by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEWS - Hollywood and Beyond:
From YahooNews: Why does COVID-19 kill some people and hardly affects others?
From YahooNews: Yahoo has a dedicated page of links updating news about COVID-19.
From Deadline: The news site "Deadline" has a dedicated page for news about coronavirus and the film, TV, and entertainment industries.
From TheNewYorker: The venerable magazine has a dedicate COVID-19 page free to all readers.
From YahooNews: Re: the federal government's response to COVID-19: What if the most important election of our lifetime was the last one - 2016?
From YahooSports: Brian Allen, the starting center for the Los Angeles Rams, announced that he has twice tested positive for COVID-19. He is the first known NFL player to test positive for the virus.
From NBCSports: Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller of the Denver Broncos has tested positive for COVID-19.
From Deadline: "Saturday Night Live" performer, Michael Che, is paying one month's rent for residents of the New York house complex where his late grandmother lived. Che's grandmother, Martha, recently died of complications of COVID-19.
From NJHerald: An investigation has been launched into an elder care facility after 17 bodies are found piled into a small morgue at the facility.
From Variety: Thanks to a COVID-19 surge in orders, shares of Amazon's stock hits an all-time high. The company is currently valued at 1.1 trillion dollars.
From CNN: Actress and film producer, Rita Wilson (and wife of Tom Hanks), describes her experience with COVID-19 in her first interview
From YahooNews: President Donald once wanted to let COVID-19 "wash over the country."
From Deadline: Disney World to furlough 43,000 due to COVID-19 disruptions.
COVID-19 STIMULUS CHECK NEWS:
From YahooNews: Deceased people are getting stimulus check... and the heirs and spouses may be able to keep them.
From YahooNews: This article updates information on COVID-19 stimulus checks, including the introduction of a web tool that will let people track their checks.
According to the Washington Post, here is the timetable for when the IRS will start issuing checks to those who will receive their checks by mail:
Taxpayers with income up to $10,000: April 24
Taxpayers with income up to $20,000: May 1
Taxpayers with income up to $40,000: May 15.
The article has information about mailing dates after May 15th,
COVID-19 OBIT:
From Deadline: The legendary celebrity, film and TV hairstylist, Charles Gregory Ross, died Wednesday, April 8, 2020 due to complications of COVID-19. He worked on numerous film and TV productions over a nearly 30-year career. Ross worked on many Tyler Perry productions and he received a 2005 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on the 2005 HBO movie, "Lackawanna Blues."
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REGULAR ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
MOVIES - From BET: Halle Berry debuts her chiseled abs and hard new body as she preps for the martial arts drama, "Bruised," which she is directing.
TRAILER - From Variety: Actor Tom Hardy and director Josh Trank's Al Capone biopic, "Capone," will hit video-on-demand (VOD) on May 12th.
MOVIES-CHARITY - From Deadline: Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro offer a chance to win a walk-on role in Martin Scorsese's film, "Killers of the Flower Moon."
TELEVISION - From THR: The site offers a review of "The Last Dance," ESPN's 10-part documentary TV series about Michael Jordan and the NBA's Chicago Bulls.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: CBS has cancelled its Sunday night TV series, "God Friended Me" after two seasons. The two-hour series finale will be broadcast Sunday, April 26th.
BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: Universal Pictures is still collecting data, but it expects a record-setting digital rental weekend for "Trolls: World Tour." The DreamWorks Animation film was #1 on all on-demand platforms.
MOVIES - From VanityFair: The magazine has a first look at Oscar-nominated actor Timothee Chalamet as "Paul Atreides" in director Denis Villeneuve's upcoming "Dune."
DISNEY - From Deadline: Disney is in early development of a live-action/CG-hybrid of its animated film, "Robin Hood" (1973). Carlos Lopez Estrada ("Blindspotting") will direct.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Dwayne Johnson talks about a "Hobbs & Shaw" sequel and about losing out of "Jack Reacher" to Tom Cruise.
OBITS:
From Deadline: Award-winning film, television, and stage actor, Brian Dennehy, has died at the age of 81, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, of cardiac arrest. Dennehy is best known for his appearances in such films as "First Blood" (1982) and "Tommy Boy" (1995). He won the Tony Award for "Best Actor in a Play," including for 1999 revival of the play, "Death of a Salesman."
From Heavy: Prolific Japanese voice actor Keiji Fujiwara has died at the age of 55, Sunday, April 12, 2020 of cancer. Fujiwara was a voice actor in numerous Japanese anime film ("Crayon Shin-chan" franchise) and television series ("Fullmetal Alchemist," "Kingdom Hearts") and video games ("Final Fantasy" franchise). He also provided the Japanese dub for numerous English-language live-action movies. He was most notably the Japanese voice dub for actor Robert Downey, Jr., providing the Japanese voice for Downey's "Tony Stark/Iron Man" and "Sherlock Holmes."
From CNN: American actor and animation voice actor, Danny Goldman, has died at the age of 80, Monday, April 12, 2020, has died from complications of two strokes he suffered earlier this year. Goldman is best known for being the voice of "Brainy Smurf" on NBC's Saturday morning animation series, "The Smurfs" (1981 to 1989). His most memorable scene in a movie was as an annoying medical student vexing Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" (1974).
From BleacherReport: Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson has died at the age of 36, Sunday, April 12, 2020 in a single-car crash. Jackson played in the NFL from 2006 to 2015. It was during his second stint with the Seattle Seahawks (2013-2015) that he was a member of the Seahawks' Super Bowl XLVIII (#48 held on Feb. 2nd, 2014) championship team. Since 2019, he had been a quarterbacks coach with Tennessee State University.
From CNN: American entrepreneur, publisher, businessman, philanthropist, and advocate of African-American businesses, Earl G. Graves, Sr., has died at the age of 85, Monday, April 6, 2020 of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Graves was best known for founding "Black Enterprise" magazine, which was founded to focus on Black entrepreneurs and Black businesses.
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