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      A Somber Late Night After the Attack on Donald Trump

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      Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers offered sober reflections about democracy. So did Anthony Anderson, though he found some humor in the reaction to the shooting.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.Not FunnyLate night was more subdued than usual on Monday, two days after a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump at a rally.“The Daily Show” canceled its plans to cover the Republican National Convention from Milwaukee, skipping its Monday show. Jimmy Fallon avoided the topic altogether on “The Tonight Show,” while Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers addressed it with solemnity at the top of “The Late Show” and “Late Night.”Colbert expressed “horror at what was unfolding, relief that Donald Trump had lived, and, frankly, grief for my beautiful country.”“So as we’ve done many times in the past when some tragic event has shocked the nation, I’m starting the show tonight talking at the desk. Though I could just as easily start the show moaning on the floor, because how many times do we need to learn the lesson that violence has no role in our politics? That the entire objective of a democracy is to fight out our differences with, as the saying goes, ballot not a bullet?” — STEPHEN COLBERTSeth Meyers said it was “worth saying that there is no autopilot for democracy.”“Every generation before us has had to do the difficult work of safeguarding this cherished enterprise, and now we’re called upon to do the same.” — SETH MEYERSAnthony Anderson, guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” said he hoped that “we can all take a step back from the hatred and vitriol in our politics.” He was the only host who attempted a few jokes around the incident.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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      In ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Shannen Doherty Redefined Teen TV Drama

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      As Brenda Walsh, Doherty was the engine of the series that set the template for what a modern teen drama would look like on television.If you liked watching TV on Thursday nights in 1990, you could have spent your spring with Audrey Horne and Donna Hayward, in “Twin Peaks,” and your fall with Brenda Walsh in “Beverly Hills, 90210.” And Brenda, as played memorably by Shannen Doherty, who died on Saturday, knew who her peers were. When she dons a (hideous) hat in Season 1, she is met with derision. “Hippie witch is out,” sneers Kelly (Jennie Garth).“It’s not hippie witch; it’s ‘Twin Peaks,’ and it’s very in,” Brenda snaps back. Ah, back then we were so rich in pouty, put-upon brunettes with brooding motorcycle boyfriends, fraught taste in companions and a desire to listen to the same song over and over.No, Brenda’s outfit is not “Twin Peaks” in any way, but her affection and affectation create a fun hall of mirrors. Brenda herself was a character whose style many sought to emulate, though sadly, God blesses so few of us with such magnificent bangs. Still, it was far easier to incorporate a Walshian choker or silver belt buckle than to pull off an arch “Twin Peaks” saddle shoe.Teens were all over prime-time in 1990. “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” also debuted that season, and shows like “Growing Pains,” “Who’s the Boss,” “A Different World” and “Doogie Howser, M.D.” were already airing.But it was “Beverly Hills, 90210” that established the blueprint for what a modern teen drama would be: glossy, aspirational, tackling the topics of the day but bending inexorably — if they lasted — toward soapiness. It was a template followed by series like “Dawson’s Creek,” “One Tree Hill,” “Gossip Girl” and “The O.C.,” among many others.And of all the young beautiful people who populated West Beverly Hills High, it was Brenda who made the show go. As she went from naïf to vixen, from humble Minnesotan to globe-trotting romantic, her transformations transformed the show itself. Grander tragedies befell other characters, but no one suffered heartbreak or betrayal with more intensity than Brenda, the show’s most authentically teenage character. In Doherty’s hands, Brenda was both vulnerable and vituperative, delivering the sharpest insults but in the most pain.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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      Anthony Hopkins on Playing a Roman Emperor in ‘Those About to Die’

