David Henry: Last News

This month, thousands have been focusing in on Deer Valley, an extremely affluent ski town located in Park City, Utah. It also happens to be the scene of the alleged accident over which Gwyneth Paltrow was recently sued. The incident happened in 2016 when Paltrow and the plaintiff, Terry Sanderson, were both skiing on the same mountain.

Jennie Punter “The Story Won’t Die” director David Henry Gerson wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for the United States welcoming refugees—specifically, his Uzbekistan-born father, the son of Holocaust survivors—after World War II.Exploring the ways people process traumas of the past is in his filmmaker DNA, he admits.“When I heard that the crisis in Syria was the largest displacement of people on the planet since World War II, something told me I had to pay attention to this,” said Gerson during an extended post-screening panel, screened exclusively for Variety in advance of his film’s world premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs festival.“The Story Won’t Die” intertwines the stories of nine Syrian artists active during their country’s uprising in

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to David Henry Sterry’s memoir Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales, to develop as a series. Emmy-nominated Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) is set to pen the series adaptation and showrun the project for SPT, where he is under an overall deal.The memoir of Sterry’s time as the MC at the world-famous male strip club is a window into the girls-just-want-to-have-fun, greed-is-good, party-all-the time, coked-up world of 1980’s America through the eyes of Manhattan’s hottest show: Chippendales, where women rule the roost and men get rich and famous (or infamous).