Two-time Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine has weighed in on the Oscars diversity controversy, saying in a recent interview that while he personally believes that one black actor in particular should have been nominated at this year’s ceremony, “you can’t vote for an actor because he’s black.”
Drenching storms brought on by the Pacific El Niño have succeeded in dramatically raising water levels at some of California’s largest reservoirs.
Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo says he will attend this year’s Academy Awards, but supports the growing boycott movement against the ceremony and hopes it “opens the way” for Hollywood to embrace the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Jada Pinkett Smith has responded after former “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” star Janet Hubert criticized the actress for boycotting next month’s Academy Awards over a lack of diversity among the acting nominees.
Television legend Norman Lear does not believe Donald Trump will become the next President of the United States.
Dozens of celebrities and activists have joined a new campaign aimed at derailing the presidential prospects of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and the “politics of hate and exclusion he represents.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has weighed in on the swirling controversy over this year’s Academy Awards, saying at a press conference on Tuesday that he “agrees” with the criticism that the Oscars lack diversity.
Spike Lee will skip the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood next month, opting instead to watch the New York Knicks take on the Miami Heat at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan — but in an interview Wednesday, the filmmaker said he “never meant to lead” a boycott movement against the awards show.
George Clooney has joined critics of this year’s Academy Awards, writing in an essay that with its lack of diversity among acting nominees, the Oscars are “moving in the wrong direction.”
The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling on all Americans to “tune out” of the 88th Academy Awards next month.
Four-year-old Salinas, California “whiz kid” Brielle Milla wowed the audience at The Ellen Show for a second time on Monday as she reeled off a series of facts about the periodic table of the elements, which she has memorized in
Snoop Dogg launched a profanity-laced tirade against the Academy Awards this week, saying he won’t be tuning into the “bulls–t” awards show this year.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said Monday she was “heartbroken” after the organization behind the Academy Awards nominated exclusively white actors in top acting acting categories for a second straight year, and vowed “big changes” were in store to combat what some critics call a major diversity problem at Hollywood’s biggest night.
The Pacific El Niño has battered California with much-needed rainstorms, leading to record rainfall in some areas–but state farmers are unlikely to see any water deliveries from federal agencies for a third straight year.
Director John Singleton defended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday in the wake of the renewed #OscarsSoWhite controversy, which saw the organization’s members nominate exclusively white actors in top acting categories for a second straight year.
Spike Lee will boycott this year’s Academy Awards after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated exclusively white actors in top categories for a second consecutive year.
Hollywood weighed in on social media during Sunday night’s Democrat presidential debate, with many progressive-minded celebrities loudly cheering for the insurgent Sen. Bernie Sanders as he squared off against Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley in South Carolina.
Young Disney Channel star Rowan Blanchard opened up about her sexuality over the weekend, publicly revealing in a series of Twitter posts that she identifies as queer.
Author Mitchell Zuckoff has fired back at CIA officials who say that the film based on his book 13 Hours represents a “distortion” of the events surround the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith became the latest celebrity to weigh in on the renewed #OscarsSoWhite controversy over the weekend, when she took to social media to ask if minorities should boycott the awards ceremony after the Academy nominated exclusively white actors in top categories for a second straight year.
A spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has sharply criticized Michael Bay’s latest film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, calling the film a “distortion of the events and people who served in Benghazi that night.”
Hulu has released the trailer for its latest original series, 11.22.63. Based on a book by Stephen King, 11.22.63 follows high school teacher Jake Epping (James Franco) as he travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John
“Cloverfield” fans got a nice surprise on Thursday as Paramount dropped the first trailer for a surprise sequel, “10 Cloverfield Lane.”
The first trailer for Sony Pictures’ Money Monster was released online this week.
Hollywood sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence disappointed the Internet last week when she was filmed scolding a reporter at last week’s Golden Globes for using his phone while conducting an interview with her – but fellow actress Anne Hathaway has jumped to Lawrence’s defense, saying her seemingly blunt comments were “taken out of context.”
Oregon folk singer James Twyman plans to travel to Syria next week to confront the mass-murdering terrorist group — with songs of peace.
A majority of California voters support an upcoming ballot measure that would strip funding from the high speed rail project and divert it toward new water storage projects, according to a poll released Thursday.
Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Inarritu says he feels sorry for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump—because Trump’s strong stance on illegal immigration stems “from ignorance.”
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight is in the midst of a box office meltdown, and one police union head claims the film’s financial failure is all due to a promised boycott from the boys in blue.
A leak Wednesday forced state water officials to shut down the California Aqueduct, the canal that delivers water from Northern California to tens of millions of residents and farms in Southern California. Water officials first discovered the leak on January 2
The Rev. Al Sharpton ripped Hollywood after the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, with black actors completely shut out of each of the four top acting categories for a second straight year.
Quentin Tarantino was snubbed by Academy voters Thursday, with the writer-director’s latest film, The Hateful Eight, failing to earn a nomination in any of the major categories at this year’s Academy Awards.
Transgender-themed Oscar favorite “The Danish Girl” has been pulled from cinemas in Qatar after the film failed to clear the country’s censor board.
Powerful surf brought on by El Niño has caused thousands of syringes to wash ashore at Santa Cruz beaches.
Hollywood was watching as President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Most celebrities heaped praise on the president and expressed regret that the address would be his last. Others took the opportunity to trash Republicans.
Ricky Gervais’ un-PC jokes at the Golden Globes predictably stirred up accusatory news reports in left-leaning media, who rushed to brand the comedian “transphobic” for poking fun at Bruce Jenner. But Gervais fired back at critics on Twitter.
Netflix has greenlit a 13-episode first season of “One Day At a Time,” an all-Latino reimagining of legendary producer Norman Lear’s classic 1970s sitcom.
CBS Entertainment’s reboot of the classic series Nancy Drew will feature a “diverse” actress in the lead role, an executive for the network said Thursday. CBS is reportedly not considering white actresses for the part.
A series of photographs taken by Mexican authorities and released Monday revealed that actor Sean Penn’s journey to a secret interview with drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was closely tracked by the country’s law enforcement agencies.
President Barack Obama recently met with rapper Kendrick Lamar in the White House’s Oval Office, where the two discussed topics including “the inner cities, the problems, the solutions” and “embracing the youth,” a new video released Monday revealed.
