Josephine Baker: Last News

De La Resistance. 8x Grammy nominee Janelle Monáe is set to play the late icon. “I can’t wait to transform into the iconic performer, American hero, glamorous bi-con, goddess, intellect, global humanitarian, and [spy] that is you; telling a unique story only a few know,” Monáe said of the role via Instagram.

Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter that Jonathan died “peacefully of natural causes” on Saturday at his Los Angeles home. Haze’s performance as Seymour in “The Little Shop of Horrors” would inspire countless others in the following decades, as the movie was adapted into an off-Broadway musical in 1982, which was made into a 1986 movie starring Rick Moranis as Seymour.Speaking at a fan event in 2001, Haze shared that the filming of “The Little Shop of Horrors” was particularly grueling.

Ben Platt will play an exclusive, 18-performance concert residency at Broadway’s recently refurbished Palace Theatre early this summer to celebrate the release of his upcoming third album Honeymind.

FKA twigs, the British singer who will star in a reboot of The Crow, has slammed a decision by the UK’s advertising watchdog to ban her semi-nude Calvin Klein ad.

FKA Twigs has shared her thoughts on a Calvin Klein poster featuring the singer has been banned in the UK, with the ruling claiming it is “likely to cause serious offence” by objectifying women.The banned poster in question saw the artist posing with a denim shirt draping over one shoulder – leaving the side of her buttocks and half of one break exposed. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received two complaints about the campaign image, each arguing that the portrayal of Twigs was “overly sexualised” and caused offence by objectifying women.Commenting on the campaign photo and follow-up complaints, the ASA made a statement reading (via The Times): “We considered the image’s composition placed viewers’ focus on the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised,” the ruling said.

 is bitter-sweet one for the show's star, Yara Shahidi.ET spoke to Shahidi at the premiere of her new film, , where she dished on the show coming to an end this summer with its sixth season, and what it's like having her own Tinker Bell doll.«I mean, we hit 100 episodes. Shows don't get to do that anymore,» Shahidi said.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Sydney Gallonde, the French producer of Make It Happen Studio, is set to re-team with MGM TV Intl. Productions on a biopic of Eugene Bullard, one of the first Black American military pilots who was also a boxer and a jazz musician. Gallonde has acquired the book rights to Claude Ribbe’s biography of Bullard, which shed light on the man’s heroic life and drew headlines on French media across the country when it was published in 2012. Like many Black American entertainers such as Josephine Baker, Bullard left America for Europe and France in 1914 to escape racial segregation, lynchings and prejudice. The young and adventurous man, who was born in Georgia, eventually settled in Paris looking for a better life and worked at a music hall. When WWI erupted, Bullard enlisted in France’s Foreign Legion along with other foreign volunteers, becoming one of the few Black combat pilots during the war. He then volunteered for the French Air Service and later became a flight fighter for the French Army. 

Janelle Monáe is set to play the legendary jazz performer, French resistance agent, and civil rights activist Josephine Baker in an upcoming television series produced by A24.Titled De La Resistance, the show centers around Baker’s life during the peak of her iconic career as an entertainer, as well as her involvement as a spy for the Allies during World War II. Monáe will produce the series under their company, Wondaland.According to Deadline, Jennifer Yale, who has written for projects such as Legion, See, and Outlander is the series’ creator and showrunner.

A.D. Amorosi Since 1997, composer-singer Barry Manilow and lyricist-librettist Bruce Sussman — the team behind iconic ’70s pop classics such as “Copacabana” — have been looking to get their wise and witty “Harmony: The Musical” to Broadway.

Yara Shahidi is making an entrance!