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      Christopher Reeve to David Corenswet: The Actors Who Played Superman

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      Kal-El, Man of Steel, Last Son of Krypton: Superman has many names, and also many faces when it comes to live-action takes on the hero. With the release of “Superman,” David Corenswet joins the society of actors who have played arguably the most famous of all superheroes. But Superman, more so than a lot of his superpowered peers, often serves more as a symbol than a fully drawn character. Below is a rundown of some of the most prominent depictions of Superman in the last few decades and what these actors brought to their embodiments of the Man of Tomorrow.Superman I-IV (1978-87)The ArchetypeChristopher Reeve set the standard for Superman onscreen with his portrayal in the movie series from 1978-87.Alamy/Warner Bros., via HBOChristopher Reeve set the standard for a live-action Superman, creating a pop culture phenomenon on the big screen. Now the trend for those taking on the role is to find new angles on the hero, to modernize or subvert the character. Much of that can be attributed to Reeve’s portrayal, which was that of a quintessential comic book savior.His Superman is confident, upstanding and authoritative, and between his powers and his unimpeachable sense of justice, he’s downright unstoppable — as when he reverses the Earth’s rotation to go back in time to save a life. Whether he’s posed with his arms crossed in judgment of a foe or standing fists on waist and arms akimbo at the end of a battle, there’s a machismo power in his bearing. And his disarming smile and self-assured voice, which occasionally offers calm but firm scoldings to wrongdoers, paint him as a hero of the people. These early Superman movies were less about developing the character and more about reinforcing fans’ love for the original figure.Lois & Clark:The New Adventures of Superman (1993-97)Rom-Com SupermanDean Cain brought an aw-shucks quality to the character.Lorimer Productions, via Everett CollectionWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Everyone’s Obsessed With True Crime. Even Prisoners Like Me.

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      As the genre has boomed on cable, the incarcerated have found themselves watching more and more of it.In the early aughts, when I was waiting on Rikers Island to be tried for murder, I had to watch what everyone else in the communal day room was watching on TV: shouts of “Jer-ry! Jer-ry!” and announcements that “You are not the father.”After I was convicted, in 2004, and sentenced to 28 years to life in prison, TV would occupy even more of my time. Prisons do get cable: Normally, the population pays via things like fund-raisers and the profits from visiting-room vending machines. At Clinton Dannemora, a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border, I bought a 13-inch television from the commissary, and it felt like a privilege to watch what I wanted, alone in my cell. In Attica, where I transferred in 2007, we had the Oxygen channel, on which everyone would watch reality shows like “Bad Girls Club.” I enjoyed all the gossiping and scheming on “Big Brother” and “Survivor,” and when I put an ad on a dating website for prisoners I listed “The Bachelor” as my favorite show. The women who wrote to me related. I eventually married one.Her name was Danielly, and she watched a lot of true crime. It made her so paranoid that she hung a bell inside her front door to alert her to intruders. Once, while she was visiting me, I noticed her peering behind us — she had recognized another prisoner from an episode of “20/20.” This happens to me now too: I’ll be in the mess hall or the yard and recognize someone from a true-crime show. He’ll be scooping oatmeal or exercising, and I’ll remember the re-enactment of his crime, the bludgeoning or the burying.In 2016, I transferred to Sing Sing. By then, Oxygen had shifted from reality shows to true crime; the channel’s logo was even redesigned to resemble police tape. It would soon be airing a seemingly nonstop run of shows like “Buried in the Backyard.” For a few years I was transferred to a smaller prison in the Catskills, where we didn’t have in-cell TVs — but when it closed and I landed back in Sing Sing, I found that true crime had come to dominate what felt like every station. NBC American Crimes ran reruns of “Dateline,” “American Greed” and “Lockup,” which I once heard described as “prison porn.” (It’s strange to walk down the tier, look through the bars of someone’s cell and see a TV turned to “Lockup” — an inside look at prison for someone who is already inside a prison.) Merit TV had “Crime Stories With Nancy Grace.” As I write this, Court TV is running a marathon of “Interview With a Killer.”More than half of Americans now watch true crime, according to one YouGov poll. (The F.B.I. reports that between 1993 and 2022, meanwhile, the rate of violent crime in the United States fell 49 percent.) We watch those shows in here, too. As true crime exploded in popularity, the demand for fresh content had producers searching for stories to tell, exhuming murder cases from years and even decades ago. This is how Danielly eventually found herself watching a true-crime show about me, a drug dealer in prison for killing a rival.Some watch with the prison hierarchy in mind.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Jimmy Fallon Fans the Flames of Burning MAGA Hats

