Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.
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Since Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram created the series in 2020, along with the help of showrunner Peter LoGreco, We’re Here has won four Emmys and shined a light on the drag and LGBTQ communities in small towns around the U.S. With today’s political climate, especially in smaller conservative areas where Pride events are being cancelled and hate is being directed towards the drag community, the trio decided that a format change was necessary for the fourth season to really get their message across: “There’s definitely a lot more love out there than hate.”
Season four of We’re Here breaks from the format of the first three seasons a bit, with four new queens – Priyanka, Sasha Velour, Jaida Essence Hall and Latrice Royale – and focusing on only two locations with three episodes in Tennessee and three episodes in Oklahoma. The series stills has the queens finding and connecting with drag daughters as they learn their stories and help them be more comfortable with who they are in their conservative towns. With more time in each location, Warren, Ingram and LoGreco were able to dive deeper into personal stories while exploring the political and social issues of each area.
DEADLINE: What prompted the changes to season four of We’re Here, and how did Priyanka, Sasha Velour, Jaida Essence Hall and Latrice Royale get involved?
JOHNNIE INGRAM: Well, we are just so happy to have a season four of We’re Here and we wanted to explore and showcase all different types of drag. I think to meet the moment of the political climate that has increasingly been attacking the trans and the drag community specifically, we definitely thought it was important to expand the We’re Here family and go a little bit deeper, not only into the
Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.
The Sage Steele Show,” Carolla was asked how he could still live in Los Angeles, a question he responded to with a loud groan and exclaimed, “It’s horrible.” After telling host Sage Steele how he grew up in L.A. and that his comedy roots were made in the city, Carolla insisted it’s “time to move.”“I have twins, and they’re in their senior year of high school and I couldn’t- I didn’t want to pick up and, you know, tear up their roots, you know? So people always go, ‘When are you leaving?’ And I go, I will be attending their high school graduation in a U-Haul,” Carolla quipped. “That’s a sad testimonial about California and sort of recent downturn in L.A.
As the UK general election heats up, John Oliver is taking a look at his country’s options… and a social media moment that lives in his head rent-free.
Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! Today, I’m chatting with Johnnie Ingram and Stephen Warren.
Fred Again.. stopped his first headline stadium show in the US while performing a song in the crowd to tell fans to get off the stage – check out the footage below.The South London-born producer, born Fred Gibson, brought a synthesiser into the stands to perform ‘Adore U’ with Obongjayar during Friday’s (June 14) show, but had to pause the song to tell fans to get off the stage after they decided to turn it into a spontaneous rave.Also at the show at the 77,500-capacity Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, he brought Romy out for her 2022 single ‘Strong’, which he appeared on.The following day, he posted photos from the show on social media, saying, “I will never forget that, thank you.”Fred again..
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer.
Facebook that they arrived at the scene to find a “fully-involved fire” in Underwood’s garage at around 9:40 pm.The fire crew put out the flames at the home by using a 10,000 gallon water tank, according to local news station WKRN News 2.Firefighters reportedly remained on the scene for several hours since the fire got into the walls and kept flaring back up in hot spots.The cause of the fire is still under investigation, Williamson County Fire and Rescue said.Underwood, 41, her husband Mike Fisher, their sons Isaiah, 9, and Jacob, 5, and their pets were home during the fire. The singer’s rep confirmed that no one was injured in the incident.“There was a fire on the property on Sunday night, which was quickly contained,” the rep said in a statement to PEOPLE.
Naman Ramachandran Writer-director Rod Blackhurst has wrapped production in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on horror film “Dolly.” Blackhurst is the Emmy and Critics Choice nominated director and producer of Netflix original documentary “Amanda Knox” and the Tribeca Festival audience award-winning “Here Alone.” “Dolly” follows his acclaimed crime-thriller “Blood for Dust,” which premiered at Tribeca and won the narrative competition award at San Diego. “Dolly,” described by the filmmakers as a blend of New French Extremity and 1970s American horror, follows Macy, a young woman abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise her as their child. The cast includes Fabianne Therese (“John Dies at the End”), Seann William Scott (“American Pie”), Ethan Suplee (“Babylon”), Russ Tiller (“Blood for Dust”) and Michalina Scorzelli (“Shoplifters of the World”).
Carrie Underwood and her family are luckily safe after a fire broke out at their Tennessee home.