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      In an interview, the actor discusses his new series, humble origins and the freedom age brings. “That gives me a tremendous amount of energy to move forward,” he said.Anthony Hopkins has advice for any aspiring actor: Speak clearly.“If you whisper, you sound sexy,” he said during a recent video call. “But I can’t hear you. What’s the story? Tell the story. Stop mumbling.”Though Hopkins, 86, has won two Oscars (“The Silence of the Lambs,” “The Father”), a pair of Emmys and a Laurence Olivier award, he still insists that acting is mostly just enunciating. “It’s just showing up,” he said. This summer, he can be heard, clearly, in “Those About to Die,” a 10-episode series set amid the blood and sand of a Roman amphitheater. It premieres on Peacock on July 18. Hopkins plays Vespasian, a general-turned-emperor who ordered the construction of what would become the Roman Colosseum.“Those About to Die” allowed Hopkins to return to Cinecittà, the famed Italian studio where he filmed “The Two Popes.” And it continues his interest, demonstrated in projects such as “Freud’s Last Session,” “The Father,” “Westworld” and even as far back as “Nixon” and “The Remains of the Day,” in playing men in the waning of their power.Though Hopkins appears in few scenes of “Those About to Die” (anyone familiar with the ancient Roman timeline can guess why), he is fully in command of his own capacities. His Vespasian is infirm of body, not purpose. Facing down his legacy, Vespasian scolds his sons (played by Jojo Macari and Tom Hughes), dismissing their advice and praise.“I had to be tough on them and no nonsense,” Hopkins said.Roland Emmerich, the show’s director, wanted Hopkins for that sternness. “He plays a little bit like a gruff guy,” Emmerich said in a recent interview. He also suspected that Hopkins could play Vespasian’s canniness as he contends with both the aristocracy and the people. And that he could make that realpolitik pleasurable.“He has this likability,” Emmerich said. “He played Hannibal Lecter and was still lovable.”During the video call, Hopkins was only occasionally gruff and, yes, often lovable. (A man who has a way with a twinkle, he has amassed millions of followers on TikTok.) These days, he views his career, he said, “with a sense, not of self-congratulation, but a sense of fun.”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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      What’s on TV This Week: Olympic Specials and ‘Big Brother’

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      ABC and CNN gear up for the Games. CBS airs the season premiere of the reality competition show.For those who still enjoy a cable subscription, here is a selection of cable and network TV shows, movies and specials that broadcast this week, July 15-21. Details and times are subject to change.MondayTHE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION starting at 8 p.m. on various channels. Republican delegates will be gathering in Milwaukee through Thursday to nominate the party’s candidate for president. Former President Donald Trump is the only candidate since Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race. The Democratic National Convention will be held in mid-August.TuesdayCATFISH 8 p.m. on MTV. Nev Schulman and Kamie Crawford have another successful season in the books after doing what they do best — catching people who are lying about who they are online. And it truly never gets old — anyone who watches the show can immediately tell you their favorite episode (mine is a tie between the infamous Kelly Price one or the one with the slow-clapper on crutches).WednesdayBIG BROTHER 9 p.m. on CBS. As “Love Island USA” is wrapping up its run this year, this prototypical reality show is coming back for its 26th season. In a somewhat haunting, “Black Mirror” type twist, the theme will be artificial intelligence, or what the producers are referring to as “B.B.A.I.” In the newly redone house, each room is designed based on a prompt like “sci-fi rocky planet setting” or “futuristic bedroom for the year 2500.” I’m a little creeped out, but at least it’s inventive.A scene from “Wild Wild Space.”Courtesy of HBOWILD WILD SPACE 9 p.m. on HBO. With the rom-com “Fly Me to the Moon” newly released and the 55th anniversary of the lunar landing looming, the moon is on our minds. But, as this documentary points out, the new and more valuable frontier is low Earth orbit. This area, at an altitude of 1,200 miles or less, could serve as the future of communication, transportation and observation. This documentary follows Chris Kemp and Peter Beck and their rocket companies, which are competing to be the overlord of L.E.O.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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      ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: The Eye Has It

