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Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, John Lund, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, Louis Armstrong | Written by John Patrick, Philip Barry | Directed by Charles Walters

In 1940, a trio of future Hollywood Legends would come together to put to screen a romantic comedy that would be forever regarded as one of the greatest romcoms ever. Of course, I am talking about The Philadelphia Story. Just a short 16 years later, in 1956, MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) decided to remake the classic, but with an interesting twist. They decided to hire two of the most popular crooners and a future princess and rename the films High Society.

Next year (2026), High Society will be celebrating its 70th anniversary. But before we get to that date, Warner Archive Collection have restored and released this classic musical on 4k/Blu-ray combo pack.

Legendary Louis Armstrong as himself, plays his trumpet and narrates in prose and song the peccadillos of his songwriter friend C.

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will join the company of & Juliet as ‘Lance’ this August. Iglehart will debut in the role on Tuesday, August 5 to play a limited 13 week engagement through November 2, 2025. As previously announced, entertainer and *Nsync pop icon Joey Fatone will play his final performance in the production on Thursday, July 31. Iglehart was most recently seen on Broadway as ‘Louis Armstrong’ in A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, a role for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. Additional credits include his Tony Award-winning performance as ‘Genie’ in Aladdin, as well as fan-favorite roles in Hamilton, Spamalot, and many more. Iglehart will join TikTok sensation Cheryl Porter, who makes her Broadway debut...

Jack White has released a new music video for “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” a track from his 2024 album, No Name, starring the always-entertaining John C. Reilly as a televangelist-like figure who ends up in a mental hospital. Watch it below.

Directed by Gilbert Trejo, the video was filmed at a church in Los Angeles. It sees Reilly passionately acting out lyrics from the song like, “I realize that you have tried and tried and are just about ready to give up/ But I got good news for you/ God has spoken to my mind and told me to tell you/ To get moving in the right direction for a change.”

According to a press release, Reilly is a longtime friend of White’s, who, upon hearing “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” pitched the veteran rocker on playing the titular character in the visual treatment for the song. White then gave Reilly and Trejo...

In the wake of Sly Stone’s death at age 82, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid made the case for why Sly and the Family Stone deserve a place at the top of the canon of American bands. Here it is, in his own words.

I would make the argument that there isn’t a band of greater import. In terms of impact and the kind of shift they created, there isn’t a greater American band. Everything was different after they appeared. Their influence is obvious and very, very subtle.

Even with Bourbon Street bustling outside, nothing matched the buzzy energy of The Jazz Playhouse at The Royal Sonesta Hotel New Orleans as musicians David Shaw of the Revivalists and Tarriona “Tank” Ball from Tank and the Bangas sat down with Rolling Stone senior music editor Joseph Hudak for the latest installment of the “Musicians on Musicians” series in partnership with Sonesta International Hotels.

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Sitting on stage, closely surrounded by Sonesta Travel Pass guests and a lucky handful of their biggest fans, Shaw and Tank bonded over their unique artistry,...

Rod Stewart delivered a lively performance of “Forever Young” at the 2025 American Music Awards Monday night as he received the Ama’s lifetime achievement award.

Ahead of his set, all five of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s children took the stage to honor their father. A subsequent video was played to showcase the extensiveness of Stewart’s career.

“When I started singing the early ’60s, way before any of you lot were here, the reason I got into it is because I had this burning ambition to sing,” he said. “It’s all I wanted to do, I didn’t want be rich or famous, and here I am a few years later, picking up this wonderful award.”

“I want to thank all of the musicians I’ve played with, all of my influences,” he said, heaping praise to Sam Cooke, David Ruffin and Muddy Waters.

After accepting the honor,...

Sacha Jenkins, a hip-hop journalist and documentarian known for Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019) and Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (2022), has died. He was 53.

Deadline can confirm the Emmy nominee’s death after his wife Raquel Cepeda asked fans to “please respect our family’s privacy during this difficult moment” as they prepare an official statement.

Born August 22, 1971 in Philadelphia, Jenkins launched the graffiti zine Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language in 1989, and the groundbreaking hip-hop newspaper Beat Down shortly after. He co-founded the hip-hop magazine Ego Trip in 1994, which also launched the VH1 reality series The (White) Rapper Show in 2007.

As a documentary filmmaker, Jenkins spoke to Deadline when he made his directorial debut at Sundance Film Festival with the 2015 urban fashion exploration Fresh Dressed.

