Month: November 2020

Jason Momoa says he went broke and couldn’t find another acting gig for years after playing Khal Drogo on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” “I mean, we were starving after ‘Game of Thrones,'” Momoa, 41, said in a new InStyle interview. “I couldn’t get work. It’s very challenging when you have babies and you’re completely in debt.” The actor, who shares two children with wife Lisa Bonet, said he struggled to pay the bills at his Topanga Canyon house until he landed a role on “Justice League” in 2016. Now, Momoa is a leading man, having starred in the titular role for “Aquaman,” but very early in his career, he struggled to book acting jobs, too. When his first gig, “Baywatch Hawaii,” wrapped in 2001, Momoa moved to Los Angeles, but said he “couldn’t even get an agent for thr...

Early on in HBO’s Industry, there’s an extremely familiar scene: a boss addresses a room of young recruits and tells them that only half of them will make it and that they should do whatever they can to be one of the last ones standing. And so another group of promising young people sets their lives ablaze in the service of an exploitative industry, with the promise of money as the light at the end of the tunnel. Industry — created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, with a pilot directed by Lena Dunham — is set in London’s world of high-stakes investment banking, and it follows a diverse group of fresh graduates who are the latest hires for the fictional Pierpoint & Co. Cliché abounds, especially in the way the young new hires are hazed and degraded by their superiors. The bottom l...

Broadway may be dark for several months to come, but actors from four shuttered shows have been given the opportunity — a rare one during the coronavirus pandemic — to put on their costumes and perform. The venue: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The term parade is being used loosely this year. The helium-filled balloons and star-studded floats will not be traveling their typical jam-packed, two-and-a-half-mile route starting at West 77th Street. They will be gliding just one city block down 34th Street, near the flagship department store, and without an audience. But even if it’s more television show than crowd fest this year, the parade will provide a brief respite from the doldrums of a darkened Broadway with performances by the casts of “Hamilton,” “Mean Girls,” “Jagged Little Pill,” ...

Pop star Britney Spears’s bid to remove her father James Spears from the conservatorship of her estate has suffered a temporary setback with a Los Angeles court declining the application. James Spears has been her co-conservator since 2008, when the singer suffered a very public breakdown. He became sole conservator in 2019 after attorney Andrew Wallet resigned from his co-conservatorship. In a hearing on Tuesday, Los Angeles superior court judge Brenda Penny declined to suspend James Spears from his conservatorship, though she did not rule out future petitions for his removal or suspension. “My client has informed me that she is afraid of her father,” Britney Spears’ attorney Samuel D. Ingham III told the judge. “She will not perform again if her father is in charge of her ...

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are one of music’s most high-profile couples. The two, who first met on the set of the singing competition show The Voice, have been together for several years. Although there has been a lot of talk about an engagement, Shelton and Stefani have resisted the pressure — that is, until recently. The couple announced their engagement at the end of October, prompting a renewed slew of fan interest, as well as many questions about how the two will be dividing their considerable wealth.  Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s earth-shattering engagement announcement RELATED: Blake Shelton Took a Big Risk in Selecting Gwen Stefani’s $500K+ Ring Stefani and Shelton first met around 2014, when they started working together as coaches on The Vo...

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