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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Corey Stoll, Lorraine Toussaint drawn to ‘The Better Sister'
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Corey Stoll has portrayed a variety of roles during his acting career. He tends to lean toward characters who are complicated and complex from the villainous Yellowjacket in 'Ant-Man' to the conniving Rep. Peter Russo in 'House of Cards.' His latest foray into that kind of performance can be seen in the Prime Video eight-episode limited series 'The Better Sister' when it debuts May 29. He's a handsome lawyer who has a connection to two very different sisters played by Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks. 'I don't think I would play a simple character,' Stoll says. 'I am not bragging. It's just that the whole point of acting is to play contradictions. That's what drew me to it, and it is the only way I know how to work.' Adam (Stoll) and Chloe (Biel), a high-profile media executive, live a picturesque life with their troubled teenage son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan). When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, reuniting the two sisters, as they try to untangle a complicated family history to discover the truth behind his death. Chloe must deal with the tragedy with her estranged sister Nicky (Banks) who is struggling to make ends meet and stay clean. 'The Better Sister,' is based on the book by bestselling author Alafair Burke that deals with a murder in a very unique family. Stoll points out that while the mystery was the driving aspect of the book, the series focuses more on family elements. 'As you watch every episode, the family seems to get more and more complicated,' Stoll says. 'That was what drew me to it. I love getting to work with both Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks. 'It was great to have these very different wives. But it was the father-son relationship that I really identified with. It is a very fraught father-son relationship like many father-son relations are. I think a lot of guys will be able to identify with that.' Stoll's credits also include the FX horror drama series 'The Strain,' the big business series 'Billions' and the NBC police drama 'Law & Order: LA.' The series also stars Kim Dickens as Detective Nancy Guidry, Bobby Naderi as Detective Matt Bowen, Gabriel Sloyer as Jake Rodriguez, Gloria Reuben as Michelle Sanders, with Matthew Modine as Bill Braddock, and Lorraine Toussaint as Catherine Lancaster. The streaming service series arrives just as Toussaint learned her CBS series, 'The Equalizer,' was canceled. Her character in 'The Better Sister' is both a stern boss to Chloe and her chief confidant. That part is similar to her work on 'The Equalizer' as she was the touchstone for every member of the family. Toussaint is certain that she is one of the names of actors who get mentioned when the character must be extremely strong. 'Some of it is 'dance with the lady who brought you to the party',' Toussaint says. 'I certainly don't shy away from roles like that, but I am also getting to play a lot of mothers and that is bringing out the maternal part of me.' She enjoys playing those in charge and maternal roles but she is ready to expand her acting portfolio. The next part of Toussaint's acting career will have her tackling a lot of vampy roles. Any roles Toussaint tackles in the future based on a book will have her reading the original story. She finds background information in the book that helps her flesh out the character. 'Sometimes a character can be very inconsequential in the book and then suddenly it is expanded in the series,' Toussaint says. 'It gives me a world where this narrative exists. 'I always like having a bird's eye to see how what I am doing fits into the whole.' This perspective comes from more than 40 years of acting that started in the theater. Toussaint began her career in theatre, before landing roles in 'Law & Order,' 'Orange is the New Black,' 'Crossing Jordan,' 'Hudson Hawk,' 'Dangerous Minds' and 'Any Day Now.' Because 'The Better Sister' has so many twists and turns, there are multiple suspects along the way. Stoll admits he had no idea who had committed the crime until he saw it in the script. 'I'm the worst at that,' Stoll says. 'My mother would read mysteries and know who had done the crime early. I believe too much in my fellow man so I can't believe anyone would do it.' Toussaint was in the same boat as Stoll. She was so interested in seeing who was the killer that she stayed up late at night to read as much of the book as possible. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
UPI
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Father-son relationship drew Corey Stoll to 'Better Sister' role