“It’s so amazing how there’s so much love and respect for storytelling,” he said of the Park City, Utah film festival. “Before I did this,...

Sacha Jenkins, the co-founder of Resurgent Pictures and a documentarian who worked on films about Wu-Tang Clan and Louis Armstrong, has died. He was 54.

News of Jenkin’s death was announced by several outlets Friday and Saturday. His wife, filmmaker Raquel Cepeda, asked for privacy in a post shared on Instagram on Friday, May 23.

“Please respect our family’s privacy during this difficult moment and refrain from posting before we as a Family get the opportunity to make a formal statement,” the post read.

Jenkins was a renowned punk and hip-hop journalist and documentarian. He stated the newsletter Hip-Hop Beatdown in 1992 before founding Ego Trip in 1994 alongside Elliott Wilson. The pair released 13 issues of the magazine as well as books, which spawned VH1 TV series “Ego Trip’s The White Rapper Show” and “Miss Rap Supreme.”

He also created the four-part Wu-Tang documentary “Of Mics and Men,” which was released...

“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” documentarian Sacha Jenkins is dead. His wife Raquel Cepeda confirmed his passing on Instagram in a post asking for privacy for their family at this time.

Hailing from Philadelphia and born in 1971, Jenkins began his career as a journalist before becoming an acclaimed documentarian. He founded Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language, an early magazine devoted to graffiti art, and co-founded hip-hop magazine Beat Down as well as the alt-culture magazine Ego Trip.

Jenkins was the kind of journalist for whom making the transition to documentary filmmaking was a natural one, and a hip-hop sensibility infused his film work — either directly as in his 2015 directorial debut “Fresh Dressed” about hip-hop fashion or the 2019 miniseries “Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men,” for which he was Emmy nominated, or more in terms of attitude, such as having Nas narrate Satchmo’s letters in Apple TV+’s “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.

Sacha Jenkins, the hip-hop journalist, filmmaker, and historian who co-founded the seminal Nineties magazine Ego Trip, died on Friday. He was 53.

Rolling Stone has confirmed Jenkins’ death. Jenkins’ wife, Raquel Cepeda, told The Hollywood Reporter that the cause was complications from multiple system atrophy.

Jenkins’ output was multifaceted and vast. As a journalist, he started underground zines; wrote for and edited prominent publications like Vibe, Rolling Stone, and Spin (He was currently creative director of Mass Appeal); and profiled major artists across various genres. He penned several books, many of...

Sacha Jenkins, the journalist and filmmaker, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. According to reports, Jenkins was 54.

Jenkins died Friday morning at his home due to complications from multiple system atrophy, his wife, Raquel Cepeda, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Born in Philadelphia, Jenkins had an extensive journalistic career across several publications. He began his career by founding one of the first magazines about graffiti art called, Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language. He co-founded the hip-hop newspaper, Beat Down with his childhood friend and journalist and TV producer, Elliott Wilson.

After that, the pair founded the hip-hop and skateboarding magazine, Ego Trip. Jenkins has also written for Spin, Rolling Stone and previously served as a music editor and writer-at-large for Vibe.

In the filmmaking world, Jenkins directed such films as Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, Fresh Dressed and All Up in the Biz, about the late Biz Markie,...

After former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, attended this year’s Met Gala, online speculation over who paid for the $150,000 tickets has run wild.

On Monday night, Harris and Emhoff appeared at the Met Gala in New York City. She wore a custom black-and-white gown by Off-White. This night marks her first appearance at the Met Gala.

Although the couple skipped the red carpet, the former vice president appeared in photos before the event wearing a silk silhouette with an asymmetrical cape sleeve and a long scarf.

Harris was invited by Vogue editor-in-chief and Met Gala co-chair Anna Wintour, a spokesperson for Harris said.

However, it was not revealed who paid for the tickets, which run $75,000 per person to the annual event, considered the most exclusive party of the year.

Users immediately spread rumors about the mystery on the social media platform X.

“With a $20 million debt from her campaign,...

After returning from the Blue Origin flight, popstar Katy Perry describes herself as “a human piñata” after being mocked online with endless memes.

Perry has recently been criticized for her part in Jeff Bezos’s all-female Blue Origin space flight, during which she sang Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and held up a setlist for her new tour to an in-flight camera. She and the rest of the crew were accused of being “tone deaf” for joining an expensive trip during economic struggle.

