Lady Gaga is back in a big way with her new single “Stupid Love,” which, one the basis of a few listens is arguably her best song since “Edge of Glory” — a collaboration between her, hitmakers BloodPop, Max Martin, Tchami, Martin Joseph and Eli Rise — and it’s got a suitably eye-popping video to…
via Watch Lady Gaga’s Eye-Popping Video for ‘Stupid Love’ — Variety
Netflix is adding a robust line-up of popular programs to its slate in March. In addition to rom-coms like Matthew Mcconaughey’s “Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past,” “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “Always a Bridesmaid,” the streamer is also adding a few classics like “Goodfellas” and “The Shawshank Redemption” starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.…
“I’ll change that before I leave.” That was the simple, but loaded pledge made last September by Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company’s former CEO and newly-minted executive chairman, when asked directly about his largely male, all-white executive leadership team. 19 more words
via Reminder: Bob Iger Promised Diversity in Disney’s Executive Ranks by 2021 — Variety
FXX’s new comedy “Dave” exists in thrall to the phallus. Its protagonist (played by the rapper Dave “Lil Dicky” Burd in a sort of takeoff on his career and persona) is both obsessed by and ashamed of his anatomy, about whose particularities we come to learn in granular detail as the show’s early going wears…
U.S. corporate giants are the teeth of another wild ride on Wall Street as investors brace for the end of a week of historic losses for the Dow and other major indices. 26 more words
via Stock Markets Log Historic Losses as Coronavirus Selloff Accelerates — Variety
Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics is months away from starting, and yet one of the event’s most critical races has already begun: Can the people who organize this unique global gathering outrun the growing effects of the illness known as the coronavirus? 17 more words
via Coronavirus Threatens to Wipe Out Millions in Olympic Spending — Variety
“Station 19” delivered a 5-week Live+Same Day viewership high, as ABC came out on top of the TV ratings race on Thursday night. The “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff scored a 1.0 rating among adults 18-49 (the same as last week) and drew 6.5 million total viewers, the largest audience of the night and its highest tally…
via TV Ratings: ‘Station 19’ Hits 5-Week Viewership High, ABC Wins Thursday — Variety
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences president and CEO Adam Sharp hopes that spreading the Daytime Emmys out over three nights this year will give more winners their due — and the audience a chance to breathe. 19 more words
via How the Daytime Emmys Expanded With a Content Boom and Desire for More Celebration — Variety
Black History Month is a sacred time for me as a filmmaker as I reflect on those who walked the hard road so ours could be easier. 32 more words
When Richard Bryce Goodman was a young man, his wide-ranging interests included photography, music and philosophy (his father, Paul, was a sculptor friend of the artist Henry Moore), but it was a present he received while growing up in Baltimore that seems to have had the biggest influence on his career arc. 7 more words
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