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10 Near-Perfect Noir Movies That No One Remembers Today
Critics, film historians, and film scholars have never quite come to a definitive conclusion on whether film noir is a genre, a style, or a film movement. Regardless, these movies about morally grey characters dealing with complex, crime-filled plots can be deliriously entertaining—and, when at their best, can even be among the greatest films of their respective era.
With time, however, even the best of noir films can fall into oblivion. Indeed, several near-perfect noir masterpieces are barely remembered nowadays, whatever the reason for that may be. Directed by some of the best filmmakers of their generation, from Fritz Lang to Carol Reed, these exceptional films are proof that film noir can make for some of the most unforgettable movies ever made.
‘The Fallen Idol’ (1948)
In The Fallen Idol, a butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable boy. All in all, it is one of the most underrated film noir masterpieces of all time, a Carol Reed gem that earned its director the first of only three Best Directing Academy Awards he was ever nominated for.
Also known as The Lost Illusion, this British mystery thriller proves that, though noir was mostly an American phenomenon, the production of excellent noir movies wasn’t limited to Hollywood exclusively. It’s a suspenseful, nerve-racking film that builds suspense slowly throughout its runtime, until it all erupts in one of the most brilliant third acts of any film from the ’40s.
‘Pickup on South Street’ (1953)
Combining traditional film noir and Cold War espionage drama elements, Pickup on South Street tells the tale of a pickpocket who unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. One of the most underrated noirs of the ’50s, Pickup on South Street is a hidden gem with some excellent performances (including Thelma Ritter‘s, which earned her an Oscar nomination) and great direction by Samuel Fuller.
It’s a dark, complex story of urban existential dread that proves Cold War films and film noir were a match made in Heaven. Though critics were split on the movie back in 1953, cinephiles nowadays look back on Pickup on South Street with far more admiration and fondness. It’s a gloriously pulpy movie that all fans of film noir should check out at least once in their lives.
‘Odd Man Out’ (1947)
Another Carol Reed gem, the British film Odd Man Out is a psychological thriller about a wounded Irish nationalist leader who tries to evade the cops after a failed robbery in Belfast. It’s probably the movie most similar to Reed’s magnum opus and most iconic film noir outing, The Third Man, yet it’s entirely its own thing—and very much worthy of being rediscovered today.
Odd Man Out was a hit both with critics and at the box office, particularly in a European landscape where Reed seemed to have perfectly understood the general postwar mood and mentality. With a well-deserved score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is grim and absolutely enrapturing, full of hard-hitting visuals and deeply compelling drama.
‘Scarlet Street’ (1945)
Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang jumped over the pond to Hollywood in 1936. By the time he made Scarlet Street, he was already a properly established and highly prolific director of American classics, and that shines through in this adaptation of the French novel La Chienne by Georges de La Fouchardière. In it, a man going through a mid-life crisis befriends a young woman whose fiancé has persuaded him to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he has.
It’s another masterpiece with a well-deserved score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, benefiting from Lang’s sharp eye for unforgettable images and the excellent cast led by Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea. It’s one of the greatest films currently in the public domain, a Dostoevskian melodrama so powerful and dark that it was originally banned in Atlanta, Milwaukee, and the entirety of New York State.
‘Leave Her to Heaven’ (1945)
A Golden Age Hollywood noir in Technicolor? In this economy? John M. Stahl‘s Leave Her to Heaven certainly isn’t your usual classic noir, but it’s nevertheless one of the most defining films of the ’40s—at least in its genre. Russian-born Stahl was a master of classic melodrama and what were then known as “women’s films,” and those unique sensibilities lend themselves to one of the most fascinatingly unique film noir efforts of all time.
The characters aren’t particularly likable, but Jo Swerling‘s phenomenal script and the cast’s extraordinary performances (particularly Gene Tierney‘s) make the narrative engrossing nonetheless. It’s a delightful bit of pure pulp enhanced by Stahl’s distinctive artistic voice, which makes it rather unsurprising that the film has gained a small cult following that should definitely be far bigger.
