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After a 28-year-old Lee You-mi (“Squid Game”) set a new record in 2022 as the all-time youngest Emmy winner for guest acting, she could be supplanted by Storm Reid (“The Last of Us”), who became a first-time Emmy nominee mere days after turning 20. Like Lee (who isn’t eligible for a repeat win), Reid is seeking the Best Drama Guest Actress prize for her portrayal of a likable, ill-fated character on a new series with a contemporary, dystopian setting. Given her show’s even greater level of TV academy recognition compared to “Squid Game” last year, Reid could very well be on her way toward a historic victory.

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In 2021, 15-year-old Mckenna Grace broke new ground as the first child ever nominated for a guest acting Emmy. The notice came for her performance as Esther Keyes on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which could bring her another Best Drama Guest Actress bid this year. She also currently has a shot at a nomination for Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress for Peacock’s “A Friend of the Family,” which would make her the all-time youngest performer with mentions in multiple Emmy categories.

Grace, whose 17th birthday will precede the 2023 Emmy nominations announcement by 17 days, appears on “A Friend of the Family” as Jan Broberg, a future actress who was kidnapped at ages 12 and 14 by her neighbor, Robert Berchtold. The true crime series also stars Jake Lacy as Berchtold and Colin Hanks and Anna Paquin as Broberg’s parents. (Watch our exclusive video interview with Grace.)

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With a prominent recurring part on “Game of Thrones” and now a starring role on “The Last of Us,” HBO darling Bella Ramsey, age 19, has already built a career that would be the envy of any actor. Having previously clinched a BAFTA Award for Netflix’s “The Worst Witch”, she is now quite a serious contender heading into the 2023 Best Drama Actress Emmy race. If the teen triumphs for “The Last of Us” at the 75th annual ceremony, which is scheduled to precede her 20th birthday by 12 days, she will set new precedents as both the youngest champion in her category’s history and the youngest person to ever win a lead acting Emmy for a continuing series.

“The Last of Us,” which was renewed for a second season almost immediately after the premiere of its first, is based on the 2013 PlayStation game of the same name and stars Ramsey...

To the short list of ‘classic’ nuclear horror on Blu-ray we can now add the one that hits closest to home. Lynne Littman’s harrowing film stays small-scale and Big Emotion, enduring a slow extermination for an innocent family. A little California town loses contact with the rest of the world, and hope fades as the awful reality sinks in. Jane Alexander, Lukas Haas, and William Devane star in a TV movie so affecting that Paramount gave it a theatrical release. The disc has two commentaries and a selection of 20th anniversary features.

Testament

Blu-ray

Viavision [Imprint] 170

1983 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 90 min. / Street Date October 26, 2022 / Available from [Imprint] / au 34.95

Starring: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Ross Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas, Philip Anglim, Lilia Skala, Leon Ames, Lurene Tuttle, Rebecca De Mornay, Kevin Costner, Mako, Lila Kedrova.

Cinematography: Steven Poster

Production Designer: David Nichols

Art Director: Linda Pearl

Costume Design: Julie Weiss

Film...

When the 2022 Emmy nominations were announced, Sydney Sweeney joined an elite group of 24 individuals who each earned their first two TV academy acting bids in the same year. As a “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” cast member, she is respectively in the running for both the Best Drama Supporting Actress and Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress prizes. Triumphing in at least one category would make her only the fourth doubly-nominated female first-timer to pull off a win, after Eileen Brennan (1981: won for “Private Benjamin”; lost for “Taxi”), Jane Lynch (2010: won for “Glee”; lost for “Two and a Half Men”) and Ann Dowd (2017: won for “The Handmaid’s Tale”; lost for “The Leftovers”).

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“Stranger Things” is an Emmy anomaly. The Netflix hit has taken home at least one trophy for each of its first three seasons, including the all-important Best Drama Casting prize in 2017, but it has yet to win an Emmy for any of its actors. Millie Bobby Brown arguably has the best chance to prevail for the just-released “Stranger Things 4,” being that she’s a two-time Best Drama Supporting Actress nominee for playing fan-fave character Eleven, aka Jane Hopper, aka the girl with telepathic and psychokinetic abilities who loves Eggo Waffles. But don’t forget, Brown was actually snubbed the last time the show was eligible in 2020. Can the British superstar rebound at the 2022 Emmys?

After making her acting debut as Young Alice in 2013’s “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,” Brown became a household name in 2016 thanks to the instant success of “Stranger Things.” She earned an Emmy nom for...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” had long been predicted to win another Emmy in Best Drama Guest Actress — it just might not go to the person everyone was initially expecting. Alexis Bledel led the odds during the nominations phase and in early winner odds, but the 2017 champ has now been knocked out from the top spot by her co-star Mckenna Grace.

