Don’t Ask Sean Penn for a Selfie — Even If You’re a Holocaust Survivor

Don’t Ask Sean Penn for a Selfie — Even If You’re a Holocaust Survivor

Sean Penn hates selfies and will not, under any circumstances, go to a public gathering with more than eight people — which is why he was noticeably absent from the recent 98th Academy Awards, where he won Best Supporting Actor (his third Oscar). The revelations came during a conversation between Penn and CNN anchor Kaitlin … Read more

How I Discovered My Family Connection to the Murder That Inspired ‘Cruising’

How I Discovered My Family Connection to the Murder That Inspired ‘Cruising’

The first time I saw William Friedkin’s 1980 gay crime thriller “Cruising” may have been decades ago, but I will never forget how surprised I was that a movie like that was made in the 1970s. “Cruising” stars Al Pacino as a straight New York City police officer who goes undercover in the gay leather … Read more

Nick Holt on Tribeca Doc ‘AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About’

Nick Holt on Tribeca Doc ‘AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About’

AI as we know it has been used for everything from making full-length feature films to solving nearly impossible math problems. But today AI is also, relatively speaking, just a child. That said, AI is a child that has learned languages, how to play games, how to blackmail people, how to power robots and, in … Read more

Katie Holmes on Her Joshua Jackson Reunion for Happy Hours

Katie Holmes on Her Joshua Jackson Reunion for Happy Hours

Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson met nearly three decades ago on the seminal teen drama “Dawson’s Creek,” which launched them and their co-stars, James Van Der Beek and Michelle Williams, to global stardom. When Holmes and Jackson reconnected all these years later on “Happy Hours,” a romantic dramedy that premieres Saturday at Tribeca Festival, they … Read more