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Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Oprah Winfrey has parted ways with WeightWatchers after nearly 10 years on the company’s board of directors, two months after her admission in December that she used a prescription medication to help her lose weight. According to the company, “Winfrey will still continue to work as a public advocate on behalf of weight health […]
What started as Negro History Week in 1926 has evolved into an annual holiday observed all across the country. Black History Month is the time set aside to remember, honor and celebrate Black Americans and history of the African diaspora. With the month coming to a close, ABC Audio talked with a few Black entertainers who shared what the holiday means to them. […]
Apple TV+ The fifth episode of Apple TV+’s star-studded drama The New Look dropped on Wednesday. The series explores what life was like in Paris during the Nazi occupation, and especially what choices designers like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior made at the time. Chanel cast her lot with the Nazi high command and had […]
On this day in Black history, February 29: — In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind. She remained the only Black woman to be awarded the Best Supporting Actress until Whoopi Goldberg took home the trophy 50 years later, in 1990. […]
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Gary Sinise is honoring his late son, McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise, who died Jan. 5 from a rare form of cancer called chordoma. He was 33. The actor, famous for his roles in Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, The Green Mile and CSI: NY, posted a photo of his son on Instagram Tuesday, with text […]
Lionsgate The first images of a long-gestating reimagining of the 1994 hit The Crow have been revealed. Vanity Fair just published a feature on Lionsgate’s forthcoming big-screen adaptation of James O’Barr’s classic graphic novel starring It‘s Bill Skarsgård and actress-singer FKA Twigs. As in the comic and the original film, The Crow centers on musician […]
Courtesy Paramount+ – Photo: Daniel Smith On Wednesday Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios jointly announced that Guy Ritchie will direct and executive produce The Donovans, a gangster drama “loosely based” on one of Showtime’s biggest hits, Ray Donovan. The producers tease, “With the most powerful clients in Europe, The Donovans will see family […]
Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died, ABC Audio has confirmed. Lewis, a fixture on the stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s and ’80s, who also appeared in comedies like Robin Hood: Men in Tights and dramas including the Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, was 76. On Wednesday, Lewis’ publicist Jeff Abraham said the comedian […]
Prime Video/Laura Radford A little more than a month after Road House remake director Doug Liman said he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM” only to have it instead head exclusively to streaming on Prime Video, the movie’s star, Jake Gyllenhaal, is weighing in. Liman stated in an editorial to Deadline […]
Monica Schipper/Getty Images Angela Bassett has been named one of People‘s 2024 Women Changing the World — a list of eight honorees making a “major difference” with their “groundbreaking work.” The honorary Oscar winner is highlighted by the magazine for her advocacy and work in heart health. Bassett’s mother, Betty Jane, who had Type 2 diabetes, died […]
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