Paul Mooney, the comedian, writer and actor known for his close collaborations with Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle, has died at the age of 79. Mooney died Wednesday at 5:30 a.m. at his home in Oakland, California, his representative confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was provided. …
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ABC has released a new teaser for its upcoming reboot of the coming-of-age series, The Wonder Years, which is set to premiere this fall. Like the original show, the reboot of The Wonder Years will start in 1968, but will instead center around a black family in Montgomery, Alabama, rather …
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A computer screen chimes to life. Windows proliferate. Notifications ping. Video-call boxes pop up, tabs multiply, messenger apps ticker endlessly, a stream of bite-size demands for attention. And in the middle of it all, an increasingly frantic, Extremely Online female freelance journalist with money worries and a deadline to meet, …
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On an overcast Thursday evening in April, Sam Jay settles into a booth at New York’s storied Comedy Cellar. She’s wearing a sweatshirt featuring a photo of Kobe Bryant clutching the 2001 NBA Finals trophy, and her short hair is hidden under a fitted Lakers cap. It’s dim and the …
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Dogecoin had a rough night, and so did comedy. Elon Musk was one of the most anticipated Saturday Night Live hosts in recent years, just because his booking was so divisive and derided. Many fans were openly hoping for a live-from-New-York disaster. But instead, it turned out to be a …
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“I’ll bet you I can rob a casino,” Allie Fox tells his wife Margot midway through the first season of the Apple TV+ drama The Mosquito Coast. This is a mark both of how desperate their circumstances are and how highly Allie regards his ability to accomplish what others call …
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ABC News will air a two-hour20/20special on the life of George Floyd this Friday, April 23rd at 9:00 p.m. EST. The special will feature interviews with the friends and family of Floyd, including Gianna Floyd, his youngest daughter. “I see myself as being a black girl and being a black …
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Back in 2019, when showrunner George Kay was fleshing out the protagonist for a new crime show inspired by Arsène Lupin — the “gentleman thief” at the center of a popular series of early-1900s novels by French author Maurice Leblanc — there was one quality he knew his hero would …
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Jessica Walter shone inevery role she took on, from Malory Archer onArcherto the mom onDinosaurs. But if one gig forever endeared her to audiences, it was her turn as Lucille Bluth on the Ron Howard–narrated cult favorite,Arrested Development. Lucille was the scary mom you never had. She was mean and …
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George Segal, whose decades-spanning acting career included earning an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to portraying Albert “Pops” Solomon on The Goldbergs, died on Tuesday, Variety reports. He was 87. His wife, Sonia, confirmed the news. “The family is devastated to announce that …
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