Miami – Last week, at his Washington D.C. tour stop, Colombia born singer-songwriter, and global Latin music superstar Maluma, premiered a heartfelt and extremely personal video for his song “Procura” off his newly released album, Don Juan. The video features a huge surprise and is a very special moment for Maluma.
Visualizer for “Procura”
In September, Maluma and Mexican singer-songwriter Carin León, reached #1 on TikTok for their song “Según Quién.” The track has accumulated over 2.4 billion views and 1 million creations on the platform. Earlier this month, Maluma performed the track alongside Carin León on Good Morning America and solo on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. He also treated viewers to a performance of “Coco Loco” on GMA.
Maluma’s sixth studio album Don Juan, was released in August via Sony Music Latin – listen Here. The record features 25 songs including 6 bonus tracks and Maluma’s previously released singles “La Fórmula” with Marc Anthony,...
Visualizer for “Procura”
In September, Maluma and Mexican singer-songwriter Carin León, reached #1 on TikTok for their song “Según Quién.” The track has accumulated over 2.4 billion views and 1 million creations on the platform. Earlier this month, Maluma performed the track alongside Carin León on Good Morning America and solo on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. He also treated viewers to a performance of “Coco Loco” on GMA.
Maluma’s sixth studio album Don Juan, was released in August via Sony Music Latin – listen Here. The record features 25 songs including 6 bonus tracks and Maluma’s previously released singles “La Fórmula” with Marc Anthony,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Joe Smith, a record executive who epitomized L.A. cool while heading up three major labels during some of the most fruitful moments in music business history, has died. He was 91. Smith was the head of Warner Bros. Records in the 1960s and into the 1970s, then moved to Elektra in the later 1970s and 1980s, before joining Capitol Records in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was part of the record business in the pre-multinational corporate era, a moment in time when decisions could be made based on instinct, great ears, and sound judgment.
As much as his talent for finding exciting new music was impressive, Smith was also known as a man about town. He was courtside at the Lakers games, gracing the town’s hottest restaurants, and always at the right places when a major act was showcasing. Throughout it all, he was a beloved figure in a...
As much as his talent for finding exciting new music was impressive, Smith was also known as a man about town. He was courtside at the Lakers games, gracing the town’s hottest restaurants, and always at the right places when a major act was showcasing. Throughout it all, he was a beloved figure in a...
- 12/3/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Bucking the current hostless award show trend, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. is bringing back “After Life” star Ricky Gervais for a fifth go-round as the feckless host of the Golden Globes. He’ll emcee the three-hour 77th installment of the glittery Globes telecast at the Beverly Hilton on January 5 on NBC, which starts at 8:00 p.m. Et.
Gervais hosted the Golden Globes in 2010-12 and returned for a fourth time in 2016. Four years later, Gervais is promising to burn his bridges. “Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse,” he said. “But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening.”
“When Ricky Gervais is at the helm of the Golden Globes Awards, we can always expect the unexpected,” said President of the HFPA Lorenzo Soria.
The 90-member HFPA, who cover the entertainment industry for some 55 countries,...
Gervais hosted the Golden Globes in 2010-12 and returned for a fourth time in 2016. Four years later, Gervais is promising to burn his bridges. “Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse,” he said. “But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening.”
“When Ricky Gervais is at the helm of the Golden Globes Awards, we can always expect the unexpected,” said President of the HFPA Lorenzo Soria.
The 90-member HFPA, who cover the entertainment industry for some 55 countries,...
- 11/12/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Erica Gimpel, who recurred last season on God Friended Me, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the CBS drama series from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV.
Created by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt and starring Brandon Micheal Hall, God Friended Me is a humor-tinged uplifting drama about Miles Finer (Hall), an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from “God” and unwittingly becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.
Gimpel plays Trish, the owner of a neighborhood music store who falls in love with Reverend Arthur Finer (Joe Morton), the father of Miles (Hall). She appeared in eight episodes last season.
Gimpel’s breakout role came in the hit series Fame as Coco Hernandez. She went on to become a series regular on Profiler and...
Created by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt and starring Brandon Micheal Hall, God Friended Me is a humor-tinged uplifting drama about Miles Finer (Hall), an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from “God” and unwittingly becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.
