Month: June 2021

Garth Brooks might have made his musical comeback after a 14-year hiatus, but that doesn’t mean the country singer wasn’t nervous about it. At least, that’s what he told Gayle King in an interview with CBS This Morning on Friday. According to Brooks, he was "scared to death" when he decided to return to music. But, to his surprise, he found that "people were so sweet." KELLY CLARKSON REVEALS PERFORMANCE OF GARTH BROOKS' 'THE DANCE' FOR KENNEDY CENTER TRIBUTE MADE HER 'NERVOUS' Garth Brooks might have made his musical comeback after a 14-year hiatus, but that doesn’t mean the country singer wasn’t nervous about it. (Roy Rochlin/WireImage) In his own words: "Country is the best place to be. Because, one, you have the most loyal audience there could possibly be, and the...

Had he expected to win, he might have planned what to say. "I was buzzing when I won, went and did my speech, and then as I walked away I thought, you didn't mention your mum, didn't mention the Ranganation, didn't mention anyone by name," he says regretfully.

Actor Joaquin Phoenix, 46, says he hopes his son will be a vegan like himself. In a revealing new interview, Phoenix spoke about how he developed his passion for animal rights. (Photo: Toni Anne Barson/WireImage)Joaquin Phoenix is known for his passion for animal rights. But the Joker star says when it comes to raising his son, he doesn't plan to force his vegan lifestyle on his child.  In a revealing new interview with Britain's Sunday Times, Phoenix spoke about how he plans to raise River, the child he and actress Rooney Mara welcomed back in September. The couple started dating in 2016 and became engaged in 2019. “Well, certainly I would hope that [he is vegan], but I’m not going to impose my belief on my child. I don’t think that’s right. I’m going to educate him about the reality. I...

The royal family has publicly sent their well wishes to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over the birth of the couple’s second child, Lilibet Diana. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson released a statement Sunday expressing the family’s “delight,” written on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince William and Kate Middleton. “The Queen, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been informed and are delighted with the news of the birth of a daughter for The Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” the spokesperson said. William and Kate subsequently tweeted a supportive message reading, “We are all delighted by the happy news of the arrival of baby Lili. Congratulations...

Clarence Williams III, who starred as the brooding undercover cop Lincoln Hayes on the countercultural 1968-73 ABC drama The Mod Squad, has died. He was 81. Williams died in Los Angeles on Friday of colon cancer, his management told The Hollywood Reporter. An actor of uncommon intensity, Williams began his career on the stage and earned a Tony nomination in 1965 for best featured actor in a play for his work in the powerful three-person drama Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. Decades later, he returned to Broadway to star opposite Maggie Smith in the original 1979 production Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day. On the big screen, the Harlem native portrayed Prince’s troubled father in Purple Rain (1984) and was Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright’s drug-addled dad in ...

Loki Laufeyson identifies as gender fluid in Disney+’s upcoming Marvel series, a new teaser has confirmed. The Asgardian trickster’s gender fluidity is not a new development — it had long been speculated (since the shapeshifting character adopts many forms), and it in fact became comic book canon in 2014 (when Odin referred to Loki as “my son, and my daughter, and my child who is both”; see image). Still, for a live-action MCU property, and one that will be available on Disney’s 19-month-old streaming service, it’s a meaningful development. The new teaser, released on Sunday — just as the social media embargo lifted on the press’ initial reactions to the first two episodes — closes with a shot of the TVA’s (Time Variance Authority) file on Loki, which designates his sex as “F...

Banes, 65, is in critical condition at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital, according to her manager David Williams. "We are all just hoping she pulls through," he said in an email. Without naming Banes, the NYPD said a 65-year-old woman was injured in a hit-and-run incident Friday just after 6:30 p.m. Police responded to a 911 call about a vehicle collision with a pedestrian at West 64th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, said NYPD spokesperson Denise Moroney. There, a female pedestrian was lying on the roadway with severe head trauma, and EMS took her to the hospital, where she is in critical condition, NYPD said. The NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad determined the woman was attempting to cross Amsterdam Avenue inside the crosswalk, with the pedestri...