Nicolas Cage’s goth Dracula look sets the internet aflame

Joseph Gatt, an actor with roles on “Game of Thrones” and “Star Trek Into Darkness,” has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of engaging in “online sexually explicit communication with a minor.”Los Angeles police announced details of Gatt’s arrest in a news release Tuesday and issued an urgent plea for other potential victims to contact authorities.Gatt, 50, was taken into custody at his home in the Beverly Grove neighborhood on April 6, by detectives from the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the LAPD said. However, police did not release the information until this week.The LAPD said the arrest came after they received information that Gatt had allegedly communicated with a minor across state lines.

Actor Joseph Gatt was arrested last week after Los Angeles Police Department detectives claimed he was allegedly engaging in "online sexually explicit communication" with a minor who lived in another state. According to inmate information obtained by Fox News Digital on Wednesday, the 50-year-old man was taken into custody on April 6 after authorities executed a search warrant on his home in Los Angeles. The LAPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force began investigating Gatt after allegedly receiving a tip.

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Jordan Moreau Nicolas Cage has transcended pop culture. The legendary actor has won an Oscar, starred in both blockbusters and indie titles, inspired internet memes and stolen the Declaration of Independence.

Nicolas Cage and his wife Riko Shibata enjoyed a lovely evening out in the New York on Sunday April 10 for a special screening of his latest movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The 58-year-old actor held his 27-year-old wife’s hand while they arrived for the showing. Nic and Riko were both dressed to the nines in black outfits, as the Leaving Las Vegas star smiled for the cameras. Riko’s baby bump was also showing, about three months after announcing that she was pregnant.

Con Air actor shared his desire to take on the role – based on the books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875) – during a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Saturday (April 9).“I would like to play Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo because of the character’s love of the ocean I share that with him,” Cage told fans.Elsewhere during the forum chat, Cage discussed his Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent co-star Pedro Pascal, labelling him “a genuinely nice man” and gushed about how much he loved working with him.“First and foremost, Pedro Pascal is a genuinely nice man. You couldn’t ask for a nicer more pleasant person to work with,” Cage began.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have stepped in for Foo Fighters on this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival line-up, after the latter band cancelled all their forthcoming live appearances in the wake of the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.After the coronavirus pandemic halted the festival for two years running, the event returns to the southern city this year from April 29 to May 8.Stevie Nicks, The Who and Willie Nelson will headline proceedings, with The Black Crowes, Jason Isbell, Elvis Costello, Death Cab For Cutie, Norah Jones, Randy Newman and Kool & The Gang among many others also on the line-up.Red Hot Chili Peppers Added to the Jazz Fest Lineup on Sunday, May 1!Also don’t miss The Who, Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett, Luke Combs, Lionel Richie, The Black Crowes and hundreds more, April 29 – May 8. Tickets on sale at https://t.co/siDGJzjRZf.

NEW ORLEANS -- The group Red Hot Chili Peppers has been added to the lineup of the 2022 New Orleans Jazz Fest, organizers announced Friday.The rock band's appearance is set for Sunday, May 1, and will be its first at the event since 2016.The group has sold 80 million albums, collected six Grammy Awards and been inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of Fame. Their 12th studio album, “Unlimited Love,” was released April 1.Last month, the festival announced plans to find a replacement for the Foo Fighters, which canceled all upcoming concert dates after the death of the band's drummer, Taylor Hawkins.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLauren Lapkus and Krysta Rodriguez are set for the lead roles in the CBS multi-cam comedy pilot “Sober Companion,” Variety has learned.Rodriguez will play Eliza, described as a fun-loving, quick-witted alcoholic who runs a bookstore/bar with her uncle in New Orleans. After one too many run-ins with the law, she is assigned a court-appointed Sober Companion who will force her to confront her demons, get her act together, and stay sober, all while driving her completely nuts.Lapkus will play Shelley, Eliza’s Sober Companion.

Chris Willman Music WriterJohn Swenson, a veteran of rock journalism’s early years at Rolling Stone and Crawdaddy and later a chronicler of jazz, died Monday at 71 at his home in Brooklyn. He was reported to have been battling cancer for several years.Swenson started writing about music in 1967 and became one of the most familiar bylines in music journalism in the 1970s as he moved between not just Rolling Stone and Crawdaddy but Creem, Circus, Zoo World, Rock World, Beetle, Sounds and the Village Voice.His music writing later appeared in Spin, Musician, Saturday Review, UPI, Reuters, High Times and Stereophile, among other publications.

NEW ORLEANS -- Rock band Foo Fighters is canceling all its upcoming tour dates including a scheduled May 1 performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, following the death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins.The group was not included on the release Tuesday of the festival's “cubes," which list the times and stage assignments for every performance scheduled during the two-weekend event.The festival is returning after a two-year hiatus brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 festival will run from April 29 until May 1 and May 5 through May 8 at the Fair Grounds Race Course.In an announcement via Twitter, the Foo Fighters confirmed the tour cancellation “in light of the staggering loss of our brother Taylor Hawkins.

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Slaughter (The Card Counter) has boarded Amazon Studios’ film The Burial, which is currently in production in New Orleans.

burned through some $150 million — blown on eccentric splurges such as a 67-million-year-old dinosaur head, a couple of islands and the first “Superman” comic — but his exotic pets are a constant. He’s cared for snakes, crows, cats, turtles, fish and at least one octopus. As revealed in the April issue of GQ, maintaining his menagerie comes with challenges and pleasures.

Nicolas Cage is in new phase of life. In a recent interview with , the 58-year-old actor shares how the impending birth of his third child has led to quieter days.Cage is already dad to 31-year-old Weston Cage and 16-year-old Kal-El Cage from previous relationships, and his 27-year-old wife, Riko Shibata, is now expecting her first child, his third. Cage says they already have the names picked out, which are inspired by his late father, August Coppola, and his uncle, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.  The couple like the names Akira Francesco for a boy and Lennon Augie for a girl.“Augie was my father's nickname,” Cage tells the magazine, «And my uncle has decided to change his name to Francesco.»As for becoming a father of three, Cage is thrilled.

Nicolas Cage, 58, married his fifth wife, Riko Shibata, 27, in Feb. 2021, and he’s confident that this is going to be the marriage that lasts for him. “I am a romantic, and when I’m in love, I want to give that person everything I can,” Nick told GQ in a new interview. “It’s my expression of saying, ‘I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.’ And this is it for me. I mean, this is not happening again. This is it. This is it.”