Brittney Johnson Cast AsWicked’sFirst Black Glinda on Broadway

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. If this is a dream, dont wake me. I cannot WAIT to be your Glinda. Im honored, grateful, and speechless. I simply couldnt be happier, said the upcoming Glinda. The OGKristin Chenowethgave her blessing through a video onPeople, congratulating Johnson on her casting. I bring it out for special occasions, said Johnson on the necklace....

December 7, 2021 · 1 min · 86 words · Christina Turner

Fred Williamson Answers Every Question We Have AboutBlack Caesar

Reasons to Love New York New Yorkcelebrates the citys timeless, peerless connection to movies. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. When you madeBlack Caesar, where were you in your career at that point? So I was kind of finding my own way then, establishing the character that I wanted to portray. I started looking atLittle CaesarwithEdward G. Robinson. They were called gangsters, but what made them gangsters?...

December 7, 2021 · 6 min · 1082 words · Joan Bush

FX on Hulu Is Now Just FX (Including on Hulu)

Streamliner At your service. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. We do wonder when Disney plans its pivot to baked goods, though. Earlier on FX Tags:

December 7, 2021 · 1 min · 35 words · Brian Aguirre

Greg Tate, Author and Master of Criticism, Dead At 64

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The statement confirmed that Tate, who was 64, died by cardiac arrest. We intend to honor him in a manner worthy of his legacy. (Representatives for Tate did not immediately respond to Vulture.) Tate created Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, a psychedelic fusion improvisational ensemble, in 1999. Many colleagues and contemporaries have paid their respect to the late writer on Twitter....

December 7, 2021 · 1 min · 137 words · Cheryl Rowe

Inside the Extremely Unfunny War Between Comedians and Spotify

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. We need to talk about this. The company then says, Look, we dont owe you that money. And now were not going to pay you at all until this gets figured out. In the comedy world, thus far, only the performance side the streaming tracks have been given royalties. Spoken Giants and another company, Word Collections, are aiming to change that and recoup the lost money....

December 7, 2021 · 2 min · 356 words · Melvin Wu

Jussie Smollett Denies Faking Attack on Stand: ‘That’s a Bold-Faced Lie’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thats a bold-faced lie,Smollett said about the accusation. He said any communications with the brothers would have been about personal-training sessions. He saidhe didnt recognize them neither their voices nor their faces because the attack happened so quickly. Webb offered that Smollett read the messages aloud but refused to censor the language. In response, the actor called the brothersliars....

December 7, 2021 · 1 min · 104 words · Julia Brown

K-Pop Goes Punk With Xdinary Heroes’s Debut Single ‘Happy Death Day’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. If youre anticipatingBTSButter vibes, Xdinary Heroes will completely shift your expectations for K-pop. If you hate birthdays, Xdinary Heroes Happy Death Day is the anthem for you. Related Tags:

December 7, 2021 · 1 min · 44 words · Hannah Rodgers

Kenny G Is in on the Joke

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Kenny G gets it. He has read the critical brickbats, the complaints lodged by fellow jazz musicians. (Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture, said guitarist-composerPat Metheny.) But Kenny G (ne Kenneth Bruce Gorelick) appears unbothered. Directed byPenny Lane(Nuts!,Hail Satan? We were trying to figure out if Im a subject or a star, Kenny G began our conversation....

December 7, 2021 · 5 min · 953 words · Michael Underwood

Meryl Streep Proves She’s the G.O.A.T. By Not Knowing What It Means

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Everyone knows that sinking feeling when something you say gets horribly misunderstood. (greatest of all time) meant, believing herDont Look Upco-stars were calling her an old goat instead. Streep thought the best of her co-stars and assumed it was a term of endearment she didnt understand. While she was partly correct, Streep can sleep soundly knowing that shes the greatest of all time....

December 7, 2021 · 1 min · 78 words · Nicholas Petty

PEN15Recap: Death in the Family

PEN15 Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It joins female sexuality, race, class, and whether thrift shopping is cool or not. Like Anna, I got in trouble for laughing at a grandparents funeral. And it was while reading those comics that I got in trouble for letting out a hardy har-har. Its not like I didnt love my grandfather, but I couldnt sustain the long-form performative sadness of mourning....

December 7, 2021 · 3 min · 506 words · Elizabeth Alexander

The BacheloretteRecap: Rest in Pizza

The Bachelorette Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And you know what? Lets get to it. They know what he did. My brain dont work so good anymore. Lil Chris S:Calling Olu low IQ in isolation isdamning. Theres a lot to dive into here. First up is Will and Peter. Kaitlyn wants to know if Will meant what he said when he called Peter a narcissist....

December 7, 2021 · 6 min · 1147 words · Laurie Roberson

The Big Leap’s Biggest Leaps

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The Big Leapseems like a show that shouldnt work. It balances the cheese and the comedy well. (Of course there is cheese, people its a dance show about second chances. Get on board!) The dancing can be extremely moving. For a broadcast show, it makes some ambitious moves and doesnt seem afraid to be unabashedly itself....

December 7, 2021 · 3 min · 491 words · Nancy King

There Are Lots of Different Ways to Look Precisely Like New York

Reasons to Love New York New Yorkcelebrates the citys timeless, peerless connection to movies. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Most movies dont want to be a postcard New York City, he says. You want to feel the milieu of the city or a specific neighborhood. Here, Thompsons five rules for building a non-cookie-cutter New York set. 1.Start by looking. Scouting helps you define the look of the movie, and it happens early on....

December 7, 2021 · 2 min · 339 words · Joseph Roberts