Despite tying the knot just last year, it looks like things are well and truly over for musician Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife, Firerose as the 62 year old has asked for a temporary restraining order.The country singer has sought to stop Firerose, whose real name is Johanna Rose Hodges, from using his credit cards after she allegedly racked up $96,986 (£77K) in unauthorised charges over a few weeks. Now, just weeks after filing for divorce, Billy Ray has filed for an emergency motion at a Tennessee court on Thursday, 13 June, seeking a temporary restraining order.This is reportedly in a bid to prevent his estranged wife from any "unauthorised" use of his personal and business credit cards and accounts.
Hunter Ingram A drag show takes a village, especially those featured in HBO’s docuseries “We’re Here.” Hair, makeup, song selection, choreography, lighting, props, Red Bull — there’s no shortage of things needed to help give life to the art form. But it all starts with a connection between two people. In the Emmy-winning series, well-known drag queens work with marginalized people in U.S.
Are Kristin Cavallari and Mark Estes taking the next step in their relationship and moving into a house together? Nnnope! Their relationship is serious, but it isn’t that serious yet!
An OnlyFans star has gone viral… But NOT for what she’d hoped for.
TMZ reported on Tuesday.In the court docs, Cyrus reportedly listed the former couple’s separation date as May 22, 2024.He cited irreconcilable differences and “inappropriate marital conduct” as the reasons for the split, per TMZ. Cyrus is also reportedly asking the court for an annulment and is claiming the marriage to Firerose was obtained by fraud.According to TMZ, Cyrus will pay Firerose $5,000 per month so she can get suitable housing in Tennessee for a period of 90 days, or until the divorce is finalized.
EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear on Tuesday announced the supporting cast for its Matthew McConaughey film The Rivals of Amziah King, which has wrapped production.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has $2 million for the ACLU’s Drag Defense Fund in the 14 months since the initiative was launched. Formed in April 2023 in partnership with World of Wonder, MTV and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the Drag Defense Fund defends constitutional rights and creative expression in the LGBTQ community at a moment when they are under attack and have become a rallying cry for many GOP political leaders and activists.
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival returns to the iconic Bonnaroo Manchester Farm for four days of party-starting EDM, rock and roll elder statesmen, up-and-coming pop icons, household name Hip-Hop icons and so much more.All of the above and more will be brought to the festival grounds by big name headliners including Fred Again, Chappell Roan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reneé Rapp and Post Malone.They’ll be joined by Carly Rae Jepsen, Megan Thee Stallion, Melanie Martinez, Diplo and Khruangbin.We’re just getting started too.In total, over 100 (!) artists are set to drop into the farm over the course of the long weekend.And if you want to see them all, last-minute tickets are still available for pickup.At the time of publication, our team found four-day general admission passes going for as low as $267 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $83 before fees.Still looking for a few more details before smashing that buy button?We’ve got everything you need to know and more about the 2024 Bonnaroo Festival below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all available single and multi-day general admission passes can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
“We have to do something,” says one of the many shadowy extremists who populate the fringes of Mike Ott’s tense drama McVeigh, a condensed account of the events that led Timothy McVeigh, an Iraq war veteran, to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma on 19 April 1995, killing 168 people and injuring 680 more. His close ties to white supremacist Richard Snell, a convicted murderer put to death by lethal injection that same day, might — reasonably — lead one, and especially people of color, to wonder why this man needs the oxygen of publicity, nearly 23 years after his own execution. But Mike Ott’s film is a rare study of the radicalization of white working-class Americans, a phenomenon that went overground in Washington DC on 6 January 2021.
Love Island as we know it launched nearly a decade ago in 2015, but there was an earlier version of the dating show that was broadcast in 2005, in which 13 single celebrities spent five weeks together in a villa in Fiji hoping to find love and also win a share of the £100,000 grand prize. The series – originally called Celebrity Love Island – was presented by Patrick Kielty and Kelly Brook.
Selome Hailu There aren’t enough Native women on TV. But when they do get hired, they’re often playing cops. “Not to take away from the performances of all these actresses, who I admire so much and are doing a beautiful job,” says Lily Gladstone, “but it’s almost the only role that we get to see.” So it’s understandable that Gladstone had something of a checklist in hand when she first met with the producers of “Under the Bridge.” They were offering her the role of Cam Bentland, a police officer investigating the 1997 murder of Reena Virk (played by Vritika Gupta), a 14-year-old child of Indian immigrants in Saanich Core, British Columbia.