Grace currently holds a narrow edge over Bledel at 71/20 to 18/5. Claire Foy (“The Crown”) is further back in third, followed by Sophie Okenedo (“Ratched”) and Phylicia Rashad (“This Is Us”). Grace was predicted to get a bid — she was in fourth place — so her nomination wasn’t a complete shocker, but what’s changed is the circumstances around her show itself.

Off a resurgent fourth season, “Handmaid’s” surprised with 21 nominations, including 10 for acting. Last year, it got 10 nominations total. While Grace was in the top five in the odds, she could’ve also easily missed,...

Zendaya became the youngest actress to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award at the 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday. The 24-year-old picked up her statuette — remotely, because these were the first-ever virtual Emmys — for her starring role as Rue in HBO’s “Euphoria.”

While Zendaya is the youngest performer to win a golden lady in the lead actress category, the youngest overall is actress Roxana Zal, who won in 1984 — when she was 14 years old — for her supporting role in the TV movie “Something About Amelia.”

And in 1977, Kristy McNichol won the Emmy for supporting actress in a drama series on her 15th birthday for the drama series “Family.” (She won again in that same category two years later.)

Readers can find the complete list of Sunday’s Emmy winners here.

The first season of “Euphoria,” which premiered in June 2019, follows 17-year-old Rue Bennett...

Netflix’s miniseries “When They See Us,” directed by Ava DuVernay netted 16 Emmy nominations, half of which were for its cast members. Among the nominees is Asante Blackk, who’s up in Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor. If the 17-year-old actor were to win this year, he’d be the fourth youngest Emmy winner ever and the third person under 18 to win.

The youngest Emmy winner is Roxana Zal, who nabbed the Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actress Emmy at the age of 14 in 1984 for playing Amelia Bennet in “Something About Amelia.” The second and third spots belong to the same person, Kristy McNichol, who took home her first statuette on her 15th birthday in 1977 in Best Drama Supporting Actress for “Family” and her second one two days before her 17th birthday for the same show in 1979. She’s the only actor to have won two Emmys...

Last year Millie Bobby Brown became one of the youngest Emmy nominees in history. At the age of 13, she nabbed a nomination for Best Drama Supporting Actress for playing Eleven, the child with supernatural abilities wanted by the government, on Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” This year not only is she back but should she win she would become the youngest Emmy winner in history beating out Roxana Zal. For her episode submission this year, Brown has chosen the third hour of the second season, “Chapter Three: The Pollywog.”

Eleven gets into an argument with Jim Hopper (David Harbour) about how long she’s going to have to remain inside the old house, noting that it’s almost been a year. Hopper says she’ll be able to leave soon but El gets angry over his lack of a definitive answer and storms into her room. After Hopper leaves to go to work,...

History could be made at this year’s Emmys if 13-year-old Noah Schnapp earns a nomination as Best Drama Supporting Actor for Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Schnapp, who wasn’t even alive in the 1980s when the sci-fi series takes place, would tie as the youngest male actor ever to be nominated for a drama series. Back in 1959 another 13-year-old, Johnny Crawford (“The Rifleman”), earned a nomination but lost. Two female starlets have taken home Emmy Awards — Roxana Zal for “Something About Amelia” (age 14 in 1984) and Kristy McNichol for “Family” — but Schnapp would make history for the boys if he were to win for his breakout role in “Stranger Things.”

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Will Iain Armitage (“Young Sheldon”) make Emmy history with a nomination for Best Comedy Actor? He turns 10-years-old this year, so if he makes the cut this summer he’ll be the youngest nominee in the history of the category and the second youngest nominee in Primetime Emmy history. Now a couple of the Expert journalists we’ve polled thus far are predicting exactly that.

To date there have only been two Comedy Actor nominees under the age of 18: Fred Savage contended for “The Wonder Years” in 1989 when he was 13, and Frankie Muniz was up for “Malcolm in the Middle” in 2001 when he was 15. The Primetime Emmys have long been hesitant to recognize child actors, with a few exceptions. Roxana Zal (“Something About Amelia”) became the youngest champ when she prevailed for Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actress in 1984 at age 14. And Kristy McNichol (“Family”) won Best Drama Supporting Actress...

