Young Pope

Hbo’s New Lineup Features An Old Ponzi Scheme And A Young Pope

... in rock music. “I got fired from Foghat,” went one story. “I was an idiot… I fell asleep in the studio and had my girlfriend come visit. Then I ran into Patti Smith, and she said she wanted me to produce her album. I said, ‘I just got fired from Foghat! She said, ‘I don’t give a shit, I don’t even like Foghat!’”. Only a tad more somber was the panel for The Young Pope , which premieres tomorrow. Star Jude Law admitted that starring in the series definitely made him reconsider his own spirituality. He also raved about co-star Diane Keaton, who plays Sister Mary, saying that she brings “a unique sense of humor, and mischief, and boundless warmth.” He described Sister Mary as the “Mama Rose” to his young pope, throwing in a surprising reference from Gypsy. He also knows what memes are now. Finally, HBO wrapped up its morning with a look at Big Little Lies, which premieres February 19. Based on a best-selling novel by ...

If You Liked Suicide Squad, You’ll Love The Young Pope

... Young Pope reveals a lot about the state of the world today. Telling fantastical stories about how cruel narcissists unexpectedly gain and exploit power is especially relevant as we enter the era of President Donald Trump. Suicide Squad explores this phenomenon in a far less focused way than The Young Pope does. Nevertheless, Jared Leto’s unapologetically campy portrayal of the super-villainous Joker gains cultural relevance when you consider the tremendous success of the movie. Leto’s attempts at getting into the twisted mind of the Joker were more laughable than frightening —but the movie earned almost $750 million, so who’s laughing now. As much as high-minded critics might not want to admit it, Suicide Squad was perhaps the most important film of 2016. We found ourselves (or at least I did) obsessed with the movie not in spite of its badness, but in ...

The Fate Of A 'keanu' Kitten And Jonathan Banks' Burns

... in Europe — was the high level of young people that got involved. And I don’t know that meme trends are reflective of young people’s interest, but if it is, then I’m very excited that they may also become our audience.". * TNT's upcoming drama Will is a strangely modern punk-rock take on the life of William Shakespeare which comes from frequent Baz Luhrmann collaborator Craig Pearce. It is set during the early years of Shakespeare's London writing career, a period that even Shakespeare biographers know little about, giving the writers the opportunities for at least some liberties. "It’s a brilliant thing that it is the lost years, because so little is known about this most famous person. He’s the most famous person in the world that no one really knows anything about except for a few facts, and then, beyond that, there’s a lot of ...

Decoding ‘the Young Pope’ With The Films Of Paolo Sorrentino

... Antonioni (who came, saw, and conquered America with Zabriskie Point) and misplacing his mojo along the way. Returning home, Sorrentino rebounded sharply with 2013’s The Great Beauty, an ostensible critique of la dolce vita that explicitly solicited comparisons to Fellini, swapping in a supermodel in a swimming pool for Anita Ekberg’s dip in the Trevi fountain. ‘La Dolce Vita’ (Cineriz). Beautifully photographed and filled with allusions to national art and culture — many of them courtesy of the cynically worldly journalist-slash-symbol-of-our-collective-frail-mortality Jep Gambardella (Servillo) — The Great Beauty is a film that tries its damndest to have things both ways, greedily drinking in the spectacle of monied men and willing women at play in the cradle of Western civilization (it was shot in Rome) while also underlining its essential, possibly apocalyptic ridiculousness. Fifty years after Pauline Kael famously ran down Antonioni’s great La Notte by reducing it to a “Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe-Party,” Sorrentino happily clad himself in exactly such togs; the fact that they were hand-me-downs didn’t take any ...

Hbo’s The Young Pope Stars Jude Law As A Smirky Pontiff. It’s Sly, Sinister, And A Whole Lot Of Fun

... important takeaways from its first five episodes. 1) The Young Pope knows exactly how ridiculous “The Young Pope” sounds. Pope Pius XIII and Sister Mary take a garden stroll. Make as many jokes as you like about the title The Young Pope. The show is in on them. The opening credits, as an example, feature the Young Pope — given name: Lenny Belardo; chosen Catholic name: Pius XIII — slinking down a Vatican hallway as the actors’ names light up in neon along the lush walls. The sequence ends with a flourish: Law winking straight into the camera. Another example: Keaton’s Sister Mary almost always puts up a stern front until a night when Pius — whom she calls “Lenny,” having known him since he was a child at her orphanage — visits her in her chambers, only to find her wearing a t-shirt reading, “I’m a Virgin (But This is an Old Shirt).”. Or what about the Young Pope donning his many layers of papal robes to the tune of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I ...

