Comedian Kevin Hart just joined a very elite group WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin Hart wiped away tears on stage as he looked up from the bronze bust on a pedestal to the trio of comedy legends who had come to witness his professional highlight. 03/24/2024 - 11:05 pm | View Link
Kevin Hart takes home his Mark Twain Prize for American humor Comedians love to rib each other. It's almost a requirement for the job and there was plenty of it for Kevin Hart Sunday night as he received the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The ... 03/24/2024 - 5:49 pm | View Link
Oscars 2024: Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' wins Best Film and sweeps up seven Academy Awards In a rather predictable 96th edition of the Oscars, 'Oppenheimer' won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and four other awards. Here's the lowdown of the evening (scroll down for the five viral ... 03/11/2024 - 11:22 am | View Link
Kevin Hart surprises friend Nick Cannon on 'Masked Singer' premiere March 7 (UPI) --Comic actor Kevin Hart performed Ne-Yo's hit "So Sick" while dressed as a book on Wednesday's Season 11 premiere of The Masked Singer. The show is hosted by Hart's good friend Nick ... 03/6/2024 - 6:38 pm | View Link
Kevin Hart Says He Was 'Educated' After Backlash to Past Homophobic Jokes: It Was 'Necessary and Needed' The actor said it was a "come-to-Jesus moment" for him Jon Kopaloff/Getty Kevin Hart learned from a past controversy. Back in 2018, the comedian, 44, stepped down from hosting the Oscars after his ... 03/6/2024 - 3:34 am | View Link
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
ASIAN CINEMA CELEBRATION Veteran Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming edition of the Festival of Far East Film in Italy’s Udine (April 24 – May 2). The lineup will include three films by Zhang: his 2023 political thriller “Under the Light” in its competition section; as […]
The Busan International Film Festival has postponed the appointment of a permanent festival director. A new leader may be appointed after this year’s edition in October. Pak Dosin, a former senior programmer, has been appointed as co-deputy director in a dual-leadership structure, alongside co-deputy director Kang Seung-ah. That means that this year’s festival will be […]
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a retrospective featuring classic titles spawned by the Hollywood studio between the dawn of sound and the late 1950s. The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director […]
Just 48 hours after a show in San Diego and less than 24 hours before he is set to perform at San Francisco’s Chase Center, Bruce Springsteen logged some serious (private) air miles for a surprise performance at country superstar Zach Bryan’s concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night.