Riverdale fans are hyper-focused on the relationships that play out onscreen between the various stars in the beloved CW series. However, the actors lead equally exciting lives in reality!
22.11.2023 - 16:13 / variety.com
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Russell Tovey wants you to know who David Robilliard was. He was a queer British poet and visual artist who died of AIDS in 1988 when he was just 36 years old. “I first learned about David at the ICA in London,” the “American Horror Story” star tells Variety, speaking from his London-area home.
“There was a small exhibition there. Then he sort of was on my mind a lot. Then at the start of the pandemic, I rediscovered his writing poetry.
I was so moved because I connected to it straightaway. It was written all through the late ‘80s, but it resonated with me now. I was like, ‘Why do we not know more about him?’ His art was so proudly queer and about love and jealousy and pain and loneliness and what it is to be gay.
It was so outwardly queer at the time when you just didn’t do that. He was so proudly queer.” Tovey tells Robilliard’s story in “Life Is Excellent,” his new documentary from WePresent, the editorial and digital arts platform of WeTransfer. Tovey is WePresent’s 2023 guest curator.
Earlier this year, he produced live readings in the U.K. of “Blue,” Derek Jarman’s last feature film before he passed from AIDS-related illness in 1994 at age 52. As Tovey explains in the film, he was just about a decade away from being a young man during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
“If I’d been born 10 years earlier, I might have known David,” Tovey, 42, says. “I might have slept with him, I might have been him. I miss him and I don’t even know him.
Riverdale fans are hyper-focused on the relationships that play out onscreen between the various stars in the beloved CW series. However, the actors lead equally exciting lives in reality!
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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events While the LGTBQ rights movement has made tremendous strides since that first rock was thrown at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969, there are still many areas of the U.S. where the queer community doesn’t feel safe. In the new Hulu documentary, “We Live Here: The Midwest,” director Melina Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller chronicle queer families living in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Ohio.
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Warning: This article contains details and accusations of sexual and physical abuse50 Cent is reportedly working on a documentary about the recent sexual assault allegations around Diddy.Following a two-decade long, on-and-off feud between the two rappers, reports have now surfaced that 50 Cent is making a TV documentary about the numerous claims facing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.While it’s yet to be confirmed or denied by the ‘Candy Shop’ rapper, Page Six has reported that a new project is already in production from the artist’s G-Unit film and TV production company.Combs was accused of rape and physical abuse by ex-girlfriend Cassie last month, before they settled the lawsuit one day after it was formally filed.Since then, Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in an act of “revenge porn” in a new lawsuit, before a third accuser filed claims of sexual assault against the rapper.“These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago and filed at the last minute,” a spokesperson for Combs wrote in a statement to PEOPLE in the wake of the third allegation. “This is nothing but a money grab.
John Lennon have been revealed by the concierge working at the front desk of the building where the Beatles guitarist was shot at.The new Apple TV+ documentary series, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial – which investigates Lennon’s shooting by an obsessed fan named Mark David Chapman on December 8 1980 – shared the moment in which the ‘Beautiful Boy’ singer was shot and what he said shortly after.Jay Hastings was working as a concierge on the front desk at the Dakota building on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York, where Lennon and his family lived and where he was shot outside of. He recalled in the documentary: “He runs past me.
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John Lennon‘s murderer reportedly apologised after shooting him dead, according to a witness interviewed for a new Apple TV+ docuseries.First announced in October, John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial will land on the streamer on December 6 and examines the pre-meditated crime and its aftermath by troubled fan Mark David Chapman, who fatally shot the former Beatle outside of his New York City apartment block on December 8, 1980. The three-part series is narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland.The makers of Murder Without A Trial were “granted extensive Freedom of Information Act requests from the New York City Police Department, the Board of Parole and the District Attorney’s office” and features interviews with Lennon’s friends and Chapman’s defence lawyers, psychiatrists, detectives and prosecutors.
EXCLUSIVE: Catfish Jean (To Leslie) is set for a key recurring role in American Sports Story, Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc., Deadline has learned.
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Hulu has acquired rights to “The Contestant,” a documentary about an aspiring comedian who unknowingly becomes the most famous TV star in Japan. Clair Titley directed the movie, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. “The Contestant” will launch on Hulu in 2024.
Russell T Davies is promising surprises are in store in upcoming episodes of Doctor Who!
Bobby Brazier has been dazzling the Strictly Come Dancing audience with his beaming smile and infectious personality ever since he stepped foot in the ballroom with professional dance partner Dianne Buswell.
Actress Paula Lane has joined the cast of Emmerdale and will be making her on screen debut in a matter of months. 37 year old Paula, who viewers may recognise for previously playing Kylie Platt on Coronation Street, is set to take on the role of Ella Forster who finds herself out of a job after sticking up for Mandy Dingle while at a Veterinary Ball, with ITV calling the character “compassionate and caring”.
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Ellise Shafer Daniel Radcliffe almost made his directorial debut with the documentary “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived,” about his “Harry Potter” stunt double who was left paralyzed after a tragic on-set accident. At the London premiere of the HBO and Sky doc, Radcliffe Zoomed in from New York City — where he’s currently starring in the Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” — for a Q&A with Holmes and director Dan Hartley, in which he revealed that he initially set out to helm the film himself. “I had always wanted to do something about Dave because I wanted to share him with the world for the person that he is.
A series of huge revelations have been made about the day the late Queen Elizabeth passed away in September 2022.