Spike Lee already had several big moments with the Oscars by the time he finally won a competitive statuette in 2019. His first came almost 40 years earlier, in 1983, when he was a film student at New York University. Lee submitted his master’s thesis film “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads,” starring Monty Ross, … Read more
NEW YORK – Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, nearly killed by Russian bombs while reporting in Ukraine less than two years ago, returned to the country this week to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Hall has endured dozens of surgeries since the March 14, 2022, blast. He lost his right leg below his knee and … Read more
Impossible is often just a starting point on a Christopher Nolan film and “Oppenheimer,”about the father of the atomic bomb, was no exception. In fact, it’s often where inspiration was born. During one especially stressful stretch, filmmakers lost their White House set five days before they had one day to shoot with Gary Oldman, who … Read more
It’s still hard to believe that Matthew Perry, one of the six stars of “Friends,” died a few weeks ago. If you’re like me, you’ve probably been watching old episodes of “Friends” to honor the late actor and the incredible work he did on the show. Since the Thanksgiving episodes of “Friends” are top tier … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR – Organizers of Wednesday’s Coldplay concert in Malaysia can stop the show if the British rock band misbehaves, a minister said as the government rejected Muslim conservatives’ calls to cancel the show. Led by the country’s opposition bloc, Muslim conservatives have protested the concert over Coldplay’s support for the LGBTQ+ community. Recently, they … Read more
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NEW YORK – The financial crisis of 2008 hit Mary Kathryn Nagle differently. As a playwright and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she saw parallels to events that negatively impacted Indigenous people centuries ago. Her play “Manahatta” juxtaposes the recent mortgage meltdown when thousands lost their homes to predatory lenders with the shady 17th-century … Read more