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Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bryce Dallas Howard 'Vividly' Remembers Dad Ron Howard Telling Her Truth About Santa: I Was 'Too Young'
Ron Howard didn't sugarcoat things when daughter Bryce Dallas Howard asked for the truth about Santa Claus. During Bustle's One Nightstand interview, Pets director Bryce, 44, recalled her "complicated" feelings about how Ron, 71, broke the news to her as a child that Santa was make-believe. "When I was very young — too young — my cousin was like, 'Santa isn't real.' And I was like, 'Well, you're wrong. And I can prove it to you, and here's how I'm going to prove it to you: My dad will never lie to me. I'm going to ask him, and I'm going to keep a walkie talk on in the room.' And I did." After Ron burst her bubble, the Jurassic World actress said her mom Cheryl then "came in and I was crying; it was, like, the night before Christmas. She was like, 'What did you do?' and he's like, 'Well, she asked me. What am I supposed to do?' And she goes, 'What? Lie to her! Lie to her, Ronnie.'" Related: Ron Howard Says He Worried About Daughter Bryce Dallas Howard Facing 'the Opie Mythology' as a Child Actor Bryce added, 'I very vividly remember that," and admitted that her How the Grinch Stole Christmas director dad "had the best of intentions and ultimately, I think, made the right choice because of the fact that I know that my dad will not lie to me." She said with a laugh, "We all know: Ron Howard doesn't lie." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! For Ron's birthday in March, Bryce wrote on Instagram, "I love you so much Dad, more than words can say." On Bryce's birthday a day later, Ron paid tribute to her on Instagram, "You've always made your mom and me happy and incredibly proud. But the scope of what you've achieved with your family and career and the future you are building exceeds our wildest hopes from back when you were this adorable kid we loved so much." Ron shares Bryce with wife Cheryl, whom he met in high school and married in 1975. They also have three other kids: twins Jocelyn and Paige, 40, plus Reed, 38. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Wizard of Oz,' return of 'Grinch' highlight Children's Theatre's 2025-26 season
As it prepares to open a stage adaptation of Disney's "Frozen" on April 15, the Children's Theatre Company has unveiled its packed 2025–26 season. The season, its first to be entirely programmed by new Artistic Director Rick Dildine, features the return of one of the theater's staples, whimsical creates, and an adaptation of a classic story. 'I am excited to share with you the incredible lineup for next season at Children's Theatre Company, a season that is all about mentorship, teamwork, confidence, and curiosity,' Dildine said in a statement. 'These shows have been carefully selected to inspire, engage, and challenge young audiences, while encouraging them to embrace their potential and explore the world around them.' The season will start with "Treasure Island" on Sept. 9, a seafaring production where a young boy named Jim must decide whether the swashbuckling Long John Silver is a friend or foe. Adapted by Stuart Paterson, the play will be directed by Dildine. It'll be followed by a production of "Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile," a one-hour musical that was originally produced by the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Roald Dahl Story Company, and Leeds Playhouse. It will run from Oct. 1 to Nov. 23. That'll run into the return of the CTC's annual presentation of "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas." The new year kicks off with "Go, Dog. Go! Ve Perro ¡Ve!," a "spectacle" geared toward younger audiences that will be performed from Jan. 20 to Feb. 22, 2026. It's a bilingual adaptation P.D. Eastman's classic children's book Go, Dog, Go! The CTC will then launch "Dinosaur World Live" on March 3. "Are you brave enough to face a T-rex? Do you know what it feels like to get sneezed on by a triceratops?" the event's description asks. "Find out when dinosaurs take over CTC! Feel the rumble of their rawrs as a young paleontologist takes you on a tour so up-close-and-personal you'll almost smell their stinky breath!" The event is followed by a 15-minute meet-and-greet with the titular dinos. Then a tornado whirls into town, dropping what will liekly be a hot ticket. "The Wizard of Oz" touches down to close out the season (just months after Wicked: For Good arrives in movie theaters) from April 21 to June 14. In the midst of the season, the theater will also present "Forts! Build Your Own Adventure" from Feb. 13 to April 5. It's an interactive experience where the audience is "surrounded by old sofas, crazy lampshades, piles of blankets, and towering towers of cardboard boxes," the CTC says. "It's like the coolest attic you've ever seen, where everything's up for grabs." Season tickets for the Children's Theatre Company's 2025-26 season are on sale now.
The Guardian
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Sew Torn review – seamstress thriller turns into Run Lola Run-style alternative-reality caper
Thread-slingers with an addiction to YouTube tutorials (like me) may have seen an amusing film by seamstress/historian Bernadette Banner in which she reacts to a bunch of films that feature actors sewing, or at least pretending to sew. Examples include How the Grinch Stole Christmas (not convincing) to The Phantom Thread (mostly bang on, featuring real dressmakers at work). Each one is picked apart with waspish scrutiny by Banner, who can spot the difference between a vintage treadle-operated chain stitch machine and a lockstitch machine from different periods in the 19th-century. Hopefully Banner will get a chance to scrutinise this loosely sewing-themed thriller and nitpick its faux pas, such as the bit where the seamstress protagonist Barbara (Eve Connolly) seems to sew a button on a client's wedding dress in less than a minute. (No thread shank? Shocking!) In fact, it is clear co-writer-director Freddy Macdonald is more interested in sewing equipment, especially thread reels and needles, rather than sewing per se. The conceit is that Barbara, a shy American woman running a sewing supply shop and mobile seamstress business in Switzerland after the death of her mother, comes across the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong. In Run Lola Run-style, the film shows us three different outcomes, each based on whether Barbara chooses to commit the perfect crime, call the police, or run away. In nearly all she uses reels of Mettler thread to rig up pulleys and other simple machines to create booby traps or retrieve useful objects, little Heath Robinson-like contraptions that aren't quite traced out in enough detail to be persuasive. Drug deal-participants Joshua (Calum Worthy) and Beck (Thomas Douglas) are sometimes her allies and other times her antagonists, but in each timeline she must contend with psychopathic kingpin Hudson (John Lynch, the best thing in the film), doing extreme bad parenting as he bullies his son Joshua. Like the thread contraptions and what little sewing we see, the comedy is a bit, well, threadbare, while the full garment of the film lacks the finishing on the seams that would make it satisfying and professional-looking. There are just too many loose ends, in every sense, when this kind of black comic farce needs to run with the precision of a Bernina sewing machine – which is prominently featured here in a plausible bit of product placement. If there's a sequel, Macdonald should consider hiring Banner as a consultant. Sew Torn is on digital platforms from 31 March.
