When the person sitting next to you on the plane tells you they made the Weiner documentary, it can be hard to suppress the urge to geek out entirely and bombard them with questions about how they made the film, which follows the former NYC mayoral candidate as he attempts to mount his great comeback. How he let them continue to shoot even when he’d been caught again for his sexting exploits (and this was even before the latest Hillary-enveloping development); how each new scandal has affected their film; whether they’d go back and do a follow-up. So many questions. Finding myself next to directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg on my flight to Savannah…
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Entertainment Express: Oscars, Outkast, Jack White, Kings of Leon, Boston Marathon
Happy Earth Day! Be extra kind to Mother Nature today. * The Oscar-winning tag-team of Neil Meron and Craig Zadan will be back producing next year’s Oscars show for a third time. Even more impressive is the list of things the men behind Chicago and Hairspray will be working on until then – the TV musical Peter Pan Live!, a new MTV comedy series, Happyland, a movie version of Pippin, a musical based on the Beach Boys catalogue, and Monster High, based on the Mattel franchise. Such slackers. * Continuing their comeback streak, Outkast will headline the BET Experience in LA in June, adding another slot to their 40-date reunion tour (on top of the just-announced Austin City…
