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The hip-hop world almost got the ultimate crossover, but ego and some serious shade put it to rest. Picture this: Tupac Shakur and Michael Jackson teaming up on a track, blending Pac’s raw grit with Mj’s iconic vocals. But it didn’t happen, and word is, it’s because Pac wasn’t about to let anyone—even the King of Pop—disrespect him.

Michael Jackson in the Beat It music video | Credits: Billboard Music

Rumor has it, that the collaboration fizzled not due to creative differences but because Shakur reportedly felt Jackson just wasn’t bringing the same level of respect to the table. And, in classic Pac style, he wasn’t about to back down, even if it meant losing the chance to work with the King of Pop. Imagine what could’ve been if only they had found common ground.

Tupac Shakur Walked Away from Michael...

In his book “The Films in My Life,” director and enthusiast François Truffaut wrote, “I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema.” Juan Pablo Reinoso’s new documentary “Mad Props” satisfies Truffaut’s criteria beautifully, expressing not only the joy of making cinema but also the joy of watching cinema, exploring both through the eyes of Tom Biolchini, an Oklahoma banker who obsessively collects movie props. Reinoso follows Biolchini as he travels the world meeting other collectors who lovingly display their acquisitions, everything from Indiana Jones’ whip to various title characters from Joe Dante‘s “Gremlins” to an entire house from “The Outsiders” purchased by House of Pain’s Danny Boy O’Connor and filled with artifacts from that Francis Coppola classic. As the film progresses, Reinoso broadens his scope to include interviews with actors and various prop and creature makers...

Judy Collins is an American singer/songwriter and musician with an impressive career spanning over seven decades. She is known primarily for her eclectic taste in music, her social activism and the unique clarity of her voice.

Judy Collins Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Judy Collins was born on May 1, 1939 (Judy Collins’s age: 84) in Seattle, Washington, where she was raised for the first ten years of her life. When her father, who was a blind singer, pianist, and record show host, landed a job in Denver, Colorado in 1949, he brought the entire family along for the ride.

Collins began playing the piano at the age of five, made her public debut at thirteen years old with Denver Symphony and began playing the guitar and singing folk music while enrolled in Denver East High School as a young teenager. She studied classical music with her instructor, Antonia Brico, and...

If there was any lingering doubt, it was laid to rest after it became clear that Danny Sullivan was not well, revealing most his narrated events didn't happen as described.

Danny ran away to London (or did he?) after his failed attempt to murder Marlin on The Crowded Room Season 1 Episode 4.

Left without anyone to consult after Ariana disappeared, Danny entered panic mode, and the next thing he knew, he was on a plane to London, where he believed his father lived.

But instead of finding his father, he met a former associate, Jack, who conveniently told a story of Peter's whereabouts.

Right after shooting Marlin, Danny knew that he had messed up; not a tiny mess like leaving the lights on, but a huge one.

As a child, he had a limited view of the world, and like most children, the only safe place he knew was with his parents.

Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is adapting for TV comedian Pope Lonergan’s memoir about a decade spent caring for the elderly.

In I’ll Die After Bingo, the award-winning author provided a no-holds barred account, whether initiating a coup d’état against new regulations with the residents or forging a bond with a 98-year old who once called him a “fat slut.”

Lonergan said the TV version will be “both light and dark; uncompromising, poetic and very funny.” Writer of the TV version has not yet been set.

Expectation Exec Morwenna Gordon added: “I was completely won over by Pope’s writing. Honest, insightful, empathetic and with laugh out loud moments too. I’m so pleased to be working together to adapt this incredible book for TV.”

Lonergan is a comedian and writer who has also taken his memoir on a stand-up tour titled The Care Home Tour.

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Exclusive: Peacock is developing a pilot for a raunchy social experiment format titled Sex in the Dark.

Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is behind the pilot, which joins a number of Peacock shows on its unscripted development slate. The pilot was filmed late last year, we understand.

The show’s logline describes Sex in the Dark as a “radical new social experiment” and centers on one single person who is blindfolded or left completely in darkness as they embark on “intimacy tests” to judge their connection, chemistry and attraction with a number of different suitors.

After each round, one suitor will be eliminated. The show culminates in a final night in complete darkness, as the singleton bed-hops with the remaining suitors to see if smell, touch, physical connection and energy is all you need to fall in love.

