Julian Sancton

3 days ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Looks like Lorne Michaels may have found his next prestige project — and this one comes with steak frites and a side of passive-aggressive Instagram feuding. Sources tell Rambling Reporter that the Saturday Night Live creator has optioned Keith McNally‘s dishy new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, which charts the legendary restaurateur’s rise, fall, stroke, suicide attempt, recovery and general disappointment with humanity. In other words, comedy gold.

2 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Being a member of the president’s Cabinet has always come with perks: VIP flights with no TSA lines, a fleet of chauffeur-driven SUVs and a personal security detail straight out of Men in Black. But now, in the Trump White House, one member of the administration may be getting a whole new sort of fringe benefit — her own reality show.

4 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Julian Sancton

Balthazar. Pastis. Minetta Tavern. The Odeon. The more than a dozen restaurants outspoken British expat Keith McNally launched in Manhattan and D.C. over the decades exude a louche bohemian je ne sais quoi that make them seem as if they’d been transplanted tile by tile from Belle Époque Paris and tastefully modernized. You half expect to see Toulouse-Lautrec in the corner.

1 month ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Francis Ford Coppola got a standing ovation at the Dolby Theatre on April 26.

1 month ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Julian Sancton

The core audience for screen depictions of Hollywood has always been Hollywood itself. Apple TV+‘s anxiety-inducing Tinseltown sendup The Studio — about a midlevel exec, played by co-creator Seth Rogen, who is promoted to studio chief and finds himself irreconcilably torn between making art and the bottom line — is the ultimate series à clef. Rest assured that industry types are parsing every frame, wondering who’s based on whom, and hoping they’re not the ones being lampooned.