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Ella Rubin Is The Chair Star Finding Inspiration In New York Museums
Who’s Watching? introduces a rising screen star, who details their latest role, and how they got there, in their own words. Kicking it off is the actress Ella Rubin, a filmmaking major who is balancing college with concurrent roles in Netflix’s drama The Chair, about the faults of academia at a university’s English department led by Sandra Oh’s Professor Ji-Yoon Kim, and HBO’s Gossip Girl reboot. Name: Ella Rubin Age: 19 Astrological sign: Virgo Born in: New York, N.Y. Where she lives now: I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and still live there. But I’m in college right now, studying filmmaking, so during the year, I’m there. Her first gig: I started acting when I was 11, and the first thing I ever did was a movie called The Rewrite where Marisa Tomei played my ...
Loretta Lynn ‘Heartbroken’ After Ranch Foreman Wayne Spears Dies in Middle Tennessee Flood
Lynn herself is “completely safe and healthy,” Lynn’s granddaughter and fellow musician Tayla Lynn said on social media. The official Facebook account for Loretta Lynn’s Ranch also shared a video of flood damage to the property, noting that the main road to the ranch was washed away. The ranch’s amenities include a full-service RV park, more than 300 power and water campsites, 18 cabins and numerous activities such as hiking, fishing, volleyball, campfire shows and more. The New York Times reports at least 22 people have been killed, with 50 others missing, in Middle Tennessee after flash floods ravaged the area over the weekend. Humphreys County has a population of around 18,500. According to the National Weather Service, nearby McEwen, Tenn. (also located in Humphreys County), reco...
Kacey Musgraves Drops New Song, Announces Upcoming Album & Film ‘Star-Crossed’
Kacey Musgraves announced on Monday (Aug. 23), that she will release her upcoming studio album, Star-Crossed, on Sept. 10 via Interscope/UMG Nashville. She also dropped the project’s title track. For the new project, Musgraves reunited with Ian Fitchuk and Tashian, her collaborators on the Grammy-winning 2018 project Golden Hour. A press release for Star-Crossed describes the album as being “structured as a modern-day tragedy in three acts,” one that relates “an extremely personal journey of heartache and healing.” The 15-song album marks the first since Musgraves’ divorce from fellow musician Ruston Kelly. The couple wed in 2017 and announced their split in July 2020. In the title track, which was also released Monday, Musgraves includes the lines, “Signed the papers yesterday/ You ...
T.I. Encourages Lizzo After Her Tearful Reaction to Haters: ‘Keep Doing What You Do’
A Facebook company spokesperson confirmed to Billboard that Facebook and Instagram were taking down hateful comments under her accounts as well as removing accounts. Tip also encouraged the singer and others who’ve faced hate on social media, “Don’t pick up your phone and look in your comments and expect for strangers off the internet, who got their own s— they’re trying to bear with and deal with and go through, you know what I’m saying?” The singer occasionally panned the camera to his 5-year-old daughter Heiress, who was audibly singing in the backseat. He later encouraged his followers to tag Lizzo in the comments section so that she could see his message since he claimed to not know her personally. “I think she talent...
Elton John Returns to Billboard Hot 100 After 21 Years With Dua Lipa Collab ‘Cold Heart’
John makes his first Hot 100 appearance since the chart dated July 29, 2000, when “Someday Out of the Blue” ranked at No. 99 after reaching No. 49. “Cold Heart” is his 68th career entry, a run that began on the Aug. 15, 1970, tally, when “Border Song” bowed at No. 93. John boasts nine Hot 100 No. 1s, from “Crocodile Rock” in 1973 to “Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” his longest-leading hit (14 weeks), in 1997-98. He has notched 27 top 10s (tied for the ninth-best total in the chart’s 63-year archives), among 57 top 40 hits (the sixth-best sum; plus, he ranked in the top 40 in a record 30 consecutive years, from 1970 through 1999). Meanwhile, Lipa, who earns her 17th Hot 100 hit...
Nicholas Brendon Arrested for Prescription Drug Fraud
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon has been arrested for prescription drug fraud after being found in possession of pill bottles prescribed to individuals other than himself. TMZ reports that Brendon, 50, was pulled over by Indiana police last week after he failed to signal and swerved into different lanes. According to an affidavit, officers say they observed Brendon sweating profusely and appearing “nervous due to a visibly racing pulse on his neck and shaking hands,” which prompted them to search his vehicle. Officers found several small plastic bags with “crystal/powder residue” as well as prescription drugs listed for “Nicholas Bender” and “Kelton Schultz.” Kelton Schultz is the name of Brendon’s twin brother, and Brendon initially identified himself as such to offi...
