Drew Gillis

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Drew Gillis

During the fourth episode of The Rehearsal‘s second season, Nathan Fielder tells aviation expert John Goglia that HBO has more or less given him a blank check. The first season of this project was presented as a pseudo-service that Fielder offered to people curious about, say, starting a family. The second, meanwhile, brought the comedian into the forefront as he pursued making commercial flights safer by role-playing cockpit scenarios between pilots.

1 week ago | avclub.com | Drew Gillis

A doorman in a New York City apartment building knows everyone, and knows a hell of a lot about them. It is literally his job. In Bad Shabbos, Cliff “Method Man” Smith’s doorman character offers even more service, wooing and winning over out of town parents for the residents of his Upper West Side building over the course of a tense Shabbat dinner. You can check him out in an exclusive clip below.

1 week ago | avclub.com | Drew Gillis

M*A*S*H ran for 251 episodes from 1972 to 1983, and Swit appeared in 240 of them. The actor won two Emmys for her performance, and as the series progressed, she gradually steered the character away from one that started much broader. “[A]s Loretta became more socially aware, she would suggest little changes in Houlihan’s dialogue and motivation that made the character more dedicated, deep and human,” producer Burt Metcalfe said in a 1979 People cover story.

1 week ago | avclub.com | Drew Gillis

Details of the film are still being kept pretty guarded, but THR reports that the film will follow the son of Stiller and Polo’s characters, who gets engaged to Grande’s character, described as “a ball-busting woman who seems all wrong for him.” The characters Grande has already played, from Victorious to Don’t Look Up and Wicked, have been defined by varying levels of ditziness, so this sounds like… not that. Regardless, a comedy was something that has been on Grande’s radar for a while.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Drew Gillis

Loretta Swit, widely known for her role as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in the TV series M*A*S*H, has died. Her publicist confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter today. Swit died just after midnight at her home in New York from “suspected natural causes.” She was 87 years old. M*A*S*H ran for 251 episodes from 1972 to 1983, and Swit appeared in 240 of them.