Hugh Jackman delivers fresh bread to NYC nurse
Actor Hugh Jackman came through for a New York nurse on the front lines of the pandemic.
Jackman has added baker to his resume.
He’s been busy making sourdough bread during the pandemic.
He recently asked his Instagram followers to nominate a front line worker in New York City who deserves a delivery.
Jackman received a heartfelt message from the husband of Alina Jackson, a pregnant emergency room nurse at Wyckoff Hospital in Brooklyn and came through with a loaf.
“I’ve heard, from Aaron, everything about you and what you’re doing,” Jackman told her.
“It was just amazing meeting a celebrity, first of all, and meeting somebody who is so humble and so down to earth,” Jackson told CBSTV.
“These little moments of hope and humanity is really what’s good in the world.”
Jackman’s act of kindness spread even further.
Dr. Harvey Karp saw the story and donated his brand of bassinets to both Jackson and her hospital.
Eddie Murphy wants to return to his roots
After three decades and multiple blockbuster movies, Eddie Murphy is planning a return to the medium that helped launch his acting career.
The “Beverly Hills Cop” star has revealed that he wants to do new standup comedy performances once the pandemic ends.
Appearing on Siriusxm’s podcast “Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin Hart” on Thursday, the actor said had it not been for COVID-19 restrictions, he would have already made a comeback.
“My plan was to do ‘Dolemite,’ ‘Saturday
Night Live,’ ‘Coming 2 America,’ and then do stand up. And then the pandemic hit and it shut the whole sh*t down,” the “Saturday Night Live” alum explained. “The whole time last year I would have been out working on my act, trying to get my sh*t right and then the whole thing shut down.”
He added that “when the pandemic is over and it’s safe for everybody to go out and do it, then the plan is to do it.”
Murphy, who turns 60 next month, started making a name for himself on the comedy circuit in the early 1980s with his Richard Pryor-inspired standup and often polarizing shows.
His 1987 film “Raw” — which was filmed in New York City’s Madison Square Garden — received a wide release and remains the topgrossing stand-up comedy movie of all time, earning more than $50 million.
Murphy can next be seen in “Coming 2 America,” the hotly anticipated sequel to the 1988 comedy classic, “Coming to America.”