Millie Bobby Brown could make history tonight, and she's (naturally) freaking out. The 13-year-old is nominated in the Oustanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category at the 2017 Emmys, which if she beats out Uzo Aduba, Ann Dowd, Chrissy Metz, Thandie Newton and Samira Wiley, would make her the youngest Emmy-winner of all time.  She's rivaled by Roxana Zal, who was 14 when she won an Emmy for Something About Amelia in 1984.  So how is the young starlet feeling only moments before one of the biggest nights of her life? "To me, I'm obviously very grateful," she told E! News' Jason Kennedy on the red carpet. "I haven't...

Millie Bobby Brown is best known for her role as Eleven in Netflix's Stranger Things. Despite only being 13 years old (she was born on Feb. 19, 2004), Millie has already accomplished so much at such a young age. Not only has she appeared in a handful of TV shows, including Modern Family and Grey's Anatomy, but she also has two big awards under her belt. Earlier this year, Millie was named the best actor in a TV show at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, and at the SAG Awards, the cast of Stranger Things took home the trophy for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series. Related12 Stranger Things Halloween Costumes, Since You'll Be Seeing It Everywhere This Year As if that weren't exciting enough, Millie is nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series at this year's Emmys, and if she wins, she could make history by...

Fans of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” rejoiced when Millie Bobby Brown reaped an Emmy nomination as Best Drama Supporting Actress. At the age of 13, Brown could become the youngest winner in Emmy history (the record is currently held by Roxana Zal, who at the age of 14 won as Best Movie/Mini Actress for “Something About Amelia” in 1984). […]...

Broadway playwright and screenwriter William Hanley has died at the age of 80.

The Emmy Award winner passed away at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut on Friday, his daughter Katherine Hover tells the Associated Press.

His theatre credits include Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Whisper into My Good Ear and Mrs. Dally Has a Lover.

Hanley won Emmys for his TV movies The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank and Something About Amelia, which starred Ted Danson as a father who has sexual relations with his daughter.

Roxana Zal, who played the abused teen, became the youngest primetime Emmy winner in history after scooping a trophy for the role when she was 14 years old.

Hanley also wrote several novels and the screenplay for the 1969 film The Gypsy Moths, starring Burt Lancaster and Gene Hackman.

No further details of Hanley's death were available as WENN went to press.

William Hanley, who won Emmys for penning the TV movies The Attic: The Hiding Of Anne Frank and the incest drama Something About Amelia, died Friday, the AP reported. He was 80. Hanley also wrote Broadway plays, novels and the 1969 feature film The Gypsy Moths. He was best known for Amelia, which aired on ABC in 1984 and starred Ted Danson, Glenn Close and Roxanne Zal. It centered on a father (Danson, by then the star of Cheers) who had sexual relations with his daughter (Zal). It garnered eight Emmy noms and won three: outstanding drama/comedy special, supporting actress for Zal and a writing nod for Hanley.

New York — William Hanley, a Broadway playwright and award-winning screenwriter who scripted a pioneering TV film that dealt with incest, has died. He was 80.

His daughter, Katherine Hover, said he died Friday at his home in Ridgefield, Conn.

Hanley's works include "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground" and "Mrs. Dally Has a Lover" and the teleplays "The Long Way Home" and "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."

He won Emmys for the TV movies "The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank" and "Something About Amelia."

"Amelia," which first aired in 1984 on ABC, explored the largely taboo topic of parental sexual abuse. Ted Danson, then the star of hit sitcom "Cheers," portrayed a doting, well-to-do father exposed as having had sexual relations with his teenage daughter. Glenn Close played the mother in the critically acclaimed, top-rated program, which also won Emmys for outstanding drama special and for young Roxanne Zal, who played the abused daughter.

New York — William Hanley, a Broadway playwright and award-winning screenwriter who scripted a pioneering TV film that dealt with incest, has died. He was 80.

His daughter, Katherine Hover, said he died Friday at his home in Ridgefield, Conn.

Hanley's works include "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground" and "Mrs. Dally Has a Lover" and the teleplays "The Long Way Home" and "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."

He won Emmys for the TV movies "The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank" and "Something About Amelia."

"Amelia," which first aired in 1984 on ABC, explored the largely taboo topic of parental sexual abuse. Ted Danson, then the star of hit sitcom "Cheers," portrayed a doting, well-to-do father exposed as having had sexual relations with his teenage daughter. Glenn Close played the mother in the critically acclaimed, top-rated program, which also won Emmys for outstanding drama special and for young Roxanne Zal, who played the abused daughter.

Join MGM HD at the inaugural UK Sundance Film Festival on April 28th at the O2, London, for a special 25th anniversary screening of 1987 film River’s Edge followed by a Q&A with star of the film Crispin Glover and Tim Hunter. The film will start at 7.30pm at Cineworld 8.

Rivers Edge first screened at the 1987 Us Sundance Film Festival and received Grand Jury Recognition.

