President Joe Biden told Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an immediate ceasefire was needed in Gaza “to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians,” the White House said today.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Issa Rae and Deniese Davis co-founded ColorCreative is expanding its management ranks again.
Literary manager and producer Neda Niroumand is joining the company as a Manager/Producer.
“I am delighted to welcome Neda Niroumand to the ColorCreative team,” says Talitha Watkins, president of the management and production shingle. “With her incredible taste and impressive track record of recognizing and nurturing emerging talent, her addition will bolster our commitment to fostering diverse voices and producing inclusive content,” Watkins added.
A former literary manager at LINK and a partner at Equitable Mgmt, Niroumand will report to the ColorCreative president. In her role at ColorCreative, Niroumand will. In her new role play to her strengths crafting and shepherding the works of writers, directors, and “multi-hyphenate talent,” according to the company,
With a client roster that includes the likes of Black Box director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, documentarian and producer Jan Oxenberg, Morrisa Maltz, and Linda Burstyn, Niroumand was a part of the team that developed the Danny Syrkin co-created Tehran TV series.
Actually born in the Iranian megacity and raised in Paris, Niroumand is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton, and the Short Fiction Film program at UCLA.
Insecure co-creator Rae started ColorCreative in 2014, with former CAA Motion Picture agent Watkins joining in the summer of 2020 as president of the management component.
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President Joe Biden told Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an immediate ceasefire was needed in Gaza “to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians,” the White House said today.
One day after José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen confirmed that seven of its team providing food in Gaza were killed in an Israel Defense Forces strike, President Biden called Andrés personally to tell the celebrity chef he was “heartbroken” by the news.
Brett Gelman admits that the online vitriol he has received for his support of Israel and Jewish people is frightening.“Am I scared? Absolutely,” he told The Post in a recent interview. “I think I’d be insane not to be scared.”Gelman, 47, added that he is “taking all the necessary precautions” he can, but he refuses to cower.“I also just think that we need to face our fear and not follow our fear in this situation,” he opined.
Charli XCX’s ‘PARTYGIRL’ set at Boiler Room in February has been released – watch the video below.Charli’s latest appearance at Boiler Room went down on February 22, and it saw her airing a number of new and unreleased tracks, as well as her latest single ‘Von Dutch’.The set took place in a warehouse in Bushwick, New York, and it featured artists including Doss and Easyfun, before Charli played a set that also included classic hits like ‘Vroom Vroom’.Watch the full set here:Other performers on the night included Julia Fox and Addison Rae. A.G.
Melissa Barrera is speaking out.
screaming into the void. Melissa Barrera was fired from the rebooted “Scream” franchise months ago, but the fallout is still difficult to process of her. “It’s definitely hard, because I was just in such a cloudy state of mind, but I was very fortunate,” Barrera, 33, told The Hollywood Reporter through tears in an interview published on Thursday.
Charli XCX has announced a string of live shows for her upcoming album ‘Brat’, including a series of ‘PARTYGIRL’ DJ shows – see where she’s stopping by below.The popstar is preparing to drop her sixth studio album ‘Brat‘ in the summer, and has now released dates for a number of shows across the world.These include ‘Brat’ live shows, which appear to play the upcoming record, and DJ shows she’s named ‘PARTYGIRL’. New York, Chicago and LA will have ‘Brat’ shows, whilst London, Mexico City and São Paulo will hold ‘PARTYGIRL’ DJ shows.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk‘s X against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, ruling it was “evident” the litigation was intended “to punish CCDH for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp.” X, the Musk-owned social network formerly known as Twitter, in July 2023 sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an independent nonprofit research group, over the organization’s findings that since the multibillionaire acquired the company hate, racism and disinformation on the social platform has substantially increased. Musk has not commented on X about the decision.
With creator Sam Levinson still working on scripts for the upcoming third season of HBO’s Euphoria, filming plans have been temporarily put on hold, with the cast given permission to take other acting jobs in the interim.
Actor Beau Bridges is being honored in a place of special significance to his family.
Melissa Gilbert had a ready answer when asked why fans of Little House on the Prairie always seem to burst into tears whenever they see her in person.
Home and Away legend Melissa George has welcomed her third child at the age of 47.The actress is best known for her role as Angel Parrish in the hit Australian soap. New mum Melissa gushed that her "heart is so full" after she gave birth to a baby boy earlier this month. She announced the arrival of her little one by sharing a sweet black-and-white snap of her newborn's tiny feet.
