When Rob Lowe showed up with suddenly overgrown emo hair in this year’s season premiere of Parks and Recreation, we assumed that it would serve as a plot point or at least a withering punch line from Aubrey Plaza. Instead, Lowe’s messy Bieber do has gone uncommented upon for weeks now, though it would seem to be at odds with his character’s super-tidy vibe. Luckily, EW has gotten some answers out of executive producer Mike Schur: Lowe’s Lifetime movie about Drew Peterson was to blame for the disheveled look (the actor was shooting it concurrently), but “his hair will go back to last year’s style around episode 5 or 6.
Ben Platt had an unusual obstacle to overcome when playing Payton Hobart, an ambitious high school student running for class president in Netflix’s original series, The Politician.
Preparing for a TV or movie role includes memorizing lines and physical training if the role demands it, but for 26-year-old Platt, he had a physical ailment to correct. While starring in the acclaimed Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen, Platt not only walked away with a Tony Award — he now only needs an Academy Award to become the recipient of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, or an EGOT — for his performance, he left with bad posture.
The writers who worked on The Office were fortunate to work with Greg Daniels — someone who fostered creativity and welcomed new ideas, no matter how ridiculous they might have been.
While a few scenes were cut because the actors believed they crossed a line, there was one talking head scene involving Dwight that writer Mike Schur fought to have in the final edit of the “Dunder Mifflin Infinity” episode of season 4.
Greg Daniels wanted to be challenged by writers “The fact that he hired people that were so animated and passionate — he wasn’t scared of somebody who would constantly challenge him,” writer Jen Celotta said of Greg Daniels on Brian Baumgartner’s podcast, An Oral History of The Office.
OpinionCapital punishment This article is more than 11 months oldDear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reasonThis article is more than 11 months oldDuncan CampbellThere were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today
On 28 January, people gathered at Southwark Cathedral for a brief ceremony in memory of Derek Bentley, who was hanged in Wandsworth prison in 1953, exactly 70 years earlier.
A decorated New York policeman who gunned down his two daughters before turning the weapon on himself has reportedly left his wife and surviving child destitute.
Glen Hochman was claimed to have submitted retirement papers just weeks before the double murder suicide and deliberately not named an inheritor for his pension.
A family friend described it as a 'final insult,' according to the New York Post.
'It’s reckless and insulting for any man to leave their family high and dry like that, by choosing the zero option on their pension, the source reportedly told the newspaper.