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Roberta Flack, the R&b innovator known for songs like “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” has died at the age of 88.

“We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24, 2025,” the singer’s representative said in a statement. “She died peacefully surrounded by her family. Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator.” A cause of death was not disclosed; however, Flack had been battling Als since 2022.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on February 10th, 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and was raised in Arlington, Virginia. Her mother was a church organist, and a young Roberta began singing with churches of different denominations — including the historic Lomax African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — just to enjoy their music. She started playing piano at age nine, and by her teenage years,...

Marlee Matlin is an Oscar winner for her work in “Children of a Lesser God,” and starred in the 2021 film “Coda,” which won the Oscar for best picture, but she feels that Hollywood is so rigid that it hasn’t necessarily given her advantage when it comes to pitching projects.

“I’m not happy with the way things are,” she says. “It’s simply because I don’t know how this industry works to this day. You know, you win an Academy Award, everybody’s so excited. ‘Oh, that’s great. Things are gonna change. It’s fantastic. You’re gonna be working, offers are gonna come in,’ and they didn’t. Yes, you’ll be on that high, it lasts maybe a short little time, and then something comes up again a little while later. So what I do is I have to do it myself. I create my own projects.

Desmond Davis' 1981 fantasy film "Clash of the Titans" is a special effect extravaganza for the ages. Many of the film's creatures — Medusa, a Kraken, an evil satyr, and a mechanical owl named Bubo — were realized via some amazing stop-motion animation provided by SFX legend Ray Harryhausen. The bold, fantastical imagery matches the broad, archetypal story about the brave human hero Perseus (Harry Hamlin), and his role in a godly conflict involving Zeus (Laurence Olivier), the bitter Calibos (Neil McCarthy), and his bride-to-be Andromeda (Judi Bowker). The film at large is a little corny, but, like 1977's "Star Wars" or "Raiders of the Lost Ark" from the same year, "Clash of the Titans" takes something mythic and turns it into a slick, enjoyable Saturday matinee entertainment.

Prior to "Clash of the Titans," Hamlin had appeared in only one feature film, a diptych comedy called "Movie Movie," directed by Stanley Donen. The following year,...

by Nathaniel R

You've all heard about Bros by now, surely. It's the first major studio romantic comedy about two men. The first major studio gay male drama was way back in 1982 (Making Love) and it only took another 40 years to get a romantic comedy. So, yes, it truly feels like an event! After the jump at statement from Billy Eichner and we'll talk about the trailer, too...

Exclusive: Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) has signed on for a series regular role in the AMC series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, and for a supporting role in the film 80 for Brady for Paramount Pictures and Endeavor Content.

The former series written and executive produced by showrunner Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford is based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. It focuses on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.

Hamlin will play Cortland Mayfair, current reigning patriarch of the Mayfair clan with a voracious appetite for more money, more power and more life, in his first series regular role in over two decades.

• Interview Kirsten Dunst interviews her Melancholia costar Alexander Skarsgárd about the demands of making his Viking period epic The Northman. Fun banter!

• Gr8ter Days takes a 40th anniversary look back at the first mainstream gay movie, Making Love

• Cartoon Brew struggles over abusively low salaries for artists in Japanese anime

Dune Part Two, The Gilded Age, Teen Wolf, Anders Danielsen Lie, Teen Wolf, and a new Luca Guadagnino project after the jump...

Habits die hard. It’s Sunday, which is usually the time to list and analyze the weekend’s grosses. However, since almost all theaters are closed, I decided to take a look back to this weekend in 1982 — the year when box-office statistics became part of entertainment reporting.

Almost 40 years ago, coverage wasn’t instantaneous. People had to wait until midweek for reports, which inched closer to real time as the years went on. Here, we have the benefit of hindsight — and the title’s performance might offer us some perspective on how these films informed what Hollywood, and box office, would become.

