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Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in 2023, adult film star Emily Willis went into cardiac arrest while being treated for ketamine addiction at a rehab facility in Malibu. This week, her family was awarded a $3 million settlement against the facility, but for Emily, life will never be the same. Following news of the settlement, Emily’s mother told TMZ that her daughter is still unable to speak and communicates only with her eyes and by shaking her head. Emily Willis attends the 2023 Sundance Film Festival “Divinity” Premiere at Egyptian Theatre on January 21, 2023 in Park City, Utah. (Photo…
German filmmaker Nicolaas Schmidt has developed a following with his unique film language. If you haven’t seen any of his short- and medium-length movies yet, now may be the time. After all, his feature-length debut, September Afternoon, will world premiere on Aug. 10 in the Filmmakers of the Present Competition of the 79th editionof the Locarno Film Festival. It marks a return to Locarno for Schmidt, whose First Time [The Time for All but Sunset — Violet] got its world premiere at the Swiss festival in 2021, where it received a Pardi di Domani special mention. Here is what we…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Early this year, Farrah Abraham announced a political run in the wrong year. She panicked and pivoted to running for a new political position. In the right year, this time! Now, the oft-ridiculed Teen Mom alum is doubling down on her campaign. But she’s also taking a break to skewer her mom as a “sociopath.” Farrah Abraham stopped by the ‘Legally Goff’ podcast to discuss a myriad of topics. (Image Credit: YouTube) Yes, she’s still running In January of this year, Farrah proclaimed her candidacy to be mayor of Austin, running in this year’s election. She…
“If the word Lockerbie will be associated with this terrible tragedy,” intones a priest at a memorial ceremony, “perhaps it will also be spoken of in the future with admiration through the example of its people.” And so it is in The Bombing of Pan Am 103, Netflix’s new chronicle of the 1988 attack that claimed 270 lives. It is the people of this small Scottish town, Jonathan Lee’s drama makes clear, who rushed to one another’s aid in the crisis, who worked tirelessly to pursue answers, who embraced mourners from around the world. As a tribute to their compassion…
Arlene Smith, an original member of The Chantels who wrote and sang the lead on the R&B girl group’s classic 1957 hit, “Maybe,” has died. She was 84. Smith died Wednesday of natural causes in a hospital in her hometown of New York City, her friend Matt Beckoff told The Hollywood Reporter. Born on Oct. 5, 1941, Smith had received classical training and performed at age 12 at Carnegie Hall when she and Lois Harris, Sonia Goring, Jackie Landry and Renée Minus auditioned for record producer Richard Barrett, a member of the doo-wop group The Valentines. The teenagers had been…
Andrew Garfield, who stars as Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s much-buzzed-about OpenAI film Artificial, is speaking out for the first time about the controversy that has surrounded the project in recent months. At the New York premiere of his new movie The Magic Faraway Tree, Garfield told The Hollywood Reporter, “This business is in an interesting place and I’m fascinated by how things work. I’m really grateful to Amazon for making the film with us and I’m also really grateful to Amazon for helping it find a new home. And I think Neon’s a really, really exciting home for it.…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have a new development in the ongoing saga of Nolan Wells. As you’ve likely heard by now, Wells was found dead on Mississippi’s Horn Island earlier this month, and his cause of death remains a mystery. Police are still investigating the matter, and now, a friend of Wells has lawyered up over claims that the two of them fought over a shared love interest. People listen as attorney Ben Crump holds a press conference with Elmore Wonsley and Christine Wells-Wonsley, the parents of Nolan Wells, at the annual NAACP National Convention to announce the results…
Bruce Springsteen, Bono and Finneas O’Connell are among the musicians remembering Glen Hansard. The Irish singer-songwriter, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning “Falling Slowly” from Once, died in a motorcycle crash early Wednesday morning near his native Dublin. He was 56. The death of the Frames frontman has sparked a number of tributes from across the entertainment industry. Bono penned a lengthy essay about Hansard, beginning, “Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed…” He then recalled his kindness and busking past, writing in part, “He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the United States, a family annihilation killing takes place approximately every 5 days. A Michigan mother and her six children were killed in a septuple murder-suicide that ultimately claimed the lives of the family’s pets. Prior to the killing, Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz appears to have left a series of reddit posts discussing her husband — and even contemplating divorce. Do these posts provide a clue as to the monster’s motive for allegedly murdering his wife and children? Michigan State Police following a deadly shooting. (Photo Credit: Emily Elconin/Getty Images) Mandy, her six kids, and their…
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, says Cookie Queens is “more than just a cookie movie.” At an advanced Los Angeles screening of the documentary, Meghan Markle joined director Alysa Nahmias to discuss the heart behind the film, which follows four young Girl Scouts as they navigate the highs and lows of cookie-selling season. The project originally premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, earning an Audience Award and putting itself on the map. Markle and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, jumped on as executive producers under their Archewell Productions banner. The screening took place at AMC The Grove on Tuesday,…