You couldn’t call Richard Pryor’s childhood Dickensian. Dickens wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes on the mean streets of Peoria, Ill., in the 1940s. Pryor spent much of his first 15 years in brothels there; prostitution was the family business. “I saw my mother turn tricks for some drunk white man when I was a kid,” he once told an interviewer. “I saw my father take the money, and I saw what it did to them. Read More...
Carrie Underwood is still healing from injuries she suffered after falling on the steps of her house in November.
Underwood, 34, previously said that she had broken her wrist after falling outside of her home, and on Sunday she revealed that the incident also caused severe cuts to her face.
In a post to her fan club members, the country singer said that in addition to having surgery on her wrist, she required “40 and 50 stitches” to her face. Read More...
After success with several small-scale films, Peter Jackson in 1992 told Variety he was looking for a project “that will really push me.”
He found something that surpassed everyone’s expectations. This month marks the 20th anniversary of Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings,” which kicked off the 2001-2003 film trilogy based on the books by J. Read More...
