Tonia Haddix says she never wanted the limelight. Small monkeys screech in the background as the exotic animal broker tells Rolling Stone that she’s frustrated by the whole media circus that has descended upon her life after being the “unwitting” star of HBO’s latest docuseries Chimp Crazy. “I don’t want …
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In the latest episode of Industry — the HBO drama that follows the usually unhinged, occasionally evil, and always entertaining exploits of young financiers at the London offices of the fictional American bank Pierpoint & Co. — the well-heeled bankers have swapped business attire for costumes, in the name of …
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You’re used to hearing the sound of “Bruce! Bruuuce! Broooooooooose!” in giant, rock-friendly arenas all over the world. The echo of fans screaming out Bruce Springsteen‘s name in the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, however, feels weird — the 2,600 capacity venue is pretty intimate compared to most places the …
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Ali Wong is returning to Netflix with her fourth comedy special. On Monday, the streaming service announced that Ali Wong will premiere Ali Wong: Single Lady, a special about her “divorced mom era,” on Oct. 8. The new special was filmed during one of her Netflix Is a Joke Fest …
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James Earl Jones, the renowned actor of stage and screen who lent his booming, inimitable voice to Darth Vader and The Lion King, died Monday morning at the age of 93. Jones died at his home in Duchess County, New York, with his family surrounding him, the actor’s representatives at …
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There’s a reason that hardline American conservatives regard so many books, movies, TV shows, music, theater, and other creative arts as ideologically poisonous, tools for “indoctrinating” people with “woke” values or “grooming” children to adopt an LGBTQ+ identity and become sexually permissive. It’s because they find little value in a …
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Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner. Reels of some long-lost project from Francis Ford Coppola, or Bernardo Bertolucci, or Michael Cimino circa the mid-1970s reside in these …
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The Tonight Show will scale back to four new episodes a week, with Jimmy Fallon joining his fellow late-night hosts by airing repeats on Fridays. While Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night With Seth Meyers had all stopped producing new episodes for Friday nights in …
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Just over a month after SAG-AFTRAchief negotiator and executive directorDuncan Crabtree-Irelandcalled for a strike against video game companies, 80 games have agreed to tiered-budget or interim agreements, which include “common sense A.I. protections.” “We applaud those video game companies signing our tiered-budget and interim agreement,” read a statement from Crabtree-Ireland. …
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Doug Emhoff made his first appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and took the opportunity to respond to Donald Trump‘s many attacks on his wife Kamala Harris. Host Jimmy Kimmel jokingly asked Emhoff, “What was your reaction when your wife turned Black? Were you surprised?” “All …
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