James Caan’s The Godfather co-stars, as well as director Francis Ford Coppola, have paid tribute to the actor who portrayed Sonny Corleone following his death Thursday at the age of 82. “Jimmy was my fictional brother and my lifelong friend,” Al Pacino, who played Sonny’s younger brother Michael Corleone in …
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Four years after former Alabama senator Roy Moore sued Sacha Baron Cohen for $95 million over a prank in the actor’s Who Is America? series, an appeals court has rejected the defamation lawsuit. In the segment, Cohen’s Israeli soldier character, Colonel Erran Morad lured Moore — fresh off facing accusations …
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Actor Tony Sirico, best known for his portrayal of the wise-cracking Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on The Sopranos, has died at the age of 79. “It is with great sadness, but with incredible pride, love and a whole lot of fond memories, that the family of Gennaro Anthony ‘Tony’ Sirico …
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Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of theJapanese manga series Yu-Gi-Oh, which spawned a trading card and video game empire, died at the age of 60. The Japan Times reports that Takahashi’s body was found floating Wednesday morning while wearing snorkeling gear off the coast of Nago, a popular vacation destination, in …
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James Caan, the Hollywood icon who portrayed Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and starred in films like Brian’s Song, Thief, and Misery, has died at the age of 82. The actor’s family announced Caan’s death Thursday on social media. “It is with great sadness that we inform you of the …
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He was tough, he was sexy, and he was one of the most charismatic movies stars of the 1970s — he was James Caan, your go-to guy when you wanted someone who could be flinty yet charming, smooth yet volatile. A Bronx-born, Queens-raised actor who claimed he was the “only …
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U.K. activists celebrated the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in perhaps the most British way possible: By hijacking live televised interviews with Conservative Party members with the Benny Hill theme song. The shenanigans started, British-ly enough, after actor Hugh Grant tweeted to activist Steve Bray in the aftermath of …
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Michael Mann has paid tribute to James Caan, who died on Wednesday. They first worked together on Mann’s debut feature-length film, 1981’s Thief. Caan portrayed Frank Hohimer in the influential heist film based on Hohimer’s true crime book, 1975’s The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar. “What a terrible …
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Viola Davis makes a stunning transformation in the new trailer for The Woman King,where she plays Nanisca, leader of the all-female warriors known as the Agojie. The trailer, which plays out against a backdrop of Beyoncé’s “My Power” from the Black is King album, shows Davis’ Nanisca rallying the Agojie …
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The trailer for David O. Russell’s Amsterdam preemptively reveals a chaotic story of fact and fiction. Starting with a scene of Chris Rock’s character stumbling into a room to find a “dead white man in a box,” the trailer sets up the story of three best friends — played by …
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