Mural Depicting Michael K. Williams Overlooks Brooklyn Subway Entrance
It’s a larger-than-life mural for a larger-than-life actor. A painting depicting a laughing Michael K. Williams, who died earlier this month, now overlooks a subway entrance in his home borough of Brooklyn. The mural is on the brick wall of Moe’s Bar and Lounge near the Fulton Street stop in Fort Greene. It is accompanied […]
Ohio Haunted House Actor Stabs Boy, 11, While Trying To Scare Him
Things got a little spooky after a haunted house actor stabbed an 11-year-old boy in the foot at a fairground in Ohio in an incident the business says was an accident. The child was about to begin walking through 7 Floors of Hell — a popular horror attraction in Berea — when a worker holding […]
59th New York Film Festival Gets Underway In NYC
The 59th New York Film Festival officially got underway Friday evening, and the opening has a significance well beyond show business. Taken together with the re-opening of Broadway, this is one more milestone on the road to getting New York City back to normal. Denzel Washington was there for the premiere of his new movie, […]
Melvin Van Peebles, Godfather Of Black Cinema, Dies At 89
Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the “Blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after, has died. He was 89. His family said in a statement that Van Peebles, father of the actor-director Mario Van Peebles, died Tuesday evening at his home in Manhattan. “Dad […]
Willie Garson, Known For ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘White Collar,’ Dies At 57
Willie Garson, the versatile character actor known for “Sex and the City” and “White Collar” among hundreds of TV and film roles, has died at age 57. A family member confirmed Garson’s death to Variety. Garson was a familiar face to television viewers, but was perhaps best known as Stanford Blatch, the talent agent and friend […]
Iconic ‘SNL’ Comedian Norm Macdonald Dies At 61
Norm Macdonald, the iconic “Saturday Night Live” cast member and comedian known for his unorthodox, often crude humor, has died, his management team Brillstein Entertainment confirmed Tuesday. He was 61. Macdonald was diagnosed with cancer and battled the disease privately for nine years, according to Deadline. Starting out as a comedian in his native Canada, Macdonald […]
Met Gala Returns With Star Power After Pandemic Delay
Billie Eilish went full glam in a huge peach ball gown at the pandemic-delayed Met Gala on Monday night, while fellow host of the evening Amanda Gorman was breathtaking in cobalt blue custom Vera Wang with a diamond laurel wreath in her hair. Rihanna, ever the Met Gala queen, showed up late in a huge […]
Britney Spears Announces Engagement To Long-time Boyfriend Sam Asghari
On the verge of potentially breaking free of her father’s conservatorship, Britney Spears on Sunday announced her engagement to long-time boyfriend Sam Asghari. The pop star posted a video to Instagram showing off a large diamond ring with a smiling Asghari by her side, with the caption “I can’t (expletive) believe it !!!!!” As Spears has battled […]
Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber Top Star-packed MTV VMAs 2021
Lil Nas X won video of the year at Sundays MTV VMAs on a night that Justin Bieber triumphantly returned to the stage as a performer and as winner of the artist of the year. “I do not take this for granted,” Lil Nas X said while accepting the night’s final award for the music […]
‘Just Shoot Me’: Afghan Star Recalls Surreal Kabul Escape
Afghan pop star Aryana Sayeed recalls asking her fiance one thing as they snuck into Kabul’s chaotic airport after the Taliban moved in: “Don’t let them take me away alive”. Aryana, who brags of 1.4 million Instagram followers and is often likened to US megastar Kim Kardashian, had drawn the religious conservatives’ ire for her […]
