Comedy Central (NOTE CONTENT) The entertainment community has shown its support for the people of Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s invasion of the country. Now South Park — never a show to shy away from poking fun at current events — has joined the fray. In Wednesday night’s episode of the Comedy Central show, “Back to the Cold …
Kevin Costner, Chris Rock, Lady Gaga among this year’s Oscars presenters
ABC/AMPAS Oscar winners Kevin Costner, Lady Gaga and Minari‘s Yuh-Jung Youn will be among the presenters at the 94th Annual Academy Awards, taking place March 27th. Also added at the podium for this year’s festivities will be stand-up icon and Fargo vet Chris Rock and The Batman‘s Zoë Kravitz. In the announcement, co-producer Will Packer said, “Movies inspire us, entertain us and unite us across the globe. That’s the precise goal of …
Robert Pattinson talks to Jimmy Kimmel on taking “Batman as Kurt Cobain” analogy too far
ABC/Randy Holmes Robert Pattinson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night, and got the thumbs-up from lifelong comics fan Kimmel. “You are a really good Batman,” Kimmel enthused, before adding, “If you’re a bad Batman, there’s no bigger disaster than that!” Pattinson admitted he was “absolutely terrified” to watch the film, but he knew he was in good …
Kerry Washington, Amal Clooney, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez among ‘TIME’ Women of the Year for 2022
TIME Little Fires Everywhere star and advocate Kerry Washington, human rights attorney Amal Clooney, and Pose groundbreaker and trans advocate MichealaJaé Rodriguez are among the honorees in TIME magazine’s 2022 Women of the Year issue. TIME Executive Editor Naina Bajekal and Senior Editor Lucy Feldman wrote in part, “[W]e chose to spotlight leaders who are working to create a better future for women everywhere. Our 2022 Women of the Year list …
50 Cent lashes out at Starz over ‘Power’ franchise being in “limbo”: My bags are packed”
Jackson, “Force” star Joseph Sikora — Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for STARZ (NOTE LANGUAGE) Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — rapper, actor, and executive producer of Starz’ hit Power franchise — is not happy with the cable network, again. In a series of Instagram posts, Fiddy showed himself stuffing clothes into suitcases, noting, with some colorful emoji use, “This is me packing …
Oil driller invests in carbon-capture pipeline for Midwest
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s biggest oil driller said Wednesday it will commit $250 million to help fund a proposed pipeline that would gather carbon dioxide produced by ethanol plants across the Midwest and [Read More…]
Wagner man indicted in death of 2-year-old boy
LAKE ANDES, S. D. (AP) — A Wagner man has been indicted by a grand jury in Charles Mix County in last month’s death of a 2-year-old boy. Thirty-one-year-old Leonard Sharp Fish, also known as [Read More…]
Robert Pattinson read “probably a trillion” comics to prepare for ‘The Batman’ role
Warner Bros. Pictures Robert Pattinson had a lot of preparation ahead of him when he signed on to play the iconic Caped Crusader in The Batman — including about 80 years’ worth of reading material. At Tuesday’s New York City premiere of the film, the actor detailed the daunting process to ABC Audio. “A year just working on …
Shonda Rhimes says “there’s absolutely no evidence or reason” women should settle for less
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Vulture Festival Shonda Rhimes transformed television with her hit shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, and now the five-time Emmy nominee wants to transform something else — the “dream gap.” Rhimes teamed with Barbie to close the “dream gap,” a “heartbreaking” phenomenon where are girls as young as five are led to believe they aren’t as smart or as …
In Brief: ‘The Girl from Plainville’ trailer; Tiffany Haddish keeps ‘The Afterparty’ going, and more
The official trailer for Hulu’s The Girl from Plainville, starring Elle Fanning, dropped on Wednesday. The miniseries, inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter‘s unprecedented “texting suicide” case, is based on Jesse Barron‘s Esquire article of the same name and explores the relationship between Carter and Conrad Roy III — played respectively by Fanning and Colton Ryan — and the events that led to his death and, later, …