Thania Garcia The rise of música Mexicana has been one of the more unexpected movements in the music world: While it was the fastest-growing Latin subgenre of 2023, per research data company Luminate, the genre is centuries old, and rooted in traditional guitar-based melodies that many of música Mexicana’s most promising young artists — including Peso Pluma, Eslabon Armado, Xavi, Ivan Cornejo, Yahritza Y Su Esencia and Conexión Divina — likely first heard coming out of their parents’ stereos. Except for Peso, all of those artists have something else in common, a rarity in regional Mexican music: female managers. The California-based quartet Eslabon Armado, whose smash duet with Peso Pluma, “Ella Baila Sola,” became the first song in the genre’s history to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 (and was Variety’s Hitmakers No.
Two Shell have teamed up with FKA Twigs to share a new club-ready version of the track ‘Talk To Me’.The new release comes following Two Shell dropping various new versions of the single previously – including a karaoke version and various iterations featuring vocals from different artists.Now, with their collaboration with FKA Twigs, the latest edition of the song is arguably their most ecstatic take on ‘Talk To Me’ yet, and sees the duo create a high-octane slice of club-pop.It marks Twigs’ – real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett – first musical appearance since 2022, and features her providing dizzying yet emotional vocals to the song.“With ‘Talk To Me’, Two Shell and FKA Twigs have created a formula for hard-hitting electronic pop that cuts through the digital noise to reveal an irresistibly emotional heart at its core,” reads a press release. “Expertly synthesised euphoria at its finest, ‘Talk To Me’ sets the stage for a modern club anthem – one that is sure to create moments of joy both IRL and URL for years to come.”Check it out below.For Two Shell, the collaboration comes ahead of their upcoming performance at this year’s Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California on April 14 and 21.As for FKA Twigs, the avant-garde singer has turned her sights towards acting in recent months, and is set to star alongside Bill Skarsgård in the upcoming reboot of The Crow.
Christopher Vourlias Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi‘s “My Stolen Planet,” an intimate family portrait of life during Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival on Sunday, bringing a close to an emotional and politically charged week in Greece’s second city. Using both the director’s personal archives and 8mm recordings of strangers’ lives, the film — which world premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama strand — uses an essayistic style to present the joy and vitality of life in Tehran in the 1970s, in contrast with the oppression imposed on the Iranian people by the country’s hardline regime.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has already confessed he would prefer to avoid Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain in today's Champions League quarter-final draw.
The General Hospital community is mourning the loss of one of its beloved members: Robyn Bernard has been found dead.
to a press release from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.The actress, who played Terry Brock in the long-running soap opera, was declared dead at 4:08 a.m.The coroner’s office identified Bernard using her fingerprints following a call to police for a death investigation, according to TMZ.An autopsy was scheduled to be performed on Wednesday but toxicology results could take weeks, the outlet reported.Foul play is not suspected in her death.Bernard was born on May 26, 1959 in Gladewater, Texas before she started an acting career, appearing in several small TV roles including on “Diva,” “Simon & Simon” and “Betty Blue.”In 1984, she was cast on “General Hospital” as Terry Brock, aka Terry O’Connor, where she held the role for 145 episodes until she departed from the show in 1990.Other projects Bernard worked on included appearances on “Whiz Kids,” “The Facts of Life,” “Tour of Duty” and “Kings for a Day.”Bernard starred as a psychologist in “Voices from High School” in 2002, which would come to be her final credited role, and has since remained out of the Hollywood spotlight.
Mount Kimbie have teamed up with their longtime collaborator King Krule on their latest single ‘Empty And Silent’.The six-minute track is the latest offering from the group – comprised of Lynchpin duo Dominic Maker and Kai Campos alongside Andrea Balency-Béarn and Marc Pell – forthcoming LP ‘The Sunset Violent’. ‘Empty And Silent’ follows the previously released single ‘Fishbrain’.‘Empty And Silent’ sees King Krule – real name Archy Marshall – sing over a bright, picturesque beat featuring a pulsing bass line, clean guitar riff and crisp drumming. Directed by Gregory Prestön, the track’s accompanying visualiser features clips of the sky, highways, flowers and tiles.Mount Kimbie and King Krule have previously worked together on the group’s tracks ‘You Took Your Time’ and ‘Meter, Pale, Tone’ from their 2013 LP ‘Cold Spring Fault Less Youth’.
Angelique Jackson DC Young Fly, Issa Rae and “A Black Lady Sketch Show” joined the list of early winners at the 2024 NAACP Image Awards. DC Young Fly picked up two awards during the second of three nights of virtual Image Awards ceremonies, hosted by Khleo Thomas.