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      People torched the hats in videos, apparently upset about the Jeffrey Epstein case. “People in China were like, ‘Oh, come on, we worked so hard making them,’” Fallon said.Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Burning UpPresident Trump is still getting flak, from longtime supporters and others, for not releasing more information about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Some social media users expressed their feelings by posting videos of burning MAGA hats.“As of now, Trump is keeping the information totally classified, a.k.a. in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago,” Jimmy Fallon said of the so-called Epstein files.“Yeah, the excuses are getting worse and worse. Today, Trump was, like, ‘A dog ate the Epstein files, then people in Ohio ate the dog.’” — JIMMY FALLON“Yeah, they’re burning the MAGA hats. People in China were like, ‘Oh, come on, we worked so hard making them.’” — JIMMY FALLONThe Punchiest Punchlines (With Friends Like These Edition)“In fact, Epstein’s infamous little black book included 14 different numbers for Trump and his representatives. I mean, he had 14 separate ways to contact Donald Trump. I mean, when I drop my kid off at camp, I give two emergency contact numbers and one of them is fake because I don’t need that hassle.” — JORDAN KLEPPER“Do you know how creepy with women you have to be for Donald Trump to pick up on it? I mean, that’s a real your-drunk-friend-taking-the-car-keys-from-you moment.” — JORDAN KLEPPERThe Bits Worth WatchingThe “Too Much” star Megan Stalter started “a big rumor” on Tuesday’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”What We’re Excited About on Wednesday NightThe country superstar Jelly Roll will guest-host “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”Also, Check This OutAdam Scott, left, and Britt Lower in “Severance,” on Apple TV+. Both were nominated for Emmys.Apple TV+The dystopian Apple TV+ workplace drama “Severance” scored the most Emmy nominations this year. More

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      Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Earns 13 Emmy Nominations, Including Nod for Owen Cooper

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      The show, about a teenager suspected of killing a schoolmate, won three Gotham Television Awards last month and was a hot topic in the weeks after it was released.“Adolescence,” the hit Netflix series turned water-cooler talker about Jamie Miller, a teenage boy who is accused of killing a girl from his school, received 13 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, including one for best limited series or anthology.Stephen Graham, who played the teen’s father, Eddie, received a nod for best lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie, and Owen Cooper, who played the troubled teen, Jamie, was nominated in the outstanding supporting actor category alongside Ashley Walters, who played a detective. Cooper’s nomination makes him the youngest ever nominee in that category, according to Deadline.Erin Doherty, who played a psychologist in the series, was nominated for outstanding supporting actress alongside Christine Tremarco, who played Jamie’s mother, Manda. Philip Barantini received a directing nomination, and Graham and Jack Thorne, who created and wrote the series, picked up a nod for outstanding writing.The show was released in mid-March and resonated with audiences. It quickly became the most watched show on Netflix in dozens of countries, according to the streamer.“Adolescence” and its themes inspired so much chatter that it reignited discussions in Britain on whether the government should restrict children’s access to smartphones. (A major question in the series concerns the extent to which Jamie may have been radicalized by misogynistic ideas online.) Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the House of Commons that he had watched it with his two children and that action had to be taken to address the “fatal consequences” of young men and boys viewing harmful content on the internet.In June, “Adolescence” won three trophies at the second annual Gotham Television Awards, including one for breakthrough limited series. Graham won for best lead performance in a limited series and Cooper shared a win with Jenny Slate of “Dying for Sex” for best supporting performance.Graham and Cooper’s onscreen bond was a highlight for critics, and there was much discussion around the series’s third episode, in which Doherty’s psychologist interviews Jamie. Cooper told The New York Times in April that he had initially been uncomfortable with the script.“Before every take, I just thought, ‘I’m never, ever going to be able to do this again, so I’m just going to put my all into it,’” he said.In the same interview, Graham said that there were no plans for a sequel. “It’s a stand-alone thing,” he said. “I’m not saying there will be, but if there’s a possibility of a Series 2, we would follow something completely different.”The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. CBS will broadcast the ceremony. More

