John Lamparski/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Mahershala Ali “immersed” himself in the real-life character’s music for his role in the forthcoming film, Green Book. The film is inspired by a true story of Dr. Don Shirley, played by Ali, a world-class African-American pianist who hires a tough-talking bouncer from the Bronx, played by Viggo Mortensen, to be his …
Roy Clark, former ‘Hee Haw’ host, dead at 85
Roy Clark, foreground, with Buck Owens on “Hee Haw”; CBS via Getty Images(TULSA, Okla.) — Roy Clark, the Grammy-winning Country Music Hall of Fame member and celebrated picker who’s best-known by most as co-host of TV’s Hee Haw, has died at age 85. Clark’s publicist confirmed he died Thursday morning at his Tulsa, Oklahoma home of …
Gordon Ramsey cooking your bird? ‘EW’ presents the Thanksgiving Pop Culture Index
ABC/Randy Holmes(NEW YORK) — What are you going to be doing this Thanksgiving holiday? Other than stuffing your face, watching football and drifting off into a drooling food coma on the sofa? Entertainment Weekly has a snapshot in their just-released November/Thanksgiving Pop Culture Index. Let’s start with which TV chef you’d prefer to cook your …
‘The Bachelor’s’ Arie Luyendyk Jr. & Lauren Burnham expecting their first child
Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former The Bachelor stars Arie Luyendyk Jr. and his fiancée, Lauren Burnham, have announced they’re expecting. Burnham is due in June. Luyendyk posted a photo on Instagram to announce the couple’s happy news. “Nothing compares, absolutely nothing compares to the moment you find out you’re going to be …
Simone Missick tackles Islamophobia in her new drama, ‘Jinn’
Monica Schipper/WireImage(NEW YORK) — With her new coming-of-age drama Jinn, Luke Cage alum Simone Missick is taking on a different type of role. In the film, Missick plays Jade Jennings, a popular meteorologist and new convert to Islam, who’s conflicted when her teenage daughter questions her beliefs. Missick tells ABC Radio that she felt a …
‘Little House on the Prairie’ actress Katherine MacGregor dies at 93
Photo by NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Katherine MacGregor, who portrayed Harriet Oleson on all nine seasons of the NBC drama Little House on the Prairie, died Tuesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s retirement home in Woodland Hills, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 93. Between 1974 and 1983, …
Fans scoff at $1,000 Idris Elba doll that looks nothing like the British hunk
Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage(LONDON) — Idris Elba fans are revolting against a new doll that is said to be inspired by People‘s sexiest man alive. According to Metro UK, Emperis toy company created an action figure — with the hefty price tag of roughly $1,000– that’s said to have been modeled to look like British star. However, …
Armie Hammer faces backlash for calling out celebrity selfies with the late Stan Lee
ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(LOS ANGELES) — Armie Hammer took to Twitter to criticize celebrities for posting selfies in tribute to late Marvel Comics visionary Stan Lee, but now he’s the one facing backlash. It all started when he posted a now-deleted tweet on Monday reading, “So touched by all of the celebrities posting pictures of themselves with …
Oh, New Zealand: Kiwis confuse Spike Lee for the late Stan Lee
L-R: Stan Lee (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images); Spike Lee;(Paul Zimmerman/WireImage)(NEW YORK) — A New Zealand newspaper clearly didn’t do the right thing when they wrote their obit for the late, great Marvel comics legend Stan Lee, who died Monday at the age of 95. On the front page of the Gisborne Herald, the paper confused the comic …
Steve McQueen says he’s not focused on Oscar buzz with his new thriller, ‘Widows’
L-R: Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, writer/director Steve McQueen, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez; Kristina Bumphrey/Starpix(NEW YORK) — Oscar-winner Steve McQueen says he did not have award show season on his mind when he went to work on his latest film Widows. The film, which is an adaptation of the popular 1980s British series of the same …