More from IndieWire'Onward' Leads VOD Charts, but So Far It's the Cheaper Rentals That RuleA Government Bailout for Movie Theaters Is Uncertain, but a Wholly Changed Future Is Not

Since tickets cost three times more now than they did in 1982, I’ve included both the original grosses and...

Harry Hamlin says he took a role playing a gay character “10 years too early.”

The 68-year-old actor appeared on the It Happened in Hollywood podcast on Saturday in which he spoke about his career, which he says took a nosedive after he appeared in the 1982 film Making Love as an openly gay man who begins an affair with a married doctor (Michael OntKean).

Hamlin recalled that “everyone in town had turned” down the role because “at the time the idea of a gay world was not accepted at the time.”

But the script was “exactly the kind of movie” Hamlin said he was looking for.

Harry Hamlin says playing a gay writer in the 1982 big-screen drama Making Love put his career on ice for several years.

The actor, looking back now, says the film "was too early. It was 10 years too early, I guess, and it completely ended my career. That was the last studio picture I ever did. The door shut with a resounding smash."

Hamlin, 68, was an in-demand actor in Hollywood at the time, he tells the It Happened in Hollywood podcast. Warner Bros. had offered him "the Clint" — a three-picture deal named for the one given to Clint ...

Harry Hamlin says playing a gay writer in the 1982 big-screen drama Making Love put his career on ice for several years.

The actor, looking back now, says the film "was too early. It was 10 years too early, I guess, and it completely ended my career. That was the last studio picture I ever did. The door shut with a resounding smash."

Hamlin, 68, was an in-demand actor in Hollywood at the time, he tells the It Happened in Hollywood podcast. Warner Bros. had offered him "the Clint" — a three-picture deal named for the one given to Clint ...

Glsen, the leading education organization working to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools for Lgbtq youth, is pleased to announce the lineup of honorees for the 2018 Glsen Respect Awards – Los Angeles.

Actress and activist Yara Shahidi; Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick & David Kohan; actress, producer, and activist Ellen Pompeo; and Elizabeth Gabler, President, Fox 2000 Pictures, accepting on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film, will be honored on Friday, October 19th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

“We are thrilled to announce these incredible honorees at this important moment in Glsen’s history,” said Eliza Byard, Glsen Executive Director. “They represent a diverse group of change makers supporting Glsen’s mission to create safe and inclusive schools for all, and they are shaping the conversation on Lgbtq equality, gender issues, and a host of social movements. We look forward to celebrating their work and that of students and educators from across the country.

Forgive, but don't forget? Khloé Kardashian reportedly thinks her baby daddy Tristan Thompson doesn't fully understand the repercussions of his cheating scandal. The couple has been trying to move on after the allegations of infidelity made against the Cleveland Cavaliers star during her pregnancy, but it will take time and effort to build that trust back. Even though they're working through their issues after the birth of their baby girl True, Khloé supposedly believes he's not really grasping how many people were impacted by his choices. “As a guy, he’s naturally not as understanding as he can be in this particular situation," a source told People. "It’s so much easier for him to, not completely, but brush things under the rug. Khloé carried his child and is much more in the limelight than he is, and she doesn’t think he understands the consequences of his decisions." Mommy...

When it comes to baby names, the Kardashians reign supreme (no pun intended). In the past few months alone, we’ve been blessed with news of unique monikers like "True Thompson," "Chicago West," and "Stormi Webster." But, as it turns out, it’s one KarJenner name in particular that has grabbed our attention as of late and that's Khloé Kardashian's. Specifically, what the name "Khloé" actually means. Now that the 34-year-old has finally joined the mommy club with the birth of True, fans can’t help but wonder if Khloé plans on having another bundle of joy. Well, if her name has anything to do with it, she's seemingly going to have plenty of children. According to Baby Name Wizard, the name "Khloe/Chloe" is derived from the Greek word "Khloē," which means blooming or verdant. In addition, "Khloē" was often used to describe Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and,...