Mr. Webb has pointed in several settings to the social damage caused by faking a hate crime, about the waste of police resources spent on the case and about the consequences of lying to a jury, which found Mr. Smollett guilty after he spent seven hours on the witness stand standing by his account. The […]
The same process of elimination that meant I was always Baby Spice when I played pretend with my preteen friends—I had the blonde pigtails—meant I was a Miranda: the powerful corporate attorney, the marathon runner, the bride who didn’t wear white, the woman who reamed out a sandwich for catcalling her. The episode where she […]
Sarah Snook, Arian Moayed, Brian Cox, Jesse Armstrong, Kieran Culkin, J. The HBO series about a fictional mogul and his adult children scheming to replace him is so captivating because it draws on real-life dynasties like Rupert Murdoch’s family. Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, is a cutthroat titan in his twilight years who built […]
An interview between Sondheim and one of his many musical muses, the exchange is all the more moving a year and a half later. “I wanted him to know how grateful I was to be able to be in any of his work and how much he has taught me. “Suffice it to say, we’ve […]
Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage. It was late afternoon on March 5, 2020, the overcast day chosen by the State of Alabama to be Mr. Woods’s last. […]
The lawsuit was filed by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, the writers of the 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play” by the R&B group 3LW. A trial would test whether parts of Ms. Swift’s song, including versions of the phrases “players gonna play” and “haters gonna hate,” are similar enough to the earlier song to meet […]
In second place, sandwiched right in there with 3.2 million likes, is a photo of BTS member Jungkook sitting on a bed and making a kissy face at the camera. Twitter has detailed its top tweets, emojis, and hashtags of 2021 in a new blog post, and the running theme is clear: BTS ruled the […]
Prosecutors said that Harrington supported his false claims by including a fake letter purportedly signed by the person who had obtained the art. Harrington also admitted to attempting to sell at least one forged artwork from portraitist Barkley Hendricks, falsely claiming he had obtained the painting from his uncle. …Read the full story
Whether you live in New York City or Dallas, “The Nutcracker” is both a cherished holiday experience for families and an important source of financial support for ballet companies everywhere. But it was George Balanchine’s staging of the holiday tale for New York City Ballet in 1954 that would solidify the ballet as an American tradition. […]
That would be a strong start for the film, which stars Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler and is directed by Steven Spielberg. Typically the box office wins go to big brands like Harry Potter and Marvel, rather than big names in the cast and crew. Spielberg is arguably the most famous director in the history of […]
jeff hardy is the reason i became a wrestling fan, i had his theme song lyrics on my bedroom wall, i took a hardy boyz pendant into my final school exams for good luck, 9 year old me was convinced i’d marry him. If it weren’t for you, there would be no me in this […]
No matter where you look, Christmas movies are everywhere at this time of year. In a similar vein, baseball films dominated this past summer, thanks in large part to Major League Baseball’s first Field of Dreams Game, a nationally-televised event in which the Yankees played the perfect villain role for the country by losing in […]
And HBO Max is still streaming King Richard, about the father to young Venus and Serena Williams, and it’ll be streaming The Matrix Resurrections starting Dec. That’s because the only movies HBO Max streams while they’re still in theaters are Warner Bros. Occasionally, other studios follow the HBO Max playbook and drop a film into theaters and […]
That Carrie took him back after he left her at the altar in the first movie sequel, and that she compromised herself to fit his marital ideal in the second, did little to assuage disappointment. Then “And Just Like That …,” the 10-part HBO Max follow-up series to “Sex and the City,” was announced, and […]
Michael Nesmith, who rocketed to fame as the contemplative, wool-cap-wearing member of the Monkees in 1966, then went on to a diverse career that included making one of the rock era’s earliest music videos and winning the first Grammy Award for video, died on Friday at his home in Carmel Valley, Calif. Davy Jones, a […]
Thanks to the new Steven Spielberg production, West Side Story is back in the popular discourse. They were kids when they saw it in the early 1970s, Nash on TV with his family in Los Angeles and, 3,000 miles east, Sanabria on the big screen at his hometown cineplex in the Bronx. Around 2015, Ted […]
That’s largely because since 2007 she’s been a principal dancer with Miami City Ballet, and departing that gig during the holidays isn’t easy. “It’s about the connection with the younger dancers for me, especially the past two years,” Lauren said. “That kind of spiraled into coming to Tuscaloosa,” Lauren said, while the Miami City Ballet wasn’t working. […]
Houston In the aftermath of the Astroworld Festival tragedy, Travis Scott offered to pay for the funeral expenses of the ten victims who died. It was one of the last things they could do for their son,” said Richard Mithoff, the attorney representing the family of John Hilgert. “Travis Scott’s offer to pay funeral expenses […]
