Pent-up frustration by actors over the way audition process has evolved — or devolved — during the pandemic erupted this week when actors Ever Carradine, Merrin Dungey and Sprague Grayden slammed an ad by Betty Mae Casting offering paid self-taping services for non-Betty Mae projects. Their comments launched a heated discussion about the wide use
The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards kick off Saturday at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier. The ceremony, hosted by Hasan Minhaj, will be livestreamed on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and Twitter feed as well as on IMDb’s YouTube channel. You can also watch it on Deadline here.
Comedy is what we need right now, says Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), who ran London’s National Theatre for a decade. It’s fine to have heavy-lifting dramas by Ibsen or Schiller, but boy-oh-boy laugher is an increasingly uplifting necessity. Which is where Guys & Dolls and James Corden, post his life on The
The National on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Photo by Todd Owyoung/NBC) News Watch the National Perform “Tropic Morning News” on Fallon The first single from their next album First Two Pages of Frankenstein By Madison Bloom March 4, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter The National stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Rihanna and Puma are set to collaborate again on a new, awesome project – Fenty x Puma. We’ve waited a long time for this moment. RiRi took a slight step back from Puma from 2017, as she was concentrating on other pursuits – including motherhood, of course. She launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, also, releasing
We’re all tired. The coordinated attacks on everything from Drag Queen story hours to Pride displays to individual books in libraries is going into its second year. While many have been waking up to this — which happens when it’s not just in those red communities, but in your own as well — we’re hitting
FanDuel CEO Amy Howe stands out in a crowd — in spite of her slight stature. In a room full of executives in the sports or gambling industries, she’s often one of very few women. But Howe has the spotlight, and a megaphone, as the chief executive of the nation’s market leader in sports betting.
Boris Johnson says he believed “implicitly” that he was following COVID rules after a committee of MPs said it would have been “obvious” the rules were being broken around him at Downing Street gatherings. He also suggested that Sue Gray, who led an earlier civil service report into parties and has just been appointed Sir Keir
In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives are continuing to deal with the fallout from last month’s
Disgraced reality TV star Stephen Bear has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for sharing a revenge porn video of him having sex with his ex-girlfriend on his OnlyFans account. The 2016 Celebrity Big Brother winner, 33, shared CCTV footage of him having sex with The Only Way Is Essex star Georgia Harrison, 28,
We’ve already seen the Sons of Anarchy spin-off Mayans M.C. and creator Kurt Sutter has been hinting for some time that there might be more SoA in the pipeline, even specifying a couple of years back that he wants to explore the story of Jax’s son, Abel. Now it seems SoA‘s return could be pretty
When filmmaker-actor-writer Miranda July was approached about narrating the documentary Fire of Love, she didn’t see herself as an obvious choice. “I was like, I don’t know,” she recalls, “I’m not like a narrator per se.” Then there was the subject matter of the film – which has gone on to earn an Oscar nomination
Off Broadway’s historic, if long financially beleaguered, Cherry Lane Theatre has been purchased by The Whale and Everything Everywhere All at Once film studio A24. The 179-seat mainstage venue, located on one of the most picturesque side streets of Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, is a central part of Off Broadway history, founded as a playhouse
News Godflesh Announce New Album Purge The first collection of new material from the English industrial act since 2017 By Allison Hussey March 3, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Godflesh have announced a new album, their first in six years. It’s titled Purge, and it’s out June 9 via Avalanche. The record’s first song, “Nero”
March 1st, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on H.R. 1153, a bill to give the president “the power to ban…. TikTok.” And not just to ban TikTok. Giving the president the power to ban any app from “a foreign entity that is ‘subject to the influence of China’.” This is just one in a four-year
“Memory Cards” is a journey down a dusty rural road, but also back in time to where as late as the 1980s, neighbors still used mules for transportation and outhouses for other necessities. There is plenty to see, hear, and smell, from the oppressive heat and pungent smell of row upon row of tobacco to the
As #TheSimonettaLeinShow closes its 5th Season, the show welcomes partner Michael Blom and Director of Vendor Relations & PR, Ian Watts of The Lake Law Firm. The Lake Law Firm was established by Edward Lake and is a firm founded on its belief that justice is for everyone. The Lake Law firm is dedicated to helping those
There’s nothing like the joy of getting stuck into one of the best new books, especially by way of celebration that Spring is officially en-route. And trust us: you’re going to be well and truly delighted with what this March is bringing to the table. From memoirs to thrilling fiction – from legendary authors to
The 2023 PEN American Literary Award Winners have been announced! This year’s awards conferred $350,000 to writers and translators in eleven different categories that include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, literature in translation, and more. The winners were announced live at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, at The Town
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped back over 7% on Thursday, rising to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily. Growing fears that inflation is not cooling off are pushing bond yields higher. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury. related investing news El-Erian says the Fed should go