Taking her place alongside Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Moss played Trinity in “The Matrix” , defying gravity with a martial-arts ballet. 22, “Resurrections” required the now-54-year-old Moss to undergo weeks of intensive training before embarking on a demanding shoot that took the cast to San Francisco and Germany, […]
New York City Ballet canceled its performances of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” through Dec. As the production, one of City Ballet’s most popular, was called off at Lincoln Center, plans to fill Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening with the “Hallelujah” chorus were canceled when Musica Sacra postponed a performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” citing the virus. […]
Mr. Drastal is covered in green fur, the look that has come to define the holiday antihero originally created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Depicted lounging on a red couch, with a rose between his teeth, Mr. Drastal instead has the hat right between, and just below, his hips. The Facebook post […]
A gorilla belts Coldplay, a slug raps Drake, and, in what passes for the emotional climax, Bono croons one of his own classics in character as a reclusive rock star lion who, in this parallel universe, wrote one of U2’s greatest hits. …Read the full story
You may find yourself asking much the same question while watching the fourth movie in “The Matrix” series, as it alternately amuses and frustrates you with its fantastical world. The series first invoked Lewis Carroll’s elusive bunny in the first movie, the 1999 genre game changer that was jointly directed by the Wachowski siblings and […]
Any movie that lists “Rasputin dance choreographer” in the credits deserves at least a look. As Orlando, Duke of Oxford and the spy agency’s founder, Fiennes might read more cuddly than studly, but he lends a surprising gravitas to this flibbertigibbet feature. Gusto performances, including Gemma Arterton as a nanny running a secret network of […]
Sally Ann Howes, an English-born grande dame of American and British musical comedy who captivated children as Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” featuring a magic jalopy that floats and flies into fantasy adventures, died on Sunday in a hospital in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Born into show business, the daughter […]
Europe’s energy crunch shows little sign of easing. The buildup of Russian troops on the border of Ukraine, through which Russian gas flows to the West, also has added to concerns about whether gas will run out. “There is a risk of supply shortages that could erode economic growth and trigger public discord,” said Henning […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Tuesday that it would limit attendance to roughly 10,000 visitors per day because of the highly infectious Omicron variant. “The safety of our staff and visitors remains our top priority,” the Met’s chief executive, Daniel H. Outside the entrances, though, with staff members checking vaccination status of visitors, he […]
About 1,400 striking Kellogg workers have ratified a new contract, their union said Tuesday, ending a strike that began in early October and affected four of the company’s U.S. About 200,000 hospitality and leisure businesses will be eligible for a grant of up to £6,000 per site. Across the capital bookshops, gyms, pubs and restaurants […]
When the Australian actress was announced for the role, the news prompted an internet backlash among fans and insiders. Lucille has long been touted as a hard-nosed, shrewd businesswoman, the first to run a TV studio. Lucille Ball has been a figure of importance to me since I was 13, when I began watching reruns […]
A representative for Mr. Noth had no comment on Monday night about the actor’s ousting from the show, in which he plays William Bishop, a former C.I.A. In the Hollywood Reporter article, one woman said that Mr. Noth raped her in 2004, when she was 22. “These stories could’ve been from 30 years ago or […]
Last week, songs from “Fighting Demons,” the second posthumous album by the melodic rapper Juice WRLD, were streamed three times more than those from Adele’s blockbuster new album, “30.” But Adele’s huge edge in traditional sales — 146,500 for “30” versus just 4,000 for “Fighting Demons” — was more than enough to keep the singer […]
Tiffany says goodbye to her friends in Los Angeles to start a new journey with her family in Colorado. She has not yet decided if she is going to take MBW’s offer or take her chances with Crenshawn. We know that she still has some type of feelings for Lawrence, because she has not been […]
For companies in the United States watching the headlines about the resurgent coronavirus, the news of late is unwelcome. Last week, Apple said it was indefinitely postponing office-return plans and The Washington Post announced it was mandating booster shots and weekly testing. He added that the firm would ensure that new associates were integrated into […]
Carlos Marín, a Spanish singer and a member of Il Divo, the hit multinational quartet, died in Manchester, England, on Sunday, according to the musical group and local news media reports. 8, where he was intubated and put in an induced coma, according to a report on Spanish television. Later, he moved with his family […]
Eve Babitz, the voluptuous bard of Los Angeles, who wrote with sharp wit and a connoisseur’s enthusiasm of its outsize characters and sensuous pleasures — from taquitos to LSD — and found critical acclaim and a new audience late in life, died on Friday at U.C.L.A. “She was seen as too sexy and too lightweight […]
So the sense of relief — elation — that washed through the movie capital over the weekend, as “Spider-Man: No Way Home” arrived to sensational ticket sales, was palpable. “No Way Home” collected an estimated $253 million at theaters in the United States and Canada, according to Comscore, which compiles box office data. It was […]
At the premiere of his new drama “Nightmare Alley” this month, the director Guillermo del Toro told the audience he had read the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham — the film’s official source material — before seeing the classic 1947 adaptation with Tyrone Power. Like the update, the 1947 version picks up some tricks […]
Whether women at that time felt enthralled or bored with these films, which began 20 years ago this month with “The Fellowship of the Ring,” isn’t for me to say. Through college, I met the occasional “Lord of the Rings” girl — a few friends in graduate school, and strangers on drunken nights out. “My […]