‘Angels with Dirty Faces’ (1938)
Directed by Michael Curtiz of Casablanca fame, Angels with Dirty Faces is about a priest trying to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids. The movie has one of the most star-studded casts of any ’30s noir, including James Cagney (who earned an Oscar nod for his performance) and Humphrey Bogart. All in all, it’s one of the best gangster movie masterpieces of the last 100 years.
Angels with Dirty Faces is explosive, gritty, exciting, and absolutely riveting.
Powerfully melodramatic and occasionally utterly harrowing, Angels with Dirty Faces tells a story built on the foundations of a somewhat commonplace premise, but the directions in which it takes that premise are stunning. It’s explosive, gritty, exciting, and absolutely riveting. It’s just as much of a masterclass in noir filmmaking as it is in gangster filmmaking, a fantastic classic film all around.
‘The Set-Up’ (1949)
There aren’t many noir movies that are also boxing movies, which only makes Robert Wise‘s The Set-Up more special. Based on a 1928 narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March, it was named by Wise as one of his favorite films of his career. It tells the story of Bill “Stoker” Thompson, a 35-year-old has-been boxer whose manager, sure he will continue to lose fights, takes a bribe from a betting gangster without telling Stoker.
Working with a relatively low budget, Wise made a brutal and exciting melodrama that stands out among most other noir films from the era, since this one’s also one of the best sports movies of the last 100 years. Wise’s gritty style here is so different from his voice in later works like West Side Story and The Sound of Music that one could even think they’re made by different filmmakers, which only speaks to the director’s versatility.
‘Fury’ (1936)
The first film Fritz Lang directed in Hollywood was Fury, which also happens to be one of the director’s best works. Loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder, the movie follows a wrongly accused prisoner who barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, after which he decides to get revenge.
The movie, whose screenplay was Oscar-nominated, is an engrossing revenge film that portrays the dangers of mob justice in ways that still hit hard 90 years later. Led by Spencer Tracy at the top of his game, this incredible psychological thriller has all the traditional noir elements down to a T, including its pessimistic—yet all-too timeless—view of humanity.
‘Night and the City’ (1950)
Directed by Jules Dassin, one of the most notorious names of the Hollywood blacklist, Night and the City is a British noir based on Gerald Kersh‘s novel. It follows Harry Fabian, a small-time grifter who takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances to try to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter. Though its revolutionarily bleak tone and complete lack of sympathetic characters made many critics dislike it when it originally came out, cinephiles today look back at it as one of the best noir films of the ’50s.
It’s one of those noir masterpieces with great acting, infused with a moody and pessimistic atmosphere that was clearly influenced by Dassin’s exile from the U.S. It’s a nuanced, pulpy gem that shows noir elements in their purest form. As one of the genre’s biggest masterpieces from the era, it’s a tragedy that it’s not considered a far more mainstream classic nowadays.
‘I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang’ (1932)
Far and away one of the best movies of the 1930s, Mervyn LeRoy‘s I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a pre-Code tragedy based on a true story. It tells the story of a World War I veteran who tries to re-enter civilian life, but after being unwittingly caught up in a robbery, he falls victim to the horrible conditions of a Southern chain gang.
Bold, realistic, and so dark that one has to wonder if LeRoy would have been able to get it made in its current form after the Hays Code began being strictly enforced, it’s a gut-wrenching critique of the penal system whose biggest tragedy is perhaps the fact that it still feels timely in 2026. Led by a top-form Paul Muni, it’s just as important a social document as it is a marvelous Golden Age Hollywood work of art.
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The Rachel Weisz series omits a portion of the novel’s ending, leaving the characters’ fates more ambiguous.
Grey’s Anatomy just had Kevin McKidd and Kim Raver‘s characters sign their divorce papers — only to show Owen and Teddy’s shocking hookup.
During the Thursday, March 5, episode of the hit ABC series, Owen supported Teddy as she contemplated another risky heart surgery on a patient. It was ultimately successful, which the former couple discussed at the end of their shift when Teddy came to pick up the kids.
