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Image: Jeff Spicer / Stringer (Getty Images)Patti LuPone is no stranger to science fiction and fantasy work—just within the past few years she’s been in American Horror Story, Steven Universe, Penny Dreadful, and The School for Good and Evil. Her next screen appearance will also fall into genre, as she’s starring in Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster’s new horror film. And now, she’s joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe.As Deadline reports, her introduction into the MCU is shrouded in mystery; she’s been cast on WandaVision…

Patti LaBelle was abruptly rushed offstage just a couple of songs into a Christmas concert in Milwaukee, after a bomb threat forced authorities to suddenly evacuate the venue.Footage of the 78-year-old singer’s sudden evacuation from the stage at the Riverside Theater began to circulate on social media on Saturday night shortly after the incident.“Hold up! Wait!” LaBelle exclaims, before several men quickly remove her from behind the microphone and escort her from the stage. Members of the crowd can be heard asking what…

Security guards escorted Patti LaBelle offstage and authorities evacuated Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater on Saturday after a bomb threat was reported at the musician’s Christmas concert in Wisconsin.All attendees were “safely evacuated” from the venue, Milwaukee Police Capt. Warren E. Allen Jr. said in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Allen later told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that “no explosive devices were discovered” at the scene, and “there is no threat to the public at this time.”In footage from…

A Patti LaBelle concert in Milwaukee was cut short on Saturday after the singer was rushed off stage due to a bomb threat, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.Footage of the incident shows the 78-year-old senior being taken off stage mid-performance as LaBelle shouts, “Hold up” and “Wait!” In a statement posted to Twitter, concert organizer Pabst Theater Group confirmed the bomb threat, assuring that they are “working with the artist to reschedule the show” at a later date.“Tonight’s Patti LaBelle show at the Riverside…

It is mid-morning outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris and Patti Smith is talking to me on the phone – she is trying to puzzle out how best we are to find each other within the labyrinthine building: she is somewhere inside working on an exhibition, a sound and visual montage of three French poets: Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Artaud and René Daumal.At 75, she is the figurehead of American punk – her 1975 album, Horses, has often been selected as one of the top 100 albums of all time – and with each year that passes, she…