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A coalition of some of New England’s biggest recording artists including Noah Kahan, Aimee Mann, The Pixies, Goose and Dropkick Murphys have penned a letter calling for Massachusetts to approve recently-introduced legislation that would place a cap on how much ticket scalpers are allowed to resell tickets for. “Live performance should not be a luxury,”…
When Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991, he was told he’d have another 10 years to act. Doctors said that the neurodegenerative disease’s impact would, before long, become too significant for him to perform in front of a camera. The Emmy and Golden Globe winner recounts this from his home in Long…
Stephen Curry changed the NBA (and won four championships) with a signature style of play: explosive three-point shots with lightning-fast release from seemingly anywhere on the court. But when it came time to make an impact off the court with their Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation, he and wife Ayesha Curry — who met as teenagers at their…
We’re less than 30 seconds into our conversation, and John Mayer already has me wondering whether I have his full attention. He has just climbed out of a Sprinter van and into an office beside the garden at his Chaplin Studios compound. After a quick handshake, he sits down and begins explaining what he calls…
A joke about President Donald Trump was cut from this year’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony, which began streaming on Netflix on Tuesday. But Netflix says you shouldn’t blame it for leaving it on the cutting room floor. The streaming giant has long had a reputation for letting its comics tell the jokes they want to…
In Hollywood, the Industry Experience Roster occupies a niche but crucial role. The list, administered by a nonprofit founded under collective bargaining agreements between the industry’s employers and unions since 1965, keeps track of certain types of freelance crewmembers on the West Coast — from grips to makeup artists to plumbers — with experience in…
Apple’s new pickleball movie, The Dink, drops on July 24. Produced by Ben Stiller (Dodgeball), directed by Josh Greenbaum (Spaceballs: The New One) and written by Sean Clements (Workaholics), this flick has an impressive comedy pedigree. Add in New Girl’s Jake Johnson, as former tennis prodigy Dusty Boyd, the always effervescent Mary Steenburgen as the…
In 1986, a fiberglass sculpture of a shark plunging headfirst into the roof of an ordinary-looking row house in the English town of Headington appeared as if out of nowhere. According to the artist who made it, John Buckley, and the owner of the home pierced by the shark, Bill Heine, the work was meant…
Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actress who played the character of Jia in two Godzilla vs. Kong franchise movies, has died. She was 18. TMZ was first to report on Hottle’s death in a car crash on Tuesday morning in Maryland, as confirmed by her father, Joshua Hottle. Coming from an all-deaf family, her dad also…
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) is continuing its push to invest in fresh narratives. The organization — a year-round nonprofit founded in 2007 and “dedicated to discovering, championing and advancing emerging filmmakers from around the world” — has expanded its NewNarratives initiative by increasing available grant funding to $35,000 and adding a new fellowship component backed…
