Kendrick Lamar, posing for his new album “GNX” (pgLang) A few months ago, the Compton rapper Siete7x was up in the Bay Area shooting a music video. Around 4 a.m., he got a call from mutual friend of Kendrick Lamar’s who told Siete to drop whatever he was doing and get to Conway Studios in … Read more
Jim Abrahams, center, with brothers Jerry Zucker, left, and David Zucker, made up the comedy trio ZAZ. (Michel Spingler / Associated Press) Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with brothers Jerry and David Zucker popularized the 1980s spoof genre with comedies such as “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” series, has died. He was 80. Abrahams died … Read more
Delicate art and the battle zone collide in the documentary “Porcelain War.” (Picturehouse) Guns, paintbrushes and cameras are tools of national defense for the Ukrainian artists at the center of “Porcelain War,” a sublime and stirring documentary from American filmmaker Brendan Bellomo and Ukrainian ceramicist Slava Leontyev about living, fighting and creating under siege. The … Read more
Daniel Craig, below, and Drew Starkey in the movie “Queer.” (A24) If director Luca Guadagnino has proven anything during his remarkable 2024, it’s that he is the preeminent depicter of erotic desire on-screen. His sexy spring sensation “Challengers” became a phenomenon with its hot-under-the-collar tennis matches, and he’s assembled the same group of collaborators for … Read more
Oscars 2025: The five leading best picture contenders and how they might win We’re heading into the early stretch of awards season where voters are about to embark on a long holiday weekend, give thanks and sift through a topsy-turvy world in which it’s the Dallas Cowboys and not the Detroit Lions who can be … Read more
In the hours before he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina, Liam Payne seemingly requested a great deal of liquor … a lot of cocaine… and slept with two prostitutes. So state explosive and depressing court documents obtained this week by TMZ. Recording artist Liam Payne of music group One Direction … Read more
Elon Musk slammed Ben Stiller after the Emmy winner shared his doubts about the possibility of “Tropic Thunder” being made in 2024. “Damn he went full r—d 🤣🤣,” the Tesla CEO captioned a repost of a fan’s post on X also slamming Stiller for his comments on Wednesday. The screenshot Musk shared featured the Daily … Read more
movie review MARIA Running time: 123 minutes. Rated R (some language including a sexual reference). In some theaters. Near the end of “Maria,” 53-year-old Maria Callas, the opera diva stunningly played by Angelina Jolie, attempts to make it through the challenging mad scene from “Anna Bolena” in an empty Paris theater. Like poor Anne Boleyn, these are the final, messy days … Read more
Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno was spotted on Monday at an LA pastrami spot — looking better, spies said, after injuring his face in a nasty fall. A spy told Page Six that they saw Leno at local favorite, the Hat, having a late lunch with a pal. 6Jay Leno is looking better after … Read more
A top Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Credit Suisse, now part of UBS, of failing to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang, overturning a 2022 conviction. The Federal Criminal Court’s original ruling was seen as a test case for the prosecution of banks. It had found an ex-employee of the bank guilty of money-laundering, and Credit Suisse of … Read more
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