Neil Patrick Harris may have hung up his five-inch pumps, but audiences are still lining up for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. According to figures from the Broadway League, the Tony-winning musical revival took in $648,738 for the week ending Aug. 24—the first with Book of Mormon alum Andrew Rannells in the cross-dressing title role. While that’s a steep drop from NPH’s final week, when the show grossed a whopping $1. Read More...
Andy Cohen prides himself on being a “gold star gay,” which means he’s never hooked up with a woman. However, that almost changed during a stop on his book tour — and he tells most of the story in his new book, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries. “It’s one of my favorite parts of the book because I think it’s fascinating to hear about what it’s like to do that,” the Watch What Happens Live host tells EW and PEOPLE Editorial Director Jess Cagle during an EW SiriusXM Town Hall interview that’s also the latest installment of The Jess Cagle Interview. Read More...
Had things turned out differently, it might have been Angela Bassett, not Halle Berry, baring all for ”Monster’s Ball” — and shedding copious tears on Oscar night as the first African-American to win a Best Actress trophy. But Bassett tells Newsweek that, despite a screen career drought, she turned the role down because she found the part demeaning. ”I wasn’t going to be a prostitute on film,” she says. (Not literally a prostitute — the character is a waitress who has an affair with her convict husband’s executioner. Read More...
