Gina Carano is “not currently employed by Lucasfilm,” the company said in a statement Wednesday after controversy erupted over “The Mandalorian” star’s social media posts. UTA has also dropped her as a client. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm […]
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers capped the strangest season in pro football history Sunday night by staging a familiar scene: Tom Brady hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Brady threw three touchdown passes, two to longtime teammate Rob Gronkowski, as Tampa Bay defeated the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9, in Super Bowl LV at Raymond James […]
Alex Trebek, best known as the longtime host of the popular “Jeopardy!” game show, has died at age 80. “Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends,” the show wrote on its Twitter account. “Thank you, Alex.” The actor announced in March […]
Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who earned his license to thrill as the original on-screen James Bond and then spent the rest of his career trying to make audiences forget that role, died Saturday, the official “James Bond” account on Twitter confirmed. He died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by family, according to Connery’s publicist. […]
In long-lost interviews, Bob Dylan speaks candidly about anti-Semitic prejudice and reveals he wrote the hit song “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand to sing. The remarks are contained in typed transcripts of 1971 conversations between Dylan and his friend Tony Glover, a blues musician who died last year. The transcripts, featuring Dylan’s handwritten annotations, […]
A new mugshot of Bill Cosby has circulated online. On Tuesday, a prison photo was released, which was reportedly taken of Cosby last month as he serves time at the State Correctional Institution in Collegeville, Pa. The 83-year-old is behind bars for three to 10 years after being convicted in 2018 of drugging and sexually […]
One of rock ‘n’ roll’s singular and most gifted guitarists, Eddie Van Halen, has died. He was 65. Van Halen’s son, Wolf, confirmed the news on Tuesday. “I can’t believe I’m having to write this, but my father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and arduous battle with cancer this morning,” he wrote […]
Arch Manning lit up his high school football game on Thursday night. Arch, the nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning and the son of Cooper Manning, accounted for six touchdowns in the first game of the season at Isidore Newman High School in Louisiana. He threw five touchdown passes and ran for one more in […]
Regis Philbin, the iconic television personality best-known for his hosting duties on “Live!” with co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa, and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” has died at the age of 88. His family confirmed the news of his shocking passing in a statement to Fox News on Saturday. “We are deeply […]
The San Francisco Giants manager and several coaches and team members took a knee during the national anthem before their first exhibition game in the Bay Area on Monday night. Manager Gabe Kapler and members of the coaching staff joined players Mike Yastrzemski, Austin Slater, and Jaylin Davis and coaches Antoan Richardson and Justin Viele […]
In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private. U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno had another word for it. The conduct Cosby detailed in his deposition was “perhaps […]
The NFL is planning to have “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” widely known as the Black national anthem, performed at its season openers this fall, according to ESPN’s Jason Reid. The song will reportedly be played before the “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The NFL is also reportedly considering other measures for the season to recognize victims […]
