Health And Human Services Secretary Alex Azar To CNN: “I’m Still Here”

Among the country's preeminent dramatists, Suzan-Lori Parks has won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her play Topdog-Underdog and a 2012 Tony for an adaptation of Porgy and Bess. Along the way Parks, 57, has dipped a toe in Hollywood, as far back as 1996's Girl 6, which she wrote for Spike Lee.

Andra Day gained fame as a singer thanks to her hit anthem “Rise Up”, but she’ll soon be seen making her acting debut in the role of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the Lee Daniels-directed biopic “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”.

Andra Day takes her first acting role very seriously. The Grammy-nominated singer did everything it took to resemble and sound like Billie Holiday in Hulu’s new biopic,  The United States Vs.

Andra Day “abused” her body while getting ready to play Billie Holiday.

Andra Day is opening up about how she prepared to play Billie Holiday in Hulu’s upcoming movie, The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

“When I thought of Billie Holiday, I just thought of her as a jazz singer, maybe a troubled artist, you hear about drugs, a little bit of trouble with the law,” says Lee Daniels, director of the upcoming biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday. With all that Holiday accomplished during her storied career, rarely highlighted is her work in the civil rights movement of the 1930s and ’40s, which was why Daniels was inspired to tackle this project.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefGrammy-nominated singer Andra Day had never starred in a movie before she channeled Billie Holiday in a new biopic directed by Lee Daniels.In “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday,” which will be released by Hulu on Feb.

Gene Simmons has recalled the time that the late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek agreed to dress up in a Kiss costume and wear make-up in the style made famous by the rock band.The Canadian-born game show host, who became a popular and much-loved figure in the US while presenting Jeopardy! from 1984 to 2020, passed away in November following a battle with pancreatic cancer.Speaking to Consequence of Sound in a new interview, Simmons recalled meeting Trebek backstage in October 2018 during a taping of

boyfriend Michael Polansky, the 43-year-old Parker Group CEO, for a rehearsal at the Capitol. Wearing a Givenchy custom cape dress, Gaga held hands with Polansky as they made their way through the building.

What a day! Alex Rodriguez, Barack Obama and more stars celebrated President Joe Biden and V.P. Kamala Harris as they were sworn into their White House duties on Wednesday, January 20, at the United States Capitol.

Joe Biden be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday.The inauguration of Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris won't officially kick off until 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m.

Late “Jeopardy!” host, Alex Trebek, has been chosen as one of the entertainment industry figures who will be honoured at the National Garden of American Heroes monument. 

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWalt Disney, Frank Capra, Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been added as honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project unveiled by President Donald Trump in July.As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order on Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park.

Another American Idol couple have said their ‘I do’s! Former contestants Kat Luna and Alex Garrido tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on January 15. The couple, who auditioned for the reality singing show as a duo last season, wed at Cactus Creek Barn in Dickson, Tennessee, they told PEOPLE — you can see all the gorgeous photos here.

The United States vs Billie Holiday, starring Bird Box's Trevante Rhodes and Russian Doll and Orange is the New Black actress Natasha Lyonne, has landed and it promises to be a moving watch. The film tells the story of the life and career of iconic singer Billie Holiday, who is considered one of the greatest jazz and swing musicians of all time.