Jeff Burr Dies: ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre III’ Director Was 60

Byron Allen Presents theGrio Awards special, honoring African American excellence, is returning to CBS for its second year. Co-hosted by The Talk‘s Sheryl Underwood and comedian Roy Wood, with honorees including Mariah Carey, Don Cheadle and Misty Copeland, the event will air on Saturday, November 25 from 8-10 PM on CBS and will stream live on Paramount+.

Judy Nugent, the former ’50s child actor who co-starred with Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession, Annette Funicello in the popular Annette serial on ABC’s The Mickey Mouse Club, and flew in the arms of George Reeves’ Superman in a 1954 episode Adventures of Superman, died of cancer Thursday, Oct. 26, surrounded by family at her ranch in Montana. She was 83.

In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled to steer the country — and especially the South — forward in the wake of Jim Crow laws and racial violence.

Richard Moll, best known as the towering bailiff “Bull Shannon” on the long-running NBC sitcom Night Court, died Oct. 26 at his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif. He was 80 and no cause was given by his family.

Kerry Washington is getting vulnerable about sharing pieces of her personal life with the world and engaging in activism.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic One fan drove all the way from Louisiana to Little Rock to see the new Austin Butler movie, “The Bikeriders,” hoping the “Elvis” star might show up. Unfortunately, the ongoing actors strike prevented Butler from attending Filmland, a local industry fundraiser that hosted the Arkansas premiere of the film earlier this week — a rowdy portrait of a 1960s motorcycle gang freely inspired by a book of photos New Journalism pioneer Danny Lyon took while embedded with the Outlaws.

Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74.

Walt Garrison, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died at 79. The NFL team posted the notice on its website Thursday that Garrison died overnight. It did not give a cause of death.

Michaela Zee Jeff Burr, director of “Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III,” “From a Whisper to a Scream” and “Straight Into Darkness,” has died. He was 60. Director-writer Jim Wynorski shared the news of Burr’s death on Facebook, writing that he “passed away last night [Oct.

Dick Curtis, a veteran comedian and character actor, died September 16 in Los Angeles of heart failure at the VA hospital in Westwood. He was 95 and his death was confirmed by longtime friend and TV writer Paul Jackson.

The Washington Post is planning to offer staff buyouts as part of a plan to reduce their overall staff by 240.

Keith Jefferson, an actor who appeared in a handful of Quentin Tarantino films like “Django Unchained”, “The Hateful Eight” and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”, has died. He was 53. The official cause of death is not known, but Jefferson shared back in August he was battling cancer. Ja

Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has spoken of the harrowing moment she nearly died following chemotherapy to treat her cancer. The 33 year old pro dancer, who joined the BBC One show in 2017, announced earlier this year that she had been diagnosed with grade three aggressive breast cancer.The Welsh ballroom and Latin star underwent a single mastectomy in June and has gone on to have five rounds of chemotherapy to treat the disease. Now Amy has opened up on how her first and second cycles of chemo ended up with emergency hospital stays and life-threatening complications.

Kerry Washington is spill all the tea!

Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn are teaming up for an epic reunion!

After acting with Meg Ryan in 2004’s “Against The Ropes,” Kerry Washington explained in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” why she declined to play the “white girl’s best friend” role.

, you're incorrect. If you don't believe me, just watch this 20-second clip of the two of them interacting, which is going viral on social media for, ahem, obvious reasons.In the clip, which Washington posted to Twitter and Instagram, , dressed in a sultry red ensemble of sheer lace top and matching trousers, walks down a hotel hallway and knocks on a door.

So, filmmaker Gareth Edwards is doing the interview round for his latest sci-fi extravaganza, “The Creator,” starring John David Washington. It’s a movie heavily indebted to “Blade Runner,” “Apocalypse Now,” and even “Star Wars” (read our review here).

Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained in her new memoir.The actor, who starred alongside Jamie Foxx in the 2012 movie which focused on slavery in the American South, claims in excerpts from her book Thicker Than Water via The Daily Beast that the original script included a scene where she “escaped abuse running naked down the street” and a “terrifyingly brutal rape scene” which she had reservations about being part of.In the end neither scene was filmed and Washington says she still doesn’t know exactly why the latter in particular never went ahead.She wrote: “Jamie and Quentin stood in the corner. Both men were looking down at the dirt floor, and as I walked toward them, Tarantino announced that we were all going home.”Washington went on: “The scene would be cut from the script.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kerry Washington explains in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” that she actively rejected playing the “white girl’s best friend” after starring in “Against the Ropes,” the 2004 boxing drama headlined by Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. The film starred Ryan as Jackie Kallen, the first woman to achieve success as a boxing manager.