Cardi B Takes Plea Deal in 2018 Strip Club Brawl Case, Sentenced to Community Service

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp are set to square off in a federal courtroom on Thursday, in the first of four #MeToo trials to get underway this month in New York and Los Angeles. The other three trials involve producer Harvey Weinstein, director Paul Haggis and actor Danny Masterson. The four cases — two civil, two criminal — each involve at least one sexual assault allegation against a once-powerful celebrity whose career was badly damaged, if not destroyed, in the court of public opinion. Coming five years after the #MeToo movement began, the trials will involve similar themes — power imbalances in the entertainment industry, the dynamics of sexual assault, the reliability of memories, and the nature of due process.

Filmmaker Paul Schrader revealed some of the details of his next project at the New York Film Festival during the Q&A for his beautiful and more optimistic new film, “The Master Gardener.”  During the discussion with NYFF’s Dennis Lim and the film’s stars Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver, Schrader said his next film would be about a “trauma nurse working in Puerto Rico.” But as he detailed, in his conversation about “The Master Gardener” and the so-called God’s Lonely Man trilogy that includes “First Reformed” and “The Card Counter,” this vocation, trauma nurse would just be the “occupational metaphor” used to hide what the film is really about.

Chinonye Chukwu was certain of two things setting out to tell the story of a loving and lovely 14-year-old boy lynched in 1955 Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. First, the story had to be told from the perspective of Mamie, the mother of Emmett Till. “We had to follow closely her emotional journey. For without Mamie, the world, we, would not have known who Emmett Till was.”

Antonio Ferme editor Long before “Marriage Story” writer-director Noah Baumbach was attached to Netflix’s “White Noise,” several filmmakers mounted attempts to adapt the notoriously “unfilmable” novel of the same name written by Don DeLillo. Variety reported in 2004 that “The Addams Family” director Barry Sonnenfeld was on board to direct the film, known as his “longtime passion project.” The torch was then handed off to Michael Almereyda, best known for his 2000 film “Hamlet” starring Ethan Hawke, after Uri Singer acquired the rights to DeLillo’s novel. Baumbach’s “White Noise” served as the opening night screening for the 60th annual New York Film Festival on Friday, making its North American debut after a divisive premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The director told Variety on the red carpet that he didn’t give a second thought to the idea that his film’s source material was unadaptable.

Ready to fight. Marlyne Barrett is speaking out about her health journey after being diagnosed with uterine and ovarian cancer earlier this year.

or —over the last few years, the mega-retailer has established itself as an incubator for new talent and bringing a diverse roster of designers to mass audiences. And we're not just talking about names in the beauty and fashion spaces—the same approach extends to the home and lifestyle category, where Nordstrom's VP of creative projects, , collaborates with creatives from all over the country to bring them into the Nordstrom fold.This where is comes in, an art agency founded in 2012 by that's dedicated to nurturing the careers of emerging contemporary artists.

Oscar-winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson has lined up his next project – a documentary on the late groundbreaking hip hop producer J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey).

successfully working together to stage Katie Taylor's victory over Amanda Serrano in New York back in April. The YouTube star was aggrieved with a number of factors including the decision to award the Irish star the victory, in addition to his boxing career being branded "average" by the Matchroom Boxing kingpin. This week, Paul made an allegation that Hearn and his promotional outfit had been paying one of the judges.

US President Joe Biden has taken a swipe at Liz Truss's economic plan ahead of their meeting in New York at the United Nations tomorrow.

Paul Wesley and his wife, Ines de Ramon, are going their separate ways after three years of marriage.  actor's rep confirmed the news to , exclusively telling the outlet that «they have separated» and have been living apart for several months.«The decision to separate is mutual and occurred five months ago. They request privacy at this time,» the rep added.Wesley, 40, was first romantically linked to Ramon, 29, in June 2018 when they were seen holding hands after a dinner date in New York City.

Paul Wesley and his wife, Ines de Ramon, are going their separate ways after three years of marriage. The “Vampire Diaries” actor’s rep confirmed the news to People, exclusively telling the outlet that “they have separated” and have been living apart for several months.

Paul Wesley and his wife, Ines de Ramon, are going their separate ways after three years of marriage.  actor's rep confirmed the news to , exclusively telling the outlet that «they have separated» and have been living apart for several months.«The decision to separate is mutual and occurred five months ago. They request privacy at this time,» the rep added.Wesley, 40, was first romantically linked to Ramon, 29, in June 2018 when they were seen holding hands after a dinner date in New York City.

It’s over. The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley and wife Ines de Ramon have called it quits after three years of marriage.

Twenty-six years after making “I Shot Andy Warhol,” filmmaker Mary Harron returns to the late ’60s/early ’70s New York art world with “Dalíland,” this time with greater mastery and style. Ben Kingsley stars as Salvador Dalí, the eccentric Spanish surrealist artist who paraded around sporting a handlebar mustache and dressed like a 16th century conquistador in the glam-rock era. Harron dabbles in her own take on surrealism by converging Dalí’s romantic headspace and the ever-present decadent party scene.

Neon’s boutique label Super has secured U.S. rights to Alice Diop’s acclaimed drama Saint Omer, following its world premiere earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, where the film won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, as well as the Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature.

A close call. Filming on the set of Chicago Fire reportedly came to a sudden halt after a shooting occurred a few blocks away from the NBC series.

was convicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday of six counts of child pornography and child sex abuse charges, the Associated Press reported.The Chicago jury received the case Tuesday evening and deliberated for a total of 11 hours.Kelly, 55, was acquitted on a fourth pornography count and an obstruction charge relating to his 2008 child pornography trial. He was also found not guilty on three charges of conspiring to receive child pornography and two additional counts of enticement.

Thania Garcia A Chicago federal jury found R. Kelly guilty on Wednesday of three counts of child pornography for filming himself sexually abusing his then-14-year-old goddaughter. According to the Chicago Tribune, of the indictment’s 13 charges, Kelly was also found guilty of three counts of child sex trafficking through coercion and enticement. He was acquitted on charges that he conspired to obstruct justice in his 2002 Cook County case. Additionally, he was acquitted on two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of conspiring to receive child pornography. There were two co-defendants in the proceedings, former employees Milton “June” Brown and Derrel McDavid. Both were acquitted of all charges, including that they had conspired to receive child pornography, and that McDavid conspired to obstruct justice.