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7 rarest animals on earth

7 rarest animals on earth

7 rarest animals on earth Amur Leopard: Often described as the world's rarest cat, this leopard subspecies found in Russia and China, has extremely low numbers, primarily due to habitat loss and poaching. ...
Naomi Watts’ 10 Best Performances

Naomi Watts’ 10 Best Performances

Naomi Watts 10 Best Performances Critics Pick Naomi Watts' 10 Best Performances Image: Universal Focus/Photofest 10. St. Vincent It takes a rare skill to accept the role like this — a Russian tart with a heart — and make it work, but in Theodore Melfi's sentimental comedy, Watts pulls it off. Image: The Weinstein Company/Photofest 9. Flirting Flirting features Watts in a supporting role as a sweet, bespectacled blond named Janet who is friends with Thandie Newton's sexier, more exotic boarding-school classmate.  Image: The Samuel Goldwyn Company/Photofest 8. Ellie Parker Watts, also one of the film's producers, channels her own experiences and personality to create the unbreakable Ellie Parker, a talented, sunny but slightly gawky slogger with ...
Scarlett Johansson’s 10 Best Performances

Scarlett Johansson’s 10 Best Performances

Scarlett Johanssons 10 Best Performances Critics Pick Scarlett Johansson's 10 Best Performances Image: Universal Pictures/Photofest 10. The Nanny Diaries Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's follow-up to their acclaimed American Splendor got mostly negative reviews, but that certainly wasn't the fault of their star. Image: Weinstein Co./Photofest 9. Hail, Caesar! Playing a knocked-up, Esther Williams-like bathing-suited beauty with a filthy mouth and squawking Nu Yawk accent, Johansson is very funny — and gone all too quickly from the story. Image: Universal Pictures/Photofest 8. Ghost World She makes a great double act with co-star Thora Birch as they compete to see who can deliver the most withering teenage putdown with the least amount...
Emmy Awards: The Complete Winners List

Emmy Awards: The Complete Winners List

2020 Emmy Winners 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards The Complete Winners List Image: Courtesy Photo Succession(HBO) BEST DRAMA SERIES Image: Courtesy of HBO Image: Steve Granitz/WireImage Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Julia Garner(Ozark) Image: HBO Best Actress in a Drama Series Zendaya(Euphoria)  Image: Courtesy of HBO Best Actor in a Drama Series Jeremy Strong (Succession) Image: Courtesy of Subject Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek) Image: Courtesy of Apple TV+ Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Billy Crudup(The Morning Show)  Image: Courtesy of BBCAMERICA/SID GENTLE Best Writing for a Drama Series Jesse Armstrong (Succession) Best Directing for a Dra...
Hollywood’s 10 Favorite TV Shows

Hollywood’s 10 Favorite TV Shows

Top 10 TV Shows of the 2010s Best of The 2010s Hollywood's 10 Favorite TV Shows  Image: Courtesy of Netflix THR reached out to members of the film and TV academies as well as other industry sources and asked them to pick their favorites from a list of Oscar nominees, blockbusters, hit shows and critical darlings from the 2010s. More than 3,500 took part in the survey.  Image: Colleen Hayes/Courtesy of HBO Veep Images: Colleen Hayes/Courtesy of HBO 10 30 Rock Images: NBC 9 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Image: Courtesy of Amazon 8 Fleabag 7 Image: Courtesy of Amazon Studios The Crown 6 Image: Sophie Mutevelian/Netflix Stranger Things 5 Image: Courtesy of Netflix Downton Abbey 4 Image: Liam Daniel/Focus F...
Jurnee Smollett’s Journey Onscreen

Jurnee Smollett’s Journey Onscreen

Jurnee Smolletts Journey Onscreen A look Back Jurnee Smollett's Journey Onscreen Image: HBO FULL HOUSE Smollett was cast a few seasons in, as Michelle Tanner’s best friend, Denise, a recurring part originally written as a young white girl. Image: ABC / Photofest ON OUR OWN Though it lasted only one season, the ABC family sitcom starred all six Smollett kids as siblings who lose their parents. Image: ABC Photo Archives EVE’S BAYOU At 10, Smollett landed a starring role as Eve, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, in Kasi Lemmons’ directorial debut, an R-rated Southern drama. Image: Trimark/Photofest FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Smollett played Jess, girlfriend to Vince (Michael B. Jordan) and wannabe coach, on the final two seasons of the football drama. ...
7 historic images of Earth captured from outer space

7 historic images of Earth captured from outer space

7 historic images of Earth captured from outer space Earth is round: The first image to showcase the Earth's curvature. The picture, taken 21,000 feet above Villa Mercedes, Argentina, showed the Andes Mountains, was published in the May 1931 issue of The National Geographic Magazine. ...
10 Overlooked LGBTQ Movies

10 Overlooked LGBTQ Movies

10 Overlooked LGBTQ Movies Critics Pick 10 Overlooked LGBTQ Movies Image: Courtesy of Wolfe Releasing  To mark Pride 2020, The Hollywood Reporter's film critics David Rooney, Sheri Linden, and Jon Frosch chose 10 standout LGBTQ-themed movies that have largely fallen through the cracks and seem ripe for wider discovery. Being 17 In his most personal film, 1994’s Wild Reeds, André Téchiné explored adolescent turbulence and sexual discovery in a rural setting ruptured by a distant war. - D.R. Image: Courtesy of Luc Roux The D Train The D Train excavates the homoeroticism of masculine hero worship, becoming the rare American film to portray male sexuality as — gasp! — fluid. — J.F. Image: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle The Delta The haunting film br...
Then and Now: ‘Cast of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’

