Month: January 2022

Talk about all over the place! This year’s SAG Awards film nominating committee, comprised of 2,500 people chosen at random from SAG-AFTRA’s overall membership, revealed its nominations on Wednesday morning — they voted between Dec. 6 and Jan. 9 — and offered a lot of conflicting signs. In the highest-profile category, best ensemble (which many voters treat as an equivalent of best picture), the nom-com selected the mostly Irish cast of Belfast, the largely deaf cast of CODA, the very diverse cast of King Richard and the overflowing-with-A-listers casts of Don’t Look Up and House of Gucci. A best ensemble nomination is a nice way of recognizing all of the performers who worked on a film, which might explain why the nom-com then elected to recognize, in its indiv...

Keeping it real. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson went on yet another low-key date Tuesday night, complete with a pizza pie that cost less than $20 and a run to a local Rite Aid. Paparazzi snapped the couple sneaking out through the back door of Jon & Vinny’s Fairfax in Los Angeles, which has a much more casual vibe than celebrity hotspot Carbone in New York City – a favorite of Kardashian’s ex Kanye West. Kardashian, 41, and Davidson, 28, sat together on one of the wooden booths at the diner, while they chowed down on a Margherita pie that only set them back $17.75. They then made their way over to a drugstore for dessert, where the pair picked up some ice cream. While inside Rite Aid, the Skims founder and “Saturday Night Live” star were...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, has died. She was 78. Spector died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, her family said. “Ronnie lived her life with a twinkle in her eye, a spunky attitude, a wicked sense of humor and a smile on her face. She was filled with love and gratitude,” a statement said. No other details were revealed. Tributes flooded social media, with Stevie Van Zandt saying it was an honor to produce her, to Brian Wilson, who wrote on Twitter: “I loved her voice so much and she was a very special person and a dear friend.” Diane Warren called her “The voice of a million teenage dreams including m...

Ben Affleck and Jennifer LopezPhoto: Kevin Winter/Getty Images (Getty Images) Ben Affleck is sharing some reflections on his iconic box office flop, Gigli, and how it led him to ultimately start directing films. The actor graces the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly and was subjected to a hard-hitting interview with his best friend Matt Damon. Affleck explained that he signed on to Gigli, which cost an estimated $75 million and made $7 million, because he loved and respected director Martin Brest’s previous work. “There was wonderful stuff in there,” he said of the movie, which costarred his then- and now-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. “There are things where my daughter will be like, ‘This is ableist and disgusting,’ and okay. The way we see stuff has changed a little bit,...

Guess she’s got the “X Factor.” As Page Six has revealed that Simon Cowell and girlfriend Lauren Silverman are getting married after 12 years and one child together, insiders suggest that the engagement may be a last-gasp effort to save their relationship. “Around Christmas I know that she was talking about it, and he was refusing,” a source told The Post. “They had reached a difficult point in the relationship — you might call it a crisis. There was misery. “Perhaps she had made it clear that she was not going to stick around unless they got married.” Silverman, 44, has reportedly been waiting a long time for her ring. In fact, the source said, this is actually their second engagement. The first was not long after the birth of their son Eric, now s...

It was filming “Justice League” that made Ben Affleck want to hang up his Batman cape. “It was really ‘Justice League’ that was the nadir for me,” Affleck, 49, told the Los Angeles Times about shooting director Zack Snyder’s 2017 movie. “That was a bad experience because of a confluence of things: my own life, my divorce, being away too much, the competing agendas, and then Zack’s personal tragedy [with his daughter committing suicide during the filming] and the reshooting. It just was the worst experience. It was awful.” The whole experience turned Affleck against playing the Caped Crusader. “It was everything that I didn’t like about this,” he said. “That became the moment where I said, ‘I’m not doing this anymore.’ It’s not even about, like, ‘Justice League’ was ...