Owen and Teddy admitted they were both still adjusting to their new normal before they decided to sleep together again. Their relationship status remained unclear as the episode wrapped up without a conclusion.
Earlier this season, Owen dealt with the end of his marriage to Teddy as she moved on with Cass (Sophia Bush). Owen had his own romantic development when he went out to dinner with Nora (Floriana Lima) before they eventually broke up.
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“A couple of scripts came in [recently] and I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It gets messy and it is so Grey’s Anatomy. I just love it so much,” Raver, 56, exclusively told Us Weekly in January.
The actress learned what is to come with the rest of the cast.
“We’re all reading what’s happening [during a table read], and I love it,” she shared. “Some of us are in scrubs, some of us are in our street clothes. Then when we find out the information, it’s a shock and a surprise to all of us. We are like the audience, too, and then we look at each other like, ‘This is really happening.’”
Raver, who has played Teddy since season 6, promised “really great” Grey’s Anatomy story lines — and revealed whether she has any concerns about her character’s fate.
“That’s the life of an actor,” she noted. “It’s really just about trying to be present and doing the work and following the amazing story lines that the writers are given. Especially with how now we’re always having these incredible cliffhangers. No one ever knows.”
Raver promised that the audience would be “riveted” by what’s to come, adding, “There is a cliffhanger, so I think that that’s going to be really surprising. … I love being able to go every day and be able to tell these stories from a director’s point of view. Each story line leaves us with that quintessential Grey’s Anatomy vibes where you are crying, laughing and the residents are so good. There’s a lot of shenanigans going on with them. It’s a really exciting episode.”
Raver continued: “I feel like every time I direct a new episode of Grey’s, there are more things [I learn] because there’s a different format or a different way to shoot it. But I think maybe my confidence in how I want to tell this story and where I want to put the cameras [has gotten better]. TV moves so fast, so I feel like the more I do, the more comfortable I am with the speed that you need to go through it. I am just getting more and more comfortable with the craft of it, which allows me to then really enjoy the process.”
Grey’s Anatomy airs on ABC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET before streaming the next day on Hulu.
When Steven Spielberg‘s Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it changed the way we looked at dinosaurs. No longer were they drawings in a book or stop-motion in a cheesy movie. Thanks in part to the genius of Industrial Light & Magic, dinosaurs felt alive like never before. Now, the iconic director and visual effects studio are back together again for another dino story. This time, instead of the world of fiction, with dinosaurs impossibly living amongst modern humans, Netflix‘s The Dinosaurs is a four-part docuseries that goes back millions of years to show the rise and fall of their era — and if the story’s jaw-dropping visuals aren’t enough of a selling point, it’s all narrated by Morgan Freeman.
What Is ‘The Dinosaurs’ About?
Steven Spielberg, Morgan Freeman, Industrial Light & Magic, and Netflix have actually worked together before on the 2023 Netflix docuseries Life on Our Planet. The eight episodes covered the history of life on Earth from the very beginning to the animals of today. This was done through a combination of live-action footage, when possible, and CGI when needed, with the technology coming in handy for episodes that covered the reign of the dinosaurs.
The Dinosaurs covers the days of Tyrannosaurus Rex and company in four detailed episodes, but rather than only depicting big names like the T-rex or a Triceratops, Netflix’s docuseries succeeds by digging deep and covering four distinct eras and what came from them better than most history lessons ever could. “Rise” focuses on the beginning, where small dinosaurs from 235 million years ago fight for survival in a new world. In “Conquest,” dinosaurs grow, only for many to be wiped out by the Ice Age. “Empire” is aptly titled because dinosaurs are now giants and the rules of an ever-changing Earth. Lastly, “Fall,” as the name implies, takes us all the way to the end, with an asteroid like a ticking time bomb to the end credits.
