Author name: Rebecca Ramos

The Israeli and Palestinian directors behind “No Other Land” aren’t alone in their disappointment in the film academy’s lackluster response to the recent attack on and detainment of Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal. A letter touting support from 600 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — including multiple Oscar winners — condemned […]

Brooke Hogan — the actor and reality-star daughter of Hulk Hogan and his first wife, Linda — accused her parents of abuse Wednesday after her mom posted a video of herself sobbing over her dysfunctional family. “I have to be honest about what I went through in my marriage with Terry as Hulk Hogan and

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Chairman Brendan Carr said Friday. The investigation will “ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr

When Ridley Scott, visionary director of “Alien,” “Blade Runner” and “Gladiator,” connects with your story, it’s probably a good idea to explore it in any medium possible. “Modville,” a four-issue neo-noir graphic novel set in New Orleans in 2169 that unfolds in a world of crime and artificial humans (known as mods), was just that

Selena’s family is “grateful” that the young singer’s killer, Yolanda Saldívar, was denied parole Thursday in Texas. Saldívar, 64, is serving a life sentence for the March 31, 1995, murder that took place at a Corpus Christi hotel after the singer, whose last name was Quintanilla-Pérez, accused friend Saldívar of embezzling $30,000. The older woman

Role Model answered the phone while pacing around a Holiday Inn Express gym. The 27-year-old singer explained that he was trying to get a workout in before his Tampa, Fla., show later that night. Born Tucker Pillsbury, the in-demand musician was about two-thirds of the way through his tour’s North American leg. While talking about

In the early 1990s, Kelvin Anderson Sr. built a makeshift recording studio in the back of his Long Beach record store, a vinyl-filled paradise called the World Famous VIP Records on the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. He wanted to give youth a creative outlet in the gang ridden

For nearly seven decades, Elaine Pagels has wrestled with the question: “Why religion?” At age 15, she found herself among thousands in Candlestick Park, electrified by the words of evangelist Billy Graham. The theology scholar to be was entranced, “overcome with tears … praising God for all the souls being saved that day.” Being born

“We’ve decided to go in a different direction” was the standard line Hollywood casting director Tess Sanchez delivered for more than 20 years. Post-auditions, the phrase served as a gentle letdown for actors. Then, in 2020, Sanchez found herself on the receiving end of rejection after losing her beloved job. Rather than submit to defeat,

Matt Bomer is funny. Quite funny, in fact. You’d be forgiven for not really associating the “White Collar” and “Fellow Travelers” actor with having a funny bone, though. “I have friends who I went to college with who were shocked when I immediately started working in drama,” he tells me. “They’re like, ‘Whoa, what’s happening?’”