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‘If you’re anointed tonight, you can be dumped on tomorrow’: Steve Martin on fame, failure and TV humiliation | Documentary films

I didn’t expect Steve Martin to be funny. Sure, it was his skewwhiff sensibility that made The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains, LA Story and Bowfinger so deliriously inspired. And he was comedy’s first double-platinum-record-selling, stadium-touring megastar; he began wearing a white suit on stage only so that he could be seen by fans in the cheap seats several postcodes away. He crafted riotous slapstick crescendos in All of Me and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and displayed a literary flair even at his silliest. No one who has…

Patrick Wilson Shares His Feelings on Being Anointed an Honorary ‘Scream King’

Theo Wargo/Getty Images Although he started his sparkling career on Broadway in shows like The Full Monty, Patrick Wilson has been in everything from cheesy romcoms, to DCU epics, to disturbing psychological thrillers. However, despite his obvious range (and brilliant singing voice), many will know him best for his work in the Conjuring franchise, and the horrifically brilliant Insidious series of films. A triple threat, Wilson has had a long road to becoming a “scream king,” as some fans have dubbed him. And…