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For a man as theatrical as Prince, all of Broadway had to honor him in the wake of his death: Hamilton went ham for “Let’s Go Crazy” on Thursday night, while the cast of The Color Purple paid tribute to the Purple One with his signature song. Led by Jennifer Hudson, who opened with a few words about her good friend, the cast — which includes the outstanding Cynthia Erivo and Orange Is the New Black’s Danielle Brooks — channeled Prince for an absolutely spellbinding cover of “Purple Rain.

Would somebody like to buy Jennifer Lawrence a spa day? Maybe a nice therapy dog or something? After a bruising performance in Mother!, J.Law takes on another physically challenging role in Red Sparrow, playing a Russian ballerina turned spy, caught in a tangled web of other covert players, including Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, and Jeremy Irons. Directed by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay’s Francis Lawrence, Red Sparrow is based on the book by Jason Matthews, though it’s leaving out the parts that involve Vladimir Putin, since nobody wants to be hacked.

Summer of scam forever! Jennifer Lopez will star in an Annapurna adaptation of a New York magazine report written by (Anna Delvey story scribe) Jessica Pressler. In “The Hustler at Scores,” Pressler documented a shrewd group of strippers who — through drugs, strip clubs, and just plain finesse —manipulated wealthy Wall Street bros into running up $20,000 tabs on nights out, and even pocketing cash themselves. Per Variety, Lopez will play the ladies’ ringleader.

Jenny Saville, Vis and Ramin I, 2018. Jenny Saville’s 11-year-old son sees a great deal of art, and gives each exhibition a score, one to ten. His mother’s current show of large, literate, classically inspired paintings at Gagosian Gallery, “Ancestors,” scored eight out of ten stars, which seems reasonable, even if his methodology might seem a bit obscure, and who knows what she could have done to give them a perfect ten.

In Obvious Child, Jenny Slate plays a comedian who performs at the same Brooklyn bar every week. In many ways, it resembles Big Terrific, the weekly stand-up show Slate started six years ago with her good friends Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri. (Silvestri still hosts it every Wednesday.) The event showcased the three hosts’ lovable and hilarious dynamic, and it is also where Slate met Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre.

Ken Jennings. Despite initial outcry from Jeopardy! purists who insisted the show’s All-Star Games was confusing due to, wowza, three people playing on a team, the tournament ended up being a wildly good time to watch, thanks to reuniting 18 of the best (and most popular) contestants to duke it out for a $1 million prize. Self-proclaimed “Jeopardy! fixture of yesteryear” Ken Jennings was one of the tournament’s captains — choosing wunderkinds Matt Jackson and Monica Thieu to round out his team — with the trio finishing in second place in Tuesday’s finals, defeated by Brad Rutter’s tough squad.

The constant stream of concert cancellations and festival postponements in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic can be a bitter pill to swallow, not to mention the weeks of social distancing, but Jeremy Renner is here to remind you: He’s not locked in here with us. We’re locked in here with him. Oh, and also, that he is a musician. The Avengers star released his new EP, The Medicine, on Friday after dropping the album’s titular single last night.

Willa would eat this up. “The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully, and a liar,” Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy said in the Succession season-two finale, getting into his whistleblowing bag. “And he was fully personally aware of these events for many years and made efforts to hide and cover up.” Now, Strong is back at it, this time onstage, starring as Dr.

Jerrod Carmichael at the 2023 Golden Globes. NBC’s clip of Jerrod Carmichael’s opening monologue at the Golden Globes begins several seconds in with the standard “Welcome to the 80th annual Golden Globe awards,” but in the first moments when the cameras went live to the ballroom at 8 p.m. ET and Carmichael walked out, his first words were actually “Settle! Settle, settle, settle. People in the back. Let’s be a little quiet here, everybody.