Entertainment
The Association of Gospel Rescue Missions is partnering with Walt Disney Studios and Hanes to provide socks for the homeless. The drive will be held in conjunction with the release of “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” which premieres on August 15. Homelessness is a significant problem in the United States, affecting nearly 3.5 million […]
“The Green Mile” star Michael Clarke Duncan has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. Publicist Joy Fehily says in a brief email statement that the 54-year-old actor “suffered a myocardial infarction” early Friday. She says his heart rate has stabilized and he’s expected to make a full recovery. Fehily wouldn’t confirm […]
Move over Jennifer Lopez, a veteran singing diva is joining the ranks of judges on reality TV: Gladys Knight. BET’s sister network Centric announced Wednesday that Knight will work as the “lead judge” on “Apollo Live.” The new series is a singing competition at New York’s famed Apollo Theater and puts a new spin on […]
Alicia Keys announced Tuesday that her organization, Keep a Child Alive, will honor Oprah Winfrey at its annual Black Ball event on Nov. 1. Keys calls the media mogul “a personal inspiration to me because her philanthropic work truly comes from the heart.” The ninth annual event will take place at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. […]
Spike Lee worked with Michael Jackson and considered him a friend, but the director says even he learned a lot combing through footage of the icon for a planned documentary about the singer’s “Bad” album. Lee calls it a “treasure chest of findings.” “We have footage in this documentary that no one’s ever seen, stuff […]
For anyone who has ever had a hard time letting go of a relationship –Rashida Jones has a movie you can relate to. “Celeste and Jesse Forever,” co-written by Jones and Will McCormack, tells the story of a divorcing Los Angeles couple – longtime best friends and former high school sweethearts – who try to […]
Actress Tempestt Bledsoe says she’s thrilled to be returning to network television on a show that portrays “a positive black family” similar to the long-running hit sitcom she was part of for roughly eight years — “The Cosby Show.” “That show was my childhood,” said Bledsoe, who played middle child Vanessa Huxtable in the NBC […]
Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in “Marty” in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95. His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his family by […]
When ESSENCE.com caught up with Tyler Perry this week, he was in the middle of promoting his latest movie, Madea’s Witness Protection, wrapping up his next movie The Marriage Counselor (while fending off criticisms of his casting Kim Kardashian), and running his Tyler Perry Productions studio in Atlanta. Perry admits he’s often exhausted and that […]
*After the tragic death of singing diva, Donna Summer, there’s a classic battle royal over the huge fortune she left behind. Two of her three daughters, Mimi, 39 and Brooklyn, 31, are now throwing blows to see who is going to win most of the $75 million fortune, according to the National Enquirer. The ladies […]
Actress Nia Long is tired of reading blog comments about her marriage status. The Hollywood starlet is jaded by the dopamine-fueled “whirlwind” relationships that often ends in divorce. “Marriage is not a priority for me. I’m not saying I’ll never do it; It’s just not where we are as a family,” Long, 41, reveals in […]
This is not your mother’s “Steel Magnolias.” All of the lead actors in Lifetime’s modern-day remake — Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard and Jill Scott — are black. “Surprisingly, Lifetime has a huge African-American audience,” producer Neil Meron tells The Post. “They want to honor that audience and give them more.” The idea, Meron […]