John Lithgow seeks new directorial territory in ‘Everything’s Fine’

John Lithgow’s accomplished TV, radio, Broadway, films, Morse code, even some speak present on planet Jupiter. Now he’s directing “Every thing’s Effective” at Daryl Roth’s Union Sq. theater.

“This I sort of made up as I went alongside. Playwright Douglas McGrath picked me as director possibly as a result of I as soon as created my very own solo present. Mine’s a theatrical household. Whereas simply tap-dancing till somebody employed me as an actor, I directed my father domestically. 1973, I debuted on Broadway, three weeks later gained the Tony and haven’t been out of labor since.”

Ever suffered actors who had been pains within the behind?

“I’ve been one myself. For the stage it’s craftspeople. Get employed when you recognize what you’re doing and might conduct your self like a girl or gentleman. Films is totally different. That’s hierarchal grandees with numerous energy.”

Inform us about your TV present “The Outdated Man.”

“Magnificent Jeff Bridges survived his medical issues. We had been fairly nervous and needed to shut down 18 months. However he’s now higher than ever.”

And the place are your awards?

“Two Tonys, three SAGs [that’s Screen Actors Guild awards], two Golden Globes, six Emmys. At residence. I caught all of them down as doorstops.”


Obama is now pursuing voice over work in documentaries.
Former President Barack Obama was nominated for Critics Alternative Documentary greatest narration award for the Netflix documentary “Our Nice Nationwide Parks.”
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Vox pop delivers docs & tomes

Obama’s new hustle. Voice-overs. Now nominated for Critics Alternative Documentary greatest narration award for the Netflix doc “Our Nice Nationwide Parks.” Nov. 13, Edison Ballroom, he’s up towards Matthew McConaughey and Helena Bonham Carter.

His different expertise is magic. Pre-presidency, gentle on money, he took a bus to a ebook agent, did an autobio that no one purchased, it disappeared, reappeared in a dressed up model after which offered. And now his residence’s a multimillion greenback unfold.

The White Home makes inexperienced.


Florida has been under fire for refusing to submit testing numbers.
Ron DeSantis ripped New York for COVID, regardless of Florida having many extra deaths from the virus lately.
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Florida man hates math

Ron DeSantis — scratching towards the presidency — made New York a prototype of disintegration as his state’s COVID deaths stay unrecorded. Why? The deceased weren't Florida residents.

DeSantis, could his tripe lower, could not recall that the COVID Monitoring Undertaking lists Florida’s Aug. 16 week common at 70 gone. New York, 28.

Up DeSantis.


Climbing Ivy

I used to be simply in Princeton. To not flunk math nor push my tush into seats warmed by Bezos, Michelle Obama, JFK, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Supremes Sotomayor and Kagan. My nephew, Choose Robert Miller, lives there and at no cost meals I’d schlep to Malta.

1777. Weeks earlier than Biden’s start, Gen. George Washington fought our Revolution across the School of New Jersey — now Princeton College. Our dinner was on the city’s revered institution the Nassau Membership. I sat underneath Woodrow Wilson — his photograph, anyway — who in 1903 was membership president.

There I discovered of 1 Princeton did not admit. Alexander Hamilton. Founding father of the good New York Put up.

So no because of Jersey for “Headless Physique in Topless Bar.”


The three R’s of training immediately: studying, rioting and rifles.

Solely in America, children, solely in America.

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