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(Pitchfork) – Robert Ross, the rap artist known as Black Rob, died yesterday (April 17) at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, The New York Times reports. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, as Ross’ friend Mark Curry told the Times. He added that Ross was dealing with a number of health issues prior to his death, including lupus, […]
(CNN) – Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez say they are better off as friends. The stars announced on Thursday that they are officially ending their two-year engagement.”We have realized we are better as friends and look forward to remaining so,” a representative for Lopez told CNN in a statement first reported by NBC. “We will continue […]
(AP News) – Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” continued its tour of dominance through awards season Saturday night, when Zhao took top honors at the 73rd annual Directors Guild Association Awards. She is the second woman to earn the honor and the first woman of color to do so. Kathryn Bigelow was the first for “The Hurt […]
(CNN) – Actor and TV presenter Nick Cannon is preparing to welcome his second set of twins into the world.DJ Abby De La Rosa announced on Sunday that she and “The Masked Singer” host — who already shares 9-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey — are expecting twin boys, calling the expected arrivals “my […]
(Deadline) – Joseph Siravo, best known for his roles as Tony Soprano’s father in The Sopranos, Fred Goldman in American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson and stage musical Jersey Boys, has died, according to family. He was 66. Siravo died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. The BBC quoted his daughter Allegra Okarmus, who wrote on […]
(NBCNews) Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith will move production on their big-budget, runaway slave thriller “Emancipation” out of Georgia in protest over the state’s controversial new voting restrictions. The announcement continues the economic fallout from Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, and the GOP-controlled state legislature’s decision to pass new regulations that critics maintain amount to voter […]
(Yahoo) – The “Wonder Woman” actress said in December 2020 that her experience with Whedon was “not the best one,” and now THR reports that, per “a knowledgable source,” Gadot “had multiple concerns with the revised version” of “Justice League.” The THR report claims that sources shared that “the biggest clash … came when Whedon pushed Gadot to record […]
(Yahoo News) – Zachary J. Horwitz, a small-time actor, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles on a federal charge that he ran a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of $227 million by touting fictitious film licensing deals with HBO, Netflix and other platforms. Horwitz, 34, who has appeared in minor films under the […]
(Variety) – A documentary series spanning over two decades of footage and home videos of Kanye West’s life and work has landed at Netflix. Billboard, which first reported the news, cites sources putting the price tag at Netflix at $30 million, though a person familiar with the matter tells Variety that that is not an accurate figure. The series […]
(Page Six) – Sharon Osbourne got a payday of up to eight figures from CBS as she exited “The Talk” last week amid allegations of racist behavior, a source told Page Six. “Sharon is walking away with a $5 to $10 million minimum payout and was able to spin that it was her decision [to […]
