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Bruce Willis Is “Stepping Away” From Acting Due to Aphasia
Bruce Willis is retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family announced. A joint statement shared by the Willis family explained that the veteran actor was recently diagnosed with aphasia, which is described by John Hopkins Medicine as “a language disorder caused by damage in a specific area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension,” and “leaves a person unable to communicate effectively with others.” His family wrote, “To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities. As a result of this and with much consideration Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to h...
Elliot Page Shares His Coming Out in Season 3 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’
Elliot Page has just taken to Twitter to share some developments of his character in The Umbrella Academy. Season 3 will see alternate versions of themselves where Page — who played Number Seven/Vanya Hargreeves — will now be Viktor Hargreeves. This reflects the actor’s coming out as a trans male back in December 2020, where he shared just how happy he was to fully embraced who he is and what the future holds. Fans can expect the new story to unfold on June 22 on Netflix. A first look at Viktor Hargreeves can be seen below. Meet Viktor Hargreeves ☂️@UmbrellaAcad pic.twitter.com/ZraQNBhfTb — Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) March 29, 2022 In other entertainment news, Bruce Willis is “Stepping Away” from acting due to aphasia. Read Full Article
Jared Leto’s ‘Morbius’ Rated at Just 19% on Rotten Tomatoes
Critics’ reviews are now in for Jared Leto‘s Marvel debut Morbius and it’s not looking great. While audience ratings aren’t in just yet as the film is set to premiere tomorrow, critics have already had a chance to form their opinions on the latest Spider-Verse installment, and as of writing, Morbius has scored just 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sifting through the reviews, the general consensus seems to be a lack of originality paired with a less-than-engaging plotline. “The cinematic equivalent of Murphy’s Law is demonstrated by this appalling superhero snooze-fest,” writes The Times UK‘s Kevin Maher. “It’s a movie without dramatic jeopardy, originality, narrative coherence, compelling characters or a single even vaguely human performance.” Rolling Stone‘s David Fear went as far ...
Ashanti To Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Ashanti will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month. According to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the Grammy-winning trailblazer will be honored with the 2,718th star on April 7 at 11:30 a.m. PT. Emcee Lupita Sanchez-Cornejo will reveal the star, which will be dedicated in the category of Recording at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard, alongside actress Tichina Arnold and artist Ja Rule. “Ashanti is an award-winning singer, author, actress, and executive producer,” Ana Martinez, Hollywood Walk of Fame producer, said in a statement. “She has proven her talent in many different Hollywood industries and is an example for young girls who want to be in the ‘biz.’” Ashanti took to Instagram to announce the news herself, writing “Speechless. Humbled. Honored. Grateful.” Ashanti first e...
Dom Deshawn Weathers the Storm on Tale of Two Seasons
Dom Deshawn’s latest album Tale of Two Seasons captures the almost helpless feeling of passing through the seasons, undergoing a change that you can’t control but is happening all around you. Like last September’s Maintainin’, the project emerges from the Columbus rapper–born Dominique Mattox–processing personal struggles within the larger global catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic. Deshawn captures this still-new struggle with isolation through the process of moving from fall to winter, with recent struggles of heartbreak and loneliness giving way to new opportunities for growth. Through the candor of his verses and the visual sharpness of his music videos, Deshawn’s music reflects on the many seasons of his own creative journey. Deshawn started rapping at age 18 after music overtook a p...
J. Cole’s Dreamville Announces New Mixtape With DJ Drama
J. Cole‘s Dreamville has joined forces with DJ Drama for a new mixtape dubbed D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape. The project, which will arrive as the follow-up to 2019’s Revenge of the Dreamers III, is out on March 31 at 7 p.m. ET. The official Dreamville Instagram account shared the news on Thursday, revealing that the label’s artists Ari Lennox, J.I.D, Bas, EarthGang, Cozz, Gold Mouf and Omen will appear on the record. J.Cole’s Dreamville mixtape will strategically debut a few days prior to Dreamville Festival 2022, which is slated to return to Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 2 and April 3. The event’s long-awaited, two-day return will feature performances from the Dreamville roster, as well as Lil Baby, Lil Wayne, Jeezy, T.I., Ja Rule, Ashanti, Kehlani, Moneybagg Yo, Bia, Rico Nas...