Young Pope,' Mandel's 'comedy Gala

... The Young Pope. HBO, 9 ET/PT. The best thing to be said about The Young Pope, this gorgeous, strange and strangely inert series from Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino starring Jude Law as the first American Pope, is that it’s unlike anything else on TV. And that includes how this 10-episode show will air on HBO, which is running it twice a week, Sundays and Mondays at 9 ET/PT. In this second outing, we meet the Vatican’s marketing director, who is in for a shock — as are the people waiting in St. Peter’s Square for the Pope’s first public address. Oh, and the Pope gets a pet kangaroo, a twist that, like the show itself, is absurd without being entertaining. NBC, 10 ET/PT. This time-travel adventure returns from its winter break with an unwilling Lucy still traveling with Flynn, who has taken her to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. That sounds like a fun date, though odds are that’s not what Flynn has in mind. Read or Share this story: __link__ j ...

Without Game Of Thrones, Hbo Will Rely On The Young Pope And Murderous Moms

... "What he did is beyond my comprehension. There's a disconnect somehow in him. … I still don't understand," said De Niro, noting that Madoff engaged in a "classic con situation" by making people feel that it was an honor for them to give Madoff their money. Executive producer Jane Rosenthal said that no movie studio was interested in making this film, other than independent ones. "Ultimately you'd have a much smaller audience, seeing it as a theatrical," than the one HBO will provide, she said. New comedy Crashing, premiering Feb. 19, stars Pete Holmes as a struggle stand-up comedian trying to make it. In April, the network will air The Defiant Ones, a four-part documentary from Allen Hughes about Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre and how they transformed the music business. "The day I met Dre and saw and heard what he does, he couldn't shake me with a stick," said Iovine, who talked about how much the industry has changed since he started out four decades ago. Now, the music companies are focused on hit singles, not albums: "People just want hits and quick. And what comes ...

The Young Pope' Recap

... her for praising the Secretary's draft speech and using his real name. He's fuming with resentment for Cardinal Dussolier, Mary's other orphan protégé (whom she encouraged to call her "Ma," the exact opposite of how she raised Lenny.) He begs his estranged mentor Cardinal Spencer for help with the speech; instead, the older man tears the kid a new one for usurping what he sees as his rightful place at the top. By the same token, Lenny's rivals are given a surprisingly respectful treatment. The closing scene shows Voiello sobbing in the arms of a disabled kid he regularly visits, asking him to "help me atone for all the wrong I'll have to do in order to save the Church." In other words, he's not just some House of Cards schemer – he cares about the Catholic faith. He's terrified for its future under Belardo, and wracked with guilt over the ...

13 Wacky Pope Stories And Fun Facts To Celebrate ‘the Young Pope’ Photos

... out of town. Not to be shown up, he took the papacy back from the newly elected Sylvester III (pictured) the old fashioned way: by force. Benedict IX’s second term ended when he abdicated of his own volition and sold the papacy to his godfather, Gregory VI (pictured), who ended up resigning because you’re not supposed to be able to buy that. Benedict IX became pope a third time after Gregory VI’s successor, Clement II, died and he took it by force again in 1047. He was run out a final time just a few months later in 1048. The legend of “Pope Joan” describes a woman who had disguised herself as a man, rose through the priesthood and then was elected pope in 855. The story goes that she was found out when she went into labor and gave birth during a papal procession — before being stoned to death by the surrounding crowd. This is almost certainly not true — the first accounts of Pope Joan didn’t surface until the ...

The Young Pope,’ ‘twin Peaks’ And More ‘star Wars

... row full-on cry-singing through “Bonjour” one minute and then uncomfortably squinting at Dan Stevens’ interpretation of the Beast is very high. Why? Because the cast reads like it came straight out of the Internet’s dream journal. Watson and Stevens play the leads while Ewan Mc Gregor was cast as the candlestick, Lumiere; Ian Mc Kellen is the clock, Cogsworth; and Emma Thompson is the teakettle, Mrs. Potts. Early standouts Luke Evans as the egomaniacal villain Gaston and his lackey Le Fou, played by Josh Gad, already have been creating plenty of buzz after the two started singing from their Instagram accounts. It feels like Disney has been ramping up to this feature film for years, first with the song-free live adaptation of “Cinderella” in 2015 followed by Jon Favreau’s “Jungle Book,” which trotted out a few familiar tunes from the animated classic. But this “Beauty and the Beast” adaptation feels less like another artist’s interpretation and more like ...