Her latest tour has also become the subject of mockery, with Perry appearing to put on a series of strange space-themed performances. The online backlash appears to have been enough for Perry to call out her critics emotionally.

Perry posted a lengthy message after dedicated Brazilian fans paid for a digital billboard in New York’s Times Square for 24 hours to declare their support. The billboard read,...

The Museum of Modern Art is spring cleaning its archives for a special ode to Old Hollywood. The exhibit “Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography,” which will open June 28, 2025 and be on display through June 21, 2026, features the best studio shots of iconic stars such as Clara Bow, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, Harry Belafonte, and more.

This is the first major exhibition of Hollywood studio portraiture to be showcased from the Museum Department of Film’s film stills archive since 1993. “Face Value” will feature over 200 works from 1921 to 1996, with studio photography of Joan Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louise Brooks, Mia Farrow, Dennis Hopper, Lena Horne, Buster Keaton, Anna May Wong, W. C. Fields, Hattie McDaniel, Lupe Velez, Mae West, Bela Lugosi, Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Spencer Tracy, and Oprah Winfrey, in addition to the aforementioned stars. Historical figures such as Jackie Robinson, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,...

Othello, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington, was entirely shut out of the 2025 Tony Award nominations.

While the play received mostly mixed reviews, it has been drawing crowds on Broadway and has frequently had the most expensive average ticket price in the industry, at $374.17 last week.

The new musical Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, was also entirely shut out of the Tony nominations, as was the musical The Last Five Years, starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren. McNeal, led by Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut, did not receive any Tony nominations.

Though George Clooney got his first Tony Award nomination for his role in Good Night, and Good Luck, the play, which he co-wrote, did not receive a nod for best play, even as it has also been the highest grossing production on Broadway for the past several weeks.

Similarly, the celebrity-driven Glengarry Glen Ross did not get a...

TV anchor Gayle King called out critics who described her Blue Origin rocket trip as a “freebie space ride.”

“It’s called a flight or a journey. A ‘ride’ implies something frivolous or lighthearted; there’s nothing frivolous about what we did,” she said.

“They call it a ride, which I find very irritating,” King said of the day after the 11-minute all-women trip. Critics claimed that the suborbital flight had no real scientific purpose and was just a publicity stunt for Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin.

The trip has received significant backlash on social media.

Model Emily Ratajkowski said in a recent TikTok post, “That space mission this morning? That’s end-time s—; this is beyond parody.” Ratajowski continued to criticize the trip by calling out the company for “single-handedly destroying the planet.”

King spoke with fellow crewmate, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, on CBS Mornings. “There...

Well, here’s something you probably didn’t have on your 2025 bingo card — Katy Perry in space, literally reaching for the stars! Nope, this isn’t the cover of a funky new album or a CGI-heavy music video. It’s real life. Space travel, once reserved for trained astronauts and sci-fi movies, is slowly becoming something a little more approachable, at least if you’re famous or fabulously connected. And Katy Perry just proved it by taking off on a history-making trip to space.

On April 14, 2025, Perry took her megawatt smile, amazingly high spirit, and unshakable confidence far beyond Earth’s atmosphere. She was part of a very special crew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket — the first-ever all-female flight organized by Jeff Bezos’s space company. The mission wasn’t just another fancy rocket ride. It was a major step toward making space travel more inclusive, accessible, and surprisingly stylish.

Pop superstar Katy Perry has made history as part of Blue Origin’s first all-female spaceflight, returning to Earth with an emotional gesture that captured hearts worldwide. Upon safely landing in the Texas desert, Perry knelt and kissed the ground, a poignant tribute to her four-year-old daughter, Daisy, whom she shares with actor Orlando Bloom. Clutching a single daisy flower, Perry symbolized strength and resilience, qualities she associates with both the flower and her daughter.​

The 11-minute suborbital journey aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket took Perry and five other trailblazing women—journalist Gayle King, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and mission leader Lauren Sánchez—to the edge of space. Crossing the Kármán line, they experienced several minutes of weightlessness and a breathtaking view of Earth from approximately 62 miles above.

During the flight, Perry serenaded her fellow astronauts with a rendition...

On April 14, 2025, Katy Perry literally took her superstar sparkle to new heights. She joined the first all-female crew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, spectacularly making history. Alongside her were some truly inspiring women: Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn.

