When Rob Riggle joined The Daily Show in 2006, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. He was prepared to go back into active duty in order to provide for his family, until Jon Stewart not given him the role that would arguably define his career. Seven years after leaving his post at The Daily Show, Riggle still maintains that Stewart is one of the greatest leaders he’s ever known — and given his military history, that’s saying a lot.
Dev Patel has wanted to make Monkey Man for a very, very long time. Since launching his career with Skins and Slumdog Millionaire, the now 33-year-old Brit has amassed an eclectic resume, ranging from shows such as The Newsroom to films including The Green Knight. Now, Patel is officially stepping into action hero territory with Monkey Man (out April 5), a blood-spattered directorial debut that he says has been “10 years in the making.
Mark Mothersbaugh is perhaps best known as the faintly cyborg front man for Devo, whose cybernetic synthesis of the organic and the electronic (not to mention their pointed critiques of consumerist culture) now seem—36 years since Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! was first released—astoundingly prescient. On the side, he’s composed and recorded soundtracks for dozens of movies, TV shows, and video games, scoring everything from Rushmore to Rugrats, as well as creating an impressive body of visual art.
Diane Keaton didn't exactly have Bieber Fever when she agreed to star in one of Justin Bieber's music videos. The Book Club: The Next Chapter actress revealed that she was completely taken by surprise when she was tapped to play Bieber's grandmother in the emotional music video for his single "Ghost" back in 2021 — especially since she hadn't been a fan of him or his music beforehand. "I couldn't believe it.
Image Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images; Glenn Harris/PR Photos The 90th annual Miss America Pageant airs tonight on ABC, with ABC-tastic hosts Chris Harrison of The Bachelor and Brooke Burke of Dancing with the Stars (pictured here). To that I say: Really? I honestly had no idea that the show was even airing until yesterday. Maybe I haven't been watching enough ABC or frequenting websites that teen girls regularly go to or am not reading the right magazines, but I haven't seen a scrap of promotion for this year's pageant.
Diddy is coming home. The rapper, producer, and record exec announced his first solo album in 17 years, The Love Album: Off the Grid, via a star-studded trailer Tuesday. The album is set to arrive Sept. 15. The trailer features an all-star lineup of musical guests, some of whom will presumably be featured on the album. Justin Bieber, the Weeknd, Mary J. Blige, DJ Khaled, Teyana Taylor, French Montana, 21 Savage, Yung Miami, Swae Lee, Jozzy, and Kenneth "
Diddy's new album features a track named after his late ex Kim Porter — and the song did more than just memorialize her. In an interview with Access Hollywood, the rapper revealed that he created the song "Kim Porter" to send a message to the late actress from beyond the grave — and based on his dreams, it actually worked. "I got with Babyface, and I really told him the story of me and Kim, and I showed him this picture, and I said, 'Babyface, I know your voice will penetrate the heavens above.
Dionne Warwick had a lot more to say than a little prayer for Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, and the other rappers on Death Row Records in the '90s. In a new clip from her upcoming CNN documentary, Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over, the "Walk on By" singer revealed that she once invited the "Drop It Like It's Hot" rapper and his label mates to her home at 7 a.m. sharp to single-handedly host an intervention about the harmful terminology towards women that they were incorporating in their chart-topping songs.
The first review I ever wrote — God help me — was of a movie directed by Ken Russell, the high-trash visionary of over-the-top British psychodrama who died Sunday at 84. It was 1975, the fall of my senior year in high school, and my friends and I had gone to the opening night show of Tommy, the deluxe, star-packed big-screen version of the Who’s rock opera. (Elton John as the Pinball Wizard!
For his first feature in 16 years, TÁR screenwriter-director Todd Field dove into the intense world of a conductor — played by a commanding Cate Blanchett — who teeters on the edge of personal catastrophe. Last fall, Field told EW the ideas in the movie came to him at the beginning of the pandemic, and that he set about drafting a script mainly as a personal exercise for himself, to stay active, keeping his dream of casting Blanchett a secret.