Inside Joan Didion’s Entry Into Hollywood With Jim Morrison, Al Pacino and More

Shah-mazing or fashion fail? Jen Shah arrived to the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reunion in a very over-the-top Jean Louis Sabaji purple velvet gown — and it didn’t take long for the memes to star rolling it. 

The White Lotus star and SAG Award nominee Murray Bartlett has boarded Hulu’s limited series Immigrant, which hails from Pam & Tommy creator Robert Siegel. He joins star and executive producer Kumail Nanjiani.

EXCLUSIVE: Lyndon Smith (Parenthood), Zuri Reed (Flatbush Misdemeanors), Jake Austin Walker (12 Mighty Orphans), Antonio Cipriano (Jagged Little Pill) and Jordan Rodrigues (Light as a Feather) are set as series regulars opposite Lisette Alexis in National Treasure, Disney Branded Television’s TV series for Disney+ produced by ABC Signature.

After a three-decades-long career, John Ortiz will finally take on the leading role in the upcoming ABC family drama Promised Land, premiering January 24.

Hollywood icon Sir Sidney Poitier has passed away at the age of 94.

NEW YORK -- To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.”But the Nobel laureate did not confine herself to one kind of writing.Morrison also completed plays, poems, essays, and short stories, one of which is coming out as a book on Feb. 1.

Hollywood has been fascinated by the world of art for decades, and there is a new project on the horizon focused on Jean-Michel Basquiat, the young Black American artist who took the world by storm and brought New York City graffiti and street art to the global high-end art collecting scene. READ MORE: The Best Film Performances Of 2021 According to Variety, “Samo Lives” comes from filmmaker Julius Onah, and he’ll write, direct, and produce the biopic with “Cyrano” star Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Michael Cudlitz (Clarice, The Walking Dead) and Jake Abel (Malignant, Supernatural) and have signed on to star alongside Zhang Hanyu (The Taking of Tiger Mountain, The Great Wall) and Vivienne Tien (Be Yourself) in Unspoken, a dramatic feature from writer-director Daming Chen that is now in production.

Hollywood has been fascinated by the world of art for decades, and there is a new project on the horizon focused on Jean-Michael Basquiat, the young Black American artist who took the world by storm and brought New York City graffiti and street art to the global high-end art collecting scene. READ MORE: The Best Film Performances Of 2021 According to Variety, “Samo Lives” comes from filmmaker Julius Onah, and he’ll write, direct, and produce the biopic with “Cyrano” star Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Maya Jama is reportedly engaged to her American basketballer boyfriend Ben Simmons after seven months of dating.Eeeeek! Reports of an engagement between the pair, who have been inseparable since getting together during lockdown in 2021, have emerged after Ben’s tattoo artist seemingly let the cat out of the bag.

Joan Didion was a novelist and journalist who won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for her 2005 book “The Year of Magical Thinking.”Didion got her start at Vogue magazine after winning their 1956 Prix de Paris essay contest. She began to rise as a notable young writer in the 1960s, with her first novel “Run, River” as well as articles for magazine including Life, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post.