Amy Dallmeyer, Ben Wicks and Lucy Palmer are EPs on the series from Expectation,...

Screen Rant is proud to present an exclusive first look at the trailer for Out of Exile, an action thriller arriving on Digital and On Demand on January 20. From Paramount Pictures and Saban Films, the film follows the recently paroled thief Gabe Russell (played by Adam Hampton), who is back on the FBI's radar after a botched armored car robbery. Still hoping to escape and provide a new life for himself and his estranged daughter, Gabe makes one last attempt to get everything right.

Out of Exile is written and directed by Kyle Kauwika Harris, who is of Hawaiian and Choctaw Nation descent. The filmmaker recently completed a short called Prone to Violence, which has a similar premise of a reformed ex-con doing one last job for the sake of his family. With a full-length feature film at his disposal, Out of Exile is sure to expand on the themes introduced in his 2019 project,...

Featuring: Soleil Moon Frye, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, David Arquette, Dana Ashbrook, Jonathan Brandis, Stephen Dorff, Balthazar Getty, Cherie Johnson, Heather McComb, Danny Boy O’Connor, Perry Farrell, Pete Bici | Directed by Soleil Moon Frye

As someone who came into his teenage years in 1990, I have not only had a fascination with the films and TV shows I grew up with in the 80s but also the movies and television shows of the 90s. After all, it wasn’t until the 90s that I became hooked on renting movies from the local video shop, recording films and shows off TV and creating a massive archive of personal recordings. Hey… there’s a reason I run this website and that fascination began in the 90s and continues to this day (thank god for digital formats though – can you imagine how big my tape collection would be today?!). So when I saw...

Soleil Moon Frye became the ultimate Eighties child star on Punky Brewster, at the age of seven. She played America’s favorite wise-cracking moppet, wearing mismatched high-tops and extolling the virtues of Punky Power. The show was eventually cancelled in 1988 — and that’s when Frye started toting a video camera around, filming her other child-star friends, just in time for their awkward teen years. Kid 90, a new documentary that begins streaming on Hulu today, turns her home-movie footage into a time capsule of show-biz kids growing up in Nineties Hollywood.

My mindset entering Soleil Moon Frye’s autobiographical documentary kid 90 anticipated a fun, nostalgic, low stakes look at kid celebrities. That’s what the slew of happy photos depicting teenaged Stephen Dorff, Brian Austin Green, and Balthazar Getty smiling sells: their childhood adventures as inseparable friends and peers removed from the otherwise tumultuous Hollywood machine. Frye only adds to that image when starting things off by saying, “this is an account of what it meant to be a child in the 1990s.” Expectations are therefore set for a universally relatable experience since I too was a child in the 1990s… just without having my face on Bop magazine covers. And while that is exactly what Frye delivers, joy isn’t the familiar through-line connecting our two worlds. It’s pain.

This reality shouldn’t be surprising, though, since we all share that communal darkness beneath our cheery façades whether or...

"Kid 90" is a new documentary feature, produced and directed by Soleil Moon Frye ("Punky Brewster") , streaming March 12, 2021 on Hulu:

""...during the 1990's, Frye carried a camera around with her everywhere she went in Hollywood, rubbing shoulders with David Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Brian Austin Green, Stephen Dorff, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Harold Hunter, Justin Pierce, Danny Boy O'Connor, Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Brandis, then locking up the footage for more than 20 years. Until now..."

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Mark Morales — the rapper, actor and music producer better known as Prince Markie Dee of the trailblazing rap group The Fat Boys — died Thursday at the age of 52. A cause of death has not been made public.

Morales’ death was announced by Sirius Xm’s Rock the Bells radio, where he hosted and DJ’d. “The Rock The Bells family is heartbroken to learn of the passing of Mark ‘Prince Markie Dee’ Morales earlier today. That voice and his presence can never be replaced. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones,” the station said via Twitter.

Born in Brooklyn in 1968, Morales co-founded what would become The Fat Boys as the Disco 3 with his friends Damon “Kool Rock-Ski” Wimbley and Darren “Buff Love” Robinson. As The Disco 3, the group shot to early success after winning a rap contest built around Morales’ and Kool Rock-Ski’s raps and Buff Love’s groundbreaking beatboxing,...