Paul Reiser on The Kominsky Method, Mad About You, and Stranger Things
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Paul Reiser sits down with Kyle Meredith to talk about his role in The Kominsky Method, for which he’s Emmy nominated for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.” Advertisement Related Video The actor/writer/musician discusses how the Netflix series shines a light on friendships as you get older, and the meta-moment where his character is watching the movie Diner, which Reiser also starred in 1982. After discussing finding renewed success in his later career, Reiser also hits on the lasting appeal of Mad About You, his 2017 series There’s… Johnny!, being part of the Stranger Things universe, and his 2010 album with Julia Fordham. Strea...
Marvel’s Eternals Actor Barry Keoghan Hospitalized Following Assault
Barry Keoghan, the Irish actor who will appear in Marvel’s Eternals and DC’s The Batman, was taken to Galway University Hospital Sunday night after being assaulted outside of his hotel. Via the Irish Independent, he received treatment for multiple injuries, including cuts to the face, before being released. A representative for the Garda Síochána — the national police service of the Republic of Ireland — confirmed the events without mentioning the 28-year-old actor by name. “Gardaí did attend an incident at a hotel in the Wellpark area of Galway City on Sunday August 15, 2021 after 3.30 am,” a spokesperson said. “An ambulance was also called and a man in his 20s was treated for non life-threatening injuries. Enquiries are ongoing. No arrests hav...
Jerry Cantrell Announces 2022 North American Solo Tour
Jerry Cantrell has announced a 2022 North American solo tour. The Alice in Chains singer-guitarist will be heading out in support of his upcoming solo album, Brighten, arriving October 29th. The outing will be Cantrell’s first full-fledged solo tour since 2004. Most recently, he performed a pair of intimate club shows with an all-star pickup band in Los Angeles in late 2019, prior to the pandemic. The extensive 2022 tour kicks off March 24th at First Avenue in Minneapolis and runs through a May 8th date at the House of Blues in San Diego. Highlight stops include an April 5th appearance at Irving Plaza in New York City and a homecoming show of sorts on May 2nd at the iconic Moore Theater in Seattle. Advertisement Related Video Cantrell was joined by a large cast of friends and collaborators...
‘Call of Duty: Vanguard’ Alpha Will Be Available for PlayStation Gamers This Weekend
PlayStation owners will now get to test out the alpha version of Call of Duty: Vanguard this weekend completely for free. Beginning on August 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time and ending at the same time on August 29, both PlayStation 4 and 5 players will be able to access the upcoming installment’s alpha phase for the full 48 hours. According to the announcement, gamers will take on Sledgehammer Games’ innovative new multiplayer mode called Champion Hill. Spanning across all four theaters of war in World War II, Call of Duty: Vanguard will bring players all across the Eastern Front, Western Front, North Africa and Pacific, with a traditional campaign mode follow four separate characters. Of course, it’ll also boast fan-favorite massive multiplayer modes with more than 20 different maps...
‘Black Myth: Wukong’ Reveals Breathtaking Visuals in Photorealistic Gameplay Trailer
Following its first official gameplay trailer one year ago, Game Science is back with another 13-minute preview of Black Myth: Wukong that’s even more stunning than the first. The game is based on the legend of Sun Wukong (The Monkey King) and takes heavy inspiration from the original 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. The new gameplay trailer shows new character abilities such as a split-shadow dash, a protective ring of fire, and new super skills. More than a dozen new foes are also on display including a magnificent white dragon gliding over a vast frozen lake at 6:25. Beautifully designed scenes are rendered in photorealistic quality for truly breathtaking moments. The studio, founded by a group of former Tencent Games employees, switched development from the Unreal ...
Joseph “Taheim” Bryan, Film Writer-Producer, Shot Dead In New York
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @therealtaeim / Instagram Joseph “Taheim” Bryan, a writer and producer who worked alongside veteran rapper and actor Ice-T, was shot dead in New York City last week. The news of Bryan’s passing struck Ice-T especially hard, who then laid out harsh words for his friend’s killers. The New York Post reports that Bryan was shot and killed this past Thursday (August 19) around 11:15 local time while sitting behind the wheel of a 2021 Mercedes-Benz. Via a tweet that featured Bryan, Havoc of Mobb Deep fame, and Queens, N.Y. actor Tobias Truvillion, Ice-T shared his thoughts over the loss in plain fashion. “MFs Killed my friend last night. I’m not in a good place behind this. Taheim was a GOOD dude making Positive moves. He wrote & we made the film Equal Stan...
