Monday, April 15, 2024
If ever a big Broadway musical featured a show-stopping number set in a lesbian bar, I missed it. Kissing and hugging women, plus a few crossdressing men, finally take the spotlight in the new musical “Lempicka,” which opened Sunday at the Longacre Theatre. I didn’t have to wait quite so long to see a musical number set in a gay bar. For me, that momentous moment came in the 1970 musical “Applause,” based on the movie “All About Eve,” in which Margo Channing (in the person of Lauren Bacall) holds court at one. Followers of Sappho, welcome to the world…
Sunday, April 14, 2024
“SNL” is known for having cast members and hosts chuckle a bit here and there during sketches, but this week, Ryan Gosling and his co-stars fully lost it during a “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch to the point that the actors were barely able to get their lines out. The sketch centered on a NewsNation town hall, in which Heidi Gardner played a host interviewing Kenan Thompson’s fake “expert” on A.I. But, as the interview got started, Thompson was distracted by a man in the audience just over the host’s shoulder, who looked very similar to Beavis, from “Beavis and Butt-Head.”…
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvias, 31, was on her way to see family when a witness filmed her being kidnapped at gunpoint. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Jimmy Fallon joked on Friday’s episode of “The Tonight Show” that he got his hands on Donald Trump’s tax returns. Obviously, that’s because Monday is April 15, which is when taxes are due (unless you filed for an extension). And Fallon joked that the information on Trump’s tax returns is, indeed, “pretty gross,” particularly his selling Trump-branded bibles. “Everyone’s working on their taxes and get this, we actually got our hands on former President Trump’s tax return,” Fallon said in his monologue. “It’s, it’s pretty interesting. Take a look. First up under ‘gross income.’ He wrote ‘selling Bibles for $60.’…
Friday, April 12, 2024
A South Carolina police officer is accused of killing a man who was trying to drive away after the two exchanged blows in a Chick-fil-A parking lot. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Friday, April 12, 2024
Like a lot of people, Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t particularly sad on Thursday about the death of OJ Simpson. And during his monologue, after declaring that the former football star acquitted of murdering his ex wife “went to Hell,” Kimmel joked “Turns out, not much different than Florida. “It’s rare that a celebrity as famous as OJ was doesn’t get an outpouring of love after news of his death, Kimmel continued. “But it makes sense. This was from his old friend, former very good friend. Caitlyn Jenner tweeted: ‘Good Riddance #OJSimpson.’” “Bruce Jenner loved OJ. Caitlyn, not a fan,” Kimmel added….
Friday, April 12, 2024
A judge has turned down a request to release a Wisconsin woman from a psychiatric hospital, a decade after she nearly killed a girl at age 12. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Thursday, April 11, 2024
During his monologue on Wednesday, Stephen Colbert touched on Donald Trump’s latest criminal trial. And “The Late Show” host was particularly delighted by reports that the prosecutors in this trial might want his fans on the jury. “Trump’s criminal trial starts here in New York on Monday,” Colbert said, by which he means, the trial over the hush money Trump paid to Stormy Daniels. “The first read first order of business is jury selection. Reportedly, Trump’s lawyers want a jury that includes public employees like police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers,” Colbert said. “Well, sanitation workers make sense and they’re…
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker is accused of ignoring multiple reports that a 6-year-old had a gun. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Stephen Colbert was gleeful on Tuesday’s episode of “The Late Show” about the rapid decline of Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social. It’s happened so fast, Colbert joked, the only thing that compares would be gambling addicts being looted by online gambling. For those catching up, the right wing social media channel’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, has had a drastic drop in value since going public. So much so that on Tuesday, it dropped to below $3 billion, which temporarily knocked Trump off of Bloomberg’s list of the 500 richest people. “Usually, to lose money that fast,…