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Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images After 11 years of marriage, Black Swan Oscar winner Natalie Portman and her husband, Benjamin Millepied, have reportedly separated. Us Weekly reports the split occurred in the wake of the news that Millepied, 46, allegedly had an affair with Camille Étienne, a 25-year-old climate activist. The magazine previously reported that 42-year-old […]
Walter McBride/FilmMagic Matthew Broderick has appeared in dozens of plays and movies since playing grifter Ferris Bueller in the 1986 John Hughes movie that bears the character’s name, but the Tony winner can’t shake him. Nowadays, he’s OK with that, he told The Guardian in an interview just before the SAG-AFTRA strike began. “What’s my […]
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Dej Loaf, the singer and rapper behind 2014’s viral sensation “Try Me,” makes her return to music with two new Afrobeats songs. After first dropping “Please Don’t Go” with Nigerian singers Teni the Entertainer and Cheekychizzy, she follows it up with her new single “Lighters Up” featuring Orlando rapper Tyla Yaweh. The new tracks comes two years after Dej suggested she’d be retiring […]
William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973’s adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty‘s The Exorcist, has died at 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, and also the biographer of Friedkin’s producer wife, Sherry Lansing, confirmed the news to ABC Audio, explaining the filmmaker passed away in Los […]
In an appearance in the season finale of Hart to Heart, Kevin Hart sat down over some wine with his friend Will Smith, and the pair discussed Will’s global big-screen success. Will explained that when his movie career was starting, studios were convinced a Black actor couldn’t find an international audience. “That was like central […]
Live Nation / Mass Appeal Fans all over the globe will be able to take part in Hip Hop 50 Live, Mass Appeal’s star-filled concert taking place at Yankee Stadium on Friday, August 11. In honor of hip-hop’s 50th birthday, the milestone event, which will be live-streamed exclusively on YouTube, features a slew of artist of the genre, […]
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures For a movie spawned from a doll line, Barbie is, in turn, spawning dolls from the billion dollar-plus grossing movie. On Mattel’s website, you can not only scoop up more traditional looking dolls, like one based on Issa Rae‘s President Barbie, fans can now get their hands on Kate McKinnon‘s […]
Before Offset dropped “Jealousy,” the chart-topping single with his wife, Cardi B, he teased the new track by recreating the infamous 1988 James Brown “Let’s talk about some music” interview. Featured in the spoof and the song’s music video is Oscar-wining actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who, before agreeing to the project, requested Offset do one simple thing: follow her on Instagram. “That’s how […]
After 20 years at the helm, Albert Alarr is out as executive producer of NBC’s long-running daytime drama Days of Our Lives following a misconduct investigation, according to Variety. About 30-40 people — primarily women — were interviewed in the investigation, which probed accusations of inappropriate comments and physical contact, including groping and forceful kissing, […]
Stand Up To Cancer The charity Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has announced the star-studded lineup for this year’s multi-network special, kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on August 19. The organization’s effort titled “How It Started, How It’s Going” “will recognize SU2C’s impact and progress over the last 15 years.” As always, it will also be […]
