iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Detroit at Philadelphia (Postponed) Oakland 9, Pittsburgh 5 San Diego 10, Seattle 3 Miami 6, Kansas City 1 Milwaukee 10, Baltimore 2 St. Louis 1, Texas 0 LA Angels 6, Chi Cubs 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chi White Sox at …
Jodie Comer walks off Broadway matinée stage over breathing problems from imported Canadian smoke
Theo Wargo/Getty Images The cloud of smoke from Canadian wildfires currently smothering New York City was too much to bear for Emmy winner Jodie Comer, who had to stop her Broadway performance of Prima Facie Wednesday afternoon because of it, ABC Audio has confirmed. The smoke from up north is currently choking the Big Apple, …
Pro wrestler The Iron Sheik dead at 81
Bobby Bank/WireImage The Iron Sheik, a legendary competitor from the glory days of ’80s pro wrestling, has died, according to his social media accounts. He was 81. The WWE legend and pro wrestling Hall of Famer, a trash-talking longtime foil of Hulk Hogan, was born in Iran as Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri. He made headlines …
‘Black Mirror’ creator says he “toyed around” with ChatGPT for the new season, but pulled the plug
Netflix/Eric Charbonneau The dark side of technology is Black Mirror‘s stock-in-trade, so it makes sense that creator Charlie Brooker is keeping up with the headline-grabbing AI technology. He tells Empire he has “toyed around with ChatGPT quite a bit,” and even tried to get it to write an episode for the Netflix show’s forthcoming sixth …
Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl reflect on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ in “Actors on Actors” chat
Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images, FILE Grey’s Anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl reunited to reflect on their residency on the ABC’s hit medical drama. The actresses, who played Meredith Grey and Izzie Stevens, respectively, recently took part in Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series and reminisced about working on the landmark show, …
Opening Wednesday: 22nd annual Tribeca Festival
Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal – Tribeca Enterprises On Wednesday in New York City, the 22nd annual Tribeca Festival kicks off. Founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal in an effort to revitalize lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks, the event has broadened in scope from a film festival to celebrate visionaries in various media, from film and TV …
Shannen Doherty gives sobering update on cancer fight
Doherty in 2019 – Rachel Luna/FilmMagic Former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannen Doherty has given her Instagram followers a sobering look at her ongoing battle with stage 4 breast cancer. Captioning a video from January showing her getting fitted with a face mask used for radiation treatment for brain cancer, Doherty explained Tuesday evening that …
In Brief: ‘Perry Mason’ dropped by HBO, and more
HBO’s reboot of Perry Mason, which is co-produced by Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan, and which stars The Americans Emmy winner Matthew Rhys in the title role, has been canceled by the cable network after two seasons, according to Deadline. The show, in which Rhys plays a private investigator who eventually becomes an …
Pete Davidson: ‘Poor choice of words,’ but ‘not sorry’ for lashing out at PETA over criticism for buying new dog
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Pete Davidson addressed the profanity-laced voicemail he left for PETA after they criticized him for buying a dog from a pet store, acknowledging it was a “poor choice of words,” but he’s not sorry for standing up for himself. The war of words started when the Bupkis star and his girlfriend, Chase Sui Wonders, were filmed …
Female athletes ask to sue over policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports
rolfo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday questioned whether a group of female track and field athletes in Connecticut has the right to sue over a policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ athletic events. “It is a clear violation when a school or school district knowingly lets sexual discrimination …