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Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty of Rape in L.A. Trial as Jury Reveals Mixed Verdict
Harvey Weinstein on Monday (Dec. 19) was found guilty of rape in a Los Angeles trial. The conviction further cements his plunge from one of the most influential producers in Hollywood to the face of the #MeToo movement. But the jury acquitted Weinstein of sexual battery by restraint against a different Jane Doe accuser. Jurors also couldn’t reach a decision on three sexual assault charges, including rape. This trial centered on testimony from four women, all known as Jane Does in court, who accused Weinstein of raping or sexually assaulting them from 2004 to 2013. Four others also testified that they were assaulted, though their claims didn’t lead to charges. In total, prosecutors called 44 witnesses to the stand to make their case against the former movie mogul. Weinstein faced two c...
Kelly Clarkson Serves Up Holiday Sisterhood in Hilarious ‘White Christmas’ ‘Kellyoke’
Lord, help the mister who comes between me and my sister! Kelly Clarkson paid tribute to the holiday classic White Christmas on Monday (Dec. 19) with a “Kellyoke” cover of “Sisters.” Enlisting help from her backup singer Jessi Collins, the talk show host recreated the scene made famous by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen in the beloved 1954 movie musical — all the way down to the elegant blue dresses and giant feathered fans. “Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters/ Never had to have a chaperone, no sir/ I’m here to keep my eye on her/ Caring, sharing, every little thing that we are wearing/ When a certain gentleman arrived from Rome/ She wore the dress, and I stayed home,” the two sang in perfect harmony. Halfway through the number, two male members of Clarkson’s band Y’Al...
Shirley Watts, Widow of Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts, Dies at 84
Shirley Ann Watts, a former art student and prominent breeder of Arabian horses who met drummer Charlie Watts well before he joined the Rolling Stones and with him formed one of rock’s most enduring marriages, has died. She was 84. “Shirley died peacefully on Friday 16th December in Devon after a short illness surrounded by her family,” her family announced Monday (Dec. 19). The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood was among those mourning her. “We will miss you so much, but take comfort that you are reunited with your beloved Charlie,” Wood wrote on Facebook. While Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards all have had multiple wives and girlfriends, Charlie and Shirley Watts remained together for more than 50 years, until Charlie died in 2021. Their only known crisis happened in the mid-1980...
NCT DREAM Remake ‘90s K-Pop Classic for Sweet Holiday Single: Watch ‘Candy’
After a significant 2022 that included NCT DREAM‘s first Billboard 200 entry, first KCON appearance and first international movie release, the boy band closes the year with a holiday album for worldwide fans that also pays homage to a formative song for the Korean-pop industry. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news For NCT DREAM’s special winter album Candy, the septet reinterpreted the classic K-pop song of the same name for its title track single. “Candy” was originally released in 1996 by the five-member boy band H.O.T., credited as the first “idol” group in Korea’s music industry and setting the formula still used today. From their debut track “Warrior’s Descendant” tackling school bullying, H.O.T. relea...
Lil Baby Drops New Visuals To FIFA World Cup Anthem “The World Is Yours To Take”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Lil Baby done officially made it. Sure he’s already one of the biggest names in the rap game and has moved millions of units around the world thus far, but being tapped by Budweiser to drop an anthem for the FIFA World Cup is another stratosphere of success that one can only dream of. Dropping the visuals for said anthem “The World Is Yours To Take,” Lil Baby and his crew take to the sands of Qatar (where the World Cup was held) before Lil Baby eventually makes his way onto the soccer field where the world’s greatest soccer players have been kicking it for the past few weeks. Directed by Director X, the visual is compiled with footage of the tournament that engulfed the world for the past month along with shots of Lil Baby enjoying...
