George Takei, Ocean Vuong win American Book Awards

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

Donald Trump’s ongoing health concerns. Baba Vanga, who is also known as the ‘Nostradamus of the Balkans’, predicted that the US President would come down with a 'mysterious illness', reports the Mirror.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: George Freeman, who saw a 20-year run at WME end in June and continued to represent most of his clients independently as manager, has landed at Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Frank Ocean has updated his website, blonded.co, with a new voter registration initiative.Earlier today (September 30), Ocean encouraged fans on Instagram to visit his webpage to ensure they are registered to vote in the United States. The post arrived just as the first round of US presidential debates began to conclude.“Debates are on.

The duchess of Sussex opened up about her return to Los Angeles amid the George Floyd protests and how that has impacted the royal couple's philanthropic endeavors during a prerecorded interview forFortune'sMost Powerful Women Summit on Tuesday. “I think it's safe to say that everyone has gone through a big transition this year in their own right," Meghan Markle told Fortune's senior editor Ellen McGirt on how she's adjusted to her move back to the United States.

George Clooney is speaking out after there were no police officers charged in the killing of Breonna Taylor. On Wednesday (September 23), former police detective Brett Hankinson was indicted by a Kentucky grand jury on three charges of first-degree wanton endangerment for his involvement in the fatal shooting of Breonna in March.

NEW YORK -- Isabel Wilkerson's “Caste,” her acclaimed study of racism in the United States, is among 10 nominees on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmThrough the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, George and Amal Clooney have made a pledge to closely monitor the upcoming trial of Paul Rusesabagina in Rwanda, as part of CFJ’s TrialWatch initiative. Rusesabagina’s actions to save lives during the Rwandan genocide were dramatized in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda.

NEW YORK -- Stories of voting rights, space exploration and displacement at home are among the young people's literature works that appear on the longlist for the National Book Awards.

NEW YORK -- Billy Ocean is angry. But you won't hear it in his music.Now 70, he's frustrated by structural racism and by Black people being shot by police.

Vanessa Paradis makes her way down the red carpet while arriving at the closing ceremony of the 2020 Deauville American Film Festival on Saturday (September 12) in Deauville, France.

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High School Musical hunk for good.

After boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the U.S. Open.

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — took the court at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Tuesday for her quarterfinal matchup, sporting a black face mask emblazoned with the name "George Floyd.«Floyd, a 46-year-old Minneapolis man, died on May 25

Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other’s corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coastal England at TIFF, Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play American, mid-19th century secret lesbian lovers in Mona Fastvold‘s Venice competition title “The World to Come,” a beautiful and quiet, seasons-spanning tale of poetry and pining pioneerwomen.

Whoopi Goldberg has said she “lost everything” after she made jokes about President George W Bush in 2004.

full line-up for the upcoming season which sees sports and soaps stars take to the dancefloor.The line-up includes American football star Jason Bell, presenter Ranvir Singh, DJ Clara Amfo, actress Caroline Quentin, and Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Lang.Also participating are comedian Bill Bailey, presenter JJ Chalmers, singer Max George, actress Maisie Smith and boxer Nicola Adams.Rounding out the contestants is British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and CBBC presenter and singer HRVY.However, we can’t

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticOne can imagine an American director such as Norman Jewison or Sidney Lumet directing a film about the legal battle at the heart of “Pieces of a Woman”: A terrible tragedy has occurred, and an expectant young Boston couple (played by Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) have taken their midwife (Molly Parker) to court. The media are all over the story, which casts the entire practice of home birth into question.