Month: February 2022

In a new interview in Variety, Channing Tatum reveals that his hopes of starring as X-Men member Gambit in a planned future movie was scrapped after the Disney/Fox merger — and he’s so hurt that he’s boycotted Marvel’s Avengers movies ever since. “Once Gambit went away, I was so traumatized,” Tatum told Variety. “I shut off my Marvel machine. I haven’t been able to see any of the movies. I loved that character. It was just too sad. It was like losing a friend because I was so ready to play him.” Tatum and frequent collaborator Reid Carolin — who wrote and produced both Magic Mike movies — spent four years developing Gambit for 20th Century. It was originally supposed to be released in October 2016, but was removed from Fox’s release schedule earlier that year, then officially can...

A former beauty queen who leaped from a Manhattan apartment building to her death battled high-functioning depression, her mom has revealed. April Simpkins said she is 'forever changed' the death of her daughter Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA whose bubbly and vivacious personality masked inner struggles. 'Cheslie led both a public and a private life,' Simpkins shared on Instagram. 'In her private life, she was dealing with high-functioning depression which she hid from everyone - including me, her closest confidant - until very shortly before her death.' Kryst, 30, was discovered on a sidewalk next to her luxury apartment building The Orion in Hell's Kitchen on Sunday morning. Although she lived alone in the complex's ninth floor, she was last seen in a common area on an open terrace on...

Crosby, Stills & Nash in concert during 10th Annual Music Midtown Festival - Day 2 - Crosby, Stills & Nash In Concert at Midtown Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Frank Mullen | WireImage | Getty Images The estranged Crosby, Stills & Nash have reunited in an effort to withdraw their music from Spotify in solidarity with former bandmate Neil Young. Young, with support of his record studio, pulled his music from the streaming platform last week over allegations that Joe Rogan, Spotify's star podcaster, was spreading coronavirus vaccination misinformation with his show. "We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify's Joe Rogan podcast," David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash s...

Crosby, Stills & Nash in concert during 10th Annual Music Midtown Festival - Day 2 - Crosby, Stills & Nash In Concert at Midtown Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Frank Mullen | WireImage | Getty Images The estranged Crosby, Stills & Nash have reunited in an effort to withdraw their music from Spotify in solidarity with former bandmate Neil Young. Young, with support of his record studio, pulled his music from the streaming platform last week over allegations that Joe Rogan, Spotify's star podcaster, was spreading coronavirus vaccination misinformation with his show. "We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify's Joe Rogan podcast," David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash s...

Crosby, Stills & Nash in concert during 10th Annual Music Midtown Festival - Day 2 - Crosby, Stills & Nash In Concert at Midtown Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Frank Mullen | WireImage | Getty Images The estranged Crosby, Stills & Nash have reunited in an effort to withdraw their music from Spotify in solidarity with former bandmate Neil Young. Young, with support of his record studio, pulled his music from the streaming platform last week over allegations that Joe Rogan, Spotify's star podcaster, was spreading coronavirus vaccination misinformation with his show. "We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify's Joe Rogan podcast," David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash s...

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Nash joined Young on Wednesday in calling for their music to be removed from Spotify, writing, “While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic had deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music that we made together — to be on the same platform.”

Four people have been arrested in the overdose death of “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams — and the crew stashed drugs behind trash cans in Brooklyn while selling them in plain sight, federal authorities said Wednesday. The suspects, Hector Robles, Luis Cruz, Carlos Macci and Irvin Cartagena, were each charged with narcotics conspiracy for distributing fentanyl-laced heroin that led to Williams’ overdose death in September 2021, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said.  The suspects were members of a drug crew that operated on the south side of Williamsburg and sold cocaine that was laced with deadly fentanyl.  Surveillance footage obtained by investigators shows Cartagena allegedly completing a hand-to-hand drug sale with Williams the day before he was found d...