Hollywood Unions, Labor-Management Safety Committee Address Recent Set Shootings; “Providing Safe Work Environment Is The Responsibility Of The Employer”

Tom Holland made a brief return to Instagram for an important message for his fans.

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree. He was arraigned last night at Chautauqua County Jail in New York.

MF DOOM by naming a street sweeper MF BROOM.The New York rapper and producer, who died in 2020, received the posthumous tribute after coming out top of a crowdsourced naming contest.Community organisation Venture Richmond handled the naming by gathering ideas from city residents and organising polls on Twitter.Besides MF BROOM, other potential names for the street sweeper included Kate Brush, Meryl Sweep, Dirt Reynolds, LeBroom James, and The Grim Sweeper, the latter of which made it to the final round of voting before losing 59 per cent to 41 per cent to MF BROOM.The Grim Sweeper vs. MF BROOM— Venture Richmond (@VentureRVA) August 3, 2022“The people have spoken!” Venture Richmond tweeted.

Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka are stepping out for a dinner date.

Lollapalooza has been charged with making a false terrorist threat, after allegedly circulating an anonymous text messages which indicated a mass shooting was going to take place at the festival.18-year-old Janya Williams is accused of sending her supervisor an anonymous text message shortly before 3pm on the second day of the Chicago festival on Friday (July 29). Using the text message platform TextNow, it allegedly read: “Mass shooting at 4pm location Lollapalooza.

Lil Durk is giving fans an update about his health.

Lil Durk is sharing an update after a scary incident this weekend.

Lil Durk revealed on Sunday that he's going to take some time off from performing to recuperate after a shocking on-stage accident.The «Barbarian» artist was performing at Lollapalooza 2022 in Chicago’s Grant Park on Saturday when a pyrotechnic explosion went off right in his face.Lil Durk took to Instagram on Sunday to share a snapshot from the hospital, which showed his eye covered in medical gauze and wrapped in bandages. «Due to the incident that happened at Lollapalooza in Chicago on stage, I’ma take a break & focus on my health,» he wrote.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Newark Museum of Art is presenting two stunning exhibits of photography featuring Billie Holiday and a selection of jazz legends. “Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection” and “Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic” opened last month and will run through August 22, 2022.“Jazz Greats” includes 33 photographs by 15 photographers that date from the 1920s to the 1980s, including Miles Davis, John & Alice Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy (pictured, top), Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie, along with photos of amateur musicians performing in their local communities, as well as their audiences.

EXCLUSIVE: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Richard Benjamin (Michael Crichton’s Westworld), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why) and James Norton (Little Women) will lead the cast of an as-yet-untitled film from writer-director Noah Pritzker (Quitters).

The recent limited series “The Offer” reminded viewers that before Albert S. Ruddy was taken seriously as the producer of “The Godfather,” he was often dismissed as the guy who created “Hogan’s Heroes.” Similarly, another key architect of the New Hollywood of the 1970s — director and producer Bob Rafelson — would find himself earning greater respect as the man behind such iconic, essential American films as “Five Easy Pieces,” “The Last Picture Show” and “Easy Rider” than as one of the creators of “The Monkees.”The difference, of course, is that “Hogan’s Heroes” is the kind of old sitcom contemporary audiences would call “problematic,” while “The Monkees” has endured both as a screwball piece of television and as the launching pad for a band that’s beloved to this day.

A GoFundMe page has been established for the six children of Johnny Pizarro II, who was shot to death early Tuesday while working as a parking production assistant on Law & Order: Organized Crime in Brooklyn. About $5,000 has been raised so far, with a goal of reaching $250,000.

OSF HealthCare, a Catholic hospital system out of Illinois, has restricted the employee health plan benefits it offers to LGBTQ employees.The health care system changed its policy by narrowing the insurance plan’s definition of “infertility” from any person unable to get pregnant to “the inability for a married couple of opposite sex spouses to conceive.” According to Bloomberg News, OSF HealthCare has characterized the policy shift as attempting to “assist married opposite sex spouses” in conceiving a child.OSF HealthCare operates around 147 medical facilities in Illinois and Michigan, with over 24,000 employees. By amending the definition of fertility, only straight people — more accurately, employees in opposite-sex relationships — will be able to have their fertility treatments covered by their employee health care plan.Given the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexuality and marriage, it is not surprising to see religious institutions or religiously-affiliated employers adopting policies that exclude LGBTQ individuals from benefits typically offered to married couples.Critics were quick to denounce OSF HealthCare’s new policy, arguing that an employer is not denying treatment to some of its workers due to “objections to the treatment they are seeking” — as it might in the case of an abortion or gender confirmation surgery — but merely due to their LGBTQ identity.Peter Romer-Friedman, an attorney who is representing a same-sex male couple who claims they were denied coverage for in vitro fertilization under New York City’s health insurance plan, told Bloomberg that he believes OSF HealthCare’s actions are a clear “violation” of federal workplace discrimination.

Rebecca Balding, a veteran stage and screen actress who appeared on "Soap" and "Charmed," has died. She was 73. Balding’s husband, actor and director James L.