‘The Dinosaurs’ Is Treated Like a Brutal Nature Documentary
The Dinosaurs is not only built on the passion of Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, but also on the know-how of Silverback Films, the creators of wildlife documentaries such as Secrets of the Bees, Ocean with David Attenborough, and Secret Lives of Orangutans. Their influence shows heavily in the best of ways, taking The Dinosaurs out of the realm of stuffy history lessons and narrowed scope. In a large world with fantastical figures from before our time, The Dinosaurs takes an emotional approach, with its subjects fighting to live in a world where only finding food and making it to the next day matters. Each episode plants the audience in the daily life of a little Marasuchus, a mammoth saurpod, or a terrifying carnivore in a world that’s eat or be eaten.
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The viewers are moved in herds. They really are moved in herds.
Dinosaurs might be one of the first things kids are fascinated by, but The Dinosaurs is probably not for the little ones. The docuseries is brutal and unforgiving. It sucks you in with the warm blanket of Morgan Freeman’s voice, but he’s narrating a vision of hell and even tells us so. Each episode is one scene after another of getting to know a dinosaur, one usually all alone, before its life is either snuffed out by a predator, a sudden fire, or the inability to adapt to a world that keeps evolving. A few scenes are hard to watch because The Dinosaurs does such a phenomenal job of taking these prehistoric creatures and turning them into three-dimensional beings with personalities and fears who only want to make it through another day.
Industrial Light & Magic Brings ‘The Dinosaurs’ to Life
Industrial Light & Magic, which was co-founded by George Lucas in the mid-1970s, has made the impossible possible in movies such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, before reinventing itself in the early ’90s thanks to CGI. Jurassic Park changed the game, putting the possibilities of our imagination on the screen in a way that felt lifelike. In The Dinosaurs, ILM isn’t there to supplement an existing film; they are the movie. The detail is there in every speck of sand, crack of dirt, and lush vegetation needed to thrive. Some of it resembles the world humanity knows right outside our door, while other scenes might as well be an alien planet. It’s the attention to detail of the dinosaurs themselves that puts the docuseries above anything else like it. CGI is good at making living things seem more alive in the dark. However, The Dinosaurs depicts its subjects right out in the open, blending them seamlessly with the world around them.
The only flaw of The Dinosaurs is the repetitive nature of its episodes. A dinosaur is introduced, it’s shown struggling to survive and eat, then it’s wiped out, and it’s on to the next. What begins as a heavy emotional impact in early episodes starts to become not only predictable but numbing by the end. The series doesn’t overstay its welcome, though. At four episodes of nearly 45 minutes each, The Dinosaurs gets it right. It’s dark and at times all too much, but the mastery of ILM and Morgan Freeman guiding the audience through hellscapes of another era helps the series rise above its limitations. The Dinosaurs will rip your heart out, but it wisely ends on a note of hope and respect. These dinosaurs don’t talk or devour people; they only live and die as they were, their ends brought to life millions of years later through the evolution of humanity, and thanks to Netflix, you’ve never seen them like this before.
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March 6, 2026
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Netflix
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Nick Shoolingin-Jordan
Pros & Cons
- ILM’s technology makes the dinosaurs look more real than ever.
- A lot of time is spent with dinosaurs you’ve never heard of, not just big names like the T-rex.
- It’s a wise choice to tell stories with the dinosaurs so that we care about them.
- The episode structure is the same throughout, leading to less emotional impact later on.
Congressman Tony Gonzales
Calls It Quits After Staffer’s Suicide
Published
One day after admitting he had an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, Congressman Tony Gonzales pulled the plug on his re-election campaign.
Gonzales (R-Texas) made the announcement Thursday night to drop out of the GOP primary race against Brandon Herrera before their May 26 runoff election.
Hours later, Herrera declared victory and will now move on to the general election for Gonzales’ seat in Texas’ 23rd District.
In a statement, Gonzales said after deep reflection with the support of his family, he decided to bail on his campaign, although he vowed to serve out the rest of his term.
As you know, Gonzales came under heavy scrutiny after his staffer, Regina Santos-Aviles, died by suicide in September 2025 after setting herself on fire.
