There are plenty of potential pathways for child stars to take, from cautionary tales to well-adjusted adults. Madisyn Shipman, who starred on Nickelodeon's Game Shakers from 2015 to 2019, is taking a non-traditional approach, earning her living as a content creator on Playboy's digital platform designed to rival OnlyFans. Shipman, now 20, told Fox News Digital that the experience has allowed her to shed some of the sexual repression that she believes is part and parcel of being a child star and being forced to maintain a childlike identity well into her teen years. Read More...
Granted, as a white woman over 25, I’m not the intended core audience for Four Brothers. Still, I refuse to believe I’m a completely dispensable slice of the projected demographic pie. After all, I’ve got an abiding affection for the wily chameleon Mark Wahlberg, who stars; a building excitement about charismatic André Benjamin from OutKast, who made such an electrifying acting turn in Be Cool and who costars; and a scholarly interest in the quick rise and stalled artistic development of John Singleton, who directs. Read More...
Fox is developing another drama with a brilliant but self-destructive professional as the lead — but this time, he’ll be a lawyer instead of a doctor. The network has ordered the pilot RAKE, a drama based on a hit Australian series about a criminal defense lawyer named Cleaver Greene. Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets) is attached to star and to executive produce the series about a brilliant, iconoclastic and innately self-destructive man who has “a mind-numbing lack of discretion and a total inability to pause before speaking his mind,” according to a project logline. Read More...
