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Sophia Scorziello editor In the opening of Tina and Ike Turner’s rendition of Creedance Clearwater’s “Proud Mary,” Tina gives a disclaimer to the audience: “Every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy, but there’s just one thing, you see: we never ever do nothing nice and easy.” When Angela Bassett took on the task of portraying Turner in 1993 for “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” she took that to heart. In the 30 days between landing the role and the first day of shooting, Bassett worked 16-hour days, exercising each morning before learning dance numbers with Turner and choreographer Michael Peters. Bassett also worked with her co-star Laurence Fishburne to act scenes depicting the violence and domestic abuse that Tina endured through her marriage. It was anything but nice and easy.

Monique Samuels and husband Chris Samuels are going their separate ways.

He might not have secured the Tony Award he came for, but Samuel L. Jackson certainly garnered attention after his "losing face" went viral online. Jackson, who was nominated for his performance in August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson," looked the opposite of thrilled while waiting for a winner to be announced.

with your complexion, and it's called color analysis: a stylist-approved technique for identifying your seasonal color palette.I discovered this method six months ago when a video on happened upon my Instagram “Explore” page. I had never thought about color contrast and how it could impact the color combinations I should wear, let alone the ones I put on my face.

In April, Tina Turner gave her final interview. Some of her answers on the subject of life and death have never been seen until now, and, on reflection, seem particularly poignant since her passing. While it remains unclear if Tina knew she was terminally ill at the time, four weeks prior, on World Kidney Day in March, she revealed to fans on Instagram that she had put herself in “great danger” by not taking her 1978 hypertension diagnosis seriously.

The highly-anticipated all-stars cast for “RHONY Legacy” is here.

In one of the biggest twists of the 2023 upfront, Fox opted not to renew its highest rated scripted series, 9-1-1. The drama, produced by 20th Television, was instead picked up for a seventh season by 20th TV sibling ABC.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director One of the many viral images that emerged out of the 2023 Oscars was the sight of Angela Bassett holding Austin Butler’s hand as the best actor category was announced. Butler was nominated in the category for his performance in “Elvis,” but he lost the Oscar to “The Whale” star Brendan Fraser. The moment registered deeply across social media as Bassett endured her own Oscars loss in the best supporting actress race earlier in the ceremony. Bassett was nominated for her role in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” but the Oscar went to Jamie Lee Curtis for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “On the evening of the Oscars, with Austin seated next to me, I understood intimately what he felt when it was time to learn if he would climb those stairs to the stage,” Bassett wrote in a tribute to Butler as part Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of 2023. “So, I  took his hand and held it softly as the winner was announced. Although his name wasn’t called, Austin is no less a winner. The time had come for Austin to say goodbye to Elvis as he began to embrace an infinite universe of possibilities as an actor. I can’t wait to see what he brings us next.”

Former Vanderpump Rules stars Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright will be sharing their views on the latest drama of the Bravo series in Peacock’s Watch With feature.

Honoring its predecessor. NBC’s Quantum Leap revival has often paid tribute to the original science fiction series.

Barbie Bassett has not been on air for the NBC affiliate WLBT since March 8, when she and other employees were discussing Snoop Dogg’s addition to his wine line on air.

Snoop Dogg live on air earlier this month.Meteorologist and news anchor Barbie Bassett has not been seen on air for the NBC affiliate WLBT since 8 March, according to Deadline (as reported by The Independent). The website claims that during her last appearance on the channel’s morning show Bassett caused controversy while she and other team members were discussing Snoop Dogg.Joining in a chat about Snoop’s line of wines, Bassett is reported as quoting the rapper, saying: “Fo shizzle, my nizzle.” The reference came up when the idea of a collaboration between the ‘Doggyland’ rapper and a newsroom journalist was raised – see the tweet below for a video clip of the incident from Huffpost’s Philip Lewis.Longtime Mississippi news anchor appears to no longer be employed with the news team after saying, "Fo shizzle, my nizzle" on airhttps://t.co/O5tFTsac1g pic.twitter.com/hs01IyVQaL— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 24, 2023“Nizzle” is commonly cited as slang for the N-word.This was not the first time that Bassett has caused controversy either, according to reports.

Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York City on Saturday following allegations that he physically assaulted a woman, with TMZ speculating it is his girlfriend.

There has been no sign of a Mississippi morning news anchor woman since she voiced a Snoop Dogg phrase on air earlier this month. 

Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York City this weekend following allegations that he physically assaulted a woman.

Gizelle Bryant is getting us so excited for the upcoming third season of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip!

Calling out the nonsense! Shawn Mendes claimed he is not dating Sabrina Carpenter after the pair sparked romance speculation while spotted out together last month.  

Joe Leydon Film Critic Just a skosh more than a decade after Fede Alvarez’s carnage-crammed “Evil Dead” reboot jump-started the horror franchise spawned by Sam Raimi’s low-budget 1981 cult favorite, writer-director Lee Cronin has delivered his own imaginatively scary take on the “Book of the Dead” mythos with “Evil Dead Rise.” A kinda-sorta sequel, it offers incontrovertible evidence that predatory and possessive bogeymen are just as frightful when their hunting ground shifts from a cabin in a dark corner of the woods to a gone-to-seed apartment building in downtown Los Angeles.    Said building — aptly described by one holdout resident as a “condemned dump” — just happens to have been built on the site of a long-closed bank that evidently shuttered before certain mystical merchandise could be retrieved from its vault. Specifically, we’re talking about yet another Book of the Dead: an ancient tome with a binding of human skin that can serve as an entryway for savage supernatural creatures eager to infect and forage in our world. This particular edition was locked away along with some 1923-era vinyl recordings of a clergyman’s warnings about the dangers of even glancing between the covers. Trouble is, all it takes is an earthquake, and a curious adolescent living with his family several stories above the buried material, for all hell to break loose.

On purpose? Shawn Mendes seemingly donned a necklace featuring Sabrina Carpenter’s birthstone amid speculation the two are an item.  

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever actor for the occasion and was undeniably the favorite in the category, which included eventual winner Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Jamie as well as The Banshees of Inisherin's Kerry Condon, Everything Everywhere's Stephanie Hsu, and The Whale's Hong Chau. So, we don't blame her for being deeply disappointed when her name wasn't called out as the top of the pack.While the other nominees clapped for Jamie, the 64-year-old actor looked obviously deflated and upset, and her reaction quickly picked up on social media.

and without visual effects, this is what the bear would look like," she continued. The bear danced behind her and she told the character, «Stop it. No director wants to deal with this, stop this.