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Harvey Weinstein due back in court, while a key witness weighs whether to testify at a retrial
By Pat Eaton-robb, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
Harvey Weinstein will appear in a New York City court next week, the first step in potentially retrying the film mogul after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned. New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has said it intends to pursue ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass
By Aleja Hertzler-mccain, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
(RNS) – One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father. At the time, Cuellar thought it was written by a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PEN America cancels World Voices Festival amid criticism of its response to Israel-Hamas war
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival, as the literary and free expression organization continues to face widespread unhappiness with its response to the Israel-Hamas war. Earlier this week, PEN called off its awards ceremony after nearly half of the finalists withdrew from contention. The festival, which brings in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mexican film wins top prize at Moscow International Film Festival while major studios boycott Russia
By The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
MOSCOW (AP) – A Mexican film has won the top prize Friday at the Moscow International Film Festival, which took place as major Western studios boycott the Russian market and as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds into its third year. “Shame,” a film by director Miguel Salgado and co-produced by Mexico and Qatar, was the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!#MeToo advocates vow the reckoning will continue after Weinstein’s conviction is overturned
By Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault survivors, found herself ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly ‘s challenge of 20-year sentence
By Kathleen Foody, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
CHICAGO (AP) – The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on three charges of producing child porn and three charges of enticement of minors for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!John Oates’ new album is called ‘Reunion.’ But don’t think Hall & Oates are getting back together
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – For many music fans, John Oates is most recognizable as one-half of the Grammy-nominated Hall & Oates, the multiplatinum soul-pop duo behind hits like “Rich Girl” and “Maneater” now riven by litigation. But he’s also had a full career as a soloist. His sixth solo album, “Reunion,” is out May 17. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After years of mystery, Jackie Shane tells her life story posthumously in new doc
By Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press on April 26th, 2024
TORONTO – A year before her death in 2019, Jackie Shane decided it was finally time to tell her life story. The trailblazing transgender soul singer was a mystery ever since vanishing from the spotlight in 1971 after dominating the Toronto music scene throughout the 1960s. For decades following her retirement, the Nashville-born artist lived ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chasing ‘Twisters’ and collaborating with ‘tornado fanatic’ Steven Spielberg
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
Growing up in the Midwest, filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung developed both a healthy fear of tornadoes and a reverence for Jan de Bont’s 1996 disaster film “Twister.” He saw the movie in the theater with his family when he was a teenager. “I remember thinking, “˜I didn’t know you could chase after these things,'” Chung ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jerry Seinfeld’s commitment to the bit
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Jerry Seinfeld has been responsible for more movies than you think. Yes, he co-wrote and lent his voice to 2007’s “Bee Movie.” But before that, “Seinfeld” – where going to the movies, with or without the aid of Moviefone, was nearly as regular a destination as the coffee shop – gave ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ director Paola Cortellesi talks success, toxic relationships and hope
By Martina Rebecca Inchingolo, The Associated Press on April 25th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Actor Paola Cortellesi has long been a staple on the Italian pop culture scene, mostly known for her work as a comedian. Then she turned to directing and her first feature movie, “There’s Still Tomorrow,” took Italy by storm. The black-and-white film about an ordinary woman trapped in a toxic marriage in ... Read More »
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