Rivers Edge portrays the lives of a group of teenagers who are thrown into a moral spin when one of them murders his girlfriend. Faced with the brutal reality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.

Starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebuck, Joshua Miller, Dennis Hopper Roger Ebert said, “Glover’s performance is electric….He carries around a constant sense of danger.

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There's something about people being trapped underground that brings in audiences in droves. When baby Jessica fell into that drain pipe in 1987 and spent over two days caught inside, everyone was glued to their sets to see if she would be freed. Just two years later, they all saw the whole story fictionalized for a television movie with Beau Bridges, Roxana Zal and Will Oldham.

Now we've got the Chilean miners, who are a group of men that were recently trapped underground after part of their mine collapsed, managing to survive for a stunning 69 days before they were rescued. Being an impressive story -- and one where everyone happened to live, which is a nice, happy-ending bonus -- Brad Pitt and his Plan B Entertainment are eager to bring the story to the big screen.

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There's something about people being trapped underground that brings in audiences in droves. When baby Jessica fell into that drain pipe in 1987 and spent over two days caught inside, everyone was glued to their sets to see if she would be freed. Just two years later, they all saw the whole story fictionalized for a television movie with Beau Bridges, Roxana Zal and Will Oldham.

Now we've got the Chilean miners, who are a group of men that were recently trapped underground after part of their mine collapsed, managing to survive for a stunning 69 days before they were rescued. Being an impressive story -- and one where everyone happened to live, which is a nice, happy-ending bonus -- Brad Pitt and his Plan B Entertainment are eager to bring the story to the big screen.

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To see the answer, click on the "Continue Reading" link below the photo box. Answer: False. While his co-star Don Knotts went undefeated at the Emmys, winning five for five, Ronnie Howard was never nominated for the show. Neither was Andy Griffith! Only one other cast member scored a bid: Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee, who won in 1967. "The Andy Griffith Show" lost all three of its nods for best comedy series: 1961, 1962, 1967. The youngest winner of an acting Emmy is Roxana Zal, who was 14 when she prevailed as best supporting actress in "Something About Amelia" (1984). She portrayed an incest victim being defiled by her dad (Ted Danson) in a...

While many know me for my Heathers obsession, few know how it came to be -- that it wasn't just my blind following of all things Christian Slater. I was led to the darkly comic and wonderful movie by a short pre-film trailer on another vhs -- Under the Boardwalk. Ever see it?

It was a wonderfully terrible and immensely lovable (to me) film that means all things summer and youthful to my reminiscing heart. It's the story of two rival surfers, and how the artsy sister of the one (Danielle von Zerneck as Allie) falls for his super-cute rival (Richard Joseph Paul). Brian Wimmer played a fellow surfer dude, and there was a silly side story with Keith Coogan as the straight-laced cousin who comes to visit and falls for Gitch, Roxana Zal's "half girl, half bitch." I had enough sense to know it wasn't a great movie,...

Scott Ziehl's "Broken Vessels" ventures into the oft-explored world of drug addiction with the novel twist that its junkies are paramedics. This makes for a harrowing ambulance ride, but the destination is all too familiar.

Lacking a compelling script, "Broken Vessels" isn't likely to connect with a sizable audience. Look for a fast theatrical payoff with this film after having spent the past year on the festival circuit.

That is a shame because the film -- written by David Baer, John McMahon and Ziehl -- at first benefits from its fascinating milieu. The daily rounds of paramedics as they roam Los Angeles' meanest streets offer dramatic situations and colorful characters operating in a pressure-cooker environment.

Tom (Jason London), a young man from Pennsylvania anxious to pay off a self-imposed debt to society, takes a job as an ambulance driver. (One of the unexplained curiosities of the film is that although Tom is hired with that job title, he seldom, if ever, drives.)

But instead of saving humanity while he trains under his partner Jimmy (Todd Field), Tom is plunged into a cynical world of on-duty drinking, fornication, drug deals, petty theft and, finally, drug addiction. The key denizens of this underworld are Suzy (Susan Traylor), Jimmy's next door neighbor and a speed freak, and Gramps (Patrick Cranshaw), an aging addict whom Jimmy has for years supplied with heroin.

Seemingly unable to alter his partner's behavior or extricate himself from the no-win situation, Tom stumbles down the path to self-destruction with only minor qualms of conscience.

Flashbacks to Tom's past point to a deep guilt that may be partially fueling his refusal to pull himself together. A one-night stand with a "normal" girl (Roxana Zal) offers Tom the hope of redemption, which he promptly rejects.

