Megan Thee Stallion drew inspiration from her late mother to find the strength to open up in the new Prime Video documentary, “Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words.” Directed by Nneka Onuorah, the film captures the rapper (real name Megan Pete) dealing with grief, her mother and manager Holly Thomas’ death from cancer in 2019 […]

Tim Walz’s wife, Gwen Walz, made a campaign stop Tuesday night at legendary West Hollywood LGBTQ bar The Abbey. “Tim and I are used to being at dance parties, but usually we’re chaperoning,” Minnesota’s first lady quipped when she first walked on stage. The event, officially billed as “A Dance Party for Kamala With Mrs. […]

Production has begun on “Izzy,” a feature documentary about late fashion designer Isabel Toledo. Directed by Chiara Clemente, the film will chronicle Toledo’s life with her husband and creative partner Ruben Toledo. “I trust Chiara to tell our story,” Ruben said in a statement on Monday. “She sees our love; how unique and rare it […]

Music has played a role in political campaigns throughout history, but only recently did it result in headlines about cease-and-desists and “somnambulant bobbing.” Of course, America is in its third consecutive presidential election cycle in which there are nearly weekly stories about musicians objecting to Donald Trump’s unauthorized use of their songs at rallies. (“It’s […]

I am Puerto Rican, and my country is no “floating island of garbage.” But the people who think that sure are — even if it’s disguised as humor. When comedian Tony Hinchcliffe took the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday for a MAGA rally in support of Donald Trump’s presidential […]

The landscape around presidential endorsements looks a great deal different this year — and may for many cycles to come.  After the Los Angeles Times’ owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, blocked the paper’s editorial board from its planned endorsement of Kamala Harris (prompting the resignation of editorials editor Mariel Garza), the Washington Post’s leadership announced that […]

Is Nicole Kidman the hardest working person in Hollywood at the moment? In the last year or so, Nicole Kidman has starred in “A Family Affair” and “Babygirl.” On the TV side, she starred in “Expats” and “The Perfect Couple” and returns to Taylor Sheridan’s “Lioness” for its second season, launching on Paramount+ on Oct. […]

Is the Netflix Oscar drought finally about to end? The streamer has long been chasing the elusive Academy Award for best picture. After a series of near misses, 2024 might just be the year the streaming giant claims the coveted prize — thanks to Jacques Audiard’s critically lauded crime musical “Emilia Pérez.” The Spanish-language drama […]

Pureplay Entertainment’s “The Wager,” the celebrity pickleball series hosted by longtime TV personality Jason Kennedy, will begin streaming on Roku, Tubi, Xumo and Pluto in the coming months. The show is currently airing regionally on NBC Sports, MSG Networks, BeIN Sports and more in over 100 markets. Episodes feature Kennedy and his pickleball partner, PPA […]

Zoe Saldaña admits she’s “worried” about what will happen on Election Day. But she refuses to lose any hope. “I am worried,” Saldaña told me Tuesday at the Los Angeles premiere of “Emilia Pérez.” “But then again, I was also worried in 2016…Of course, I’m scared and worried, but, I have faith that we’re going […]

Jeremy Pope’s short, “God Is Good,” has been acquired by The Criterion Channel Inspired by the actor and singer’s debut “EP Last Name: Pope,” Pope wrote and stars in the film, which was directed by C Prinz and choreographed by Parris Goebel. The film is billed as a blend of memoir, monologue, surrealism and dance […]

Selena Gomez is glowing up. At age 32, the former Disney star is earning awards season buzz for her work in writer-director Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” the Spanish language movie musical that won the Jury Prize at Cannes in May as well as a collective best actress award for Gomez and her co-stars Zoe Saldana and Karla […]

The fourth annual Academy Museum Gala, which honored Quentin Tarantino, Paul Mescal and Rita Moreno, raised $11 million on Saturday night. The evening’s program included John Travolta presenting the Luminary Award to Tarantino, who went onto to announce that he was donating his first handwritten draft of the script for “Pulp Fiction”to the museum. The […]

Ariana Grande is weighing in on her “Wicked” co-star Cynthia Erivo’s recent slam of fan-edited “Wicked” posters and AI content. A poster released by Universal was tweaked by a fan to mimic the original Broadway poster by lowering Elphaba’s witch hat to cover Erivo’s eyes. Erivo also called out a viral AI-created animation that featured […]

In director and writer Marco Calvani’s “High Tide,” well-known Brazilian actor Marco Pigossi stars as Lourenco, an immigrant living in Provincetown, the iconic gay getaway in Massachusetts. Suddenly single with his visa about to expire, he meets and falls for Maurice (James Bland), a Black doctor from New York City who is on vacation before […]

After nearly half a decade spent obsessively keeping up with One Direction in my youth, one of the first things I did after finding out Liam Payne died in Buenos Aires on Oct. 16 was re-open the Twitter (now X) fan account I dedicated to the band in 2012. To my surprise, I wasn’t the […]

Ryan Murphy insists that he and his “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” co-creator Ian Brennan never imagined the Netflix series would be a major catalyst for renewed interest in the case and calls for the real Erik and Lyle Menendez to be released from prison. “Ian and I are in absolute amazement and […]

Sandra Oh, Elizabeth Banks and Eva Longoria are just a few of the names who have signed on for Constance Zimmer and Abby Epstein’s “The Midlife Monologues,” a docu-theater piece inspired by Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” “Our goal with ‘The Midlife Monologues’ is to shine a light on what’s often called the most ‘invisible […]

Zach Braff is getting the “Garden State” gang back together – at least the bands featured on the movie’s Grammy-winning soundtrack. A one-night concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Garden State” – which Braff wrote, directed and starred in – will take place March 29, 2025, at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. On the […]