Tag: Culture

  • Bruce Campbell Kicks Out Heckler From ‘Evil Dead Rise’ SXSW Screening

    Bruce Campbell Kicks Out Heckler From ‘Evil Dead Rise’ SXSW Screening

    The original Ash Williams was not amused by the heckler at the premiere of Evil Dead Rise. During a panel discussion following the film’s South by Southwest premiere showing at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, one audience member yelled, “This movie sux!” Bruce Campbell, who acted in multiple franchise editions and executive-produced the new picture,…

  • Kentucky GOP Passes Gender-Affirming Care Ban for Trans Kids

    Kentucky GOP Passes Gender-Affirming Care Ban for Trans Kids

    On Thursday, the Republican-led Kentucky legislature passed a bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender teens. The bill was sent to Governor Andy Beshear before a deadline that would have made it impossible to override his likely veto. The fast-tracked law is a variant of a previous House plan that battled and stuck in the…

  • Christina Ricci Reveals Being Threatened After Objecting to a Sex Scene

    Christina Ricci Reveals Being Threatened After Objecting to a Sex Scene

    During a discussion on Wednesday’s episode of The View about how Hollywood actors have gradually gotten more control over their sex scenes, actress Christina Ricci said that early in her career, she was threatened with legal action because she didn’t like how one scene went. “Younger actresses don’t always have to go through what we…

  • CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Quits Agent Shared With Don Lemon

    CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Quits Agent Shared With Don Lemon

    Kaitlan Collins and Don Lemon, both CNN stars, used to share the same superagent, UTA’s Jay Sures, but they no longer do. According to the New York Post, Collins bolted from Sures and signed with William Morris Endeavor as tensions between the two co-anchors apparently escalated. “Jay was not successfully representing her,” a source claimed…

  • Kanye West Will Not Be Charged for Throwing Photographer’s Cellphone

    Kanye West Will Not Be Charged for Throwing Photographer’s Cellphone

    TMZ reported on Wednesday that Kanye West is not expected to be charged in a violence probe related to a January incident in which he allegedly threw a woman’s phone into the street as she followed him. The woman, identified by TMZ as a “female paparazzo,” declined to seek charges against West, who reportedly noticed…

  • The Hero Deputy Receives Flowers from the Two-Year-Old She Saved from Drowning

    The Hero Deputy Receives Flowers from the Two-Year-Old She Saved from Drowning

    A Florida sheriff’s deputy received a special visit from a 2-year-old girl whose life she helped rescue with CPR following a weekend drowning. The girl was discovered face-down and unconscious in a swimming pool by a relative who was monitoring many toddlers. Police dispatchers instructed the family on how to perform CPR until Volusia County…

  • Pete Buttigieg Speaks Out Against Mike Pence’s Homophobic Joke

    Pete Buttigieg Speaks Out Against Mike Pence’s Homophobic Joke

    Former Vice President Mike Pence made a homophobic joke over the weekend about U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s recent paternity leave. Buttigieg responded that he had more important things to worry about than “the Washington game.” An ABC transportation reporter, Gio Benitez questioned Buttigieg directly if Pence owed him an apology. Buttigieg responded, “I’ll let…

  • Rumor Emerges About Quentin Tarantino’s Tenth and Last Film

    Rumor Emerges About Quentin Tarantino’s Tenth and Last Film

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Quentin Tarantino is setting the stage for what will be hailed as his final feature film. The trade newspaper said on Tuesday that the 59-year-old director had penned a script named The Cinema Critic and is planning to “direct” it later this year, although it was unclear if this referred…

  • Lil Nas X Issues Apology for Trans ‘Joke’ After Backlash

    Lil Nas X Issues Apology for Trans ‘Joke’ After Backlash

    Lil Nas X issued an apology on Tuesday for making a joke about trans-affirming surgery on social media and then getting angry when he was called out for it. According to the Daily News, it began when the celebrity, who is openly gay and has supported trans causes, tweeted a photo of a lady that…

  • Ashley Graham Responds to Hugh Grant’s Uncomfortable Oscars Interview

    Ashley Graham Responds to Hugh Grant’s Uncomfortable Oscars Interview

    Model-turned-Oscars Ashley Graham holds no grudges against British actor Hugh Grant, whose ice-cold responses on the Oscars red carpet went viral as one of Sunday night’s most embarrassing moments. Monday at the Los Angeles airport, she told TMZ that she depended on her mother’s elder counsel to come to terms with the circumstance. She told…