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Decades in the making, Halston was a labor of love for series director Max Gao © Provided by NBC News More than two decades after he tried to bring the life story of Roy Halston Frowick to the big screen, director Daniel Minahan has teamed up with the likes of Ryan Murphy and Christine Vachon — two heavyweight producers of LGBTQ film and television — to produce “Halston,” a new Netflix miniseries about the legendary fashion designer. The five-part drama, which stars Ew...

Halston on Netflix is a limited series that offers a nostalgic look at the life of the legendary fashion designer

Bob Strauss May 13, 2021Updated: May 14, 2021, 10:02 am Ewan McGregor in the title role of “Halston.” Photo: Atsushi Nishijima, Netflix The rise and fall of Roy Halston, one of the key names in designer fashion, is dramatized in all its Ultrasuede glory by “Halston,” a five-part limited series coming to Netflix on Friday, May 14. Ewan McGregor (“Trainspotting,” “Moulin Rouge!”) eerily captures the creative energy, haughty attitude and self-destructive excesses of th...

Why Halstons Fascinating Queer Life Story Took 20 Years to Make Halston chat with May 03 2021 1:20 PM EDT It took 20-plus years to bring the story of fashion designer and gay icon Halston to life. But executive producers Christine Vachon and Daniel Minahan (who directed all five episodes of the Netflix limited series) say the project they first conceived of as a film back when they met working on the 1996 queer indie I Shot Andy Warhol is right on time. For Minahan, who grew up not far fro...

Colman Domingo made a major statement on the red carpet of the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday. The 51-year-old actor showed up outside of Union Station in Los Angeles ready to turn heads as he wore an eye-catching hot pink custom-made Versace suit. Although the performer himself is not nominated for any awards, he was involved in the production of the 2020 film Ma Raineys Black Bottom, which has been put up for five separate distinctions. Looking good! Colman Domingo wore a nearly all-fuschia ou...

Maria Sciullo David Lee/Netflix Actors Michael Potts, Glynn Turman and Colman Domingo stride along the “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” set on Pittsburgh’s North Side. David Lee/Netflix Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” director George C. Wolfe and Chadwick Boseman discuss a scene. Diana Stoughton Murrysville native Diana Stoughton is up for an Academy Award as set decorator for the film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Jan Pascale Beechview’s Jan Pascale is up for an Acade...

Prediction: One year after Parasite’s historic victory, will the Academy have another uncommon spell of good taste? The stars appear to be aligning for Nomadland, which has won the top prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the British Academy, the Producers Guild, and the Directors Guild (the last three of which share lots of members with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences). But don’t pop the bubbly for last year’s most critically acclaimed movie just yet. After all, 191...

Leave it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to show the Golden Globes how it’s done. The nominees are a step up, but best of all, the Oscars are sweeping Zoom into the dustbin. The much-delayed 93rd Academy Awards convenes Sunday in pandemic style: the ceremony will be social-distanced and attendees will be maskless while on camera. The pandemic restrictions aren’t the only changes: Six years after the first #OscarsSoWhite tweet, the year’s pool is one of the most diverse ...

David Finchers Mank is based on screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz’s (portrayed by Gary Oldman) time writing the script for the iconic film Citizen Kane. Coming in with 10 nominations, Mank is one of the most buzzed-about films of the year. Production designer Donald Graham Burt and Fincher have been working together since Zodiac (2007) and are clearly a winning combination. They’ve collaborated on Academy Award–nominated films (and winners) such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2...

Where to stream this years Oscar contenders, from Nomadland to Two Distant Strangers Most of the years nominated films are available on home streaming services, heres where to find the best Adam Graham Everything about this years Oscars is a little bit different, from the timing of the show to the types of movies nominated to the ceremony itself, which will unfold on April 25 in a live presentation we still dont know a whole lot about.  Its befitting of a year where Hollywood was turned upsid...