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Naman Ramachandran “Rocketry: The Nambi Effect,” the directorial debut of acclaimed Indian actor R. Madhavan (“Alai Payuthey,” “Tanu Weds Manu”), will have its industry premiere in Cannes as a market screening.India is the country of honor at this year’s Cannes Film Market.Madhavan plays the role of Indian scientist, Nambi Narayanan, a former Indian Space Research Organization scientist and aerospace engineer known for developing efficient liquid fuel engines and who became embroiled in a spy scandal.

Late on in “The African Desperate,” director Martine Syms cuts away from the narrative to a montage of bucolic upstate New York imagery: rolling green fields and farmland, charming B&Bs, and village shops. On the soundtrack, we hear audio from a viral clip of a Black man telling off his former coworkers, a fuming, embattled screed: “I quit, you can’t tell me nothing.

La La Anthony looks glamourous as she arrives at the 2022 Met Gala on Monday evening (May 2) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Vanessa Hudgens shows off her curly hair while leaving her hotel in New York City on Monday (May 2).

Vanessa Hudgens and Blake Lively were in attendance.  Also attending the fashionable dinner were James Corden and his wife Julia Carey, who seemed in high spirits as they chatted with fashion guru Anna outside the venue.  Vanessa, 33, looked sensational as she arrived in a black Oscar de la Renta dress with a plunging neckline and sheer front panel that she teamed with an oversized blazer.

Costume Institute’s two-part exhibition exploring the depth and diversity of American fashion. While 2021 strived to exemplify “American independence,” this year’s complementary theme — “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” — is all about “gilded glamor,” promising extravagance and a “white-tie” sensibility.“Dust off Edith Wharton’s ‘Age of Innocence’ and ‘The House of Mirth.’ The 2022 Met Gala will ask its attendees to embody the grandeur — and perhaps the dichotomy — of Gilded Age New York,” reads Vogue’s deep-dive into the event’s theme.

Wilson Chapman editorBlake Lively is making her feature directorial debut with an upcoming film adaptation of the graphic novel “Seconds” for Searchlight Pictures, Variety has confirmed.Created by Bryan Lee O’Malley and released in 2014 by Random House imprint Ballantine Books, “Seconds” follows the story of Katie Clay, the owner and head chef of the titular restaurant. One night, a mysterious spirit provides Katie with the ability to alter reality by writing something she wants to change in a notebook, eating a mushroom and falling asleep.

Actress Blake Lively (A Simple Favor) is mounting an adaptation of the graphic novel Seconds for Searchlight Pictures, in her feature directorial debut, Deadline can confirm.

Lily Collins has unveiled an impressive new statement fringe, and it’s made a huge difference to her look. The Emily in Paris star has just been announced as the new celebrity ambassador for hair brand Living Proof, and she’s certainly giving it all the “new hair who dis” vibes. In a gorgeous new campaign shot, the British beauty is showing off a fringe so thick it virtually obscures her famously bushy eyebrows and radically alters her appearance.

Wilson Chapman editorOne month after the release of his critically-acclaimed comedy special “Rothanial,” comedian and actor Jerrod Carmichael is looking to continue his hot streak with the release of his feature directorial debut, “On the Count of Three.”Carmichael stars in the dark buddy comedy as Val, a clinically depressed slacker who botches a suicide attempt at the mulch plant he works at. After the event goes wrong, he and his childhood best friend Kevin (Christopher Abbott), who struggles with significant mental health issues of his own, make a suicide pact to kill each other by the end of the day.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the third episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Rock and Hard Place.”Like the title of Monday night’s episode says, Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) found himself between a rock and a hard place — Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) and Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) — and he paid the ultimate price. As one of the major “Better Call Saul” characters who doesn’t appear in “Breaking Bad,” fans have been wondering where Nacho would end up, and they finally have an answer.

Amy Nicholson To Lily Tomlin, getting her hand and footprints embedded outside the TCL Chinese Theatre is a joke — literally. Her 1982 television special “Lily for President?” kicked off with Tomlin in a limousine en route to sidewalk immortalization before a car accident re-routes her to instead run for higher office. In real life, Tomlin will receive the honor on April 22, as part of the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Film Festival, taking place this year April 21-24.As for that TV special, spoiler alert: Tomlin wins the White House.

Machine Gun Kelly (aka Colson Baker) has released the first trailer for Good Mourning, his directorial debut as a filmmaker. First announced last August, it was confirmed last week that Good Mourning – a stoner comedy that Baker co-wrote, directed and stars in alongside fellow musician Mod Sun, fiancée Megan Fox and close friend Pete Davidson – will arrive on May 20. It’ll land simultaneously in cinemas and on demand, though it’s not clear as of yet which platform will host the film’s digital release.Baker stars in the film as London Clash, an actor in the midst of an existential crisis.

Angelique Jackson Actor, comedian and writer Ali Wong is set to make her directorial debut, helming an hour-long comedy special for Netflix.After partnering with the streamer for three comedy specials and the rom-com “Always Be My Maybe,” Wong is getting behind the camera to direct fellow comic Sheng Wang’s Netflix debut.Wang’s hour-long special will be filmed on June 12 at The Belasco in Los Angeles and is planned to premiere later this year. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, April 22 at 10 a.m.

Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticMommas, don’t give your daughters the kind of nicknames that would appeal to their pedophile uncles. Cursed with a cutesy moniker like “Li’l Bit,“ what do you think might happen to a supposedly worldly but ever so innocent teenager like the one played to shattering perfection by Mary-Louise Parker? The actor and her equally brilliant co-star, David Morse, originated these roles in playwright Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-winning play “How I Learned to Drive” a quarter-century ago — and after all these years, they still own them.“I’m not gonna do anything….” kindly Uncle Peck promises his buxom 17-year-old niece as he undertakes her first perilous driving lesson. Huge sigh of relief.

In the 25 years since Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse first performed Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive, the name for the disturbing process that we witness being depicted on stage has long since entered widespread usage. If audiences can now readily label what happens as “grooming,” Vogel’s emotionally complex masterwork remains as unsettling, disarmingly funny and as deeply moving as ever.

There’s a One Tree Hill reunion coming to Bryan Greenberg‘s directorial debut.