Jonathan Winters, who died Friday at 87, was a beloved comic whirlwind for generations, one whose influence on movie comics from Robin Williams to Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen is very apparent.
So why didn’t he make a bigger splash on film? The paradox of WInters’s 50-year screen career was that film wasn’t a big enough medium to contain him. He did his best work on records and TV, where… Continue reading Jonathan Winters Remembered: His 5 Best Movies

In a massive casting report that just went up on The Hollywood Reporter, they mention that actor Russell Crowe is “loosely attached” to play the villain in screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman’s directorial debut Winter’s Tale, based on Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel, which is set up at Warner Bros.