Gimpel plays Trish, the owner of a neighborhood music store who falls in love with Reverend Arthur Finer (Joe Morton), the father of Miles (Hall). She appeared in eight episodes last season.
Gimpel’s breakout role came in the hit series Fame as Coco Hernandez. She went on to become a series regular on Profiler and...
- 6/11/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Carmine Caridi, best known for portraying Carmine Rosato in "The Godfather: Part II", is dead. He was 85.
Caridi died on Tuesday after being in a coma at a hospital here, his representatives told variety.com.
"From Broadway, to film and television, Carmine spent over six decades entertaining audiences, and nothing made him happier. His talent, wit, warmth, and charm will be missed.
"Carmine passed peacefully, surrounded by friends and family at Cedars Sinai Hospital," the representatives said in a statement.
The actor's character in "The Godfather: Part II" played a key role in the territorial feud with Frank Pentangeli, played by Michael V. Gazzo.
The veteran actor also appeared in "The Godfather: Part III" as a different character, Albert Volpe, an investor in Michael Corleone's casinos who is killed in an attack at a hotel in Atlantic City.
He also starred in TV shows including "Phyllis," "Starsky and Hutch,...
Caridi died on Tuesday after being in a coma at a hospital here, his representatives told variety.com.
"From Broadway, to film and television, Carmine spent over six decades entertaining audiences, and nothing made him happier. His talent, wit, warmth, and charm will be missed.
"Carmine passed peacefully, surrounded by friends and family at Cedars Sinai Hospital," the representatives said in a statement.
The actor's character in "The Godfather: Part II" played a key role in the territorial feud with Frank Pentangeli, played by Michael V. Gazzo.
The veteran actor also appeared in "The Godfather: Part III" as a different character, Albert Volpe, an investor in Michael Corleone's casinos who is killed in an attack at a hotel in Atlantic City.
He also starred in TV shows including "Phyllis," "Starsky and Hutch,...
- 5/30/2019
- GlamSham
Carmine Caridi, who played the traitorous Carmine Rosato in The Godfather, Part II (1974) and returned to the Francis Ford Coppola franchise to portray Albert Volpe in The Godfather Part III (1990), died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where he had been in a coma. He was 85.
The veteran actor had screen credits in the triple-digits by the end of his career but his signature roles was Rosato, a key figure in the bloody mob battle that played out as a centerpiece of The Godfather, Part II, which won the Academy Award for best picture to match the gold-plated achievement of its predecessor, The Godfather (1972). Rosato’s machinations created turmoil and confusion for the Corleone Family but in the end his gambit failed and his fate was a shotgun execution.
Caridi also gained a measure of industry notoriety in 2004 when he became the first person to be expelled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
The veteran actor had screen credits in the triple-digits by the end of his career but his signature roles was Rosato, a key figure in the bloody mob battle that played out as a centerpiece of The Godfather, Part II, which won the Academy Award for best picture to match the gold-plated achievement of its predecessor, The Godfather (1972). Rosato’s machinations created turmoil and confusion for the Corleone Family but in the end his gambit failed and his fate was a shotgun execution.
Caridi also gained a measure of industry notoriety in 2004 when he became the first person to be expelled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
- 5/29/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
5:15 Pm Pt -- We just got Chazz Palminteri in NYC, and he told us he's glad he got the chance to work with Carmine ... calling him a really great man. Chazz also feels Carmine should be reinstated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 9:53 Am Pt -- Carmine's manager tells us, "From Broadway, to film and television, Carmine spent over six decades entertaining audiences, and nothing made him happier. His talent,...
- 5/29/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Actor Carmine Caridi, who appeared in two Godfather films and was kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for sharing screeners, has died. He was 85.
Caridi died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his rep, Tim Jordan of Jordan Lee Talent, told The Hollywood Reporter. Actor-director Chazz Palminteri told TMZ that Caridi died of complications suffered from a recent fall.
During his six-decade career, Caridi portrayed the mobsters Carmine Rosato in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Albert Volpe in The Godfather: Part III (1990), and appeared on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Fame, Taxi, Simon & Simon and ...
Caridi died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his rep, Tim Jordan of Jordan Lee Talent, told The Hollywood Reporter. Actor-director Chazz Palminteri told TMZ that Caridi died of complications suffered from a recent fall.
