Chris Rock has defended Jimmy Fallon over a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch in which he imitated the comedian while wearing blackface.
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Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross has praised the decision by several NBA teams to strike over the Wisconsin police shooting of Jacob Blake earlier this week. The Milwaukee Bucks, an NBA team located around an hour outside of Kenosha, where Blake was shot, never appeared on the court for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic Wednesday night.
Chris Rock has defended Jimmy Fallon over a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch in which he imitated the comedian while wearing blackface.
NAPLES, Italy -- The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a setting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples.It’s the latest stop for the house in a years-long saga that began when Parks’ niece saved the tiny two-story home from demolition in Detroit after the 2008 financial crisis.
Jessica Kiang Applying a minute and painterly eye to ordinary lives encircled by much larger circumstance — be it a motorway as in 2013’s Golden Lion-winning “Sacro Gra,” or the seaborne migrant crisis as in 2016’s Golden Bear-winning “Fire at Sea” — has led to Italian-American director Gianfranco Rosi’s most celebrated documentaries.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen you watch the filmed version of a show like “Hamilton” or “Springsteen on Broadway,” it can feel like the next best thing to being there. But Spike Lee’s playful and entrancing big-screen version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia” is better than the next best thing — it feels more like a whole new thing.Byrne’s spiky and exuberant 21st-century rock-concert-on-Broadway jamboree, which opened at New York’s Hudson Theatre on Oct.
Lily Allen and Stranger Things star David Harbour have reportedly tied the knot in Las Vegas.The singer and the US actor have been dating since last summer, and Allen has been pictured wearing a diamond engagement ring on several occasions this year.The Sun reports that the pair are now husband and wife after marrying in an intimate ceremony presided over by an Elvis Presley impersonator.Public records accessed by TMZ also reveal that the pair obtained their marriage license on Monday September
judge.The Scot was caged for 12 years last month for mouthing off towards Randall Basinger in Facebook rants posted last year.But the former US Marine, originally from Edinburgh, has written to the court contesting the “wrongful, misguided and erroneous” verdict. In a penciled note, Richey added: “My trial was biased, unfair and rigged from the onset.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilm Movement has acquired North American rights to “Rose Plays Julie,” an Irish psychological thriller directed by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor (“Further Beyond,” “Mister John”). The movie world premiered at the London Film Festival.
Jim Carrey wants back the America he knew and loved.
A new TV project charting the rise of U.S. tabloid culture — which had Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis in talks to co-create the series when it was recently announced — has hit a legal hurdle.
former couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, just announced the upcoming release of its latest “very exclusive” drink — Fleur de Miraval Rosé Champagne.In a press release shared with Us Weekly on Monday, August 31, Pitt, 56, promised that the latest libation is not just another “celebrity wine.” Far from it, in fact.
All American hasn't been afraid to start important conversations. In the series' third episode, "i," Spencer (Daniel Ezra) and his football teammate Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) get pulled over while driving a fancy convertible.
Also Read: Sarah Paulson Can't Say if She'll Star in 'American Horror Stories' - But She Will Be Directing Some of ItFranchise newcomer Macaulay Culkin is set to star in the new installment alongside Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Adina Porter, Lily Rabe, Angelica Ross and Finn Wittrock.Murphy first unveiled the lineup back in February with a teaser video suggesting a beach theme for the upcoming season.
First Lady Melania Trump took center stage on Tuesday evening. Dressed in a military-inspired Alexander McQueen jacket, the ever-stylish first lady delivered her highly anticipated Republican National Convention speech from the newly restored White House Rose Garden, which she had unveiled days prior.
Matthew Carey In 2019 filmmaker Roger Ross Williams contended for an Emmy with his VR documentary Traveling While Black, a sensory experience that told the true story of the Negro Motorist Green Book (as opposed to the 2018 Oscar-winning film, which opted for a white-centric storyline).With final 2020 Emmy voting now underway, Williams is back in contention with The Apollo, another documentary that speaks forcefully to the African-American journey.