Interview

An emotional Ashley Judd opened up about her mother Naomi’s cause of death and struggle with mental illness in an interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on Thursday’s Good Morning America. The country music legend died April 30. The actress explained that she had been “deputized” by her family to speak about what happened and shared that she was speaking out now to try to control the narrative around her mother’s death before things like the autopsy and manner of death become public, Judd said. “She used a…

Pure Evil: The Bad Men of Bollywood is your fourth book about Hindi films. Earlier, you co-authored a book each on SD Burman and RD Burman, and one on Hindi film songs. Tell us about your love of Hindi films, when it started, how it grew.I remember Ye kya hua, Dum maro dum, and Pyaar deewana hota hai as some of the earliest sound waves emanating from the radio or the neighbouring Durga Puja pandal and shaping the soft clay of my sensibilities. My parents would take me to watch movies – both English and Hindi – quite…

Horak as Hemmer. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has arrived on Paramount+, and with the return of the USS Enterprise comes the arrival of a brand-new Chief Engineer: Hemmer the Aenar, played by Bruce Horak. The Beat got the opportunity to speak with Horak over Zoom about his personal history with Star Trek and comic books, how his performance in Goblin: Macbeth connected with his performance as Hemmer, and what details we might have missed about…

Elizabeth Olsen accidentally predicted her Doctor Strange 2 plotline in an interview seven years ago.The actor has reprised her role of Wanda Maximoff AKA Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, having first played the role in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.However, eagle-eyed Marvel fans have noticed that, while promoting Age of Ultron, Olsen gave away her character’s future story.*Spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness below*After being forced to give up her two imaginary children…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that while consumers are putting the Covid pandemic in the rearview mirror, the economy is clearly a growing concern for the company and the broader market."We definitely see uncertainty ahead, like everyone else," Pichai told CNBC's Deirdre Bosa in an interview on Wednesday at Google's annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California. "The good thing is we've been around as a company for a while. have worked through past moments like this, be it 2008 or the early days of the pandemic, and…

It must have been interesting to grow up in Jamshedpur in the 1970s. What was your childhood like and how did you begin writing? I think the first kind of writing I ever did was poetry in English. It was back at school in Jamshedpur when I was in the 9th standard. It was a sort of anti-establishment poetry. There was also a relationship-sweetness type of thing in it. I used to show it to my English teacher, Deepa Sengupta, who was kind enough to go through it and sometimes give me a review. I still remember some of her…