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      Emmy Nomination Snubs and Surprises: ‘Squid Game,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and More

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      Some big names (Alfonso Cuarón, Elisabeth Moss) were left off the Emmy nomination list while some underdogs (Jeff Hiller, “Common Side Effects”) sneaked on.Awards shows are handicapped more accurately these days than presidential elections, but here are some at least mildly surprising results gleaned from the Primetime Emmys nominations announced on Tuesday.Snub: ‘Squid Game’Apparently the voters had soured on the bloody South Korean drama, which was nominated for outstanding drama and won for lead actor and director in its first season on Netflix. The second season, which debuted in December, was shut out of the drama series field. (Because of the Emmys’ June-to-May calendar, the recently released final season will be eligible for next year’s awards.) It was the only unexpected result in the major series categories, allowing the Hulu thriller “Paradise” to sneak in.Surprise: Uzo AdubaNetflix’s murder-in-the-White-House comedy “The Residence” did not attract a ton of attention and was quickly canceled after one season. Aduba’s performance as a quirky, bird-watching police consultant was noticed, however, and she made it into the comedy lead-actress field over the former nominees Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face”) and Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”).Snub: Alfonso CuarónCuarón, the winner of four Oscars, was thought to be a lock for at least a directing nomination for his spooky limited series “Disclaimer” on Apple TV+. Cuarón was left out, however, as was the series and its lead actor, Kevin Kline. Cate Blanchett picked up a lead-actress nomination.“Common Side Effects” was nominated for outstanding animated program for its first season.Adult SwimSurprise: ‘Common Side Effects’Adult Swims’s lo-fi conspiracy thriller about little people battling Big Pharma, streaming on HBO Max, was an unexpected and very welcome nominee for outstanding animated program, taking a spot expected to go to Amazon Prime Video’s “Invincible” or Netflix’s “Big Mouth.”Snub: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’Hulu’s adaptation of the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood never regained the heights of its first season, when it won the award for best drama and its star, Elisabeth Moss, won for best actress. In their sixth and final season, both the show and Moss were left out.Surprise: Jeff HillerIn the third and final season of the melancholy, autobiographical HBO comedy “Somebody, Somewhere,” starring Bridget Everett, Hiller came out of nowhere for a supporting-actor nomination. (Sorry, Tyler James Williams of “Abbott Elementary.”) The show, previously unnominated, also got a nod for comedy writing.Snub: John Mulaney (again)Mulaney keeps trying to tweak the nighttime talk-show format, following up last year’s “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A.” on Netflix with the apparently more permanent “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.” Breaking through the Colbert-Kimmel-Stewart gas ceiling in the variety talk series category is a tall order, though. (Also left out, with the category limited to three slots, was the three-time nominee “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”) More

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      Emmy Nominees 2025: See the Complete List

