11/19/23: Last News

To watch “Hell’s Kitchen,” the new off-Broadway musical by Alicia Keys that opened Sunday night at the Public Theater, is to experience euphoria followed by enormous frustration over and over again. How can we not feel elated being there for the star-is-born moment of actress Maleah Joi Moon, who makes an earth-shaking professional debut as 17-year-old Ali, a fictional stand-in for Keys?Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission.

died Friday. She was 89.Born on Oct. 31, 1934, Shepherd also had roles in the movies “Mystic Pizza,” “Uncle Buck,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and “A Dirty Shame.”She made guest appearances on the TV shows “Ed,” “Law & Order” and “Blue Bloods.”Shepherd, who lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, “passed away peacefully very early yesterday morning,” the actor and real estate agent Tom Titone wrote Saturday on Facebook.“I studied with Suzanne as a young actor.

2024 Grammy nominations were announced.But even as top contenders SZA, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo were already getting fitted for gowns, something was amiss.The fact that the nominees for music’s top prize were being announced before anyone got to chow and cocktail down for Friendsgiving — let alone Thanksgiving — made it feel way too early in the awards season.I mean, Mariah Carey didn’t even have enough time to properly defrost.Add to that the fact that the 2023 Country Music Awards took place just two days before the 2024 Grammy nominations were announced — and you knew that something just ain’t right with music award shows.That trend continued on Sunday night, when the Billboard Music Awards took the pre-Thanksgiving weekend spot long occupied by the American Music Awards — and turned it into one big turkey. (To make matters even weirder, both the BBMAs and the AMAs are owned by the same parent company.)Indeed, while the BBMAs were previously aired on NBC — these awards were relegated to a damn Billboard website.

Jared Leto has officially responded to fans who have said that he and reality star Scott Disick look like “identical” twins. “Wow,” Leto, 51, said while appearing on Sirius XM’s TikTok Radio Friday. “Really? Lucky me.” “Thank you,” the “Suicide Squad” actor added.When asked by host Davis Burleson if he saw the resemblance, the “Morbius” star said he “didn’t know.” “It’s hard when you look at yourself.

Billboard Awards.Mariah Carey brought the holiday spirit to the stage with a Aspen-inspired performance of her record-breaking hit “All I Want for Christmas is You” on Sunday. Her performance marked the first time the “Vision of Love” singer performed her modern holiday classic at an awards show. Carey, 54, made her way onto the stage by slowly being dropped down by a ski lift.

2023 Billboard Music Awards are finally here — and, naturally, Taylor Swift is taking the lead with 20 nominations out of the 69 categories.Swift, who is currently on her Eras Tour in Brazil, is the most decorated female BBMAs artist of all time with 29 wins. On Sunday night, some of her nods include for Top Artist, Top Hot 100 Songwriter, Top Billboard 200 Album (“Midnights”).The “Archer” singer is followed on the leaderboard by Morgan Wallen, SZA, The Weeknd, Drake and Zach Bryan.The Billboard Awards kick off at 8 p.m.

your hollow, tin chest?A dark wool shirt jacket and a pair of jeans the late Matthew Perry wore on “Friends” is selling for $8,400 on eBay.“Yes, this is the actual ensemble worn by the late Matthew Perry as Chandler in the classic TV show,” reads the Aug. 29 listing, which was updated the day after Perry died.Chandler Bing donned the ensemble in the Season 1 episode “The One With the Candy Hearts” as he tried to break up with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Janice.A framed sketch print accompanies the geometric-patterned outfit.“The shirt jacket is a one-off piece custom made (no tags or size inside) for Matthew Perry to wear for the specific episode, hence the sketch print, meaning it’s an original design by the TV show’s Costume Designer for Friends,” the seller wrote.“Ensemble and costume sketch are both in very good condition considering this was worn in 1994,” the description continues.

Brandi Mallory was reported by a man who called 911 when he noticed a motionless and unresponsive body in a car.The dispatcher asks the man, “Are you with her now?” He responds, “No, she’s in her car. I don’t do dead people,” according to audio obtained by TMZ.The outlet reports that the caller owns a deli in the Stone Mountain, Georgia strip plaza where Mallory died after grabbing food at Chipotle. The Atlanta makeup artist was 40.“There’s a girl laying in her car.

campaign’s dubious spending on things like OnlyFans and Botox and poked fun at panda diplomacy overshadowing President Joe Biden’s summit with his Chinese counterpart.Santos, portrayed by Bowen Yang, was questioned by Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost following a scathing ethics report released last week that revealed the lyin’ Long Island Republican abused his campaign funds for his own personal pleasures. “This has not been a good week for you,” Jost said before listing off the questionable purchases made with thousands of Santos’ campaign dollars, which include subscriptions for the amateur porn site OnlyFans, Botox, and purchases made at Sephora and Hermes.

the New York Times reported.“I’m really disappointed,” he admitted. “But then, I think, if I had a lot of money it would put a lot of pressure on me.“And that’s the last thing I need,” he added.Herman was given the untitled 6-foot abstract nude by former lawyer Isidore Silver, whom he became close friends with after he started walking his toy poodle about six years ago, according to the paper.Silver, who had repped Close in a First Amendment lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts in the 1960s, had mentioned to Herman in passing that he kept one of the artist’s works rolled up in a closet.