Coolio, Grammy Award-winning rapper, dead at 59

Alan Moore wants nothing to do with the various adaptations of his DC Comics maxiseries, Watchmen — Primetime Emmy awards or not.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor The new musical “Kimberly Akimbo” has already beguiled New York critics. Now it has to win over Broadway audiences.  Based on David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2001 play of the same name, “Kimberly Akimbo” is the story of a teenage girl who is aging so rapidly, she appears to be a woman in her 60s. The musical, which premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company last winter, picked up awards from nearly every organization that hands them out, including the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. And it’s not surprising: Avoiding the usual Broadway spectacle, the intimate play instead sidles up to its heartbreaking conceit with sucker-punch poignance and oddball comedy.  

Jeff Barnaby, a filmmaker and member of the Mi’kmaw tribe who brought Indigenous cinema to greater attention, has died at 46. He had a yearlong battle with cancer, his representative confirmed.

Award-winning movie and stage actor and gay icon, Angela Lansbury, has passed away at the age of 96, five days before her 97th birthday. She is best known for playing crime-solving mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the crime mystery series Murder, She Wrote, for which she received 11 Emmy nominations.Lansbury also starred in numerous films such as The Portrait of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate, winning Golden Globes for both. In 1971 she starred in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks endearing herself to a generation of children. Lansbury’s breakout role came at the age of 19 when she acted in the psychological thriller, Gaslight, for which she received her first Oscar nomination.She made her Broadway debut in 1957 and over the course of her stage career was awarded five Tony Awards for roles in such plays as Mame and Blithe Spirit.  In 1945, Lansbury married actor Richard Cromwell. The marriage only lasted a year on the account of Cromwell being gay.In a 2017 interview with Radio Times, Lansbury recalled, “I had no idea that I was marrying a gay man,”“I found him such an attractive individual, a very glamorous person – he knew everybody, he was a friend of Joan Crawford’s, these people who I was fascinated by as a young actress.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor One of the new honors the Grammy Awards will introduce at their next ceremony is song for social change — a special-merit award that “recognizes creators of message-driven music that responds to the social issues of our time and has the potential for positive global impact.” While the honor is “curated by a blue-ribbon committee,” there’s little question that the number of submissions will have an impact — and according to the Recording Academy, 95,000 of the 115,000 submissions received have been for Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour’s song, “Baraye,” a protest song about 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested and beaten by Iran’s so-called morality police for not wearing a proper head covering, in line with the country’s Islamic law.

Coolio's hit track 'Gangsta's Paradise' has returned to the charts in the aftermath of his death. The rapper passed away aged 59 after being found unresponsive at a friend's house in Los Angeles on September 28 and news of his loss sent shockwaves around the world, with many fans revisiting the classic 1995 single which made him a household name. It's now been revealed the song has returned to the charts across the globe, with Billboard.

How to Train Your Dragon has claimed. Award-winning author Cressida Cowell said television and computer games have made children "more visual" than when she was young. She warned that young people who suffer from dyslexia and are used to watching TV may be put off reading books because they make them feel stupid.

Marcel Berlins in 2005. “Robinson’s (and Banks’s) quiet style has perhaps led to his being underrated; but make no mistake, he’s among the very best. ”Robinson’s fortunes began to turn in 2004 when his new publisher Hodder & Stoughton, who had poached him from Pan Macmillan in a rumoured £1.

, The L.A. County Coroner's Office confirmed that the victim was indeed the 32-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Latauriisha O'Brien.Police are still searching for the suspect after taking off in what they believe was a dark-colored SUV. He's described as a man around 32 years old who was wearing dark clothing.BREAKING: Family confirms to @foxla that the man shot and killed in Koreatown last night is rapper Half Ounce.

Coolio's girlfriend was "aware" he was seeing other women. The 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper - who passed away on Wednesday (28. 09.

Twitter account called Accidental Partridge - where users post clips showing public figures doing things which seem in keeping with comedy character Alan Partridge's behaviour.  The account tweeted this morning to say, 'Rest in peace, Coolio,' alongside the footage of Mr Barrymore after the news broke that the musician had been found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a friend's house in Los Angeles.  The singer, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr, was pronounced dead at the scene and it is believed he suffered a cardiac arrest.

the shocking death of the rapper born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., at just 59, from unknown causes Wednesday in Los Angeles — it’s worth remembering just how much of an impact that song had.“I was No. 1 all over the entire planet — not just in the States. I was No.

Michelle Pfeiffer is «heartbroken» over the untimely death of rapper Coolio. The actress remembered the hit performer, bornArtis Leon Ivey Jr., whom she worked with on the 1995 drama, . Coolio's iconic track, «Gangsta's Paradise,» was featured in the film's opening scene and as a single from the movie's soundtrack. Both the song and the album peaked at number one on the Billboard charts.