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02.08.2021 - 07:47 / deadline.com
John Oliver continued to take shots at Biden’s failed promises on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight.
Though the United States has moved most of their troops out of Afghanistan well ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline Biden set, thousands of Afghan translators who aided American troops during the war have yet to be granted visas to move their families to the United States. A majority of them are being constantly threatened with death by the Taliban for their treasonous actions. As of June 2021,
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The Television Critics Association summer tour is underway, and FX Network chief John Landgraf has been sharing info at his presentation all day. We know that “What We Do In The Shadows” has been renewed for a fourth season, and “American Horror Stories” has been renewed for season two.
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sex abuse lawsuit by one of Jeffrey Epstein ’s victims as his life as a working royal hangs by a thread, according to experts. Epstein’s former PA, Johanna Sjoberg, alleges that the Duke of York groped her breast when she was 21-years-old.
Two-time Oscar nominee John Lithgow is joining the cast of Martin Scorsese’s American Western crime drama film “Killers Of The Flower Moon.” The film has been shooting since May of this year but keeps adding members to its cast.
Jordan Moreau Sunni Welles, a TV actor, musician and performer who later accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, died on Monday in Downey, Calif., after a battle with lung cancer, her son, Shaun O’Banion, confirmed to Variety. She was 72.Welles was born Nancy Kay Rihl in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to the United States with her family when she was three years old.
Jane Withers was an actress who was a child star in the 1930s and later became known for Comet cleanser commercials, where she played Josephine the Plumber.Withers was one of the biggest child stars of the 1930s, sometimes acting as a foil to the superstar child actress Shirley Temple (1928–2014). Withers tended to play mischievous little girls and tomboys, a formula that followed her into her teens.
Laetitia, the first French series to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is heading to HBO.
Anna Marie de la Fuente In an unprecedented move, multi-Oscar nominated American composer and pianist Philip Glass (“The Hours”) has contributed key music to Mexican documentary “Cartas a Distancia” (“Letters from a Distance”) by Juan Carlos Rulfo.Credit goes to Glass’s decades-long friendship and collaboration with the documentary’s lead composer and music producer Leonardo Heiblum, whose notable list of film credits include some highly acclaimed Latin American films, including “Frida,” “Maria
Rallying from behind, Team USA managed to top China in the final hours of the 2021 Olympics to win the overall gold medal count.
Joan Ullyot was a physician and runner whose research and advocacy helped persuade the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to add a women’s marathon to the Summer Olympics.Until the mid- to late 20th century, conventional wisdom said that women should not run long distances or engage in vigorous activity. Some said they were simply unable to complete athletic feats like a marathon, while others held that the exercise would cause irreversible damage to their bodies.
If anyone has mastered the whole laidback, cool girl, not-a-care-in-the-world fashion look, it’s Kiara Carrera on Outer Banks. And as it turns out, Madison Bailey has taken a few style cues from her character — including a shared appreciation for skinny jeans.
Jennifer Yuma editorEva Longoria will direct and executive produce a single-cam comedy in the works at ABC that hails from Grace Parra Janney and Josh Bycel.The untitled series is inspired by Grace’s own large Mexican-American family in Texas.
Solar Opposites pair Grace Parra Janney and Josh Bycel are developing a single-camera comedy for ABC inspired by the former’s own large Mexican-American family in Texas.
John Oliver on Sunday made the case for monetary reparations for Black Americans -- not by citing slavery but more recent cases of housing discrimination, including a notorious case from Manhattan Beach, California. “We’re not actually talking about reparations for slavery here.