Success of 'To All the Boys' puts stars on Hollywood's radar

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Spike Jonze has dropped the first trailer from his forthcoming documentary, “Beastie Boys Story,” on the trailblazing New York trio of rappers due later this year.

By Nellie Andreeva

Mart Crowley in his office (Photo courtesy UCLA Library)

Mart Crowley, the writer ofThe Boys in the Band,the pioneering 1968 play about a group of openly gay and bisexual friends in New York City, has died. He was 84.

Mart Crowley, the trailblazing playwright behind “The Boys in the Band,” died from complications after suffering a heart attack, according to the New York Times. He was 84.

Claes Bang poses for a photo with co-star Elizabeth Debicki at the Cinema Society screening of their movie The Burnt Orange Heresy on Thursday (March 5) in New York City.

Winona Ryder and Zoe Kazan get sandwiched in by John Turturro and Morgan Spector at the premiere of HBO’s The Plot Against America held at Florence Gould Hall on Wednesday night (March 4) in New York City.

Chris Fenton, a longtime Hollywood executive who witnessed and assisted in the birth of the mega-rich marriage between Hollywood and China, is set to release a tell-all book about the process.

Rocker Billy Idol is the face of an anti-idling campaign launched Thursday in New York City.

With Asian and Asian American actors and filmmakers gaining prominence in Hollywood — the latest example: Parasite and The Farewell winning top honors at the Oscars and Spirit Awards — their counterparts in the executive suites are stepping up as well. Nina Yang Bongiovi, who runs Forest Whitaker's Significant Productions, revealed Feb.

New Order and the Pet Shop Boys are teaming up for a major North American tour.

NEW YORK -- The 2018 release of the Netflix teen rom-com "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," changed the lives of its stars, Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, by putting them on Hollywood’s radar.

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2018 release of the Netflix teen rom-com "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," changed the lives of its stars, Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, by putting them on Hollywood’s radar. "People are taking me more seriously," said Condor, a 22-year-old Vietnamese American.

Technical employees at Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform popular with film and music producers among others, have voted to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, the OPEIU said Tuesday. The 85-member bargaining unit will affiliate with OPEIU Local 153 in New York.In a Hollywood twist, the employees’ goals were not primarily around wages, benefits or working conditions, the usual focus of labor organizing drives.

Pop Smoke, a rising New York rapper, was fatally shot in a home in the Hollywood Hills early Wednesday, law enforcement sources confirmed.