Then and Now: ‘Cast of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’

Then and Now: Sleepless in Seattle Then And Now Cast of 'Sleepless in Seattle' Image: Photofest Tom Hanks Tom Hanks played Mr. Sleepless in Seattle himself, otherwise known as Sam Baldwin. Image: TriStar/Photofest THEN Tom Hanks Hanks has become a household name for films such as Forest Gump, Philadelphia, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, Sully and more! Image: Samir Hussein/WireImage Now Meg Ryan Ryan plays Annie Reed, a journalist who meets the love of her life in New York. Image: TriStar/Photofest Then Meg Ryan Ryan continued to star in a variety of romantic films throughout her career, most notably in You’ve Got Mail, reuniting with her co-star Tom Hanks.  Image: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Now Bill Pullman Pullman plays Wal...
Great Sports-Themed TV Series

Great Sports-Themed TV Series

Great Sports-Themed TV Series Critics Pick Great Sports-Themed Television Series Image: Patrick McElhenney/FX Hollywood Reporter TV Critics Daniel Fienberg and Inkoo Kang recommend shows about, or peripherally about, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat and the glory of athletics of all stripes, both obvious and perhaps less-than-obvious.  Atypical Sam navigating increasing independence while he and his family learn more about his autism, was the show's initial centerpiece. But it quickly became Sam’s sister Casey, a budding track star whose athletic pursuit has shaped her journey and the travails of the entire Gardner clan — D.F. Image: Courtesy of Luc Roux Brockmire Hank Azaria's performance as a foul-mouthed baseball announcer wit...
Carl Reiner’s Most Memorable Works

Carl Reiner’s Most Memorable Works

Carl Reiners Most Memorable Works Critics Pick Carl Reiner's Most Memorable Works Image: Universal Pictures/Photofest Caesar's Hour Reiner starred alongside Sid Caesar, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray and Janet Blair in Caesar's Hour, a live sketch comedy show. Image: NBC/Photofest The Dick Van Dyke Show Reiner created The Dick Van Dyke Show based on his own life. The series was nominated for 23 Emmys, winning 14. Image: CBS/Photofest The Jerk Reiner directed The Jerk, starring Steve Martin in one of his earliest breakout film roles.  Image: Universal Studios/Photofest Ocean's Eleven In Steven Soderbergh's remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name, Reiner played Saul Bloom, an elderly con man and integral member of Ocean's team. ...
7 enchanting images of star formation captured by NASA

7 enchanting images of star formation captured by NASA

7 enchanting images of star formation captured by NASA Celestial fireworks: A brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars residing in a raucous stellar breeding called Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina. ...
Cast of ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’

Cast of ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’

Then and Now: Cast of Home Alone 2 Then and Now Cast of 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York' Image: Courtesy of Photofest Macaulay Culkin Culkin reprised his role as Kevin McCallister from 1990's Home Alone. Image: Photofest THEN Macaulay Culkin Home Alone made Culkin a household name in the early '90s, when he also starred in Uncle Buck and My Girl and even hosted Saturday Night Live. Now Image: Getty Images Joe Pesci Pesci plays one-half of a blundering duo of burglars trying to rob the McCallister home but repeatedly gets pranked by Culkin's Kevin. THEN Image: Photofest Joe Pesci Now Image: Getty Images Joe Pesci was a seasoned actor by the time he joined Home Alone. Pesci announced his retirement from acting in 1999 to focus on a mu...
The Cast of ‘Coming to America’

The Cast of ‘Coming to America’

Then And Now: Cast of Coming to America Then and Now Cast of 'Coming to America' Image: Photofest Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy plays Prince Akeem, Randy Watson, Saul and Clarence in what would become a hallmark of his films. Images: Paramount/Photofest; David Livingston/Getty Images THEN Eddie Murphy The successful comedian went on to star in movies like the Nutty Professor remakes, the Doctor Dolittle films and the Shrek franchise. Images: Paramount/Photofest; David Livingston/Getty Images Now Arsenio Hall Arsenio Hall played Akeem’s right-hand man, Semmi. Like Murphy, Hall played other roles including Reverend Brown, Morris the Barber and a Female Clubgoer. Images: Paramount/Photofest (3); David Livingston/Getty Images Then Arsenio Ha...

Hollywood’s Top 10 Favorite Love Lines

Hollywoods Top 10 Favorite Love Lines Favorite Quotes Hollywood's Top 10 Favorite Funny Lines Image: Photofest In 2019, THR asked its entertainment industry readers to vote on the most memorable quote from every movie ever made. We pulled the 10 highest-ranking comedy lines on the list. Image: Photofest I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight. - The Devil Wears Prada2006 Image: Photofest 10 Nobody's perfect. - Some Like It Hot1959 Image: Photofest 9 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! - Dr. Strangelove1964 Image: Photofest 8 Argo f— yourself. - Argo2012 Image: Photofest 7 Hasta la vista, baby. - Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991 Image: Photofest 6 Sh...
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