Новости за 25.12.2020

Roger Berlind, the 25-time Tony-winning producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals ranging from Amadeus, City of Angels and Doubt to The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen and Mean Girls, has died. He was 90. His family said he died December 18 in Manhattan of cardiopulmonary arrest. During his stunning 45-year career, Berlind won Tonys for […]

Emma Thompson is criticizing what is commonplace in Hollywood — older male actors paired on-screen with women half their age. “It’s completely acceptable for George Clooney – who is delightful – to have someone who is 40 years younger than him or 30 years younger than him,” she said on the podcast CultureBlast. “If I […]

It’s only appropriate that NBC leads Christmas Eve TV ratings with its presentation of It’s a Wonderful Life. The 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed won Thursday night with a 0.6 in the adults 18-49 demographic while 4.47 million viewers tuned in to feel some Christmas joy and hope. ABC’s presentation of […]

The Oscar-contending documentary 76 Days, set in hospitals in Wuhan, China as the city endured lockdown after the eruption of Covid-19, is cinéma vérité par excellence. No sit-down interviews, no TV news reports spliced in—just the pure visual drama of medical workers and patients ensnared in an unprecedented crisis. “In the early days of edit…we […]

Airline passengers heading to the U.S. from the UK must test negative for COVID-19 before departure, the Centers for Disease Control said late Thursday. This comes following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus that may be up to 70% more transmissible and is spreading in Britain and elsewhere. Airline passengers from the […]

Billionaire businessman Ron Burkle is the new owner of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County. Burkle, a one-time associate of Jackson and co-founder of the Yucaipa Companies investment firm purchased the 2,700-acre property in Los Olivos, near Santa Barbara for $22 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. First listed in 2016 for […]

Dish Network and Nexstar Media Group, the No. 1 U.S. owner of local TV stations, have resolved a carriage dispute that took 164 Nexstar stations and cable network WGN America off the air for more than three weeks. The deal was announced just after 1AM ET on Friday, Christmas Day. In a press release, Nexstar […]

Lee Wallace, who starred in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, died Dec. 20 in New York after along illness. He was 90. Born Leo Melis in Brooklyn on July 15, 1930, he moved with his family to the Lower East Side. He later attended New York University and studied with Lee Strasberg, and Canada Lee, […]

Santa Ana winds have propelled a wildfire in Northern San Diego County that has burned 3,000 acres and caused mandatory evacuations, according to Cal Fire and the US Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Camp Pendleton has issued a mandatory evacuation for DeLuz Housing, Wounded Warrior Battalion, and the Lake O’Neill Campground because of the fire, […]

Shemar Moore, the star of CBS crime drama S.W.A.T., has Covid-19, according to an Instagram post he made today. “I thought I had food poisoning… chills and aches all day today… still can smell, taste, no cough, no runny nose … I feel fine now,” the 50-year-old actor wrote. “I have to accept test results… […]

A couple who appeared on ABC’s reality show Wife Swap and later concocted a fantastic hoax that drew worldwide attention has been pardoned by the Colorado governor. In October 2009, Richard and Mayumi Heene claimed their six-year-old son, Falcon, was trapped in a balloon that soared into the sky. The sensational story saw police and […]

The major news networks are touting big ratings gains in 2020, after the coronavirus crisis and the presidential election drove viewers in record numbers to their lineups. Fox News will finish the year again at top of the news channels in primetime, with an average of 3.6 million viewers, up 45% from the same period […]