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Ira Sachs had been talking about making some version of The Man I Love, his vividly sad but vibrant drama set in New York circa 1984, for over a decade by the time the moment to do it had arrived — and yet it was only well after production when he realized where it all…

LOST: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni: A year ago, I argued Lively and Baldoni were locked in mutually assured destruction and only their lawyers, the media and fans obsessively watching this feud would be the real winners (writing at the time, “In the lawsuit filings, Lively comes across like somebody who would order the launch…

Few actors want to show up to an night shoot during their off hours. But during an all-nighter a few years ago, the Mortal Kombat II cast arrived at an Australian warehouse to watch Karl Urban tussle with a team of stuntmen as he shot a scene from Uncaged Fury, a cheesy, ‘90s action movie-within-a-movie…

Sandra Oh gained fame and fortune starring onGrey’sAnatomy, but playing Dr. Cristina Yang for 10 seasons on the hit ABC medical drama called for keeping her family’s Korean roots under the radar. “The fact that half of the cast of Grey’s Anatomy weren’t white, that was a thing,” Oh, who was born in Canada to…

All four had worked at the groundbreaking digital blog Gawker in its final years and experienced, as Jefferson put it, the “roller coaster of high highs and low lows” that came with the job, as well as the controversy and criticism that dogged the site because of its no-holds-barred reporting and essays. During its run…