She is on the brink of becoming one of the most powerful women in Britain. He and his brother gave a certain swagger to his home city.
05.03.2024 - 10:53 / variety.com
Angelique Jackson Taraji P. Henson is going to keep telling her truth. As she took the stage at the 2024 ABFF Honors on Sunday night, “The Color Purple” star pointed to a tattoo on her left bicep that spells out those words exactly: “The Truth.” “If you are alive and God blessed you with another day to live, it is your job to tell your truth,” Henson told the crowd gathered for the American Black Film Festival’s marquee gala.
“Because by you telling your truth, you set yourself free and somebody else free. When we stay quiet, nothing changes. The squeaky wheel gets fixed.” That ideology is something Henson’s learned to keep close over the years, particularly when it comes to navigating Hollywood.
Late last year, Henson spoke her truth and sparked an important conversation about the unique challenges Black actresses face. She used her platform during “The Color Purple” press tour to call out issues of pay inequity and the substandard services offered to — or rather denied — Black talent in regard to trailers and transportation. But instead of investigating her claims and searching for the root of the problem with the way the industry calculates actors’ value, internet sleuths invented a feud between her and “The Color Purple” producer Oprah Winfrey.
Commenters analyzed the body language between the two, claiming there was tension, until Henson squashed the rumors in a social media post, saying that Winfrey made her “feel heard” in the fight for better conditions. Since then, Henson was named one of Time’s Women of the Year for speaking that truth and is now filming the Peacock limited series “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” with Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Terrence Howard and Dexter Darden.
She is on the brink of becoming one of the most powerful women in Britain. He and his brother gave a certain swagger to his home city.
Josh Homme‘s son covered Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath as part of the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman’s recent benefit gig.Earlier this month, Homme announced a one-night only benefit gig in support of his charity, The Sweet Stuff Foundation at the Belasco Hall in Los Angeles.As previously reported, Matt Helders, Beck and St. Vincent all performed at the show earlier this week alongside The Kills, Jesse Hughes, Bill Burr, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Justin Willman, Sarah Silverman and more.During the same show, Homme’s son Ryder’s band Vivant also covered Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’ and Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’ – you can watch a performance of the former below.It comes after Homme’s son also played tambourine alongside his dad at a previous benefit show during a rendition of QOTSA’s ‘Into The Hollow’.Elsewhere at the recent show, Dave Grohl also unveiled a new song he wrote about Homme, which he wrote upon being invited to perform at the concert.
Megan Thee Stallion has announced UK, European and North American dates for her ‘Hot Girl Summer’ 2024 tour.Stallion’s tour will consist of 32 dates across North America, Europe and the UK set for the spring and summer. The first show will kick off at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Holly Jones Stifled artist-in-wait Ana Callet (Macarena Sanz) lives in the chaotic shadows of her boss, clandestine creative phenom Bassil. When she notices a rare condition is slowly causing her to disappear, she’s forced to leave her lucrative career behind and set out toward the cure for her ailment, which consists of sifting through a winding personal purgatory that nudges her toward metamorphosis.
's had one of the juiciest storylines of the hit Netflix dating show, and after a that left us with more questions than answers, we've been dying to get some closure on the end of this relationship.Enter Nick Viall, former Bachelor star and host of the podcast, who sat down with Blackwell and Presnell to get to the bottom of what went wrong, what wasn't shown in the final edit of the show, and what happened after the cameras stopped rolling.Here's what we learned from with Chelsea Blackwell and Jimmy Presnell, which was published on March 19.Presnell says that after his and Blackwell's blowout fight over his relationship with one of his female friends, he was pretty checked out of his relationship with Blackwell. During this time, he told Blackwell that he needed space, and that he wanted to sleep at his own place.
Harry Potter fans should “forget” about the series “if your balls have dropped”.The actress, who played Professor Sprout in the film series, recently drew headlines after suggesting that adult fans “should be over that by now”.In a new interview with Australia’s News Breakfast, Margolyes doubled down on her criticism, saying: “I’m not unhappy about it. I just think that it’s for children. And if your balls have dropped, then it’s time to forget about it.
