One day ahead of D.C.’s Big Day, we have the latest recipients of the annual Kennedy Center Honors. This year’s honorees are singer-songwriter Paul Anka, composer David Foster, actor Andy Garcia, playwright David Mamet and country singer Barbara Mandrell. See their full bios below. The honors celebrate the lifetime contributions of influential artists in music, […]
David Mamet and Barbara Mandrell are also honorees for this year’s event that will be celebrated on Dec. 7
The 49th annual event will be held in December at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C.
The Kennedy Center Honors, the venue’s marquee event, will also recognize the veteran actor Andy Garcia, the country singer Barbara Mandrell and the music producer David Foster.
The 49th Kennedy Center awards gala will take place at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., not the Kennedy Center itself after a shut down and efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to rename the arts institution.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, along with President Donald Trump, has announced this year’s slate of honorees. Paul Anka, David Foster, Andy Garcia, David Mamet and Barbara Mandrell will receive the prestigious honor at the 49th Kennedy Center Honors, taking place for the first time at the Capital One Arena on […]
Lionsgate is bringing “The Housemaid” to the London stage, with an adaptation of the Amanda Seyfriend/Sydney Sweeney-starrer set to bow next fall in Richmond. Described as a “seductive psychological thriller,” it will be based on the novel by Freida McFadden and Paul Feig’s 2025 feature film adaptation, which starred Sweeney as troubled young woman Millie […]
The 13th Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth wrapped Sunday with Paul Negoescu’s “Atlas of the Universe” taking best feature film and Celia Catunda’s “My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin” winning best animated feature. The jury described “Atlas of the Universe,” a Romanian-Bulgarian coming-of-age drama about a 10-year-old boy whose errand to buy school […]
Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say Ahead of production on their first job together, Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney didn’t undergo the standard “chemistry read” to make sure they got on. Which is remarkable, given what their characters would have to do to each other in Onwards and Sideways. In the Norfolk-set BBC film directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Ifans would have to nearly throttle Linney while in the grip of night terrors, she’d have to collapse in his arms in a weeping mess having bankrupted herself with a gambling addiction; both situations arising from the neurological condition afflicting their characters: Parkinson’s disease. Continue reading...
Young, black and fuelled by self-help mantras, they were reputedly the best live band on Earth. As their wild first sessions are rereleased, the group talk about scaring club owners – and getting kicked out of the UK Old punks might not agree on much – who was first, who was fastest, where to file the Faith/Void split LP in their record collection – but for those who saw them in their prime, Bad Brains were, unequivocally, the best live band on the planet. YouTube footage bears this out: frontman HR, born Paul D Hudson, is equal parts straining sinew and raw electricity as he bucks and contorts, punctuating rapid-fire snarls and otherworldly croons with impeccably timed backflips. The band surge around him, forging blisteringly fast punk informed by everything from the Damned and Dead Boys to P-Funk, Stevie Wonder and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever. Young, black and fuelled by an ideology that united the 1930s self-help mantras of Napoleon Hill with Rastafari, they were outliers in the already outre 70s punk scene. But while Bad Brains helped change the face of American punk as it morphed into hardcore in the early 80s, and inspired artists as diverse as Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, Lil Jon, the Roots and Beastie Boys, defeat was never far from glory as they balanced feted live performances and a scintillating run of records with an excruciating capacity for self-sabotage. Continue reading...
Although he plays a largely indestructible AI in VisionQuest, Paul Bettany still had to contend with human limitations while bringing the character to life. The actor, who reprises his MCU role as Vision in the Disney+ series that airs its Season 1 finale on Nov. 10, revealed that he “blew out about 10 blood vessels” […]
Paul Bettany might play Marvel superhero Vision, but an on-screen acting choice while filming “VisionQuest” nearly cost him that very sense when the “Iron Man” actor accidentally popped 10 blood vessels in his eyes. “I was pretending to have a device on my head that is doing something to my brain, and I was just […]
Paul Bettany revealed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that he blew out 10 blood vessels in his eye while "wildly overacting" on Marvel's "VisionQuest" set.
The German actress was 23 when she arrived in Hollywood, where she starred in movies with Peter Sellers, Paul Newman and Bob Hope.
Three years after the death of Paul Cattermole, S Club is reuniting once again for a tour across the U.K. and Ireland. On Thursday, the remaining lineup of the 90s British pop group announced the dates of their 12-city Ain’t No Party Like an S Club Party Tour, which kicks off Oct. 8, 2027 at […]
The former Disney CEO was celebrated by Mickey Mouse, Nick Jonas, Ariana DeBose, ABC News stars Robin Roberts and David Muir and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who performed a new song from the 'Greatest Showman' stage show at the live-performance-heavy event.
The Berlin-born performer had a gift for languages that took her to Hollywood, landing roles alongside Peter Sellers, Dick Van Dyke and Paul Newman Elke Sommer, the prolific German star of the Pink Panther film A Shot in the Dark, early 70s Agatha Christie adaptation And Then there Were None, and British sex comedy Carry on Behind, has died aged 85. Bild magazine reported that Sommer died in Los Angeles of heart failure. German-born Sommer, whose best-known film roles were in the 1960s and 70s, was one of the wave of European performers who crossed over to Hollywood and English-language cinema with considerable success, following the postwar emergence of European new wave cinema. Sommer was one of the few German actors to make waves at the time, as Hollywood made much of her bombshell image. Continue reading...
