Max Julien — famous for his leading role in the blaxploitation film ‘The Mack’ — has died. The actor/writer/producer passed away on Jan. 1, due to undisclosed circumstances — this according to his PR team … who says his wife discovered him early him Saturday morning. In a statement, they say in part … “During
Television icon Betty White passed away on New Year’s Eve and to pay tribute to the legendary entertainer, Saturday Night Live will air an encore presentation of the May 8, 2010 episode White hosted with musical guest Jay-Z tonight, Saturday, January 1st. White was 88 when she hosted the episode, making her the oldest person
Fans of the hidden camera prank show Impractical Jokers were stunned when Joe Gatto announced on Saturday that he is leaving the show and the comedy troupe behind it, The Tenderloins and they’ve taken to social medial to share how they feel about the surprising update. Gatto made the announcement in a post to his
Numbers, those longtime pillars of the entertainment business, determiners of pay scale and quantifiers of the hot and the not, are vanishing from public view. Streaming’s inexorable takeover of the industry has altered the once-straightforward process of measuring the performance of TV programs and movies. Of course, there has been grumbling for decades about Nielsen’s
Two people died and three others were critically injured Wednesday after a multi-vehicle crash in Fontana.
Grand Marshal LeVar Burton kicked off the 133rd Rose Parade with cheers from the crowd on Saturday, Jan. 1, when he led this year’s floats, horses and bands during the 5.5 mile procession down Colorado Blvd. The famed actor, director and literacy advocate hurriedly hopped onto the Grand Marshal float and made up time by
Snow and shivering temperatures have compounded the misery for hundreds of people whose homes were destroyed by a wildfire that tore through residential areas in Colorado. The blaze burned through at least 9.4 square miles (24 square km) on Thursday and firefighters eventually brought it under control on New Year’s Eve. The fire, in and
The medical chiefs leading the UK’s battle against coronavirus have been recognised with top awards in the New Year Honours list. England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and his deputy Professor Jonathan Van-Tam have been given knighthoods, along with the chief medical officers for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton, and Scotland, Dr Gregor Smith. Image:
A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, classic novels by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie and hundreds of thousands of pre-1923 sound recordings are among the works that entered that public domain on New Year’s Day 2022. Dorothy Parker’s first poetry collection Enough Rope, William Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay, and books by Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, T.E. Lawrence
Month by month, I’ve been reading amazing novels from all around the world that are available in English translation, in order to share those recommendations with all of you. I’ve read books from Catalonia, Mexico, France, Argentina, and Central Africa. And all through November, I read books from Japan — from strange, unsettling dystopias to
Daniel Craig, Spice Girls’ Mel B and Bernie Taupin were among the artists and celebrities who received awards as part of the Queen’s annual New Year Honours. Craig, notably, was awarded the same honor as his big screen counterpart James Bond —the Companion in The Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) — for
DAMN. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile make one hell of a pair. They performed together on Miley’s New Year’s Eve last night and those two can SING. I don’t think I was expecting to enjoy them as a duo as much as I did, especially because performances on these types of New Year’s Eve shows tend to
Guy Hands, the billionaire financier, is plotting the sale of the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) biggest landlord in what could be one of Britain’s biggest private equity deals of 2022. Sky News has learnt that Mr Hands’ Terra Firma Capital Partners has begun talks with investment banks about overseeing an auction of Annington Homes. City
Roughly 10 minutes into HBO Max’s Harry Potter reunion special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, Ron Weasley actor Rupert Grint comments on the surreality of it all. “It doesn’t feel like much time has passed. It doesn’t feel like we’ve earned a reunion yet.” In true Weasley-ian fashion, Grint has intuitively identified something
Vivo Y21T has been launched as an affordable offering in the Chinese company’s Y series. The new Vivo phone comes with a waterdrop-style display notch and triple rear cameras. Vivo Y21T also carries a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 SoC and is equipped with 18W fast charging support. The smartphone comes in two distinct colours to choose
The show will go on … it’s something Betty White must have said many times during her life, so it’s fitting the show dedicated to her life will go on, despite her passing. Betty’s life will be featured in a movie which was supposed to celebrate her 100th birthday on January 17. The flick was
Covid, neither gone nor forgotten in 2021, batted investors and markets for another year as attempts at business as usual were stymied by cycles of angst and rebound. Defensive stocks, growth stocks, value stocks, stay-at-home stocks were in one day, out the next. After a volatile year of ups and downs, broader markets ended on
An otter pup now in rehabilitation at Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific is playing a big role in the development of the facility’s 2-year-old “surrogate” program. In partnership with the Monterey Aquarium, which pioneered the surrogate model in the early 2000s, the Long Beach aquarium has paired the new pup, now about 20 weeks
Tributes have been paid to veteran actress Betty White who has died less than three weeks before her 100th birthday. The Golden Girls star, whose career spanned eight decades, reportedly died at her home on New Year’s Eve. Her death was confirmed by her longtime agent and close friend, Jeff Witjas. He told Associated Press
Further restrictions triggered by COVID must be an “absolute last resort” and the UK will now have to “live alongside” the virus in 2022, Sajid Javid has said. The health secretary has said the wave of Omicron infections will “test the limit of finite NHS capacity even more than a typical winter”, with reports suggesting