Billy

This poignant drama is practically a remake of Kramer vs Kramer from 1979 – though this time with two divorcing New York-based dads fighting for custody of their kid instead of K2’s traditional pairing of a husband and wife. And like the older Dustin Hoffman-Meryl Streep vehicle, Our Son is a bit soapy and middlebrow, but impeccably performed all-round, led by a trio of terrific turns from Luke Evans and Billy Porter as the two fathers, with winning, winsome support from Christopher Woodley as Owen, their eight-year-old…

Sharon Stone’s bitter public feud with Billy Baldwin is nothing new and goes back to long before she claimed this week that she was pressured to have sex with him in order to improve their on-screen chemistry and his less-than-stellar acting in the 1993 erotic thriller “Sliver.” Indeed, the feud goes back to that infamous film, Stone’s follow-up to her blockbuster 1992 hit “Basic Instinct.” Stone didn’t want the younger Baldwin brother to play her mysterious seducer in the sexually charged “Sliver,” about a New York book…

Billy Porter is known for going big. The 54-year-old actor and singer routinely stole scenes as the drag ball emcee Pray Tell in FX’s drama Pose, a role that won him an Emmy. In Amazon’s 2021 update of Cinderella, he turned the fairy godmother into a fabulous, tough-talking fairy “godmuvva”, as he puts it. But his latest role, in the Bill Oliver-directed relationship drama Our Son, takes a different tack: as Gabriel, a relatively meek stay-at-home dad divorcing his husband, Nicky, (Luke Evans), Porter is required to play…

From being the all-time greatest Oscars host to appearing in some of the best romantic comedies of all time to headlining a beloved Pixar animated film, Billy Crystal has been all over the place for the past half-century. During that time, he’s given movie and TV audiences countless lines, quips, and zingers that have become parts of our everyday lives. Here are 32 of those hilarious quotes that we just can’t get enough of…(Image credit: Castle Rock Entertainment)"When I Buy A New Book, I Read The Last Page First." -…

Singers also unite for "Big Man on Mulberry Street" at One Night Only show in Tampa Bay Billy Joel and Sting kicked off their One Night Only slate of co-headlining summer shows Saturday with a gig in Tampa Bay, with both artists popping up during the other’s set to help sing one of their classic songs. Joel introduced Sting’s set at Raymond James Stadium, telling the audience, “I saw this guy when he came with his band to the States, and I was blown away. This was the late-Seventies. I thought…

He was a trailblazer in Hollywood and broke the colour barrier in Star Wars. But Black History Month or not, there is one role that Billy Dee Williams has no intention of playing: racial justice warrior.“I don’t think about all that stuff,” the 86-year-old actor and painter says by phone. “I’ll let everybody else think about it. I’ve led a very eclectic life. I see myself as the full spectrum of colours and, when you’re a painter, you learn a lot more about that perspective.”As he tours live venues and TV studios to…

AI technology helped conjure an image of the singer crooning the tune at his commercial peaks Billy Joels from every decade share the same worry — “Did I wait too long to turn the lights back on?” — in the video for Joel’s first new song in 17 years, “Turn the Lights Back On.” The clip uses AI technology to transition from early Seventies Piano Man Joel, all bushy-haired and befogged with cigarettes, to late Eighties Storm Front Joel, who was probably more concerned with pleading his innocence…

Billy Joel stopped by The Late Show to discuss his new single, “Turn The Lights Back On,” and his Madison Square Garden residency. After coming onstage to chats of “Billy! Billy!” from the late-night show audience, Joel explained the inspiration behind releasing what he calls his first new song in 30 years. “I didn’t expect this to happen,” Joel told host Stephen Colbert. “This is something that just developed starting about two years ago. I met a guy, who was a fan, and he wanted to try to get me to think about…

When Billy Dee Williams landed the role of Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back, some people suggested it was because Star Wars was criticized for not having Black actors in the film. So, one interviewer decided to ask Williams, point blank, what he thought. Williams landed the role fairly easily, because Irvin Kershner wanted him for it, and Williams obviously knew how big Empire was going to be. Kershner even told Williams that the role of Lando Calrissian was actually completely written with him in mind.…

Singer gives new wave sheen to 1981 hit, an ode to "enjoying the pleasure of your own company and celebrating that and not stigmatizing it" Maren Morris reimagines Billy Idol’s classic “Dancing With Myself” as a new wave bop in a video celebrating Singles Awareness Day. The visual finds Morris alone (naturally) in Nashville’s famed Grimey’s record store, where the singer peruses the shelves and performs a New Order-ed take on the 1981 hit to an audience of no one.…