Last Friday, on the night that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Donald Trump made a campaign appearance in Bemidji, a small city in northern Minnesota. Trump played to the base instincts of an adoring crowd at the airport, where MAGA hats outnumbered face masks by an extraordinary margin — before he …
Read More »Media Mogul Sumner Redstone Dead at 97
Sumner Redstone — the media mogul who oversaw an entertainment empire that included CBS, Viacom, and Paramount Pictures — has died at the age of 97. National Amusements, the Redstone family’s private holding company and the name of the drive-in movie theater family business Redstone inherited, confirmed Redstone’s death Tuesday …
Read More »Wilford Brimley, 'Cocoon' and 'The Natural' Actor, Dead at 85
Wilford Brimley, the unlikely character actor who brought both curmudgeonry and geniality to films like Cocoon, The China Syndrome, The Natural and Tender Mercies, has died at the age of 85. Brimley’s agent Lynda Bensky confirmed to the New York Times that the actor had been sick for two months …
Read More »Ken Osmond, Who Played Eddie Haskell on 'Leave It to Beaver,' Dead at 76
Ken Osmond, the actor best known for playing Eddie Haskell on the classic sitcom Leave It to Beaver before leaving the industry to become a police officer, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, Variety reports. He was 76. A cause of death was not immediately available, though Osmond’s …
Read More »Lynn Shelton, Director of 'Humpday' and 'Your Sister's Sister,' Dead at 54
Lynn Shelton, the director of acclaimed independent films like Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister and episodes of New Girl, G.L.O.W. and Little Fires Everywhere, died Friday at the age of 54. The cause of death was a blood disorder, Variety reported. Marc Maron, Shelton’s partner at the time of her …
Read More »Lenny Kravitz on Little Richard: 'His Music Sounds Just as Fresh and Powerful Today'
As a student of rock history, Lenny Kravitz considers himself a lifelong fan of Little Richard, the rock & roll architect who died Saturday at 87. Long before Kravitz’s own career would take off, he met Richard in the late 1970s at a time when the pioneer had abandoned rock …
Read More »Protoje Announces Label Deal With RCA
The Jamaican singer Protoje, who is intent on bringing the fervor of classic reggae to contemporary streamers, announced a new deal with RCA on Monday. The company will throw its weight behind Protoje’s label In.Digg.Nation, supporting the singer’s own music along with that of two other artists he has signed, …
Read More »An 'Uncancelled' Festival Will Bring Music to Your Home Every Week
Colbie Caillat, Waxahatchee, Beach Bunny and Snail Mail are a few of the nearly 300 artists slated to perform in the newly announced UnCancelled Music Festival, a global digital music event that kicked off Thursday. UnCancelled is the most recent — and one of the larger — of the online …
Read More »Jay-Z, Yo Gotti File Second Lawsuit Against Mississippi Corrections Officials Over Prison Conditions
Jay-Z, Yo Gotti and Team ROC, the philanthropic wing of Roc Nation, have filed a second civil lawsuit against the Mississippi Department of Corrections on behalf of 152 more inmates allegedly suffering from inhumane conditions at Parchman prison. The new suit follows a similar one filed in January on behalf …
Read More »Danny Aiello, 'Do the Right Thing' Actor, Dead at 86
Danny Aiello — the Oscar-nominated character actor who featured in films like Do the Right Thing, Moonstruck, and The Purple Rose of Cairo — has died at the age of 86. Aiello’s literary agent, Jennifer De Chiara, confirmed to Rolling Stone that Aiello died Thursday night; Aiello’s family said in …
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