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Washington Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Designer Isaac Mizrahi still dazzles — and dishes — off the runway
NEW YORK — I keep coming back to grainy images of Isaac Mizrahi whirling around Manhattan's Garment District like the embodiment of Mary Tyler Moore's airborne tam, his famously unruly mop of black curls tamed by an endless parade of stylish bandannas. He's frozen in time that way for fans of 1995's 'Unzipped,' which I just rewatched after the Douglas Keeve-directed documentary celebrated its 30th anniversary with a restored print at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Sydney Morning Herald
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Trying to wind down after a hard day's work? Don't turn on your TV
What is 'work'? Work is being asked to arrange numbers on a screen for eight hours a day and never being told why. Work is being pulled in so many different directions that the only relief you feel is from hiding in a room and crying. Work is being so enraged by professional sabotage that you throw a burrito at your co-worker. Work is feeling such pressure to perform that you stay up all night at your computer drinking energy drinks until you have a heart attack in a toilet cubicle. Wait, is work like that? TV certainly seems to be telling us so. When you consider the most talked about shows of the recent years – Severance, The Pitt, The Bear, Hacks and Industry, for instance – many of them seem to revolve around the idea that the modern workplace is a hellscape. Hacks paints comedy (and making art) as a pursuit poisoned by money and personal betrayal. The Bear – particularly the most recent season – lets us know that hospitality is a game of Russian roulette, where the talented and kind burn out and the corrupt thrive. Industry tells viewers from its very first episode that working in finance kills your heart metaphorically and, sometimes, quite literally. Whether you loved or loathed the second season of Severance, the reason it initially stuck to people's brains was the dark exploration that a home self and work self could exist at odds with each other; that bringing your personal baggage to work was detrimental to your tasks (even if those tasks were monotonous and nonsensical). Does severing your home self and work self protect your soul? How much meaning should you find in work? You might argue that when Severance became less concerned with work boundaries and selfhood, and more concerned with goats and innie-outie love triangles, it lost its spiciest subject matter. Loading The workplace as TV fodder isn't new, obviously. Mary Tyler Moore getting up to hijinks as a TV producer in the 1970s was probably the first workplace comedy – suddenly, a domestic setting wasn't the only way to tell stories. Legal and medical procedurals have dominated television for decades, with the Law and Order franchise, ER and Grey's Anatomy providing season after season of such rhythmic storytelling that audiences found (and still find) comfort in the familiar formula.
The Age
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Trying to wind down after a hard day's work? Don't turn on your TV
What is 'work'? Work is being asked to arrange numbers on a screen for eight hours a day and never being told why. Work is being pulled in so many different directions that the only relief you feel is from hiding in a room and crying. Work is being so enraged by professional sabotage that you throw a burrito at your co-worker. Work is feeling such pressure to perform that you stay up all night at your computer drinking energy drinks until you have a heart attack in a toilet cubicle. Wait, is work like that? TV certainly seems to be telling us so. When you consider the most talked about shows of the recent years – Severance, The Pitt, The Bear, Hacks and Industry, for instance – many of them seem to revolve around the idea that the modern workplace is a hellscape. Hacks paints comedy (and making art) as a pursuit poisoned by money and personal betrayal. The Bear – particularly the most recent season – lets us know that hospitality is a game of Russian roulette, where the talented and kind burn out and the corrupt thrive. Industry tells viewers from its very first episode that working in finance kills your heart metaphorically and, sometimes, quite literally. Whether you loved or loathed the second season of Severance, the reason it initially stuck to people's brains was the dark exploration that a home self and work self could exist at odds with each other; that bringing your personal baggage to work was detrimental to your tasks (even if those tasks were monotonous and nonsensical). Does severing your home self and work self protect your soul? How much meaning should you find in work? You might argue that when Severance became less concerned with work boundaries and selfhood, and more concerned with goats and innie-outie love triangles, it lost its spiciest subject matter. Loading The workplace as TV fodder isn't new, obviously. Mary Tyler Moore getting up to hijinks as a TV producer in the 1970s was probably the first workplace comedy – suddenly, a domestic setting wasn't the only way to tell stories. Legal and medical procedurals have dominated television for decades, with the Law and Order franchise, ER and Grey's Anatomy providing season after season of such rhythmic storytelling that audiences found (and still find) comfort in the familiar formula.
Perth Now
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jason Ritter found it 'weird' when his late father's voice suddenly appeared on television
Jason Ritter found it "weird" when his late father's voice suddenly appeared on television. The 45-year-old actor is the son of John Ritter - who died suddenly at the age of 54 as a result of a misdiagnosed thoracic aortic dissection - and Nancy Morgan, and recalled fixing a "fuzzy" television set when his dad's guest appearance in an episode of 'King of the Hill' was coincidentally on the air. He told People: "There have been a couple of times. "There was a time where I was in a trailer and I was trying to get this TV to work, and it was all kind of fuzzy, and the only channel that worked was playing a 'King of the Hill' episode, and it was my dad's voice, and I hadn't known that he had done that. And all of a sudden it was weird to hear his voice coming from this character. So I watched it. "From 'The Waltons' to 'Mary Tyler Moore', he was bouncing all over. 'Hawaii Five-O.' 'M.A.S.H'. — he has a great episode on that. It's fun to see." Jason has carved out a successful acting career himself over the years and is best known for his roles in series such as ' Joan of Arcadia ' and 'Gravity Falls' but previously admitted that his first foray into show business was completely as a result of his parents. Speaking on the 'Jess Cagle Show', she said: "As a little kid, when I was maybe six or something like that, my dad was doing this cartoon called 'The Real Story of O Christmas Tree'. "I will say, without any hesitation, this was like a full-on nepotism hire. I will admit that. He for sure got me the job. I did try to stay away from that later. "I got to play Little Acorn in 'The Real Story of O Christmas Tree', and he played my Uncle Piney. It was funny because, as I grew up and I found that recording again, I went, 'Oh, they must have sped up my voice to make it that high.' Both my mom and dad were like, 'No, no. That was, yeah... It was pretty high. Jason, that was your voice."
