Jean Knight Dies: Funk Singer Best Known For Hit ‘Mr Big Stuff’ Was 80

Billie Eilish has said her song ‘What Was I Made For’ is one of her “best vocal performances I’ve ever given”.In an interview with Vanity Fair, Eilish has opened up about the making of her song, which she wrote for the Barbie soundtrack.Eilish said she “had this exact vision for what I wanted it to sound like, and I got it there.” She described aiming for whispery, “heartbroken” vocals, saying that singing in a belted or “choral” style didn’t fit the song.“I feel really proud,” she continued. “If I can be honest, I feel like it’s one of my best vocal performances I’ve ever given.”Brother and producer Finneas, however, said the singer was “harsh” on herself about the performance.

Keisha Nash Whitaker, an actor/producer who was married to actor Forest Whitaker for more than 20 years, has died. She was 51 and no details on cause or location were immediately available.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor It didn’t take long for America Ferrera to find the personal connection in the speech she delivers as Gloria in the box-office smash “Barbie.” “I think when we’re not historically meant to be in a room, it’s very difficult to show up in those spaces as your whole self,” she says on Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “Because you are taught to be grateful, you’re in the room.

American indie singer Noah Kahan has announced a huge gig in Manchester next year, which will take place at the city’s newest venue Co-Op Live.

David McKnight, whose film resume included starring as the lead in the blaxploitation horror movie J.D.’s Revenge, as well as Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats, died Sunday at age 87.

It’s a tragic day for Forest Whitaker and his family.

Keisha Nash has passed away at the age of 51.

Keisha Nash-Whitaker, actress and producer ex-wife of Forest Whitaker, has died, her family confirmed. A cause of death was not released. She was 51.

confirmed the devastating news on Instagram, writing “goodbye mommy,” the heartfelt tribute began. “I love you 4ever and beyond.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The urge to dazzle can be its own straitjacket, and it’s one that weighs heavily on Meshal Aljaser’s feature debut “Naga.” He aims for a hurtling virtuosity, à la “Run Lola Run,” in depicting a disobedient young Saudi woman’s extreme travails in trying to get home before her strict curfew. But that quarter-century-old German thriller’s simplicity of plot supported its hyperbolic style, while here the writer-director is so preoccupied with camera and editorial calisthenics, nothing else has a chance to come into focus.

HBO just confirmed numerous fan favorite TV shows will not be premiering until 2025.

The Masked Singer is set to return later this month, ITV bosses have confirmed. The hit show will return for its fifth series on Saturday 30 December - with comedian Joel Dommett hosting once again.The series sees various celebrities dress up in elaborate character costumes, with their identities hidden, while they perform well known songs.

Charles Officer, known as one of the leaders in Black Canadian independent film, has died. He was 49 and succumbed at his home in Toronto Friday from complications from a heart attack.

Will Smith opened up while onstage at the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival, which took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The veteran British actress Brigit Forsyth has died aged 83, her agent has shared.

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Shane MacGowan, frontman of The Pogues, has sadly died at the age of 65. His wife Victoria Mary Clarke, 57, confirmed the heartbreaking news and said: "Shane will always be the light that I hold before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life." Shane was born in Kent on Christmas Day in 1957 and is likely best known for the band's hit festive song, Fairytale Of New York, featuring the late Kirsty MacColl.

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Rosalynn Carter was a first lady “who saw her role as going well beyond the essential, warm and welcoming host to being a close and trusted, yes, adviser” to her husband Jimmy Carter, PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff recalled on Tuesday.

Rolling Stone that the singer had passed away aged 80.“She was the first person we appointed on the board when we took it over and we had a long relationship with her and she was just fabulous,” Cyrus – who served as the executive director of the Louisiana Music Commission for two decades – told the outlet.“She was always willing to get involved with good causes and help out,” he added. “‘Mr.