5 Hardest Wordle Words of 2023 Revealed (Three of Them Begin with the Letter 'J')

Naman Ramachandran Eimi Imanishi is thematically expanding her Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival winner, “Battalion to My Beat,” as a narrative feature film titled “Doha – The Rising Sun.” The film, written and directed by Imanishi, will follow Mariam, a young woman who is forced to return home to Western Sahara when she is deported from Europe. Adrift in the very place that was once her home, she desperately searches for the means to assert agency over her own life.

Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr and Roy Wood Jr. all had the same answer.Mark Normand.Normand, 40, isn’t new to the scene, though. The veteran comic cut his teeth performing multiple sets a night for years at bars, clubs and theaters all over New York City.And now, the hardest working comic’s hard work is paying off.In July 2023, Netflix released Normand’s latest one-hour special ‘Soup To Nuts’ and next he’s embarking on his nationwide ‘Ya Don’t Say Tour’ this winter which includes back-to-back shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Friday, Jan.

The New York Times has revealed some fun statistics for Wordle players!

The Legend family is giving fans an inside look into their Christmas festivities!

Just days before Christmas, Timothée Chalamet is heading out to run some errands!

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The time has come for former President Barack Obama to share his end-of-year lists, and for his millions of followers on social media to speculate whether he really watched all those movies, read all those books, listened to all of those songs and binged all those shows.As I usually do during this time of year, I wanted to share my favorite books, movies, and music of 2023.First up, here are the books I've enjoyed reading.

Oppenheimer”).During the simultaneous Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes, the sagging box office was boosted, like NFL ratings and the economy of East Rutherford, New Jersey, by Taylor Swift.Marvel Studios, which used to be the surest thing in Hollywood, began to underperform (“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”) and then downright flop (“The Marvels”).And DC was revealed to actually stand for Dud Central, with all of the studio’s comic-book films of 2023 (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash” and “Blue Beetle”) turning out to be financial failures.In a win for Gen Z, studio execs determined Zendaya’s star wattage is so huge now that two of her movies — “Dune: Part 2” and “Challengers” — were delayed a year due to the strikes, so she can promote them to her hoards of fans. And baby boomers were dinged by the big-time tanking of the nostalgic “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” starring a now 81-year-old Harrison Ford who schlepped around New York and Europe.Despite all the madness — and a sea of schlock — some excellent films hit theaters this year.

, and dominating social-media feeds—the physical embodiment of The Girl is . This year we’ve seen her nail many of these niche looks by adding her own coquettish spin to every outfit she wears.

Angela Bassett will star as the President in an upcoming Netflix series!

Netflix has a new YA hit on its hands with My Life With The Walter Boys.

Selome Hailu Netflix has renewed “My Life With the Walter Boys” for a second season. The series is based on a WattPad novel of the same name by Ali Novak, which has since been published as a book. The coming of age story that follows fifteen-year-old Manhattanite Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) after losing her family in a tragic accident.

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Dan Stevens (Legion), Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit) and McKinley Belcher III (Ozark) are among the new cast revealed for Netflix‘s Zero Day. The limited series will also feature Gaby Hoffman (Transparent), Clark Gregg (Painkiller) and Mark Ivanir (Away) in guest-starring roles.

cause of death has been revealed, nearly two months after he was found dead at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home on Oct. 28.

The new season of RuPaul‘s Drag Race has set up an all-star lineup to guest judge Season 16, including Oscar winner Charlize Theron, music star Becky G and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer alum Sarah Michelle Gellar.

George Clooney steps out to attend the New York screening of his new movie, The Boys In The Boat!

Jack Black made a surprise appearance at the Jonas Brothers‘ concert in New York last night (December 9), to perform ‘Peaches’ from The Super Mario Bros. Movie.The track, which is sung by Black’s character Bowser in the movie, entered the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.During the intermission at last night’s show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Black came onstage dressed as Bowser and sang Peaches live.

The topics covered on Bill Maher‘s Real Time on Friday were no laughing matter – inflation, crime, the suppression of free speech, the war in Ukraine, antisemitism on campus.

the Jonas Brothers hit the ultimate home run when they opened their 2023 North American trek, simply called The Tour, with two sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium in August.But for another local sibling act that has been opening for the JoBros — Lawrence, fronted by Clyde Lawrence and his younger sister Gracie — there were mixed emotions about making their stadium debut at the home of the Bronx Bombers.“It was definitely pretty crazy to play a New York staple like that,” Gracie told The Post. “On the other hand, we are diehard Mets fan, so it felt borderline wrong.”Still, the Manhattan natives were able to put aside their Big Apple baseball allegiances — at least for two nights — to set the stage for the “Sucker” trio.“I mean, not only is it such a famous venue and such a big deal as New Yorkers, but with it also being the first shows of the tour and by far the biggest crowds we’d ever played to … it felt like the first day of school times a million or something,” said Clyde.Following two nights at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, Clyde, Gracie and the rest of their soul-pop octet — which just released the new single “23” — will be rounding back to home base for the final US date on the Jonas Brothers tour Saturday at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.“It’s gonna be awesome,” said Clyde.

The Darkness have paid tribute to the late Shane MacGowan at a recent show in Dublin by leading the crowd through a sing-along of The Pogues’ signature song, ‘Fairytale of New York’. At the band’s show at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on December 3, they performed the cover towards the end of the set, with frontman Justin Hawkins singing minimally, frequently pointing the microphone towards the crowd as an invitation to lead the sing-along, against sporadic guitar accompaniment.The band posted a clip of the performance on X yesterday (December 7), writing: “Thanks for the sing-a-long Dublin.

50 Cent is making a new documentary about Diddy and the assault allegations against him.