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DISNEY - From MarketWatch: On CEO pay, Disney heiress Abigail Disney says "Jesus Christ himself doesn’t deserve this much money."
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BUSINESS-CULTURE - From WashPost: Uber and Lyft are losing money. At some point, we’ll pay for it.
CRIME-CULTURE - From RSN: Does Every Felony Sentence Need to Be a Death Sentence? asks John Kiriakou, a former imprisoned felon.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Jordan Peele and his new film, "Us," storm SXSW 2019.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Taraji P. Henson and Ed Helms will star in the Netflix police drama, "Coffee & Kareem."
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TV-SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: CBS News correspondent-host, Gayle King, impressed viewers and commentators (and her friend Oprah), with her composure during an interview with R&B singer R. Kelly. Kelly, who is facing 10 criminal counts of sexual abuse of minors, was quite agitated during the interview.
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POLITICS-BLM - From Truthout: "Flat Broke, Black Voters Want More Than Just Another Black President"
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Alex Trebek, the host of the long-running TV game-show, "Jeopardy!", announced that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Trebek has been hosting "Jeopardy!" since 1984 when it debuted as a daily syndicated television series.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Idris Elba will replace Will Smith as the character "Deadshot" in "Suicide Squad 2." The film will be written and directed by James Gunn ("Guardians of the Galaxy") and is scheduled to arrive in theaters August 6, 2021.
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MOVIES - From Variety: The biopic of Hollywood legend, Rock Hudson, entitled "All That Heaven Allows," moves to Universal Pictures.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Tyrese Gibson is in talks to join Jared Leto in Sony's "Spider-Man" spin-off film, "Morbius."
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: There is a apparently a rumor that Will Smith will play Richard Williams, the father of tennis champions, Venus and Serena Williams, in a biopic about Richard. There are already complaints that Smith is skin color is "too light" to play the Richard Williams, who is a fairly dark brother.
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POLITICS-MOVIES - From RSN: Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta says she's in "awe" of Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio (an Oscar nominee for "Roma") and freshman Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because of conversations they are sparking in the U.S.
STAR TREK - From Variety: Two actors, Santiago Cabrera and Michelle Hurd, have been cast in the still-developing "Star Trek" spinoff series from CBS All Access that will focus on Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
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MOVIES - From People: Chiwetel Ejiofor talks about choosing "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" as his directorial debut.
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SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: Disgraced TV star, Roseanne Barr (Roseanne"), sits down for another meltdown interview, this time with fake-Negress conservative, Candace Owens. Of course, Barr takes time to attack another African-American woman, this time Sen. Kamala Harris.
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MOVIES/STREAMING - From Variety: Theatrical distribution vs. Netflix streaming is a hot topic as the AMPAS considers Oscar rule changes.
From Variety: Netflix responds to Steven Spielberg's criticism of streaming films being eligible for Academy Awards.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 3/1 to 3/3/2019 weekend box office is "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" with an estimated take of 30 million dollars.
From Variety: "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" leads the international box office thanks to its $33.4 million debut in China.
From Variety: "Green Book" apparently got a box office boost after winning the best picture Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards Sun., Feb. 24th.
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SCIENCE - From TheAtlantic: In the Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, every tiny animal tested had plastic pollution hiding in its gut.
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OSCARS - From MSN: With his best supporting actor Oscar win for "Green Book," Mahershala Ali becomes only the second Black actor to win more than one competitive Academy Award. The other is Denzel Washington.
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MOVIES - From Vulture: Steven Spielberg wants Netflix films banned from the Oscars. He will bring his case to next week's Board of Governor's meeting at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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ANIMATION - From THR: Tracy Morgan is among the actors slated to perform voice roles in a "Scooby-Doo" animated film. The film will include other characters from famed animation studio, Hanna-Barbera's library.
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MOVIES - From Variety: "Stranger Things" star Finn Wolfhard and "Avengers: Infinity War" actress Carrie Coon are in talks to join Jason Reitman's in-development Ghostbusters sequel.
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STAR TREK - From TheWrap: CBS All Access has hired "Star Trek: Discovery" director, Hanelle Culpepper, to direct the pilot of its in-development untitled Jean-Luc Picard-centric Star Trek spin-off. Culpepper, an African-American, will be the first woman to direct a "Star Trek" pilot.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Tyrese Gibson will star as R&B legend, Teddy Pendergrass, in a film produced by Lee Daniels and Donald De Line and Warner Bros.
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MOVIES - From Collider: Recent Oscar-winner, Rami Malek ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), is in final negotiations to play the villain in the 25th James Bond, which will star Daniel Craig.
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MOVIES - From Collider: Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage will star in a movie, "Brothers," that is similar to Ivan Reitman's 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger-Danny DeVito film, "Twins."
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CANNES - From YahooEntertainment: Four-time Oscar winner Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has been named jury president for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
TRAILERS:
From YouTube: This is the new "red band" trailer for the Lionsgate's "Hellboy" reboot film. It is due in theaters April 12, 2019.
OBITS:
From Variety: Former MCA/Universal Studios COO, Sidney Sheinberg, has died at the age of 84, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Sheinberg is also known as the executive who nurtured and mentored Steven Spielberg.
From Variety: The television actor Luke Perry has died at the age of 52, Monday, March 4, 2019. Perry had suffered a massive stroke on Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Perry was best known for his two runs on Fox television series, "Beverly Hills, 90210," 1990-95 and 1998-2000. Perry was currently appearing on The CW's "Riverdale." He was appear posthumously in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
From YahooNews: The pro wrestler "King Kong Bundy" (whose real name was Christopher Alan Pallies) has died at the age of 61, Monday, March 4, 2019. Bundy was best known as Hulk Hogan's rival in the 1980s.
From THR: The actress Katherine Helmond died at the age of 89, Saturday, February 23, 2019. Helmond was best known for playing the man-crazy mother, Mona Robinson, on the ABC sitcom, "Who's the Boss?" (1984-92). She was also the ditzy matriarch, Jessica Tate, in the ABC sitcom, "Soap" (1977-81). She also had a memorable supporting role in the Terry Gilliam film, "Brazil."
From Variety: The actor Nathaniel Taylor died at the age of 80, Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Taylor is best known for playing "Rollo Lawson" in the 1970s TV sitcom, "Sanford and Son."
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