Original Mickey Mouse Club ‘Mouseketeer’ Bonni Lou Kern dead at 79

@KearneyRob speaks about his brother Ross, who passed away tragically in 1988.#LateLate pic.twitter.com/ZEwjDHgFIU— The Late Late Show (@RTELateLateShow) October 16, 2020‘In some complex way, I felt like he was out there on the field with me,’ Rob told Ryan.‘We went back to the hotel room that night in Cardiff and Mum, Dad and Richard came up.’‘I was cleaning out my gear bag and I threw the jersey to Richard.

It doesn’t matter what a film’s plot is about when it stars such incredible actors such as Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Whenever you see actors at that caliber headlining a film, tickets are automatically sold.

Ed Meza @edmezavarGermany’s Maze Pictures has boarded Moscow-based Metrafilm’s KGB comedy series “Pawns,” from writers Michael and Lily Idov, who penned the award-winning 2018 Cannes competition screener “Leto.”The company, which has offices in Munich, Berlin and Lucerne, Switzerland, is also developing a miniseries based on “Ghosts of Berlin,” a book of supernatural stories by filmmaker Rudolf Herzog (son of Werner Herzog), and the tentatively titled mystery series “Parallels.”On the film

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIn an election full of ludicrous theatrics, Mike Pence may have hit a new high and low simultaneously in the latest Republican swipe at Kamala HarrisJust hours before the former Governor of Indiana faces Senator Harris in the first and only Vice-Presidential debate of the campaign, the GOP incumbent’s team has revealed they have put aside a ticket for Tupac Shakur.Yep, you read that right.

Spike Lee still gets recognized on a walk in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.On this sunny September morning, the 63-year-old director and activist is participating in a socially distanced photo shoot on the street outside his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. As Lee stands on the corner, a dark Subaru screeches to a halt.

IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan has shed more light on the band’s progress on their next album in a new interview, saying they have “lots of ideas” for the follow-up to ‘Ultra Mono’ and that there are “30 songs on the table”.Earlier this week, frontman Joe Talbot revealed IDLES were already working on their next record, following the release of ‘Ultra Mono’ in September.In an interview at virtual guitar show Guitar.com Live, broadcast October 3, Kiernan also said that work had already begun on the

Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an actor known for roles in Spike Lee films including “Clockers” and “Get on the Bus.”Byrd worked with Lee in a number of the acclaimed director’s films, beginning with 1995’s “Clockers,” in which he played a drug lord’s enforcer. Byrd would return to the big screen in Lee’s “Girl 6” (1996), “Get on the Bus” (1996), “He Got Game” (1998), “Bamboozled” (2000), “Red Hook Summer” (2012), “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” (2014) and “Chi-Raq” (2015).

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Spike Lee is paying tribute to late actorThomas Jefferson Byrd, who starredin a myriad of the director's films including Clockers, He Got Game and Red Hook Summer. Lee took to Instagram Sunday to reveal that Byrd was murdered Saturday night in Atlanta, Georgia.In his post, Lee shared a photo of Thomas as the character Errol Barnes in his 1995 film, Clockers.

Roswell‘s legacy still looms large, two decades later.The series, based on the Roswell High YA books by Melinda Metz, debuted on October 6, 1999. Shiri Appleby, Majandra Delfino, Colin Hanks and Nick Wechsler played high school teens in Roswell, New Mexico, who befriended a trio of teenage alien-human hybrids, played by Katherine Heigl, Jason Behr and Brendon Fehr.

children’s show ‘The Mickey Mouse Club.’  Bonni Lou Kern appeared at age 14 on the very first episode of ‘the Mickey Mouse Club’ in 1955 in a segment titled “Save Bonni Lou Kern!” She was a cast member during the first season of the popular Disney children’s show from 1955 until 1956. The series would run until 1959. Kern was given the Mousecar Award by Disney which is the highest honor awarded by the Company.   Paying respect this morning to one of our MMC older sisters.

Disney Junior has greenlighted a new series featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends. Mickey Mouse Funhouse is described as "a whimsical animated series for preschoolers and their families" that features Mickey along with classic characters Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBonni Lou Kern, one of the original Mouseketeers on television’s pioneering The Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950s, died September 28 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Wooster, OH. She was 79.Kern, a California native whose married name was Bonni Carr, appeared as a Mouseketeer in 1955-56 and was featured in the episode titled “Save Bonni Lou Kern!” in which the 14-year-old girl was caught in a fishing net.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsBlackpink will kick off a new behind-the-scenes YouTube series, which begs the question: How you like that?YouTube announced Wednesday that it is launching a new original weekly series, Released. Set to premiere Thursday, the weekly sixteen episode series will feature some of music’s most noteworthy artists and show the exciting moments right before they drop new music.Released, hosted by Washington D.C.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to