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      The 77th Emmy Awards ceremony is planned for Sept. 14. See all the nominees below.Nominees for the 2025 Emmy Awards were announced by Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”) and Brenda Song (“Running Point”) on Tuesday morning.In the drama categories, “The White Lotus,” “Severance” and “The Last of Us” picked up the most nominations — with “Severance” earning 27, the most of any show this year.In the comedy categories, “The Studio,” “Hacks” and “The Bear” came out on top. For limited series, “The Penguin” got 24 nominations and “Adolescence” earned 13.The Emmys ceremony will take place on Sept. 14 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It will be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.Here is the full list of nominees.Best Drama“Andor” (Disney+)Read our critic’s notebook“The Diplomat” (Netflix)Read our reviewWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ‘The Pitt’ Receives 13 Emmy Nominations, Including Noah Wyle’s First Nod Since ‘ER’

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      The breakout medical hit received nods for outstanding drama series, lead actor, supporting actress, writing and directing for its first season.“The Pitt,” the realistic emergency medicine drama that debuted this year and became a breakout hit for HBO Max, received 13 nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards, including for best drama, best lead actor for a drama (Noah Wyle) and best supporting actress for a drama (Katherine LaNasa). The series also received two nominations each in the writing and directing categories.The show’s creator, R. Scott Gemmill, and the executive producer John Wells were nominated for writing and directing the series’s first episode.It was a strong overall showing from HBO Max, which led all networks with 142 nominations. Several of its series received nominations in the double digits, including “The Penguin,” “The White Lotus,” “The Last of Us” and “Hacks.”When it premiered in January, “The Pitt” earned praise from critics, especially for Wyle’s performance as the emotionally scarred but empathic head of a modern emergency room in Pittsburgh. In an unusual development for a scripted hospital drama, some of the show’s most passionate champions were real-life emergency room workers, who praised its verisimilitude on social media.In an interview with The New York Times, Gemmill said that the writers had set out to create the most accurate medical show possible, employing practicing physicians at nearly ever level of the production.“We wanted to differentiate by not cutting corners on the medicine,” Gemmill said. “The drama is always going to be there in the reality of a place like the emergency department.”Season 2 of “The Pitt” is currently in production and is scheduled to premiere next year.Wyle, Gemmill and Wells have previous nominations for another hit medical drama: “ER.” Wyle received five nominations for his performance as Dr. John Carter on the show, in which he appeared from 1994 to 2009, with no wins. Gemmill, a writer and producer of “ER,” received two, and Wells, who worked as a writer, director and executive producer of “ER,” received 11. (The estate of Michael Crichton, the novelist and screenwriter who created “ER,” has sued Warner Bros., Gemmill, Wells and Wyle for breach of contract.)The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. CBS will broadcast the ceremony. More

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      ‘The Studio’ Ties Emmys Record for Most Comedy Nominations in a Season

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      Past winners like “Hacks” and “The Bear” lost some ground this year, making Apple TV+’s Hollywood satire starring Seth Rogen the one to beat.Season 1 of Apple TV+’s star-studded Hollywood satire “The Studio,” starring Seth Rogen as the beleaguered head of a fictional movie studio, became the comedy to beat on Tuesday for the 77th Emmy Awards, receiving 23 nominations.The nominations tie it with Season 2 of “The Bear” for the most-nominated season of a comedy series ever heading into the final voting round, which begins on Aug. 18. The award ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 14.Created by Rogen with his longtime creative partner, Evan Goldberg (along with Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez), “The Studio” seemed, in many ways, perfectly engineered to succeed. For a comedy, it is exceptionally ambitious and well made — beautifully shot and elaborately choreographed, with most scenes filmed as extended single takes, or “oners” in the insider parlance of the show.The show is also, as befits a series from the comedians behind “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” and “Sausage Party,” very funny, taking aim at the pettiness of executive strivers, the boundless self-regard of celebrities and the industry threats posed by Big Tech and Wall Street. Rogen’s character must fight to preserve his artistic integrity amid the often humiliating demands of his corporate overlords.“It knows its business well enough to be blisteringly entertaining,” The New York Times’s chief TV critic, James Poniewozik, wrote in his review of the series in March, adding: “When ‘The Studio’ is funny, it is funnier than most anything on TV now.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More