Month: September 2021

Joan Washington, a veteran dialect and voice coach and the wife of Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant, died Wednesday. Grant posted the news on social media Friday morning but did not provide details. “ONLY YOU Joan – Love of my Life & Giver of Life to our daughter Olivia,” Grant wrote in a tweet that includes a video of the couple dancing and smiling (see it below). “Our hearts are broken with the loss of your life last night. 35 years married and 38 together. To be truly known and seen by you is your immeasurable gift. Do not forget us, sweet Monkee-mine.” Washington began her career working as a dialect coach on Barbra Streisand’s 1983 movie Yentl. She had worked steadily in film and TV since then, contribution voice and/or dialect instruction on such titles as The Dressmake...

WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns retained his title in the main event of this week’s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown but he had some help from The Usos. Before the match got started, Jimmy and Jey Uso attacked Balor and that gave Reigns the advantage throughout the match. During the match, Jimmy and Jey were chased away by The Street Profits. After Reigns won and when he walked back up the aisle, fans could hear the sound of a heartbeat and the arena lights briefly turned red. While some fans have speculated that this is a tease for Brock Lesnar, who returns next week in Madison Square Garden, the tease is actually for the return of The Demon character. PWInsider reported last week that the main event for Extreme Rules on September 26 will be Balor vs. Reigns so, unless plans ch...

Travis Barker is not letting Scott Disick deter him from sharing his affection for girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian in a public way. On Friday the 45-year-old Blink-182 drummer posted a series of PDA packed snaps with the POOSH founder from their recent Paris trip, while hinting about marriage. 'Forever isn't long enough,' he wrote as he posted snaps of them kissing in front of a lit up Eiffel Tower and on a carrousel. Forever: The Blink-182 drummer shared more PDA snaps with his girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian and hinted at marriage as he wrote 'forever isn't long enough' after Scott Disick's snide DM The longtime friends turned lovers looked beyond enamored with each other, as they soaked up the most romantic city in the world by each other's side.  A trio of Eiffel T...

I hate this part right here (when I get sued). Nicole Scherzinger — lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls — has been hit with a hefty lawsuit by choreographer Robin Antin — the group’s founder — that was filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, The Hollywood Reporter reports. According to the suit, the performer, 43, agreed to a reunion of the Aughts-era sexy girl group behind such hits as “Don’t Cha” and “Stickwitu.” Scherzinger is alleged to have signed off on a reunion and “new Pussycat Dolls business venture” with Antin, agreeing to 49 percent of the deal under a short-form agreement referred to in the suit as a Memorandum of Understanding. The suit says that Scherzinger “now refuses to participate in the tour” following the cancelation of the...

Broadway’s “Waitress” offered a special homage to one of its original cast members when it reopened this week after an 18-month closure.  Actor Nick Cordero, who originated the role of Earl in “Waitress,” died in July 2020 following a monthslong battle with COVID-19. At the reopening performance of “Waitress” on Thursday night, Sara Bareilles welcomed Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, to the stage for an impromptu singalong of “Live Your Life,” Cordero’s 2018 pop-rock single and the title track of his debut solo album, released on what would have been his 41st birthday last year.  Cordero had only recently begun to perform the song live in concert before testing positive for the coronavirus. Watch the “Waitress” cast perform “Live Your Life” below.  “He is still a beautiful sp...

Three more were based on Tolstoy stories — “The Kreutzer Sonata,” “Boxing Day” and “2 Jacks” — all set in the modern day, all starring Huston, all delving into the self-destructiveness, vanity and excess. Skewering the rich, while stopping just short of judging them, became a recurring theme. Those films barely got a theatrical release, but they showed Rose’s commitment to characters who are messy, conflicted and often meet bad ends. “If we only regard cinema as a way of entertaining,” he said, “we’re actually ignoring one of its biggest functions, which is to record how people really were, and what was going on.” “The problem, and this is really simply the problem,” he continued, “is how to reconcile that stuff with actually earning a living.” Early in the pandemic, Rose decided to make ...