Katy Perry in Women World Mv / Credits: YouTube

Together, they brought a fantastic vibe of energy and empowerment to this incredible journey into space. The 11-minute suborbital flight was quite the adventure, but a little flower stole the spotlight when Katy stepped out in West Texas.

Holding up a daisy for her four-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom, she had everyone swooning.

Why Katy Perry chose Daisy as a tribute to her daughter? Katy Perry in her space suit | Credit: Instagram @katyperry

The business mogul Jeff Bezos is aiming to venture into more sustainable and accessible space missions. The recent Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket,...

The Blue Origin all-women crew is reacting to their historic feat!

Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry, Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn spoke out after traveling in space for a few minutes on Monday (April 14).

The crew were in space for approximately 4 minutes, traveling the Kármán line that separates Earth’s atmosphere and space 62 miles above the planet.

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Katy and Gayle both kissed the ground, while Lauren joked that she needed to return for her wedding to fiancé Jeff Bezos this summer.

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“All the love that was in that capsule, and all the heart and the feelings, and seeing Jeff before I left, I just,” she told Blue Origin at the West Texas launch site, via E Online.

“I had to come back. I mean, we’re getting married!

Pop superstar Katy Perry and “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King were among the six passengers Monday on an all-female voyage into to the edge of space via Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space travel business.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket soared into space after blastoff from the company’s West Texas launch facility at 9:30 a.m. Et on Monday.

The eight-minute flight traveled more than 62 miles into the atmosphere, past the Kármán line, which per Blue Origin is the “internationally recognized boundary of space.” Blue Origin promises passengers in its burgeoning space tourism business that the trip offers the chance to experience “several minutes of weightlessness and witnessing life-changing views of Earth.” The module containing the astronauts, suspended from three parachutes, landed several minutes after the rocket.

The New Shepard rocket operates autonomously without a pilot. Joining Perry and King are Bezos’ fiance, journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, engineer and NASA veteran Aisha Bowe,...

The opening credits of The Perfect Find are straight out of a fashion fever dream. Set to the Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday classic “You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart,” the sequence — which you can watch above only on Tudum — is an animated collage blending New York City, magazine covers and old Hollywood as it introduces you to Gabrielle Union’s glamorous “It” girl, Jenna Jones.

“I have a big love for vintage Black glamour [and] vintage Black Hollywood,” director Numa Perrier tells Tudum about anchoring the film in nostalgic rom-com aesthetics. “Jenna is a fan of classic films, so I was really intentional about wanting to bring those films into our film.”

And indeed, Jenna’s life seems especially charmed as we witness her meteoric rise as half of the mythical power couple known as “BriJenna” alongside real estate mogul Brian (D.B. Woodside). But the illusion shatters when their...

Saturday Night Live paid tribute to Val Kilmer following the Batman Forever star's death last week. The NBC sketch show briefly honored Kilmer during an episode hosted by Jack Black on Saturday (April 5).

A memorial graphic aired before Saturday's final segment, featuring a stylized promo image of Kilmer from his SNL hosting debut on December 9, 2000. One of the most notable moments from that season 26 instalment was an It's a Wonderful Life-themed monologue where Kilmer learned about the disastrous consequences if he'd have turned down hosting the show.

Saturday Night Live Honors the Late Val Kilmer

Kilmer also reprized his role as Jim Morrison from 1991's The Doors for a Behind the Music parody where Morrison formed a psychedelic band in heaven, called The Great Frog Society, with fellow deceased musicians Janis Joplin (Molly Shannon), Jimi Hendrix (Jerry Minor), Keith Moon (Horatio Sanz), Buddy Holly (Jimmy Fallon) and Louis Armstrong...

Val Kilmer wasn’t always the easiest actor to work with. His painstaking attention to detail and immersion into his characters — everyone had to call him “Jim” on the set of The Doors — famously got on the nerves of his films’ cast and crew. But just because he was serious about his work doesn’t mean he took himself seriously. When he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2000, Kilmer proved to have a great sense of humor about his most famous roles.

Take Iceman, the cocky aviator who Kilmer played in both Top Gun and its 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. He took a third crack at the character on SNL, reimagining his iconic role as a gone-to-seed commercial airline pilot still trying to relive his glory days.

