George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sells for record $50M in rare listing

Some of the biggest stars in musical theatre gathered together to pay tribute to the late Stephen Sondheim with a special Times Square performance on Sunday, Nov. 28. 

A 17-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted in a Scots town as police appeal for information.

Selome Hailu editorHulu announced that Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Iola Evans have been added to the cast of upcoming adventure limited series “Washington Black.” Kingsley will play George Washington “Wash” Black and Evans will play his love interest Tanna Goff.“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name.

EXCLUSIVE: Ernest Kingsley Jr. has been cast in the title role and Iola Evans also stars in Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel, which received a straight-to-series order at Hulu. Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the limited series for 20th Television.

Angelique Jackson Searchlight Pictures has acquired script rights to “The Defender,” starring Sterling K. Brown as the pioneering lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones, who risked his life and career to defend the Elaine Twelve — a group of 12 Black sharecroppers sentenced to death for allegedly being involved in the murder of a white man during the Elaine Massacre of 1919 in Arkansas.George Tillman Jr.

Jeremy Renner only wants to do things on his own terms.

Julianna Margulies is enjoying a night out!

WME has inked stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist James Lapine in all areas.

Selome Hailu editorJames Lapine, stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist, has signed with WME for representation in all areas.Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Into the Woods,” “Passion” and “Sondheim on Sondheim.” He has collaborated with William Finn on “March of the Falsettos” and “Falsettoland,” later combined on Broadway as the full-length musical “Falsettos.” Lapine and Finn also worked together on “A New Brain,”

At Sunday’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles event, The Tender Bar star Ben Affleck and the two young actors — Tye Sheridan and Daniel Ranieri — who share the role of the older and younger J.R. Moehringer in George Clooney’s film version of Moehringer’s memoir, joined me virtually as part of the Amazon Studios presentation.

That’s why he was the “King of Cool” — he marched to his own drummer, eschewed the high-profile celebrity lifestyle and could tell Frank Sinatra off without caring about the repercussions.

Big news stories always tend to find themselves turned into films and TV shows eventually. And when the evacuation of the American military in Afghanistan became headline news this summer, mainly for how it was seemingly mishandled, it became clear that someone in Hollywood would quickly jump on it.

Taylor Louderman is sharing her honest feelings.

a 120-page study from a Christian University reveals nearly four in ten young adults count themselves as LGBTQ.Religion and culture researcher, evangelical pollster, and now professor at Arizona Christian University in Phoenix, George Barna‘s Cultural Research Center has just published a report focused on Millennials.Among its findings: 39% of those 18-24 identify as LGBTQ, and 25% of those 25-37 do as well.

The Great British Bake Off aired another emotional exit on Tuesday as George became the latest contestant to leave the tent. For the latest instalment, the bakers were challenged during caramel week where they had to produce several tricky creations, which included caramel tarts, caramel biscuit bars and a showstopper masterpiece.

Jason Sudeikis and Jean Smart are teaming up for a new project.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJason Sudeikis will star in a table read of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”The “Ted Lasso” Emmy winner will play George Bailey in the holiday classic and his real-life uncle, George Wendt, will appear as Uncle Billy.