Month: May 2020

US actress Natalie Wood, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1981 (Silver Screen Collection/Getty) Natalie Wood would have been at the forefront of the battle for LGBT+ rights if she were alive today, her daughter has said. The late Hollywood star, known for her iconic film roles such as Maria in West Side Story and
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Dylan McDermott (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan/Getty) and Leslie Jordan (Harmony Gerber/Getty) Ryan Murphy has revealed that he is working on a new project which will star Leslie Jordan and Dylan McDermott – but there’s a catch. The popular gay television writer has apparently got the two actors on board for the project, even though he hasn’t
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Experimental artist Holly Herndon and collaborator Mat Dryhurst have launched a new podcast together. It’s called “Interdependence,” and you can access and support the project through Patreon. “We will publish conversations with good people at the forefront of music, technology and policy from our studio in Berlin,” Herndon and Dryhurst wrote on their Pateron page.
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Though it wasn’t the way producers and the network had planned, NCIS concluded Season 17 in mid-April just shy of 400 episodes. Halted production because of COVID-19 caused NCIS to stop earlier than expected, of course, although the episode that ended up becoming the finale was a strong and stirring way to finish. So now,
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Franklin Graham has claimed the media and “liberal politicians” are using the coronavirus pandemic to “destroy” Donald Trump. Graham, the notorious anti-LGBT+ evangelist, made the comments in a Facebook post shortly after he was told to close a New York tent hospital set up by his charity Samaritan’s Purse. The Central Park tent hospital was
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Today in our new books column we’re going to lighten the mood with two titles that take themselves far less seriously than most of the fare on our site. AJ Devlin has set a novel in the world of roller derby with an ex pro wrestler as the main character, while Zachary Colbert’s novella, well,
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J. Crew has filed for bankruptcy, becoming the first major US retailer to do so amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement released early Monday morning, May 4, the retailer—made popular by the likes of Meghan Markle and Michelle Obama—said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is working with its lenders
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EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline. “We are completely aligned
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Do: Step away from the tweezers It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major change in our daily lives. While everyone who can is (hopefully) helping slow the spread of the virus by staying home, regularly scheduled beauty appointments for treatments like haircuts, eyebrow grooming and manicures—remember manicures?!—are on pause while salons remain
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Ellen DeGeneres’ public persona has appeared to be at odds with her private actions (Anthony Harvey/Getty) A bodyguard assigned to protect Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars has claimed that her famously friendly demeanour is nothing but “false facade and bravado”. Tom Majercak was selected as ‘executive protector’ for DeGeneres, her mother, and her partner,
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If you thought pirates were just out at sea being bad, you’d be wrong — Washington state cops say there’s piracy happening on their own porches … by none other than nurses!!! Fake nurses, rather. This story comes to you from Kennewick, Washington … where the local police department released photos of two women dressed
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