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Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother and a Grammy-winning singer, dies at 91
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on October 7th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, has died. She was 91. Houston died Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston told ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield on living through ‘We Live in Time’
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on October 7th, 2024
TORONTO (AP) – In “We Live in Time,” Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield act an entire life of a relationship – a gamut of dating, falling in love, having a child and reckoning with cancer. So when Garfield recently went on a six-day retreat in the woods without his phone, one of his first texts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guster, Avett Brothers and Florence Welch are helping bring alt-rock to the musical theater stage
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on October 7th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Ryan Miller, lead singer of alternative rock band Guster, has a new gig that even he’s a little surprised about: Musical theater songwriter. He laughs that he’s gone all Broadway. “I just went full-into the ballpit – just, like, face-first, take-me-wherever-this-is-going,” he said before a recent rehearsal of his bright new ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle Menendez and a priest on TV. He’s hungry for what’s next.
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on October 7th, 2024
Nicholas Alexander Chavez has had a “very surreal” few weeks promoting and premiering his first roles in prime time, in a pair of shows debuting within one week of each other. Chavez, 25, plays Lyle Menendez in Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and Father Charlie, a true-crime obsessed priest in FX’s “Grotesquerie.” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from singer R. Kelly, convicted of child sex crimes
By Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press on October 7th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal Monday from the singer R. Kelly, who is now serving 20 years in prison after being convicted of child sex convictions in Chicago. The Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was found guilty in 2022 of three charges of producing child sexual ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
By Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press on October 7th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” afterjacking up the price of a lifesaving drug. Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped after monopolizing the market for the medication and drastically increasing its ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ian Williams dissects conversation in ‘What I Mean to Say,’ upcoming Massey Lectures
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on October 7th, 2024
TORONTO – As a fiction writer, Ian Williams has dissected conversation. He’s learned its rhythm and texture, found its liver and lungs, so he can transmute it into dialogue on the page. As a person in the world – a professor, a public intellectual and a non-fiction writer – he feels a responsibility to share ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tilda Swinton explores assisted suicide in Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’
By John Carucci, The Associated Press on October 6th, 2024
TORONTO (AP) – Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton notes that he’s never written in a language that anyone else truly speaks. “He writes in Pedro language, and here he is making another film in another version of Pedro language, which just happens to sound a little bit ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Donald Glover cancels Childish Gambino tour dates over health issue
By The Associated Press on October 6th, 2024
Donald Glover has canceled the remaining dates of Childish Gambino’s North American and European tour. The musician, actor and “Atlanta” creator announced on Friday that he recently discovered an ailment that required surgery. After his New Orleans show on Sept. 7, he sought tests at a hospital and canceled a Houston show the following night. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Robert Coover, innovative author and teacher, dies at 92
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on October 6th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Robert Coover, the exuberant and rule-defying fiction writer and educator who devised new adventures for literature through such works as “The Babysitter” and “The Public Burning” and through his decades on the faculty of Brown University, has died. He was 92. Coover died surrounded by family on Saturday at a care ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Harris talks abortion and more on ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast as Democratic ticket steps up interviews
By Josh Boak, The Associated Press on October 6th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris opened a media blitz by the Democratic ticket on Sunday by appearing on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast about abortion, sexual abuse and other issues that resonate with women, working in some digs at her GOP opponent along the way. In the roughly 40-minute interview, taped last ... Read More »
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