‘Joy Ride’ Review: Comedy Doc Is An Affecting Hang With Bobcat Goldthwait & Dana Gould

In what is said to be one of the biggest naming rights deals in U.S. history, Downtown L.A.’s Staples Center will become Crypto.com Arena, beginning Christmas Day. The deal between the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange and AEG is worth $700 million, according to multiple reports. As part of the deal, Crypto.com becomes “an official cryptocurrency platform partner of the Los Angeles Lakers and the L.A. Kings,” according to a statement from the currency trader.

Vivienne Chow Collective memories of Hong Kong cinema and pop culture have a major role to play at the newly opened M+ museum of contemporary visual culture, which is received tens of thousands of visitors on its opening weekend despite the city’s changing political landscape.While much emphasis and media spotlight have been placed on the exhibition of the famed collection of Chinese contemporary art donated by the Swiss mega art collector Uli Sigg, what appealed most to the local public on the

Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel, a doc series from Some Kind of Monster director Joe Berlinger, was watched by 45M households on Netflix in its first four weeks.

HBO sure does love its mafia stories, right? Well, as it seems like there’s not going to be a new ‘Sopranos’ series anytime soon, how about “Mob Queens” instead? READ MORE: Lena Dunham To Direct Lily Collins In A Live-Action ‘Polly Pocket’ Movie At MGM According to Variety, HBO is working with Lena Dunham, Dennis Lehane, and Ruth Wilson to bring the podcast “Mob Queens” to life as a limited series.

A.D. Amorosi If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (“School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play”) and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York City, they are, most certainly, providers of both laugh-lines, and real and powerful exaltation.

Ruth Wilson is teaming with Lena Dunham and Dennis Lehane for an HBO limited series based on the Stitcher podcast “Mob Queens.”Wilson will play Anna Genovese, the wife of infamous crime boss Vito Genovese.

Jay-Z was back in a New York courtroom yesterday, though this time to listen to the closing arguments in his legal battle with perfume company Parlux, rather than spar with any lawyers working for the fragrance firm.Parlux partnered with the rapper to launch a perfume product called Gold Jay-Z back in 2013.

currently accused of sexually assaulting a minor.

Jay-Z has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

CLEVELAND -- Jay-Z's added another title to a resume that includes rapper, songwriter, Grammy winner, billionaire business mogul, and global icon — Hall of Famer.The self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive” was inducted Saturday night as part of an eclectic 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class that included Foo Fighters, Carole King, Tina Turner, The Go-Gos and Todd Rundgren.Once a drug dealer on the tough streets of Brooklyn, New York, Jay-Z rose through the rap world with hard, straight-forward

Joe Leydon Film Critic“Hello, Atlanta!” Bobcat Goldthwait greets his enthusiastic audience in a small comedy club at the start of “Joy Ride.” “A funny thing happened on the way to the show.” Actually, what happened was a near-fatal 2019 automobile accident that, contrary to contemporary news reports of the mishap, seriously injured Goldthwait and fellow comic Dana Gould while they were driving to a joint stand-up gig.

EXCLUSIVE: The family comedy Mexican Beverly Hills is being developed for CBS by Erick Galindo, Aaron Izek, and Wilmer Valderrama, Deadline has learned. The single-camera project is inspired by Galindo’s New York Times essay of the same name.

Dancing On Ice has revealed that three new skaters will be joining the competition to replace professionals Klabera Komini, Yebin Mok and Hamish Gaman.

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Tippett (Mare of Easttown, The Morning Show) has boarded Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a film adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, which writer-director John Lee Hancock (The Little Things, The Founder, Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy Productions are making for Netflix.

Jay Black was the lead singer for Jay and the Americans, who had 1960s hits including “Come a Little Bit Closer” and “Cara Mia.”Born David Blatt, Black began his singing career with the doo-wop groups the Empires and the Two Chaps in the 1950s. He joined the Americans in 1963, when their first lead singer, Jay Traynor, left the band.

returned with its fifth and final season as it begins to close out its story about Issa (played by co-creator and star Issa Rae) and her best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji), navigating the ups and downs of adulting in Los Angeles. And for every step forward, there’s always a few steps back, especially seen in the season 4 finale, which left Issa facing difficult decisions to make when it comes to her career, her love life — in this case, with Lawrence (Jay Ellis) — and friendship.