Month: July 2020

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are now officially citizens of Greece. The prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, shared a photograph on Instagram of him and his wife Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotaki at a meeting with Hanks and Wilson, who were holding up their new Greek passports. “@ritawilson @tomhanks are now proud Greek citizens!" he wrote. TOM HANKS DIVES INTO HIS BIRTHDAY: 'THIS GREYHOUND IS 64!' Greece offered citizenship to Hanks, 64, Wilson, 63, and their two children, in recognition of the family’s help in raising funds for the victims of a deadly wildfire near Athens in 2018. Wilson, an actress and producer, has Greek and Bulgarian ancestry and was raised Greek Orthodox. Hanks converted to Greek Orthodoxy when he married Wilson. And the couple frequently vacations o...

One of the Rolling Stones’ most controversial hits is “Sympathy for the Devil” — which is fitting since controversial writers inspired the track. “Sympathy for the Devil” is among the greatest rock songs about the devil. Fittingly, Mick Jagger cited two authors known for writing about the Satanic as influences on the track.  The Rolling Stones | J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty ImagesThe poet who inspired the Rolling Stones’ ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ From the beginning, some saw rock ‘n’ roll as Satanic. “Sympathy for the Devil” goes the extra mile by actually being about the devil. Interestingly, the song’s origins are very highbrow. “I think that was taken from an old idea of [Charles] Baudelaire’s, I think, but I could be wrong,” Jagger told Rolling Stone in 1995. “Som...

Opa! Tom Hanks, 64, and wife Rita Wilson, 63, are officially citizens of Greece. The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced the pair’s fresh citizenship on Instagram, posting a photo of Hanks and Wilson holding their new Greek passports and standing next to himself and his wife, Mareva Grabowski. “@ritawilson @tomhanks are now proud Greek citizens! 🇬🇷👍,” Mitsotakis captioned the post. The entertainers’ honorary citizenship was announced last year, after Greek officials recognized Hanks’ efforts to raise awareness for the 2018 fires which wreaked havoc near Athens. “Tom Hanks is a person who showed real interest in the people who suffered from the fire in Mati and promoted this issue in the global media,” Greek Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos told CNN ...

Kathie Lee Gifford last saw Regis Philbin just two weeks ago, in what would become her final get-together with her close friend before his death. Gifford, who worked alongside Philbin from 1985 to 2000 on “Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee,” said that during their recent lunch she sadly “sensed much more fragility than I’d seen in him the last time in January out in Los Angeles.” “I was up from Tennessee, where I live most of the time, and of course the first call I always make is to Regis and Joy [Philbin],” Gifford said on Monday’s episode of the “Today” show. “I said, ‘Can we get together, can we have some lunch?’ So they came over about two weeks ago.” Gifford, who like the Philbins also has a home in Connecticut, said, “We just had the best time.” But after the Philbins l...

On the most recent episode of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After, Angela Deem sits down for dinner with Michael Ilesanmi’s mother and aunt. Angela refuses to cook, but somehow comes through for dinner. Read on to learn how things went down. Angela Deem refuses to cook for Michael Ilesanmi’s family Angela Deem and Michael Ilesanmi | deemangela via Instagram Angela is visiting Michael in Nigeria so they can get married, but they have some planning to do first. Michael invites his mother and aunt to their apartment to discuss wedding plans. However, the trouble starts when Michael tells Angela that she’ll have to cook dinner for everyone. Angela insists that she won’t be doing the cooking for the impending dinner, and says that Michael will help in the kitchen inste...

At the beginning of the year, Netflix announced that development had begun on an anime film set in the world of its hit series The Witcher. Now, the streaming giant is doubling down on Witcher content in the form of a six-part, live-action limited series called The Witcher: Blood Origin. Blood Origin will be a prequel series, taking place in “an elven world” 1,200 years prior to the events of The Witcher. The series will explore the origins of the very first Witcher, as well as the events that merged the worlds of monsters, men, and elves. The new show will be spearheaded by Declan de Barra, with The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich acting as Executive Producer and the author of the books, Andrzej Sapkowski, serving as creative consultant. “A question has been burning ...

The cry to “release the Snyder Cut” always came from two directions. There were the fans — who prayed that an Actually Good Version of 2017’s Justice League was out there and finished enough for a faithless Warner Bros. to unveil it after enough pressure — and then there was Snyder himself, who stoked the well-meaning-but-occasionally-toxic action. The director never went so far as to badmouth the finished product, which was reshot by Warner Bros. under the supervision of Avengers director Joss Whedon, but he spent years teasing what could have been, posting set photos, fan art, and snippets of blurry footage on his Vero account to make fans salivate. The tactic worked: In May, WarnerMedia announced that a four-hour cut of Justice League would land on HBO Max in 2021. The movie ...