Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee — Fame, plays and plaudits

urged fans to boycott Love’s version of the Beach Boys after they chose to perform at an annual convention for Safari Club International, an organization that supports trophy hunting.

films and TV shows might be a primary concern when cameras begin rolling, but with many variables to control, there are times when control is lost, leaving actors with close calls or life-threatening injuries.Tragically, there is a long history of people dying on film sets, whether it be actors (The Crow star Brandon Lee in 1993), stunt performers (The Walking Dead's John Bernecker in 2017) or emergency service workers assigned to oversee certain sets (firefighter Lieutenant Michael Davison died

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.

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.

Joe Duttine has starred as Tim Metcalfe in Coronation Street since joining the soap in 2013.The actor, who hails from West Yorkshire, has racked up some serious television roles in his career since starting out in 1992 with his role on the cobbles his longest after TV series Pie in the Sky back in the nineties.

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.

films and TV shows might be a primary concern when cameras begin rolling, but with many variables to control, there are times when control is lost, leaving actors with close calls or life-threatening injuries.Tragically, there is a long history of people dying on film sets, whether it be actors (The Crow star Brandon Lee in 1993), stunt performers (The Walking Dead's John Bernecker in 2017) or emergency service workers assigned to oversee certain sets (firefighter Lieutenant Michael Davison died

A new special centered on the life of "Tiger King" star Joe Exotic will attempt to answer the lingering questions from the six-part Netflix series that took the world by storm earlier this year. “Joe Exotic: Before He Was King” is a prequel to the Joe Exotic story that ultimately found the former zoo owner and exotic tiger handler behind bars for charges related to animal abuse as well as conjuring a plan to kill his arch-nemesis and fellow big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin.

Drew Barrymore experienced another reunion on Friday's episode of her talk show — but instead of gal pals Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu showing up, it was Barrymore's ex-husband, Tom Green. The former couple's relationship was brief — lasting from just 1999 to 2001 — but impactful.

Vanderpump Rules star Katie Maloney is not feeling pressured to have kids with her husband, Tom Schwartz, amid her friends’ respective pregnancies.Beneath one of her Instagram posts, a fan shared how they were “ready for a baby announcement” from Maloney, 33, and Schwartz, 37. However, she directly responded to another commenter who suggested the “You’re Gonna Love Me” podcast host had “fomo” for being the “odd one out” of her pregnant friends.“[I have] zero FOMO.

NEW YORK -- Nikky Finney has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets. Judges praised Finney, known for such collections as “Head Off & Split” and “Rice,” for her “fierce moral conviction” and as a bard “for the African diaspora.”Finney's prize was among dozens announced Wednesday by the poets academy, with money exceeding $1.2 million.

Love Island 2020 winners Paige Turley and Finley Tapp are currently enjoying a loved-up holiday in Pilos, Greece.The reality stars have been spending their days soaking up the sun in the luxurious Westin Resort and enjoying fancy dinners in the evening.The couple are staying near to the ocean, and last week the former girlfriend of Lewis Capaldi shared a snap of herself looking chic on the beach in a large black straw sun hat and a pink swimming costume.