Huffington teams with book publisher on wellness guides

NEW YORK -- British model and activist Emily Ratajkowski has a book deal.

Naman Ramachandran Vue International chief Tim Richards said that his multiplex chain is going to try and stay open as long as possible, while Rolando Rodriguez, chairman, president and CEO of U.S.

NEW YORK -- When Hollywood does biopics on musicians, we're used to lots of saucy tales of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Not so much when it comes to astronauts.That changes with “The Real Stuff,” an eight-part National Geographic scripted series that shows the often ugly birth of American space exploration.“Astronauts are treated like gods in our culture and they’re unique in that way,” said writer, showrunner and producer Mark Lafferty.

NEW YORK -- Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced five works in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people's literature. None of the authors have been finalists before, although novelist Lydia Millet has been on the fiction longlist of 10.

Kim Gordon has announced she’ll be releasing a new book, titled No Icon, next week.Arriving on October 13 through Rizzoli, No Icon, is a “personally curated scrapbook” that illustrates Gordon’s younger years in California, as well as her venture into New York’s downtown music scene. The book will publish personal items from Gordon, such as photos and artworks.

As MICHELLE, New York friends Sofia D’Angelo, Julian Kaufman, Charlie Kilgore, Layla Ku, Emma Lee and Jamee Lockard make plush R&B pop that feels wholly indebted to the flexuous city that surrounds them. After debuting back in 2018, the six-piece returned this year with "SUNRISE," which saw an impressive number of remixes from Arlo Parks, Deem Spencer, Leven Kali, and the booyah! kids.

Is This Anything?” — out Oct.

NEW YORK -- Two of crime fiction's most famous storytellers, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, also knew how to get a laugh.Chandler, beyond the terse and cynical narratives of such Philip Marlowe novels as “The Big Sleep” and “The Long Goodbye,” was able to poke fun at his own life.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Red, White and Blue,” the fifth and final film of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology (and the third to be shown at this year’s New York Film Festival, after the lilting reggae house-party movie “Lovers Rock” and the wrenching social-protest courtroom drama “Mangrove”), Leroy Logan (John Boyega), a British research scientist, figures that he’s had enough of the lonely work of staring at tissue specimens through a microscope, so he decides to become a member

Todd McCarthy Red, White and Blue, the third and final installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe quintet of films about racial issues specific to Great Britain being world premiered at the New York Film Festival, zeroes in on the ordeal of a young black Londoner set on helping to definitively break the color barrier at London’s Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1980s.

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

NEW YORK -- Broadway director Schele Williams is working on a book for young people about the history of enslavement.Abrams Children’s Books announced Wednesday that Williams' “Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History” will come out in October 2021.

Rihanna, 32, doesn’t care that it’s no longer summer and is all about protecting her skin, but not every fan agrees with her. After the singer shared a stunning new Instagram snapshot of herself wearing a light pink bra with a New York Yankees bucket hat and sunscreen on her face, which can be seen below, one follower replied with “it’s winter now” and it didn’t take long for her to clap back with her own response.

NEW YORK -- Sir Harold Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker who brought investigative moxie to the British press, newsmaking dash to the American book business through best-sellers like “Primary Colors” and synergetic buzz to all as author-publisher Tina Brown’s husband, has died. He was 92.Brown said he died Wednesday in New York of congestive heart failure.

Global’s “Saturday Night Live” is returning home to 30 Rock.