Black Death survivors from 700 years ago passed down 'good' genes

Edgar Ramirez (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) is set to star in Peacock’s Dr. Death for the anthology series’ second season.

While Chad Stahelski wraps up post-production on “John Wick: Chapter 4,” he has one of his next projects lined up at Netflix. Deadline reports that Stahleski will direct the streamer’s feature film adaptation of the “Black Samurai” novels, about an American soldier who learns the way of the samurai.

A spooked mother has been left unsettled by her young son who claims that he is a reincarnation of a woman who died almost 30 years ago after a horrendous hotel fire. Luke Ruehlman, 5 claims that he used to live a previous lift as an African-American woman called Pam Robinson who jumped to her death to escape the flames inside Paxton Hotel in Chicago.

A college student in Georgia was killed in an awful accident while out on an extravagant date.

Clayton Davis The Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced its nominees where Sara Dosa’s lava-fueled love story “Fire of Love” led the field with seven nominations including best documentary feature and director. Co-distributed by National Geographic and Neon, the film’s Ryan White’s “Good Night Oppy,” the moving reflection on the Mars rovers, received a hearty six-nom tally including editing and score. “This year’s nominees prove that documentaries of all lengths and formats are advancing nonfiction media like never before,” said Christopher Campbell, Co-President of the Critics Choice Association Documentary Branch.

Kanye West is discussing his recent comments about Jewish people — but allegations are also surfacing about AWFUL older comments.

'American Idol' runner-up Willie Spence has died. The 23-year-old singer - who finished behind Chayce Beckham in last year's 19th season of the reality show - passed away after being involved in a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday (11. 10.

Brendan Fraser was one of the biggest action stars of the ’90s and early ’00s, but he later receded from the public eye — leaving fans eagerly awaiting his comeback.

Blake Shelton is ready to move on. The «No Body» singer announced on Tuesday his decision to step away from his longtime role as a coach on after the upcoming 23rd season.He is the only coach on the series to have been involved in every season since its 2011 debut on NBC. As for what he'll be working on next, a source tells ET, «Blake will continue to focus on through the new season and also his new show,, music, his 2023 tour and — of course — his family and life on his farm. He's just focusing on other projects both personally and professionally.»Shelton first shared the news himself in a social media post. «I’ve been wrestling with this for a while and I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step away from after season 23,» he said in a statement.

Former “American Idol” star Willie Spence has passed away at age just 23.

Robert Downey Jr. hosts a screening of his film Sr., a moving documentary about his father, actor and filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., on Monday (October 10) in New York City.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Is That Black Enough for You?!?,” Elvis Mitchell’s highly pleasurable and eye-opening movie-love documentary about the American Black cinema revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s, Billy Dee Williams, now 85 but still spry, tells a funny story about what it was like to play Louis McKay, the dapper love object and would-be savior of Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings the Blues.” The year was 1972, and African-American audiences had rarely (if ever) been given the chance to gawk at a movie star of color who was not just this sexy but this showcased for his sexiness. Louis was like Clark Gable with a dash of Marvin Gaye; when he was on that promenade stairway, Williams says that he just about fell in love with himself. That’s how unprecedented the whole thing was. The actor recalls how the lighting was fussed over (we see a shot in which Louis appears bathed in an old-movie glow), and how unreal that was to him on the set. At the time, Black actors didn’t get lighting like that. But Black audiences drank it in with a better-late-than-never swoon, even as they knew that this was a representation they’d been denied for more than half a century.

When is it time to revisit our past? Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black explores his own story in “Mama’s Boy.” The HBO documentary looks at Black’s experience of being a young gay man in the American south and the close connection that shaped his entire life. ‘Boy’ is based on the writer’s memoir “Mama’s Boy: A Story from our Americas.” Black speaks directly about a mother whose life was far from easy – their bonds would only strengthen when he came out at 21.