Last year, Isabela Merced was living a double life. By day, she was running around the set of โThe Last of Usโ in Vancouver โ dodging Infected, WLF soldiers and Seraphites alongside co-star Bella Ramsey. Then, after wrapping what was sometimes a 15-hour workday, sheโd be on a flight 4,500 miles away to Atlanta โ…
Book Review Baldwin: A Love Story By Nicholas BoggsFarrar, Straus and Giroux: 720 pages, $36If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores In Nicholas Boggsโ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writerโs search for the source of his…
Jackie Chan wielding panda bear plushies at the 89th Academy Awards. Brad Pitt serving duck face at the 92nd. Anya Taylor-Joyโs otherworldly hair flip just last year. These are some of the most iconic Glambot videos shot by director Cole Walliser, who has been operating E!โs high-speed red carpet camera, a staple of awards season,…
โYouโre gonna need a bigger boat.โ Pause. โYouโre gonna need a bigger boat.โ Ben Stillerโs phone is buzzing. Each time someone sends a text, it alerts him with the sound of Roy Scheiderโs police chief, Brody, telling Robert Shawโs Quint that his vessel, the Orca, is not of sufficient size to deal with the 25-foot…
Terence Stamp, the prolific English actor who played General Zod in the โSupermanโ films and earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the title character in โBilly Budd,โ has died. He was 87. Stamp died of undisclosed causes Sunday morning, his family confirmed to Reuters. โHe leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both…
Her name was etched in the memory of millions thanks to her role as Gabrielle Solรญs in โDesperate Housewives,โ a series that established Eva Longoria as one of the most influential Latina actresses in Hollywood. She went on to become a producer, director, entrepreneur, activist and, in recent years, an investor in the world of…
Two and a half years before he died, Elvis Presley sat on the floor of a walk-in closet at the Las Vegas Hilton and discussed a project that might have changed the course of his life. The meeting, as recounted by Presleyโs longtime friend Jerry Schilling, put the King of Rock and Roll face to…
In the annals of things I could not have seen coming, none has been more unexpected than โWomen Wearing Shoulder Pads,โ a queer Spanish-language stop-motion comedy melodrama, set in the aesthetic world of a 1980s Pedro Almodรณvar film. (It arrives Sunday at midnight on Adult Swim, the home of things one doesnโt see coming, and…
Universal Music Group Chief Executive Lucian Grainge called Drakeโs lawsuit over Kendrick Lamarโs hit diss track โNot Like Usโ a โfarcicalโ effort thatโs โgroundless and indeed ridiculous.โ In a declaration letter filed Thursday night in the Southern District of New York, Grainge said that Drakeโs accusation that UMG (the parent label firm to both Drake…
The shooting death of 33-year-old rapper T-Hood at his residence in Georgia is being investigated as a possible self-defense case, according to police in Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta. Police have identified the alleged shooter as Ky Lasheed Frost, 24, the son of โLove & Hip Hop: Atlantaโ stars Rasheeda and Kirk Frost. Ky Frost…