Written By: Michael D. McClellan | In 1965, Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) stepped into Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria and fell in love in The Sound of Music. Fifty-five years later, Garrett Marcantel and two others hope to do the same in 12 Dates of Christmas, streaming now on HBO Max. Marcantel, who is […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | David Tong’s office has a view of the courtyard where Sir Isaac Newton once lived, and just beyond that, the location of the famous apple tree that gave birth to Newton’s theory of gravitation. Tong, like Newton, is a fellow of Trinity College, and his gig as theoretical physicist […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Lauren Swickard just saved Christmas. In a year that has seen Broadway shuttered, Wimbledon cancelled, and the Tokyo Olympics postponed, the last thing any of us needed was a Christmas season without fresh, high-quality, feel-good Christmas content to consume. Swickard, the multihyphenate powerhouse behind A California Christmas, has delivered […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Borta bra men hemma bäst. Sofia Mattsson is the living embodiment of this uniquely Swedish proverb, the Stockholm-born, Los Angeles-based actor thriving in a year of chaos and confusion, amping up the buzz on her Ava Carrington line of high quality handbags at a time when her soap, General […]