Every child of the ’90s remembers Cool Runnings, the 1993 sports comedy movie about an underdog team of Jamaican bobsledders who train to compete at the Winter Olympics. The movie, which was directed by Jon Turteltaub and starred Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, and John Candy, was loosely based on the real 1988 Jamaican bobsled team,…… MORE
Chicago singer R. Kelly’s lawyers asked to delay filing post-trial motions because the former R&B star was diagnosed with COVID. Read More From abc7chicago.com… MORE
The NAACP released a letter Tuesday calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to move forward with federal charges against Jason Van Dyke and to provide an update on any federal investigation, days before the former Chicago police officer is set to be released from a state prison. Read More From cnn.com… MORE
ABC News suspended “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks on Tuesday night, hours after she apologized for having falsely declared on the daytime program that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Read More From cnn.com… MORE
Rapper Lil Nas X has found himself in a hot soup after another rapper alleged that he stole her promotion idea for his album “Montero.” Dana Dentata, a Canadian-born metal rap artist who once modeled for Kim Kardashian, says the “Industry Baby” rapper stole every part of the promotional campaign from her copyrighted video “Pantychrist.” Read More From…… MORE
Lifetime says the total for the whole weekend was over 15.7 million viewers counting in Saturday, Sunday, on TV and streaming platforms. The Friday night installments were the best because Janet’s got the two husbands in the rear view mirror, didn’t have NDA’s with them, and the filmmakers weren’t constrained in their story telling. The…… MORE
A lawyer for Bill Cosby asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject a bid by prosecutors to revive his criminal sex assault case. The 84-year-old actor and comedian has been free since June, when a Pennsylvania appeals court overturned his conviction and released him from prison after nearly three years. Read More From huffpost.com… MORE
Two years to the day after nine people, including Kobe and Gianna Bryant, were killed in a helicopter crash, a Los Angeles sculptor placed a statue of the basketball superstar and his daughter at the hillside site where they died. Read More From nbclosangeles.com… MORE
A convicted felon who spent nearly 20 years in prison for murder was released after his identical twin brother turned himself in for the crime. Kevin Dugar was released from Chicago’s Cook County jail on Wednesday after a motion for bond was granted. In 2003, Dugar was convicted for a gang-related murder in Chicago. His twin brother, Karl…… MORE
Actor Jussie Smollett will be sentenced for his hate crime hoax on March 10. The update comes a month after Smollett was convicted on five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct, his defense attorney Tina Glandian confirms. Read More From bet.com… MORE
