Toy Fair Canceled In NYC For Second Straight Year Due To Covid Concerns

Doja Cat has cancelled her appearance at the 2022 BRIT Awards after members of her road crew tested positive for COVID-19.In a tweet shared yesterday (January 31), the artist confirmed that “numerous members” of her touring crew (“both on and off stage”) had tested positive.“Unfortunately, due to cases of COVID within my crew, I will no longer be performing at the Brits,” Doja wrote. “It’s simply not safe for us to continue to rehearse together and put each other in harm’s way. I can’t wait to perform for my UK fans as soon as I can.

Frank Rizzo Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play “Intimate Apparel,” where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration between Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera, those passions fly free, revealing the operatic heart of “Intimate Apparel” in a new opera adaptation of this story of a 35-year-old Black seamstress aching for love in 1905 New York.The tight construction of the play, with its spare two-hander scenes and focus on the lives of ordinary and overlooked people, makes it a natural as a stripped-down chamber opera.

Salma Hayek is an ageless beauty.The 55-year-old actress showed off her stunning and flawless skin in a makeup-free selfie. In the snap, shared on Sunday, the star has wet hair and is rocking a blue bathing suit top as she poses for the photo."#selfiesunday #nomakeup," she simply captioned the photo.

EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald has elevated two coordinators and two assistants to agent in the talent department.

Yara Shahidi and Natalie Portman starred in the Dior Beauty Forever New Generation Foundation campaign to launch the brand's new Forever foundation.Taylor Hill rocked red Gymshark leggings while out and about in West Hollywood. Harry Jowsey went viral on social media after Netflix's Instagram account changed their bio telling their followers to flirt with the star.ABG Entertainment and Talent Resources are teaming up to host the Sports Illustrated The Party x Palm Tree Crew with musical performances by Kygo, Jack Harlow, Frank Walker, David Solomon, DJ Irie more at Century Park in Los Angeles on Feb. 12.

Adele may have just axed ANOTHER performance after canceling her highly-anticipated Las Vegas residency!

Sarah Palin needs to face consequences for this!

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“Spoiler Alert,” a new feature led by Jim Parsons from Focus Features, has added four stars to its ensemble cast.Antoni Porowski of Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” Tony award winner Nikki M. James (“The Book of Mormon”), Jeffery Self (“Search Party”) and Bill Irwin (“Rachel Getting Married”) have all joined the project directed by Michael Showalter.Having just wrapped principal photography in New York, the film is based on Michael Ausiello’s bestselling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words.” It charts the emotionally turbulent 11-month journey of Ausiello’s former partner Kit, from his diagnosis with terminal cancer to his death.

Guy Fieri has become a Food Network staple and one of the most well-known celebrity chefs, with popular shows like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and Guy’s Grocery Games. The TV star, 54, also has a loving family he’s proud of, including his wife, Lori Fieri, and two sons, Hunter, 25, and Ryder, 16.

Hulu is adapting Alexis Schaitkin’s novel Saint X, giving an eight-part series order to the project from writer Leila Gerstein and director Dee Rees.

Hockey star Clark Gillies has sadly passed away.

(CNN)Rapper Cardi B, who is a Bronx native, plans to pay the funeral costs for those who lost their lives in a deadly fire in that New York City borough.In total, 17 people died after a fire ripped through their Bronx apartment building. The state of New York announced this week that it would be granting $2 million to a fund for the victims.Cardi B said in a statement to CNN that "I'm extremely proud to be from the Bronx and I have lots of family and friends who live and work there still.""So, when I heard about the fire and all of the victims, I knew I needed to do something to help," she said.

NEW YORK -- The publisher of such blockbusters as Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” and John Grisham's “The Firm” has a memoir coming out next year.Stephen Rubin's “Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist” will be published by Applause Books in January 2023.While running such publishers as Doubleday and Henry Holt & Company over the past 30-plus years, Rubin worked on some of the era's most talked about books, from “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Firm” to Michael Wolff's “Fire and Fury.” He also published Bill O'Reilly's million-selling “Killing” history series and the Booker Prize-winning British novelists Ian McEwan and Hilary Mantel.“This book will give you a march through trade publishing from the '80s through today,” Rubin, who left Henry Holt in 2020 and is currently a consulting publisher at Simon & Schuster, said Thursday.

Attention single ladies of New York City: beware of West Elm Caleb!

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic is making the Oscar-shortlisted documentary The First Wave available for free for 48 hours, beginning tomorrow. Matthew Heineman’s film, shot in a Queens hospital as New York City endured the initial explosion of Covid, can be seen without commercial interruption through the ABC and National Geographic apps in the U.S., starting Thursday at 12:01 a.m. EST.

Cardi B is covering the funeral and burial costs of the 17 people that were killed in a New York City fire earlier this month.