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Just a week away from the production set to start in New York, its star Cardi B has just pulled out of the Assisted Living cast. The remaining cast and crew were just informed that the comedy has been temporarily canceled, according to Deadline, who broke the story.  The $30 …

Photo: Adobestock When I put down my deposit for an upcoming getaway to Jamaica with my homegirls, I realized a true and official summer was on its way. We haven’t seen one of those for real since 2019, and as my girls and I joked about the summer loves we’d …

Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) practices with the team during NFL football practice Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Houston.Photo: Justin Rex (AP) Deshaun Watson won’t be heading to trial–or jail–following an investigation on sexual assault allegations by multiple women. The Houston Texans quarterback, who missed all of last season while …

There’s a thin line between success and burnout, and it’s a tightrope former CNN Senior Producer Elise Roberts tried to balance before she took a leap into a new career to save herself. Roberts understood sometimes jumping into the unknown is safer than staying where you are. Even though she …

The union of the filmmaker Kogonada and the actor Colin Farrell might not have seemed obvious at first glance. Kogonada’s debut film, the excellent 2017 indie Columbus, is told with quiet remove—the camera is often placed quite a distance away from the lead actors (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson). …

One of the busiest women in show business just launched another project. Actually, it’s a relaunch; Gabrielle Union’s successful collaboration with plus-size specialists Fashion to Figure is back with a size-inclusive spring capsule collection. Photo: Fashion to Figure “There shouldn’t be a divide in what’s offered to straight-size customers versus plus,” …

Basketball Wives alum Royce Reed was released from jail shortly after turning herself in for felony child neglect. On Friday, Reed was charged with third-degree felony neglect of a child in a case involving her 14-year-old son, Braylon, whom she shares with NBA star Dwight Howard, Radar Online reports. The …

Samuel L. Jackson in “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” premiering globally March 11, 2022 on Apple TV+.Photo: Courtesy of AppleTV+ If the saying is true that “all a man is, is what he remembers,” then the very vivid—and at times very fleeting—memories of Ptolemy Grey’s life, as shown in …

Kyiv is burning. I am struggling to explain this to my young children; they know that I wrote a book about the 2013–14 Ukrainian revolution on the Maidan, Kyiv’s central square. They were too small then to understand that their parents’ friends and colleagues were being shot at by snipers. …

Several people who worked with Sean Combs on the MTV reality TV series Making the Band have recently taken to social media to air out their grievances against the Bad Boy executive. Diddy was in the crosshairs of Making the Band member Freddy P last week when he admitted to …