Table for Two

In her junior year at Temple University, Da’Vine Joy Randolph was essentially forced out of the school’s opera program. Unsure of what to do, she decided to join the school’s musical theater track—and immediately, Randolph turned heads. Her ability to bring something wholly her own to a wide variety of characters eventually impressed the Yale School of Drama, from which she eventually graduated. T...

Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi is excited to be back for a new season! Join host Bruce Bozzi each week as he sits down at one of his favorite restaurants for a meal with some of the most well-known people in Hollywood, media, and beyond for intimate, revealing, and hilarious conversations about big breaks, heart breaks, and of course food. Guests include Matt Bomer, Colin Jost, Michael Mann, Da'Vi...

Countless lunches and dinners—not to mention glasses of rosé—later, the inaugural season of Table for Two with host Bruce Bozzi is coming to a close. We’ve whiled away afternoons with Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Anna Wintour, Matthew Broderick, and Scarlett Johansson; laughed over cacio e pepe with Mindy Kaling, Rob Lowe, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and John Stamos; and heard delightful...

When Nicole Avant moved to the Caribbean to serve as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas, she left behind her husband, her friends, and a life and job in which she was comfortable. But it was because of these new challenges that Avant turned to the guiding force that has, in her mind, entirely shaped the person she’s become: her family. Avant writes lovingly of her recently deceased parent...

When John Stamos landed a role on  General Hospital , his father, a restaurateur, required that the then-teenager keep working around the kitchen in addition to his acting gig. Today, Stamos doesn’t resent this ordinance, and in fact he credits it as being particularly important to his later success. For this reason and others, he considers his father as one of his mentors, among others such as An...

To say that Irving Azoff makes being in the music business look easy would be an understatement. After relocating from his hometown, Danville, Illinois to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, it was only a few years before he was managing the Eagles. He’s since run companies including Ticketmaster and his own Full Stop Management, and has signed artists from Fleetwood Mac and U2 to Harry Styles and Liz...

Though Bette Midler has performed on the largest theatrical stages, sung to the grandest audiences, and appeared in beloved films from  The Rose  to  Hocus Pocus , “The Divine Miss M” still gets nervous before her shows. It’s because of this persistent fear that the Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winner so dutifully prepares herself for each and every act, no matter the medium and the size of the cr...

While growing up in Massachusetts, Mindy Kaling felt like an outsider. Yet the Tony-winning producer, actress, and comedian believes that her upbringing as the child of immigrant put an edge on the singular tone and wit that defines her projects, from  The Sex Lives of College Girls , soon to premiere its third season, to the forthcoming  Legally Blonde 3 . On this week’s episode of  Table for Two...

Though Matthew Broderick enjoyed watching his father, an actor, perform on stage, he had little desire to pursue the profession himself. That is, until he scored a small part in a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream . The laughter and applause of the audience relieved some of his pre-performance jitters and simultaneously kickstarted his career. And though the Ferris Bueller’s Day...

Leaping from Algiers, Louisiana to the Broadway stage and, ultimately, the top-tier of Hollywood, is no simple feat. In Patricia Clarkson’s case, it required a daring jump from her native New Orleans to Fordham University, and the fortuitous, essential mentorship of actress Debra Monk. But Clarkson never truly left the South behind, and in fact she relishes her upbringing there, recalling it fondl...

After becoming Miss America and studying at Stanford and Oxford, but before spearheading the estimable nonprofit Lift Our Voices, Gretchen Carlson spent more than a decade as one of Fox News’s eminent hosts. The rest of her story is the stuff of legend: after being fired from network in 2016, the small-town Minnesota native helped bring down the network’s slimy chairman, Roger Ailes, on charges of...

Sarah Jessica Parker stands alongside the most instantly recognizable actresses in the world. And yet, if you go out for dumplings in New York City’s Chinatown, or loiter in the Whitney Museum—two of Parker’s favorite pastimes—or even just ride the subway, you might well run into her. Parker is a New Yorker through and through, and she won’t let the notoriety she’s garnered through her role in  Se...

Emily Blunt relishes a challenge. Her career, from early stardom in  The Devil Wears Prada  to later roles in  Marry Poppins ,  A Quiet Place , and, this summer,  Oppenheimer , reflects a self-imposed desire for all things difficult, different, and daring. Not to mention that the British actress—who, despite living in Brooklyn, maintains her Englishness—is also a mother, raising two daughters alon...

For a span of eight years, Jon Hamm existed in the collective consciousness as one character, and one character only: Don Draper. So it may not come as much of a surprise that for a long time, casting agents exclusively offered him parts like the one he was already playing on Mad Men . What they didn't know, but have since figured out, is that despite possessing every bit as much charm as his most...

One would have an easier time charting the areas Rita Wilson hasn't excelled in than those in which she has. From early turns on television, on shows such as The Brady Bunch and Bosom Buddies— alongside her future husband, Tom Hanks, on the latter—to starring roles on the silver screen and Broadway stage, to her work as a producer ( Mamma Mia!, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and A Man Called Otto ), Wi...

The historian Douglas Brinkley has written over 20 books on everything from the American space program to Rosa Parks. But more than any other subject, his work has touched on the environment—Teddy Roosevelt’s pioneering preservation work, F.D.R.’s under-appreciated efforts to protect America’s public lands, the fight to save Alaska’s disappearing wilderness, and so forth. On this week’s episode of...

If not for her wisdom and polished charm, you'd never believe that Sienna Miller has been working in Hollywood for two decades. The New York-born British actress, former model, and perennial tabloid fixture is not only conspicuously ageless, but she possesses an unflappability that, coupled with her improbable ambition, has assured her success in switching from film to television to stage. On this...

The name Tom Ford symbolizes many things: strong-shouldered suits, evocative fragrances, daring advertisements, and a brand that Estée Lauder bought in a deal valued at $2.8 billion late last year. But it also represents the American designer behind all those things, whose unerring taste has made him a master at everything he touches, from fashion and beauty products to feature films—Ford directed...

There was a time when the notion of an old—er, aging—rock star was laughable, a veritable contradiction in terms. And even now, precious few can legitimately claim such a title. Among that number is Jon Bon Jovi, who, it’s almost impossible to believe, is celebrating his band’s 40th anniversary this year. On this week’s episode of  Table for Two , Bon Jovi reveals how he got his first record deal...

It's been 40 years since the release of The Outsiders , Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name, and in the intervening decades, Rob Lowe—who made his film debut playing Sodapop Curtis—has seen it all. Over dinner with host Bruce Bozzi, he pulls back the curtain on his prodigious career, from growing up next door to the Sheen family (Emilio Estevez was his...

Anna Wintour's job titles are such a mouthful—she's editor-in-chief and global editorial director of Vogue, and artistic director and global chief content officer of Condé Nast—that it's a wonder she eats lunch at all. And when she does, it's reportedly a steak and Caprese salad (hold the tomatoes) at her desk at the World Trade Center. But this week, she makes time for a veritable Italian feast w...

No one has ever accused Sharon Stone of having it easy. Sure, the Casino and Basic Instinct actress won fame—not to mention sex symbol status—by playing some of the most memorable femme fatales in recent history. But the same roles also nearly broke her. On this week's episode of Table for Two, Stone reveals Hollywood's darker side to host Bruce Bozzi and explains how she endured everything from g...

For someone who looks rather young, Kate Hudson has lived a lot of life. Then again, that’s what happens when you grow up with Hollywood parents—and grow up fast. On episode six of Table for Two, the Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery actress talks about wanting to escape her family’s shadow, starring in Almost Famous, knowing when to end a relationship, being friends with Gwyneth Paltrow, and whet...

On the fifth episode of Table for Two, Chelsea Handler shows us just how different her life is from ours: she once marooned a coked out travel companion in a Maryland motel on day two of a cross-country journey; she put her house on the market during Covid to get rid of her family; bought another house (far, far away) over FaceTime; and interrogated her dad about her dowry at the ripe young age of...

On Episode Four of Table for Two, Bruce capitalizes on the element of surprise. Through a shared friend, he has learned that this week’s guest, Octavia Spencer, has a weakness for Trader Joe’s sangria and empanadas. So, like any good host, he makes sure that her preferences are handled accordingly. With their table at the Tower Bar nearly buckling under the weight of Trader Giotto’s delicacies, th...