Shakira spilled some tea about her love life, celebrity friendships and more in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
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Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist made the author a household name and was adapted into a 10-episode limited series on TNT, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, New York. He was 68.
His death was announced by his brother Ethan Carr to The New York Times.
Carr was born on August 2, 1955, into a New York City family haunted by violence and abuse: His father was Lucien Carr, a Beat Generation journalist convicted of manslaughter for the 1944 killing of his childhood sexual predator. The fatal stabbing, which made headlines and history not least because Lucien’s friend and Columbia University classmate Jack Kerouac helped dispose of the knife, was depicted in the 2013 film Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan.
Caleb Carr would later say that the incident, along his own childhood abuse at the hands of his father, spawned a lifelong obsession with violence, an obsession given creative voice in The Alienist. The wildly acclaimed and popular novel was set in 19th Century New York City, and focused on the attempts of a child psychiatrist, or “alienist” in the vocabulary of the day, to solve a series of murders of boy prostitutes.
Such was the book’s pre-publication word of mouth that Hollywood producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights for a reported half-million dollars. Paramount Pictures soon joined the project, and while names such as director Curtis Hanson and playwright David Henry Hwang would become attached, the expensive film adaptation languished and eventually disappeared altogether.
More than a decade later, in 2018, TNT aired a limited series version of the novel, with Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning in lead roles. A second series, based on
Shakira spilled some tea about her love life, celebrity friendships and more in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
Tony Lo Bianco, who played the key role of Sal Boca in Best Picture Oscar winner The French Connection and appeared in more than 100 films and TV shows during a 60-year screen career, died Tuesday of prostate cancer at his home in Maryland. He was 87.
country superstar, 41, finished performing her classic “Before He Cheats” when she walked toward the back of the stage in the midst of a rainstorm, as seen in a TMZ video.The footage then shows Underwood suddenly taking a tumble off the stage and disappearing.The audience screamed in response to her fall.
Doris Biscoe, a pioneer for African American women TV journalists, died Friday at age 77. No cause or location was given by WXYZ, which first reported her death.
Robert Downey Jr.‘s casting as Iron Man was one of Marvel‘s first strokes of genius and laid the groundwork for the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that we have come to know and love.
told the Hollywood Reporter that Bower died in his sleep at home in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 30.Bower was still appearing in movies and television series right up until 2023, when he did a three-episode guest spot on AMC’s “Lucky Hank” as Bob Odenkirk’s father Henry Sr.One memorable role was as the janitor Marvin in 1990’s “Die Hard 2,” in which he helps Bruce Willis’ John McClane fight terrorists at Dulles International Airport.He also played the president’s father Frank in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon,” starring Anthony Hopkins as Tricky Dick.And Bower took on a variety of character roles through the years in other films, like “Beverly Hills Cop 2,” “The Hills Have Eyes,” “Pollock” and “Hearts in Atlantis.” On television, the actor appeared in 26 episodes of the wholesome series “The Waltons” as Dr. Curtis Willard.
EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to the award-winning documentary Join or Die, a film about community in America, the loneliness epidemic and Robert Putnam’s famed “Bowling Alone” research on civic decline and renewal. Directed by sister-brother team Rebecca Davis (Netflix’s Explained) and Pete Davis (author of Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing).
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Columbia Pictures’ action-comedy movie “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” is set to play in cinemas in mainland China from June 22, it was announced on Thursday. Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the film is the fourth in the nearly 30-year-old Bad Boys franchise. It sees the titular Miami cops investigate corruption in the police force after their late boss is accused of colluding with a foreign mafia.
Elizabeth MacRae, known for her recurring roles in General Hospital and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., has died. She was 88.
Lana Del Rey was asked by the BBC if she’d write a title track for a James Bond movie.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, director of the groundbreaking documentary Super Size Me, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 53.
Charlie Colin, founding bassist of the rock band Train, has died after reportedly slipping in a shower. He was 58.
Demi Moore‘s new film, the feminist body horror “The Substance,” sees Demi Moore bare it all, with several scenes featuring full nudity. At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the film on Monday, Moore discussed the “vulnerable experience.” “Going into it, it was really spelled out.– the level of vulnerability and rawness that was really required to tell the story,” Moore said.
Thundercat has spoken about becoming sober, revealing that he chose an awkward time to quit alcohol.The bass virtuoso has been sober for five years and spoke about how sobriety influenced his music in a new interview for NME In Conversation. “In life, I just chose something different, and what comes with it comes with it,” he said. “In certain respects, it feels like I had to learn to walk and talk again.
Strange but true: after 15 years as an international movie star, propelled to fame in 2004 by Wolfgang Petersen’s historical epic Troy, German-born Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her first-ever performance in her native language. Fatih Akin’s provocative 2017 drama In the Fade, in which she played a widow consumed by revenge after a terror attack, revealed an unexpectedly tough new side of her glamorous persona.
Mo Harawe makes history this Cannes with debut feature The Village Next To Paradise which is world premiering in Un Certain Regard as the first Somalian title to make it into Official Selection across the festival’s 77 editions.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic About 18,000 more faces were stolen Friday night at Sphere in Las Vegas, as Dead & Company played the second of 24 shows scheduled for the technologically ground-breaking venue. As is customary with any outfit associated with the Grateful Dead, it’s assumed that no two shows will be the same, and many fans have naturally purchased tickets for multiple nights of the residency.
Getting The Sinner made required the patience of a saint.
William Earl administrator SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Old Friends,” the fourth episode of Season 3 of Netflix’s “Bridgerton.” “For God’s sake, Penelope Featherington. Are you going to marry me or not?” The first half of Season 3 of “Bridgerton” ends with these breathtaking words, as Colin (Luke Newton) proposes to Penelope (Nicola Coughlan). What a cliffhanger! Will Penelope say yes? Will she reveal that she’s Lady Whistledown? Could Colin be any more romantic? Yet this moment is just one development in a half-season full of drama, deceit and Debling.
Jane Lynch had so much to say about Glee during a recent interview.