During his six-decade career, Caridi portrayed the mobsters Carmine Rosato in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Albert Volpe in The Godfather: Part III (1990), and appeared on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Fame, Taxi, Simon & Simon and ...
- 5/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Carmine Caridi, who appeared in two Godfather films and was kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for sharing screeners, has died. He was 85.
Caridi died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his rep, Tim Jordan of Jordan Lee Talent, told The Hollywood Reporter. Actor-director Chazz Palminteri told TMZ that Caridi died of complications suffered from a recent fall.
During his six-decade career, Caridi portrayed the mobsters Carmine Rosato in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Albert Volpe in The Godfather: Part III (1990), and appeared on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Fame, Taxi, Simon & Simon and ...
Caridi died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his rep, Tim Jordan of Jordan Lee Talent, told The Hollywood Reporter. Actor-director Chazz Palminteri told TMZ that Caridi died of complications suffered from a recent fall.
During his six-decade career, Caridi portrayed the mobsters Carmine Rosato in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Albert Volpe in The Godfather: Part III (1990), and appeared on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Fame, Taxi, Simon & Simon and ...
- 5/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Longtime friends of 30+ years, Matt Zarley and Tony and Grammy Award winner Billy Porter have teamed up to record a brand new single and music video benefitting homeless Lgbt youth.
Billy Porter and Matt Zarley
“You Gotta Be” is being released worldwide today on all digital and streaming services worldwide with 100% of the proceeds benefitting Los Angeles Lgbt Center’s Youth Center. The song, which unequivocally reminds us that “love will save the day,” is a reimagined rendition of the classic 1995 Des’ree track. Billy and Matt recently shot a video for the tune at West Hollywood’s Quixote Studios, which features 40 additional friends of the pair who donated their time for this special project.
“Billy and I are both passionate about all Lgbt causes, particularly ones that involve our next generations,” said Matt, who also produced the song as well as directed and edited the video. “We wanted to...
Billy Porter and Matt Zarley
“You Gotta Be” is being released worldwide today on all digital and streaming services worldwide with 100% of the proceeds benefitting Los Angeles Lgbt Center’s Youth Center. The song, which unequivocally reminds us that “love will save the day,” is a reimagined rendition of the classic 1995 Des’ree track. Billy and Matt recently shot a video for the tune at West Hollywood’s Quixote Studios, which features 40 additional friends of the pair who donated their time for this special project.
“Billy and I are both passionate about all Lgbt causes, particularly ones that involve our next generations,” said Matt, who also produced the song as well as directed and edited the video. “We wanted to...
- 5/29/2019
- Look to the Stars
Celebrated film editor and music editor and USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Norman Hollyn died in Yokohama, Japan Sunday night from coronary embolism and cardiac arrest. He was 66.
Dean Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts confirmed his death on Facebook. “All of us at the USC School of Cinematic Arts are profoundly saddened by the passing of Norman Hollyn, who was an extraordinary film, television and music editor, and was the inaugural holder of the Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing here at Sca,” wrote Daley. “Norm died in Yokohama, Japan, where he was sharing his wonderful knowledge with students from Tokyo University of the Arts. Norm was such an important member of our faculty for many years and his loss is devastating. We will grieve with his family in the days ahead and find a time this Spring to join together to celebrate his life...
Dean Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts confirmed his death on Facebook. “All of us at the USC School of Cinematic Arts are profoundly saddened by the passing of Norman Hollyn, who was an extraordinary film, television and music editor, and was the inaugural holder of the Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing here at Sca,” wrote Daley. “Norm died in Yokohama, Japan, where he was sharing his wonderful knowledge with students from Tokyo University of the Arts. Norm was such an important member of our faculty for many years and his loss is devastating. We will grieve with his family in the days ahead and find a time this Spring to join together to celebrate his life...
- 3/19/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The Titans just made a killer cast addition: Esai Morales will portray Deathstroke, the fan-favorite assassin and archenemy of Teen Titans leader Dick Grayson.
The Titans, the first original programming franchise for the DC Universe subscription steaming site, launched in September and finished its first season in December. The weekly show follows the superhero squad that’s led by Batman’s former sidekick, Robin, aka Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites), and includes the hot-tempered alien princess Starfire (Anna Diop), the mysterious empath Raven (Teagan Croft), and the green-skinned shape-shifter Beast Boy (Ryan Potter).