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Iceman: The Later Years chronicles the character’s softball-dad years, copiloting a 727 full of tourists but wishing he was still breaking speed records.

After performing under the alter-ego of for years now, John C. Reilly has officially unveiled his debut single as Mister Romantic. To kick off this chapter ahead of the release of a full album, he’s shared a cover of the Johnny Mercer classic, “Dream.” Stream it below.

Originally released in 1944, “Dream” has been covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, and Roy Orbison. The song precedes an album of Great American Songbook favorites titled What’s Not To Love? For the project, due on June 13th, he’s recruited a number of musical colleagues to round out the LP, including award-winning producer and instrumentalist David Garza.

“I looked at our weary world a few years ago and tried to think of a way I could spread love and empathy,” Reilly said of the ongoing project. “I decided the most fun way to do that was through...

In case you didn’t know: John C. Reilly is a vaudeville guy. Not only did the beloved character actor star as half of the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in the emotionally affecting biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018), but since then he’s created a throwback stage persona of his own, the lovelorn and musically inclined Mister Romantic, who has sold out concerts across Los Angeles since 2022.

Now, Reilly is set to introduce Mister Romantic to the rest of the world with a full-fledged album that arrives on June 13. His charming debut,...

After the disastrous critical and audience reception of 2015's Fantastic Four, writer/director Josh Trank found himself in an inenviable position. At odds with 20th Century Fox after pinning the blame for the film's failure on studio meddling, his blockbuster prospects began to dry up, with a planned Star Wars project getting canceled. Trank claimed it was for personal reasons, but plenty in Hollywood speculated that the failure of Fantastic Four had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, the once promising upstart indie director was at something of a crossroads.

Rather than try and get back in the studio system's good graces, Trank instead poured himself into a passion project about the final days of famed mobster Al Capone, with Tom Hardy attached to star. Originally titled Fonzo after Capone's nickname, the title was later changed to Capone, and the film finally saw release in May 2020. Sadly,...

Whether it’s the Laemmles in Los Angeles, the Angelika in New York, or any of the arthouse theaters in between, Kino Lorber has become a mainstay of international cinema in the U.S. But for president Ed Carroll, there’s a mission to expand that reputation to streaming.

Initially joining the indie distributor as chief strategy officer in 2023 after nearly a quarter century at AMC Networks, Carroll oversaw the acquisition of the streaming service MHz Choice, which offers a collection of top international TV dramas like the German noir series “Babylon Berlin” and the first series from Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, “Exterior Night.”

Since then, he’s also overseen the expansion of Kino Lorber’s streaming platform, Kino Film Collection, which is available on Amazon.

Kino Lorber has a stake in the Oscars this Sunday, as it distributed “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” a nominee for Best Documentary Feature...

The first of the 2025 NAACP Image Awards’ winners were presented in a virtual, non-televised ceremony on Tuesday night.

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, which scored nine nominations, won two awards on Tuesday — best supporting actress for Taraji P. Henson and best supporting actor for Samuel L. Jackson. Children’s show Gracie’s Corner also won two awards.

Other notable winners announced Tuesday include Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, which won for outstanding variety (series or special); The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri, who won for outstanding breakthrough creative (TV); The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat director Tina Mabry, who won for best directing in a TV movie or special; How to Die Alone‘s Tiffany Johnson, who won for best directing in a comedy series, with the award coming just two weeks after Hulu canceled the series following its first season; and Keke Palmer, who won for hosting Password.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff went backstage to meet with the cast and crew of A Wonderful World, a Broadway musical about jazz legend Louis Armstrong, on Saturday night. Footage released on the show’s official Instagram page shows Harris shaking hands and posing for pictures at Studio 54 after Saturday night’s performance. In a voiceover, the vice president can be heard saying, “In times when we’re dealing with so much in the world, we have to find those moments that are about joy, and shining — you know, as we say, shining a light in moments of darkness. And knowing that that light comes from within as well as from without, and seeing that light in each other. You guys are doing all of that.” (Credit: @awonderfulworldbway via Storyful)

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Shaboozey takes to the streets of New Orleans with a live band and some Nerds in the candy brand’s 2025 Super Bowl Commercial.

The 29-year-old country music star delivered a cover of Louis Armstrong‘s iconic standard “What a Wonderful World” to promote the brand’s Nerds Gummy Clusters.

