Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO has added five actors to star alongside Alicia Vikander in the upcoming series “Irma Vep,” Variety has learned.Adria Arjona (“6 Underground,” “True Detective”), Carrie Brownstein (“Portlandia,” “Transparent”), Jerrod Carmichael (“The Carmichael Show,” “Ramy”), Fala Chen (“The Undoing,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”), and Devon Ross will all star alongside Vikander in the limited series.In the show, Mira (Vikander) is an American movie star disillusioned

Jay-Z over the streaming rights to the rapper’s debut album ‘Reasonable Doubt’.The new suit comes after Jay-Z’s label Roc-A-Fella sued co-founder Dash on June 18, claiming that he was attempting to sell virtual ownership of the copyright to the rapper’s 1996 debut album.A New York federal judge subsequently blocked an attempt by Dash to auction off Jay-Z‘s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ as an NFT (non-fungible token).

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, the subject of the wildly popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness that detailed the raconteur animal handler’s role in a murder-for-hire plot against rival animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, is getting resentenced for the crime.

Wendy Williams, 56, went for a casual and subtle look, while going from a building to a car on Monday July 12 in New York. The talk show host wore daisy dukes, a New York Yankees jacket, and a plain mask, with her blonde hair down and parted down the center. The photos were taken amid recent drama, concerning how she handled TikTok star Matima Miller’s, 19, death on her show on Thursday July 8.

Destiny’s Child star Michelle Williams has just revealed a very personal connection to Ireland after she found out she has long-lost relations somewhere in the country.

Katie Couric, 64, revealed that her daughter Ellie, 29, found a special way to honor her late father Jay Monahan during her wedding ceremony on the Fourth of July in Port Jervis, New York. The famed broadcaster wrote that her daughter walked down the aisle to “Ashokan Farewell,” which was played by the composer Jay Unger. The song was written for Ken Burns’ docu-series The Civil War, which her father loved.

“straight, white men are not allowed to talk” amid society’s growing “woke-ness,” is said to have essentially cancelled comedian Carlos Mencia, as it is detailed in a profile on the podcaster for The New York Times on Thursday.

EXCLUSIVE: Insecure star Jay Ellis is behind a new podcast series that will aim to give voice to formerly incarcerated young authors.

Dr Jill Biden and US President Joe Biden are the picture of love. The teacher has stood by her politician husband since they married in 1977 and will continue to do so as First Lady.

Dr. Jill Biden and Joe Biden are getting candid about their personal life.

Ray MacDonnell has sadly passed away at the age of 93.

Rebecca Davis editorChina struck back at the U.S. on Friday for President Joe Biden’s condemnation of its shutdown of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper.

EXCLUSIVE: For the first time in 75 years, New York’s Theatre World Awards honoring debut performances will bypass its annual awards ceremony this year – a reflection of the city’s absence of live shows during the 15-month Covid shutdown – and instead present a one-night-only virtual event honoring Broadway’s best, including special honorees Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and André De Shields.

by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, early in the pandemic Donald Trump wanted to send American citizens infected with COVID-19 abroad to America’s most infamous prison instead of allowing them to return to their homes. Which is how Trump qualified as Joy Reid’s “The Absolute Worst” on Monday’s episode of her MSNBC show.