Dawn Davis Named Bon Appétit Editor in Chief

Viola Davis says taking control of your destiny as diverse talent in Hollywood isn't enough. You need to walk the walk to keep pace with stiff competition.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTriller, the music-video creation app, has named a dozen top female music industry executives to a new advisory board.

Cuba Gooding, Jr. saved a man set on fire during a party over the weekend.

SEPTEMBER18 – Sierra Band Present A Night Of Southern Soul19 – Dele Sosimi & Friends20 – Anime Film Scores performed by Piano & String Quintet21 – Anime Film Scores performed by Piano & String Quintet23 – Sierra Band presents Neil Young – After The Goldrush 50th Anniversary24 – Live For Beirut 25 – Light of The World 26 – Osibisa 27 – Sunday Soul 28 – Havana Música: A Celebration of Cuban Music With The Latin Bridge 29 – James Copus And Joe Downard 30 – Cubafrobeat: Cuban-Afrobeat ExplosionOCTOB

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentWarnerMedia has acquired the rights to new animated show “Master Moley,” starring Warwick Davis and Gemma Arterton, for its children’s platform Boomerang in more than 100 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSoundExchange has announced the appointment of Esther-Mireya Tejeda as chief marketing and communications officer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCondé Nast named Dawn Davis, a 25-year veteran of the book publishing business and a prominent editor in the field, as editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit.Her appointment comes after the June ouster of former EIC Adam Rapoport amid allegations of racial discrimination at the food-media brand.

The romantic drama Life in a Year seemed to have enough elements to draw a crowd at the box office: popular stars (Jaden Smith, Cara Delevingne), A-listers on the production team (Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment) and the premise of a young man pledging to give his dying girlfriend an entire life in the year she has left. But the Mitja Okorn-directed film also has a big fly in the ointment: two supporting players — Cuba Gooding Jr.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMark Cuban is gunning for a 2020 Emmy Award with “Shark Tank,” the entrepreneur reality-competition show he co-hosts on ABC, and the billionaire investor says he’s still as gung-ho as ever on the business-pitch series as it enters its 12th season.“Shark Tank” just completed the first round of shooting for the upcoming season, which Cuban said took place at an undisclosed hotel in Las Vegas — with an array of new COVID-19 safety protocols even more stringent than

pic.twitter.com/5EcH9kwjMDWe stand on her shoulders. RIP Deirdre Davis Butler."Fall down, get up, do it all over again."#MondayMotivationhttps://t.co/Vb7vNciua7#DisabilityRightsFull Obituary: New York Times

In a well-produced virtual ceremony that ran little more than an hour and paired presenters from the worlds of showbiz and public service, the African-American Film Critics Association handed out its second annual TV honors on Saturday morning, not coincidentally right in the homestretch of Emmy voting. Indeed, 2020 Emmy-nominated AAFCA honorees included Sterling K.

A Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt reunion will shortly take place and will bring them together onscreen again. As previously announced, the two stars will participate in Dane Cook‘s upcoming Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-Live: Fast Times at Ridgemont High virtual live table read–-and even though virtual, Dane Promises it’ll be an “onscreen” reunion.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is being accused of rape.

Time could be up for Cuba Gooding Jr..

Content Warning: The following article contains discussion of sexual assault.Actor Cuba Gooding Jr has been accused of raping a woman twice in 2013, according to a civil lawsuit filed on Tuesday (August 18).As reported by Variety, an unidentified woman said the alleged incident took place in Gooding’s New York City hotel room after she met the actor at a Greenwich Village location.Per the suit, the woman was invited to Gooding’s room at The Mercer Hotel in SoHo, “so he could change his clothes”.

NEW YORK -- Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, according to a lawsuit that escalates the severity of the growing number of claims against him.