Valley Girls, Vocal Fry, and the New Sound of Power: Who Really Has ‘Permission to Speak?’

Shonda Rhimes is to be presented with a BAFTA Special Award at a tribute event in New York next month.

EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park has a big package here heading into the Cannes Market: The feature take of Kevin Barry’s New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year, Night Boat to Tangier starring Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Negga. The Ashok Amritraj studio will be presenting the James Marsh-directed project to global buyers at the Cannes Marche Du Film next month, with the Oscar-winning filmmaker and Fassbender in tow. Barry is adapting the screenplay from his novel.

widespread media coverage of the arraignment, Trump could be seen being led out of a doorway of the courthouse into a hallway, heavily surrounded by uniformed law enforcement. Trump wore a sullen, serious look as the law enforcement officers escorting him maintained emotionless expressions. Trump was charged with 34 felony counts related to an alleged hush money scheme to cover up extramarital affairs leading up the 2016 presidential election.“The defendant, Donald J.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief U.K.-based sales agent Mister Smith Entertainment has picked up international rights to “Grafted,” a New Zealand-set horror film which marks the feature directing debut of Sasha Rainbow. The film is now in production. Mister Smith will launch sales next month in Cannes. The film tells story of a Chinese student who travels to New Zealand to complete the scientific work of her deceased father only to find a new way of achieving popularity, one body at a time.

“Alas, one of you will betray me,” said Mikey Day tonight as Jesus Christ on Saturday Night Live. “It is foretold and though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried and found guilty,” he added.

Well, this is good news for the Smith family!!

UPDATED: Rupert Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith are no longer engaged, Deadline has confirmed, only weeks after news that the two were planning to tie the knot this summer. Smith was set to be wife No. 5 for the media mogul and chairman of Fox Corp.

EXCLUSIVE: Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (I Feel Pretty) have closed deals to write and direct Big Pink, an English-language remake of the Spanish dramedy La lista de los deseos for Monarch Media.

Naman Ramachandran Paris Hilton will be represented by transatlantic talent management company YMU under the recently formed FM Group banner, a division of YMU Music led by Alex Frankel, FM president and Chris Maher, FM COO. FM will work with Hilton across all of her global music business. Hilton, the co-founder of next-gen entertainment company 11:11, has a social audience of more than 64 million. Hilton’s recently released memoir “Paris: The Memoir” is currently No. 5 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller chart. After recently welcoming her first child, Hilton is currently focused on her return to pop music and a new album, a follow up to her 2006 debut “Paris,” with collaborators and friends including Miley Cyrus, Meghan Trainor, Diplo and Sia.

sticks to his announcement from earlier this month, then at some point on April 1 — which on the west coast, as of this writing begins in approximately 45 minutes — Twitter’s account verification system will end; at that point, all so-called “legacy” verified accounts will lose their blue checkmarks, and only people willing to pay $8 a month for a subscription to Twitter Blue will get to have them.But as we’ve seen all week, the plan to convert “legacy” verified account holders into paid subscribers doesn’t appear, so far, to be a rollicking success. Case in point, Musk’s apparent social media rival, President Joe Biden.

Viola Davis’ meeting with Julius Tennon wasn’t the stuff of great romances.

An unexpected Happy Valley reunion took place on Thursday night as stars showed up to support James Norton in his A Little Life debut in London. James, 37, is starring in the much-anticipated West End adaptation of the cult novel and was centre stage at celebrations after the show's press night. The production, which lasts a whopping 3 hours and 40 minutes, has a star-studded cast including James, It's A Sin actor Omari Douglas and Bridgerton's Luke Thompson.The play is adapted from the Booker Prize winning novel, which explores the story of four classmates who move to New York.

Almost 20 years after they first burst onto the scene with debut single Five Colours in Her Hair, McFly are ready to release their seventh studio album Power to Play.

Three lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the U.S. to promote LGBTQ and intersex rights abroad through its public policy.

As long as you love them! The Backstreet Boys have been tugging on fans’ heartstrings with their love songs since the ’90s, but the band members’ real-life romances have been just as sweet.

K-pop girl group BLACKPINK and Lady Gaga have been invited to perform for US president Joe Biden and South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol at an upcoming state dinner.According to a report by South Korean news outlet Korea JoongAng Daily, the pop stars have been invited to perform at an upcoming US state dinner between US president Biden and South Korean president Yoon.Yoon is set to make a state visit to the US on April 26, which will feature a joint cultural event at a state dinner with the US president. The dinner will reportedly begin with an opening ceremony, at which BLACKPINK and Lady Gaga have been invited to perform at.YG Entertainment has since confirmed that the girl group have received an invitation.

Jake Bugg played his 2012 debut single ‘Trouble Town’, perhaps better known as the theme song from BBC’s hit show Happy Valley, last night (March 23) at the Royal Albert Hall. Watch footage in the video below.Bugg was performing as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust‘s annual concert series when he played the song, taken from his self-titled debut album.

whether he will potentially be indicted and arrested for a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, called on his supporters to protest on Tuesday and “take our nation back.” But police estimated that between three and six people ended up showing up.Klepper noted that, while the number of attendees were low, the “arguments over some basic facts were refreshingly familiar.”After asking one supporter if it’s fair that Trump may be indicted this week, the supporter replied: “I don’t know all the specific facts, but I do know he’s my president.” They added that Joe Biden is a “scam” and is “allegedly there” as president. When Klepper pressed the supporter to admit that Biden is indeed the current president and Trump is a former president, he replied “that’s what some say.”Another supporter said they “don’t feel Trump should be in trouble.” “That’s unconstitutional, I feel, to indict our president.” they added.

passionately,” Tucker Carlson remains, publicly, one of Trump’s biggest media allies. So it comes as no surprise that the star of Fox News’ primetime lineup is very, very opposed to the idea of Donald Trump being arrested.But on Tuesday Carlson had a highly idiosyncratic hope for how Trump might be saved from legal accountability: Help from President Joe Biden. Now as a reminder, on Saturday, as part of a larger ALL CAPS rant on his Twitter clone, Truth Social, about various things that make him angry, Trump claimed that we would likely be arrested on Tuesday (today).

Rupert Murdoch just announced that he’s engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, less than a year after finalizing his divorce from model Jerry Hall.