Rihanna Shares First Video And Photos Of Her Baby Boy With A$AP Rocky
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WWD / Getty Fans got their first glimpse of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s adorable baby boy this weekend when the singer shared a video of the infant to TikTok. The photos were also shared on the blog site, Hollywood Unlocked. The site’s founder, Jason Lee claimed on Twitter that he was contacted by Rihanna to share the photos on his blog. Related Stories The Fenty Beauty billionaire and the A$AP Mob co-founder announced that they were expecting a baby together in January. Their baby boy was born in May. The photos are the first of the baby boy whose name has not yet been shared with the world. As we reported back in November, the singer told The Washington Post that she and Rocky haven’t shared the baby’s name yet for a pretty simple reason....
Starz To Develop 50 Cent-Produced British Boxing Drama
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JACK GUEZ / Getty 50 Cent is setting his creative sights on the ring as the Starz network is developing his new drama series focusing on the world of British boxing. According to reports, the network is moving forward with developing the new series, which is entitled Fightland. The synopsis for the series details how a former world champion fighter who left the sport in disgrace is pulled back to that world after finding that his childhood best friend and training partner disappears. “To save his friend,” the official synopsis continues, “the troubled fighter will have to return to a way of life that nearly destroyed him — one that cost him everything to leave behind.” Related Stories 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, will serve as an executive producer for th...
YouTube Boots Pornhub From Its Service Due To Policy Violations
HipHopWired Featured Video YouTube removed the channel for the adult video platform Pornhub from its services, citing a number of community guidelines violations. Before its removal, Pornhub had nearly 1 million subscribers to its YouTube channel. As reported by Variety, YouTube offered a statement to the outlet explaining why its side made the decision to remove Pornhub from its platform. From Variety: “Upon review, we terminated the channel Pornhub Official following multiple violations of our Community Guidelines,” YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon said in a statement to Variety. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and channels that repeatedly violate or are dedicated to violative content are terminated.” The outlet went on to explain that the adult video company continued to s...
The Velvelettes Singer Bertha McNeal Dies at 82
Bertha Barbeee McNeal, a singer in the early Motown group the Velvelettes, died Thursday (December 15), The Detroit News reports. She had been receiving hospice care for colon cancer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the weeks before her death, according to The Detroit News. The Velvelettes’ lead singer, Cal Gill Street, said in a statement, “She was an angel. I’ve lost my dearest friend. She was the group historian, and the glue that kept us together.” Raised in Flint, McNeal co-founded the Velvelettes at Western Michigan University in the 1960s. They successfully auditioned at Motown, and made a splash with the Billboard Top 100 singles “Needle in a Haystack” and “He Was Really Saying Something,” both early landmarks for the producer Norman Whitfield. Bananarama had a hit covering the latter in...
Little Simz, Mica Levi, Sabrina Carpenter, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend. This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Sabrina Carpenter, For Tracy Hyde, Little Simz, and more. Listen below and follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our...
Alex Ross Perry Is Making a Pavement Movie
This month, the indie director Alex Ross Perry staged an unlikely musical theater show in New York: Slanted! Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical. The production is part of an unorthodox feature film on the beloved indie-rockers, according to a profile in this week’s New Yorker. Though details are thin, the movie will reportedly mix footage from the musical and its creation with elements of biopic and documentary. The film is reportedly based on an obscure directive from Stephen Malkmus, who, as profile writer Hannah Seidlitz reports, “said he wasn’t interested in hiring a documentary filmmaker. He wanted to hire a screenwriter. But he didn’t want a screenplay.” Perry, whose résumé includes Pavement’s “Harness Your Hopes” video and an array of beguiling movies starring Elisabeth Moss, decided to...
SZA Scores First No. 1 Album With SOS
SZA has landed her first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. SOS—her highly-anticipated follow-up to Ctrl—earned 318,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week, reports Billboard. It marked SZA’s biggest week to date and earned the album the fifth largest debut of the year, following Taylor Swift’s Midnights (1.578 million), Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (521,000), Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (404,000), and Beyoncé’s Renaissance (332,000). Previously, Ctrl hit its peak position on the chart in July of 2017, when it debuted at No. 3. Of the 318,000 equivalent album units for SOS, there were 404.58 million on-demand official streams of the LP’s tracks, which tallied up to 309,500 SEA units. That earned SOS the biggest streaming week ever for an R&B album, the seco...
