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Good Omens S2 Interview: Nina Sosanya, Maggie Service

Good Omens fans know what it means to pine for a couple to be together. Season two adds more shipping to the mix with Nina (Nina Sosanya) and Maggie (Maggie Service), shopkeeper neighbors of bookselling angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen). If their names and faces are familiar, that’s because you’ve seen them together before: as Satanic nuns in Good Omens season one.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer(This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.)This time around, of…

New Neil Gaiman Sandman Story Launches At SDCC for $750

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, DC Comics, san diego comic con | Tagged: neil gaiman, sandman, sdccToday sees the launch of the Sandman Masterpiece Edition Book Set at SDCC with only 25 copies for $750 each and a new story by Neil Gaiman.Today sees the launch of the Sandman Masterpiece Edition Book Set at San Diego Comic-Con with only twenty-five copies at the DC Comics booth at for $750 each. Well, it will also include a brand new Neil Gaiman story, in the form of a series of letters. As well as…

The Roxy Theatre turns 50; Neil Young to perform

The nightclub is mostly empty as Lou Adler slides into a booth at the Roxy Theatre, the iconic music venue he co-founded half a century ago on the Sunset Strip. The stage will be dark tonight, but Adler looks pleased just to be here at age 89, his beard white and full, ready to talk about the decades of musical history that have unfolded at the club.There’s been a lot of it, starting with Neil Young opening the Roxy with three nights of shows in September 1973 and a subsequent roll call of superstars and icons ever…

Rufus Wainwright Covers Neil Young’s ‘Harvest Moon’ – Rolling Stone

Rufus Wainwright won’t hit age 50 until July 22, technically, but he started the festivities a few days early with “Fifty Isn’t the End,” a three-hour show at Long Island’s East End that was a tribute to Wainwright’s career, his family lineage and, inadvertently, some of the other children of famous musicians who happen to be among his pals. With a lineup that included Jimmy Fallon, comic Tig Notaro, Laurie Anderson and members of Wainwright’s family, including his sister Martha and his father Loudon III, the…

Neil Gaiman Really Wants You to Watch ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’

With the SAG-AFTRA strike in full swing, the world watches with baited breath as the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers gauges exactly how much of the entertainment industry’s collapse it can get away with before it begins to fairly compensate and protect Hollywood’s creatives. Many of us may feel powerless in a time like this, but the best we can do is cheer on the many actors and writers standing behind the picket line for the greater good. If you’re concerned, however, that you’ll get an ill-informed…

Revisiting Christopher Nolan’s Sci-Fi Film

When Christopher Nolan releases a new movie, it’s an event. Few filmmakers, even our most successful and well-known ones, carry the weight, expectations, and name recognition that Nolan does these days. So, as one might expect, film fans everywhere are currently getting ready to see his latest film Oppenheimer, which opens July 21.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewNolan’s film before Oppenheimer, though, didn’t quite fit that typical narrative. That movie was Tenet and it released on…

Neil Gaiman on Whether You Should Boycott Netflix and Other Streamers

Neil Gaiman is advising everyone to refrain from boycotting streaming platforms for the time being, as watching content on such networks wouldn’t necessarily amount to “crossing a picket line.” The ongoing Writers Guild strike is reaching a crucial point a month and a half after its commencement in May. Now, with the Actors Guild joining the movement, concerns are being raised over the direction of the strike and what the supporting public could do to help these creatives.  Fortunately, folks like Neil Gaiman — who…

Pride Month: From Neil to Laverne, 10 Hollywood actors who are out and proud

In the last few decades, Hollywood has come a long way from stereotyping and misrepresenting the LGBTQIA+ community to developing and depicting queer narratives with realism, authenticity and compassion. The industry has also witnessed several celebrities and actors openly come out, discuss their gender identity, sexual orientation and the significance of nuanced representation in the media. Here are 10 Hollywood icons who are out and proud - Elliot Page Elliot Page is one of the most outspoken trans activists…

Colleen Doran’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s CHIVALRY wins 2023 Locus Award

Colleen Doran’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman short story Chivalry, published by Dark Horse, won the 2023 Locus Award for Best Illustrated and Art Book. The ceremony took place on June 24, 2023 as part of the Locus Awards Weekend, comprised of author readings and panels. Comics – and Neil Gaiman – adjacent, the winner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best Artist went to another frequent Neil Gaiman artistic collaborator/adaptor Charles Vess.   On receiving news of the award win, Doran posted on Twitter, saying: So very…

Modi in US: PM to meet billionaire Elon Musk and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the US today, where he is expected to meet the world's most influential leaders in New York. There will be many such leaders at the conference, including Tesla chief Elon Musk, who is known for his entrepreneurial brilliance and astrophysicist, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nobel laureate Paul Romer, essayist, mathematical statistician Nicholas Nassim Taleb, and investor Ray Dalio.As part of his visit from June 21-24, PM Modi will attend the state dinner hosted…