While practicing a scene, actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun that he was told did not contain live rounds, according to affidavits shared by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. My heart goes out to her family and everybody on set. Johnson’s interview comes ahead of the release of his latest project, Netflix’s Red […]
Hall is playing our favorite serial killer of killers, Dexter Morgan, as a man living under a different name in a very different town. Indeed, “Jim’s” interaction with the butcher epitomizes the series’ habit of playing with audience expectations — showing Dexter sneaking up behind him with a meat cleaver unsheathed, ominous music rising, only […]
And it’s directed by Chloe Zhao, who won two Oscars earlier this year for a film that couldn’t be less like a Marvel movie. One, director Chloe Zhao has not lost the eye for rugged landscapes and Oscar-worthy sunrises that she brought to “Nomadland” last year. MONDELLO: Folks who fly or zip or wield magical […]
“The love of my life was called home this morning,” Wilson’s wife, Linda Boulware-Wilson, wrote in a Nov. The name was inspired by three streets in their hometown — Greenwood, Archer and Pine — that had defined the “Black Wall Street” district destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The Gap Band released its debut […]
Both pleaded guilty last November to a single charge of conspiracy to commit fraud.Prosecutors alleged they steered more than $1.3 million from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation to themselves, largely by funneling it through the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, which Mayfield founded.Mayfield, allowed to speak before he was sentenced, apologized to the library foundation, […]
Twice shortlisted for the prestigious British literary award, the South African novelist Damon Galgut is a Booker bridesmaid no more. “It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga,” the author explained. The chair of this year’s panel of Booker judges, Maya Jasanoff, described the selection […]
Pablo Larraín’s Spencer opens with a label that reads, “A fable from a true tragedy.” The tragedy, of course, is the story of Diana Spencer, who became Princess of Wales, went through a bitter and public divorce, was largely beloved nevertheless, and lived a short life — at 36, she was literally chased to her […]
Members of the Swedish group ABBA are seen on a display during a Voyage event at Grona Lund, Stockholm, on September 2. The band is delaying the release of a promotional video after two people died and one was injured at a tribute concert near Stockholm on Tuesday. None of the victims have been identified, […]
Occasionally his family would leave the city to visit a bungalow community of other Russian immigrants upstate, and he’d feel at home. There are trysts, betrayals and a social media campaign trashing a famous member of the group. Before I was writing Our Country Friends, which is set during the pandemic, I was working on […]
Wright’s credits include Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead and the documentary The Sparks Brothers. Throughout the film, the shadow of the past looms large. But in the movie, nostalgia is tinted with menace as Eloise’s dreams become nightmares that haunt her waking hours. A lot of the times I was frequently left alone, in […]
Harry Styles performs onstage at Harry Styles “Harryween” Fancy Dress Party at Madison Square Garden on October 30, 2021 in New York City. …Read the full story
“I’m pretty sure I’m still the only President to listen to Jay Z’s music in the Oval Office,” he said at the time. ” were told hip-hop was a fad,” Jay-Z said in his acceptance speech. …Read the full story
If you had any questions about where Colin Kaepernick’s activist spirit originated, a look at Netflix’s new limited series, Colin in Black and White, removes all doubt.These days, Kaepernick is known as the ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose decision to kneel during the national anthem in 2016 to protest racial injustice inspired others and kicked […]
It’s pointless to write a traditional recap of this episode, because it would just be a lot of “they talk” and “they talk again,” so let’s sum it up this way: It turns out that Alex, who’s been AWOL from work, was on her way to Italy to see Mitch, because she wants him to […]
It’s known as one of the wonders of the world by one of the greatest painters in history – a ceiling mural in a villa in Rome by the artist Caravaggio. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. […]
Mort Sahl had a stream-of-consciousness style of humor, and credited jazz as his influence. ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: In 1960, Mort Sahl was on the cover of Time magazine for an article called “The New Comedians.” He’s surrounded by balloons with caricatures of politicians – Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy. BLAIR: Sahl started doing stand-up in the 1950s, […]
Bruce Springsteen, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama in the Blue Room before the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Nov. Last summer, when former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen sat down to tape their podcast, the country was facing a pandemic, joblessness and a contentious election. …Read the full story
Kids are under plenty of stress these days, absorbing grownups’ various real-world anxieties, not to mention wearing masks long before picking out their Halloween costumes. Children’s author and illustrator Jorge Lacera and Common Sense Media’s Senior TV Editor Polly Conway offer a selection of their favorite new books and TV shows, with varying degrees of […]
Actor Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, were big fans of Ross and decided to produce a documentary about his life. From the outset, the filmmakers found that very few people were willing to speak with them about Ross, for fear of litigation by the owners of his estate. And because at the […]