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“Nerds Gummy Clusters candy are just like my music – a chart-topping and truly different, exciting experience that brings people together in the best way,” Shaboozey said in a statement shared with USA Today.

The location if the commercial is a clever decision since the 2025 Super Bowl, which finds the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles facing off for the ultimate win, is taking place at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Shaboozey is fresh off a performance at the 2025 Grammys last week. He was nominated for Best New Artist at the awards ceremony. However,...

Emily Quartermaine was the moral compass for General Hospital’s Quartermaine family until she was murdered in 2007. Originally portrayed by Amber Tamblyn, Natalia Livingston took over the role in 2003 and made the character her own. She’s still keeping busy, having appeared on a few TV shows and movies and becoming a producer. Now, she unveils her fantastic new online shop with a hilarious video.

Things Started Off Seriously

Who knew Natalia Livingston could be so funny? She started off being serious and wrote about her new business venture, posting it on Instagram. “Hi everyone! My little ones and I opened an Etsy shop for nursery and children’s room wall art prints plus lots more!” she wrote, continuing with: “We’re super excited and would love for you to check it out at www.bunnybowprints.etsy.com (link in bio) and follow us on Instagram at @bunnybowprints! Please help us spread the word!

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, February 23, producers have announced.

At the time of closing, the production will have played 151 performances, including 31 previews. A Wonderful World began previews October 16, 2024, and opened November 11.

In a statement, the producers said, “It is with mixed emotions that we announce the closing of A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. This has been a labor of love for our entire cast and creative team, and we are so proud to have brought Louis Armstrong’s extraordinary life and legacy to Broadway. We are grateful to the many people who made this show possible, and our thanks as well to the fantastic audiences who came to experience the glory of Louis Armstrong’s music.”

In recent months, the bio-musical has frequently been playing to fewer than 70% of capacity houses at Broadway’s Studio 54.

The musical tells...

We live in an age of biopics, and musicians are an unusually common theme that dominates that genre. In recent years, we've seen biographical dramatizations of Elton John ("Rocket Man"), Elvis Presley ("Elvis"), and Amy Winehouse ("Back to Black"). As of this writing, the most recent entry to the musical biopic genre is "A Complete Unknown," where Timothée Chalamet channels what can only be described as a "pretty good" iteration of Bob Dylan. The cascade of musically-infused biographies won't slow down any time soon, either. We've got projects on Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Louis Armstrong, and The Beatles (among many others) on tap for the next few years.

The barrage of pop chart biopics begs the question, which one is the best? Is there a biopic of a musician that is considered better than all the rest? The answer, according to IMDb, is yes. In fact, there is one film...

Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. With only four months to go until the 2025 nominations are announced, we’ve reconvened for a retrospective on the musicals from the first half of the Broadway season, during which a total of nine new works and revivals have bowed out of the anticipated 21 total that will be eligible.

David Buchanan: Hey, Sam! It’s hard to believe, but we’re less than four months away from the 2025 Tony Awards nominations. While the Broadway season has been flying by, we’ve already seen five new musicals and four musical revivals open, including some truly first-rate productions. How do you think the competition for the top category of Best Musical has been shaking out so far?

Sam Eckmann: David, at some point in November I had to double-check my calendar to...

“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” is the title of a new Jonathan Rosenbaum reader, culminating nearly six decades of never-before-compiled writing on film, jazz, and literature. The legendary Chicago-based film critic known for iconoclastic takes on the canon has been published everywhere from Cahiers du Cinéma to Film Comment, Sight and Sound, and, of course, the Chicago Reader, where he succeeded Dave Kehr as head critic starting in 1987. He retired from that post in 2008.

Rosenbaum, turning 82 this February, is in conversation this weekend at New York’s Metrograph with filmmaker (and friend) Michael Almereyda. They’ll discuss Serbian director Dušan Makavejev’s cult classic, erotically charged political comedy “W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism” (1971), controversial for its montage throughline between sexual liberation and communist revolution, as well as the wild corporate satire “Giants and Toys” (1958) from Yasuzō Masumura. Rosenbaum has long championed the sociopolitically charged works of the Japanese director, who trained under Visconti,...

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Chris Stapleton, Jelly Roll, and Shaboozey are all slated to perform at EA Sports’ Madden Bowl two days before Super Bowl Lix gets underway. Fresh off his first-ever Number One hit on the U.S. Country Radio chart with “Wind up Missin’ You,” Tucker Wetmore will kick off the festivities alongside Trombone Shorty and the New Breed Brass Band at the Orpheum Theater.

