Natasha Lyonne is getting candid.
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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Sometimes, when a documentary has a great subject, it can explore that subject with an intimacy that’s arresting, only to treat other aspects of the story with a kind of cavalier casualness. “Love to Love You Donna Summer” is that kind of documentary. Co-directed by Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano (who is Summer’s daughter), it’s full of home movies and photographs and archival footage of Donna Summer, and it creates an eye-opening portrait of the ambitious yet deeply disconsolate woman she was. We see her when she was growing up in Boston, where she sang gospel in church and felt a gift passing through her, knowing that she was going to be famous, or when she moved to Munich in 1968, at 19, to be in the German production of “Hair” (there’s a startling clip of her onstage, in long dark pigtails, singing “Aquarius” in German), or later on, after she’d become a pop star, at home with her daughters, lost in the empty mirror of fame.
The two sides of Summer are embodied in her contrasting looks. When she was up onstage, commanding arenas, shimmying her shoulders like the sultry disco diva she was, her face was made up into a kind of mask (blue eye shadow, crimson lips, purple cheeks, big round eyes and plucked lashes that became part of the mask), topped by a mountain of curls that were like no one else’s. All of it lent her wholesome beauty a slightly vacant quality that made her the perfect avatar of disco. At home, without her makeup, we see the woman beneath, often glum, exhausted, and washed out, living with an underlying guilt and despair for all the time she spent on the road, leaving her young daughters behind. “Love to Love You, Donna Summer” takes us up close to Donna
Natasha Lyonne is getting candid.
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Pete Davidson is tired of hearing people gossip about his love life. "I'm in my 20's and I've dated people," the comedian, who turns 30 this year, said on the "Real Ones" podcast with Jon Berthnal. "And for some reason, that's very crazy and interesting to people.
Real Ones” podcast on Patreon, “I’d be sitting in the back watching the cold open and — the cold open [is] topical, political humor, whatever’s in the culture. And then, making fun of you. Then you’ve gotta walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark and the show just made fun of you.
: “I can confirm that Princess Lilibet Diana was christened on Friday, March 3 by the archbishop of Los Angeles, the Rev. John Taylor.”But the religious sacrament wasn’t what dominated the headlines: instead, it was the use of “princess.” Although Lilibet has technically been eligible for the title since the and the , it was the first time the 20-month-old had been publicly addressed as such.
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Pete Davidson is opening up about his dating life.
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Addie Morfoot Contributor During a talk at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX on Wednesday, Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams spoke about a wide variety of topics, including his latest documentary, “Love to Love You, Donna Summer,” how insanely expensive it is to garner a doc Oscar nomination, and why the racial reckoning that occurred in the nonfiction community after George Floyd’s murder is over. Despite celebrity-driven docs being all the rage, Williams admitted that he usually rejects them. “I have so many celebrities who come to me about making a documentary (about their life),” the helmer told moderator Thom Powers. “It’s never worked out because if they are a living celebrity, who is very popular, they are all about control. It’s a piece of propaganda about their image and their career. It’s not a documentary.”
Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor To call “Spinning Gold” a labor of love is an understatement completely uncharacteristic of its subject: the late Neil Bogart, the larger-than-life founder of Casablanca Records, the famously freewheeling 1970s powerhouse that brought the world Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament-Funkadelic and the Village People in less than five years. Some 25 years in the making, the biopic was written, produced and directed by Bogart’s eldest son Tim (who’s worked in those roles on many TV series, from “Majors & Minors” to “The Jungle Book”) with music supervision from his youngest son, Evan (a songwriter and music publisher who co-wrote Beyonce’s “Halo,” among many other hits), and other family members as producers. Out March 31, it features Tony and Grammy-nominated Broadway star Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies,” “Rock of Ages,” “Waitress”) as Bogart, Michelle Monaghan as his first wife, Lyndsy Fonseca as his second, rapper Wiz Khalifa as P-Funk’s George Clinton, singers Ledisi as Gladys Knight and Tayla Parx as Summer, among many others.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, has revealed the first slate of films to screen as part of its Special Presentations program at the 30th edition of the festival, running April 27 to May 7 in Toronto. The Special Presentations program, which features high-profile subjects, award-winning films and filmmakers, and original perspectives on current events and pressing issues, will screen in cinemas across downtown Toronto during the festival. The program covers an extensive array of subjects, from a behind-the-runway look at racial diversity in the fashion industry to a harrowing documentation of the recruitment of child soldiers in Uganda. International premieres include “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” a deep dive into the true story of Black Barbie, from her origins to her contemporary presence; “Food and Country,” New York Times’ food critic Ruth Reichl’s uncovering of our broken food system, and the innovators risking everything to transform it; “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” the story of one of the greatest NBA players working today; and “Periodical,” an eye-opening documentary examining the politics, science, and mystery of the menstrual cycle.
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and star recently stopped by the podcast and got candid about love. Speaking to fellow actor Dax Shepard, Ortega admitted she’s not quite “interested” in dating at the moment, partly because she is “not ready to be that vulnerable or trusting with someone” and partly because it wouldn’t “be fair” for her partner to deal with how hectic her work life can get.She echoed these sentiments in a new cover story interview , admitting that “the idea of relationships stresses [her] out.” She said this is partly because she’s “too obsessed with [her] work,” which she previously told Shepard is “probably something [she needs] to change.”Jenna Ortega at the Scream VI premiere on March 6During the podcast, Ortega revealed that she had actually been in a relationship for a couple of years, but they had to break it off because of her busy schedule.
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Paris Hilton says her wild life came “crashing down” when she realised she was pregnant aged 22. The socialite-turned DJ, 42, had her first child, son Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum, via surrogate with her 42-year-old venture capitalist husband Carter Reum in January, but reveals in her upcoming memoir her pain over almost being a mother almost two decades ago at the peak of her reality TV fame, before she took the agonising decision to have an abortion. She says in an extract from her upcoming autobiography ‘Paris: The Memoir’, published by Time magazine on Tuesday (07.