Warner Bros. has announced the full cast and plot of “Magic Mike XXL.” The sequel will include Elizabeth Banks, Donald Glover, Amber Heard, Jada Pinkett Smith, Andie MacDowell and Michael Strahan. “Magic Mike” stars Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez and Gabriel Iglesias will return for “XXL.” Strahan also announced the […]
Should transgender roles always be played by transgender actors? It’s a question that garnered a lot of attention following Jared Leto’s role in “Dallas Buyers Club,” and Felicity Huffman offered her take on the issue while chatting with HuffPost Live this week. Huffman played a transgender character herself in “Transamerica,” despite her identity as a […]
WASHINGTON — A new advocacy campaign is borrowing from Beyonce to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to support a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. J Street, an American advocacy group that promotes Middle East peace, has released a graphic depicting a cartoonish Netanyahu that reads, “If you like it then you should put […]
In a no-holds-barred Billboard interview, Stevie Nicks confirms a long-standing rumor: She was once pregnant with Eagles frontman Don Henley’s baby.
“The Fault in Our Stars,” the popular Y.A. weepy that spawned one of the year’s most profitable films, has been banned from the Riverside Unified School District middle schools. The ban comes in response to a challenge from at least one parent, Karen Krueger, who felt the morbid plot, crude language, and sexual content was […]
Just when we thought we had reached the nadir/apex of human existence in a post-“Anaconda” world, here’s Mastodon’s music video for “The Motherload.” The video is basically a butt avalanche; swarms of women twerk really fast from a distance (and twerk some more in slow-motion close ups). There’s also some tree people, these guys carrying […]
On Sunday night at the New York Film Festival, Martin Scorsese’s new documentary, “The 50-Year Argument,” had its New York premiere. A retrospective on The New York Review of Books, the film seems to come with an obvious challenge: How do you make highfalutin literary and political criticism cinematically interesting? Led by the indelible editor […]
Former President George H.W. Bush — a known prankster — pulled a fast one on the real-life Washington fixer who inspired ABC’s hit “Scandal.” As anyone who’s a “Scandal” fanatic knows, Olivia Pope (played by Kerry Washington) is involved in a complicated and steamy love affair with President Fitzgerald Grant III (Tony Goldwyn). Pope, the […]
Last week we were graced with John Malkovich’s homage to some of history’s most iconic images. Now, thanks to a humorous caricature artist, British actor Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean, is making his own mark on (art) history. Rodney Pike replaced the faces of nearly 30 works with Atkinson’s in an ongoing series that includes […]
DAVID PORTER, Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and other people in a limousine struck from behind by a Wal-Mart truck on a highway in June are at least partly to blame for their injuries because they weren’t wearing seatbelts, the company said in a court filing Monday. The filing was made […]