That Titans line-up of characters was introduced with much fanfare in the pages of DC Comics back in 1980. The team, created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, didn’t have to wait long to find their signature antagonist: Deathstroke the Terminator was introduced in issue No. 2 of The New Teen Titans in December 1980.
The character bio from the...
The Titans, the first original programming franchise for the DC Universe subscription steaming site, launched in September and finished its first season in December. The weekly show follows the superhero squad that’s led by Batman’s former sidekick, Robin, aka Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites), and includes the hot-tempered alien princess Starfire (Anna Diop), the mysterious empath Raven (Teagan Croft), and the green-skinned shape-shifter Beast Boy (Ryan Potter).
That Titans line-up of characters was introduced with much fanfare in the pages of DC Comics back in 1980. The team, created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, didn’t have to wait long to find their signature antagonist: Deathstroke the Terminator was introduced in issue No. 2 of The New Teen Titans in December 1980.
The character bio from the...
- 3/13/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Sokol Mar 8, 2019
New science fiction thriller Black Antenna is set against Alice in Chains' Rainier Fog album and goes straight for the teeth.
Black Antenna has come raining down as Alice in Chains reminds us why we even care anymore. With an insistent beat, the Seattle sound pioneers are going where no grunge band has gone before. Alice In Chains released the first two episodes of Black Antenna, a 90 minute science fiction thriller which will be released in 10 segments before coming out as a full movie.
Directed by Adam Mason, written by Paul Sloan and Adam Mason and produced by Elizabeth Mason and Nick Vallelonga, who is coming off Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Oscars for Green Book, Black Antenna is set against songs from Alice in Chains' sixth studio album Rainier Fog.
Alice in Chains dropped Rainier Fog on August 24, 2018. It is named after Seattle's volcano Mount Rainier.
New science fiction thriller Black Antenna is set against Alice in Chains' Rainier Fog album and goes straight for the teeth.
Black Antenna has come raining down as Alice in Chains reminds us why we even care anymore. With an insistent beat, the Seattle sound pioneers are going where no grunge band has gone before. Alice In Chains released the first two episodes of Black Antenna, a 90 minute science fiction thriller which will be released in 10 segments before coming out as a full movie.
Directed by Adam Mason, written by Paul Sloan and Adam Mason and produced by Elizabeth Mason and Nick Vallelonga, who is coming off Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Oscars for Green Book, Black Antenna is set against songs from Alice in Chains' sixth studio album Rainier Fog.
Alice in Chains dropped Rainier Fog on August 24, 2018. It is named after Seattle's volcano Mount Rainier.
- 3/8/2019
- Den of Geek
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and ABC are determined to present a shorter Oscarcast on Feb. 24. One of their ideas: present several below-the-line awards during commercial breaks.
Apparently they think audiences don’t care about those categories. Here’s a better idea: Explain this work to TV audiences, and get them involved with these artisans, who are often the most interesting and valuable contributors to a film.
Exhibit A: Ruth E. Carter, nominated for her costume design on “Black Panther.”
Carter was an honoree this month at Variety’s fifth annual Artisan Awards at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. She spoke of her work as “an exploration of culture and color” as she created distinct costumes for various tribes of Wakanda, carefully choosing textiles, accessories and jewelry.
She wanted the costumes to reflect the fact that Africa and Asia shared cultures for many centuries, plus another factor: “Wakanda...
Apparently they think audiences don’t care about those categories. Here’s a better idea: Explain this work to TV audiences, and get them involved with these artisans, who are often the most interesting and valuable contributors to a film.
Exhibit A: Ruth E. Carter, nominated for her costume design on “Black Panther.”
Carter was an honoree this month at Variety’s fifth annual Artisan Awards at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. She spoke of her work as “an exploration of culture and color” as she created distinct costumes for various tribes of Wakanda, carefully choosing textiles, accessories and jewelry.
She wanted the costumes to reflect the fact that Africa and Asia shared cultures for many centuries, plus another factor: “Wakanda...
- 2/14/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Dick Miller, a prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in the 1984 classic horror film “Gremlins,” has died. He was 90.
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was then that he starred as Walter Paisley – a character the actor would reprise throughout his career – in the cult classic “A Bucket of Blood,” before going on to land roles on projects such as “The ‘Burbs,” “Fame” and “The Terminator.”
