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Axios
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Paramount Theatre's summer film series returns
The Paramount Theatre's annual summer classic film series kicks off Thursday for its 51st year with 100 films from every era in cinema history — all screening at the historic 110-year-old downtown theater. Why it matters: During the Texas summer, it's hard to beat sitting in the air-conditioned dark, munching on popcorn and staring up at the big screen. What they're saying: "This year's lineup offers something for every film lover, from rare 70mm presentations to beloved classics celebrating significant anniversaries," Stephen Jannise, senior director of film programming at the Paramount, said in a news release. The movies are as diverse as "Boogie Nights" and "Dr. Strangelove," "The Big Lebowski" and "Working Girl," "Selena" and "All the President's Men." Fun favorites include "Miss Congeniality" and "Clueless." On June 11, novelist Katherine Center will join Austin actors Jared and Genevieve Padalecki for a special "Rom Com Night" and conversation, followed by a screening of the Rob Reiner romance classic "When Harry Met Sally." What's next: The series begins with Thursday's double feature of "Casablanca" at 7pm and "Breathless" at 9pm. On Saturday, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez will offer an in-person introduction of two 40th anniversary favorites, Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" and the rarely seen gem "Into the Night" starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, and David Bowie. "The Empire Strikes Back," arguably the best Star Wars movie, screens Sunday at 3pm. Other movies earmarked as the family film series this summer include "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Matilda," "The Goonies" and "The Sound of Music." If you go: Admission is $15 — including a $3 preservation fee for the theater — which covers both films in a double-feature.
South China Morning Post
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Alexander Griffith Bauer, son of Working Girl star Melanie Griffith? Unlike half-sister Dakota Johnson, he has remained mostly out of the entertainment industry, but that may be changing
Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Melanie Griffith has a blended family. She was first married to Miami Vice star Don Johnson , but it was through her next marriage to Steven Bauer that she gave birth to her first child, Alexander Bauer. When she remarried Johnson after parting ways with Bauer, the couple welcomed Dakota Johnson. At the same time, she was also a stepmum to his son with ex-girlfriend Patti D'Arbanville, Jesse Johnson . The pair divorced for a second time and she tied the knot with Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, bringing Stella Banderas into the world. Melanie Griffith arrives at the Elle Women in Hollywood celebration in November 2024, in Los Angeles. Photo: AP Although all three of her marriages ended in divorce, the Working Girl star has maintained an amicable relationship with her former partners. 'All three of them are my friends. I love them with all my heart,' she told People in 2020. Meanwhile, her children are also established in life. Advertisement Dakota Johnson is an A-lister in her own right, best known for the Fifty Shades of Grey series of films. Jesse is pursuing an acting and music career, per People, and Stella runs the health and beauty brand, Lightbound. But what has Alexander Griffith Bauer been up to? What was his childhood like? Alexander Griffith Bauer is Melanie Griffith's firstborn son. Photo: @melaniegriffith/Instagram Despite being the child of two famous parents and the grandson of Hollywood legend Tippi Hedren , Alexander Griffith Bauer grew up away from the limelight. After his parents divorced in 1989, he was raised by his mum in Los Angeles, according to People. Is he close with the rest of the family? Alexander Griffith Bauer, pictured here with Jesse Johnson, is close with his step-siblings. Photo: @melaniegriffith/Instagram In his younger days, Alexander Griffith Bauer made several public appearances with his iconic mother as well as his celebrity stepfathers, Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas. Safe to say, he was close with them both in addition to his step-siblings, Dakota and Stella, with whom he lived, per People.
