Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even at 68, Pam Grier looks like she can still kick butt. And the looks don’t deceive, Grier said. While having never played a superhero, “I’m super in real life,” said Grier, smiling and flicking back some of her flowing hair. In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2017, actress Pam Grier is […]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Winners of the MTV Video Music Awards, presented Sunday at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Kendrick Lamar arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Video of the year: “HUMBLE.” Kendrick Lamar Artist of the year: Ed […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Hart has made a sizable donation to flood relief efforts in Houston, and he wants some of his famous friends to do the same. FILE – In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, Kevin Hart poses at Kevin Hart’s “Laugh Out Loud” new streaming video network launch event at the Goldstein […]

About ten minutes into Showtime’s upcoming documentary “Whitney: Can I Be Me”, Houston’s two older brothers, Michael and Gary are shown standing in the backyard of the family’s modest two-story Cape-style former home in East Orange, N.J. Michael wears a baseball cap set defiantly at an angle. Gary’s newsboy hat is perched unassumingly atop his […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91. Publicist Candi […]

It is not just business executives who are moving away from President Trump after his remarks about neo-Nazis, white supremacists and protesters. The dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, who will be honored by the Kennedy Center in December, announced on Thursday that she will forgo the related reception at the White House. Dance Legend, Carmen de […]

When Thursday’s take comes in tomorrow, Universal’s Girl Trip will have crossed the $100M mark domestically, making it the first film to be produced (Will Packer, Malcolm D. Lee), directed (Malcolm D. Lee), written (Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver) and starring (Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Tiffany Haddish) African Americans. GIRLS TRIP (2017) […]

The twin sisters of the late Natalie Cole are opening up to PEOPLE following the sudden death of her son, Robert Yancy. Yancy passed away on Tuesday (8-15-17) at the age of 39. So far, it’s being reported that he died from a heart attack, however San Fernando Valley police are awaiting autopsy results to confirm that. In the meantime, Timolin […]

DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin is set to retire in her hometown of Detroit and plans to open a nightclub in the city. The legendary soul singer tells the Detroit Free Press that she is moving from her longtime home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. FILE – In this Nov. 24, 2016, file photo, Aretha Franklin […]

As my phone interview with the effervescent Kellee Stewart commences, she mentions there is a rainstorm raging outside. I am taken aback by the image of such an unlikely atmospheric disturbance assaulting Los Angeles until she explains that she is in a town right outside of Philadelphia with the unconventional name King of Prussia. Named […]