Miller also boasts a long history of high-profile director partnerships, working with the likes of James Cameron, Ernest Dickerson, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles and, perhaps most notably, Joe Dante, who used Miller in almost every project he helmed.
In one of Dante’s earlier films, “Piranha,” Miller played Buck Gardner, a small-time real estate agent opening up a...
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was then that he starred as Walter Paisley – a character the actor would reprise throughout his career – in the cult classic “A Bucket of Blood,” before going on to land roles on projects such as “The ‘Burbs,” “Fame” and “The Terminator.”
Miller also boasts a long history of high-profile director partnerships, working with the likes of James Cameron, Ernest Dickerson, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles and, perhaps most notably, Joe Dante, who used Miller in almost every project he helmed.
In one of Dante’s earlier films, “Piranha,” Miller played Buck Gardner, a small-time real estate agent opening up a...
- 1/31/2019
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
In a development as unfortunate as it is unsurprising, Kacey Musgraves is the only female artist up for Album of the Year at the 52nd annual Cma Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday. Musgraves — whose acclaimed third full-length Golden Hour is in the running with releases from Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett and Dierks Bentley — is also, by little coincidence, the only artist in that group that fans can still catch in the intimacy of a 686-capacity theater in Northern Alabama.
That was the case Saturday night at...
That was the case Saturday night at...
- 8/28/2018
- by Adam Gold
- Rollingstone.com
Lars von Trier warned his fans that “The House That Jack Built” would be his most brutal and violent offering to date, and the movie’s first official trailer suggests the director won’t have a problem making good on that promise. Featuring a ton of blood and graphic violence, uncomfortably set to David Bowie’s “Fame,” the trailer for “Jack” confirms von Trier is up to his usual polarizing tricks.
“Jack” stars Matt Dillon as the eponymous serial killer. Von Trier’s script follows Jack’s development as a murderer, following him through five important killings and providing glimpses into his troubling coming-of-age experience. Uma Thurman and Riley Keough star as two of Jack’s victims.
IFC Films is set to release “Jack” in U.S. theaters in the fall. The movie is already notable for bringing Von Trier back to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time...
“Jack” stars Matt Dillon as the eponymous serial killer. Von Trier’s script follows Jack’s development as a murderer, following him through five important killings and providing glimpses into his troubling coming-of-age experience. Uma Thurman and Riley Keough star as two of Jack’s victims.
IFC Films is set to release “Jack” in U.S. theaters in the fall. The movie is already notable for bringing Von Trier back to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time...
- 5/14/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After much anticipation, NBC’s musical drama “Rise” premieres on March 13. Based on Michael Sokolove‘s nonfiction book “Drama High” about a Pennsylvania high school’s theater program, the series hopes to follow in the Emmy winning footsteps of previous musical hits like “Fame” and “Glee.” And it has an impressive pedigree to back it up.
“Rise” was created for TV by Jason Katims and Jeffrey Seller. Katims is best known for creating “Parenthood” and “Friday Night Lights”; the latter was also a high school drama based on a nonfiction book — though that one was about football instead of musical theater. That series earned its only Emmy nomination for Best Drama Series in 2011 for its fifth and final season, and Katims won an Emmy that year for writing the finale episode. Seller is also an award-winning producer, but for the stage. He’s a five-time Tony winner, including Best Musical...
“Rise” was created for TV by Jason Katims and Jeffrey Seller. Katims is best known for creating “Parenthood” and “Friday Night Lights”; the latter was also a high school drama based on a nonfiction book — though that one was about football instead of musical theater. That series earned its only Emmy nomination for Best Drama Series in 2011 for its fifth and final season, and Katims won an Emmy that year for writing the finale episode. Seller is also an award-winning producer, but for the stage. He’s a five-time Tony winner, including Best Musical...
- 3/13/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Francis Whately's documentary The Last Five Years, which debuts January 8th on HBO, takes a close look at David Bowie's final recorded documents, The Next Day and Blackstar. Instead of the usual procession of famous talking heads that appear in most music docs, the portrait quizzes his close collaborators on these last two albums – producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, composer Maria Schneider and the Donny McCaslin-fronted jazz outfit that played on Blackstar. The movie toggles back and forth between decades, drawing connections between song lyrics from...
