Will Smith has acknowledged that his fans may not be “ready” to watch him on screen in the upcoming drama film “Emancipation.” The movie is the 54-year-old’s first project following his controversial slapping of Chris Rock at Oscars 2022 earlier this year. The “King Richard” award winner made the blunt revelation during in an interview with FOX … Read more
Comedian Chris Rock joked about how painful his infamous Oscar smackdown was in his return to the same Los Angeles theater where it took place — reminding the crowd of Will Smith’s big screen role as heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali. After opening up with some jokes about Dave Chappelle and the Jan. 6 Capitol … Read more
“Emancipation” director Antoine Fuqua came to the defense of his upcoming Apple TV+ movie starring Will Smith after the infamous slap incident at the Oscars earlier this year. The new drama, in which he stars as an enslaved man on the run from a Louisiana plantation, is Smith’s first role post-smack controversy. Fuqua, 56, told … Read more
Stage, TV and film writer-director Douglas McGrath, who earned a Tony nomination for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and an Oscar nod for the “Bullets Over Broadway” screenplay he co-wrote with Woody Allen, died Thursday. He was 64. The death was announced by the producers of McGrath’s solo off-Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” which opened last … Read more
Emmy-winning late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel announced Monday he is returning as the host of the 2023 Academy Awards. “Being invited to host the Oscars for a third time is either a great honor or a trap,” joked Kimmel, 54, in a possible reference to the infamous Chris Rock/Will Smith “Slapgate” of 2022. “Either … Read more
The award for worst costume goes to … “The View” was slammed Monday, during the show’s Halloween-themed episode, for dressing a child as an Academy Award statuette with a blood-red handprint on their cheek to represent the infamous “Oscars slap.” The segment involved “The View” wardrobe supervisor, Ashley Alderfer Kaufman, introducing each of the costumes … Read more
Like 85 million other television viewers around the world, Rosalind Cruz wasn’t expecting to see her sister onstage at the 1973 Oscars when Marlon Brando won Best Actor for “The Godfather.“ “Hello, my name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I’m Apache and I’m president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee. I’m representing Marlon Brando this … Read more
Just weeks after Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather’s death, her sisters are revealing her “lie.” Trudy Orlandi and Rosalind Cruz claimed that Littlefeather — who famously refused Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf in 1973 — was an “ethnic fraud.” The two spoke separately to the San Francisco Chronicle recently, claiming that Littlefeather did not … Read more
Anne Hathaway is opening up about “Hatha-hate.” Hathaway faced harsh criticism after winning the Oscar for best supporting actress in “Les Misérables” in 2013, with people questioning her persona and calling her “annoying.” The actress became the butt of the joke all over the internet, with the New York Times even publishing an article titled … Read more
Jada Pinkett Smith is releasing her ‘no holds barred’ memoir in autumn 2023, its publishers revealed in a bombshell announcement Thursday. The book, which comes from HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books, promises to explore ‘Jada’s complicated marriage to Will Smith,’ according to a press release. A description quoted by People magazine says the upcoming autobiography ‘chronicles … Read more