Jerry Adler, โ€˜Sopranosโ€™ and โ€˜Good Wifeโ€™ actor, dies at 96

Jerry Adler, โ€˜Sopranosโ€™ and โ€˜Good Wifeโ€™ actor, dies at 96

Jerry Adler, who spent decades backstage on Broadway before reinventing himself in his 60s as a television actor, most memorably as Herman โ€œHeshโ€ Rabkin on HBOโ€™s โ€œThe Sopranosโ€ and Howard Lyman on CBSโ€™ โ€œThe Good Wife,โ€ has died. He was 96. Adler died Saturday in New York, where he lived, according to his family. A…

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โ€˜Relayโ€™ review: Riz Ahmed helps people disappear in smart, paranoid thriller

‘Relay’ review: Riz Ahmed helps people disappear in smart, paranoid thriller

If history has taught us anything, itโ€™s that no one is truly safe. That gathering dread fueled some great โ€™70s paranoid thrillers, such as โ€œThe Parallax Viewโ€ and โ€œThe Conversation,โ€ but itโ€™s been difficult to replicate that eeriness in todayโ€™s extremely online world, when our devices explain and obfuscate with abandon, conspiracies are lifeblood and…

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โ€˜Long Story Shortโ€™ review: A moving tale of a modern Jewish family

‘Long Story Short’ review: A moving tale of a modern Jewish family

โ€œLong Story Short,โ€ premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to the 2020s. For all its exaggerations โ€” and unexaggerated portrayals of exaggerated behaviors โ€” it is remarkably acute, and surprisingly moving, about relations between parents…

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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Zack Fox

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Zack Fox

Long before Zack Fox was making scene-stealing appearances in โ€œAbbott Elementary,โ€ releasing music and amassing millions of views on his sweat-inducing DJ sets, he was best known for his Twitter jokes. Fox, a graphic artist and emcee for Atlanta-based indie label Awful Records at the time, was posting absurdly funny tweets under the alias โ€œBootymath,โ€…

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