Second Aziz Ansari show added in T.O.
Louis C.K. is drawing protesters in New York; Aziz Ansari is drawing more ticket buyers in Toronto. The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning comedian (for his Netflix series Master of None), has had a second show added to his Roy Thomson Hall stand due to what JFL42 calls “incredible demand.”
Tickets are now on sale for the new Nov. 26 date at roythomsonhall.com.
Ansari was among the famous men swept up in #MeToo allegations earlier this year. But whereas C.K. admitted to sexual misconduct with five women, Ansari has denied a claim made in January that he pressured a woman into sex, saying the interaction was consensual.
The comedian has not addressed the controversy in his “Working Out New Material” tour, but reports from earlier dates say Ansari has been taking aim against “wokeness” and internet outrage in his sets, and that he’s been funnier than ever. Debra Yeo
No sex charges against Stallone
Sylvester Stallone won’t be facing sex-crime charges in California.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is no longer pursuing a case against the actor, who’s 72, due to “insufficient evidence.”
A woman alleged in November that Stallone raped her in 1987 and 1990, but the DA’s report says witnesses she provided did not corroborate her allegations. The allegations are also outside the statute of limitations.
Last December Stallone’s lawyer, Martin Singer, said Stallone “categorically denied” the rape allegations and called the claims “totally fabricated.”
Singer previously conceded that Stallone had a consensual relationship with the accuser in the 1980s.
The woman’s allegation is the second time Stallone has been accused of a sexual assault.
The actor was accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl into a threesome with him and his bodyguard while Stallone was filming a movie in Las Vegas in 1986, a claim his spokesman called a “ridiculous, categorically false story.”
Stallone will next reprise his role as Rocky Balboa in Creed 2, out Nov. 21. USA Today
91-year-old actor fends off thief
You could never pull one over on Mr. Feeny.
William Daniels, known for his roles as teacher Feeny on Boy Meets World and Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere, as well as K.I.T.T. in Knight Rider, scared off someone who attempted to break into his L.A. home on Saturday.
The 91-year-old actor heard someone force open a back door and turned on the lights.
Daniels joked on Good Morning America that he “struggled with an intruder, took him to the ground, I beat him up and he ran away with bruises all over him.” USA Today
Scandalous book sells for $94K
Apaperback copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge in the landmark U.K. obscenity trial of the novel’s publisher has sold at an auction for £56,250 (about $94,500), more than three times its estimate prior to the sale.
The tattered paperback — along with a damask bag designed to hide the scandalous tome — sold to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby’s in London.
Penguin Books was found not guilty in 1960 for publishing D.H. Lawrence’s novel about an affair between a wealthy woman and her husband’s gamekeeper. The Associated Press
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Halloween is over, but you can still see ghosts this weekend. The Cinesphere at Ontario Place is bringing back the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie for screenings Friday, Saturday and Sunday. See ontarioplace.com/cinesphere for information.
Welcome to Westeros, Naomi Watts. The Oscar-nominated actress is the first star to be attached to a prequel set thousands of years before Game of Thrones. Watts will play “a charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret” in the untitled series. HBO has moved forward with a pilot episode.
Nicole Kidman isn’t saying much about the new season of Big Little Lies, but she did tell Ellen DeGeneres that her daughters, Sunday Rose, 10, and Faith Margaret, 7, are extras in Season 2 of the HBO show.
The lead guitarist for heavy metal band Manowarhas been charged with possessing child pornography in North Carolina. Karl Logan, 53, has been charged with six counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. The band says Logan will not perform with them on future dates.
The suburban Detroit home of the late “Queen of Soul” is for sale. Aretha Franklin’s 4,148square-foot, brick Colonialstyle house is l i sted f or $800,000 (U.S.). It offers five bedrooms, seven bathrooms and access to the gated community’s pool and tennis courts, as well as a three-car garage, jetted tub with sauna and multiple decks. Franklin died in August at 76 without a will. Star staff, wire services