At one point in the new Apple TV+ miniseries The Big Cigar, Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton (André Holland) attends a party and recalls the time he and film producer Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola) tried to write a movie about his life, which would have starred comedian Richard …
Read More »See Miranda Lambert Perform New Single 'Wranglers' at 2024 ACMs
At the ACM Awards on Thursday, Miranda Lambert performed her recently released single, “Wranglers.” She had previously given the tune its debut at the Stagecoach Festival, where she also performed with frequent ACMs host Reba McEntire, in April. Lambert’s live debut of the track was appropriately fiery, as the cowboy-hat-clad …
Read More »Noah Kahan and Kelsea Ballerini Are in 'Stick Season' at 2024 ACMs
Noah Kahan and Kelsea Ballerini gave a two-song duet at the 2024 ACM Awards. The pair opened with “Mountain With a View,” a song off Ballerini’s ACM Album of the Year nominee Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good), before segueing into the title track of Kahan’s breakthrough album Stick …
Read More »Lainey Wilson Opens 2024 ACMs With 'Hang Tight Honey'
Lainey Wilson opened the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with a one-two punch of country flair: a cover of Little Texas’s 1993 hit “God Blessed Texas” and the TV debut of her own “Hang Tight Honey.” Flanked by her road band (with whom she recorded her upcoming album Whirlwind), …
Read More »Cher and Son Elijah Blue Allman 'Pause' Conservatorship War Amid Mediation
Cher and her son Elijah Blue Allman have agreed to place their conservatorship battle on ice while they try to resolve their dispute behind closed doors, new court filings in Los Angeles reveal. The temporary truce was reached at a private mediation held May 7, according to paperwork obtained by …
Read More »Is the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar Beef Over? Did Kendrick Really Win?
Kendrick Lamar‘s battle with Drake may or may not be over for good, but it’s clear that it was easily one of the greatest hip-hop beefs of all time, producing no fewer than nine separate songs — including Lamar’s current Drake-savaging Number One hit, “Not Like Us.” In the new …
Read More »Daniel Perry, Who Murdered Black Lives Matter Protester, Pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
A former U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering Garrett Foster, a Black Lives Matter protester, in Austin in 2020 will be set free after Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned him. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended the release of Daniel Perry on Thursday, according to USA …
Read More »'Shōgun': Two More Seasons (Potentially) in the Works
Limited no more? Shōgun, FX’s remake of the 1980 miniseries and one of the best television shows of 2024 so far, will potentially return for two more seasons. The show — like its TV predecessor, also based on the James Clavell novel — was originally supposed to be a limited …
Read More »Who Thought a New York-Dublin Portal Was a Good Idea? This Guy
Last Sunday, Ava Louise and her boyfriend, Vinny Buffa, woke up in their home in Jersey City, took the train into Midtown Manhattan, and Louise flashed her boobs to the people of Dublin. The 25-year-old OnlyFans creator’s transcontinental self-exposure was made possible thanks to an art installation known as the …
Read More »'Megalopolis': Francis Ford Coppola's Decades-Long Dream Project Is Truly Epic
Some 45 years ago, the Cannes Film Festival invited Francis Ford Coppola to bring his latest project to the French Riviera for a special “work-in-progress” screening. The movie’s production had already achieved a mythic status as an example of Murphy’s Law made manifest, from last-minute actor replacements to monsoons to …
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