Sir Patrick Stewart is writing memoir, publisher announces

Construction on Kanye West's road to the White House has shut down. Ten days after the musician and clothing designer tweeted that he was running in the 2020 election, the effort seems to have quietly ceased.

Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso purchased a 6,000-square-foot penthouse in the Standish, a Beaux Arts building in New York's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, for $16.5 million. It was, at the time, Brooklyn's most expensive apartment.Now, he and his family are finally moving in.

NEW YORK -- Actor-writer-director Andrew McCarthy, a 57-year-old father of three, keeps getting asked about his “Brat Pack” years in the 1980s. He is now ready to answer.

obtained by the New York Times on Friday, the staff members — only referred to as “members of the WSJ newsroom” — requested the newsroom “appoint journalists to cover ‘race, ethnicity and inequality'; name two standards editors specializing in diversity; conduct a study of the race, ethnicity and gender breakdown of the subjects of The Journal’s ‘most prominent and resource-intensive stories'; and bring more diversity to the newsroom and leadership positions,” the Times reported.The newsroom

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNew York City began work Thursday on a prominent, yellow-lettered “Black Lives Matter” mural on the street in front of Trump Tower.New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, long a critic of Donald Trump’s presidency and the drain of his Manhattan headquarters on city’s resources, has backed the mural as a necessary show of solidarity with the movement. Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice have swept across the U.S.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerLongtime ESPN announcer Dave LaMont is apologizing for a comment he made while thinking his phone was on mute during a two-hour conference call with his ESPN college football colleagues.As reported by the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, a two-hour ESPN college football conference call was held last month. The topic was race in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Broadway fans are petitioning to rename a New York City theater after late actor Nick Cordero, who died this week due to complications from the coronavirus. The petition seeks to change the name of the city’s Longacre Theatre to The Nick Cordero Theatre in honor of the beloved Broadway actor.

Ryan Adams has issued an apology for having “mistreated people”. This follows the accusations of abuse that were made against him by a number of women, including his ex-wife Mandy Moore, last year.In a New York Times article in February 2019, six women, including Moore and musician Phoebe Bridgers, accused Adams of offering to help them in their careers, before harassing them and becoming emotionally abusive.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterFormer New York Times journalist Dana Canedy has been named senior VP and publisher of the storied book imprint Simon & Schuster.Canedy will start at Simon & Shuster on July 27. She had been in talks with then-senior VP Jonathan Karp to join the publishing company two years ago, but at the time didn’t feel that it was the right fit.

LOS ANGELES -- Dana Canedy will take on one of the biggest roles at Simon & Schuster. The New York-based publishing house announced Monday that Canedy has been named as senior vice president and publisher of the imprint — the first African American to hold the position.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticDana Canedy, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and a winner of the prestigious award during her long tenure at The New York Times, has been named publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint.As a successor to Jonathan Karp, who took over as Simon & Schuster president and CEO following the heart attack death in May of Carolyn Reidy, Canedy becomes the first Black publisher in the company’s history.“I am confident that as our new publisher, Dana can

Brad Paisley opened 2020's re-imagined Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC with a good dose of country, performing "American Saturday Night" live from the Grand Ole Opry."American Saturday Night," off of Paisley's 2009 album of the same name, set a feel-good tone for the night's program, which was hosted in New York City but featured musical performances from artists around the country.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana movie Spencer, which is set to star Kristen Stewart as the former royal, was a hot seller for FilmNation out of the Cannes virtual market.The New York-based firm all but sold out on the project, closing deals for the UK, France, Italy and Benelux (STX Entertainment), Germany and Switzerland (DCM), Australia/NZ (Roadshow), Latin America, Spain and Portugal (Sun), South Korea (Green Narae) and Japan (Tohokushina).Buyers

Diet Cig have announced a ticketed live-streamed show for later this month.The New York duo, whose second album ‘Do You Wonder About Me?’ arrived in May, will broadcast the show via the NoonChorus platform.Fans will be able to tune in at 8pm EST on July 31 – you can purchase tickets here.Half of the proceeds made from the virtual performance will be split between The Okra Project (a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people) and the venues Cat’s Cradle, The

Billboard has reached out to MTV for comment.In May, MTV told Billboard in a statement that they were looking into the possibility of safely holding the event live. "We're exploring with government officials, the medical community, and key stakeholders on how to safely hold the 2020 VMAs at Barclays Center," an MTV spokesperson said at the time.

Platform 15 of in the disused former railway station, opposite Piccadilly, it will combine restaurant quality food vendors, bars, secret dens, music, immersive art, festival takeovers and family-focused events.

NEW YORK -- Kimberly Jones, the author and activist whose "How Can We Win?” video following the murder of George Floyd was shared online by Lebron James and Trevor Noah among others, has a deal for two books. Henry Holt and Company announced Thursday that for the first book Jones will expand upon the 3-minute video, in which she likened the economic history of Blacks in the United States to a rigged game of monopoly.