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      Prince Aemond makes a move — another move, that is, after the one where he blasted his own brother with dragonfire.In his series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, the author George R.R. Martin has based a trio of men-at-arms on Curly, Moe and Larry, the Three Stooges. He has used the superheroes Blue Beetle and Green Arrow as the basis for noble houses’ emblematic sigils. During the events depicted in “House of the Dragon,” the important House Tully is variously ruled over by Lords Grover, Elmo, and Kermit, with a Ser Oscar thrown in for good measure, as if “Sesame Street” had come to the Seven Kingdoms.So do I think it’s possible that in his book “Fire and Blood,” the basis of “House of the Dragon,” Martin put Prince Aemond Targaryen in control of Westeros just as a cheeky way to illustrate the maxim “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”? I wouldn’t put it past him.Compared to the all-out dragon warfare of last week’s outing, this week’s episode was a low-key affair, though not an inconsequential one. Aemond One-Eye’s ascension to the regency as his comatose brother, Aegon, clings to life in a burned and battered body is an alarming development in several respects. Already in possession of the Targaryen civil war’s deadliest weapon, the ancient dragon Vhagar, Aemond now has the political power to match his firepower. That sort of consolidation of control can’t bode well for any of the other prominent voices on the small council, particularly that of Aemond and Aegon’s increasingly marginalized mother, the dowager Queen Alicent.Even his nominal supporters visibly chafe at their choice of regent, though they feel that choice is limited at best. Ser Criston Cole saw firsthand how Aemond tried to kill his brother, first with Vhagar and then up close and personal, but he tells none of this to Alicent. He goes along with Aemond’s rise not despite the horror he witnessed but because of it. This is now a war of dragons, he tells Alicent, and as such they must be led by a dragon rider.The logic of Ser Larys Strong is more political than martial. How would it look, he asks, if they rejected the claim of Rhaenyra on the grounds of her sex, only to raise up another woman, Alicent, as Queen Regent? The legal and sociopolitical waters would be muddied considerably, and support put at risk. With the exception of Grandmaester Orwyle (Kurt Egyiawan), a habitual voice of reason, the men of the council all back the male candidate over the female.The episode’s director, Clare Kilner, lets the camera linger on the face of the actor who plays Alicent, Olivia Cooke, at this point. As the music of the composer Ramin Djawadi strikes an ominously modern tone, the camera draws ever closer, as Queen Alicent struggles to contain her … anger? Embarrassment? Fear? Pain, especially over her abandonment by both her lover and her son? All of the above are visible in Cooke’s extraordinarily communicative eyes.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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      Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ and ‘Charmed’ Star, Dies at 53

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      Shannen Doherty, the raven-haired actress known for playing headstrong characters in the 1990s television dramas “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed,” and who had tried in recent years to shed her rebellious reputation, died on Saturday at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 53.The cause was cancer, her publicist, Leslie Sloane, said in an emailed statement.Ms. Doherty learned she had breast cancer in February 2015 and had been open about her struggle with it in the years since. In the summer of 2016, she shaved her head as a group of friends stood by, and in 2017, she announced that the cancer was in remission. It returned in 2020, and in June 2023 Ms. Doherty announced that the cancer had spread to her brain. In November, she said it had spread to her bones.But she continued to work and started a podcast that month.“I’m not done with living. I’m not done with loving. I’m not done with creating. I’m not done with hopefully changing things for the better,” she told People magazine. “I’m not done.”Doherty in 1996. “I have felt misunderstood my whole life,” she told People that year.Gary Null/NBCShannen Maria Doherty was born on April 12, 1971, in Memphis to John Doherty Jr., a mortgage consultant, and Rosa (Wright) Doherty, a beautician. By age 10, Shannen had established herself as a child actress, appearing as Jenny Wilder in 18 episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” and acting alongside Wilford Brimley and Deidre Hall in the NBC drama “Our House.”Those were quickly overshadowed by her performance as the acid-tongued, red-scrunchy-wearing Heather Duke in the 1988 movie “Heathers,” a campy comedy-thriller that starred Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Ms. Doherty as students who fight for lunchroom domination as the body count begins to rise.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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      Shannen Doherty Films and TV Shows: How to Watch Her Most Notable Work

