The 16 shows to see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

By Lenny Ann Low The shows to see (clockwise, from top left): Frankie McNair, Die Rotten Punkte, Rosie Jones, Lara Ricote, Suren Jayemanne and Anne Edmonds. Hundreds of comics with vat-loads of gags are descending on the 37th Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The 2023 program, booming with more than 500 shows, promises an upsurge in […]

Jimmy Carter Begins Hospice Care 'After a Series of Short Hospital Stays'

Jimmy Carter has started end of life care. The Carter Center, his foundation, announced that 38th president of the United States of America entered hospice care on Saturday, February 18. Celebrity Charity: Stars Who Use Their Influence to Give Back “After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to […]

Kanye’s Ex-Manager Tried Serving Him Court Docs In Newspaper Ad

Kanye West is facing a $4.5 million lawsuit from his former manager, Thomas St. John, but the case is having trouble moving forward since the plaintiff’s attorneys haven’t been able to find Ye to serve him with a court notice. Apparently, the ex-manager’s legal team is trying to get creative, as evidence by their latest […]

‘Reality’ Review: Sydney Sweeney Is Outstanding as Whistleblower Reality Winner in a Clever, Gripping Docudrama

In the widely covered story of the U.S. intelligence operative harshly sentenced in 2018 for leaking a confidential report on Russian election interference to The Intercept, the accidental (in)appropriateness of the operative’s name was always an eyecatching detail. Could one of recent reality’s most highly public losers actually be called Reality Winner? Playwright Tina Satter’s […]

Why Lady Marmalade Video 'Wasn't Very Fun to Make' for P!nk

She says there were "some personalities" on set … before saying which two collaborators were "nice." “Lady Marmalade” may be known for being one of the most “iconic” female collaborations of all time, but it’s safe to say singer P!nk doesn’t have the fondest memories of shooting the music video. In a new interview with […]

‘Manodrome’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg Glowers His Way Through Reductive Look at Modern Masculinity

The first rule of “Manodrome” is you don’t talk about “Fight Club.” “Fight Club” looms large over writer-director John Trengrove’s unsettling second feature, even if no one overtly mentions David Fincher’s provocative late-’90s movie in this dark psychological-thriller-cum-social-critique, which finds the state of masculinity even more fraught than Fincher did a quarter-century ago. Trengrove, who […]