On an autumn morning in New York City, actors Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen took their first gondola ride in Central Park. The two icons of British acting, who are appearing together on film for the first time in “The Good Liar,” spoke with “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason …
Read More »NCAA athletes getting paid: Thousands could be in their futures
Elite college athletes could pocket tens of thousands of dollars annually during their school years once the NCAA officially allows them to score sponsorships and endorsements. A wider pool of athletes without prominent profiles could earn smaller amounts off local deals that would at least make life on a student …
Read More »Tyler Perry Studios: director talks “poetic justice” of building new studio on former Confederate army base
Tyler Perry is the creative force behind 22 movies, 20 plays, and eight TV shows. But that’s not all: the 50-year-old writer, director, and actor just built a 330-acre movie studio complex in Atlanta, featuring a dozen sound stages named after black Hollywood icons. “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King visited …
Read More »Roger Federer: Meet Ron Yu, the man who strings Roger Federer’s tennis rackets
By the time Roger Federer steps onto a tennis court, it’s already been a long day for Ron Yu. For the last 15 years, in nondescript hotel rooms around the world, Yu has personally strung Federer’s rackets — nine fresh ones per match. “The 4:30 wakeup to start stringing tennis …
Read More »Lori Loughlin in court today: Legal strategy of actress and her husband in college admissions scandal could backfire
Actress Lori Loughlin is scheduled to be back in a Boston courtroom Tuesday for a hearing in the college admissions scandal. She and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of paying bribes to get their daughters into college. Both have pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering …
Read More »A$AP Rocky update: Sweden court convicts rapper A$AP Rocky of assault today, gives conditional sentence for fight in Stockholm caugth on video
American rapper A$AP Rocky was convicted Wednesday by a Swedish court of assault, along with two associates, over a June 30 fight on a Stockholm street. The Stockholm District Court said in a statement that the men, who were freed from jail earlier this month pending the verdict and have since left …
Read More »A$AP Rocky testifies today in Sweden as rapper and his bodyguard face charges for beating man
Stockholm, Sweden—American rapper A$AP Rocky testified Thursday at his assault trial that he did everything possible to avoid conflict with two men he says persistently followed the artist’s entourage in Stockholm, and that one of the men picked a fight with one of his bodyguards. Rakim Mayers, the rapper’s real …
Read More »Stranger Things season 3 product placement boosts relevance for hundreds of brands
“Stranger Things,” the acclaimed Netflix series set in the 1980s, has emerged as a powerful platform for promoting a range of corporate brands.Netflix doesn’t accept paid product placements, but rather seeks to weave brands into storylines in ways that more organically evoke the show’s setting in the 1980s.That approach has …
Read More »Michael K. Williams talks Central Park Five and how Obama helped him “grow up”
Michael K. Williams – the breakout star of HBO’s “The Wire” – is taking on one of the most publicized crimes of the 1980s with his role in the new Netflix series “When They See Us.” The Ava-Duvernay-directed project centers on the five teenagers who were wrongfully convicted for the …
Read More »Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner just got married in a surprise ceremony in Las Vegas
After being forced to marry Joffrey Baratheon, Ramsay Bolton and Tyrion Lannister, Sansa Stark could definitely use a break in the husband category – and it appears she just got one in the form of a Jonas brother. “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas shocked fans by …
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