Inside Broadway with Caroline Stefanie Clay of ‘The Little Foxes’: Actress and Playwright Shares How She Made It Up I-95
*As the feisty maid in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s (MTC) Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Caroline Stefanie Clay is celebrating a seventeen-year working relationship with the award-winning theater company. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, The Little Foxes features a star-studded cast: Laura Linney, Cynthia Nixon, Darren Goldstein, […]
Michaela Coel Serves Up #BlackLove in ‘Been So Long’ Musical
“Chewing Gum” creator Michaela Coel is already being praised for her newest project — a black love story musical — and the film isn’t slated for release until 2018. Coel stars alongside Arinzé Kene in “Been So Long” — which is described as “a neon soaked, modern day romance set on the streets of London’s […]
Watch Rosario Dawson Speak on Finding Cousin’s Dead Body + Listen to Her Panic Filled 911 Call
*Rosario Dawson is thinking about the fragility of life after finding her 26-year-old cousin dead inside her home earlier this month. (Listen to the 911 call above.) During a recent interview with AOL’s BUILD to promote her work with The Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York, Dawson explained “even as I’m going through a […]
BLIND ITEM: War Continues Between Solo Singer and Former Group
*According to a MR X Blind Item posted on CDNA, gone are the days when the members of this former hit group would jump over humps and hurdles to please their demanding leader singer. The war continues between this now solo singer and her former group. They release photos of the band without her and […]
Phaedra Parks is Persona No Grata at ‘RHOA’ … Especially as Far as Kandi Burruss is Concerned
*It’s been a minute, well, several weeks, actually, since Phaedra Park‘s bombshell of lies about Kandi Burruss and her husband were revealed on the “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion show. If you’re wondering what the status is between Parks and the and the other cast members, according to Radar Online, none of the other […]
Tyler Perry Called Mo’Nique About Her Video Rants; She Tells Everybody What He Said (Watch)
*Mo’Nique and her husband/manager Sidney Hicks are back in front of cameras with new piping hot tea to spill – this time about a phone call the actress received from one of her recent targets, Tyler Perry. Earlier this month, Mo’Nique set things off during her standup set at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, telling “Precious” producers Perry, […]
Lee Boyd Malvo (‘DC Sniper’) Gets 2 -Life Sentences Tossed Out by Federal Judge
*Remember Lee Boyd Malvo, who along with another man, killed 10 people and wounded three over a three-week span in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia? Well, on Friday, a federal judge threw out his two life sentences. U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk said Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after […]
Co-Starring With Tom Cruise and Oprah, Hollywood Actor Courtney B. Vance Reflects on His Career and Family
*He’s been acting for more than 30 years, but Hollywood actor Courtney B. Vance says that his multiple-award-winning performance as Johnnie Cochran in the FX series The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story has opened up a whole new world for him. Starring opposite global superstar Tom Cruise in Universal Pictures’ highly anticipated release […]
EUR Review/’Pirates: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Ebbs and ‘Baywatch’ Coasts
*The first time I rode the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, I thought I had died and gone to Pirates Heaven. Years later I rode the ride at Disney World. And each time visiting Disney World after that I hoped I would experience the excitement I had the first time. It’s like that […]
Sugar Ray Leonard’s ‘Big Fighters, Big Cause’ Event Goes Down & EUR was There (WATCH)
*Diabetes is growing at an epidemic rate in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes and face its devastating consequences. Diabetes is growing at an epidemic rate in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 30 […]
Angela Bassett Opens Up About Her Mother’s Death
*Angela Bassett is opening up about losing her mother – Betty Jane – in 2014 to heart disease caused by type 2 diabetes. The 58-year-old actress, wife, and mother to two tells Essence: She had a very, very strong constitution so I know that if she was able to get that under control she’d be […]
Inside Scoop: After 7 Member on Mystery Behind Babyface’s Brother Leaving Group
*R&B group After 7 were founded in 1987 by brothers Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, and Keith Mitchell. The Edmonds brothers are the siblings of pop and R&B singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. This dynamic creative team delivered such enduring hits as “Heat of the Moment,” “Ready or Not,” and “Nights Like This.” Melvin officially left the […]
Mel B’s Estranged Husband: Tapped Out/Homeless; Wants Her to Support Him
*Boo hoo! If you haven’t heard, Stephen Belafonte is crying the blues about being broke and homeless and he wants Mel B to basically pay for his livelihood. Dude filed legal documents in his divorce case saying that since he was kicked out of the family home, his situation has gotten so raggedy that he’s […]
Uh Oh! Iyanla Vanzant Addresses Laura Govan’s ‘Materialistic’ TV Personality (WATCH)
*Reality star Laura Govan is the next guest on “Iyanla: Fix My Life,” and as usual, she’s opening up about her ongoing issues with Gilbert Arenas. Govan knows the only way she can get headlines these days is by constantly spilling the tea about her ex and oversharing details about her vagina. Meanwhile, the former […]
The Ferguson Uprising Story Told in ‘Whose Streets?’ – WATCH TRAILER
*Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing […]