And certainly when you’re back together with so many of the original people on screen and some really crucial ones behind the camera, it just really feels like you’re putting on a suit of clothes that’s made to fit. Karen Pittman: Yeah, and it feels like the best party to crash, right? I mean, I […]
“The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. I don’t know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women,” he added. As we seek to learn more, we have stopped promoting this video and archived related social […]
Bruce Springsteen is a master of rock ‘n’ roll, but it appears the boss has sold his masters. So it is going to Sony Music, his masters, which, for example, when you just played “Born In The U.S.A.”, that is the recordings that people know. It just means that Sony does not get any of […]
The music producer known as Flow La Movie, who’d worked with major reggaeton artists such as Bad Bunny and Ozuna, was one of nine people who died in a plane crash in the Dominican Republic. Hernández produced the global hit “Te Boté,” which features Bad Bunny, Nicky Jam and Ozuna. Don Omar, whose hits include […]
Your personal threshold for pandemic fiction, at this stage in our ongoing global kaleidoscopic bacchanalia of doom, may have dropped precipitously since the post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven became a sensation in 2014. In bringing the novel to the small screen, they have assiduously rounded off its sharper, more despairing edges, and amplified its moments of […]
No cause of death was reported, but Berea College in Kentucky, where hooks had taught since 2004, said in a press release that she had suffered from an extended illness. hooks, who preferred to spell her name with no capital letters as a way of de-emphasizing her individual identity, was born Gloria Jean Watkins as […]
Aaron Sorkin, who wrote and directed the movie, told Kidman that he wasn’t looking for some strict impersonation of Ball. Kidman received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the film. I mean, vocally, she had a much deeper voice than me, so I was able to create this voice that was a much […]
It’s during the Red Scare, when Lucille Ball, played by Nicole Kidman, is accused of being a communist, and she suspects he’s having an affair. And then comes the moment when they say, OK, the job is yours, and you go, oh, my God, what do I do now? I felt it’s very exposing. BARDEM: […]
NPR’s Carrie Kahn reports on the outpouring of grief for the singer known as El Rey, the king of Ranchera. KAHN: Surrounded by a sea of white flowers, Fernandez’s coffin was placed center stage, with his trademark wide-brimmed sombrero on top. KAHN: Always performing in tight-fitting mariachi suits, that huge sombrero and a pistol on […]
As usual, a few big blockbusters have made the cut. The three-minute clip, of a Ringling Bros circus parading through a prosperous Black neighborhood in Indianapolis, is a rare cinematic glimpse of a real African-American community from this era. It’s an aviation romance now thought to have helped inspire the Tuskegee Airmen and, was part […]
Her fans are remembering Anne Rice, author of “The Vampire Chronicles.” She died Saturday at age 80 due to complications from a stroke. Drawing from a short story she’d written, Rice started “Interview With The Vampire.” She told Publishers Weekly, suddenly, through the guise of a fantasy character, I was able to touch the reality […]
Four siblings and a cousin vying for control of a multi-million-dollar media company – that’s the premise of “Succession.” Last night, the third season of the HBO show wrapped up with some major power grabs. CORNISH: I was only teasing – spoiler alerts ahead for the whole conversation, starting with the fate of the troubled […]
Snoop, cool as he is, stumbled over the names of quite a few nominees, including megastar Ben Affleck. It’s tough to see how the nominations revealed for films and TV shows in 2021 — which weren’t particularly groundbreaking — argue for the Globes’ influence, especially on the television side. Now, Uzo Aduba and Michaela Jae […]
Kendall and the pool: It turns out Kendall was drowning and not merely hitting rock bottom or testing his father’s theory about how long it took for the kid in the car to die. The GoJo situation: The siblings decided to leverage their power and work together to stop the sale of the company by […]
The announcement from his family did not give a cause of death, but the singer had been hospitalized since August, after a fall at his Guadalajara ranch in the central state of Jalisco required an emergency spinal surgery. While in the hospital, he had also been diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome, an autoimmune condition in which […]
Olivia Rodrigo performs during the MTV Video Music Awards in September in New York City. The singer’s fans initially had reason to be hopeful. However, many fans griped that it also appeared to level the playing field for scalpers, with tickets now being resold online for a hefty profit. …Read the full story
Thanks to the new Steven Spielberg production, West Side Story is back in the popular discourse. They were kids when they saw it in the early 1970s, Nash on TV with his family in Los Angeles and, 3,000 miles east, Sanabria on the big screen at his hometown cineplex in the Bronx. Around 2015, Ted […]
In the decades since it first appeared on Broadway in 1957, the Romeo and Juliet-inspired story of two warring New York street gangs has generated more than its share of criticism, especially over the writing and the casting of its Puerto Rican characters. She also gives a poignant performance in the new role of Valentina, […]
The occasion was the release of his album, “McCartney III.” He joined me over Zoom just a couple of days after the 40th anniversary of the murder of his bandmate, John Lennon. And I often just sit there and think, wait a minute, did we go hitchhiking when we were kids? Yeah, we did. MCCARTNEY: […]
