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Michael Appler

Michael Appler

Contributing Writer at Variety Online

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  • Entertainment
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  • Politics

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‘Apprentice’ Star Jeremy Strong Says Donald Trump Film Is a ‘Frankenstein Movie’: ‘It’s About the...

'The Apprentice' Jeremy Strong calls the new Donald Trump film a 'Frankenstein movie.'
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Travis Kelce’s Mother Talks NFL Star’s Acting Debut in ‘Grotesqueri...

Travis Kelce's mother, Donna Kelce, says the Kansas City Chiefs tight end had 'no fear' making his acting debut in Ryan Murphy's 'Grotesquerie.'
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Blake Lively ‘Put Everything I Have Into’ Starring and Producing ‘I...

Blake Lively talks to Variety about starring in and producing the new drama, 'It Ends With Us.'
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‘Instigators’ Star Jack Harlow Admits Acting ‘Is Harder Than I Thou...

Jack Harlow discusses his movie debut in 'White Men Can't Jump' and starring opposite Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in Apple's 'The Instigators.'
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Susan Sarandon Doesn’t Know Who She’ll Support for President, But T...

Susan Sarandon hasn't decided who she'll support for president, but thinks it's 'obvious' why Joe Biden should drop out of the election.
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‘Sing Sing’ Star Colman Domingo Hopes Prison Drama’s Profit-Sharing...

Red carpets are hectic places. Even for seasoned actors, they can be disorienting and frustrating. At a movie premiere, no moment better epitomizes a red carpet’s chaos than the “group photo,” when hordes of publicists and studio staff wrangle, like cats, a dozen or more movie stars and gabbing producers to stand in one place […]
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Diane von Furstenberg on Her New Documentary: ‘I Have Lived a Long ...

The life that Diane von Furstenberg has lived is one of jet-setting romances, European aristocracy, Studio 54 conquests, gay lovers and tycoon successes that needs to be seen to be believed. The film festival premiere for her new biopic, “Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge,” offered a fleeting glimpse. On Wednesday evening in New York […]
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Jennifer Lawrence Slams Mike Pence at GLAAD Media Awards

Jennifer Lawrence took a jab at former VP Mike Pence while presenting an award to Orville Peck at the GLAAD Media Awards.
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'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' Cast, Crew on Honoring Whitney Houston

Clive Davis, Naomi Ackie and more discussed the significance of the Whitney Houston biopic at the premiere of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."
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Christian Borle Opens Up About Plans for ‘Smash’ Stage Adaptation, ...

On a rainy Sunday afternoon, “Some Like It Hot” opened on Broadway and furnished the Shubert Theater with its most glittering audience in recent memory. Patti LuPone, Bette Midler, Nathan Lan…
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Guillermo del Toro Accepts MoMA Honor Ahead of ‘Pinocchio’ Netflix ...

On Thursday evening in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art presented its annual Film Benefit, alongside sponsor Chanel, and bowed to Guillermo del Toro. In a celebration attended by del Toro’s…
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Hillary Clinton Helps Kick Off BroadwayCon’s In-Person Return

“I’m looking forward to a play with a character urging us to drink bleach,” Hillary Clinton joked in front of an audience of New York theatergoers July 8, flanked by Vanessa Williams, who currently…
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Danai Gurira Talks Starring in Robert O'Hara's 'Richard III'

Robert O'Hara is putting a modern twist on Shakespeare's 'Richard III,' now running at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
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Liev Schreiber Says He Owes His Career to New York’s Public Theater

Gala on the Green, the Public Theater’s annual benefit held Tuesday night steps from the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park, is the best spot in town for a breezy evening spent as a fly o…
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Harry Styles Lights Up New York With His ‘One Night Only’ Performan...

“This is a very special evening for me, for us,” Harry Styles said to a crowd of nearly 20,000 at the UBS Arena on Friday, and to millions over an Apple Music livestream. “We’re in New York City fo…
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‘The Staircase’ Star Rosemarie DeWitt Had to Overcome ‘Some Qualms’...

On Wednesday evening in New York City, Colin Firth and the cast of HBO’s “The Staircase” celebrated its premiere at the Museum of Modern Art. Created by Antonio Campos with showrunner Maggie Cohn, …
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‘For Colored Girls’ Stars Talk Broadway Revival: ‘One Can’t Help Bu...

On September 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” opened at the Booth Theatre, forever reshaping the form and feel of American theat…
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Joe Wright Recalls ‘Weeping’ While Watching ‘Cyrano’ Stage Musical ...

On Wednesday evening in New York City, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered its return to the original movie musical with “Cyrano,” director Joe Wright’s musical adaptation of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” starring…
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‘MJ’ Broadway Musical Removes Variety Reporter for Asking About Mic...

A Variety reporter was banned from the opening night red carpet for Michael Jackson musical after asking questions abou abuse allegations.
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‘And Just Like That’ Creator Says Samantha Is Still in the Show Eve...

“Whenever I see the word ‘sex’ nowadays, it’s usually written in pink, not black,” Michael Patrick King said gleefully on a boundless red carpet, stretched through the lobby of the Muse…
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‘Trouble in Mind’ Director Charles Randolph-Wright Says Play About ...

August Wilson is well remembered for remarking that Black theater is alive, vibrant, vital and unfunded — that commerce and a common racism had long held American theater hostage to a mediocrity of…