Rumors surfaced that Gonzales — a married father of 6 children — was having an affair with Santos-Aviles — but the congressman publicly denied it.
The San Antonio Express-News then published text messages from Santos-Aviles acknowledging she had an affair with Gonzales. More text exchanges came to light showing Gonzales asked Santos-Aviles to send him a “sexy pic.”
Gonzales finally fessed up to the affair this week on “The Joe Pags Show,” calling it a “mistake” and a “lapse in judgment.”
Meanwhile, the House Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the matter to see if Gonzales violated codes of conduct based on allegations of sexual misconduct and favoritism.
Britney Spears
Fired Sober Coaches Before DUI Bust
Published
Britney Spears showed her sober coaches the door weeks before getting arrested on suspicion of DUI.
Sources with knowledge tell TMZ … Britney fired the sobriety coaches after she signed a deal selling her rights to her music and after she returned home to California following a trip to Los Cabos, Mexico.
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We’re told Britney’s team also fired other people who were looking out for her … including security guards who kept an eye on the pop superstar.
TMZ broke the story … Britney was arrested Wednesday night in Ventura County, California for DUI. She was pulled over near her home and then taken to a hospital to have her blood drawn and tested.
During processing at the jail, Britney was emotional and crying.
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Our sources say Britney’s team is now restructuring things and trying to figure out a game plan for her.
We’re told Britney mostly just dances around naked all day wherever she is — which lines up with what we see from her on Instagram — and our sources say she talks to herself and is in her own world.
Aaron Rodgers put FBI director Kash Patel on blast after he was seen partying with Team USA’s hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Speaking about the controversial moment during a Wednesday, March 4, appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers, 42, slammed Patel, 46.
“Can we get that one guy out of the locker room and get him working on something else?” Rodgers said, adding, “That’s a bad look. Come on, have some awareness.”
Last month, Patel raised eyebrows during the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics when he chose to celebrate with the men’s team after their win over Canada.
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In footage that circulated via social media, the FBI director could be seen drinking beer and cheering with the athletes inside a locker room as part of the team’s lively post-victory celebrations.
Patel, a longtime hockey fan, also joined the athletes in singing a rendition of Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.”
In response to the backlash, Patel defended his actions via a social media post shared on February 22.
“Yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys,” he wrote via X. “Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth.”
Kash Patel. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NHL star Jack Hughes scored the winning goal in Team USA’s hockey game against Canada, which went into overtime on February 22. The United States won against their rivals with a final score of 2-1. The victory was the first time in 46 years that Team USA has won gold in men’s hockey since the famous “Miracle on Ice” win in 1980.
Rodgers is not the only person to publicly criticize Patel’s decision to party with the hockey team following the gold medal win.
Dani Bensky, who said she suffered abuse from Jeffrey Epstein between 2004 and 2005, also slammed Patel for celebrating when he could have been doing his job.
Stephen A. Smith is not afraid to go up against anyone, and that apparently includes FBI Director Kash Patel. On the Thursday, October 23, episode of ESPN’s First Take, Smith talked about the recent NBA gambling scandal that saw Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat star Terry Rozier arrested as part of […]
“Why is the FBI director out there partying like a college kid when he should be investigating the vast criminal enterprise?” she asked in a news conference hosted by the Democratic Women’s Caucus on February 24. “This administration needs to do better. How can anybody feel safe in this country when our president’s sympathies are going to the former Prince Andrew and not to survivors?”
She continued, “There are a few things that really need to be done immediately versus the release of all of the files, which we know. Next is to hold accountable those who continuously exploit. And the third is to pass Virginia’s bill. We need to pass Virginia’s bill because justice should never ever expire. Release the damn files.”
Virginia’s Law is named after Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in 2025. It was introduced by senate Democrats last month and aims to end the statute of limitations for civil sexual abuse cases.
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“Nothing was working. And finally, finally, after a half hour, 45 minutes of trying to save him, Captain came down and said, ‘Guys, it’s not gonna work,'” Trey John Green III said.
New details about late Grey’s Anatomy star Eric Dane’s posthumous memoir have been revealed by his publisher, Maria Shriver.
“I was honored Eric Dane chose my publishing imprint, @openfieldbooks, to publish his memoir, My Book of Days,” Shriver, 70, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, March 5. “He told me he wanted his family to know how much he loved them, and he wanted to leave them a story they could be proud of.”
Shriver confirmed that Dane was writing My Book of Days “right up to the end.” Dane died at age 53 on February 19, 2026, from respiratory failure with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as an underlying cause. (Per the Mayo Clinic, ALS is a progressive “nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord” and causes a loss of muscle control.)
“In keeping with Eric’s wishes, [My Book of Days] will be published on November 3, 2026,” Shriver confirmed.
In December 2025, Dane announced he was working on a memoir to explore his iconic TV roles in Grey’s Anatomy, Charmed and Euphoria, in addition to addressing his diagnosis with ALS.
“I wake up every morning, and I’m immediately reminded that this is real — this illness, this challenge and that’s exactly why I’m writing this book,” Dane said at the time. “I want to capture the moments that shaped me — the beautiful days, the hard ones, the ones I never took for granted — so that if nothing else, people who read it will remember what it means to live with heart. If sharing this helps someone find meaning in their own days, then my story is worth telling.”
Shriver added, “Eric wants to give his daughters and family something to be proud of, and this book will not only make them proud, but it will also help people understand what ALS is and isn’t, what happens to someone when they get it and how we can all be compassionate partners to people suffering with neurological conditions such as this.”
Shriver revealed via her Sunday Paper newsletter in February that she was supposed to meet with Dane days before his death.
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“[Eric] wrote [this book] so that his family had something to be proud of,” she explained at the time. “Eric and I were scheduled to have lunch two weeks ago, but he wasn’t feeling well that morning, so we rescheduled for next week. His passing is another powerful reminder that today is all any of us have. Next week isn’t guaranteed.”
The journalist credited Dane with changing many lives for the better when he “bravely shared his ALS diagnosis” in April 2025.
“He advocated for increased research and showed up in every way he could to focus our attention on this devastating neurological disease,” Shriver wrote on February 22, 2026. “My team at The Open Field was honored when Eric chose our imprint to publish his memoir. He told me he wanted to write his book to share his story with the world.”
Dane was mourned by many of his Hollywood colleagues when his family announced his death in February. (Dane shared two daughters, Billie Beatrice Dane and Georgia Geraldine Dane, with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart.)
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“With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” a family statement to Us Weekly read. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world.”
The statement continued, “Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.”
FX’s scripted series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette features many star-studded mentions and familiar faces, so why is Real Housewives of New York City‘s Carole Radziwill not brought up in Love Story?
For context, Carole, 62, was previously married to Anthony Radziwill, who was the late JFK Jr.’s cousin and Jacqueline Kennedy‘s nephew. Anthony, who exchanged vows with Carole in 1994, died in 1999 and has been featured on the Ryan Murphy project.
Carole, however, was not brought up on the show so far — despite her late husband serving as the best man at JFK Jr. and Bessette’s 1996 nuptials. Carole’s mother-in-law, Lee Radziwill, however, got her own shout-out in a scene when JFK Jr. (Paul Anthony Kelly) and Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon) were making a list for their wedding and discussing possible guests — with Lee not making the cut.
While no one involved in Love Story has directly addressed Carole’s absence, she is probably not mentioned on screen because she didn’t play a large part in JFK Jr. and Bessette’s romance. After meeting in 1992, Bessette and JFK Jr. were on and off for years before getting married. Their relationship was thrust into the spotlight and they faced many public highs and lows before they both died in a plane crash in 1999.
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“We had Elizabeth Beller’s book for reference, but we did face challenges [capturing certain moments]. They died so young, but we had enough information from people around them to know what the problems were in their marriage, what the tensions were, what the highs were, what the lows were,” executive producer Brad Simpson exclusively told Us Weekly during a joint interview with Nina Jacobson last month. “People don’t have an idea of what her voice was like because we only have a tiny clip of her voice, but they have a very distinct idea of what her image was like. So we had to get the walk down and the look and the allure. But Sarah could really interpret and go with it. John, we have a lot of recordings of him, and we have a lot more on him.”
Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr., Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette. FX
Simpson and Jacobson expressed hope that viewers saw the care that went into telling Bessette and JFK Jr.’s story.
“We loved these characters. We fell in love with them, and it is essential that the audience loved them too. So we knew that we came to it from a very honest and earnest place — and that the show was never meant to dunk on either one of them in any way,” Jacobson explained. “We knew from the beginning that we were coming in with love and respect for these characters and that we wanted the audience to share that with us.”
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Since the show is centered around public figures, Simpson and Jacobson revealed who — if anyone — reached out after seeing their portrayal, adding, “We haven’t [heard from anyone] yet, and we hope that people appreciate their portrayals. Every actor approached [their role] with love.”
The writing team chose not to consult with the subjects portrayed on the show.
“You reach out to one person, and then it becomes, ‘Why are you not reaching out to every person?’ We love these characters. We did deep, deep research. It’s based on not just the Elizabeth Beller book but many other artifacts from that time and many other histories,” Simpson explained to Us. “We came from a place of love, but if you foreground one person’s personal story and their version of the truth, then you have to foreground everybody’s, and often they’re in conflict. On all our shows we tried to be true to what we think the characters were and show you what it was like to walk in their footsteps.”
New episodes of Love Story air Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on FX and stream on Hulu the next day.
Rachel Zoe’s youngest son has some thoughts about life without Rodger Berman.
“I guess my questions, how does it feel in general? Like, over the last year,” Rachel, 54, asked her sons, Skyler, 14, and Kaius, 12, during the Thursday, March 5, episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. “Do you feel like this is better than before? Worse than before? Different than before?”
Skyler responded that it was the “same but different.” Kaius expanded on that answer.
“He wasn’t really here a lot anyway,” Kaius told his mom. “But now, he’s just completely gone. There’s not really a trace of him.”
Rachel asked if the “energy” in the house is “different” with Rodger gone.
“Yeah,” Kaius responded. “It feels a bit more peaceful.”
In her confessional, Rachel explained that she and Kaius have previously discussed her relationship with Rodger.”
“Sadly, Kaius has said that he was mad at me for letting me be treated the way that I was,” Rachel said. “Because that means I’m not modeling well for what they think love and marriage and relationships should look like or feel like.”
She added, “More importantly, how they should talk to someone they love.”
Rachel and Rodger were married for 26 years before announcing their decision to separate in September 2024. Rachel filed for divorce in July 2025. The day she filed was showcased on a January episode of RHOBH.
The discussion between Rachel and her sons came after her filing because they were at camp when news of the divorce broke.
“I just want to let you know that we are — you may have already assumed this — but we are moving forward in getting divorced,” Rachel said, noting that she wanted to have an “open forum” with her sons.
Rachel Zoe made her The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills debut during the season 15 premiere and proved she can still hold her own on Bravo. The episode, which aired on Thursday, December 4, featured Rachel, 54, being introduced into the group at Kyle Richards’ Summer Solstice party. While she already knew some of the […]
She also brought up Rodger introducing his girlfriend to the boys right before they left for camp, which was revealed earlier on this season.
“I did not know about that because I, obviously, would not have allowed that,” she said. “So I want to understand what actually happened.”
Kaius said that Rodger introduced the woman as his “friend,” understanding that she was “the person.” Skyler noted he “didn’t really care enough.”
In her confessional, Rachel said that the boys “don’t want to know her,” nor do they “want to be around her.” Rachel also told Skyler and Kaius that if Rodger’s girlfriend is present while he’s taking care of the boys, they “have every right” to leave.
“I really have always believed that kids are better off having two parents that love them separately than two that fight all day and live miserably,” Rachel said during her confessional. “That’s just bad all around.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Peacock.
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