Month: August 2021

Jamie Lynn Spears let her fans know that she’s getting emotional support from her family. The 30-year-old actress shared a cryptic Instagram Story twice Saturday evening, which featured an audio clip of her daughter lending comforting words. JAMIE LYNN SPEARS SEEMINGLY DENIES SISTER BRITNEY SPEARS PAID FOR HER FLORIDA CONDO "It’ll be OK mom," Ivey Watson, 3, said in the short clip. "It has to be OK, mom." Spears replied to the toddler with: "Thank you, baby." Jamie Lynn Spears, 30, shared a cryptic Instagram Story twice on Aug. 7, 2021, which featured an audio clip of her daughter lending comforting words. "It’ll be OK mom," Ivey Watson, 3, said in the short clip. "It has to be OK, mom." (mage Group LA/Disney Channel via Getty Images) The recording comes roughly si...

Last week the Rolling Stones announced that drummer Charlie Watts would not perform at the 2021 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this fall. As it turned out, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards won’t either. Nor will anyone else. The 2021 Jazz Fest, like 2020’s, has been cancelled after first being postponed because of surging rates of COVID-19 infections. The loss of the festival, and the thousands of visitors that it would have attracted, is another economic and psychological blow not just for musicians, music venues and festival workers and vendors, but for New Orleans’ larger tourism economy. The cancellation also does not bode well for other fall events. Jazz Fest’s producers announced the cancelation Sunday, only nine days after putting tickets...

Markie Post, the effervescent actress known for her roles on the television series “Night Court” and “The Fall Guy” and the movie “There’s Something About Mary” during a career that spanned four decades, died on Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, who provided a statement from Ms. Post’s family specifying that the cause of death was cancer. Ms. Post had continued to act for nearly four years after her initial cancer diagnosis and while undergoing chemotherapy treatments that she referred to as her “side job,” her family said. Since her diagnosis, she had worked on a Lifetime Christmas movie and had a recurring guest role on the ABC series “The Kids Are Alright.” Frequently cast in daffy roles that emphasized ...

The Suicide Squad Photo: Warner Bros. [The following contains spoilers for The Suicide Squad] There’s a point in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad where Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie, reprising her role from the first Suicide Squad and from Birds Of Prey) is captured and tortured by bad guy soldiers. She kills the torturer pretty quickly, because she’s Harley Quinn and murdering people should be no problem for her at this point, but then she does something even more impressive: In one fluid motion, Harley grabs a handcuff key from the goon’s corpse with her feet, then twists backward to put the key in the lock and free herself. It’s the kind of acrobatic trick that you’d expect an evil clown to pull off, but in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn revealed that it’s appa...

New mom Halsey is being praised for showing off their stretch marks. (Photo: Image Group LA/ABC via Getty Images)Halsey is continuing to give more glimpses of their life — and body — as a new mom. The pop star and partner Alev Aydin welcomed Ender Ridley on July 14. The singer, who uses she/they pronouns, showed off their stretch marks in a series of snapshots posted to Instagram this weekend. "Well...this is what I look like," she wrote of their postpartum figure, baring their stomach to reveal the marks as well as a "Baby" tattoo placed just above the pelvis.  Halsey bared their stomach to reveal their stretch marks after giving birth to baby Ender. (Photo: Halsey/Instagram)Halsey's followers praised the first-time mom for being open about what a postpartum body might look like.  "...

The box office recovery took another hit as Warner Bros. and DC’s critical darling The Suicide Squad opened to a less-than-expected $26.5 million from 4,002 North American theaters amid challenges posed by the Delta variant and a hybrid theatrical-home launch. The movie could claim one victory: it scored the top North American opening of the pandemic-era for an R-rated title. Overseas — where COVID-19 is likewise on the rise in a number of territories — The Suicide Squad collected a muted $35 million from 71 markets for a foreign tally of $45.7 million and global take of $72.2 million. James Gunn directed the standalone sequel about DC’s team of antiheroes featuring a cast led by Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, Vio...