Binance becomes official crypto exchange partner of 64th Grammy Awards
The Recording Academy, a major music recording company famous for its annual music awards Grammy Awards, has inked a partnership with Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volumes. According to a joint announcement on Thursday, Binance became the first-ever official crypto exchange partner of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards and Grammy Week events to bring various Web3 technology solutions and experiences to the organization’s events and projects. The partnership was announced just a few days before the 64th Grammy Awards ceremony, which will take place on April 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Recording Academy co-president Panos Panay specified that the agreement envisions the development of new monetization avenues for the Recording Academy and the crea...
Joe Perry on Aerosmith’s Upcoming Las Vegas Residency, Their Underrated ’70s Output
Aerosmith started whatever day Steven walked in the door, says Joe Perry, his Boston accent flattening those r’s into ah’s. As in Steven Ty-lah. It’s refreshing that after 50 years in one of the most successful bands in history, Perry still sounds like he really doesn’t give a fuck. Like he would be just as content sitting on the beach, reading Lincoln Child novels with his wife Billie (“it gives us something to talk about”) at their new home south of Tampa — as doing the whole guitar-god thing. His aloofness is either a facade or a defense mechanism he’s adopted to stay sane in a band he once quit for caring about too much (more on that later.) Perry returned to Aerosmith in the ’80s, but by then the MTV music-video era was in full swing. The band never returned to that gritty, blue...
Billie Eilish Expertly Flushes Hater Who Mocked Her Oscars Dress
Winning is the best revenge, but so is an excellent clap back. After a TikTok user dissed Billie Eilish‘s flowing black Oscars dress and said she was one of the “worst-dressed” stars at Sunday’s Academy Awards, the singer flushed away the nasty comments with her typical witty aplomb. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “I hate to do it, but here’s my worst-dressed from the Oscars,” the Tokker said, adding a snap of Eilish in her custom tiered, ruffled, off-the-shoulder Alessandro Michele gown with a long, dramatic train — which, for the record, Vogue called an embrace of “classic Hollywood glamour.” “I’m sick of her s–t,” the commenter added. Eilish crushed her response, posting a commode clip, in which she sat with her pants down and threw up a peace sign and then a middle finger i...
TikTok ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Facebook’s Paid Campaign to Promote Negative Coverage of Social App
TikTok said Wednesday it was “deeply concerned” by a campaign paid for by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to promote negative coverage of the shortform social platform in local media coverage. As reported by The Washington Post, Meta has paid a “right of center” marketing firm, Targeted Victory, to lead a campaign that has included placing op-eds and letters to the editor in local papers to promote anti-TikTok sentiment, especially when it comes to children using the app. Targeted Victory allegedly worked with local operatives to promote the negative coverage around purported trends on TikTok harming children to compel lawmakers to take action; the firm also sought to promote positive coverage about Meta and use the anti-TikTok pieces to deflect from government antitrust and privacy ...
Eminem Loses Himself in ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Trailer: ‘Time to Show the World Who’s Mini Boss’
Eminem is for the children. Okay, not typically, but Marshall Mathers is all in when it comes to the upcoming Minions sequel. The Detroit don posted the trailer for Minions: The Rise of Gru on Wednesday (March 30), which is cued to his 2002 Oscar-winning underdog pump-up anthem “Lose Yourself.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news “One shot. One opportunity. Time to show the world who’s mini boss,” Em tweeted, along with a Minions emoji. As the song’s signature chugging rhythm bubbles up on the action set in the 1970s, we see 12-year-old Gru bragging that he’s going to be a “super-villain,” as he tosses a stink bomb into a movie theater causing a mass exodus. “This world is mine for the taking/ Make me king as we move toward a new world order,” Em memorably raps on the track as we se...
Could Austin Be the Model for How to Save a Music Scene?
Austin’s success in the last decade as the so-called Live Music Capital of the World has come with a major drawback – the artists who call the city home have been the first ones priced out of the market. That paradigm might begin to change thanks to a non-profit group organized by Austin venue owners along the city’s famed Red River Street. On March 18, members of the National Independent Venue Association flocked to one of those venues for a special happy hour toasting their survival and return to Austin after a two-year closure. Their host for the day, Empire Control Room owner and NIVA cofounder Stephen Sternschein and longtime colleague Cody Cowan, executive director of the Red River Cultural District, were on hand catching up with friends and discussing recent improvements to the area...
