Month: December 2020

Clooney is famous -- or is that infamous? -- for his on-set (and everywhere else) pranks upon friends, family and co-stars alike! George Clooney is famous for two things: acting and pranks. So many of his co-stars have spoken out about some of the pranks he's pulled on him over the years, it's become well established Hollywood lore. Now it looks like George is thinking about his legacy, because he's already got his three-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, getting in on the action. Getty George Clooney Calls Fatherhood 'Very Fulfilling,' Says Wife Amal 'Changed Everything' For Him View Story "They both have learned to play pranks, which is good fun,"...

California cops raced to “Star Wars” actress Billie Lourd’s Los Angeles home after shots were fired by an irate construction worker, according to a report Thursday. LAPD sources told TMZ that officers were called to the Beverly Hills properties where Lourd is combining the homes of her late mother and grandmother — screen legends Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — into an $18 million mega-estate. After being let go from the job, an unidentified construction worker pulled out a rifle, aimed it at another worker, and fired at least one shot into the ground, the outlet said. No one was injured and new mom Lourd, 28, was not home at the time, TMZ said, without giving a time or date for the alleged shooting. Police were still on the hunt for the alleged gun...

DEAR ABBY: My husband came down with COVID and has been having a hard time getting over it. Jeanne Phillips When he first started showing the symptoms, I took him to a drive-through medical clinic and got him tested for COVID. The results were negative, so a couple of days later, I carpooled with a friend to another friend’s house where seven other friends had gathered. Several days later, when my husband still wasn’t improving, I took him to an ER where they did another COVID test. This time it came out positive. I thought I owed it to whomever I was around at the get-together to tell them about my husband. At this get-together, we all wore masks. We took them off only to eat and then put them back on. It has been more than 14 days since my husband got sick, and although he is n...

Shots fired at Star Wars actress Billie Lourd's Hollywood mansion following an argument between construction workers transforming the homes of her mother Carrie Fisher and grandmother Debbie Reynolds's into a single $18million estate Billie Lourd is renovating a 3.5 acre $18million estate in Beverly Hills, California  Argument was between two construction workers, one of whom had been fired The disgruntled employee pulled out a rifle and aimed at the other construction worker, but then fired at the ground and left the scene  By Rachael Bunyan For Mailonline Published: 05:55 EST, 3 December 2020 | Updated: 08:27 EST, 3 December 2020 Cops were called after shots were fired at the home of Star Wars actress Billie Lourd in Los Angeles after an argument between...

Manohla Dargis | A.O. Scott Manohla Dargis I Watched Until My Eyes Bled It was a year of watching obsessively yet indiscriminately, a year of small and smaller screens. On one lost day not long ago, I spent a horrifying (embarrassing!) 11 hours and 15 minutes on my phone. I read the news, doomscrolled Twitter, did puzzles, checked my email and kept scrolling. It’s no wonder that my eyes had begun to regularly ache and sometimes sting, prompting me to worry that I needed a new prescription for my glasses. I didn’t, I just needed to stop watching, but I couldn’t put down my phone, which tethered me to the larger world that I greatly missed. The point of a top 10 list is to share our preferred movies. But in thinking about my favorites of the year and all the many new and old titles I’ve se...

Screen + Sound + Stage Text by Uday Kapur “More than any political party, I’m afraid of what my extended family could do to me,” says Sumit Singh Solanki. “I wish I could tell these stories more freely because they’re an open secret. I could try and reason with them, but in their eyes, I’m still a child.” Solanki, who hails from Ranchi, is one of India’s most exciting young artists. The 23-year-old produces and raps under the moniker Tre Ess (it came about when he was trying to abbreviate his name) and has fast established himself as a key figure in the movement to create and push forward-thinking alternative music rooted in tradition. SoBo BonoBo, Solanki’s latest album, is a delightful juxtaposition of modern rap and local instrumenta...