Fashion and celebrity photographer Victor Skrebneski, who photographed personalities including Orson Welles, Cindy Crawford, David Bowie and Bette Davis and shot glamorous photos for the Chicago Film Festival, died Saturday of cancer in Chicago. 25 more words
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Disgraced comedian Louis C.K. has returned with a surprise stand-up special, after admitting to several accounts of sexual misconduct in the 2010s. He was one of the first men in Hollywood whose behavior came to light during the #MeToo movement, but he started to re-emerge in comedy clubs in 2018 with new material. He jokes…
via Louis C.K. Downplays His Sexual Misconduct in Controversial New Special — Variety
Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and more from the cast of “Call Me by Your Name” are returning for the sequel, director Luca Guadagnino said in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica. 26 more words
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has been struggling with coronavirus, has been admitted to hospital, according to Downing Street. Johnson has been battling the virus for 10 days, and has remained in quarantine with a persisting high temperature. 19 more words
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The social-distancing aspect of the COVID-19 outbreak can be hard to manage, especially if you decide to remain in your home at all times. Lucky for us, we can rely on the Internet not only to work from home – but to stay entertained as well. As could have been expected, media streaming is on […]
HBO made good on its promise, throwing the doors open on a free, live-streaming buffet of some 500 hours of premium content Friday morning. The free #StayHomeBoxOffice programming — served up without any ads — includes every episode of nine HBO series: “The Sopranos,” “Veep,” “Succession,” “Six Feet Under,” “The Wire,” “Ballers,” “Barry,” “Silicon Valley”…
via HBO’s Free-Streaming Bonanza Is Now Live in U.S. — Variety
All sports games have been canceled. Now Fox Corporation is trying to get a bevy of blue-chip sponsors to plan for their return. Executives at Fox Sports have in recent days held videoconferences with some of the advertising industry’s most influential executives in hopes of starting conversations about placing ad dollars in live sports broadcasts…
via Fox Predicts Return of Sports In 3Q, 4Q, Starts Madison Ave. Talks — Variety
Queen Elizabeth II has recorded a special broadcast on the coronavirus outbreak that will be broadcast on Sunday. The broadcast comes amid a U.K. lockdown to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, which has so far claimed 3,605 lives in the country, including 684 deaths announced today. 13 more words
via Queen Elizabeth II to Make Special Coronavirus Broadcast to U.K. on Sunday — Variety
R&B singer-songwriter Bill Withers, whose belated career in music burned briefly but brightly in the early ‘70s via a string of highly personalized hits, died from heart complications on Monday in Los Angeles, his family told the Associated Press. 19 more words
via Bill Withers, Writer and Singer of ‘Lean on Me’ and ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ Dies at 81 — Variety
The Tribeca Film Festival, which was born out of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was forced to postpone its glitzy screenings and panels this year as a result of New York state banning large public gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic. 16 more words
via Tribeca Film Festival to Move Some Programming Online After Coronavirus Postponement — Variety
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