- 1/5/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Hold on to your sweatbands: "Fame" is gonna live forever -- or at least a little longer -- thanks to a Nigel Lythgoe re-imagining of the 1980s film and series about kids striving to succeed in the brutal world of song and dance. MGM Television announced Tuesday that the executive producer of "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance" will re-imagine series. He will executive produce with Kary McHoul, president of Nigel Lythgoe Productions, Charles Segars ("National Treasure") and Chad Gutstein.
- 8/28/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
MGM Television has teamed with American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance executive producer Nigel Lythgoe for Fame, a scripted series based on the 1980 MGM film and 1982 MGM TV series that chronicled the lives of talented students paying their dues on the road to success. Lythgoe will serve as executive producer on the project, along with Nigel Lythgoe Prods. president Kary McHoul, Segars Media’s Charles Segars (National Treasure) and Chad Gutstein. According to the producers, the new project is a re-imagening of the original film and series that will strive to embody their spirit. Set against the backdrop of today’s unprecedented access to the world of celebrity, it will expose the gritty struggle, heartache and pain endured in the search for stardom. “This is a great opportunity for MGM to partner with world-class producer Nigel Lythgoe, whose unmatched experience with telling the true stories of talented...
- 8/28/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Legendary TV director Harry Harris has lost his battle with blood disorder myelodysplasia. He was 86.
Harris' credits include directing Steve McQueen's series Wanted: Dead Or Alive and episodes of Gunsmoke, The Waltons, Falcon Crest, Magnum, P.I. and Beverly Hills, 90210.
He won an Emmy Award for directing an episode of Fame in 1982.
Harris' credits include directing Steve McQueen's series Wanted: Dead Or Alive and episodes of Gunsmoke, The Waltons, Falcon Crest, Magnum, P.I. and Beverly Hills, 90210.
He won an Emmy Award for directing an episode of Fame in 1982.
- 3/24/2009
- WENN
Crash star Terrence Howard is to head up an all-African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof on Broadway in March. The actor will perform alongside thespian Phylicia Rashad in the play, which will be directed by former Fame actress Debbie Allen. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which made it to the big screen and starred Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, has been revived on Broadway four times before, but this production marks the first African-American production approved by Williams' estate for the Broadway stage. The show will also feature Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose and James Earl Jones, who recently starred opposite Taylor in a one-night-only benefit performance of Love Letters in Los Angeles.
- 12/12/2007
- WENN
Janet Jackson is facing a $120 million lawsuit after two of her bodyguards allegedly choked a fan so severely he almost blacked out. New Yorker Leonard Salati filed the legal action at Manhattan's Supreme Court, accusing the singer of negligence by hiring the two unnamed bodyguards. The 39-year-old says Jackson was friendly when they first met outside the Marquee nightclub and invited him to join her in the VIP area - but her security team turned nasty when he handed her a note. Salati says, "My cousin knew Janet from (the TV show) Fame back in the 1980s. She told her bodyguards that I was okay and invited me to join her entourage inside." After chatting to Jackson, Salati momentarily left the room before returning and trying to pass her a hand-written note. The suit alleges that, "Without provocation," the bodyguards, "Grabbed (him) around the neck, engaging (him) in a choke hold," and, "Dragged him down the steps," of the club, then, "Evicted him from Marquee into the street." Steven Goldman, Salati's lawyer tells the court, "Witnesses say he was choked so severely they could tell he was gasping for air. We don't know the extent of the spine injury." Jackson's legal representatives refuse to comment on the matter, and her spokesperson is not taking calls.
- 2/14/2005
- WENN
Pop superstar Janet Jackson is taking on her first prime time TV role in two decades - to guest star in hit comedy Will & Grace. The sexy singer, who has appeared in classic television shows Good Times and Fame, will follow in the footsteps of Jennifer Lopez and play herself on Will & Grace. In the episode, which airs in America next month, Jackson will audition series regular Sean Hayes' character as one of her backing dancers - and she's left highly impressed with the actor's footwork. She says, "I thought he studied dance, I really did. There's a little bit of a routine." But while Jackson enjoyed filming her episode, she had a tough time keeping a straight face while cameras were rolling. She adds, "It's so funny because I have I have to catch myself because I'm cracking up. I found myself cracking up in rehearsals when I was supposed to be in the scene. And it's just funny to watch them. It's hilarious."...
- 8/10/2004
- WENN
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