plays himself. Richard Lewis plays himself. So it’s easy to assume that J.B. Smoove, who […]