NASCAR weekend, the Summerlin Festival of Arts and Ice Cube top this week’s lineup of things to do in Las Vegas.
Movies
The Globes will be telecast Jan. 10, with stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael hosting.
The Beverly Theater in downtown Las Vegas has specified its programming categories as Lit, Live and Film.
“I host a good Sunday British roast,” the actor says. “I cook all day long with the bulk of my morning spent in the kitchen. … It’s quite a social thing.”
Gilbert Gottfried, the actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, has died. He was 67.
He worked steadily as a TV actor and director in the early 1950s, but the political liberal found his career in jeopardy during the Hollywood blacklist period.
The busy actor stars in Season 6 of “Outlander,” Starz’s “Men in Kilts” and “SAS: Red Notice,” available this weekend on demand and in theaters.
In “Land,” Robin Wright plays Edee, a woman who experiences a devastating personal loss and retreats to the wilderness, where a near-death experience changes the way she looks at life.
Malin Akerman says she took a bruising in “Chick Fight,” and says the move shows women who are “strong and powerful.”
Most of “Elvis: That’s The Way It Is: Special Edition” was filmed on stage at what was then The International Hotel.
Actress Kelly Preston, whose credits included the films “Twins” and “Jerry Maguire,” died Sunday, her husband John Travolta said. She was 57.
The Walt Disney Company said Tuesday it will put the live capture of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show on Disney TV Plus starting on July 3. It had been slated to be in movie theaters in October, 2021.
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For its 16th edition, which starts Thursday, the festival is adding Monday screenings to better showcase the winning films.
The nominations, to be read by Issa Rae and John Cho, will be live streamed on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the academy’s digital social platforms. The second wave of nominees will begin at 5:30 a.m. PST and be carried live on “Good Morning America.”