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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kyle MacLachlan, Ilana Glazer and Matthew Broderick Among 2025 Tribeca Jurors – Film News in Brief
The Tribeca Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2025 jury, which is responsible for selecting this year's top projects from across film, games and audio storytelling categories. The panel will award honors across 15 competitive categories at the festival, which takes place June 4 through 15 in New York City. This year's jurors include Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Ilana Glazer, Art Linson, Kyle MacLachlan and Mira Sorvino. In addition, Tribeca's Nora Ephron Award will honor an exceptional female filmmaker who represents the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer. More from Variety Tribeca Festival and Chanel Announce 2025 Artist Awards Program Participants Tribeca X Sets Speakers Including Bryan Cranston, Paris Hilton and Lena Waithe for Entertainment Marketing Talks Matthew Broderick, Sally Hawkins and Martin Freeman to Lead Simon Bird's WWII Comedy Drama 'Pretend I'm Not Here,' Cornerstone Launching in Cannes 'We're proud to welcome an eclectic group of jurors to this year's Tribeca Festival,' said Nancy Lefkowitz, EVP at Tribeca Enterprises. 'Their breadth of expertise across genres will be instrumental in recognizing standout storytellers and honoring bold new voices from around the world.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jennifer Beals is baiting all the lesbians with these sexy throwback pics
Is Jennifer Beals trying to kill us? The L Word star recently posted some throwback pics that have the ladies swooning. "baby #dandy," reads the simple caption on Instagram, shared alongside two photos of her in a button up, trousers, and tie. The pics are clearly a nod to the 2025 Met Gala theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, in which attendees paid homage to Black dandyism and its impact on fashion. But fans were a little too preoccupied to do much more than stare. "Read the hashtag [too] fast and thought it said 'Daddy,'" wrote @ukiiyolueur. "baby was manifesting Bette before she even knew it," @kenobry joked, while @thealeximelvin said, "I think I just witnessed an L Word prequel somehow." See on Instagram Beals has been making the press rounds lately to promote her new book. The L Word: A Photographic Journal was released on April 15 and features a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes pictures the actress took during her time on the show. Although the book was initially available in limited quantities on her website, fan demand led to Beals eventually having it officially published. "There's an emotional layer of memory that the photos bring back," she told People. "But for other people experiencing the book, they may remember where they were at that time and what the show meant to them." Promoting the book also led to a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show that left sapphic fans shrieking at the interaction between the two. "I wish I had your voice, by the way," Clarkson told the Flashdance star out of nowhere. "You're so quietly sexy. It's amazing." Without hesitation, Beals responded by referencing a viral performance in which Clarkson winked during a particularly loaded line, saying, "I heard you like your women older or something?" So, yeah, it definitely feels like Jennifer Beals is trying to kill us all.
Calgary Herald
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
'I am so spoiled by so many of the projects I've done'': Jennifer Beals talks The L Word, Flashdance prior to Calgary Expo appearance
Article content It seems unthinkable now, but Jennifer Beals almost didn't accept her star-making role as an 18-year-old welder with aspirations of being a dancer in the 1983 drama, Flashdance. Article content Adrian Lyne's sexy dance drama was a big hit at the box office and helped usher in a new style of filmmaking influenced by music videos. The poster featuring Beals in her cut-off sweatshirt became one of the most iconic images in 1980s pop culture. Article content Article content The only film work Beals had done before Flashdance was a small and uncredited role in the 1980 family drama My Bodyguard. Still, she almost turned it down. Article content Article content 'I was offered the part, but they wanted me to do nudity and I said no,'' she says. 'So then they said they would work around that, and I didn't have to do that.' Article content She still had reservations. At the time, she had just been accepted into Yale University. Article content 'I was going to college and I wasn't going to take it if I couldn't defer a term,' says Beals, who will be appearing at Calgary Expo in the new BMO Centre on Saturday and Sunday. 'So I went to my dean and asked if I could defer for a term to go do the film. At that time, and I'm sure still now, people at university were taking time off to go write a novel, to do scientific research and to do all kinds of things.' Article content So she deferred a term and became a star. Article content But after the film, she went to Yale as a freshman studying American literature, taking only a few roles, such as the 1985 Gothic romance The Bride opposite Sting. It wasn't a complete novelty. Jodie Foster was attending Yale at the same time. Nevertheless, it did seem a bit unusual for an actress to wait a few years before capitalizing on a star-making performance. Article content Article content But Beals has never had what could be considered a typical career arc. Her role as passionate young dancer Alex Owens earned her a place in cinematic history, but she says she tends to be asked more about the groundbreaking TV series The L Word and her recurring role as the elegant Twi'lek Garsa Fwip in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett at fan conventions these days. Article content Her event in Calgary may be called Dancing Queen: Spotlight on Jennifer Beals, but she never considered herself a dancer. In 2011, she famously turned down a chance to compete on Dancing With the Stars. 'I am not a dancer,' she emphatically told People Magazine at the time. Flashdance may have made her a 1980s dance-movie icon on the same level as Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing and Kevin Bacon in Footloose, but the footwork in the film was mostly done by a body double. Article content In 2004, Beals signed on to play affluent Ivy League-educated art curator and biracial lesbian Bette Porter in The L Word, a show that followed the lives of lesbians and bisexual women in West Hollywood. She played the role for five years in the series and reprised Porter for the sequel, The L Word: Generation Q, which ran from 2019 to 2021.
