Marshmello released a new single, “Spotlight,” featuring Lil Peep, a song the pair started working on but didn’t complete prior to the rapper’s death. “Peep brought an excitement to music that was unparalleled to anybody I’ve ever met,” Marshmello said in a statement. “We started an idea together, that unfortunately …
Read More »Biopic About 'Gone With the Wind' Star Hattie McDaniel in Development
A biopic about actress Hattie McDaniel, the Gone With the Wind star who became the first African American to win an Academy Award, is in development. Variety reports that producers Alysia Allen and Aaron Magnani have acquired the writes to author Jill Watts’ biography Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood …
Read More »Lester Bangs Play 'How to Be a Rock Critic' Captures His Wild Spirit
Critics aren’t the most obvious subjects for drama. But if anyone qualified for a theatrical presentation, it would be the late Lester Bangs, whose caffeinated, take-few-prisoners prose and rock & roll–animal image (accurate or not) made him nearly as iconic as the musicians he loved, dissected or trashed. Bangs, who …
Read More »Time's Up: Golden Globes 2018 Tackles Sexual Assault With Mixed Results
The 75th Annual Golden Globes were a curious night for Hollywood. After months of a business-wide reckoning where many powerful men have seen histories of sexual assault, harassment and abuse lead to career-ending consequences, the film industry’s biggest stars gathered for what’s typically one of the more uproarious, loose nights …
Read More »Watch Justin Timberlake's Futuristic New 'Filthy' Video
Justin Timberlakeplays a Steve Jobs-styled robot inventor in his new video for “Filthy,” a song from his upcoming LP Man of the Woods. Timberlake co-wrote the song with Timbaland, Danja, James Fauntleroy and Lawrence Dopson; Timberlake, Timbaland and Danja co-produced the track, which the singer on Instagraminstructed to “[play] very …
Read More »The Case for Trump Campaign Collusion
When Luke Harding sat down with Christopher Steele in a London pub in December 2016, he hoped Steele might help him develop an admittedly thin lead that Russia covertly financed Donald Trump‘s campaign. At the time, Steele was a relatively unknown former British intelligence officer, despite the fact that he …
Read More »Barack Obama Names Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, U2 to 2017 Favorite Songs List
Barack Obama continued his annual tradition of naming his favorite songs of 2017, with the former president listing tracks by Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, U2 and Bruce Springsteen among his picks. “During my presidency, I started a tradition of sharing my reading lists and playlists,” Obama wrote on his Facebook page …
Read More »UFC Fighter of the Year for 2017: Max Holloway
Max Holloway’s year consisted of just two fights, both of which came against the same opponent. However, it’s who that opponent was and how the UFC Featherweight champion handled himself in those contests which makes him our“Fighter of the Year” for 2017. Going into the year, there was little argument …
Read More »See Brothers Osborne Play Surprise Holiday Show for Truck Drivers
Brothers Osborne performed a special concert for truck drivers in the Nevada desert last week. Staged at Whiskey Pete’s Truck Stop just outside Las Vegas – one of the nation’s largest truck stops – the duo surprised drivers with a country-themed holiday party as a way of saying thanks during …
Read More »'Silicon Valley' Actor T.J. Miller Accused of Sexual Assault
Silicon Valley actorT.J. Millerhas been accused of sexual assault by a woman who knew him in college, The Daily Beast reports.The alleged victim, who remains anonymous, said the assault occurredduring their brief relationship in 2001. “He just tried a lot of things without asking me, and at no point asked …
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