Laura Linney News

Writer-director Noah Baumbach has mastered the art of "emotional torture porn," a phrase aptly applied to his past films by bloggers/ NPR radio hosts Adam Kempenaar and Matty Robinson.

Let's discuss each year of this decade as it winds down! Who's with me?!? It's always interesting to see which films remained at the forefront of our memory and which fade... both for a variety of reasons, quality being only one factor.

Kicking it on the patio of the esteemed Directors Guild on Sunset Boulevard, waiting for the Outfest Legacy Awards to start, I notice actress Laura Linney mingling with assorted filmmakers, film lovers and supporters of Outfest, Los Angeles' prestigious gay and lesbian film festival.

Oliver Platt a ' last seen on Broadway in Guys and Dolls a ' will co-star with another stage veteran, Laura Linney, in the Showtime pilot "The C Word." The dark comedy stars Linney as a suburban wife and mother who has been diagnosed with cancer.

I can only presume that the British calendar is so uniquely screwy that it allows for a Christmas movie to open a week after Halloween.

Actor and playwright Eric Bogosian, known for Talk Radio and "Law & Order: CI," has joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway production of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, joining a cast that includes Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James and Alicia Silverstone.

A month after Matthew Shepard was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, New York's Tectonic Theater Project trekked down there and conducted interviews with hundreds of locals - including those close to the family of the victim and perpetrators - to try and understand why such a horrific hate crime could have occurred.

"I'm often shocked by the behaviour of men, I've got to say," says Laura Linney, and she lets loose with a laugh that is at once delighted and knowing.

A bizarre, at times risible misfire from the director of Notes on a Scandal and based on a novel by the author of The Reader, The Other Man is melodrama at its most melodramatic, a puzzle picture that's not that puzzling.

I was watching The Other Man, t he twisty-turny menage a trois melodrama starring Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney as the woman they love, when up pops the obligatory Laura Linney nude scene.

Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon has been tapped to helm "The C Word," Showtime's comedy pilot starring Laura Linney.

Comedy, Drama Robert Culp, Faye Dunaway, Bob Gunton, Teri Hatcher, Laura Linney, Tom Selleck, Nancy Travis, Ron Lagomarsino, J. August Richards Governor James Reynolds Pryce, a popular Democratic presidential nominee, encounters numerous personal and political challenges in choosing his running mate.

Just because you've gotten older doesn't mean you've grown up. You may pay some bills, have a job and a place to live.

Producer-director Alan Poul and Clear Channel Los Angeles will be honored at Outfest's annual Legacy Awards on Sept.

Five years after Kinsey , Liam Neeson and Laura Linney reunite as a married couple in Richard Eyre's slender romantic drama.

The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha in which a husband uncovers the existence of another man in the life of his wife , who disappears one day.

Country music singer Shania Twain is slowly stepping back into the spotlight after the break up of her marriage to Robert "Mutt" Lange in May 2008.

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney, who will return to Broadway later this season in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of Time Stands Still , will star in a new series for the Showtime cable network.

Laura Linney is tackling terminal illness for Showtime. Thesp will star in and exec produce a dark comedy tentatively titled "The C Word," in which Linney's character is diagnosed with cancer.

The early ads for the new NESN sorta game show Pocket Money were pretty funny, but as soon as the dude stopped whistling and started opening his mouth, something sounded wrong to my ears.