Gill Pringle

2 months ago | seniorplanet.org | Gill Pringle

Each year, Senior Planet reviews the Oscar landscape to point out the older candidates and their performances. This year’s group offers some rare exceptions in youth-obsessed Hollywood.  You could call the the Academy Awards selections this year “Oscars with Attitude,” especially considering two popular films in the mix. Not only is Director Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave up for a Best Picture Oscar – it also stands out as that rarity – a film showcasing a predominantly senior cast.

Feb 13, 2025 | seniorplanet.org | Gill Pringle

Chazz Palminteri, who starred in Bullets Over Broadway, The Usual Suspects and Mulholland Falls, is above all known for A Bronx Tale, an autobiographical one-man play based on his own rough childhood. He first staged it in 1989, playing 18 different characters, followed by a musical version and an award-winning film version directed by Robert De Niro. Today Chazz, 72, tells Senior Planet why he’s finally bringing a film version of his play to the big screen.

Jan 16, 2025 | seniorplanet.org | Gill Pringle

Arkansas native Billy Bob Thornton, 69, has been making music and movies most of his adult life. After he took home the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Sling Blade in 1996, he’s appeared in films like A Simple Plan and Monster’s Ball and  more. Wed six times – most famously to Angelina Jolie for three years – he is now happily married to specific effects artist Connie Angland with whom he shares a daughter.

Dec 25, 2024 | seniorplanet.org | Gill Pringle

Nicknamed “king of the sitcoms”, Chuck Lorre has written some of the most popular shows in TV history including Two and a Half Men, Mom, The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. Born in New York, Lorre dropped out of SUNY Potsdam with dreams of rock’n’roll. The reality was a series of gigs on cruise ships, bar mitzvahs and weddings. By the mid-80s he turned to TV writing – and the rest is history. SENIOR PLANET catches up with Lorre, 72, to talk telly and his latest show, Bookie:Q.

Dec 11, 2024 | seniorplanet.org | Gill Pringle

This year, with her newest film, The Substance, marks the long-overdue comeback of one of Hollywood’s most beloved actresses, Demi Moore. For, while recently featuring in TV series, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans and Landman, it is her starring role in body horror flick, The Substance that has cemented her triumphant return – receiving an 11-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film festival premiere.