Filmmaker Zack Snyder has been stretching his franchise wings at Netflix in recent years with the “Army of The Dead” series and his current “Rebel Moon” space opera. However, the former zombie actioner seemingly got a warmer reception than the more recent two-part sci-fi fantasy pic loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai,” repurposed from a “Star Wars” pitch.
documents obtained by Page Six on Monday, Perry named Lisa Ferguson and Robin Ruzan to co-execute his $1 million estate in his Alvy Singer Living Trust, which he named after Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” character.The 1977 movie follows Alvy Singer (Allen), a neurotic comedian who tries to figure out why his relationship with Annie Hall (Dianne Keaton) ended, and he spends time questioning the nature of love. The movie has a bittersweet ending, as the former couple meet again after they’ve both moved on.
Siddhant Adlakha A carefully constructed and often sobering documentary about disinformation, “How to Build a Truth Engine” makes meticulous efforts to lay out its visual and thematic groundwork. However, its chilling portrait of the digital world comes up against a unique roadblock.
Starz has greenlit Down in the Valley, a documentary series inspired by the hit series P-Valley from executive producers Katori Hall and Nicco Annan. Hall is the creator of P-Valley and Annan has starred as Uncle Clifford since the show’s inception. The project will debut later this year.
Donald Trump could earn him criminal charges — is back in the spotlight. Daniels (née Stephanie Gregory Clifford), who is also an adult film director and a former stripper, is the subject of a new documentary called “Stormy,” from director/producer Sarah Gibson and Erin Lee Carr (“Britney vs Spears”). “People think they know the facts of the case, but it’s really shocking,” Carr told the Hollywood Reporter.
Angelique Jackson The documentary “Sue Bird: In the Clutch,” about the basketball legend’s final WNBA season and her impact on sports, has been acquired following its buzzy Sundance debut. Wolfe Releasing, the largest exclusive distributor of LGBTQ+ films, has picked up the North American distribution rights the feature documentary, which will become available for digital purchase and rental on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, VUDU and Wolfe On Demand beginning March 29.
Kirsten Dunst is nothing if candid and blunt. In a new Marie Claire interview profile about her new film, a political thriller, “Civil War,” but also about her life as a mom in Hollywood, Dunst’s DGAF attitude shined through.
and Josephine Baker led glamorous lifestyles in the 1920s, the term “the roaring twenties” has become one of the most unbecoming of the English language. Not least because culture writers thought we’d all exit lockdown and be thrust into a debauched ’20s of our own, but mainly because of the phenomena of prohibition bars, where “in-the-know-drinkers” wear feathered headbands and sip gin and tonics from mismatched chinaware.I’d suggest that most recent dress—a spring/summer 2011 Roberto Cavalli number, which pulled from the year 2010—is the closest thing culture will have to recreating a true 1920s fantasia.
Meghan Markle is reported to be joining Prince Harry on his next UK visit after he announced he would be returning to London more often following King Charles' cancer diagnosis.
Mark Ronson has shared an NSFW video of Sir Paul McCartney calling for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to induct Foreigner.The producer – famed for his work with Amy Winehouse and on the Barbie soundtrack – has a close connection to the band, with the guitarist Mick Jones being his stepfather. While appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Ronson opened up about his ongoing campaign to get Foreigner inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024.As a way to sway voters, Ronson revealed that he has been putting together a compilation of videos which include the likes of members of Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses and Queens Of The Stone Age sharing their support for the induction of Foreigner.“We decided to go all out this year and really try and get Foreigner on the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” he told Fallon.
NBC has set a two-hour primetime special to celebrate the 10th anniverary of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallon announced the special on his show Monday night, saying the past week was officially the show’s 10-year anniversary. The special will air May 14.
Liam Gallagher has once again taken aim at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and this year’s nominees, telling those behind the honour to “fuck off”.The comments about the Hall of Fame come after Oasis, for the first time ever, were listed as one of the acts revealed as this year’s nominees earlier this month.Others up for induction to the Cleveland hall for 2024 include Foreigner, Ozzy Osbourne, Jane’s Addiction, Dave Matthews Band, Mary J. Blige, Eric B.
Saturday Night Live set its sights on The Floor, Fox’s new game show hosted by Rob Lowe that has contestants facing off in a series of quiz duels.
The stars of The Color Purple were at the SAG Awards!