Stephen Fry will use next week’s Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message to call for British Jews to “stand upright and proud in who they are” in the face of “the greatest rise in anti-Jewish racism since records began.”
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Ghostface Killah will release his memoir next year via St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of publisher Macmillan.
Rise of a Killah will be available from May 14 and is described by the publisher as "both visual record and a real-feel narrative of a performer’s life," detailing the rapper's early days on Staten Island and through his time as a member of Wu-Tang Clan. Wu-Tang memoirs are something of a trend in the book world, with Raekwon releasing From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan in 2021.
U-God, meanwhile, published Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan in 2018. The rap group's story was also told on screen in documentary form with Showtime's 2019 series Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men Read Next: November 9 is Wu-Tang Day in New York Wu-Tang Clan recently finished a co-headlining tour with Nas.
They also celebrated 30 years of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), with New York declaring November 9 as "Wu-Tang Day." In January Ghostface announced plans to release new music via Stem Player, the circular pod device that allows users to edit and remix the music. However, in March, it was announced that production on Ghostface's Stem Player had been delayed indefinitely.
.Stephen Fry will use next week’s Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message to call for British Jews to “stand upright and proud in who they are” in the face of “the greatest rise in anti-Jewish racism since records began.”
New data shows that Netflix subscriptions have seen a spine after the platform cracked down on password-sharing.
Kid Cudi has announced his memoir ‘CUDI’, teasing a potential book tour in the future.The rapper took to X/Twitter to share the news, where he told fans he intended to drop the forthcoming memoir around September 2024.“Goin thru my life and the journey its been so far is bringing me so much peace just talkin about certain things and how they made me feel,” he wrote. “Moments, people, aging, the fun, the madness, the darkness, such a beautiful ride.“I know this book will inspire you to live your life to the fullest every chance you get, reach for your dreams and work hard to bring them to reality, and keep God close,” he continued.
Manchester United have a busy festive season ahead of them and it will soon be the January transfer window.
Matthew Perry wrote about the drug he ultimately died from in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
bombshell memoir “Spare” hit the bookshelves this past January — just months before “The Crown” dropped its sixth and final season.Now, actor Dominic West — who played Prince (Now King) Charles on the Netflix royal drama — has revealed that he ran to pick up a copy of the autobiography once it came out.The British star, 54, divulged that he used the Duke of Sussex’s words to impact his performance on the show — calling the book a “gift.”“I bought it immediately, and I think it did slightly affect the way we played that key scene where he wakes Harry up,” the “Wire” actor explained to Variety recently.He went on: “I’ve been reading every newspaper article or journalistic article on him since I got the job.” “In a way, this was a gift that he was in the headlines every day when he was becoming king — like getting irritated by the fountain pen,” West said. “In the cold, formal exterior of this guy, I tried to get those little tells.”The “Affair” alum noted that “Spare” heavily influenced his acting in one particular scene of “The Crown” — the moment where Charles informed Harry that his mother Princess Diana died in 1997 in the early hours of the morning.The “Invictus Games” founder penned in his book about the tragedy: “Pa didn’t hug me.
Justin Timberlake said “no disrespect” before singing Cry Me a River live on stage - in an apparent reference to his ex Britney Spears' new memoir. The 42 year old singer, formerly a member of boyband NSYNC, reportedly made the comment before launching into his hit song at Fontainebleau in Las Vegas this week.The track caused a stir when it was released in 2002 - eight months after Justin and Britney split - as it implied that she had been unfaithful to him when they were together. Lyrics in the song included: "You don't have to say, what you did, I already know, I found out from him.” And further fuelled was added to fire when a Britney lookalike was cast in the music video for the song.
decided to address the commentary about her altered appearance head on, revealing that yes, she's had cosmetic surgery on her face and no, she has absolutely no regrets.In an Instagram Story on December 11, per , Bynes shared with fans that she'd had blepharoplasty, a procedure to remove skin around the eyelids, which is sometimes referred to as an eyelift. “I was never open about this before, but I actually had blepharoplasty surgery on the skin folds and the corner of my eyes,” Bynes told her followers.
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Two Latino advocacy organizations have joined forces to launch a mentoring program designed to help nurture a new generation of showrunners. The Alliance of Latino Executives and Rise Up have created a program that pairs 10 rising-star writers with 10 seasoned industry executives who can help develop their skills and guide their careers. The inaugural group of participants have been selected.
A 'catastrophic' rise in drugs deaths has been blasted by campaigners as 900 are estimated to have died in Scotland in just nine months.
Meghan Markle is rumoured to be in the works of penning her own explosive memoir following the success of Prince Harry's Spare which was released in January this year.
One of the claims that Britney Spears made about Justin Timberlake in her best-selling memoir The Woman in Me has been called into question by musician Ginuwine.
The BBC‘s licence fee will not rise by as much as previously promised, the UK government has confirmed, condemning the corporation to a difficult year that could see more cuts and less shows commissioned. The government has, meanwhile, launched a review into the BBC’s funding model.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Hello, beautiful. That’s what some Barbra Streisand fans have been murmuring to their physical editions of “My Name Is Barbra,” her memoir, since it came out one month ago, and over that time has become a nightly bedtime companion (its 970-page length not quite built for bingeing), as well as a sort of objet d’art, and objet d’heft.
While Marvel, DC, and “Star Wars” take up most of the headlines in franchise filmmaking, one of the more consistently successful franchises in modern blockbuster filmmaking is Legendary’s Monsterverse, which comprises all things Godzilla and King Kong in North America (Toho still releases “Godzilla” moves in Japan). Coming straight off the heels of Apple TV+’s successful “Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters,” TV limited series (which is more of a prequel anyhow), next up in the film universe via Warner Bros.
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was sleeping with a minimum of three women a night — at the same time. “It was a slow night [if I had] a threesome, usually when I was tired,” he told The Post.
EXCLUSIVE: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments, a book about death, written by hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos is set to be turned into a scripted series.
Angelique Jackson Filmmaker, actor, chef and television personality Eddie Huang (“Boogie,” “Fresh Off the Boat”) has signed on to direct a new documentary exploring the rise and surprising fall of Vice Media. In a dramatic turn of events, the digital media company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017. Earlier this month, Vice Media Group announced a new restructuring plan and layoffs in the wake of its bankruptcy and $350 million asset sale.
Netflix has debuted the full-length trailer for Sofia Vergara‘s new limited series!
Griselda before, you're definitely going to be excited once you see the official trailer.The series, which will be streaming on Netflix, stars as Griselda Blanco, the powerful queenpin of Miami's cocaine trade in the 1970s and ’80s.“She didn't walk like a girlfriend,” one character says in Spanish at the end of the trailer, saying Blanco walked like “a boss.” In the role, Vergara is about as far removed from as it is possible to get.Now that the trailer has dropped, here is everything we know about the upcoming show.According to Netflix, the series was “inspired” by the real Griselda Blanco, who ruled Miami's underworld with a notoriously iron fist. According to , Blanco was responsible for the murders of hundreds of people, including her three husbands, and amassed a vast fortune as one of the most successful drug lords in history.How faithful the Netflix series stays to the true events remains to be seen."Griselda is a rise-and-fall story like none we have ever seen before.