After 140 Years, The Actors Fund Solves An Identity Crisis With New Name: Entertainment Community Fund

A rumor of an active shooter following a lightweight boxing title fight at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center Satuday night caused a panicked stampede among exiting fans.

Millie Bobby Brown tries to hide her face from the cameras while arriving for a dinner date out in New York City on Friday (May 13).

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterComedy “Pivoting” has been canceled after just one season at Fox, Variety has confirmed.The midseason single-cam sitcom starring Eliza Coupe, Ginnifer Goodwin and Maggie Q, concluded its 10-episode first season March 10.Set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island, NY, “Pivoting” follows close-knit childhood friends Amy (Coupe), Jodie (Goodwin) and Sarah (Q) as they cope with the death of the fourth member of their group. When faced with the reality that life is short, these women pivot, and alter their current paths, by way of a series of impulsive, ill-advised and self-indulgent decisions.

Vanessa Hudgens shows off an edgy look for the Pass The Mic Concert held at Hard Rock Hotel in Times Square, New York City on Thursday night (May 12).

Kevin Weatherly, the former program director at Los Angeles’ KROQ, who helped build the station to become a leading influence in alternative rock music nationally, is returning to the station as senior vice president of programming.He leaves Spotify, where he held the position of head of North American programming, after a little over two years, starting officially at the Audacy station on June 6. In March, Variety reported that Mike Kaplan had stepped down as program director at KROQ, the station he revamped after joining in 2020. KROQ had weathered major changes under Kaplan, who initially steered the station away from its rock and alternative roots towards more pop-leaning fare, riding the wave of TikTok-launched hits.

Christopher Keyser The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly the Actors Fund) has been there for everyone on stage, on camera and behind the scenes since 1882. This national human services organization has proven an essential resource for people who work in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance.The Entertainment Community Fund has offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago; an assisted living and skilled nursing home in Englewood, N.J.; and supportive housing residences in Brooklyn and Manhattan, N.Y., and West Hollywood, Calif.Joe Benincasa, president and CEO of the Fund, oversees the organization’s comprehensive supportive services, including health and wellness, career and life, affordable housing and more.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAfter 140 years, the Actors Fund is getting a new name. The charitable organization will rebrand itself as the Entertainment Community Fund, which it says better reflects the work that it does to help industry professionals from a vast array of jobs and disciplines.“One of the challenges we have always faced is that we are not just for actors, we are here to work with everybody in show business,” says Tony Award-winning actor and Fund Chairman Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are stepping out for a good cause!

Audrey Diwan’s opened to an estimated $34k on four screens in NY and LA this weekend for a PTA of $8,500. The locations on both coasts — IFC Center/AMC Lincoln Square and The Landmark/AMC The Grove — while limited showed the abortion drama set in 1968 France competing successfully in commercial crossover multiplexes as well as arthouses.

What the actual f**k. A Florida truck driver was arrested this week after he allegedly drenched a 1-year-old in “flammable liquid” and attempted to light the baby on fire at an upstate gas station.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWarner Bros. Discovery’s TNets — the arm formerly known as Turner — is parting ways with the SAG Awards after 25 years.

No after parties for Kim, Pete, and Khloe!

Back for another! Billie Eilish returned to the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art steps on Monday, May 2, for the 2022 Met Gala in New York City.

Axed. Amber Heard fired her PR team just days before delivering her testimony as part of an ongoing defamation trial with her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. According to the New York Post, the Aquaman actress gave crisis public relations firm Precision Strategies the sack after a barrage of “bad headlines” about her in the press.