Television
‘The Morning Show’ director Mimi Leder talks about ‘Apple haters,’ Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and that wild finale.
Dec. 20, 2019
Movies
Peter Berg was quoted in the Whatever. column last Sunday as saying, “If you look at the films made for more than $25 million, very few seem to be made by writer-directors.
Dec. 6, 1998
Considering the bleak tone of the show, it’s encouraging that hope springs eternal among the producers of HBO’s “The Leftovers,” which returns to start its final season Sunday.
April 15, 2017
Jennifer Aniston declined using an intimacy coordinator to film that steamy ‘Morning Show’ sex scene with Jon Hamm: ‘We can figure this one out,’ she said.
Dec. 12, 2023
Women directors, frustrated at relegation to ‘chick flicks,’ hope Mimi Leder’s ‘Peacemaker’ will bring them access to more big-budget, high-profile action movies.
Sept. 25, 1997
In the 14 years that elapsed between her debut feature, the Oscar-winning “Monster,” and her blockbuster second film, “Wonder Woman,” Patty Jenkins kept her skills sharp by directing episodes of “The Killing,” “Entourage” and “Arrested Development.”
March 9, 2018
Archives
I am a thrift-store shopper, always on the lookout for silk, wool and designer items and leather shoes from Italy (“Adventures in the Rag Trade,” by Mimi Avins, Aug. 24).
Oct. 5, 1997
Last October, director Mimi Leder had just begun shooting “On the Basis of Sex,” a biopic about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when the news hit of sexual misconduct accusations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Oct. 26, 2018
Mimi Leder took issue with a statement by Peter Berg that differentiated writer-directors from “shooters,” i.e. directors who do not write their scripts (Letters, Dec. 6).
Dec. 20, 1998
For those in need of a post-Halloween cure, “House of Secrets” (at 9 tonight on NBC, Channels 4 and 36) is a tremulous, moody thriller with a Gothic touch.
Nov. 1, 1993