“I grew up on Madden NFL and EA Sports games,...

Exclusive: The company of the Broadway musical A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will lead a special effort to support those affected by the horrific attack that took place in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.

The musical chronicles the life and career of the legendary New Orleans-born jazzman. The company of Wonderful World kicked off the fundraising project with moments of silence at this past weekend’s performances, and a Qr code will remain posted at the theater with which theater-goers can gather information and make donations to the Greater New Orleans Foundation. (Donations can also be made directly here.)

In addition to the show’s pledge of support, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will stand united with the company of A Wonderful World and has pledged to add an additional $10,000 as a special grant to whatever funds are raised during the effort.

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This weekend, Apple TV+ is free.

It’s a brilliant marketing move and reminds us of the time when, back when Disney Channel was a premium cable channel, they would do special free weekends, complete with cutaways to a fake call center to see people signing up in real time.

And while there might not be hosted segments previewing the channel’s upcoming programs, you have free reign over all of Apple TV+ – including their original film library.

To that end, we chose nine movies that you should definitely check out during the free preview weekend, everything from documentaries about the Beastie Boys to new classics from Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott to a movie about the formation of “Tetris” (yes really).

Apple “Beastie Boys Story”

Apple TV+ has a robust lineup of music documentaries, with Todd Haynes’ “The Velvet Underground,” plus docs dedicated to Billie Eilish, Bruce Springsteen, Louis Armstrong and Selena Gomez.

The first iteration of Popeye the Sailor, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, and songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” are among the copyrighted works that will enter the public domain on Jan. 1.

As the calendar turns on New Year’s Day, thousands of copyrighted works across literature, film, and music from 1929 become open to fair use. This year’s slate also includes the French comic icon Tintin, Disney’s still-iconic The Skeleton Dance short (38 million views on YouTube!

A nonlinear narrative structure is used in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” a documentary by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez that goes beyond conventional storytelling. The film is mostly about the sad killing of Patrice Lumumba, who was the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo. It does this while incorporating the lively jazz music that defined a time.

Grimonprez’s narrative style echoes the playful experimentation of the French New Wave. He invites us to dance across time and perspectives, much like Godard or Truffaut, by expertly fusing old footage, live music, and sharp political commentary. This structure encourages a deeper reflection on the cyclical nature of history and its ongoing effects, which also keeps viewers interested.

The film’s editing and sound design show off its professional skills. As you switch between different types of media, you get a full vocal and visual experience.

The night sky over New Zealand is wide and wondrous, inky and vast. It’s the type of sky that broadcasts Earth’s infinitesimal place in the infinite cosmos. The type of sky that fills one with awe at the beauty and mystery of existence. The type that brings to mind how, from some vantage point in some far-off pocket of space, human difference simply disappears and we all appear as one, floating in harmony on our beautiful blue and green marble.

And so it is fitting that one night in mid-November,...

In episode 2 of Earth Abides, Ish found another survivor named Emma. One thing led to another, and Emma not only moved in with Ish but the two ended up having a baby together. While they were doing all that, the rats started an uprising and tried to take over the city. Ish pulled all the stops to keep him and his family from turning into rat food. Lucky, the dog, got injured, but he lived to tell the tale. Eventually, the cats decided that enough was enough, and they ate up all the rats in existence, thereby making America, or at least Ish’s locality, rat-free. If you think that subplot is a metaphor for something, do let me know in the comments. Anyway, for some godforsaken reason, Emma decided to advertise the location of her and Ish’s home because they wanted to help out any other survivors who were out there.

Ravi Cabot-Conyers is playing Wim in the new Disney+ series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and we caught up with the rising star to learn more about him!

The 13-year-old actor previously voiced the role of Antonio Madrigal in Disney’s Encanto and has been seen in TV shows like The Resident and Tell Me a Story.

Now, Ravi is leading the Lucasfilm project alongside Jude Law and the first two episodes are currently streaming.

Check out 10 Fun Facts about Ravi below:

“Bright shorts” was my nickname at basketball camp. Basketball is my obsession. I only started playing two years ago and am proud to have become a really strong shooting guard! My grandma gave me 2 pairs of Bucketsquad basketball shorts for my birthday and I wear them constantly! They are so comfortable, and I love how they stand out. Thus, the nickname! My favorite foods are cheese and pizza. But...