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      The actress, who died on Saturday, was best known for “Beverly Hills, 90210,” but she wasn’t only a teen idol.Shannen Doherty died Saturday, at 53, after a long battle with cancer. She left behind a legacy as a touchstone of 1990s television thanks to her role as the Midwestern new girl Brenda Walsh in “Beverly Hills, 90210.” But before she became a teen TV idol — as well as a tabloid fixation — she warmed hearts as a child in “Little House on the Prairie.”Here’s where to stream some of Doherty’s most notable work, including, of course, “Beverly Hills, 90210.”‘Little House on the Prairie’Years before Doherty began shaking things up at West Beverly Hills High School, she did so in “Little House on the Prairie.” Doherty joined the long-running series as Jenny Wilder, the niece of Melissa Gilbert’s Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, played by Dean Butler. Doherty appeared as Jenny, a pigtail-wearing girl whose father dies, throughout the ninth and final season of the show, and in subsequent “Little House” TV movies.Stream it on Peacock.‘Heathers’The first sign of Doherty’s star power came with the release of “Heathers,” the pitch-black comedy directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Daniel Waters. Doherty plays Heather Duke, a member of the title clique of mean girls who terrorize their high school and all share the same name. (Well, except for the protagonist, Veronica Sawyer, played by Winona Ryder.) When the lead Heather, Heather Chandler (Kim Walker), is murdered by a new kid in school, J.D. (Christian Slater) — a death that is passed off as a suicide with help from Veronica —Doherty’s Heather sees a path to power. She claims her dead friend’s red scrunchie as her crown, but her status obsession also makes her an easy target for J.D.’s manipulations.Stream it on Tubi, Pluto TV, the Roku Channel and Amazon Prime Video.Doherty with Winona Ryder in “Heathers.”New World, via Everett Collection‘Beverly Hills, 90210’Doherty remained best known for “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the influential teen series that debuted on Fox in 1990, created by Darren Star and executive produced by Aaron Spelling. Doherty played Brenda Walsh, a Beverly Hills newcomer who arrives with her twin brother, Brandon (Jason Priestley). Doherty told The New York Times in 2008: “Whereas her brother would feel a little more confident and secure, and just fit in automatically, I think for Brenda there was always a little more of, ‘Is this the place for me?’ I think she probably struggled through that, subconsciously, throughout the show.” Brenda’s relationship with the cool guy Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) was one of TV’s defining romances of the 1990s. Doherty left “90210” after four seasons, but would later reprise her role in the 2000s reboot.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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      Shannen Doherty’s ‘Let’s Be Clear’ Podcast Put It All Out There

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      Over the past eight months, the “90210” and “Charmed” star spoke frankly and candidly about her cancer and her tumultuous career.It did not take long for Shannen Doherty to establish that hers was a different sort of celebrity podcast.Doherty began recording episodes of “Let’s Be Clear” from her home in November 2023, as she received treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer. As the podcast’s title suggests, the assertive star of “Beverly Hills 90210,” “Heathers,” “Mall Rats” and “Charmed” — as famed for her acting as for reports of her on-set infighting and partying — reckoned with her life and career with a candor that distinguished her project amid a glut of often aimless celebrity podcasts.Doherty was similarly confrontational as she wrestled with her own mortality — not in the abstract, but in wrenching specifics. She matter-of-factly recounted getting rid of her collection of antique furniture so her mother wouldn’t be faced with clearing out a storage unit after her death. On another episode, Doherty described selling off a property in Tennessee and choked up over what the decision meant.“I felt like I was giving up on a dream and what did that mean for me?” she asked rhetorically before taking a deep breath. “Did it mean that I was giving up on life? Did it mean that I was, like, throwing in the towel?”Doherty, who died Saturday at 53, didn’t do rewatches or share cute behind-the-scenes stories. Neither did she make oblique references to unnamed power brokers. Doherty faced the past and present head on, hosting former co-stars, directors, an ex-boyfriend and an ex-husband in conversations that sometimes exonerated her and that other times offered her the chance to assume culpability.In one of the earliest episodes, Doherty dived deep into the dispute with her former “Charmed” co-star Alyssa Milano that led to Doherty’s departure after the third season of the show, which was reported at the time as a voluntary decision.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