After ‘Period. End of Sentence.’ Won an Oscar, Period Poverty Is Still a Problem in the U.S. (Guest Column)

Paul Goldman Paul Goldman is the founder of the digital rights management company Muserk. I started my career as a composer, writing jingles and interstitial TV music. I was used to hearing my work out in the world, but I was still surprised when, on a trip to Tokyo about a decade ago, I caught a rerun of that year’s MTV Video Music Awards in a hotel gym; I had done all the show’s interstitials and packaging just weeks earlier.

EXCLUSIVE: Mayans M.C. star JD Pardo is joining Chris Pratt in Amazon’s conspiracy-thriller series The Terminal List, based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel, in a key recurring role.

Hey, Hollywooders! For this week’s Good in the ‘Wood Wednesday, we’re celebrating Ricky Martin as People’s cover star for their second annual Pride Issue.The Puerto Rican singer and actor, known as the “King of Latin Pop,” has been in the music scene for over 20 years.

Editor’s note: A hundred years ago today, after an attempt to lynch a Black teenager accused of raping a white woman was stymied, a rabid white mob numbering in the thousands descended on the affluent and predominantly African-American Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over two days, more than 300 women, children and men were murdered by the mob.

Gallery: Happy 40th birthday Jessica Alba! A look back at the actress' life and career (BANG Showbiz)“But she handled it so well, she never missed a beat. She's my hero .

Rami Even-Esh I have spent the past few days in a room on Clubhouse called Meet Palestinians and Israelis, which began on May 17 at 5:08 p.m. on the west coast and continues uninterrupted.

Ethan Shanfeld Tyner Rushing has booked a recurring guest star role alongside Chris Pratt in the upcoming thriller drama series “The Terminal List” for Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned exclusively.Tyner will play James Reece’s (Pratt) close friend Liz Riley, a former Army pilot, who is described as being “equal parts wit and warmth.” The character hails from Alabama, and her friends — especially James Reece — mean everything to her.

Editors note: On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police, renowned civil rights attorney and Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump examines the history and the legacy of that horrific day in a guest column for Deadline.

pulled out of the project over concerns in obtaining COVID-19 insurance for the production. Lionsgate has now boarded rights for “The Plane” in North America, Latin America, the U.K.

Editors note: Tony Award-winning costume designer Clint Ramos says he felt his “very selfhood slip away” when the industry he loves shut down in March 2020, and with two Tony nominations pending – he’s up for Best Costume Design/Play for The Rose Tattoo, and Best Scenic Design/Play for Slave Play – the designer, born and raised in Cebu, the Philippines, should be unreservedly delighted with the recent rush of planned Broadway openings.

Eitan Chitayat I’m an Israeli father of two young boys here in Tel Aviv. I love them to bits.

Mark Gillespie In the ten years between 1999 and 2009, annual recorded music revenues in the U.S. (the world’s biggest market) collapsed from $14.6 billion to $6.3 billion.

Bad Bunny is investing in his people. The star just became the new co-owner of the Puerto Rican professional basketball team, Los Cangrejeros de Santurce.

Actor/director John Krasinski’s 2018 thriller “A Quiet Place” is terrific for several reasons, but chief among them is how he takes a monster horror film and transforms it into a metaphor for the primal, paranoid, and elemental fears and “what if?” situations vulnerable and exposed parents can often dream up after having defenseless newborns.

Perth Theatre is set to welcome customers once more in September. The news was revealed during an update from the Horsecross chief executive Nick Williams to the Perth and Kinross Council's scrutiny committee on Wednesday, May 12 The reasoning behind the decision was questioned by Perth City Centre councillor Andrew Parrot.

Puerto Rico and elsewhere who write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or children's literature. The first 15 winners will be announced in November, and all are tentatively scheduled to meet in San Juan in 2023.Among those welcoming the news: “Hamilton” playwright and son of Puerto Ricans, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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