Daily Mail
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Miami Vice meets Star Wars! Don Johnson, 75, shocks fans by revealing Harrison Ford, 82, is a 'longtime friend'
Miami Vice icon Don Johnson shocked his fans on Instagram Thursday when he revealed who one of his best friends is. The actor, 75, shared a photo of himself with Star Wars veteran Harrison Ford, 82, that proved the two silver foxes are close pals. 'Me and my long time friend .. Smiley,' the Doctor Odyssey star wrote facetiously next to the picture. Johnson was smiling brightly while wearing a navy blue suede jacket and over gray T-shirt. Ford declined to reveal his pearly whites while standing stoically in a navy blue suit and white button down shirt with his arm around Johnson. 'When legends met. Enjoy time please,' encouraged a fan. Johnson and Ford may know each other because Johnson used to be married to Ford's Working Girl co-star Melanie Griffith. 'Me and my long time friend .. Smiley,' the Doctor Odyssey star wrote facetiously next to the picture. 'When legends met. Enjoy time please,' encouraged a fan 'Both of you still have it,' wrote another. 'Two absolute legends! May the force be with you, guys,' penned a follower. 'Sonny Crockett and Han Solo in the same room together?,' was the gleeful reaction of a fan, referring to Johnson's Miami Vice character and Ford's iconic Star Wars role. '2 of the hottest men in the world ❤️,' stated another. It's unclear how the two actually met, as the two have never worked in a film together. Their friendship may go back to the time when the Shrinking star was working Don's ex-wife Melanie Griffith in 1988's Working Girl. Griffith, 67, and Johnson had married and divorced in 1976, but rekindled their romance in 1988, after Griffith split from her former husband Steven Bauer. The two re-married in June 1989 and some three months later, they welcomed their daughter Dakota, now 35. Ford has made his mark in two very different TV shows; 1923, which completed its second season on Paramount+ and the Apple TV series Shrinking, which has already begun production on season three The Griffith-Johnson marriage ended in 1996, but the two have remained friendly. Both Johnson and Ford are enjoying a renaissance in their careers via their new television projects. Johnson is helming Doctor Odyssey as Captain Robert Massey. The popular ABC show has not yet been renewed for a second season. Ford has made his mark in two very different TV shows; 1923, which completed its second season on Paramount+ and the Apple TV series Shrinking, which has already begun production on season three.
Khaleej Times
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
UAE: How to master power dressing in 2025 using Apple TV+'s 'Severance' for inspiration
Eid celebrations are over, school holidays are winding down and regular office hours have resumed. The UAE is back to business. And, for the first time since Covid took a wrecking ball to office dress codes, workwear is at the top of the fashion agenda, thanks to the most-watched TV show in the history of Apple TV+, the sci-fi dystopian thriller Severance. If you've not seen it (and you really must), the overall premise is an exploration of what happens if our work lives are entirely separated from our home lives. The protagonists undergo a procedure that separates their conscious into Innies (corporate drudges tasked with 'work that is mysterious and important' for Lumon Industries, their employer and inventor of the severing concept) and Outies, the side of the self that gets to live life, blissfully ignorant of office politics, and immune from Sunday night dread as the work week looms. To be 'severed' promises the ideal work:life balance. As you'd expect from Apple, the production design is impeccable, a masterclass in storytelling through the use of colour. On the severed floor at Lumon, the protagonists of the Macrodata Refinement team are shown via a palette of almost exclusively blue and green. Not since the 1988 movie Working Girl made Melanie Griffiths' boxy suits and bouffant hair de rigueur, has office style been so aesthetically all-in. But while Working Girl was about power dressing, Severance's corporate automatons are powerless. Each day they are dressed by their Outie, consciousness switching to their innie persona in the Lumon Industries elevator. 'She dresses me in the morning, like I'm a baby,' bemoans Helly R, played by Britt Lower, of her Outie's control over what she finds herself wearing each day. While the conflict between Helly R's inside and outside selves is central to the show's narrative thread (no spoilers here), were I in her nude, block-heeled shoes, I'd be less quick to condemn my Outie's fashion choices. Like Apple's iconic founder, the late Steve Jobs, who wore an Issey Miyake black turtleneck, Levi's 501 blue jeans and New Balance trainers from the 1990s until his death in 2011, there is something to be said for a workwear wardrobe that is reliable, repeatable and rudimentary, as Lumon Industries' verbose Mr Milchick may or may not have said. As Severance 's central female character, and the standard bearer for the show's style credentials, Helly R's office wear, as chosen by her Outie Helena, revolves around some form of blue A-line pencil skirt, three-quarter length sleeve knit top, and those nude heels (specifically French footwear brand Repetto's Marlow style; designed for dancers, durable for eight hours at your desk, whether your job entails running down Lumon Industries' endless sterile corridors or not). There are no prints, no extraneous detail, and very little variation in silhouette, bar the occasional shift dress. Build a wardrobe of mix-and-match block-coloured basics, and you too can devote as little time as Helly R does to thinking about what to wear for work (even if her lack of sartorial say-so is down to bioengineering rather than free will). The trick is to find a palette you are comfortable working within, pun entirely intended. For me, it would be a spectrum of beige, from ivory to camel (do not attempt this if you have children under the age of five). Then, harness the discipline to shop only within those shades, sticking to simple shapes that suit your body type. Thus, in true Lumon style, freeing your creativity and frivolity to run wild outside of office hours. Just not too wild. Where Helly R's wardrobe is a lesson in restraint, it's wise to be discerning in your choice of televisual style cues. I once got carried away watching a Love Is Blind reunion show, ending up down a Google rabbit hole and impulsively ordering a floor-length rhinestone sheath dress from partywear brand Babyboo. It looked fantastic on screen, but, being neither a reality TV star, nor a highschooler with an upcoming prom, it has yet to emerge from its box. In a world of unlimited style choices, there's something to be said for limiting your shopping self's freedom of thought (Season 3 of Severance?). So, the next time a new series of Selling Sunset tempts me with the prospect of 150mm heels, I'll stream some discordant jazz and hit up Clarks for a Helly/Helena-approved court shoe instead.