The 1960s were a period of tumult and change across the world, and this was definitely echoed in iconic art that was created during the decade. From music, to fashion, to film and television, artists pushed the boundaries and limits of their disciplines by exploring controversial themes and experimenting with new techniques to comment on them, in the process.

Among these, film was one of the most adventurous, with several projects from this decade inspiring the future generation of filmmakers. Several classic films of the 1960s have held up to today's standards. In fact, many pioneered the method for much of modern film. For example, Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, discussed important societal issues of race and interracial relationships, while artistic French new wave movies like The Umbrella's of Cherbourg, used technicolor and experimental cinematography to expand the visual capabilities of film. In these instances, these 1960s...

Marshall Brickman, who won an Oscar for writing “Annie Hall” alongside Woody Allen and also collaborated with him on “Sleeper,” “Manhattan” and “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” died Friday in Manhattan. He was 85.

His daughter Sophie confirmed his death to the New York Times.

Brickman co-wrote Broadway musicals “Jersey Boys” and “The Addams Family” and started out writing for “Candid Camera” and “The Tonight Show,” where he developed the famous Johnny Carson character, Carnac the Magnificent. He also worked on the pilot for “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence,” which later became “The Muppet Show.”

Brickman and Allen’s script for “Annie Hall” became one of the most frequently quoted and well-remembered screenplays ever, winning numerous other awards in addition to the original screenplay Oscar. “‘Annie Hall’ contains more intellectual wit and cultural references than any other movie ever to win the Oscar for best picture,” wrote Roger Ebert in a 2002 appreciation.

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Before Disney had a falling out with Robin Williams over the use of his celebrity in promoting Aladdin (1992), another star turned his back on the studio. Disney's The Jungle Book (1967) featured the raucous character of King Louie. An orangutan living in the jungle who wants desperately to know how humans create fire. He sings the iconic song "I Wan'na Be Like You" along with Baloo the Bear -- voiced by Phil Harris. Created for the Disney film, the character of King Louie was named after his voice actor, Louis Prima. From the 1920s through the 1960s, Prima was a popular Italian-American bandleader and musician known for genres like early R&b, rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie,...

Prime Video's Cross includes a fantastic soundtrack that helps shape the setting, pacing, and story. Based on the best-selling books by James Patterson, Cross follows a forensic psychologist and detective named Alex Cross, who lost his wife and is raising two kids while solving mysteries. In season 1, he goes up against the Fanboy, a killer who idolizes serial killers and wants his victims to resemble them.

The Amazon Prime show has been well-received by audiences and critics alike, and fans can get excited because Cross season 2 was confirmed before the first season was ever released. The thriller succeeds because of Cross' A+ cast, the well-written story, and the songs that appear in each episode. Music plays an important role in the characterization of the Cross family, making the soundtrack integral to the narrative. Luckily, the creative team chose great songs that amplify every part of the show.

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Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary suggests that the US used jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a ‘cool war’ offensive to assassinate Patrice Lumumba

I last encountered the work of the Belgian artist and film-maker Johan Grimonprez in the documentary-reverie Double Take from 2009, which imagined an encounter between two Alfred Hitchcocks. Now in this fascinating and valuably informative film, he amplifies what he sees as the mood music that lay behind the assassination of the leftist Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961; a strange and jazzy new “cool war” offensive in which the American intelligence services, through various fronts, tried to export jazz music by black American musicians to Africa, to win hearts and minds.

The film suggests that Lumumba’s murder, perpetrated by partisans of a civil war stoked by western intelligence services soon after his election, was connived by the US, the Un and by Congo’s former imperial masters,...

In February 1961, a remarkable outburst took place at the United Nations in New York – jazz artists Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, writer Maya Angelou and others crashed the Security Council to protest the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

That little-remembered demonstration serves as the backdrop to the award-winning documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, directed by Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. The film explores how the U.S. and Belgium conspired to force Lumumba from power, with the complicity of the Un secretary general. Even as the plot moved towards a bloody denouement, the U.S. State Department was dispatching some of America’s great Black jazz artists to Africa in the role of goodwill ambassadors, attempting to paper over its machinations in Congo.

Grimonprez joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to explain how he managed to deftly synthesize so much complex world history, setting it...