In case you were unaware, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash-hit musical The Phantom of the Opera has a sequel. Love Never Dies, set ten years after the events of Phantom and located in 1907 Coney Island, made its West End debut in 2010, where it received, to put it kindly, mixed reviews. After undergoing rewrites, the musical debuted in 2011 at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, starring Ben Lewis as the drama-loving Phantom and Anna O’Byrne as the chanteuse Christine.

By now, the cast of Girls are experts on shooting awkward sex scenes. When Elijah (Andrew Rannells) finally hooked up with his sexy would-be boyfriend, Dill (Corey Stoll), last season, the scene consisted of Dill basically screaming a series of demands: “Fuck me! Stop talking! Harder! Faster! Slower! Stop, stop, stop! Now go! Go! Faster! Slower! Slower, then faster! Stop talking! Fuck me! Fuck me!” In an attempt to make things less uncomfortable behind the scenes, Rannells recalls making them even more awkward when he tried to fill the silences with chit-chat, he told Vulture at the season-six premiere.

Kim K was on Watch What Happens Live last night, answering oft-asked questions like: Why is her daughter North always frowning? (She’s not, she just doesn’t love the cameras); and which Kardashian sister would she save in a zombie attack? (Kourtney, because she has kids and because Khloe is tough enough to save herself). Then Andy Cohen requested the one thing any sane person would ask for: a selfie with Kim’s ass.

Andy Samberg looks like he’s having a pretty good quarantine, based on his appearance on Conan. His new movie Palm Springs (out now on Hulu) has received good reviews, and he is regularly serenaded by his wife, grillmaster Joanna Newsom. “I hear her play and practice because she’s gotta stay in ‘harp shape,’ which is a thing she tells me is a real thing.” On the show, Conan points out that Samberg not only starred in Palm Springs, but he’s also an executive producer.

Tina Turner. Tina Turner leaves behind a massive legacy as the “Queen of Rock & Roll” upon her death at age 83. “With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” her family said in a statement. Many musicians remembered Turner as an impressive performer, dynamic vocalist, and overall great person. Mick Jagger, whose band the Rolling Stones had Ike & Tina Turner as their tour openers in the 1960s, called Tina “an enormously talented performer and singer.

Angela Lansbury. Angela Lansbury, the illustrious film, television, and Broadway actor whose career spanned more than 75 years, has died, her family announced on October 11. She was 96. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” Lansbury’s family wrote in a statement to Broadway World.

In a candid interview with the Daily Telegraph, Angelina Jolie-Pitt opened up about her experiences with early-onset menopause, engendered by her mastectomy: “I actually love being in menopause,” she said. “I haven’t had a terrible reaction to it, so I’m very fortunate. I feel older, and I feel settled being older. … I feel happy that I’ve grown up. I don’t want to be young again.” Jolie, whose mother died at the age of 56 in 2007 after battling breast and ovarian cancer, had an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer herself, and elected to have her breasts removed.

It’s not every day that a producer assistant gets to attend the Tonys, let alone see her show win Best Musical. But that’s the night Vivienne Jolie-Pitt had. Angelina Jolie took daughter Vivienne to the 2024 Tony Awards — during which the show she helped produce, The Outsiders, won Best Musical. Vivienne got to take the stage when The Outsiders won, as well as posing for pics with Outsiders score and co-book writer Justin Levine and Idina Menzel.

Angus Cloud Angus Cloud, the actor best known for playing Fezco on Euphoria, is dead at 25. “It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” Cloud’s family said in a statement confirming the news. “As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways. Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss.

Emmy Insider The 2018 Emmy race is here, and Vulture will take a close look at the nominated contenders until voting closes on August 27. Emmy Insider The 2018 Emmy race is here, and Vulture will take a close look at the nominated contenders until voting closes on August 27. After plugging away in Hollywood for three-plus decades, Ann Dowd has found her place at the table among today’s most celebrated actors.