A federal courtroom is a lot like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.
That was never truer than Friday, when the attorney representing Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, better known as the “QAnon Shaman,” used the fictional film Forrest Gump in his argument before a federal judge.
The QAnon…
Michael Wolf Snyder, the sound mixer for a number of film titles, including Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and The Rider, has died by suicide, according to a Facebook post from his aunt. He was 35.
Snyder’s aunt, Cathy Snyder, shared a post from the sound mixer’s father, David Snyder, in which he details finding his son’s…
The band Kings of Leon were the big buzz in this week’s music business news, announcing that they would offer their latest album, When You See Yourself, on non-fungible tokens, widely known as NFTs.
The NFT is being offered starting yesterday in a package that will give you a vinyl and digital download for $50. It…
Pepe Le Pew, the cartoon French skunk whose amorous attentions have chased generations of females, has been targeted by the New York Times.
Columnist Charles M. Blow claims in a tweet today that the Looney Tunes character “added to rape culture.”
“RW blogs are mad bc I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture. Let's…
REXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s big spending at the virtual EFM is continuing with a mighty worldwide pre-buy of around $55M for Christian Bale Gothic horror-thriller ThePale Blue Eye, which will reunite the actor with director Scott Cooper.
By our calculations, the deal marks a record for a worldwide deal at the European Film…
Michael Stanley, who parlayed rocker stardom in the ’70s and ’80s into successful stints in radio and television in his later years, died Friday of lung cancer at his home. He was 72 and his death was confirmed by his manager.
Stanley’s rock career was solid in Ohio and the Midwest, but never quite broke through…
March 8 is International Women’ Day and March is Women’s History Month, and many outlets are celebrating with special events and/or programming. Here’s a roundup.
EVENTS/PANELS
On Broadway, the neon lights will shine on the fourth annual Women’s Day on Broadway. This year’s virtual event begins at 1 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT…
He’s going to find them and he’s going to thank them.
Actor Liam Neeson showed up last night at AMC Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side to thank audiences for coming out on the reopening day of the city’s theaters.
Neeson was particularly thankful that audiences could see his new film The Marksmanon a big screen…
UPDATE, 9:38 AM PT: The Senate passed a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill after an all-night marathon session.
The legislation now heads to the House before it can go to President Joe Biden. The massive spending package would be his first major legislative achievement.
The billed passed along party lines, in a vote…
ABC’s Shark Tank continues its Friday night ratings roll, as Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec and Daymond John brought in a solid 0.7 to lead the Friday night demo wars.
In this episode, the Sharks considered the pitches from a Philadelphia chef’s plan for healthier meals, a Delaware…
A legislative battle that extended into the wee hours of Saturday has seen the federal unemployment benefits supplement whittled down to $300 per week. But that’s not the worse news.
As the Senate continues to battle over the particulars of this latest round of economic stimulus, some believe that things won’t be…
In the Zagar & Evans pop song classic In the Year 2525, the duo sang of a year where "some machine is doing that for you."
Voice-over actors, welcome to the future. A company called Sonantic has created what it claims is the first artificial intelligence voice models that sound genuinely human and capable of…
