Roberta Flack, the soulful voice behind the hits “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” has been diagnosed with ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The artist, who is 85 and survived a stroke in 2016, can no longer sing and has trouble speaking as a result of the disease, according to Flack’s rep. “It will take a lot more than ALS to silence this icon,” the rep said, adding that Flack intends to stay active in musical and creative endeavors. Flack, nevertheless, is still supporting a documentary about her life, Roberta, which…
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Kevin Conroy, best known as the voice of Batman in Batman: The Animated Series and numerous other projects, passed away on November 10th after a short battle with cancer. He would have been 67 later this month. Conroy was born in Westbury, New York in 1955. He studied acting at Julliard alongside fellow iconic DC hero Christopher Reeve, and roomed with Robin Williams. For the next two decades, he worked steadily in theater, film, and television. His breakout role came in 1992, when he was cast as Batman in the acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series, a show that broke new…
Photography courtesy of Jasper Savage/CBC A roundup of everything to know about the much-anticipated sophomore season of the hit CBC show. By Jennifer Berry Date November 14, 2022 Facebook Twitter ICYMI (somehow), CBC has some of the more delightful — and subtly emotional — original programming on television. Of course, sleeper hit Schitt’s Creek, which wrapped in 2020, now has bona fide icon status and Workin’ Moms is low-key hilarious, but if you’re sleeping on Sort Of, it’s time to wake up. The barrier-breaking CBC and HBO Max original comedy co-written by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo is revolutionary in…
Bloody Disgusting has learned that London/Singapore-based international content investment studio 108 Media will finance, co-develop, and produce the upcoming premium live-action supernatural-action returning series “Nightshade” (6 x 60 minute episodes) with co-showrunners Simon Uttley and Neil Marshall, who will be directing the pilot.Sprung from the deep genre wellspring of the Marshall-Uttley writing partnership, the world of “Nightshade” is set in a bustling 18th century English port city visited by a diverse manner of international traders, rogues, and vagabonds. We meet our heroine – the half English and half Indian outcast Lizzie Monroe who transforms herself into a defiant masked outlaw avenger…
Joe Goldberg is returning in more ways than one in 2023.Not only is season four of Netflix’s You dropping in the new year, but the book series that started it all will have a new installment. Author Caroline Kepnes confirmed that a fourth book in her Joe Goldberg series will be arriving in April 2023. “Introducing For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel,” she wrote on Instagram Nov. 11. “April 25, 2023. I’m so excited to invite you back into Joe’s head and I hope you love it in there!” While Kepnes’ novels serve as inspiration for the Penn Badgley-led…
Breakout country artist Ingrid Andress will hit the road early next year for an extensive set of headlining performances.Announced today (Nov. 14), The Good Person Tour will take Andress to select cities across the U.S. before stopping at cities across Europe this May. The trek will begin on Feb. 24 with a stop in Salt Lake City before continuing to Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. Andress will perform at additional cities across America before taking a month-long pause ahead of her overseas dates.For the 23-date tour, Andress will be accompanied by fellow burgeoning talents Madeline Edwards,…
The Harry Potter franchise has been entertaining the public for decades, and is showing no signs of slowing down. But while the property is expanded through theme parks, video games, and Broadway plays, the eight-film movie franchise continues to be a beloved part of pop culture. The cast grew up before our eyes, including Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton. And the 35 year-old Wizarding World icon recently opened up about keeping up with the cast, and loving where Daniel Radcliffe’s career’s gone, saying “I’ve gone soft.”Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe might have played enemies throughout the Harry Potter movies, but…
“I look forward to visiting Qatar when it has fulfilled all the human rights pledges it made when it won the right to host the World Cup,” pop star says Dua Lipa has shot down reports that she will be performing at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on Nov. 20 with the opening ceremony in Doha, Qatar. In an Instagram story she shared on Sunday, Nov. 13, the pop star says she was never booked to perform, nor had she even been in discussions about it. “There is currently a lot of speculation that I will be…
Lynn Lowry achieved cult status early in her career, thanks to her work in the likes of George A. Romero’s The Crazies, David Cronenberg’s Shivers, and Paul Schrader’s Cat People. At the age of 75 and with over 100 acting credits under her belt, she’s still going stronger than ever. I recently caught up with the prolific horror icon at the Shawna Shea Film Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was in attendance to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her work in independent cinema, so we took the opportunity to discuss her career at length. Born in Illinois…
E! News: In the finale, Lestat is not burned and is instead left at the dump, implying he’s still alive. Can you definitively say if we will see Lestat in season two?Jacob Anderson: Yes, I can definitively say that you will see Lestat in season two. E!: Season two ends with Louis and Claudia fleeing New Orleans. Are they heading to Paris or somewhere else first? JA: I think it’s safe to say that Claudia and Louis are heading for the European region of the world. They’re heading towards Europe. E!: Viewers were blown away when it was revealed that Rashid, Louis’…
Despite finishing as the runner-up on American Idol this year, HunterGirl is still that girl playing shows for weekend crowds in her hometown of Winchester, Tenn. Her new song, “Hometown Out of Me,” is not only a love letter to the community that raised her, but also a promise.”Coming out of the show and starting my career, I just want to tell everyone that I’m never gonna change,” she tells Taste of Country’s Adison Haager during an Instagram Live.HunterGirl — whose real name is Hunter Wolkonowski — is in the midst of launching her country music career. It’s been a whirlwind year…
If you scroll through Joseph Baena’s Instagram you’ll see photos of him at the gym, holding his dance partner on one arm, riding a horse shirtless, and explaining how he keeps his arms swole, because Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son is in impeccable shape. Or if you watched him on Dancing with the Stars you would have seen him flexing and dancing shirtless through the show, as he did in a Hercules-themed routine, because he is literally a bodybuilder. However, this wasn’t always the case, as Baena prepares to take on his first big acting role, he is opening up about how…
Taylor Swift was the top trophy winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards that aired live on Sunday, Nov. 13. The singer took home awards for Best Artist, Best Pop, and both Best Video and Best Longform Video for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version).” “I wanted to say to the fans, I had an album come out recently called Midnights, and I’m so blown away, you have no idea how much it means to me to even get to do this as a career,” she said during her acceptance speech for Best Artist. “So I just wanted…
In the 2022 school year, I decided to run a comic book club in the school library that I manage. I’ve run a manga club for 9 years there and decided to start a comic book club to focus on the massive popularity of the comics and graphic novels that we have on the shelves. I’ve talked before about the huge popularity of our annual ComiCon, this is one of our most sought after programs. I felt like having a dedicated, weekly comic book club would be very popular. There are many different activities to choose from and many approaches…