Month: November 2020

A suspect with a history of violence against strangers has been arrested for the random October assault on actor Rick Moranis near his Upper West Side apartment, The Post has learned. A sergeant assigned to Transit spotted Marquis Ventura, 35, at 96th Street and Broadway on Saturday and made the arrest; investigators were transporting the West Village man to Central Booking Saturday night, law enforcement sources said. Ventura has a history of more than a dozen arrests, including five for felonies, the sources said. His most recent arrest — for allegedly randomly pummeling a straphanger in the West 4th Street subway station —  had been just two weeks after the attack on Moranis. As with Moranis, that more recent victim, a 61-year-old man, was knocked to the ground. When ...

The world is still mourning the passing of Alex Trebek, who hosted the daily syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984, when it debuted in syndication. There has been no announcement on a replacement for Trebek, but one name in the mix is especially familiar to Star Trek fans: LeVar Burton. Who is LeVar Burton? LeVar Burton was famous before he boarded the USS Enterprise-D in 1987, where he spent seven seasons and four feature films playing engineer Geordi La Forge. In addition to starring in the landmark 1977 mini-series Roots, Burton is also known to anyone who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s as the host of the PBS educational series Reading Rainbow. And he is still reading through his popular LeVar Burton Reads podcast. Burton has made no secret that he is interested in the host...

Sylvester Stallone has joined the second Suicide Squad, according to an Instagram post by writer-director James Gunn. Not everyone is returning from the original 2016 film. Margot Robbie and Jai Courtney are back as Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang, as are Viola Davis (Amanda Waller) and Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flagg). Gunn will be including some new supervillians with big names attached. Nathan Fillion (T.D.K.), Idris Elba (Bloodsport), and John Cena (Peacemaker) are known, with Stallone now joining. There is some speculation that he will be the voice of King Shark. Stallone himself confirmed his participation by posting a video to Instagram acknowledging he was on his way to go film a scene. Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is set to open in theaters August 6, 2021. In a tweet...

"I love being a girl dad." Speaking to Access Hollywood about his new movie, The Croods: A New Age, Ryan spoke about what it's like being a literal daddy — and it's super wholesome. Access / Via youtube.com Side note, the interview is conducted by Mario Lopez's kids which...yeah, I just can't handle. “No joke, they're like the most capable people I know," he said, talking about his wife and kids. "If anything got crazy or scary in my life, they're the first people I would lean on because they have wisdom and strength and they’re calm under fire. They have courage under fire." Matt Wink...

Exclusive Details 1:04 PM PT -- Sources close to the situation tell TMZ ... Jeremih is currently on a breathing ventilator within the ICU he's being treated at, and we're told his condition has recently gotten worse. Jeremih is fighting for his life, battling COVID-19 -- he's currently hospitalized in the ICU and the prognosis is bleak ... sources tell TMZ. Sources with direct knowledge tell us the R&B singer is being treated at a hospital for COVID-19. It's unclear how long he's been admitted, or how long he's had the virus ... but he is not doing well. Word that he was seriously ill started percolating online Saturday -- with rappers like 50 Cent, Chance th...

Boosie Badazz’s vehicle was shot at in the parking lot of Big T Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Multiple reports are surfacing that the rapper’s Sprinter van was hit on Saturday (Nov. 14), with some reports even saying that he was shot during the incident. Despite reports saying he was injured, it was later confirmed that the rapper was not shot or injured during the incident. An Instagram Live from someone at the scene said the rapper was allegedly taken out of the van and taken into another vehicle. Different reports began surfacing online, including one that alleged that Boosie had been shot on the leg, which were later denied. Fans took to Twitter to express their concern and wanted answers on how Boosie was doing following the incident. The “Wipe Me Down” emcee was reportedl...

Lilo and Stitch, dancing like cuties. Image: Disney I think there’s one thing we, as a society, need to come together and agree on: no one wants to see a “realistic” CGI version of Stitch, the little blue gremlin of death and friendship that stars in the Disney animated movie Lilo & Stitch. Put it on the next election ballot as a referendum, get some data. Because we need to lay down the law, and we need to lay it down now. Because we’re running out of time. To wit: the Hollywood Reporter shared yesterday that Jon M. Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians, is in talks with Disney to direct the still-in-process live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. The film is being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback, which produced the Aladdin remake. Currently, Disney’s also l...

Lilo and Stitch, dancing like cuties. Image: Disney I think there’s one thing we, as a society, need to come together and agree on: no one wants to see a “realistic” CGI version of Stitch, the little blue gremlin of death and friendship that stars in the Disney animated movie Lilo & Stitch. Put it on the next election ballot as a referendum, get some data. Because we need to lay down the law, and we need to lay it down now. Because we’re running out of time. To wit: the Hollywood Reporter shared yesterday that Jon M. Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians, is in talks with Disney to direct the still-in-process live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. The film is being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback, which produced the Aladdin remake. Currently, Disney’s also l...