Entertainment
Stylist Rachel Zoe, husband Rodger Berman announce split after 26-year marriage
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It’s over for celebrity stylist and reality star Rachel Zoe and her husband, Rodger Berman. The couple is calling it quits.
“The Rachel Zoe Project” star announced Monday that she and Berman “have come to the mutual decision to end our marriage” after 33 years together and 26 years of marriage.
“We are incredibly proud of the loving family we have created and our countless memories together,” Zoe and Berman said in a joint statement posted on her Instagram. “Our number one priority has been and will always be our children. We are committed to co-parent our boys and to continue to work together within the many businesses we share. We ask for privacy during this time as we navigate this new chapter.”
The couple, who are both from New York, met in 1991 while both were attending George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Zoe was working as a hostess in a D.C. restaurant where he was working as a server. They got married in February 1998 and had two sons — 13-year-old Skyler and 10-year-old Kaius — who have been featured on the designer’s Bravo reality series and her Lifetime show “Fashionably Late With Rachel Zoe.”
The “Climbing in Heels” podcast host, who rose to fame in the early 2000s as a wardrobe stylist for the likes of Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan, became synonymous over the past couple of decades with the boho-meets-rocker chic aesthetic. She has expanded her brand as a fashion designer and TV personality over the past two decades and built up Rachel Zoe Inc. and the investment management company Rachel Zoe Ventures, among others. Berman, a former investment banker, is a co-founder and co-chief executive of the former company and managing partner of the latter.
It is unclear whether the couple has already filed for divorce.
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Movie Reviews
Speak No Evil (2024)
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Chilled American couple Ben (Scoot McNairy) and Louise (Mackenzie Davis) meet overfriendly Brits Paddy (James McAvoy) and Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) on an Italian holiday and accept an invitation to spend a weekend with them in the West Country. However, it becomes apparent that the charming hosts have a sinister hidden agenda.
Christian Tafdrup’s 2022 horror Speak No Evil — available on Shudder — was an impressive, frog-boiling psycho picture about polite Danish folks who unwisely agree to spend a weekend away with the hearty Dutch family they met on holiday and are subjected to many, many micro-aggressions before the macro ones start up. For a while, James Watkins’ English-language remake hews close to the original… then, the films diverge (around the time of the excruciating decision to go back for the daughter’s toy rabbit) and become different, if complementary experiences.
There’s no denying that the first film was upsetting, and having watched that you wouldn’t want to go back again, so new twists are satisfying. James McAvoy, with a Mummerset burr and an imposing too-much-time-in-the-gym physique, is a charismatic, intimidating presence. He’s not played an all-out villain before, and goes to town with this, repeatedly springing some unforgivable trespass on his guests before taking it back and begging for sympathy, or acting hurt that they’re offended and stringing it out for another few hours, even as clues pile up about the depth of the hole they’re falling into.
Director James Watkins is very good at ratcheting screws.
Both Watkins’ major horror films — Eden Lake, The Woman In Black — are fairly ruthless in killing off characters who ought to be safe in the genre, aligning his vision with the bleakness of Tafdrup’s film. However, this fight is more even-handed, and a Straw Dogs-ish farmhouse battle rousingly pays off multiple Chekhov establish-deadly-weapons-for-use-later moments, throwing in extra revelations which add bite.
The business of this story in both versions is suspense, and Watkins is very good at ratcheting screws — stringing out moments like a possible getaway, one the villain seems happy to let play out, in such a manner that a companion even compares him to “my aunt’s cat” because he insists on playing with his food — but also springs satisfying reversals and pay-offs.
It’s not Speak No Evil (2022)— because what would be the point of that? — but Speak No Evil (2024) is a quality horror-suspense picture.
Movie Reviews
Creeping Death – Review | Screambox Halloween Slasher | Heaven of Horror
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Creeping Death comes from writer-director Matt Sampere who makes his feature debut with this Halloween horror movie. As mentioned earlier, it’s based on his short film of the same name.
The cast works well overall and the design and practical effects for the Celtic spirit Aos Si are all impressive. With the one big and unfortunate exception of the writer-director himself who plays Tim.
As good as he is at directing the rest of the cast, he does not work in front of the camera for me. Not at all. In fact, the movie only works briefly for me, when he isn’t on screen.
I love when a movie is made with passion, but it must be accompanied by talent. For this movie, there is passion and also talent, but someone needs to come in and “kill the darlings” because Matt Sampere isn’t quite able to do this himself.
This may sound harsh, but my intention is an honest and heartfelt recommendation. I think he could make solid horror movies as a writer and director, but not with himself in front of the camera.
Creeping Death is out on SCREAMBOX on September 10, 2024.
Entertainment
Ryan Seacrest takes the reins but ‘Wheel of Fortune’ stays the same
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Ryan Seacrest’s first episode as the new host of “Wheel of Fortune” starts just like any other.
The audience chants the name of the long-running game show, the theme song plays and announcer Jim Thornton introduces the stars of the show. But this time, for the first time, the duo that enters arm in arm is Seacrest and “Wheel of Fortune” mainstay Vanna White.
Monday’s episode of “Wheel of Fortune,” which kicks off the syndicated show’s 42nd season, marks the beginning of Seacrest’s tenure as host of the nightly word puzzle series. He takes over for Pat Sajak, who quizzed wheel spinners for 40-plus years — the longest-running host of a nationally syndicated game show.
“Let’s have fun,” Seacrest said at the top of the show. Before introducing the contestants and getting the games started, the new host took some time to acknowledge what this new gig means to him.
“I still can’t believe my luck being here with you tonight to continue this legacy of this incredible show with all of you and, of course, my good friend Vanna White,” Seacrest said. “Thank you for the very warm welcome. Hosting ‘Wheel of Fortune’ is a dream job. I’ve been a fan of this show since I was a kid, watching in Atlanta with my family, and I know how special it is that ‘Wheel’ has been in your living rooms for the past 40 years and I’m just so grateful to be invited in. I also know I’ve got some very big shoes to fill so let’s play ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ ”
Anybody worried that this new era of “Wheel” would bring big, jarring changes will be pleased to know that almost everything is just as you remember. The only noticeable changes are the look of the set and that Seacrest does not use index cards when introducing the contestants.
Ryan Seacrest with the contestants on his first episode as the new host of “Wheel of Fortune.”
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Seacrest appeared genuinely happy to be there. Or at least, as genuine as a game show host can appear to be anything. His long career as a television host on shows like “American Idol” and “Live With Kelly and Ryan” has helped him hone a perfectly inoffensive charm that allows him to interact with contestants without detracting from their enthusiasm and letting them shine.
Whereas Sajak occasionally let slip some cranky uncle-type comments, especially in his later years, Seacrest’s banter is still a bit on the stiff side. That’s not necessarily a bad thing and one episode is too small of a sample size to make any definitive judgment. Guests Corina, Terry and Cindy also made for a good group of first contestants for the new host. They were charming, did not say or do anything outlandish and — without giving too much away — each had good and bad spins, as well as good and bad guesses.
All that is to say, Seacrest’s first “Wheel of Fortune” was a perfectly fine episode. His tenure on the show is off to a smooth start.
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