Comedian Brody Stevens Dead at 48

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The comedy community has lost a unique and beloved voice today. His death immediately drew an outpouring of love from fellow members of the L.A. comedy scene online. He pushed creative boundaries and his passion for his work and his love of baseball were contagious. He was beloved by many and will be greatly missed....

February 22, 2019 · 2 min · 277 words · Edward Blake

EmpireCuts Jussie Smollett From Last Two Episodes of the Season

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Jussie has been an important member of ourEmpirefamily for the past five years and we care about him deeply. He also continued to deny, as he always has, that he fabricated the attack. Related Tags:

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 50 words · Michael Stone

From Snow White toTitanic’s Unsinkable Year: Revisiting the Longest, Strangest, Most-Popular Oscars

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (More on that later.) If the 1989 Oscars werent such an embarrassment would that have even become a tradition? But it might have resulted in a much more fondly remembered show. 1 film at the box office, passing $500 million in gross revenue. Throw in a still-beloved Billy Crystal as host, and, yeah, folks showed up....

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 162 words · Jennifer Humphrey

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden WorldIs Curiously Elegiac

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Youd think theyd have trained these dragons by now. But then again, this series has always asked a lot of its audience. Now, having become something of a tribal leader, Hiccup struggles with his responsibilities. A stunning, one-stop, all-expense-paid dream destination, is how Hiccup playfully describes Berk. Any run-of-the-mill paradise boasts beaches and sunshine. Weve got something no one else can touch....

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 125 words · Mark Payne

Judging the Oscar Shorts: The Good, the Grisly, and Our Picks to Win

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Yoshida:My God, what a gruesome bunch in this category! The collective experience of watching them altogether is alot. I hate to say it, but it all starts to feel a bit cheap after a while. No one could fathom the crime. No one wanted to fathom the crime even to go there would be too horrible....

February 22, 2019 · 4 min · 831 words · Stacy Castaneda

R. Kelly Charged With 10 Counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. R. Kelly is once again officially facing criminal charges forhis decades of alleged sexual abuse. Kelly will turn himself in and appear for a bond hearing on Saturday afternoon, she said. He is also scheduled to appear in court on March 8. These cases of sexual abuse allegedly occurred between May 1998 and January 2010, respectively....

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 128 words · Laura Daniels

Ricky Gervais Has Terminal Pessimism in theAfter LifeTrailer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But he has a good heart!) Related Tags:

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 23 words · Jesus Mathis

The Behind-the-Scenes History of Hugh Jackman’s Opening Number at the 2009 Oscars

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Then, once you get a song-and-dance man, you dont ask him to do a comic monologue. You instead ask him to sing and dance. Thats why Hugh Jackman turned out, in a way, to be the perfect answer to our prayers. Bill Condon (producer):We thought,Lets make it a good time inside the theater again. So we rebuilt the theater so the stage was closer to the audience....

February 22, 2019 · 8 min · 1529 words · Nathaniel Smith

The Emmy-WinningBarryReturns to HBO Next Month

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February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 15 words · April Pierce

The Next James Bond Film Gets a Really Familiar Working Title

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Live and Let Die.The Man With the Golden Gun.On Her Majestys Secret Service.Shatterhand. One of these things is not like the others. Sitting in a quiet library trying to look adult and studious while literally crying with suppressed laughter over Shatterhand. Related Tags:

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 58 words · Michael Davis

The Umbrella Academy’s Aidan Gallagher Is an Old Soul, Even If He Doesn’t Look Like It

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Turns out Way and his daughter were fans of his Nick show. All of the experiences Ive had with Gerard have been incredible. I definitely hold that one close to my heart. I read that you were a big fan of the comics, andyou even made a videoabout your audition. I get to play a 58-year-old time-traveling assassin....

February 22, 2019 · 3 min · 577 words · Edward Nelson

There Are Now Dueling Celine Dion Biopics in the Works

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Jimmy Dion, the singers nephew, is also writing the screenplay. Related Tags:

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 27 words · Barbara Flowers

Trevor Noah Finds a Shred of Good News in the Jussie Smollett Story

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. One of the strangest details of the case is that Smollett wrote his two attackers checks for their work. What, did he also write fake hate crime in the memo? Even amateurs know if you commit a crime, you go all cash, people. Now who do I make this check out to? Youve got to be shitting me, Noah said....

February 22, 2019 · 1 min · 101 words · Michael Henderson