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Robert De Niro walked onto the stage at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night, where he received loud applause before he recited excerpts from a Philip Glass symphony about Abraham Lincoln. “Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence,” the Oscar-winning actor said as he recited a call for civility, as first spoken by Lincoln in 1838. “Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws.”De Niro was a featured performer at the 39th annual benefit concert for the non-profit cultural and educational organization, Tibet House US, where other artists, including Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Maya Hawke and Allison Russell, also appeared. ...

Justin Timberlake is taking legal action to block the release of police body camera footage of his 2024 arrest for driving while intoxicated (DWI) in the Hamptons in Long Island, N.Y. The pop star, 45, was arrested on the charges in Sag Harbor in June 2024 when police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh beach town.The SexyBack singer resolved the case with a plea deal in September 2024, pleading guilty to a lesser charge of a non-criminal traffic violation of driving while impaired. 4:29 Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving, urges caution Timberlake’s lawyers argued in a lawsuit filed Monday in Suffolk...

Television star Tejasswi Prakash has stepped into the OTT space with Psycho Saiyaan, marking a significant new chapter in her career. In the series, she plays Charu, a layered and calculating woman who finds herself entangled in a dangerous game with a menacing man named Huntry, played by Ravi Kishan, while also manipulating Anud Singh Dhaka’s character as part of her survival strategy. In an exclusive chat with Midday, Tejasswi opened up about sharing screen space with Ravi Kishan and how his unpredictable performance style kept her constantly on her toes. Tejasswi Prakash talks about working with Ravi Kishan “Huntry as a character is a very scary character. He’s so unpredictable. And especially being played by such a legend like Ravi Kishan. He’s done it so well,” she said, clearly in...

Hollywood is facing a new kind of star power with “AI actor” Tilly Norwood and the newly announced “Tillyverse,” a digital world where artificial intelligence characters can collaborate and build AI acting careers. Norwood’s creator Eline van der Velden, a Dutch producer and comedian, said she is planning a “rapid expansion” for her digital acting creation by building a universe around her.Van der Velden will be joined by Prime Video’s Mark Whelan as head of strategy of the Tillyverse and operations at her new AI talent studio Xiocia, Variety reports. 1:59 AI-generated ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood sparks Hollywood backlash Whelan will help create t...

Amazon has unveiled the first official look at its much-anticipated live-action adaptation of God of War, confirming that production is now underway in Vancouver and revealing the lead cast in costume for the first time. The newly released image features Ryan Hurst as Kratos, the formidable Spartan warrior turned god, alongside Callum Vinson as his young son Atreus. The series, commissioned by Amazon Prime Video, marks the first live-action retelling of the globally popular video game franchise.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by God of War (@godofwaronprime) As previously reported by Variety, the show will adapt the narrative arc of the two most recent God of War games, which follo...

Cher’s son Elijah Blue Allman was arrested on Friday for “acting belligerently” at a New Hampshire private high school, police say. Allman, 49, was charged with four misdemeanours and one violation: two counts of simple assault and one count each of criminal trespass and criminal threatening. Allman, whose father was the late musician Gregg Allman, was also charged with a violation of disorderly conduct, which is illegal in the state but not considered a crime.Concord police responded to reports that Allman, who reportedly had no association with the school, was disturbing people in the dining hall of St. Paul’s School around 7 p.m. local time on Friday. After charging Allman at Merrimack County Jail, police said he was released on bail as his case works through the court system. ...

Prime Video, India’s most loved entertainment destination, today announced March 13 as the worldwide premiere date of Aspirants Season 3, the next chapter of its well-acclaimed Hindi drama series. Created and produced by The Viral Fever, the series is directed by Deepesh Sumitra Jagdish and stars Naveen Kasturia, Shivankit Singh Parihar, Abhilash Thapliyal, Sunny Hinduja, Namita Dubey, and Tengam Celine, with Jatin Goswami as the newest addition to the cast.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by prime video IN (@primevideoin) Aspirants Season 3 The new season follows DM Abhilash across two timelines. In the present, an inquiry is initiated against him following allegations made by ALC ...

Somewhere in a box in my crawlspace is a silver first-gen iPod Nano, which was my gateway drug into the Apple universe. It’s probably tucked away with a first-gen iPod Touch. Sitting on a shelf in my home office are two old-school iPods. One is the red-and-white special U2 edition that I bought in October 2024. Next to it is a white fourth-generation unit, the first with the touch-sensitive click wheel, which I somehow acquired about 10 years ago. Elsewhere in the house, I have a couple of DVD players I no longer use, along with a Blu-ray player that got disconnected due to underuse. And back in the crawlspace is a Pioneer LaserDisk machine from some time around 1995, along with a cache of the massive 12-inch discs it used. I kept them out of sheer nostalgia. I consider them museum pieces ...

Netflix`s much-awaited manga-based series One Piece is set to get a theatrical release, a rare instance after Stranger Things. In line with the premiere of the show`s second season on the streamer on March 10, the first two episodes of One Piece: Into The Grand Line will be released in theatres on the same day, as per Variety. The special screening will be held in more than 200 theatres in the US, Canada, and Japan. A complete list of theatres and showtimes is now available on the Netflix site set up for the occasion. Participating theatres in the US are AMC Regal, Cinemark, Cineplax, and Alamo. Season 2 of One Piece focuses on "Luffy (Inaki Godoy), Zoro (Mackenyu), Nami (Emily Rudd), Usopp (Jacob Romero), and Sanji (Taz Skylar) travel to the Grand Line, a legendary stretch of sea wher...

A New Orleans judge has ordered actor Shia LaBeouf to enrol in drug and alcohol rehabilitation on Thursday after he was charged with two counts of battery over an alleged assault outside of a bar during Mardi Gras. Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Simone Levine ordered the 39-year-old actor to submit to weekly drug tests, including one on the spot in the courthouse, and set a US$100,000 bond. LaBeouf agreed, and his lawyer said the test did not show illegal substances in his system.The New Orleans Police Department previously said a staff member had attempted to remove LaBeouf from a business but said the actor hit one man several times with closed fists. They alleged the Transformers actor was causing a disturbance and becoming increasingly aggressive at a business on Royal Street earl...