The Guardian
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Cyndi Lauper review – 80s pop eccentric hasn't changed a bit
Fandom isn't a good look on a critic; we're supposed to be sober and impartial, analytical and measured. What to do, then, when called upon to review your favourite idol, the singer who first turned you on to the power of pop? Judicious rumination or tinny screams of delight? There's room for both in this swan song from 80s pop eccentric Cyndi Lauper, as irrepressible here as when I saw her as a teenager, then touring her new album True Colours. She's had an illustrious career, including a side gig composing musicals – Kinky Boots, and soon an adaptation of 80s workplace comedy Working Girl – but the bulk of her hits are drawn from her first two albums, including the astonishing debut She's So Unusual. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – the song that gives this farewell tour its name – is also by far Lauper's most famous – though the audience has to wait till the very end for it, in a riot of colour and light directly inspired by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. In the buildup, we get a pockmarked history of Lauper's roots and musical inclinations. Those less familiar with her are likely to be shocked by her power and versatility, her voice ranging across blues, jazz, rock and country without ever losing its bright pop sensibility. The night opens with the quirky, infectious She Bop, followed quickly by The Goonies 'R' Good Enough – a song she refused to play live for many years until she was badgered by Australian fans into including it. Both are performed with elan and vigour, Lauper's signature jittery moves and syncopated inflections demonstrating the idiosyncrasy of her talent. I Drove All Night comes soon after, sultry and looping, her voice still carrying plenty of heft and texture. Throughout, the show is peppered with numbers from later albums in a retrospective of Lauper's outre career. We get an excellent rendition of Who Let In the Rain, from her 1993 record Hatful of Stars, the LED screens providing a torrential background to the sweetly melancholic ballad. Sally's Pigeons, also from that album, is supported by a vivid recollection of her childhood in blue-collar Queens, including a video essay of memories and associations. A massive part of Lauper's appeal as a live performer, apart from the sheer virtuosity of her voice, is the rambling, discursive monologues that bookend many of the songs. They give a sense not only of the warmth and humility of the woman but the audacity and authenticity of the artist, who shot like a strange comet from the working-class Italian-American family of her youth. There is something endearingly homespun about the show, like an extremely well-resourced slide night. Some of the biggest hits are, conversely, the biggest disappointments. On Time after Time, Lauper is joined by Tones and I – a welcome addition, as the artist's voice compliments and augments Lauper's own – but the delivery is halting and under-rehearsed. The finale, with the band joined onstage by support act The Veronicas (excellent), is likewise a little too shaggy for its own good, with missed cues and false starts nibbling away at the momentum. When the nostalgia hits the sweet spot, however, something wondrous alchemises, transplanting the audience back whole generations while managing to feel vivid and contemporary. When You Were Mine is an early triumph, as is Change of Heart – both minor hits from her first two albums that strike me as quintessential Lauper songs, driving and soulful, shimmering and optimistic even in their wretchedness. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion Best of all, for my money, is Money Changes Everything, Lauper's cover of a Brains song that – like I Drove All Night, which was written for and eventually recorded by Roy Orbison – she totally makes her own. Those ringing guitar chords and persistent beat perfectly demonstrate Lauper's rockabilly roots and punk leanings, the song building to a rage-fuelled scream as multiple versions of the singer loom in screens, concertina-like, behind her. A stroll into the centre of the cavernous arena for a rendition of Shine – the eponymous song from her eighth studio album and one of her finest late career numbers – allows a shift in intimacy and engagement. For her penultimate act, Lauper follows with True Colours as a multi-coloured piece of cloth floats evocatively above her head. Written at the height of the Aids epidemic, the song is simple and anthemic, the despair under the surface threatening to emerge throughout. It's honest and moving. Honesty is Lauper's superpower, a stark contrast to the slick corporatism of Madonna, with whom she's often unfairly compared. This is a big, bold, highly visual arena show, but it also highlights something essential about Lauper: she's first and foremost a musician, supple and savvy but ultimately joyous. Her feminism is collective rather than self-aggrandising, her allyship earnest rather than performative. It's truly heartening to see how little she's changed. Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour continues across Australia in April before heading to Japan and the US
