‘Hollywood’ Star Dylan McDermott Recalls His First Emmy Nomination and Reveals He’s Written a Memoir (Watch)

Star Trek is one of the longest-running franchises in Hollywood history with its many films, spinoffs, and TV iterations.Now, the show is making history by casting its first transgender and nonbinary actors in roles for the upcoming third season of : Discovery, which streams on CBS All-Access.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIt’s been 25 years since John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes starred in the drag queen comedy “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.”The actors were lauded back in the day because it was considered courageous for cisgender straight men to play out and proud gay queens.Leguizamo now says if the film were made today, casting would look a lot different.“I hope we’ve evolved from that,” Leguizamo says during a Zoom

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAs the news hit social media that star Chadwick Boseman is dead at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer, Hollywood is remembering the actor who became a household name when he starred in the title role of the Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther.”Jordan Peele tweeted, “This is a crushing blow.”Fellow director Nia DaCosta wrote, “I’ll miss waiting to see what he does next.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAs the news hit social media that star Chadwick Boseman is dead at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer, Hollywood is remembering the actor who became a household name when he starred in the title role of the Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther.”Jordan Peele tweeted, “This is a crushing blow.”Fellow director Nia DaCosta wrote, “I’ll miss waiting to see what he does next.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorRamón Rodríguez hasn’t exactly been taking it easy during quarantine. In addition to directing “Unity,” a short featuring two dancers in Los Angeles during the pandemic, the actor is putting the finishing touches on his script for a Latinx superhero movie and developing “Man Child,” a film he co-wrote with Rosie Perez.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMaya Rudolph’s first auditions were usually for parts in commercials or music videos.It was the mid-90s when she snagged work as an extra in a Dr. Dre video.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPaul Mescal isn’t sure what he’ll wear to the virtual Emmys.“I’m definitely going to be informal on the bottom — not that anyone is ever going to see it,” the “Normal People” star says on Thursday’s episode of Variety and iHeart’s podcast The Big Ticket from his home in London.Mescal is up for an Emmy for his work as Connell in the Hulu coming-of-age drama.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe third “Bill & Ted” movie is here at last.Released 31 years after “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and directed by Dean Parisot, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” sees the return of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted, now middle-aged former rock stars who are warned by a visitor from the future that they have just 78 minutes to create a song that will save the world — and the universe — from obliteration.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJust a little over a month before Hollywood came to a screeching halt in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, about 3,000 people crowded into the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for the 92nd Academy Awards.“There were inklings of the virus because people started to hear about it, but what we’ve seen happen certainly wasn’t on our radar,” Stephanie Allain, who produced the Oscars with Lynette Howell Taylor, told Variety on Monday afternoon.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJames Corden may be back to shooting “The Late Late Show” in his Los Angeles studio, but he insists that he’s not thinking about resuming production of “Carpool Karaoke” any time soon.“I love that segment.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen the decision came down that the Democratic National Convention was going to be a first-time virtual event and no longer a live spectacle in Milwaukee, Wis., producer Ricky Kirshner and director Glenn Weiss were only sure about one thing.“The first thing we said was, ‘It’s not going to be a giant Zoom call,’” Kirshner told Variety in a joint interview with Weiss just two days after the convention came to a close.

Matthew Carey Chef and restaurateur David Chang, founder of the Momofuku group of restaurants, has earned numerous awards during his career, including Michelin stars and a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef. But he’s up for a different kind of award right now that has him feeling perhaps a little flummoxed: an Emmy.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSamantha Bee is on a Zoom call from her home on the East Coast, where she’s been shooting her hit Comedy Central political talk show “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.”“This room is awful,” she says, looking back at a dimly lit room with not much furniture in sight. “It’s my guest room.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorTracee Ellis Ross certainly welcomes the Television Academy nominating a record number of Black actors for 2020 Emmys, but she also recognizes that it’s long overdue. “It’s about time,” Ross, who goes into the big night as a four-time nominee for her work as Dr.

Actor Dylan McDermott is reliving the painful details surrounding his mother’s murder as part of the research for an upcoming memoir.The Hollywood star has been hard at work on a book about his life during the coronavirus lockdown, noting it was something he needed to do for himself, revealing the research has changed him.Appearing on the podcast The Big Ticket, Dylan explains, “I’m really happy I did it. I don’t know what I’ll do with it.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWith short-form comedy series Flipped, Kaitlin Olson was afforded the opportunity to get involved with the Quibi platform at its inception, jumping at the chance to play the kind of self-involved, heightened character for which she’s become well known.Directed by Ryan Case, the series centers on Jann (Will Forte) and Cricket Melfi (Olson), a chronically underemployed couple, who have proclaimed themselves home renovation experts, with total confidence that

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAs the Black Lives Matter movement took hold of the U.S., Kerry Washington could not help but remember filming “Scandal” while she was pregnant. “It’s impossible to not worry about the Black men in my life out in the world.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHey, bud — let’s party!Sean Penn is hosting an all-star table read of his classic 1982 coming-of-age film “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”The lineup will include Penn, Jennifer Aniston, Shia LaBeouf, Matthew McConaughey, Julia Roberts, Dane Cook, Morgan Freeman and Henry Golding, with more names to be announced over the next week.The live virtual event will take place Aug. 20 on Facebook Live and TikTok.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMireille Enos would love to make people laugh, but she hasn’t really had the chance to do so during her two decades in Hollywood.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNicole Byer has made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for an Emmy for outstanding host for a reality or competition program for her work on the fourth season of Netflix’s amateur bake-off series “Nailed It!” “People sometimes go, ‘It’s very humbling,’ but I’m like humbling means you’re smaller than you are.