The film is certainly well made. Working with a limited budget, Ziehl and cinematographer Antonio Calvache give the adrenaline-pumping occupation of ambulance drivers a gritty reality. The actors convincingly create portraits of lost souls, especially London with a lemming-like devotion to his mentor and Field with a cocky swagger that seduces his young partner into joining a dangerous lifestyle.

But the film, much like its protagonist, becomes too fascinated with hard drugs at the expense of story and character development. How many scenes of drug buys, shooting-up and vomiting are necessary to make a point?

The film's best line belongs to Gramps who, referring to his longtime drug habit, says, "When people talk about living, this is not what they're talking about."

Ziehl should have realized that with a line like that, he could have cut 20 minutes of junkie high jinks.

BROKEN VESSELS

Unapix Films/Zeitgeist Films

Producer:Roxana Zal, Scott Ziehl

Director:Scott Ziehl

Writer:David Baer, John McMahon, Scott Ziehl

Co-producers:David Baer, Robyn Knoll, Todd Field

Director of photography:Antonio Calvache

Production designer:Rodrigo Castillo

Costume designer:Roseanne Fiedler

Editors:David Moritz, Chris Figler

Color/stereo

Cast:

Jimmy:Todd Field

Tom:Jason London

Elizabeth:Roxana Zal

Suzy:Susan Traylor

Mr. Chen:James Hong

Gramps:Patrick Cranshaw

Running time -- 90 minutes

MPAA rating: R...

This is a warped whodunit with a serial killer whose method of dispatching victims is so nasty it shows hilariously how far one has to go to keep up with big-budget Hollywood thrillers.

"Kiss & Tell" is a winning independent film from writer-director Jordan Alan ("Terminal Bliss", "Love & Happiness") that features a large and entertaining cast, including four Arquette family members (but not Rosanna or Patricia).

A candidate for eventual cult status, the Phaedra Cinema release should generate moderate interest in limited engagements before heading to video. Hip and breezily unconcerned with making sense, the improvisational "Kiss & Tell" feels like a story written by a roomful of people, with everyone taking turns adding a new scene and then passing it on.

"Kiss & Tell" stars Justine Bateman, Heather Graham and Peter Greene, and boasts bit players Traci Lind, Lukas Haas, Assumpta Serna, Alexandra Paul, Rose McGowan, Teresa Hill, Jill Hennessey, Roxana Zal, Mickey Cottrell, Nina Siemaszko and co-producer Pamela Gidley as the dreaded Betty "Beta" Carotene. Throw in Alexis, Richmond, David and father Lewis Arquette, and you have one strange brew.

Imagine Gregg Araki making "L.A. Confidential" and you can get a sense of the atmosphere and general punchiness of "Kiss & Tell," which pits lesbians against detectives against shifty suspects against wigged-out murderers in a willy-nilly noir fable that simultaneously makes use of and mocks many Los Angeles landmarks.

The ratio of good gags to so-so jokes is about 3-to-1 in this feast of up-and-coming stars, which achieves its best results with epiphanous events in many of the comic vignettes, moments when the characters come alive and their conflicts are intriguing.

But overall the wacky plot couldn't be more lurid and loaded with sin-city cliches that have been twisted into amusing satirical elements. Here's a sampling: an armless coroner eating a restaurant meal, a group therapy session attended exclusively by murderers, a hit man from New York named Lollypop Man and a psychopath using poisoned carrots to leave a trail of corpses.

Shocks and twists are frequent, but what's surprising is how well Alan and crew keep control of the project when it easily could have become too incoherent and unfunny. There are even a few scenes that are downright spooky, not an easy thing to pull off when the movie as a whole is impossible to take seriously.

By and large, the performances are on the money. Along with some great tongue-in-cheek moments from Greene and Richmond Arquette as grumpy detectives, Graham is memorable as a witchy friend of the most prominent murder victim (Bateman).

KISS & TELL

Phaedra Cinema

A Terminal Bliss production

in association with

Ron Travisano and Pamela Gidley

Writer-director Jordan Alan

Producers Pamela Gidley,

Ron Travisano, Jordan Alan

Executive producer Adam Fast

Director of photography Ron Travisano

Music Michael Mattioli

Editors Ed Marx, Chris Keenan, Jordan Alan

Color/stereo

Cast:

Molly McMannis Justine Bateman

Suzan Pretsel Heather Graham

Detective Finnigan Peter Greene

Detective Starr Richmond Arquette

Detective Furbal Lewis Arquette

Betty "Beta" Carotene Pamela Gidley

Ivy Roberts Teresa Hill

Jasmine Rose McGowan

Running time -- 90 minutes

No MPAA rating...