Month: July 2020

Broadway actor Nick Cordero is still fighting for his life after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. He's been hospitalized in Los Angeles for three months. His wife, Amanda Kloots, said he's still critically ill, even though he's now COVID-negative and no longer in a coma. The Tony nominee had to have his leg amputated due to complications from the virus. Kloots told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King that the "ultimate goal" is for Cordero to get a double lung transplant, but "a lot of things would have to line up" for him to be a candidate. Read more of their conversation below.  Amanda Kloots: He is doing okay. He's stable. Nick's body is extremely weak. Muscles have atrophied, so he can't move his body yet. ... He can still open his eyes, and when he is alert and awake, he'll a...

Rapper Vanilla Ice is set to perform at a 2,500-capacity concert in Texas on Friday despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the state. The singer, known for his popular 1990 song, "Ice Ice Baby," is throwing the throwback Fourth of July weekend celebration in Austin, with its theme rooted in nostalgia during the global pandemic. "I can’t wait to get back to this," the rapper wrote on Instagram on Sunday, with his post including video of a screaming crowd at a packed venue. AUSTIN CITY LIMITS AND MADE IN AMERICA MUSIC FESTIVALS CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS "The 90s were the best. We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers. We had 5.0‘s, blockbuster, Beavis and Butthead, Wayne’s World, Chris Tucker, and Jackie Chan. And Mortal Kombat is...

When was the last time that something in the background of a movie made you laugh out loud? One of the byproducts of Judd Apatow’s reign as Hollywood’s millennial king of comedy is that his casually full-frontal directorial approach—i.e., holding the camera on a group of gifted improvisers and letting them riff—has birthed an entire cycle of flat, predictably rhythmed movies and prestige television shows in which it’s always easy to tell what’s supposed to be funny. It doesn’t have to be this way. Early on in Airplane!, we’re shown the curbside passenger drop-off area of a major international airport, where a distinctly multiethnic group of characters are coming and going. The roving, almost documentary-style camerawork imparts a sense of pace and realism, as does the sound des...

LONDON — The Eurovision Song Contest consistently manages to unite Europe and confuse America. This year’s installment of the music competition was canceled because of coronavirus, but you can get your annual fix of high camp via Netflix’s new film starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as two Eurovision hopefuls from a small town in Iceland. “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” is a parody of the competition’s eccentric acts and obsessive fandom, but it’s nevertheless been praised for capturing the spirit that has helped make Eurovision one of the world’s biggest televised events (over 180 million people watched it live last year, according to the European Broadcasting Union, Eurovision’s organizer). The film is also full of real-life Eurovision references, to reward the ...