1 of 4 | Corey Stoll's "The Better Sister" premieres Thursday. Photo courtesy of Prime Video NEW YORK, May 28 (UPI) -- House of Cards and Many Saints of Newark actor Corey Stoll says he wanted to play successful New York lawyer Adam in The Better Sister because the character is a man with the veneer of a perfect life hiding a painful past. "He's a complex guy," Stoll, 49, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "He did not have the greatest childhood and has made something of himself, but has never really sort of let go of that chip on his shoulder." Premiering on Prime Video Thursday, the adaptation of Alafair Burke's best-selling novel follows what happens when Adam's media executive wife Chloe (Jessica Biel) finds him beaten to death in their summer home. Almost immediately, Adam's troubled teen son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) becomes the prime suspect, putting Adam's previous marriage to Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) -- Ethan's estranged, troubled mother and Chloe's sister -- into the harsh spotlight. "It was really great having these two marriages to sort of work with, but it was the relationship with my son from the first marriage that really drew me to the material," Stoll said. "It was the thing that I could identify with the most," he added. "There's something about father-son relationships that can be so fraught. It's so full of love, but so full of this sort of inability to cross that threshold and really express that love. There's just a lot of rich material in that." While it may have been the family drama of the show that hooked Stoll, he also enjoyed the whodunnit aspect that surrounds his character's death. "It's very obvious why it's a great project to do because it's just so twisty and turny and the show is always ahead of the audience," Stoll said. "You constantly have to watch the next one, go to the next scene, go to the next episode, because you just have to find out how this is all going to pan out." Because Adam is killed early in the story, most of what viewers learn about him comes from flashback scenes and the memories of his widow, ex-wife and son, not all of whom agree on their accounts of events. Stoll recalled it was a constant group effort between the cast and crew to remind him of his time and space. "I would read [the scripts] carefully and try to keep track, but, often, I'd be on set and be like: 'Oh, wait a second. What decade are we in? What do we know? What don't we know?'" Stoll said. Of course, actors are used to shooting scenes out of order, but this job had more moving parts than most. "This is taking place over the course of decades and, also, those plot points are so important because it's this murder mystery, so that was challenging," he said. "But, luckily, the scripts were pretty airtight and you can really sort of hold on to, like: 'What is this scene? Let's just play this scene for what it is without having to sort of play the whole series.'" Jessica Biel turns 41: a look back Biel arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on December 9, 2002. Photo by Roger Williams/UPI | License Photo
Miami Herald
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Erin Andrews reveals her surrogate has suffered a miscarriage
During the latest episode of her podcast, 'Calm Down with Erin and Charissa,' Erin Andrews shared some personal and emotional news with their listeners. Two years after welcoming their first child into the world via a surrogate, Andrews and her husband, former NHL star Jarret Stoll, were expecting their second child via a surrogate again. However, as Andrews revealed in the May 22 episode of the podcast, she and Stoll learned the morning of recording the episode that their surrogate had miscarried. 'I have dealt with this before,' Andrews shared through her tears. 'Things were going really, really well. Her little heartbeat and her numbers were really good. So much so, I even told you guys a couple weeks ago because we thought we had such good news.' Andrews said she considered not recording the podcast in order to grieve with her family, but added that work is 'such a great safe space' for her during times like this. 'I'm also really, really good at suppressing my feelings, and work really helped me with that,' Andrews explained. 'So I think one of the things I'm so sad about is I'm gonna have to do a better job with dealing with my feelings with this, because the last time we had such a loss, I didn't and I suffered with it.' The sports reporter added that while recording the podcast, she was 'thinking about Taylor Swift song, 'I Can Do It with a Broken Heart.' I'm really good at doing this with a broken heart.' But for Andrews, who is a cervical cancer survivor, it's important for her to be open about how difficult infertility has been. 'You know, our journeys with two surrogates, because we did lose. We had lost with our first surrogate, and then luckily, with our second one, we had Mack,' her and Stoll's almost 2-year-old son who was born June 28, 2023. 'It's really, really hard. I just said that to one of my girlfriends down there, down in my office, when I told her, she's like, 'God, it's so freaking hard to have a baby.' So I decided I would be honest about this,' Andrews continued. While a guest on 'Today with Jenna and Friends,' Andrews opened up about her decade long struggle with infertility, calling it '10 years of hell.' 'People, you have no idea what they're dealing with, and people deal more with loss than they do with the reward,' Andrews continued on the podcast. 'I know my husband's having a difficult time, and I'm gonna go home and be with him. Then we're gonna throw our little two year old in a pool, and I feel like squeezes are gonna feel a little different from him today.'
