Anthony Breznican

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before. Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators. Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK… 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Okay Los Angeles, what was this? 💫 Seen minutes ago.

Kenneth Branagh says Robin Williams was constantly “fireworking,” Christopher Nolan has an eerie way of bending time in real life, and Robert De Niro has no patience for other method actors. All this and lots more for #filmsky people in search of a longread this fine Sunday:

The secret to Kenneth Branagh's legendary Shakespeare adaptations ...? He styled them like the American movies and TV shows he worshiped as a kid in Belfast. Henry V, he tells me, is actually shot like a cowboy movie. There's more here in this sprawling Q&A:

Shots fired. 💥 (So to speak.)

Feel good about this headline.

It feels like Gen X lost our mom, our dad, and our wild uncle all in one week. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Always loved Miss Dolly Parton. Only got to interview her once, alongside Queen Latifah, when they made a gospel comedy called "Joyful Noise" in 2012. (This was for EW.) Dolly called her by her real name, Dana Owens, and these two were hilarious together. Here's how the conversation STARTED...

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Jenna Ortega tells the story of her first movie role — in Iron Man 3. And remembers how her family and friends crashed every showing on opening weekend just to see her few seconds onscreen. www.instagram.com/reel/Db6bPyt...

Farewell to Ben Jones. I knew Cooter had served in congress after Dukes of Hazzard, but I did not know he was a Democrat or that he had helped rid us of Newt Gingrich. 👍 RIP

My favorite 007. (And an incredibly kind man in real life.)