More from Rebecca Keegan
Al Pacino Just Watched ‘The Godfather’ for the First Time in Decades: “Humbling”
It’s the movie that changed the course of his life — and American cinema — but Al Pacino had not seen The Godfather in its entirety in decades. So when he invited me to watch Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 gangster epic with him and some of his friends at a small screening room in Hollywood […]
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Could ‘Real Housewives’ Elect a President?
There is an almost infinite number of topics people fight about on Bravo shows — stemware choices, mortgage fraud, Kanye’s penis. But one subject that is usually considered off-limits even by the cable network’s bare-it-all stars is politics. That may be changing, at least offscreen. This presidential election, Nelini Stamp, the creator of Real Housewives of […]
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Will the ‘Rust’ Armorer Walk, Too?
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has filed a motion for a new trial — or for a dismissal of her case — in the wake of new ballistics evidence and “egregious prosecutorial misconduct” that was revealed during Alec Baldwin’s trial last week. “Justice demands that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s conviction be overturned immediately, ensuring that the legal system […]
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How the Shock Alec Baldwin Case Dismissal Impacts Other ‘Rust’ Main Players
Now that a New Mexico judge has dismissed Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the Rust saga moves to a new stage, albeit one that will still keep plenty of lawyers busy. Here’s what’s next for various players involved with the indie Western. Alec Baldwin On July 12, […]
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Judge Dismisses Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Trial
Alec Baldwin wept in court as a Santa Fe judge dismissed his involuntary manslaughter case on Friday after a day-long, dramatic and often bizarre hearing over how police and prosecutors treated a handful of bullets. “The late discovery of this evidence has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stated in […]
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Alec Baldwin Files Motion to Dismiss ‘Rust’ Case Over New Evidence as Hearing Gets Underway
One mystery has plagued the Rust case from the very beginning: How did a live bullet ever get on a movie set to begin with? Alec Baldwin’s attorneys filed a motion Friday morning to have his involuntary manslaughter case dismissed based on what they say is evidence prosecutors withheld from them that may answer that […]
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Alec Baldwin’s Lawyers Claim He’s a Victim of Agenda-Driven District Attorney
Alec Baldwin is either a man who recklessly violated the “cardinal rule” of gun safety or a “shiny object” for a couple of New Mexico prosecutors who don’t have a case. Those are the arguments special prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson and Baldwin’s defense attorney Alex Spiro made Wednesday morning as Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial got […]
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Alec Baldwin Is on Trial, With a Media Circus Following Him in New Mexico ‘Rust’ Shooting Case
“Will you be a free man in two weeks, Mr. Baldwin?” someone shouted, as Alec Baldwin arrived at the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday morning for the first day of his trial. Baldwin flicked the legal pad he was carrying at a journalist who had thrust a microphone into […]
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As Alec Baldwin Heads to Trial, Dueling ‘Rust’ Documentaries Become Part of Tangled Drama
Among the many people who will be closely watching Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial when it begins in Santa Fe this week are two sets of documentarians covering parallel and potentially competing stories from the movie Rust. Both sets of filmmakers have also become part of the still-unfolding tragedy of the indie Western set, where […]
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Sean Penn on the Enduring Power of the ‘Into the Wild’ Bus (Now Out of the Wild)
In the early moments of the 2007 movie Into the Wild, Emile Hirsch, in the role of 24-year-old adventurer Christopher McCandless, is walking alone in knee-deep snow when he stumbles upon an astounding sight, what McCandless would come to call “the magic bus.” The rusty, green-and-white Fairbanks City Transit System bus, abandoned in a remote […]
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Hillary Clinton Urges Hollywood to Focus on How Climate Change Is Hurting Kids
While Hollywood movies like Don’t Look Up and The Day After Tomorrow have used climate change as the inspiration for some high-stakes storytelling, Hillary Clinton would like the entertainment industry to start thinking smaller. A lot smaller. Like, infant or preschooler small. Through the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail program, an early childhood initiative […]
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Shailene Woodley Isn’t Worried About the Planet. She’s Worried About You.
It seems odd to call someone who is just 32 years old a “longtime environmentalist.” And Shailene Woodley herself dismisses labels like “environmentalist” or “activist.” So … environmental enthusiast? Tree hugger? Whatever you call her, the Big Little Lies and Ferrari star has been actively championing environmental causes since she was a child actor appearing […]
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