Barbara Joans, Who Studied Biker Culture on the Open Road, Dies at 89 In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers. By Alex Williams Barbara Joans, an iconoclastic ... 04/16/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
Barbara Baldavin, Actress on ‘Star Trek' and ‘Medical Center,' Dies at 85 Barbara Baldavin, who appeared on three episodes of the original Star Trek and recurred on Medical Center before working in the casting department on shows including Dynasty and Trapper John, M.D ... 04/1/2024 - 1:15 pm | View Link
Barbara Rush, prolific actress known for ’50s melodramas, dies at 97 Actress Barbara Rush at the 1954 premiere of “Magnificent Obsession,” in which she starred with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. (AP) Barbara Rush, an elegant, hazel-eyed actress who worked with ... 04/1/2024 - 8:40 am | View Link
Barbara Rush, Award-Winning TV and Film Actress, Dies at 97 She received a Golden Globe in 1954 as that year’s rising star and appeared in movies alongside Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman. By Anita Gates Barbara Rush, the supremely poised ... 03/31/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Italian period drama “My Place Is Here” is being released in Italy by Adler Ent. on May 9, and is being sold at Cannes by Beta Cinema. Variety speaks to the film’s directors, Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone, and debuts its trailer (below). “My Place Is Here” is set in the years following the end […]
FREE STREAMING Freely, the new free streaming service backed by Britain’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) that delivers live TV over broadband, has launched. The initiative is from Everyone TV, the organization which runs free TV in the U. K. and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Paramount Global’s Channel 5. Announced last year, the service allows viewers […]
“Joyguru,” a fictionalized account of the life of Indian mystic artist and music icon Parvathy Baul, will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Parvathy Baul is a leading exponent of the syncretic Baul minstrel music tradition that is hugely popular and culturally influential across eastern India and Bangladesh.
Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has acquired the supernatural crime thriller “The Osha Rule,” and will start seeking distribution partner at the Cannes Film Market. The film will start principal photography in August 2024. “The Osha Rule” blends crime with supernatural horror and revolves around a young Latino gang member forced into a Santería […]
We don't think Gretchen Wieners' father, the inventor of Toaster Strudel, would be too pleased to hear that it's been a full 20 years since Mean Girls first entered our lives and the cultural
A distinctive, dynamic R&B vocalist who seemed on the verge of major stardom through the 1960s, Jackie Shane disappeared soon after — so completely that many fans and former associates assumed her dead. It was a riddle rendered all the more mysterious by her singular status within that field as a more-or-less “out” transperson, her […]