If the world didn’t know the name of civil rights activist Annie Lee Cooper before, it will now. In the Golden Globe-nominated film “Selma,” Oprah Winfrey plays the real-life freedom fighter who was arrested in 1965 for taking a swing at a sheriff. Cooper is just one of the courageous, yet often overlooked women who […]
“For those who would trivialize the idea, this was what an actual attack on freedom looks like.” Those are the words of former editor of the The Onion, Joe Randazzo, in reaction to the horrific shooting of a dozen people, which included satirists, cartoonists and innocent bystanders, at French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. […]
Beyonce and her family came under fire after a photo surfaced showing them participating in a tiger attraction at a theme park in Thailand. Last week, a photo circulated on Beyonce fan pages of the singer, Jay Z and their daughter Blue Ivy beside a baby tiger being bottle-fed at the Phuket FantaSea park. Blue […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sienna Miller will step up to play the fishnet-and-bowler hat wearing chanteuse Sally Bowles on Broadway. Roundabout Theatre Company said Wednesday that Miller will take over from Emma Stone on Feb. 17 and play the final six weeks of the show’s run through March 29. Michelle Williams last year made her […]
Ah, the good ol’ days of shakes, fries and Le Big Macs. Anytime you attempt a mashup of two beloved TV shows or films, the results can be messy. Like unfortunate-character-in-a-Quentin-Tarantino film messy. But this time it works out with “Happy Days” and “Pulp Fiction.” One is a violent, bloody trudge through the world of […]
FOX’s new series, “Empire,” has drawn a great deal of attention leading up to its television premiere this week. The show, which centers around the trials and tribulations of former drug dealer-turned-music mogul running his own record label, has not only sparked a social media debate with 50 Cent accusing the show of duplicating his […]
Russell Crowe evoked some Internet wrath this week when comments he made about actresses needing to find age-appropriate roles seemed to imply he thought ageism wasn’t an issue in Hollywood. Crowe’s remarks, which originated in an Australian Women’s Weekly interview published before Christmas, named Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren as two women capable of finding […]
On May 5, 1970, a 25-year-old man named Gerald Springer ran for U.S. Congress in Ohio as an anti-war candidate in the midst of conflict in Vietnam. Just one day earlier, on May 4, 1970, four students were gunned down in broad daylight less than four hours up the road from Cincinnati at Kent State […]
One of America’s most respected fake news outlets took their time in responding to the shooting at French satire newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. Their first reaction came out at around 4:00 p.m. ET in the form of a new article: It Sadly Unclear Whether This Article Will Put Lives At Risk http://t.co/RZgoCOpNiL pic.twitter.com/ZCrj2Wp3rJ — […]
Phylicia Rashad, the actress who played Bill Cosby’s TV wife for many years, just broke her silence about the sexual assault scandal that has been plaguing her former co-star. She denounced the accusations that have been made publicly against Cosby by more than 20 women and said it was an orchestrated attempt to destroy Cosby’s […]
