Friends Creators Spill MORE Tea, Talk Diversity, Reveal The Romance The Cast FOUGHT Them Over

Jeff Hiller (Nightcap), Mary Catherine Garrison (Veep), Danny McCarthy (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) and Mike Hagerty (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) are set as series regulars and Murray Hill (Shortbus) and Jon Hudson Odom (Lovecraft Country) have been tapped for recurring roles in Somebody Somewhere, a comedy starring and executive produced by Patti Cake$ star Bridget Everett.

“Friends: The Reunion” director Ben Winston is speaking out about the diversity criticism surrounding the much-loved show.

Mariah Carey is reacting to the latest report about her and Jay-Z.

New York Times, Hanks said he and many others were never told about the massacre in school, with American History classes instead devoted to topics like how Britain’s Stamp Act helped lead to the Boston Tea Party.“For all my study, I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans who lived in Tulsa,” he wrote.“My experience

The French Dispatch. Set in a newspaper office in France, Anderson’s follow-up to 2018’s Isle of Dogs stars Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and more.Other standout films on show will be Flag Day which has been directed by Sean Penn; he also stars in the film as a bank robber alongside his daughter Dylan.Another is Mothering Sunday, Eva Husson’s adaptation of Graham Swift’s WW1-set novel about a doomed romance.

Friends fans seemed to thoroughly enjoy the reunion special when it aired on HBO Max last week, and now we’re getting more details on how it all came together, including what the cast was reportedly paid to film it. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer were all initially offered $1 million to appear in the special but turned it down, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Kate Winslet was dedicated to making her latest character as real as possible.

Joe Biden is calling on all Americans to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre.

Editor’s note: A hundred years ago today, after an attempt to lynch a Black teenager accused of raping a white woman was stymied, a rabid white mob numbering in the thousands descended on the affluent and predominantly African-American Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over two days, more than 300 women, children and men were murdered by the mob.

Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific tragedies in American history.LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are among those releasing documentaries based on the racially motivated massacre.

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UPDATE: The canceled commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street Massacre boiled down to money demands by the living survivors, according to NBC News.

One hundred years ago this week, a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood of segregated Tulsa, OK, a thriving business district known as “Black Wall Street” where many of the city’s roughly 10,000 Black residents lived. The two-day spree of murder, assault, arson and looting became one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.

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Friends have spoken of how they did not intend to have an all-white cast for the show.In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane, as well as executive producer and director Kevin Bright, spoke about the central cast’s lack of diversity.“It’s important for today’s shows to be reflective of the ways society truly is,” said Bright. “But for our experience, the three of us, that may have been our experience when we were young and in New York.

The commission behind the centennial memorial of the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre said today that its Remember & Rise event set for Monday has been canceled.