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Reliable Robotics Appoints Marc Stoll as Chief Financial Officer
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Reliable Robotics, a leader in autonomous aircraft systems, today announced the appointment of Marc Stoll as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Stoll brings a wealth of experience in financial leadership, operational excellence, and strategic growth from his previous roles as Partner at Eclipse Ventures, President and COO of Nextiva and VP of Finance at Apple. His expertise will be instrumental in guiding Reliable Robotics through its next phase of development, commercialization and scale. Marc Stoll's impressive track record of driving growth and operational efficiency in technology-driven companies makes him an invaluable addition to our leadership team. --Robert Rose, Co-founder and CEO of Reliable Robotics Share In his role as CFO, Stoll will oversee all financial operations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, and investor relations. He will play a key role in shaping the company's financial strategy as it continues to advance its autonomous flight technology and prepare for broader market entry. 'Marc's impressive track record of driving growth and operational efficiency in technology-driven companies makes him an invaluable addition to our leadership team,' said Robert Rose, Co-founder and CEO of Reliable Robotics. 'We are excited to bring his experience to the team as we scale our business and deliver autonomy to aviation.' Stoll brings over two decades of leadership experience in the technology sector. As Partner at Eclipse Ventures he focused on investing in and scaling innovative hard-tech companies like Reliable. As President and COO of Nextiva he was responsible for the company's day-to-day operations and played a key role in capital raising and growth. Stoll also held the position of VP Finance at Apple, where he managed the financial aspects of Apple's global sales organization during the scale of the iPhone and launch of the iPad. Beyond his executive roles, Stoll has a strong history of board involvement, having served on the board of directors of numerous public and private boards, including Arista Networks and Windstream. He has also contributed his expertise as a member of the board of advisors for Mayo Clinic's pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) program and currently serves on the board of advisors for HeartWorks, the leading research organization focused on curing pediatric CHD. Stoll holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 'Reliable Robotics is far and away the leader in autonomous aviation,' said Stoll. 'I am excited to join such an experienced team to help the company achieve its ambitious goals of improving safety and revolutionizing the future of flight.' About Reliable Robotics Reliable Robotics launched in 2017 to bring certified autonomous vehicles to commercial aviation as soon as possible. The company's automation system enables remote operation of any aircraft type and will expand access to more locations. Reliable's vision is to transform the way we move goods and people around the planet with safer, more convenient and more affordable air transportation. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and has a distributed global workforce. Learn more and see job openings at
Business Mayor
10-05-2025
- Business Mayor
Ridiculous tech predictions from 1990s business magazines that actually came true
The 1990s were a fascinating period of technological transition. As the internet emerged from academic obscurity into public consciousness and mobile phones became slightly less brick-like, business publications were filled with bold predictions of technology. Many got it wrong – spectacularly so. However, amid the skepticism and shortsightedness, some predictions that seemed absurd then have since become our everyday reality. Here's a look at some of the most ridiculous tech predictions from 1990s business magazines that, against all odds, actually came true. You may like 'Your phone and computer will become one device' In 1995, tech columnist Clifford Stoll wrote in Newsweek: 'I don't believe that phone books, newspapers, magazines, or corner video stores will disappear as computer networks spread. Nor do I think that my telephone will merge with my computer, to become some sort of information appliance.' This statement reflected a viewpoint common at the time, where many believed in the resilience of traditional media and businesses against the tide of digital innovation. Fast forward to today, smartphones have evolved into what Stoll dismissed -sophisticated information appliances that seamlessly integrate the functionality of telephones with unprecedented computing power. These powerful pocket-sized devices not only facilitate communication but also redefine how we access information and entertain ourselves. Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! As a result, they have significantly contributed to the decline of traditional resources such as phone books, print newspapers, video rental stores, and many other businesses. This evolution contradicts Stoll's assertion that certain industries would remain unaffected by technological change, showcasing how quickly innovation can reshape consumer habits and market landscapes. The idea that we would walk around with powerful computers capable of performing complex tasks – ranging from browsing the internet and managing schedules to streaming high-definition videos – seemed far-fetched in an era when mobile phones struggled to handle basic text messages, and computers were primarily stationary devices tethered to wall outlets. The transformation of mobile technology has not only made these devices ubiquitous but also central to modern life, marking a dramatic shift in societal behavior and expectations. 'People will watch TV shows and movies on demand' 'Video-on-demand, that killer application of communications, will remain a dream,' predicted Clifford Stoll in the same 1995 Newsweek piece. At the time, VHS rental stores were at their peak, and the idea that people would stream entertainment on-demand seemed technologically improbable and economically unviable. Fast forward to today, and services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and countless others have made video-on-demand not just a reality but the predominant way many people consume entertainment. The corner video store didn't just decline – it practically vanished. 'Computers will be carried everywhere, even when fishing' In a thought-provoking column published in the New York Times in 1985, Erik Sandberg-Diment expressed skepticism about the role of technology in leisure activities, stating, 'No matter how inexpensive the machines become, I still can't imagine the average user taking one along when fishing.' At that time, this outlook seemed entirely reasonable, reflecting a worldview dominated by cumbersome hardware and limited technological integration. However, this prediction largely underestimated the transformative impact of technology on our everyday lives and recreational pursuits. Fast forward to today, and we find that many fishing enthusiasts are not just embracing technology but are integrating it seamlessly into their experience on the water. Waterproof smartphones and tablets have become essential companions for these outdoor adventurers, enabling them to check real-time weather conditions, record their catches with ease, and even utilize advanced sonar applications to locate fish – all from the comfort of their boats or along the shore. The notion that computers could evolve into indispensable tools that are portable, durable, and rugged enough to accompany users into previously considered 'tech-free' environments – such as fishing, hiking, or camping – would have seemed laughable in the era characterized by fragile, bulky devices. Yet, the rapid advancement of technology has not only made this possible but has also enriched the outdoor experience, marrying nature with the conveniences of modern digital tools. Unfortunately, some predictions didn't come true, including the following. Clifford Stoll wasn't right about everything. In a 1995 issue of BusinessWeek, he expressed deep skepticism about ecommerce: 'The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.' While the prediction about the government might still be debatable, ecommerce has fundamentally transformed retail. Amazon, which began as an online bookstore in 1994, is now one of the world's most valuable companies, selling everything from groceries to cloud computing services. Traditional retailers who failed to adapt have largely disappeared. The idea that people would regularly order everyday items online instead of visiting physical stores seemed unlikely in an era when internet connections were slow and online payment systems were viewed suspiciously. Before social networks became ubiquitous, many business analysts predicted that computer-mediated communication would remain a niche activity primarily for technical professionals. The idea that billions of people would share details of their daily lives online seemed unlikely. Today, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok have fundamentally transformed how people connect, share information, and express themselves. These platforms have not only changed personal communication but have revolutionized marketing, news distribution, and even political campaigning. 'Only Technical People Will Use the Internet' Many business publications in the early 1990s predicted that the internet would remain primarily the domain of technical professionals, academics, and hobbyists. The interfaces were too complex, the content too specialized, and the average person would have no reason to go online. Today, internet access is considered so essential that many countries have declared it a basic right. From young children to the elderly, people of all technical skill levels rely on the internet for communication, entertainment, shopping, banking, healthcare, and countless other services.
