You have questions. I try to have some answers.
I saw a promo for a movie named “Elsa & Fred” starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. It was supposed to open in November but it never came to any local theater here in Gainesville, Fla., or seemingly anywhere. What happened? I have not been able to stop thinking about it.
“Elsa & Fred,” a retooling of an Argentinian film, played in a few dozen theaters around the country, according to Box Office Mojo. But the romantic comedy was not well-received; the few reviews on Box Office Mojo are mostly negative. Still, it has been released on DVD and Blu-ray, and is available for streaming on Netflix.
I have heard that the networks are not going to return the series “Dallas.” Please tell me this isn’t so!!
It is. TNT, which had been carrying the new version of the classic prime-time soap, decided to drop “Dallas” after three seasons. As Deadline.com reported when the show was canceled in October, the series’ audience was “older skewing than some of TNT’s other series such as ‘Falling Skies’ and ‘The Last Ship.’ It also doesn’t fit into the network’s new direction towards edgier fare.”
On the final episode of “The Mentalist,” Van Pelt attended Teresa and Patrick’s wedding. I thought she was killed by a bad guy in her own home several years ago. Did my memory fail me?
Yes. You may be thinking of a different character. Grace Van Pelt, played by Amanda Righetti, and her husband, Wayne Rigsby (Owain Yeoman), left the series — and law enforcement — under their own power in the spring of 2014.
What happened to David Gregory? He was on “Meet the Press” and on the “Today” show at times. I haven’t seen him on anything in a while.
Gregory left NBC in 2014. He had been replaced on “Meet the Press” by Chuck Todd when the show’s ratings declined under Gregory. Mediate commentator Matt Wilstein wondered recently if NBC had had second thoughts about letting Gregory go in the wake of the Brian Williams scandal. “Gregory was undoubtedly a major force in the NBC News operation and a widely trusted name in news,” Wilstein said.
I hear that Warren Beatty is directing a movie about Howard Hughes and playing Hughes. Could you please tell me the title of the movie and when it will be released in theaters?
I wish I could. While there’s at least one report that the movie will be in theaters in May, that same report and many others do not even have a title for the film. Production was reportedly completed last year, but Beatty is famously methodical about his work. This movie — believed to be about an aged Hughes’ affair with a younger woman — would be Beatty’s first big-screen acting since “Town and Country” in 2001 and his first directing since “Bulworth” in 1998.
