Jacqueline Novak goes deep on getting down in her hit showGet On Your Knees

If Im talking to theater person and theyre like Youre just doing stand-up in a theater! Laughs-per-minute, ahole, theyre all there! The internet certainly doesnt poeticize it for me. Credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images I think its truly how I tend to understand thing maybe even a tool I rely on too much. But there are some benefits. [Laughs] But the right one has a really satisfying feeling. Phoebe Waller-Bridge startedFleabagat the Edinburgh Fringe Festivalas a one-woman piece, just like you did withKnees....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 300 words · Craig Chapman

Jacqueline Woodson will publish two new books with Riverhead

Thats pretty much all I can say because Im deeply superstitious. Theyve always published great writers. So gladAnother Brooklynhas a home there, and now its time go head home myself. Credit: Greg Doherty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Its exciting that so many of my books will be at one house. Last year you published your first adult novel in 20 years. What was it like coming back to adult lit?...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Yvonne Mcclain

Jada Pinkett Smith will receive 2019's Trailblazer Award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards

MTV announced Tuesday thatJada Pinkett Smithwill be bestowed with the honor at the June 17 ceremony. The actressGirls TripcostarTiffany Haddishwill present the award. Past recipients includeShailene Woodley,Channing Tatum, andLena Waithe, last years honoree. Credit: Robin Marchant/Getty Images The sure-to-be star-studded ceremonywill feature musical performancesfromLizzoandBazzi. (People without two Zs in their name will also be there.) The Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentaryRBGleadsthe nominationsalongside pop culture behemothsAvengers: EndgameandGame of Thrones.

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 67 words · Scott Gates

Jaden Smith drops new album AND opens pop-up food truck for L.A. homeless

Jaden Smithis quite possibly the busiest 21-year-old right now. Smith, seemingly having recognized the seriousness of the situation, is now doing his part to help. Today We Launched Our First One Day Food Truck Pop-Up in Downtown LA. Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images Theres two things with my kids that I think really worked well,Pinkett Smith told PEOPLE. She continued, These hours, this work ethic, you have to be on time....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Kristen Walker

Jagged Little Pillarrives on Broadway as a musical with angst to spare: Review

Ooh, this could get messy, sings the ensemble of BroadwaysJagged Little Pillat the top of Act 2. Whos afraid of a little mess? (Ive gotten to a point where I cant feel anything! Credit: Matthew Murphy she chirps proudly.) M.J.s husband, Steve (Sean Allan Krill), is a workaholic with a hardcore porn habit. Jaggeds script is clever but not snide, quirky but not unrelatable. ‘Jagged Little Pill’.Matthew Murphy Shes one salad away from a psychotic break....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Donald Dominguez

Jaina Lee Ortiz explains explosive return of [SPOILER] inStation 19season finale

Warning: This article contains spoilers if you havent finished watchingStation 19’sseason 3 finale. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Krista Vernoff came in this season and changed the game! What’s it been like to play Andy, whose gone through the ringer? Kelsey McNeal/ABC She’s been to hell and back. As an actress, I was really grateful to play in this darker space full of twists and turns. Andy and her dad’s relationship was very hot and cold, but he was her only family....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 452 words · Matthew Reyes

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge will make you cry inSea Wall/A Life

Sea Wall/A Lifeopened on Broadway at New Yorks Hudson Theatre on Aug. 8. Below is EWs review from the shows Off Broadway run earlier this year at the Public Theater. The photos have been updated to reflect the new production. Credit: Richard Hubert Smith Sturridges quiet pain is the perfect counter to Gyllenhaals more manic energy inA Life. Instead of coming out in light like Sturridge, Gyllenhaal makes his entrance in pure darkness....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Jessica Berry

Jake Gyllenhaal says Heath Ledger 'never joked' aboutBrokeback Mountain: 'This is about love'

(For one thing, a movie with a gay protagonist has nowactually won the Best Picture Oscar.) “Someone wanted to make a joke about the story or whatever he was like, No. This about love.' Everett Collection Like, that’s it, man,” the actor said. Gyllenhaal also spoke about the film’s impact on audiences and his own career. “When we didBrokeback Mountain, I was like, Whoa, what’s going on?' “This little movie we made that meant so much to us has now become not ours anymore....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Patty Hunter

Jake Johnson explains why he was too 'embarrassed' to ask Zooey Deschanel to joinHoops

So why no Jess and Nick reunion? Even though she’s not a prude, I would feel a little weird about it." ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: For someone who was missing basketball, watching these 10 episodes was much-appreciated. Credit: Netflix Served as a nice, vulgar warmup for the NBA playoffs. That should be on the poster: If you don’t like minute one, move on. It doesn’t get better if you don’t like it....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 614 words · Brianna Phillips

Jake Johnson shoots and misses (a lot) in first look at Netflix'sHoops

New GirlalumJake Johnsonis shooting for a new comedy hit. Miles (Wet Hot American Summer) as Ben’s 7-foot star player, Matty. Hoopspremieres Aug. 21 on Netflix. Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 33 words · Derek Lowe

Jamal Shipman reveals what we didn't see onSurvivor: Island of the Idols

The contestant also weighs in on the producer intervention. Jamal Shipmans first big move onSurvivor: Island of the Idolswas… to take a nap. (At least thats the way they showed it on TV.) Robert Voets/CBS But Jamals voice in the game was silenced after he was blindsided on last weeks episode. What was he feeling as he had his torch snuffed? Does he blame his loss on his ill-fated visit to Island of the Idols?...

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 728 words · Jose Ward

James Bond franchise producer rules out woman taking over as 007

Bond is male, she toldThe Guardian. Hes a male character. He was written as a male and I think hell probably stay as a male. Daniel Craig in ‘Skyfall’.Everett Collection We dont have to turn male characters into women, Broccoli added. Lets just create more female characters and make the story fit those female characters. I think the character of James Bond is a man. He is really,she saidin August....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 103 words · Veronica Edwards

James Bond'sNo Time to Dieshows off Rami Malek, a fierce Lashana Lynch in 6 posters

The story forNo Time to Diebegins on vacation. “Bond is not on active service when we start the film. There’s a mission involving a kidnapped scientist and a mystery villain armed with dangerous new technology. MGM Lea Seydoux as Madeleine Swann A familiarSpectrereturns. That mystery villain? Is this that mystery villain we spoke of earlier? MGM All signs point to yes. Bond doesn’t have an easy ride in this.” A new 007?...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Megan Sanchez