Ricky Martin mourned the victims of Sunday’s Orlando, Florida massacre — where a single gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 at a gay nightclub during its Latin Night — in an essay titled “I Will Never Cease to Fight for Love.” “The tragedy that occurred in Orlando hurts me in so many ways,” Martin wrote. “It hurts me as a man, as a human being, and as a gay person, because so many of the victims were brothers and sisters of the LGBT community. Read More...
For 14 years, 32-year-old Riley Weston was just another struggling actress in Hollywood, going nowhere fast. Tired of waiting for the perfect part, she created it instead: teen writing prodigy on Felicity, The WB’s hit about an 18-year-old college freshman. She aced the part, too, delivering an Oscar-worthy performance capable of fooling a powerful studio (Disney), a network, a talent agency (United Talent Agency), and numerous publications, including this one (she appeared on our It List last June). Read More...
Horror movies are like pornography — what does it for me may not do it for you, and the reason is best left to psychiatrists. That said, Gore Verbinski’s sadistic ”The Ring scared the bejesus out of me in theaters last year, so it was with some trepidation that I screened the widely hailed-as-superior 1998 Japanese original, Ringu, about that cursed video that kills all unlucky enough to watch it. (And no, it doesn’t star Eddie Murphy. Read More...
