By Emlyn Travis It’s mid-afternoon on a sizzling September day in 2019 when the actress Florence Pugh sweeps into the press tent at Pinewood Studios, positioned in a rural city outdoors London, with a secret weapon: a bundle of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. “Would you like one?” she goads, outstretching the open bag towards a…
On paper, Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X made an surprising pair — a Japanese American mom of six and a firebrand Muslim minister and Black nationalist. However their temporary friendship, interrupted by his assassination in 1965, sheds mild on the multi-racial cooperation of the civil rights movement and the broader battle in opposition to racial injustice…
South Korean indie studio Extra In Group is utilizing Hong Kong FilMart to launch its new characteristic movie challenge “19 39.” Director Park Jae-ho is setting a fast turnaround for the comedy-drama film which has not but been filmed, however which he plans to launch in summer time this yr. The story, written by Kim…
Natalie Wooden’s first style of fame got here as a toddler when she scored the lead function in 1947’s Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue. She would develop as much as develop into a three-time Academy Award-nominated actress, however her mysterious 1981 dying has develop into her lasting legacy. Pioneering homosexual author Mart Crowley would additionally entice worldwide fame…
When Aretha Franklin was inducted into the second class of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1987, she had a well-recognized face by her facet: fellow inductee and lifelong pal Smokey Robinson. It was reasonably symbolic that the 2 youngsters from Detroit, who grew up enjoying video games within the neighborhood collectively, had each…
Lengthy uncredited, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera have been the vanguard of the fashionable transgender motion, preventing for the suitable to gender self-identify when social and prison persecution of homosexual folks was nonetheless frequent within the state of New York within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s. Bars have been banned from promoting alcoholic drinks…